Another Valentine's Idea for My Hubby

I was looking through all of the Valentine's candy the other day and came up with a cute idea to send to my husband in his box. I decided to buy enough bags of Hershey's hugs and Hershey's kisses so he would have a hug and a kiss for every day he is going to be gone. It came out to be about three bags each. I found cute little Valentine's boxes at Walmart to put them all in and then made little picture tags to go on them over at picnik.com.

Let me know what you think!

I'm Back!

I know I have been missing in action for two weeks now but I am back on my feet and ready to show off a few things that I have working on. Since Justin left, my first project was to get his Valentine's box. I decided to make him a little card mini (52 reasons I love you) that I saw on Pinterest. Here is my version.

I decided I wanted to add a few pictures to mine so I pulled together a few of my favorites and printed them out on cardstock. I decorated each picture with some cut out hearts, patterned paper, and stickles. When that was done I modpodged over all of them. Each card and picture was distressed with Tim Holtz distress inks (antique linen and brushed corduroy). Let me know what you think!

What I Am Up To

Sorry I haven't been posting lately but I have been spending time with my hubby because he leaves Monday morning on a six month deployment. I have been working on a few crafty things though and as soon as I finish them up I will be posting new pics! Until then, I have some snuggle time that I need to soak up while I can!

What I Have Been Up To

I have been working on purging and getting rid of some clutter in my crafty area since I no longer have a crafty room : (. My second project (my first was using up some scraps on a few cards) was to take all of my crafting magazines and cut out anything that I found inspiring in them. I cut out any layouts, sketches, cards, minis, tags, and other paper crafts that I liked. I tossed the leftovers and organized all of these pieces in a folder that I have. My next step is to make a sort of inspirational/idea smash book. I am not sure how I want to do this yet so I am looking around online for a few ideas first. Now I have a whole cube box to organize other crafty supplies in.......

that is when Avah decides to get out of it! Maybe I will use it for my newly trimmed down paper scraps! We will see : ).

Stockpile

One of my goals this year is to make a stockpile of cards to have on hand when I need them. I like making cards when I'm not under pressure to get them done right away so I figure this is a good way to avoid procrastinating and then ending up buying really expensive cards. I saw a card like this on pinterest here. I thought it would be a good way to get rid of a lot of my scrap paper.

Now I'm off to make a bunch more of these. Let me know what you think! 

Happy New Year!

I know that I have been missing in action but the holidays were crazy busy here! We had a friend move in with us so I had to move my scrapbook room out of our spare bedroom a couple days before my husband and I flew back to Washington for Christmas. I also decided that I was going to make a mini album for my sister for Christmas. Her boyfriend and her bought a house a few years back that they have been renovating so she wanted a way to show off her pictures of the journey along the way. I made the album out of Simple Stories Generations line because her house is in the same colors as that paper line. Here are the pictures I took of the finished album (without her pictures).

One of my goals this year is to learn how to take much better pictures for my blog. I realize that these pictures are pretty terrible. I also want to find a place to make better photo collages. If you have any tips, please feel free to let me know!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful and creative new year so far!

Christmas Vignette

I didn't post my December daily picture yesterday because I was working on creating a project for a post today. I worked on a Christmas vignette all night long and then went out today to buy a few things that I needed to finish it up. I love how it turned out!

The holly paper is from the new Authentique Christmas line and the music notes are from an old Teresa Collins Christmas line. I used random white buttons on the roof and covered them with glossy effects and martha stewart crystal glitter. I really love how it all turned out! Tomorrow we are making gingerbread men. Can't wait!