Day 3 Xmas Card...

This is my 3rd card. I think I did pretty good on this one. *Pats self on back*
I used MOJO MONDAY sketch #113.









On this one you can see the glitter MUCH better!

I used:

Paper: Green Swirls and pink ornaments: Peppermint Forest Stack

The Paper Studio: Pink Armadillo paper pack with glitter

Digi Stamp: PIXIE DUST STUDIO "My Pal Ginger"

Martha Stewart colored pencils

Xmas red Stickles

1 1/2 in Fancy square punch

2nd Xmas Card

This is my second Christmas Card I'm doing for my daughter's ECE classmates. I absolutely love The Greeting Farm stamps. ADORABLE!


I'm still trying to get a handle on using an X-acto knife, I definitely need a paper slicer because my lines are a big squiggly and not professional looking at all. But hey, who's looking that close anyway right :)

I need to follow sketches because sometimes I just throw papers around and they end up looking kinda weird. Sort of like this one ;)




I used:
The Paper Studio: Pink Armadillo paper pack with glitter.

Joann Limited edition: Peppermint Forest Stack (Snowflake)

Joann Limited edition: Peppermint Forest Stack (circled stars)

The Greeting Farm: Sweeties Stamp Pack

Glitter on Anya Stamp: Diamond Stickles

Ribbon: Craft Essentials in Hot Red

1st Xmas Card...

I decided to do some Christmas cards this year for my daughters class. I am an extremely newbie card maker. So my cards wont be that great. Which is a good thing because I have to do 18 cards. So I figure my kids last day of school is ON the 18 I can do I card a day, because just doing one card takes me like 5 hours to do :)


This is my first year of actually making hand made cards and actually passing them out. I did do "Happy Thanksgiving" cards and those were really fun to do and I got complimented on them so I was proud of myself so I thought I'd try doing more holiday cards. And christmas cards seem more entertaining since it's nothing but glitter and cute stamps!


This one is my first one. I got this idea from one of ---> PIXIE DUST STUDIO <--- gallery of pictures.



I used:
Hot Pink, Lime Green Cardstock (Don't know the brand, I just bought them from Hobby Lobby

EK Success Corner punch

Martha Stewarts Doily Lace Edge Punch

Digital Stamp: ---> PIXIE DUST STUDIO <--- "Twas the night before"

Colors: Martha Stewart Colored pencil set

Craft Essentials 1/4" in Hot Pink Ribbon

Pink Jewels

Cupcake Princess

I've been messing around with scrapbooking for a while and I just can't seem to really get the creativeness that I'm looking for. Here is one of my pages "Cupcake Princess". Or it could be I need more punches, chipboards, rub ons, maybe add some embossing on there.

New bag...

I got this tote at Hobby Lobby and wanted to upgrade it a bit so that I can carry the necessary things that I never think about carrying with me for my daughter.



I really wanted to use the pink fabric I had purchased to wrap it.



But I'm not sure If I added too much glue under the fabric or this fabric didn't want to be decoupaged to this kind of fabric but this wasn't working out. You see all those marks of glue seeping through, and then I added modpodge on TOP of it and it looked even worse. So the solution...Buy another one and start over.


This time I decided to use Folkart acrylic paint in #2850 Neon Pink all over and Folkart in #2241 Apple Green on the trim. I added Hot Topic stickers and here's my basic tote.



I still need to finish painting the inside of the handles, maybe even adding some ribbon, hmm don't know how that would look.

Not too shabby...

I am little by little trying to decorate my kids room and I went with pink and black. So I decided to give decoupage furniture a try. And I went big. I have had this little yard sale ugly little brown dresser for 4 yrs that is in my kids room.
I never thought about spray painting it or decoupaging it or anything until I started to release my inner craftiness.




I went to Hobby Lobby (LOVE THAT STORE) and found this fabric that goes well with the design of the same scrapbook paper I used to make the wall art.




I just cleaned off the dresser and just taped off the part I painted black with FOLKART ACRYLIC PAINT.





I just measured out whatever I was going to need and used MODPODGE to glue it all over.



I also bought this awesome pink fabric I was going to use to update a tote bag and noticed it would look great with the color scheme I was going for in her room so I incorporated it on the drawers, I took off those handles and painted them black, again with FOLKART PAINT. And this is the end result.




In total I spent $9.63
The black/white fabric was $5.49 a yard.
The pink fabric was on sale $4.14 a yard
I already had everything else.

Disney's Train Tour

We were invited to Disney's A Christmas Carol Train Tour today. Check out there website http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/christmascaroltraintour/ and take a look at the movie that comes out in Nov.

It was lots of fun, it was FREE and the best of all while we were standing in line for 2 hrs the last few minutes that we were up next to go in the train, it started to RAIN like cats and dogs. Great day!

I want one...

Yesterday we went window shopping and we stopped by a LIDS store and my hubby had wanted to buy a hat that cost $35 bucks and I was thinking well damn if your going to spend that much might as well go big and better. Thinking YEA ED HARDY

and then I seen these..ooh soo pretty!






Christian Audigier does awesome work. Though buying his clothes make you look cool they will definitely leave you broke. Just a hat cost around $70. So one day I will afford a hat hahaha!

It has been a while...

Well 8 months really. I never lost faith that one day I would return to keep writing nonsense on a blog that took me longer to decorate than really write :)

10 days till Xmas and I'm sooo excited! One thing I'm definetly excited about is my new Curve !!! I know it's been out for awhile, 2 years really but who cares, and I absolutely love it. They actually have phone THEMES to go with it. I just found out this one bloggers 'blog' has LOTS of girly themes yea for me! In case anyone is interested, take a look.

www.nancydrewthemes.com
They even two websites where you can have your phone into awesome colors.
www.colorware.com For just the back and front cost's like $99 bucks.
www.beckymae.com She's just a little cheaper I think they go from $60 to $80
They do awesome work like this
and
Pwerty!

Making me cry...

Well it's obviously been a while since I've written on here. Everything pretty much just revolves work and daycare.. So nothing real exciting to talk about there.


Wait I lied. For a minute there I was having difficulties leaving my kid at daycare. The first 2 starting days that I left her there she left running away from me to go play with all the cool stuff and didn't even give me a second look back so I assumed she would have no problem there.

Then because the way my work schedule is I made the mistake of not being there for a whole week and when I returned that Monday she literally had a melt down. She cried and ran away from me but not into the class room, away from them and entered another classroom and hid behind one of the teachers. I carried her in my arms trying to console her and I walked into her class when one of the daycare ladies just literally grabbed her from me. Which I DID not appreciate her doing.

I think I would have done OK in trying to calm her down before I had to go but it was like a scene out of a movie where a social services lady was taking kids out of there house. My kid was grabbing at my shirt and jacket and when I left I was crying. It made me so mad at the lady and I cried because I had Never seen my kid like that. And then I started regretting going back to work so soon. So I need to take her more regularly so that she gets used to it and they all tell me it's good to start now because then when it's actually time for her to start school she would of be more used to it.