Teacher Thanks

Weeellll, I've been a busy little beaver lately!!! School is almost out for the summer. I can't wait. I love being home with my kids!!

We have two 6th grade teachers at our elementary school so I've made them both a card and will have all the kids sign them.

These are a full 8.5X11 sheet of paper folded in half so there will be plenty of room to write inside.

I used my cricut to cut the shapes. I used Walk in My Garden, Storybook and Calligraphy Collection to do these. I also used the Dream a Little stamp set from Stampin Up! to stamp the back ground images.

The small pink flower and the dark blue flower are from Got Flowers? and the pearl center is an old button. The blue polka dot center is a brad.

Tile Coasters

I saw these tiles at Home Depot and just had to have them!! They measure 3.5 X 3.5 inches.
I love the rough edges they have.

They make great additions to a wall. These I made into coasters although, because they have been sprayed with a sealer they don't really soak up liquid from a glass.

I stamped the images with Staz-On ink and the chalked them.

After I was done I sprayed them with an acrylic sealer and put felt on the back.

I love the way they turned out.

Baklava

Here's another page for my digitally scrapped recipe book!!!

My husband really loves baklava and it's pretty easy to make so the last time I made I took pictures so I could add it to my book.

I did everything in Paint.net. I even made the background my self!!! I was really impressed and can't remember how I did it.

All I know is I started with a fractal image and then started changing it and adding different effects until it looked like this.

You can try this too since paint.net is free. Try the recipe also...it's fantastic!!

Lyrical Letters

I can't wait until the mail gets here today!!! I have loved this Lyrical Letters cartridge for my Cricut since everyone started pre-selling it!!.

I balked at the price though. The lowest I found it for was 50.00 at Oh My Crafts and although that's where I normally buy my cartridges I couldn't afford that price.

So I went to Ebay. I knew I had 36.00 in my Paypal account so that would be my limit. Then, I just started bidding on cartridges one at a time. As soon as I lost a bid I'd move on to the next one and guess what??? It only took me 21 tries!! I finally won an auction and got my cartridge for 34.15 with free shipping.

It should be here today....just in time for the weekend!

Happy Mother's Day!!

Here are the Mother's Day cards I made this year (I always have to make three of them!!) Sometimes I cheat and just make them all the same but this year I got my sponge out and just went crazy!!

The two main sets I used are: Petal Prints, Serene Spring

May 09 Virtual Stamp Night

Splitcoaststampers had another virtual stamp night again. This was just a mini one, so not so long and not as many challenges. I did four of them. I really love those challenges because it gets my creative juices flowing and makes me realize that I can come up with my own ideas!!

A Yummy Mistake

I was going to make some mini-brownies. The kind with a mini peanut butter cup in each one (they are soooooo good!).

There must be something wrong with my pan though because everyone of them stuck!!

I finally just started scooping them out with a spoon and dumping them into a bowl when I got a great idea.

I continued putting them all in the bowl and when I was finished I smashed them down until they were packed nice and tight. Then I let them sit for a couple of hours, turned the bowl upside down and popped out this perfect bomb!!

A little sprinkle of powdered sugar, a sliced strawberry and we have a very rich dessert that nobody new I had messed up (until I told them my story of course!).