Card Kit

I had some time and some energy last night after work, grocery shopping, shoe shopping, picking up daughter from across town, preparing dinner and dishes (hah!).
So I finished the items needed for a Kit Swap: I had chosen to make card kits. I love the stamped images, which I'm pretty sure is from Stamping Bella, as I recognise one of my favorite girls (they were a giftie, I don't have the stamp myself). I had bought a pile of polka-dotted paper last year when it went on clearance at HobbyLobby, so one sheet served as the patterned paper background for all four cards. I colored w/copics, cut my image into a circle, adhered it to the background cardstock and used a fiskars scissors witha scalloped edsge to get the mat. Instead of ribbon I used same cardstock across the bottom of the card behind the image. A scallop punch out of same cs with the stamped sentiment looked lonely on the polka dots, so I matted it w/white cs. It needed subtle bling, so I placed two white bonbons from Stamping Bella on the "ribbon" and finally glitzed the image and a few of the polka dots w/liquid glass from CTMH.
Oopsi, I have twenty minutes to do my hair and get to work.
Since this swap will go out after Valentine's Day, I had to shake the hearts and kisses theme out of my head for good!

Anyway, in the scheme of all things related to my 2009 Resolution, I'm calling the card I made as one item, and the kit as another, which makes 101 items made this year. I hope I continue on the path of creativity and production. If I exceed my resolution expectations, so much the better. Maybe I can concentrate on organization as well (ugh, my downfall).

New Bella Card

I found some card candy that I got in a swap that fit well with a valentine theme, but not your usual colors. Tacked it onto some glitzy paper with HuggyBella and voila! another Valentine's Day card. I'm so glad classes are over for the week. I hate working two long days and nights in a row, although I got this morning off so I can't complain (too much).

Stash Bash Challenge

Here's another page completed using only what I have on hand (or given to me w/o payment). My daughter was in fifth grade when they performed the "Granny Awards", a compilation of fairy tales and mother goose rhymes. Wendy got the part of one of two fairy godmothers. Her costume came from the theatrical side of the family--their garage is a costume and prop storage area for a local theater group.

Altered Notepad

Here's an altered notepad I made for the LuckyBug group swap. The swap is for kits, so I made up kits with the paper pad, patterned paper, border paper, image, and colored cardstock to frame the image, plus a Skittle.
'I used to make these notebooks and sell them at craft shows. They were an inexpensive gift that women loved to give to friends. I don't do craft shows any more. Too many times I've heard people say that they can make that themselves. I say go ahead, if you have the time and the eye and the materials and the creativity...

Whoo Made Cards? I Made Cards

Got some real cute Owl stamped images from a fellow stamper, so I whipped up a couple of new cards while at the crop. She also gave me some sentiments to go along with the images, as well as some scalloped circles and ovals in assorted sizes and patterns.

After making the card, I thought it was lacking something, I didn't know what. Then it hit me---google eyes! I think they're cute, and I'm gonna have to break down and buy the QT Owl stamp set from Pink Cat Studios (although this image is from a different stamp company).

First Dance

Forgive the fuzziness of this shot, the actual layout is clea rand sharp LOL. I think I need new glasses or a new camera lens!

My daughter is in 8th grade and has a "boyfriend". He's a Freshman, and they'd never gone on a real date. You know how it is with young teens, they're "going out" with someone, yet they've never really "gone anywhere".

Anyway, I had told her that she couldn't go to any high school dances until she was in high school. Then his homecoming dance came up. I said no and two days later He called me to plead his case. He should be a defense attorney. He was eloquent, courteous and in need of a self-confidence booster, as he moved just before school began to a new town (just a few over) and was having a hard time making new friends. So I caved. Problem was, I was going out of state that weekend. Hubby promised to take care of her and take plenty of pics (he got six!) I called her before she got picked up and also the next day. She had a blast! There's hidden journaling behind the pic of her taking her own photo bottom left.

Blogger is having Issues

I'll try this again. I just wrote a mess of text and put two photos on and poof it vanished!!

I went to a crop and got a lot done: 2 12x12 pages, three cards, three altered notebooks, an Altered Notebook Kit for three, and I put my homemade ATCs froma previous post onto cards to make mini cards for a Yahoo group swap.

Here I just took a few pics of the things that remind me a teen lives in my house--not just a teen, but a teenage girl! Shower gels, shampoo, conditioner, mask...stuffies, dolls, perfume, stationery...pictures, magazine cutouts, cartoons, freehand drawings...

I love the background paper, don't you? I have no idea what it is, just got it out of my pile and thought it fitted a teen page!

I really wanted to post morew than one pic, but with blogger acting the way it is tonight, I'm quitting while I'm only behind one!