One Messy Craft Desk = A Baby Card

I know it’s been a little bit but I swear I have been busy crafting.  I have one Halloween project I hope to finish up tomorrow and I am also starting my Christmas crafts.  Never to early to get ready for Santa!!  LOL

Today I had to jump on a card for this weekend.  Mom and I have a baby shower to go to.  This little girl that is coming, mom will be her nanny, caretaker, babysitter... whatever you want to call it.  Her, the babies’ mommy won’t be lucky enough to stay home with her so they are giving the honor of it to my mom. 

Here is my favorite picture of her doing one of the things she loves doing best.  She might be up there in years but she is like a work horse.  She never stops and is as strong and healthy as that work horse, which is good and that’s the way I want to keep her.

I love this “Crazy Old Woman”!!! 

Ok back to the issue at hand.  Look at my craft desk..

What a mess!

I thought about showing off and explaining what everything is but really, I think it’s pretty self explanatory  Everything that is on my desk are things I use for every craft I make.  This is why I need a craft room... It’s coming soon.  One thing I will point out is one of my favorite drinks.  Can you tell – see it in the picture?  It’s up there on the shelf above my Copics.  MIO.  Have you tried this liquid water enhancer?  I love it.  I hate drinking water but a little squirt of this and hmmmm I can drink a large glass down.  It’s a little bit of money but believe me.. I little goes a long way.  Very concentrated so give it a try.

So I sat down today to make a baby shower card.  The first thing I do every morning is go through my reader and check out all the blogs I follow.  I get so much inspiration and ideas.  I feel like I am part of a giant friendship but I don’t have to entertain anyone.   This is also when, if I know I have a card to make, I find challenges that will work for the card I’m making.  Who knows I might be a winner one day.  One of the first ones I ran into was over at The Cuttlebug Spot – What’s on your desk Tuesday.  Now you know why I broke down and showed you what a bad housekeeper I am at taking care of the crap on my desk.  It’s ok, that’s what blogging is all about, right!

I also ran into a awesome sketch over Authentique Paper blog: October Sketch Challenge.  I really love their paper but right now I only have one 6x6 pad – The Essentials Collections.  I really need to save up and collect more. I’ve just found the blog and love the paper so much I had to get my first pad a little bit ago. The sketch was just perfect for the idea I had.  Take a look.

So what do you think about my card.

I’ve had this stamp for a very long time but it is my favorite baby go to stamp.  I used my brand new Authentique paper pack for the card and piecing on the baby blanket.  I guess that’s the reason I bought it, such beautiful paper.  We know she is having a girl hence the pink! 
Speaking of pink – Copic Oz Blog challenge is: It’s time to Think Pink!  It’s a girl,, the card is all about Pink... I’m in on this one.  Plus I did try my best at blending with my two skin colors E02 Fruit Pink & YR00 Powder Pink.  Then I used R02 Flesh for her cheeks.  
It’ almost 10 pm and I have a whole day of crafting at my besties house tomorrow.  I better try to wind down. 
I really should try to put things away on my desk... ummmm.. NAAAAA  

Spooky Banner

First and most important today – I am wishing my baby girl a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
Yes today is her birthday and she is 19 years old.  OMG.. where’s my cane.  I feel sooo old.
I can’t believe it.. where has the time gone.  19 years ago I was feeling the pain.. walking around the mall trying to get the last minute things done before I headed to the hospital.  Well as any shopping trip for me goes I stayed to long at the mall and had to stop three times in the parking lot of the hospital thinking I was going to drop her right there.  Really I didn’t think I was going to make it inside, but I did and I think I was on the table for less than 30 mins. 

Happy Birthday Rissy Rissy Rose!  Love you with all my heart.

Sorry I’ve been away for a while.  I’ve been busy busy busy.  My favorite time of year is right around the corner so I’ve started to get all my spooky decorations together.  I don’t have any little kids so my decorating is on the smaller end.  I have a little table that I decorate for every occasion. 

