So what's a Mom to do.....

Well now Hannah and Andrew are sick. They are both running temps of over 100. They have been lying on the couch all day. So what does Mom do while her sick children are sleeping? I create fun things out of paper!!

Saturday at Church we are having a crafting day. I am demonstrating 2 paper crafts and wanted to play around with some new stamps I have. Here are 2 paper baskets I made today. The Christmas one (first one) is the one I'm demonstrating. The second one is a fall/halloweenish basket.

The one below is made from black textured card stock with Twitterpated paper. I love the way it looks. Its hard to see in the picture but it is shaped the same way as the one above.

I also had time to make a couple of cards using the Christmas Story stamp and Holiday Warmth. Both sets can be found on my website. The first card I used white card stock, cranberry cardstock, colonial white cardstock and the stamp was from Holiday Warmth.

I love the way this last card turned out! I used the Christmas Story stamp, black card stock, chocolate cardstock, colonial white textured cardstock, water color pencils, blending pen, Outdoor denim ink.

Paper Luminaries

I have been busy preparing for the upcoming holidays. I made 2 paper luminaries today. The first one is using the Christmas Story Stamp from Close to my Heart. I love the way this one turned out. You can not see the flaps that are on either side of the vellum but it reads "A baby, a manger, a bright, and shining star.....go to my website to read the rest of it.

Products used for the Christmas Story one above: Visit my website for details on products used.

(1395) Vellum Paper; (X5643) Chocolate Cardstock; (C1377) Christmas Story stamp set; (Z2140) Outdoor denim ink; (3505) Water color pencils

This was the first luminary I did. Since I did not have an autumn colored cardstock I did a ink and sponge effect all over the white daisy cardstock. This one is using November's Stamp of the Month. I'm not extremely happy with the way it turned out. But I think it is cute.

These were SO easy to make. Products used for this one was: (1395) Vellum paper; (1385) White daisy cardstock; (Z2101) Autumn Terracotta Ink; (Z2104) Barn Red ink; (D1377) November Stamp of the Month (not available until November 1)

What I've been up to....

I've been busy making things. We have a few weddings coming up. For one I'm making recipe cards for people who know the bride and groom to write a recipe on. Many of the recipes will be from family members who have passed away. I have many from my mother in law, who I never had the pleasure of knowing. I have been coping them onto card stock. I keep the originals and send the copies off with the bride and groom.

I've also been going once a month to a paper craft work shop. Below are a couple of the things we have made. This is a photo wallet.

You can add 3-6 photos in it. I have not had the chance to print photos and place them in there yet. I also made another one last week out of purple paper.

This is one we did last week. I had a lot of fun making this one....once I got the measurements down.

You can use this as a greeting card or put small pictures in it....or even both. I love seeing everything I can create using paper and glue with a few stamps.

I made this wedding/shower card. It is in a "Z" shape. I got a prize for making it and bringing it into the workshop. Joanne made these cute little clip boards for post it notes. See the next picture. I'm going to be making a few of these also.
She used patterned paper, ribbons and cardboard from cereal boxes. She bought some of those black paper clips. They are so cute!!

This one is a circle photo album I made for my Mom. I just have to print some pictures to put in there. Once circle for each of the grand kids.

This is a Father's Day gift/card for my Dad. I made this out of card stock.
I then put in pictures of each of the grand kids, one on each square.

I love the way this one turned out. I was going to write something in the center but thought the rocks looks good.

This is one that I made for my husband. I put each of the kids pictures on a square and had them write a little message to him behind the picture.

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