Hubby Made this Card

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Hope every mom had a wonderful mother’s day weekend. I had a great one spent with my family and a few friends.

I didn’t do anything crafty but my hubby did and he did an awesome job too. First though, let me share what M and him did for me (well, mostly hubby did for me).

Sunday morning, hubby made me breakfast - M was suppose to help but M and me ended up playing instead. When breakfast was ready, I had the breakfast in bed option but I opted for the dinner table so that we can all sit down together.

For breakfast, hubby made me eggs, grits (it was still cooking when the photo was taken), turkey sausage and from scratch, he made cinnamon and vanilla waffles. They were yummy and perfect looking! I am so proud of him!!

After breakfast, he offered to clean up and he said that I could scrapbook or whatever if I wanted to. I did go to my craft room but didn’t really do anything too creative.

I finished up the page that I did at the crop and printed out a few things for a few hybrid projects. While I was doing all this, I heard a lot of hammering and drilling from the basement. I thought that hubby got motivated and wanted to do more basement stuff. But no, he made me this card instead.

Isn’t this the nicest looking card? I LOVE it!

Here are the details:

Leftover wood from our construction project, metal from an old beer can, hammered bottle caps for the circles, staples, pastic ties, nails, and cardboard.

This is the best card ever!!! M loves it too and dad said he’ll make a special one for her. She can’t wait!

Mother’s Day Card and Gift

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This was what we made at my upline’s workshop last Wednesday. We had so much fun chit chatting, creating, and bringing home fun items.

The first is a bath salt project. Isn’t that the cutest? The stamp set is an old retired SU stamp set, Bubble Queen and the bottle is a cleaned up Starbucks bottle. This was a really easy project to do and it looks so nice. The bottle was full when I came home with it but M used some already {::SMILES}.

To glue the card, we used the red double sided glue. I used my ATG gun to glue between the white and the pink but it wasn’t tough enough. Today, the adhesive is still going strong.

The top of the card, we just covered with card stock. Used a round punch but I think it’ll be cute too if you use pattern paper or use a scallop punch instead of the regular. A lot of possibilities. One of the ladies came up with putting coffee beans, hot cocoa mixes, etc. Get the four bottle Starbucks coffee and decorate the carton. I saw some samples on SplitCoast.

The bath salt was home made and I found a recipe online that is similar to this one. There are many others out there. What my upline did was use a lavendar scent baby oil which you can easily find at WalMart for the essential oil. Smells really good.

The next project is a matching card. This card is a case and that case was a case from Amy Sheffer. I met Amy through H&M stamp even though I’ve been stalking her blog before then. She’s super talented. Love this card. It’s super cute and not hard at all. They’re just paper layered together and the half circles are just half circles. I used my scissors to cut each circly in half.

Last but not least, the card swap. I have one more. The cards are in the mail. Long story. I love them, especially the doggy card. She did that

card using the Cricut machine and then added some dimensions by embossing the brown. It’s nice. M loves the purple bday card and the blue makes a great masculine bday card.

Yes, the theme of the swap was birthdays.

The card that I made for the swap was this in the very bottom. I chose these colors so that it can be for a boy or a girl. I thought that even with the pomegranate color a male recipient would like it. Yes, no?

The set is from the Little Birdie set. One of my favorites can’t you tell? {::SMILES}. I used this week’s SCS color challenge, pomegranate, black, and sky blue. For the scalloped cardstock, I used my corner rounder punch.

I’ll be making a Stampin’ Up! order tonight… hmm… which oh which… hard decisions!

Well, have a great weekend. It’s NATIONAL SCRAPBOOK DAY tomorrow. Not that I’m doing anything scrappy, have a bday to go to {::SMILES}. But, if I get things done this weekend, aka chores, I will try to squeeze in some scrapbook time. Besides, I have some stuff I need to do for The DigiChick.

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Here’s the front cover of my photo journal that I’m starting. I haven’t thought about what to put in there but I think it’ll be whatever is interesting that I want to remember. The book’s from Target’s $1 bin. I didn’t change the book cover pattern, it was already like that. Pretty huh? I just added the Prima, ribbon, and alphas. Really easy!

I never got a chance to photograph the items from the workshop I went to. I got home late last night. After picking M up, I stopped at the consignment store, picked up a few shirts, and on my way to drop the movie at Blockbuster, I saw that my LSS was open. Its first day! So of course I had to stop by and guess who all were there? The peeps I scrapbook with. Ha ha! So I chit chatted a bit, helped a few customers with some questions, and also talked to the owners. I’ll be teaching my own classes starting August but I might do a few that they’ve already scheduled between now and then. We’ll talk more next week. I am so excited! I might also help with their displays. They have a lot of stuff that many newbies don’t know what to do with and being a new store, they have no samples.

That’s it. I’m going to lunch. I’ll post more later.