Busy Weekend

I had a super busy weekend but was able to squeeze out one card set that I am super happy with.

Used mostly papertrey ink supplies.

Also stumbled across these great christmas ideas today on http://jillibeansoup.typepad.com/my_weblog/

Happy Week! (birthday week to me)

And I'm featured on another blog today.

What fun. A fellow team CAC member gave me a little (lovely) shout out today. Please go give her blog so love. She makes some beautiful things, starting with the felt tree pillow, you will see it right under the post all about me :).

http://auntesthings.blogspot.com/

Craft Room Organization and first custom art.

First of all this is what took my entire Sunday. Ok, not the entire thing since today is my mom's birthday, Jason and I spent a little time yesterday celebrating with her and showering her with new craft toys, some coffee, and a few candles. I didn't know what to get her, so she got a hodge podge gift basket full of little things I knew she would enjoy.

So, back to what took MOST of my Sunday. First I had to go to Target and find this bad boy. They are on sale cheaper than they have ever been before, so it was slim pickins when we got there. Thankfully, black seemed more popular than white, so there were two white ones remaining:Cute huh? It TOOK forever and multiple mistakes for us to get this darn thing together. Why oh WHY can't they come at least 1/2 way assembled. Seriously, the directions were uber confusing and after finally getting it together I had to nail 64 tiny nails into the back panels to attach them onto the shelf itself. A hot glue gun would have been so much easier, but in the stressful moment I didn't think of that. My husband made fun of me with my making memories hammer, but it did the job without me having to walk to the garage (did you know I'm lazy?)

So now, the part of the craft room you didn't see before in this post http://aliciasfavoritethings.blogspot.com/2009/07/craft-room-tour.html. You see, there was a BIG ugly (like from the 80's) treadmill that took up WAY too much space. We moved it into a closet (still useable) in another room and gave me more space.

So now, instead of an ugly fold up card table, I have a nice place to store all my junk without it looking so messy. I do have some craft books in another room that will go on one or two of the shelves but the rest will be useful for nicely organizing unstarted pieces, drying pieces, completed pieces and my idog (do you see him, I love him). Oh and that light is AWESOME. It's in the target back to college section for $10. It gives off so much light I can finally see everything in my room at night. It used to always be so dreary in the evenings/night.

Now the craft of the night.

I was asked to create a custom art of sorts. Basically one of my cards designs, tweaked and able to be framed and hung. Here is the result. I'm sending her here to approve it, so let's all hope she loves it. If she doesn't, I already know where I want to hang it. If she loves it, I guess I'll have to make another one for myself :)

The colors are off just a touch since it's 10:30 at night and I had to use the flash. We all know what flash does to our products.

If you like it too, head to my etsy shop. I'd be happy to create one for you, words and colors of your choice.

Happy Monday everyone! (and Happy Birthday mamma).

Friday Favorites

For those just tuning in, I have no order of what days I post what things. I blog when I feel like it and about whatever I feel about at that time :) It's been a while since I posted favorites so here we go...

Etsy Seller http://www.one9designs.etsy.com/ offers personalized jewerly.

Etsy Seller http://www.inspiredbymarie.etsy.com/ offers beautiful woodburned items. This is my current fav, she she seems to list something new everyday so my "current fav" changes often.

etsy seller http://www.prissdesigns.etsy.com/ has some great art.

Etsy Seller http://www.jodiemo.etsy.com/ has this adorable handbag.
And last but certainly not least www.wandaoconnor.etsy.com has some paintings that look just like my little doxie. Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Anycards SALE

All my greeting cards currently listed on etsy are on sale. I want to make more, but need to sell these ones first :)

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5869477§ion_id=6221002

and I'm being featured on another blog. SO exciting, my first feature I believe. Please go check it out and give the blogger some love.

http://christiecottage.blogspot.com/2009/08/featured-shop-today-anycards.html

Tuesday Card Inspiration

I haven't posted any card inspirtion in a while and I stumbled upon some good ones today. First on the Bean Talk blog http://jillibeansoup.typepad.com/my_weblog/ I found these two.
Next over on my FAVORITE blog http://dawnmcvey.typepad.com/ I found this (using some of the August release papertrey stamps). I love the colors and overall design of this little card.

