Birthday Gift Bags

For the kids friends I made gift bags to give out at the birthday party. I’m all about the party being about the birthday kid but I didn’t make invites for anyone so I figured a cute bag with snacks in it would be just as good.

Even though the party didn’t [...]

Cakes

Since Alice was three and Jake was one I’ve made them a cake from a molded cake pan – you know, a shape or character. Okay so we’ve just used the same Dora and Elmo cake pans, but hey, it’s the thought that counts!

This year I made a gumball cake for Jake – [...]

Chalk Leaf card

I got the idea for this card from this card in the splitcoast gallery. I’ve had the Stampin’ Up chalk set for quite a while now but never used it because I was too scared to! And after using it – wow, I love them! All I did was stamp the image (the [...]

Christmas in July card

I made this card for a swap I did earlier this month. I wanted to do a holiday card – and then I got all the other swaps back the other day and they all used new stamp sets! Ah well that’s okay, it’s a cute [...]

Sock Puppet

My Mom sent us a sock puppet kit for Christmas last year and we made one and then never got around to making the other. It wasn’t too hard to figure out though I remember it taking a little while. So here is Fluffy! You can’t see but he also has a belly button [...]

Altered Notebook

Well, kind of altered. Maybe more like covered. A few weeks ago one of my girlfriends started looking for wedding things – ideas for centerpieces, dresses, etc. – and she mentioned wanting a notebook to keep notes in. I’ve had a few moleskine (love them!) notebooks for a little while and wanted to cover [...]

Latest Kids Project

A couple of weeks ago we stopped by the craft store and grabbed a couple of Klutz kits. I waver between thinking they are a great deal because they have everything you will need to complete the project and thinking they are expensive. And yes, that’s the coupon loving, clearance shopping part of me [...]