Spring?

Not if you looked out my window today. This photo was taken around 6:30 this morning and was at about 1 inch deep. NOw at 9 am we are approaching about 3 inches. The forecast is for 3-6 inches today...this will be the most snow seen at my house for two years. And we had to wait for Spring to get it....lol.

It has made kids happy to see, and some of the grown kids at my house has ventured into it. Little ones have slight colds so they are enjoying it warmly from the inside.

Well it is back to birthday party preparations, so I'll post more later. Enjoy your weather; whatever it is as much as possible :)

5 Little Baskets

Last night I sat down to play and put together 5 of the little baskets for Jaiden's birthday party. I wanted to keep them simple in decoration, and rather like how they turned out.




These are just simple paper basket cut from a 9x9 inch piece of cardstock and scored 3 inches in on each side, with two scores lines(each of two sides)on what would become the side edges. Then I used an edging punch to create my scalloped edge. Using a small hole punch I was able to secure the flaps with a handle I edged on both long sides with my border punch. To help cover the overlapping on the sides I used a flower with a brad for the center.

I also used washi tape to create the decorative line (my newest find; I know I'm slightly behind times :) )and a foam sticker of a bunny.

As I hate using the Easter grass (this stuff gets all over the place and you find it for months later)I will be using tissue paper before putting goodies in these. Okay I don't use the "grass" for Easter baskets period, but use brightly colored t-shirts to line baskets. This not only keeps me from cleaning up the shredded stuff for months, but was (and is) a useful extra gift to help get my kids (and now granddaughter) spring and summer shirts.

Now to work on the invitations...I'm so glad I have a month to work on all this. Life gets so hectic I love to allow extra time in preparing.

The little things in life

This past week has been a challenging one...my laptop has been having issues and finally I gave in and had to do a factory reset. Now I have problems with getting online as it tells me it isn't supported or something to that nature and I often can manage to finally get online by hitting the backup button.
So long story short I haven't gotten too play much with crafting this past week.

I started working on Birthday invitations and goodie "bags" for my granddaughter's upcoming at the end of the month and hope to share soon. As her birthday is shortly before Easter I'm going with the Easter theme, so lots of eggs, bunnies, and flowers here.

Stay tuned for the Easter parade of birthday party creations.

MojoMonday #281

I fell in love with this sketch as soon as I saw it. Maybe the circles did it; I have recently been wanting to work with them :)



And green seemed to holler for me to work with; probably getting in the mood for St.Patrick's Day.

Well here is my card:




I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful evening.

Another weekend crop!

I love attending crops whether online or in person they both have such wonderful people and encouragement.

Saturday was an in person crop with my friend Paula and the wonderful ladies at Holy Tinity Croppers in Churchville, MD. Last month when attending (my first ever in person crop) I managed to take one bag and complete 13 8x8 pages.

This month I took way more than that and completed 9 12x12 pages.







The last photo of the double page LO was made last night and just screamed circles to me.

Now to create more pages and cards.

Valentine's Round 3

For the third class of Valentine's, Jaiden decided she wanted hearts. So we went with it:



Of course Mamo had to add something to it and so the flower layers I had already cut out to use came into play.
These were cut out using my Cuttlebug V2 machine and the Tim Holtz die "Tattered flowers". The light (very light) pink layer got the addition of ink on the edges, using the Real Red stamp pad from Stampin'Up! and a sponge.

Now to start preparing for St. Patrick's Day and Easter! Of course there will be scrapbook pages in there also.

Tomorrow I will be attending an all day crop at Holy Trinity in Churchville, MD with my friend Paula (Precious Pages by Paula). I'm having trouble inserting as a link but she is blogspot also. You should pop over and see her work; it is wonderful.

Today I will be working on gathering things to take with me. And maybe working on cataloging my stamp sets some more.

Valentine's Pop Round 2

One granddaughter plus two Preschools and one playgroup equals lots of Valentines. This Valentine Pop is the design for afternoon Preschool class tomorrow. Total of 18 of these to finish up today and 3 dozen heart cookies to get made. Stay tuned for Round 3 later. 21 in that class. Oh yeah I forgot about the acrobat class and dance class. I guess I need to get busier. LOL