I'm also apart of a EtsyPaper Street Team. Fellow team member recently posted this photo which cause my eye. Beautiful colors and overall appealing design. To see more of her work visit her blog here http://jujucreations.blogspot.com/

Last, as previously mentioned, papertreyink.com is coming out with new stamps on august 15th. They always give sneak peaks and I'm thinking my favorite this month is going to be sign language. Here is one card made using them. You can visit Melissa's blog for more info and details (and lots more cards) http://justdandy.typepad.com/just_dandy/

Happy Tuesday!

Lazy Saturday Afternoon

Today I was hanging out in my craft room and I turned around to see this.

I love it when I little Oscar lays like this, he's such a little cutie.
Yota got a little curious when I got down to his level
and my Bailey girl just remained relaxed.
This might be their first appearance on my blog, so hope you enjoyed meeting my "kids".

Look what I can do :)

I found these uglies (no offense if you like them) today:and turned them into these:

even my hubs was impressed.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Tuesday Favorites.

I haven't posted any etsy favorites in a while and a few things have caught my attention recently. As always, click on any picture to see more.

The first seller makes beautiful crosses. This on in particular caught my eye. My grandmother and great aunt loved Turquoise and the second I saw this I though of them.

***Something extra special, this seller is having a BIG sale all day today (click on picture to learn more).***

Next, I stumbled across these and wished I were planning my wedding again. What a wonderful (earth friendly) party favor.

This last shop is super special. All of her proceeds go to a wonderful charity.

The profit from this sale goes directly to For the Silent ("a non-profit organization contending – through advocacy, prayer, and fundraising initiatives – for children silenced by sexual exploitation and trafficking.") Learn more at: http://www.forthesilent.org/

Hope you find something you love. Happy Tuesday!

CHA 2009

This weekend mom and I were able to attend the CHA event here in Orlando. Oh my goodness, it was so much fun! I was a little bummed to see many of the companies who were there for the trade days left for the consumer days. I had been looking forward to seeing a lot of thing in person and then their booth wasn't there :(.

There were lots of stores with goods for sale, but also lots of vendors showing off their new goods. Some selling goods. There were also lots of celeb crafters and free make and take sessions.

The highlight of my day there was the Papertrey booth. I have loved papertrey stamps for a while now, but always feared buying without being able to see and hold. We waited in line for nearly an hour just to get into the little booth, but I spend my fair share of stamps and will be back to their online store http://www.papertreyink.com/, probably too soon in the future.

Here are the stamp sets I got:

1. cupcakes, you all know my love of all things cupcakes so this one I couldn't resist.


2. Second thing I can't resist, buttons. These are far better for my hips too. However, this stamp set lead me to the horrid task of dividing my buttons out by color. That took 1/2 of the afternoon but now I will have a much easier time finding those I want to use.

3. Fancy Flourishes. I see these used often on a blog I love (stalk) http://dawnmcvey.typepad.com/ (I got to meet Dawn this weekend and I have a picture, but due to the horrible closeness and poor lighting of it, I won't be posting for both our sakes.). Since seeing the first card she used them on, I wanted them. I bought a cheapy version at Michaels, only to be disappointed in it's stamping outcome. Now I'm SO happy to have the real thing.

I also got a free stamp set used in two of the cards I'm about to show you. It's an exclusive set that was only available at CHA and you only got it if you spent too much moola. :). I'm wishing I had spent a little more and gotten a second set because I'm seeing the "free" set on ebay for as much as $60. CRAZY.

Due to the convention itself and the time spent dividing my buttons, I wasn't left with too much time to actually play with the stamps. However, here are a few quick cards I made up. The second one is a duplicate of one the papertrey girls taught us how to make during one of the free make and take sessions on Friday.


Happy Monday!