It's a Beautiful Day

It's so pretty outside here in Charm City...not to hot not to cool..the sun is shining, and it's just an overall relaxing day,... finally...I've been up since 2a.m. playing in here...I made this project that was alot of fun. It's going to be a birthday box for a gift/gift card for someone. ..don't know who yet, but someone will get it....what do you think? The face is really strange looking..I can't seem to get a good face on anything I make... I made the face with a ball of newspaper, foli and polymer clay and baked it. I also used newspaper for the inside of the hat to give it some stability. On the backside I used the Basic Grey notch tool to make the notches to thread the twine around to make it look like a corsic (sp?)...This was just a small paper mache box that I had in my stash and I wanted to do something with it. There are hat pins in the hat holding the tag. I also used the Accent Essentials card for the Cricut to make the flowers and the ruffles (scallop). Here are a couple of layouts that I made last week or so. They are our eldest and I and then our eldest and our little niece... Well I hope that everyone has a wonderful week ahead. It's going to be another busy one here for me as I'm getting into our spare room to clean it out. I promised DH that I would since he has been so sweet lately. Not to mention he has been on my butt about getting it done....men, they just don't understand.... Hugs from a sunny Charm City

Happy Monday... Just a quick note for you today...I've been so busy with our little one's birthday party these past few weeks...we finally had her party this past Saturday...and it was such a great party for her...today is her birthday so I'm hoping to make a red velvet cake for her today for after dinner dessert...she turned 10 years old...I just can't believe that she's that old...Scott and I still remember laying on the bed watching t.v. together with her laying there on our chest and not being very long at all...ohh the memories.... Last week her and I went to the beauty shop and she decided to get her hair chopped off...Sharri (our beautician) took off I think almost 10"...I could not believe that she actually did it...She wants to donate her hair to locks of luv...I'll post some photos of her old and hew look when I upload the photos from my camera...it's just soo adorable on her.... Here's a song that was on another blog (Ingvild Bolme)...I absolutely loved it and asked who sang the song..she was so nice she told me the name of the song and who sings it..I did a search and found it on you tube so I thought I'd share it with you all...Ingvild is such an awesom artist that I would love to share her talent with everyone....here's a link to her site....go and check out all of her wonderful creations....and a big thank you Ingvild for the information...I absolutely love this song...now I need to figure out how to purchase this one... My Paper Art And do you remember the bag and card tutorial I made for the Hallmark Scrapbook Ladybugs'blog I posted last week? Well Jody(the owner of Hallmark Scrapbook)was the recipient of the bag and card...it was for her birthday..if you didn't get a chance to check out the tutorial take a gander over and check out all of the awesom work from the ladybug team...they are just the best ladies I've been able to work with. Hallmark Ladybug Blog Thanks for taking the time to stop by and visit...drop me a line so that I know you were here and say HI... Hugs from a sunny Charm City

WOOHOO

Now that I have your attention, it's Friday...not that it means anything to me this week (cuz' I'm working tonight), Fridays are normally a great day here for our little one and myself. We usually do chinese and movies.Well tonight, we aren't..since I have to work tonight, I think we are just doing some sort of take out or drive through... Here's some projects/cards that I've made since I last posted. These first two are what I made for the challenges over at Hallmark Scrapbook on the message boards. If you haven't checked them out, take a gander over and play along...we would love to see you... http://www.hallmarkscrapbook.com/phpBB2/ this was a wierd day for me. I decided to make wierd faces on the envies for decorations...I thought this would be a cute way to store some of my fav' cd's here in my studio. The above one I made using the jar cut from Doodlecharms cart from Cricut. I had so much fun making this one..the paradise words are actually printed onto a sheet of transparency film and ran through my cricut machine to make the cut..the stamps are stamped onto a piece of glossy photo paper after it was cut out from the cricut machine.. The above card I made for a friend that a new baby was just born into the family. the inside pillar actually pops up when you open the card...

this is actually a cootie catcher that I made to use for a table decoration at our daughters 4th of July party.

last but not least is this cropped image...if you would like to see the rest of the photo click on this link. It will take you to a tutorial that I just uploaded. It's my first one...

http://hallmarkladybugs.blogspot.com/

Well that's it for now...hope it won't be as long til my next post...

Hugs from a very warm Charm City