Thank you

Hey everyone!

Wow it's been a week! 

We got a mini vacay to Cali in, I had my last day at work,

And I'm getting ready to start my new job tomorrow!

I wanted to thank our California friends for opening their home to us,

So I made this fun card....

Inspired of course by our fabulous days and evenings at the beach!

The image is from dilly beans and for the current Mermaid challenge,

The sketch from Tuesday morning sketches,

The use of the embroidery floss and tag for the challenge at  timeless twine,

The small stamp for Simon says Stamp and Show

The pins for Simon Says Stamp

The beach for Chocolate, Coffee and Cards and Creative Inspirations,

Cute card Thursday good luck charm

And finally it's feminine for the July card challenge at Bo Bunny!

Whew! That was a lot! 

For me?

Perhaps like many of you out there,

you make many craft projects, for your friends, for your family, often

even for complete strangers.

I know for me I very rarely make something for myself!

Today however I have a project that I made completely for ME!

See the problem is that I always needs a plethera of pens for my job.

I have a little locker at work, and the pens seem to just get thrown on the edge of the locker, and then of course they get lost!

So I decided to make the fun tin for all my little work items!

Here's the before picture

Yep, it's a large size Planters Roasted Almonds tin.

I covered it with some pretty papers from Heidi Grace.

And then I made the banners, I also used the Heidi Grace papers,

and I printed out the letters on my printer, and punched them out with a circle punch

then added them to the banners, punched holes for the twine, and voila, a banner.

Really that part was super easy!

Next I colored up this "color me wonderful" image from Saturated Canary

Here's her close up!  I am in love with her yellow dress

after all, yellow is my favorite color!

And it's a perfect springy color!

Finally at the bottom of the can I added a few stripes of twine from the twinery

Linking up to the challenges at:

The Twinery: Banners

Creative Inspirations: Spring Colors

Shopping our Stash: Spring or Easter

Simon Says Stamp: Easter or Spring

Bearly Mine: Anything Goes

A stampendous Christmas card!

                         It is still very hard to believe that it's almost December!

Today I was at the park in shorts and a tank top yet again! 

I know I live in Arizona, but I want it to feel like Christmas!

Soooo I made this pretty  Christmas card when I got back from my work out!

I'm playing along with the challenge over at the Stampendous Blog who is teaming up with

coredinations for a hard core Crop!

The challenge is to use a stampendous stamp (that would be Santa!)

And also to use coordinations color core Cardstock

The black with the red paper is coordinations, and the green background paper is also

coordinations! 

I embossed the black paper with my Tim Holtz embossing folder,

which made the paper crack, I then sanded it with my sander, and cut the edges with my

pinking sheers. (yep, I've used them before, and I'll use them again!)

For the green cardstock I also cut the top and bottom edges with my pinking sheers,

I then ran the edges thru my sewing machine

I then cut a piece of gold ribbon and added an antique button (estate sale find)

Here is a close up of Santa

as you can maybe see, I paper peiced the middle of him.  I love the little

added detail this brings!

I'm sure if you've been following my work at all you are getting super sick of this

same green color over and over... I have great news... Today I bought 2 new copic's

both in green!  I'm super excited to try them out tonight! 

I hope your Christmas Crafts are all on track! 

I am also entering this into:

Creative Inspirations: Traditional Christmas Colors (this is my second entry, if that is no acceptable please delete my prior entry thank you!)

Crafty Sentiments: Red, White, and green (and in my case black as well)