Totally fun creations and a birthday shout-out

I have been having so much getting back to what I love doing...stamping. I've even join a challenge week hosted by the Splitcoaststampers, they really have some fun stuff there.

I made four different projects from four weeks of challenge on their page. They have been doing their challenges for a while but I just join so here are the first four weeks worth of projects I made.

The first week was called Easel card: You can lay it down flat like in the first picture to mail and the second picture shows you how you display it. Look at that...a card that came with its own easel. You don't even have to lean it up against something for it to stand...clever uh? This card idea came just in time for our card swap so I made a dozen of these for our swap. A lot of work...There are at least three different technique used on this card. The images were watercolored...then I used punches to cut out the sentiments and I used my brand new cricut to make the grass at the bottom of the card. I even use StampinUp's newest punch that's in our Sellabration this month.


The next item is an File Folder Notebook...this makes for a great gift. There's a little note pad inside and can be used for anything. I didn't complete decorating it yet because I haven't decided what I'm going to use this one for. I might add more embellishments later and add some sentiments to it too.Above picture shows what it looks like closed and the next picture shows what's inside and how it looks opened.
The next one is a Valentine Treat Bag Cover. Isn't it cute.

You can open it up and put some treats in it...totally great for Valentine. Of course, you can change the image on there and use it for any occassion.

Now this next card...I'm gonna have to say is MY favorite. It's called Folded Paper Frame card. My anniversary is in a week and this is the card I'm giving my husband. I made a card last year using the same stamp (you can check that card out here). I was soo proud of this one, I couldn't stop showing it off to the kids and my hub. I know, I take the surprise out of it by showing it to him already but I can't help it. He likes it and I know he will display it at work like a trophy...eheheh.

I had so much fun, I decided to make some Valentine treats for Danny and Joey's classmates. Luckily for me, all I have to do was ordered the cut-out treat boxes from StampinUp and make the box below. My boys totally loved this one...loved that they get to play aliens giving away treats to their human friends...LOL.

Of course, I didn't want to stop there...I just have to make this little treat basket...so easy to make. And look, it even has treats in it...eheheh.


The next card was what I demo for our card group last month called Envelope card. Not exactly the same color but the same technique. The idea came from Dawn. See, it looks like a card and then...
you flip oven the flap and you have a little pouch inside to put little treats. Yes, I know, most of the crafts today are treat oriented...can you blame me? It's valentine month and treat giving is a must...no? LOL

Finally...this last little image I have I made it on My Digital Studio, a Christmas gift I got from one of my best and dearest friends. Anyways, today is LoW's birthday. She one of those bloggers I follow and have immensely enjoyed her blog. She just wrote a love story about how she met her husband on her blog...it is a must read...totally romantic....(sighs) If you guys are not too busy, stop by her place and wish a happy birthday...she doesn't even know I made this for her. I wish I could see her face when she sees this..eheh. Happy Birthday, LoW...hope you're enjoying your birthday.
So, there ya have it...I promised last week I was going to put some crafty something something and I am keeping my word. Hope you like my little creations today. Have a great day blogging and God bless!!

My Latest Creation

I have been following this blog for a while and I absolutely love all the stuff she has on there. There were a lot of really neat, fun and easy crafts that kids can do to keep them busy during any season and of course a great place for moms like me who wants to take a whack at any creativity they have. Here are a couple of the ones that I love and are very easy for an amateur like me. I made these for my daughter Kaitlin for her 3rd birthday this past Tuesday and she just loves them.

Here's the first one I made: This is a crayon roll. Instead of carrying around a box of crayon, this roll stores the crayons nicely and keeps them padded really good so they don't break easily.

I had so much fun making this and it didn't take me long to make this project. The stitches may be a little crooked but since it's my first time making this, I am actually proud of this little accomplishment.

Here's my next attempt at sewing: a reverible totebag.

Isn't this cute? When you get tired of one side color, you can turn it out and you got yourself a new color. Both the totebag and the crayon rolls were fun to make and I thought I'd use different bold colors, my daughter's favorite colors.

If any of you want to try making these two items, head on over here and check out their tutorial guide on the crayon roll and the reversible totebag. That blog has loads of fun and easy creative projects to make even those who think they don't have a creative bone in their body can do. Trust me, this is coming from a person who was never creative and can't sew except the occasion straight line {although the lines come out crooked} sewing.

The recipient of these two items just love them. She's carrying these two items around all over the place along with the rest of the gifts she got for her birthday. I made the totebag because she loves purses and of course she loves drawing so the crayon roll is just the perfect thing for her to take with her when we go to church or on any outing.

