Frou Frou Gypsy in Combat Boots

Just a quick look at the Mother's day cards i made this year! Maybe you can remember these for next year or convert this into some other type of card if that suits you! always cyndi

well, i have tried, really i have, to catch up on my Days of love...alas i am still behind. I did want to share with you the book/card i made for my DH for V day though. I was really very proud of it and pleased with how it turned out. I used some chipboard coasters that i had picked up in a $1 bin somewhere and decoupaged them with photos and brown paper bag scraps. (if the coasters are glossy...sand them a bit first) I used various things for embellishments...whatever i had laying around that seemed like it would work.

Here are the rest of the cards from the set i made for my Mom for Christmas. I used SU! stamps, ink and paper. The embellishments...who knows..i can't keep up with all that! I am lucky to have time to stamp! Hope you are all having a great start to 2009!' always cyndi

I made a set of cards for my mom for Christmas. She send out a million cards a year and i thought it would be nice to give her some so she didn't have to buy so many..and we all know handmade cards are the best! this is the wedding/anniversary card, quite lovely! there were two of these... and this is a birthday card i think there were three or four..wait maybe only two. oh well. I'll show the rest later! always cyndi

i have some birthdays coming up, all boys...those are the hardest ones for me to make. I whipped these up the other night. all supplies are SU! except the ribbon which is from the $1 bin at Michael's. Plain. Simple. Easy. Happy Thanksgiving! cyndi

here is the card i made a few weeks ago for my DH's 36th Birthday! Happy Birthday DH, all supplies SU! always cyndi

here it is...TA DAH! My new craft space! as you come up the stairs you see ^ this! Of course i still have to share it with the kids and i don't have it all just right yet...but it is usable at least! Here is the storage behind my desk. all those little wicker bins on the right are full of misc embellishments, etc. I have scrap and extra ribbon stored here in jars by color. I am working on something to store my rolls of ribbon on. I have this magnetic board and stuff next to my desk! this is how i have my SU! stamps stored for now. I know you are thinking i don't have enough, right? my husband would disagree! And this is the little corner for my DD with her craft stuff and kitchen. the kids love to play while i am up there working. I think it is going to work out nicely! always cyndi

Well here's the view as you walk up the stairs now into my new improved play room for the kids and craft area for me! The room actually is getting used now...since i am up there the kids want to be up there too. I will have more photos soon for you! I am doing my happy dance as i go off to pick up my DD from preschool! have a great day always cyndi

well...almost anyway! I worked on some Teacher gifts last week. We have four days to go this week. My mojo was running high so i made the goodies and my BFF is going to make tags for them and package them for us to give to our teachers. Sorry the pictures are so bad...last week was busy! But when the creative juices start flowing...you just go with them and don't fight it. So this set includes an altered composition note book, a decorated lip balm holder, which i got the patter for from "Stamp on This" http://indyemmert.blogspot.com/2007/11/happy-thanksgiving.html . Also a decorated water bottle which i got from "iStamp" http://stampinat6213.blogspot.com/2008/05/tart-tangy-water-bottles.html and key ring post it notes that i got from "Chic n' Scratch" http://chicnscratch.typepad.com/chic_n_scratch/2008/02/post-it-note-ke.html . these are all wonderful blogs and i dearly thank these ladies for posting better directions than i could ever come up ...