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Computer CRASH!!

Our computer recently crashed along with all of the photos I had of my scrapbook pages I did for CTMH! I was devastated! Hopefully they can be saved! SOOOO, as I was unpacking my craft room I was tickled to find some magazines with my art work in it! These are the back covers of Creating Keepsakes that I did! So, for now, these will have to do!

This card may just be my favorite. I stamped the shown stamp tone on tone, cut them out, shaded the edges of each heart, adhered them to cream paper, added some dots and BAM! My own background paper. The stripe was created by yours truly as well. Oh how I loved that job!

Rolled Flowers

I have had a lot of people ask where I got or how I make Lil' B's hair flowers. What can I say, the colors have to match my girls outfits perfectly. This flower will go perfectly with the pillowcase dress I made for both of the girls. Or as Lil' B calls it, her "dancing dress."
These are really simple once you get the hang of it. I even taught my 13 and 11 year old nieces how to make them. You will need a glue gun, scissors, and a strip of fabric and we could all use a caffeine free diet dr pepper, right? Projects seem to go a little smoother what it right by my side. ANYWAY I like to do mine about 1 inch to 1 1/2 inches wide and the width of the fabric. This fabric was 45 inches wide. (that way, you can just snip off the excess once you have the desired flower size- trust me it is easier to snip away then try to add length!)

Step 1: Tie a simple knot in the end of your fabric.
Step 2: Put a small dot of hot glue on the side of your knot. Begin rolling the fabric around the knot twisting the fabric half way every quarter turn. Placing glue as needed on the side of the flower to hold it in place. You can twist the fabric more just depending on how tight you like the flowers.

Step 3: This flower is half way through the fabric. Stop or keep going.
Step 4: Picture above is the back side of the finished flower. Cut a simple circle (picture below) a little smaller than the finished flower and glue it to the back side of the flower to hold everything in place. Glue onto a headband, a clip or make some more for a flower cluster.
And you're done! Looks so cute in lil' b's hair!

cricut + vinyl = LOvE

I'm like a kid in a candy store with vinyl! This is, so far, my favorite project thus far. I painted a simple board cream with delta acrylic paint. (make sure to let it dry all the way. I learned the hard way :() Then I pressed on NELSON and then FAMILIES ARE FOREVER. Looking back I wish I would have placed the FAMILIES ARE FOREVER a little lower. My OCD is killing me with this one. I might just have to re-do it! But it looks great under my family picture!

You Used WHAT!?!?

I wanted to make some really cute and different bookmarks for the young women I teach at church and I came up with these beauties- how did I made these you ask.... freezer paper and burlap. Oh and my basic boring ink jet printer. I forgot to get step by step photos due to the fact I nearly pulled my hair out until I figured out what I was doing and can we maybe blame some pregnancy hormones too!? Cut the burlap to the size you printer accepts, mine- 8x10- then iron the burlap onto the shiny side of the freezer paper. And then print just like usual! That easy!

Desmpsee's Birth Announcements

Well, well, well. I am a little late at getting Dempsee's birth announcements done. Take photos, assemble, sew, sand and send. Does it matter that she is already two months old!?!? (Shhhh. This will be our little secret!)

So here you have it! I took a regular 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 card and envelope that I purchased at Hobby Lobby and printed "introducing...." on the front of the card.After I printed out pictures of my cute little chubbers (never mind the fact that the photo shoot took FOREVER. I had a jealous little 2 year old that she couldn't be in every picture, then D decided to tinkle about 4 times!) I sanded the photos down with- sheet rock sand paper! Works like a charm! Then sanded the green on green polka dot paper. Glued it to the top and bottom ONLY so that the tag could still slide in. Do a cute little zig zag stitch and that part is done.

I printed all of Dempsee's birth info on textured cardstock, cut the tags and roughed the edges up with the dull side of my scissors. I attached the ribbon by threading the colors through the hole and tying a knot with hemp. Using my cricut I made little glitter "D"s and attached those using pop dots!
I loved how they turned out. I had an idea in my head, was able to go to Hobby Lobby to pick up my supplies without the girls (thanks to my sister!!) and then made something totally different! Funny how that works. The only part that I didn't like about the announcements were the Indy 500 stamps the lady at the post office gave me. Oh well, that made daddy happy.
Now time to plan her Blessing decor!  Polka dot theme- italian soda bar and cake pops with these beauties http://www.printcandee-store.com/products/Editable-2-Inch-Circles-%252d-Colorful-Dots.html as a party favor from Dempsee!