Anyways, just thought I'd share what I've made this week as far as the creativity thing goes. Our card swap is scheduled for next week Saturday so I will be posting some cards or Halloween treat ideas, so stay tuned!! In the meantime, enjoy this little creation of mine and feel free to drool over it if you want...LOL...{soo joking on the drooling part}. Have a great weekend.

Another creation

Last week in Young Women, I had to teach the Beehive about Personal Records. Because I was in Primary for a while, I have become accustomed to using visual aide when teaching a lesson to keep the kids focused and interested. So I tried to do the same thing when I'm teaching the Beehive.

Because I feel that this particular lesson is very vital and important that the Beehive take into account, I deliberately postponed teaching this lesson til last week so that I could make something for the girls, something tangible that they can see everyday and be a reminder to them.

And of course, I just happen to like the topic too. I love reading about history either personal or collective and I think keeping records of our daily lives is a very useful tool to leave for future generation. Along with my lesson, I wanted to challenge my YW class to keep a journal, to write just about anything they want but I also know that if I just say do it, they will come up with some excuse as to why they might not be able to do it. So I went a step further and made all of my Beehive girls each a journal.

So here they are...I even personalized the journals so there shouldn't be any confusion as to which one belongs to who. Luckily I have a very small class so it only took me a couple of hours to do these.

This is what I used to make their journals...just a regular composition that cost 25 cents and with a few sheets of designer papers I turned this regular composition book to that below.






These were really easy and fun to make and the girls just love them. I have to pick colors that match their personalities and they were totally thrilled to receive them. They love the fact that no two books are the same...

Yeah..as you can count on the number of the books, I only have six girls in my class..I've got a couple of girls who has moved up to Mia Maid and these were the ones left this year. Actually, one of the girls just had birthday this past week so she's moved on to Mia Maid class but I am not getting any coming up from Primary this year. I think by the end up this year I might only have one girl left or even none at all.

Have I mentioned how much I'm enjoying my new calling as a Beehive Adviser? Yep, I totally ♥ these young ladies.

Anyways, I'm back from our camping trip...still exhausted from all that excitement that came from camping, the late night and early mornings...really wears this old body out. I was going to post about the camp but I can't seem to download any pictures to show so hopefully sometime next week I'll be able to show some pictures. In the meantime, I hope you all enjoy my little creation for this week and hopefully your weekend will be great one.

So Alooooha and God bless!! ♥

Look how creative I can be.....

For Christmas, along with my gifts she made me, my Mother-in-Law sent me this cute little tin-can with a little note asking me to make something for her. She loves getting pictures of her kids and grand kids so I was always looking for creative ways to make pictures of our family to send to her as gifts so I don't just send plain pictures. One year I made this cute little album in a can, where I took pictures of our family and using an Altoids tin can, I transfer it into a cute little album. It was just the perfect gift for her because she can carry it with her wherever she goes and when she wants to show off her son and his family who live in Hawaii, all the has to do was take that little tin album out and show them. It was such a hit that this year, she sent me this tin can you see here. And a little note telling me to make another one for her since the kids are older and there's a new addition to our family.


So, that's what I did. I took the tin can and with a little more creativity, I turned the empty can into this work of art...brilliant, uh?

Here's the tin again, closed. (She loves cats so the lid is perfect, I don't need to do anything to it.)


This is what it looks like when it's opened up. I was supposed to have a picture of my hubby but I didn't get around to taking any recent one of him, but will do that before I give this to my MIL. The next moving picture shows what it looks like all finished. I still need to put a picture of my son Chris on there. He was also missing when I was taking pictures of the other kids.


The first page is supposed to be where my hubby's picture goes, then mine, Stephanie, Jennifer, Christopher(picture missing), Jonathan, Joseph, Daniel, and then Kaitlin.


Here's what it looks like when I pull the pages of the album out page by page. Pictures of hubby and oldest son are missing from this album. I have to teach the Beehive class tonight on how to make this pull-out album so I was a bit pressed for time.














This is what the whole album looks like completely pulled out. I used ribbon and gold brads to attach the pages together. It was a such a fun thing to make. I still need to put some embellishments on each of the pages.


My MIL's birthday is the first of May and also with Mother's day coming up, this is just the perfect present for her. Since she is coming to attend my daughter's graduation close to the end of May, I still have more time to keep playing with this to make it even prettier. I might change the pictures altogether.

So what ya think? Love it? I know, I love it myself so I just might make one for myself soon with just the kids. If you would like to have one of these, leave me a comment telling me your birthday and I will make you one....you can decide on what colors you want and whose pictures you would like on it....see, I'm very generous that way.


(Becky{mom}, if you read this, call me and tell me what you think of your gift. Better yet, leave a comment telling everyone what a wonderful daughter-in-law I am..eheheh.)