Baby Shower Invites

hehehe...okay, I know I threw a few of you off with my last post title! I'm just that behind on things!! Hopefully I'll be able to get caught up on everything. I even had to go out and buy a birthday card this past weekend (GASP)! I just haven't quite got my schedule down yet since my son started kindergarten! Ugh, I hate feeling so disorganized!!

Anyways, moving on, my DH and I are planning a sorta baby shower for his sister and her DH and DD. It's going to be more like a family get together since my DH wants to throw a shower for them BUT does not want any of the games included! So here are the invites I quickly put together last week. Again, like everything else in my life right now, these were late since the party is in less than a month! Oh well, better late than never is my new motto!! heehee!!

Thank you for your sweet comments and for continuing to visit my blog...especially since I post so infrequently!! :-) I appreciate all of you!!

Father's Day 2010

This is a SUPER late post! I completely forgot to post the the pictures of the Father's Day gift I made for my DH. Sorry for the bad pictures...took them with my phone. Thanks for stopping by!!

Patchwork Pals Birthday Card

Here's another birthday card I recently made. I used Bonnie from the Billy and Bonnie Patchwork Pals set that my MIL bought for me a while ago. These die cut sets are so cute! If you haven't seen these, check out the Kanban website. Thanks for stopping by! I hope you're having a great weekend!!

M&M's Favor Tutorial

I was feeling a bit ambitious when I woke up this morning and thought I'd put together a quick tutorial for something I've been working on. I've been trying to think of favors for my daughters upcoming birthday and came up with a holder that fits the fun size M & M's pouches perfectly. I needed something easy and quick since I have to make about 50 of them. This is my first tutorial so I apologize if it doesn't "flow" the way it should. Here we go...

Take a 3 3/4" x 10 1/2" piece of paper and...

...score it at 1 1/4", 5", 5 1/2", & 9 1/4"

Punch each end of the paper using a scallop edge punch
It should look like this
Fold back the scalloped edges...
...and fold in on the middle score lines
It should look like this now
Using a horizontal slot punch, punch one end of the holder then...
...using the punched side, mark the opposite side of the holder so that the slots line up
Punch out the marked area

Apply adhesive in the creased areas on both ends of the holder

Fold the flaps down

It should look like this...the slots line up perfectly
On the "back" side of the holder, punch slits to hold the M&M's pouch in place
The M&M's bag should fit nicely between the slits
Tie a ribbon through the horizontal slots...
...and embellish
Ta da!!

I hope this tutorial made sense. I love how quick these favors came together once I figured out how I wanted them to look. Thanks for stopping by!

Elmo Easel Card

Here's one more easel card that I made for our cousin's baby who is celebrating his first birthday on Saturday. I've been wanting to try and make one of those round Elmo cards that I kept seeing around for a while now but ended up turning it into an easel card instead. I like how he is on display now and seems to be saying Happy Birthday to the birthday boy! Such a fun card!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope your week is off to a good start!

Skater Ian Easel Card

I needed a card for another birthday party we're supposed to go to this weekend. With another little boy birthday, it gave me a chance to ink up this Skater Ian stamp that I've had for a while but never used! I love making easel cards because they come together so quickly and yet have some "wow" power.

Thanks for stopping by. I truly appreciate all of your kind comments! Have a great day!!

Monster Easel Card

Here is the birthday card I made for my husband's co-worker's son. His first birthday party is on Saturday and I will finally get to see how all of those suitcases that I made held up after she packaged them up with the little monsters she had made. I used the new SU! stamp set "Make a Monster" for this card. I was trying to make this little monster look like ones she is using for her theme and tried to keep it with her color scheme. This was a fun card to put together and it was quick and simple too!

Double Side Step Card

I recently got some new "goodies" in the mail and immediately got to crafting!! I needed a birthday card for one of my GF's and this is what I came up with. I used the new SU! Kimono Kids set that I instantly fell in love with when I saw it in the new catalog. After seeing Jenny's adorable monkey card a few weeks ago, I knew I had to give this double side step card a try and thought this stamp set would work well because I wanted to be able to hang the lanterns from one side of the card to the other. Thanks Jenny for the inspiration!! :-)

Jodi's Birthday Candy

Jodi recently celebrated her birthday and is offering up some awesome, I mean AWESOME, candy to share her special day with all of us!! You need to go check it out now while you still have a chance to win!! Jodi is super talented so if you haven't checked out her blog, while you're there signing up for your chance to win her unbelievably generous birthday candy, check out her awesome creations!

Suitcases Galore

I finally finished the 30 suitcases for my DH's co-worker (although I forgot to take a picture of the first 6 I gave her a while ago). I mentioned in a previous post she needed some help with centerpiece ideas and I thought these suitcases would go great with her son's Monster One-derland themed party. Again, I got the tutorial for these great suitcases from Becky Roberts (Inking Idaho).

Here's a picture of all of the little monsters she had knitted for the centerpieces...too, too CUTE!

Thank you for stopping by! I can't believe it's July already!!! Have a great day!

Graduation Cap Card

We recently celebrated our cousin's high school graduation. I always find it so challenging to make cards for guys...and this was no exception. Luckily, I visited Eunice's blog and saw the graduation cards she had made and became inspired. Mines is definitely a lot more plain than hers since I didn't have much time to work on it, but it served its purpose. This was such a fun card to make and I know I'll be making it again! Thank you Eunice for the inspiration!!

Simple Sympathy Cards

I needed a sympathy cards for a funeral this weekend on Kauai. I decided to make a couple of them-one for me and one for my parents. These actually came together rather quick since I knew exactly which stamp set I was going to use.Thanks for stopping by. Have a great week!