Coffee Anyone?

After a year or so of lurking at Coffee Lover's blog hops, I finally decided to enter a card. I used a new coffee cup die, I purchased a few months ago by Couture Creations Intricutz Dies. Also, I used a Unity Stamps sentiment that came with the Bountiful Owl sentiment kit last Fall. I also opened a die set that I had for awhile, it's an Amy Tangerine and the pumpkin spice sentiment fit perfectly on the tag die. Yes, I am one of those people who enjoy pumpkin spice and not just in my coffee. I just love how this card came together.

I recently moved, so it's been fun finding some of my crafty goodies and some I haven't seen in awhile. I still have a ways to go, and I can organize and de-stash. You surely do not know how much you have until you move it!

Thanks for taking time to stop by my blog.  It's been far too long since I have blogged, but I have a feeling that's gonna change.   

Sweet or Savory?

I can't believe Valentine's Day is just over a week away!  Where does the time go?  I mentioned before that I've made some scrappin' friends. We really enjoy getting together when we can. I also love that Mitch goes to crops too.  One Friday he and Dawn went just the two of them.   

 I'm thrilled to be holding my first ever Altered Frap set class on Saturday Feb. 11 at 1pm at Picture This.  I have made two samples and will let them choose which one they want to make.  My creative and clever son Mitch came up with Sweet or Savory as our way to promote the class.  The choices are to make a Valentine's Gift Set or a Picnic Storage set.  I think the picnic storage one is winning out from the ones I've talked to.  

 I filled the Valentine frap bottles with foot soak salts, chocolate and hot cocoa mix.  It's up to your imagination what you can put in the bottles and of course make these gift sets for. Dawn and Mitch are always coming up with new ideas. 

I've been pretty creative lately. On Friday Mitch and Dawn had the day off (they work together) so Mitch went over to her house to see about viruses on her computer and then later we met at Picture This to do some card-making and scrappin'.  I made three whole cards in the time that we were there...but it's just nice to  be able to talk, laugh and relax a bit. Being creative always improves my mood. I will show you the cards I made and Mitch's scrapbook pages.

Love this Unity stamp and the embossing folder

Dawn let me use some of her punches and I punched a lot of paper.   All of a sudden this card came together. Another great Unity Stamp.

I thought it would be great to make a card to go with the Valentine's Gift Set.

Mitch is doing fashion layouts. I think he wants to show his great fashion sense.

 

Well that's it for now. I don't want to overwhelm you with all I've been creating lately.  My neglected blog needs more posts then, don't you think?  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful week!

Creative Upcycling

Starting to get those creative juices flowing once again. Emptying boxes has rekindled my creativeness as I run into goodies I haven't seen in awhile. I'm trying my best to organize things so I can put them away as soon as I'm done with a project. When you only have a corner you have to do the best you can. I also have windows right above my table that will allow natural light in. They face east so it can get pretty bright. One nice thing is there is this closet that is perfect for stowing scrap stuff. I'll have to take a picture to show you sometime. The shelves are deep and tall enough to fit my paper holders on and a little space to store more if I wish.

I've been waiting for the perfect time to create this item. My mom worked for Jockey International for 20 years. I worked there a summer or two. Then my mom was able to get a job there after my first summer there. As a retired employee she is still allowed discounts, so when went to Kenosha for my nephew's wedding I asked her to pick me up some underwear. I was surprised to get them packaged as I remember them being single at the outlet store. My creative brain went into overdrive. I remembered a notebook I saw in I think a Papercrafts magazine. I hadn't found the magazine yet in the boxes, but I still went ahead and created this notebook. Well enough chit chat here is the box and then the notebook.

I used my Bind it All to bind it and a piece of leftover BG Periphery.

Thanks for taking time out of your day to stop by. I hope you have a wonderful rest of the week!

Creative Curtains

Tonight I went shopping for my secret pal. I unfortunately did not have any luck finding her something from her list and I went to two places. Well the second place was JoAnn Fabrics. My friend mentioned she was going to the fabric section after we looked over the scrap section. Oh yeah I said I need to look at some fabric too. I want to make curtains for the dining room and for the window in the kitchen. After looking and looking and making comments about all sorts of tie dye/hippie fabric or cute insect fabric that of course would be better suited for a toddler or preschooler. I finally found my Chef fabric. There was only 2.75 yds on the bolt I asked them to call the store near me to see if they had anymore of this fabric and they did but only 2 yds and 20". I said save it for me. I still am not sure this will be enough for all four windows especially with the kitchen window being a bit wider than the others. I just want to do cafe style curtains and a valance. I may have to put a border on the fabric too since it's only 45" wide. I also found some skull fabric that I thought would be perfect for Noah's windows. He decided to take a room in the basement and I thought a yd and a 1/2 would be plenty for such narrow windows, actually I think a yd is enough, but of course I was talked into the additional 1/2 yd just in case. I'm looking forward to getting these measured out and sewn. I should see if I can find a picture of the fabric so you can get an idea of what I'm talking about. Well I can't find a good picture of the fabric on the net. It's three chef's riding bicycles or a motor scooter with a brown/tan background. The background looks sort of woodgrain. Well I hope it'll make up into nice cafe curtains. If not I see there are a ton of cute novelty fabrics out there by Lorilynn Simms. I'll be getting creative but with fabric instead of paper. I have several windows to make curtains for, but will want to papercraft in between. I love the light that comes in this house, but when you're trying to sleep in, all the light makes it a bit difficult ;).

Thanks for stopping by and hopefully soon I'll have something creative to post either curtains, a LO or a card. :D