Birthday and Valentines Cards

Now that I have returned to work, my crafting time has come to almost a complete halt…dang government for wanting money for everything.  I did however sneak in some time to make a few cards after everyone else was in bed for the night.  I was also able to make some valentines for K’s class, since she insisted on having Alvin the Chipmunk (her current obsession) on her cards and since he isn’t “IT” right now, there was nothing in the stores, so I had to make them for her.

 

My hubby’s 42nd birthday was on the 12th, so I made him cards from both K and I.  The one from K was one I just made up in Photoshop Elements, the owl one I made using both Photoshop and just a paper cutter.

Valentines day card that I designed using SCAL3 and my Cameo.  The pink is an overlay on a solid red background.

I ended up making 18 of these Alvin the Chipmunk Valentine cards for K’s class. Only took K 3 hours to write her classmates names and her name on the back of each of them. granted that was spread out over the whole weekend, but ugh, what a pain that was, maybe I should have just been like the majority of the class and filled them out myself for her…but we were asked to let them do it so they could get the handwriting skills in, so I did as was asked, but when your child has ADD, it takes patience on all ends to get through such a simple task, something we all need to work on here.

A Little Time To Get Back Into Crafting

We are moved!  Almost completely settled in.  I have my sewing machine set up, my serger is still in the box, as is my cameo, and my crochet hooks are still down in the basement in a box. I have done a few small sewing projects for my husband, basically making him cozy’s for some camping gear and boxing a bag he had.  Last night I made some stickers for an order from a gal on Facebook.  Tonight I managed to make a few new scrapbook papers.  If you would like other colors or sizes, please feel free to ask for them. These papers are all 12”x12” papers at 300dpi. And you can download them HERE.  ENJOY!

   

 

Hopefully now that we are almost set up completely, I can get back into creating.  I have a few dresses I want to make for K as she starts school in a week and a half. I received my CB09 blade today for my cameo, so when necessary I finally have a backup blade for her, and will be more willing to play around more with different weights and materials on her. 

Wow On A Roll

I am on a roll with papers this week.  5 new designs were created tonight. There are several different colors done up of each design in the download folders.  You can find them at their link here: Center Floral, Checked, Faded Floral, Plaid, & Vines.  All 5 paper designs are 8”x8” and are 300dpi.  Enjoy them.

 

 

Seeing Spots With An Abstract Eye

2 new sets of papers this evening.  I See Spots and Abstract Eye.  Both sets are all 8”x8” 300dpi.  Please feel free to go grab them.

Letter Size Papers

I decided to test out how others would receive and use an 8.5”x11” 300dpi paper. You can find them HERE to download for personal use.

Paper Rose

I am on a roll again tonight.  HERE are 9 more papers to download.  8”x8” 300dpi.

Lightening Papers

I created more papers tonight.  This time I did 8”x8” 300dpi files, in 10 colors.  You can find them HERE for download.

WOW–Just Call Me Slacker

I have been slacking on updating my blog, *slaps myself on the hand* Bad me!  I have however been creating things. 2 dresses for K but only one 4 “pack” of papers. First the papers, I call them “flowering hearts” and can be downloaded HERE.

  

Next are her dresses.  The first dress is what the designer called “Girls Braided Dress” that I found the tutorial for on FaveCrafts.com. Here is what K’s ended up looking like.

   

 

And then the dress I made for her last night.  I found the pattern on Brynnberlee's Etsy Shop.  The dress I made was the Super Twirly Tiered Dress.  Since I have a bunch of the solid seersucker blue left over from the first dress, and K loves the color as well, we decided to use that to accent this one.  Here is how K’s turned out.

 

 

 

Also you will notice the difference in the length of K’s hair in these photos.  It is a sour spot in my mind yet still, but this girl found a pair of safety scissors in the linen closet 2 weeks ago, when she was supposed to be sleeping, and chopped off the whole left side of her head.  So now not only did she have to have a shorter bob from the first time she got ahold of some scissors, but now she had to go to a complete “boy” cut.  I know it is only hair, and just about every child does it at one point or another, but it wasn’t just a small piece this time, this time it was the whole side of her head, her Rapunzel Barbie doll hair, and the jammies she was wearing that night.  I was so sad about it all that I cried for her.  

I have also decided that being a nanny outside of our home was not going to work for me & K.  K did not adjust well to not getting my full attention, but also to having to change her schedule up completely to someone else’s.  This also took time away from her seeing her daddy.  The 4 days a week I was working, on full days, I wasn’t getting home till 6:45pm, then it was dinner time for her and basically straight to bed for 8pm.  She started acting up cause of all of it and just wasn’t listening to anything I would ask her or tell her to do.  It was not only rough on her, but also on myself cause she was stressing me out terribly, to the point where I was getting sick from it all.  I am now officially a homemaker again.  Money will be tight, but we will  survive…for now at least till I can find a part time night job so she can still spend the day with me and the evenings with daddy.

I have also been going to the gym at least 3 days a week.  So far I have lost a total of 16 pounds, which is the lowest I have weighed since before I got pregnant with K in 2007!!  I am hoping to keep on this track and keep the weight off this time.

Sorry for the babble, but that has been about all that is going on around here that is keeping me busy.

Love Papers

I created another half dozen papers tonight.  They can be found HERE. For some reason, not sure if they changed their system or what not, but the previews as of the time that I write this seem to be not working on a scroll over and doing a preview of the actual file seems to take quite some time to load. Sorry about that, but I tried everything I knew what to do to get it to work, and I can’t figure it out. Here is a preview however with all of the colors.  They are all 8.5”x11”. If you are wanting these in another size, please let me know and I can alter them for you.