Blog Candy

Debbie over at Passion For Crafts has a the best Blog Candy Contest going right now that I have ever seen. Here is link on how to enter BLOGCANDY deadline is Monday November 16th!

Fall/Thanksgiving Cards

Here are two fall/thanksgiving cards that I have made so far. I plan on making at least one more before I start making my Christmas/winter cards.


This one is made with Paper Make-Up stamps. Here is the second card I made, the main image is Stampin Up! and the leaves & saying are from The {Stamps} of Life second set. ~ Also I did most of this card while waiting for my daughter at her dance class, have stamps will travel :) ~

Finally a neat little tool/gadget I have found in the past week. I don't know if it is new or not but I love the Glue Dots, they now have them in a dispenser. The also have different sizes, regular, mini & craft ones as well. (and of course the refill packs to keep them rolling!)

Halloween Card & Costume sneak peak

Here are my other cards that I made for Halloween this year. I didn't make any early enough to sell this year but I got them made in time to mail out to family so I am at least that far ahead of the game.
And of course my 3 year old daughter helped me with most of the cards.
This one uses a punch from the Martha Stewart line, I went to 3 different Micheal's stores looking for the goop one but found this instead at the final Micheal's. An old SU set, Martha Stewart punches & sizzix pumpkin die set.
I found this idea in the gallery at SCS. All parts made from various punches and dies.


A sneak peak at the costume that I am making for my 7 month old baby. I bought the fleece before I found a pattern I liked and just got lucky with yardage. He is a little hard to carry with the padded belly & stuffed tail but the look is just adorable. Of course I am not finished. I have the hat & boots to finish today/tomorrow afternoon. But I am just thrilled that it fits perfectly.
(of course I have my little mommy -3 year old daughter- trying to help me out to take the photos, didn't help too much but she is so cute)


And the bonus with the fleece, he will not need a coat to cover up his costume with the Michigan fall weather :)

Soccer Treat Bags

Here are two cards that I just finished today. Well one card style but Brendan wanted one of them to have the scary face. I used the new October set from the the Stamps of Life collection. Here is how the other ones look.
My daughter gets to bring the snack for her soccer game tomorrow so what better way to use a soccer stamp. Here is the red monster from the Purse Stamp Co. I love this monster & the campfire one too. Her team color is red & is the Bulldogs to that is the reason for the coloring. The grass is from a CTMH stamp set.
Here is the back of the tag.
And the final product with RiceKrispies Treats & fruit snack packs.

New Cards & New Stamps!!!

I finally am able to post. School has started, my middle child is in a pre-school twice a week and the baby is taking good naps with the older two gone. Yesterday I got the new October stamp set in the mail from the {Stamps} of Life. A great new company. I can't wait until I have time to play with this set. Here are two cards I made with the September Back2Basics set. The sets include a lot of circles that work great with punches. I even have a new punch ordered from SU to be able to really get my circles' on. hehe. (I also ordered the snowman thank you card for kids, love those types of stamps.)

Baby Projects

Here are some of the projects that I did in the last months of my pregnancy to get ready for Benjamin. Here is a quilt that my now 3 year old help me make. I bought the main image already together at JoAnn's & the back was also already together. Close up of the edge that we put on to make the quilt a little bigger.
The coordinating back side.
I also made some hooded towels since they don't fit in those store bought one for more than a couple months. I also 'had' to make a couple for my daughter too.
Here is a blanket that I knitted.
Here is the other one that I knitted. This one I made with out a pattern and in the next photo will show how 'large' it is!!! It is wider than long though but still works.
It is huge! (in baby scale, it fills the whole crib, yeah I meant to do that!)
I also made two baby slings.
Here is the first modeled my Madelyn & her baby. This one is a single layer fabric.
Here is the second one. It is a double layered for our cool Michigan springs, falls & winters.
Here is a close up of the cute fabric, again Madelyn helped in the picking out of the fabric too. (I am just glad she picked out stuff that matches.)

Finally New Cards

Funny Monkey:
Here is the card that I created for the CAS11 challenge on SCS. Here is the bedding that I used as my inspiration: MONKEY. It is hard to see but the top left & bottom right corners are pierced. Let's Get Drunk!:
I made this card for my girlfriend. Now that I am no longer pregnant I can finally go out for a girls night out. I used the Aleene's Paper Glaze on the beverages.
New Baby Benjamin.
Here is the reason I haven't been crafty the last couple of weeks. Baby Ben is now 4 weeks old! Time fly's the third time around. I will post photo of the baby stuff that I created while I was pregnant later this week.

New Baby

Well my new baby - Benjamin Garrett is finally here!
Well it has been two weeks now but hey that is pretty good for me, I totally forgot about this blog. Here are some photos. Benjamin was born on 3-24-09 at 2:05am weighting 6 pounds 8 ounces & 20 inches long. (My smallest baby by an ounce.)
Here I am later in the day....Brian with Brendan & Madelyn....
Baby Benjamin (he has the most hair out of all my kids)
One week old....
Two weeks old.....(just taken a couple of minutes ago)...
Now I may have some time to stamp again. Hey the older two kids will be gone for 3 days so I should be able to get something done in that time! Hehe, maybe even a shower!