Nothing spook-ctacular, just a few fun and spooky things I have.  Inside my glass globes are my favorite decorations.  They’re my creepy baby heads.  They have holes that I drilled in their head and I put dripping candles in them.  Here’s a picture from last year.

The other thing I’ve been working on is this spooky banner I made.
I’m going to enter it to one of my favorite sites challenge this week. 

Simon Says Challenge Anything goes. 

Gotta go and take my little girl to get some coffee for her big day. 

BOO itful Frames

How corny is that title.. not as corny as my latest little project.  I have to give credit to my bestie Shanny for thinking this one up.  She turned me on to these little frames.

$1.00

So I pulled out my little Halloween cuties and went to work.

I know I wanted them peeking out the side and as you can see it was going to say BOO. 

Here’s the out come.  I love them!

What you can’t see is on this little ghost I embossed him with my SU spider web folder. 

This will look great in my Halloween display. 

On to my next project.  Making a Banner for my display table.

Stick with Me

I have another new ittybitty by Unity stamp to show you.  I wanted to make a card to enter in the Paper Issues Tag, You're It! challenge.  I really want a chance to win that embosser they are giving way.   LOL   Plus I was looking for a chance to use this stamp.  Well I just used the words from this set.  I had an idea for it since the day I got it.  

This is also my first use of Washi Tape.  I don’t know why, I guess I just am a little intimidated by it.  Who knows????
Just for the fun of it I used the color combo from The Play Date Café Challenge: #149. 

I’m really changing my style in making cards.  I looked back through old post and I am seeing evolution of my card making style.  I wonder what does that?  What makes us take a different look at who to create images on cards?  Just something to ponder. 
I hope everyone had a great weekend.  I sure did.

PILLOW REDO

I have had this project on my to do list for soooo long.  I finally had to bite the bullet and just get it checked off my list.  I think I kept putting it off since I really don’t sew.  I took “home Ec” back in grade school.  Yea that’s how long ago it was.. they don’t even call the class that anymore.  I made a shirt back then but really it ended up looking like a pillowcase with three hole in it.  It was horrible!

Then when my first daughter was born I made her a dress.  It was amazing!  It had a zipper in the back and she wore it all the time.  I have no idea how I did it other than I am an educated person and can read a pattern.   That didn’t help the first time so I am chalking it up to those mom hormones  surging through me and made me like a sewing super woman.
So here I was sitting in front of my new sewing machine.  I say new, even though I have had it for at least a year.  It’s still new since this is probably the first real sewing project I have done on it.  

Isn’t she cute?  The basics of the machine world but heck I never could have more gadgets on it.  I barley know what I’m doing.. thank goodness for pictures on the knobs.  LOL. 
I have two large pillows that desperately needed to be recovered.  I have no pillows on my couch right now and I thought it would be a fun project.  Plus have you seen the price of pillows .. Holly CrapOlly! 

These are large pillows but perfect for the couch.  I went down to Hobby Lobby to find some fabric.  After looking and dreaming of really beautiful pillow fabric, which was around $15 (on the low end) and up to $20 a yard, I found in the clearance area some great striped fabric that ended up to work just fine.  Remember with all my 4 legged babies at home I do not have a hootie tootie living room.  I have a very lived in living room so nothing fancy for us.   These are just going to be snuggle up and watch a movie pillows.

The best part of this fabric was the price.  Only $7.99!  It was originally double that.

So I measure, cut, buy zippers that are made for jackets, and start sewing.  I bought the heavier duty zippers.  We are not very careful people here and zippers don’t seem to last.  I want to be able to take the covers off and on often to wash them. 
I know I didn’t put or sew these zippers in the official way,  Not the way you’re suppose to sew a zipper in.  In fact I don’t think I know what the official way  is.. LOL, but my sewing job worked non the less.

Wait, I’ll let you be the judge of that.  What do you think? 

I really like the fabric and look, the zipper works great and looks like it’s part of the pillow.  

Just don’t get your magnifying glasses out and do an inspection.  Like I said, it was sewn Big Mamma’s way, not the right way.  LOL  I crack myself up.