
I decided to take my paper flower making technique in a new direction for this arrangement. I combined stamped flowers on top of the die cuts and played around with patterned and colored card stock. I was inspired even further by the Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab to add the orange in with the red, […]
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My bird stamp obsession is now in full swing, so I have broken out yet another new set for some challenges. There were two challenges I had in mind when creating this tag and combining both ideas worked really well. Isn’t this little blue bird just….”cute as a button!” I LOVE him! He is from […]
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This is one of my earlier paper flower arrangements. I made these for a friend to be used as a centerpiece for her Daughter’s 1st birthday. Since it was a ladybug birthday party I tried to incorporate lady bugs wherever I could. I thought it would be cute if the Flowers could be displayed year […]
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I happened upon the Waltzing Mouse sketch challenge this afternoon. I had been trying to come up with a masculine card idea. Our computer guy refurbishes computers and was kind enough to give an oldie but goodie to my 5 year old son. Jack is a budding Lego artist and frequents Youtube tutorials to gain […]
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I absolutely loved this weeks trigger so inspiring and FUN! My Mother still uses her 70’s Pyrex bowls (they don’t make em’ like they used too!) and I always tell her how the designs remind me of my favorite stamp sets. The bird designs on the bowl helped fuel my latest addiction to […]
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I discovered this challenge while working on another challenge and since making paper flowers has become my latest passion I had to play along. I must thank the girls on the Fab ‘n’ funky design team for creating this challenge as I have a basement FULL of blooms in progress and this challenge inspired me […]
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For my son’s 4th birthday party last November we decided to go to Bounce U. Since they pretty much handle everything it didn’t leave me a lot of room to be creative. I did however find a loophole…Party Hats! It ain’t a party without party hats after all. I attempted to make my own party […]
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My Grandmother is in a nursing home so for Valentine’s day I wanted to do something special for her. I had come across some beautiful ribbon flowers in a random Google search and decided to give them a try. My sewing skills leave much to be desired. In fact I have owned a sewing machine […]
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One of my Husbands co worker’s is a HUGE comic book fan. He loved the vintage comic book school desk I made so I created this flower-pot as a house-warming gift for him. Again, I used the same old comic books I had on hand and some clippings that I had left over from making […]
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My husband found an ad on Craigslist for two vintage school desks under “free stuff”. Since the owner of the desks was only a couple of towns away from us we couldn’t resist picking them up. What a score! Not only did they have a lift top and inkwell but an attached swivel chair as […]
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