New Creations

Well, I've been vacationing, spent 8 weeks in school this summer, and actually accomplished some crafting! I made a few gifts and some cards!

This was a gift for my boyfriend's cousin. She and her husband

 had a baby boy back in April. They have a Winnie the Pooh theme 

in his room so I made this wall hanging for him.

 Wouldn't you know ideas come at the strangest times?! 

Well,as I was playing with a Mike's hard lemonade bottle cap, 

I realized my boyfriend's cousin (different cousin- he has MANY!) 

was about to get married to her fiance...namely a Mike! lol Since he is 

in the Army, I decided she would probably like to have a picture of him 

around her neck so I cut out a picture of them together and with a little

 Inkssentials Glossy Accents, I made this cute necklace.

This gift was for a friend who got married back in June.

I found the idea while I was surfing youtube. If I can find it again,

I will post a link. It was very easy to do, and came out much better than I 

had imagined it would. All I did was buy a  plain white candle, and then I printed

onto the tissue paper using my printer and then I slightly melted the outside of the

candle so the tissue paper and wax merged together.

 On one side of the candle is the names of the couple along with their 

wedding date, and the other says: "All Because Two People Fell In Love..."

I made a card at some point, but I will post it some other day. I find I enjoy making gifts for people than I do making stuff for my self! Very strange, but whatever keeps me motivated is good for me! Hope you all enjoyed my creations! 

Happy Crafting!

Long Time No Posts!

Well, now that my spring quarter has ended and I can finally breath again, I just might be able to enjoy my hobby again! I hope this summer I will be able to post more since I only have 2 days worth of classes to take up my paper crafting time! LOL

I'm trying to brainstorm some ideas for thank you cards. A bunch of us went to Norris Lake over the holiday weekend, and I wanted to send out some thank you cards to the people who were nice enough to let us stay at their house. If you have any ideas, you're more than welcome to share, I seem to be in an idea rut lately!

You're ideas and suggestions are greatly appreciated! Have a good evening one and all!

GOODIES!

Since this school quarter has started, I haven't had much time for paper crafting or breathing for that matter! So I was glad I got to go to Chillicothe today to get some goodies from JoAnn's and Hobby Lobby! JoAnn's was having an AMAZING sale on Cricut cartridges so I went online to buy them and the ones I wanted were out of stock! YIKES! So I decided to call the Chillicothe store and by pure luck they had just one in stock, and I placed an order for another one that should be here in about 10 days. Now you're wondering which cartridges I bought, well, I bought Picturesque and Paper Lace. I haven't bought cartridges in a while since I got Sure Cuts A Lot last year, but I thought I could get a lot of good use out of these two since they're more like designs rather than themed.
I also bought some other fun goodies, of course! At JoAnn's I found a six pack of glitter on clearance (don't you just love running across good clearance stuff?!), I got a mini spool of brown and teal decorative ribbon, some stickers for the new baby (Steven's cousin is expecting in April), a pack of cards with envelopes for Easter, and about five clear $1.00 stamps. I am absolutely addicted to the $1.00 sections!!
At Hobby Lobby, I bought new Cricut mats; they were having a 30% of Cricut stuff sale, and you can't ever have too many mats! I also got Hobby Lobby's Scrapbooking magazine (I sure wish you could subscribe to it!), a Winnie the Pooh soft sticker set (also for the baby to come), and with my 40% off coupon, I got a Scrapbooking Digitally book. I have never tried digital scrapbooking and thought it could be fun! Well, I'm off to finish some homework before I dive into my new stuff! Hope everyone has a great long weekend!