Saturday, September 29, 2007

Kid free day and $1 Albums

Today was a good day:) My husband took the kids over to my inlaws around 2:30 and gave me the rest of the day to work on my crafts for the craft fair. It was so nice to have the house all to myself! A friend of mine came over for a couple hours to work on some things too. I did get a good amount of stuff done so I am very happy about that.

I found these little albums in the Target dollar spot. I figured I could try to cover them and turn them into cute little albums to sell at the craft fair. I used my DCWV Nana's Kids paper to cover them and I am pretty happy with the end result. They were pretty easy to do so I will be making 4 more.


Thursday, September 27, 2007

I'm back!

Well, I am going to try and give this blog thing another try! I love reading everyone else's but I always seem to think mine would not be anywhere near as interesting. I am going to try anyway! :)
I have been working on alot of new things. I have a craft fair coming up in about a week so I have been trying to get stuff done for that. I am splitting the table with a few other woman. We are all adding something different to the table so our name is "Hodgepodge Moms." The name caught the attention of a local news program call Cecil's World and we are going to be interviewed this Monday! I am really excited about that. Here are a few cards I have been working on.


I made this card using a pumpkin pie base (5x5) and used the designer series paper Creepy Crawly. I cut out a black arrow and doodled around it for a little extra detail. I also did faux stitching around the "BOO" to make it stand out more.



This card it a basic black base and I stamped the stars in Whisper White craft ink. I stamped the cat image (Haunting Halloween) in basic black on whit cardstock. I used my watercolor pencils and a blender pen to color it in. I punched out 2 scallop circles and layered them together. I used a strip og Creep crawly paper at the bottom.



I am really loving this stamp set and desighner paper! Can you tell?

I made this jar with my new fav paper as well! I decorated it with some stamping and ribbon. I am making 6 of these, 3 will be halloween and 3 will be Christmas. I might get some more. I got them at Michaels for 2.49! They would be great for holding candy or even a candle.

So that is some of the stuff I have been working on. My husband is taking the kids out for the day on Saturday so I can really work on some things for the fair. It will be so nice to have some uninterupted work time during normal hours, not 1am! Thanks for checking out my blog:)