Scrapbook and Gifts Update

Just wanted to update and let everyone know my taxes I mean the Scrapbook is done...

What a relief.
I have taken a ton of Pictures, but I hesitate to show them all.  I want my Daughter to enjoy them first.
When I get back from delivering it I will post more pictures. For now though I will just upload a few, of the less exciting pages...
The first is the Layout from buying the dress.... I forgot my camera this day but luckily I had my iPod in my purse and captured these images. It surprised me how nice they looked when I printed them up as photos....

These albums always turn into a first year of marriage thing in order to fill them up. The second layout is really boring, but I have about 6 pages that either have a place name, or "memories", "sites" and "Adventures" on it.  I do not have images from the study abroad that her and her husband did together last fall.  She will have to finish these pages herself...hopefully she will.

The last layout page is for their anniversary...
again they will have to take pictures for this and add them after it occurs. I am doing my best to remember to bring the anniversary cake to  them when I bring the album.  The last wedding we had I for got the cake top and had to mail it.   It made for a great blog post and a funny memory for my other daughter and her husband, at least I hope it is funny to them.

I also finished up some Birthday Gift items for  two of my other daughters that I will be delivering. I scheduled a post so they will appear after I deliver them...
Until later ....Happy Stamping!

Supplies:  DCWV, Cricut, Gypsy
 SU the only new items used not mentioned on the previous post  is the  5 point Flower punch.  I used the same ones I used to make their wedding announcements....

Wedding Albums and Taxes

I have been working like crazy on my wedding album for my daughter.

Its funny how projects like this make me feel. I always have to black mail myself into starting the project. I tell myself "You can't make another thing until the album is finished."  Once I start it goes rather quickly.   This sort of explains my lack of post for the last year.  I love that I get to make one for my Daughters but  it is the one thing in life that makes me sorry I have 7 daughters.  There is only one other thing that I associate these similar feelings too, I realized Sunday Morning at 2 am., and that is Taxes.  I had just finished my 6+ hour ordeal of helping the same  wedded daughter with doing her last minute taxes....last minute in my book because I always do mine in Feb.  So why do I do it?LOVE!

  If  I was making a scrapbook like a lot of creative people out there it would be a better experience.  I am really making a paper craft picture album. That is not nearly as creative a project as it should be. The girls however as very happy and thankful that  one I help them with

their taxes and two that I make them a beautiful memento for their wedding day.  Though it is such an ordeal, such is the life of a mother.  Since I last posted I have picked  out and loaded  a scrapbook in order  for 40 pages using Die Cut  With A View "Storybook" paper.  DD wedding was Shabby Chic and in Purples and off whites...it was hard to find papers to go with those colors in a shabby chic everyone else uses pinks....(sigh). This DCWV paper was the best thing I could find in the shades of purple I wanted... and had an element of telling a story which her pictures certainly have a story to tell. I also have cut and laid out 6-12X12 Cricut mats of lettering. using my Cricut, Gypsy and  the "Plantin' School Book" Font Cartridge.  I guess I have a BOOK theme going! I went on a fun trip to Michael's to pick up  some  more Xyron "X" refills.  I didn't have a back up, now I do! I actually ended up picking up two more projects to finish before the trip.  I used the "X" to mount all the lettering on the adhesive and have spent 2 evenings and afternoons adhering letters onto 22 pages of the album. The pictures show the piles as they  currently exist.

This weekend was busy with other things so today I will be attaching more lettering, hoping that job is finished today.  I was too lazy to run up the stairs to grab the good camera to have a picture to post so I grabbed my trusty iPod and took a few quick shots.
Well its time to go back to work and finish up using those letters so I can start mounting pictures and some fun embellishments the fun part, but first I should probably order the pictures...
Until Later ... Happy Stamping!

Retro Robo Birthday Card

So I need to get my stash of cards restocked...funny how it has drained itself the last few years while I have been so busy! Now I just need my routine back on track. Today I made this cute little card for a little boy. It was fun I dont  know why I dont get to do this more often!
I finally got to use my "Robotz" Cricut cart  which I just love...I also took a closer look at it today; I didnt realize it actually made a ton of 3D Robot boxes.  I might have to give one of them a try when my Card stash is replenished.  I used my stash box...I finally found it... amazingly I couldn't find it last week when I needed the green strips for the daisy card..so my Craft Space memory is improving...and the Mojo is starting to flow a little better.
  For this card I used pieces of  SU: Night of Navy, Certainly Celery, GP white. The black is Embassy, the light purple and a textured gray, sorry I cant remember.  I used SU Birthday Whimsy to stamp.. and QuiKutz EF's  Retro Diamonds and Polka Dots....I used Cuttlebug: Diamond Plate. After assembling all the pieces I realized that I hadn't done anything for the background. I remembered my DCWV Latte designer paper, becasue it had all the colors in it.  Luckily I had a large enough piece of stash that didnt look flowery and actually looks pretty good with the diamond and circle theme going on.
Last of all I put the pieces together and wished I had some little gear shaped metal brads becasue the wording looked lonely.  I remebered I owned a Creative Memories Hexagon Punch. so with that and a 1/4" handheld circel punch I managed to make some nuts. I hope you Like it!
Until Later...Happy Stamping!

Cards for a Friend!

I thought I should come a post a set of cards I made for a friend recently. I had regifted a card to a common friend and she loved the saying from the retired SU set Sweet Serendipity. The main problem I had was I didnt own the set. I found one available on ebay but wasnt going to be home at the closing time to bid on it. My dear friend Wendy managed to buy it for me ebay. She sent it to me and I made the cards. A really team effort. I have wondered why I didnt buy the set before I love the sayings on it. The friend who asked me if she could pay me to make a card has lived in many different places over the years and wanted to send one to a friend. I thought she might need more than one so I made her six. I hope you enjoy them, she was so pleased to recieve them.

I am getting a bit lazier in my blogging. As if you couldn't tell, but I have deciede to just list companies in the labels. If you need to know something specific ask..If I get a lot of request maybe I will go back to posting them, but right now it just seems like a lot of extra effort. Right now I am working on some scrapbook items hopefully I will have somethingto show for it soon.



Hope you enjoy the cards...Until Later Happy Stamping!