You never realize how spoiled you are with technology....

Until it doesn't work properly. As I have temporarily lost my ability to edit pictures in Fireworks, I finally sat down and made do with Microsoft Paint :) Hey, whatever works, right??

Anyhoo, here is a birthday card I made my dad a couple of weeks ago. This was the third attempt (I'd trashed the previous two attempts as my mojo had taken an unexpected vacation) and by golly this one was going to work! I wasn't 100% pleased with it, but it works.

DIY

So, yeah... I think it's a mid-winter crisis kind of thing, but I have lately become quite the follower of DIY blogs. I've always loved interior decorating and organizing and its starting to drive me a wee bit crazy that my options for both are quite limited in our apartment (decorating - I can't paint the walls because we have to paint them back before we move out and that totally is just not worth the effort).... and my closets are as organized as they are going to get for the time being... ah well...I shall paint mental walls in my mental house - and no you cannot judge about how that last sentence sounds! ;)

I'm also pretty sure that I can add ADD to my OCD.....

and no, there was no real point to this post.... Actually, originally I think there might have been, but I forgot halfway through the paragraph... which is what prompted the above ADD statement (that among MANY MANY other things...) k, I'm done rambling now... I'm pretty sure that this entire post can be blamed on not enough caffeine in my system...

I get to go home in 57 minutes!

Lawnscaping Challenge Blog

If you like to win stamping goodies and like to play along with challenges, head over to the Lawnscaping Challenge blog!  The current challenge is to CASE the fabulous Mrs. Lawn Fawn and it ends on Wednesday, 2/2! Plenty of time to play along! This is a new challenge site and they really could use the help getting the word out there!

P.S. I was finally able to create a few things this weekend - my dad's birthday card (on the third try - I've scrapped two previous attempts over the last week and a half) and a birthday card for my boss... Also got a few cards out in the mail that had to go out.. valentine's cards for St. Jude's card drive for Kids, valentine card for my niece, birthday card for my dad, birthday card for a friend... Lots of birthdays!!!! But necessity is the mother of invention and needing cards finally got me through my major crafting/creativity block!!!! I'll try to post the pictures soon, I actually tried to last night, but our computer crashed and we lost all the entire Adobe suite on our PC. My hubby is going to try to fix it this week...

My crafting mojo....

I misplaced my mojo somewhere.... If you happen to see it, please send it home....I hope to spend some time crafting tomorrow... maybe it will wander back by then....

Some mini notecards....

Hello all... hope that everyone is having a glorious week :)  If not, no worries... tomorrow is Friday and the week is almost over!!! :) :) :)

A few weeks ago, I started a card set for one of the girls in our church, whose birthday is coming up in March. I have 4 done so far, two with blue ribbons and two with green ribbons... They are nothing fancy and I am still debating whether I want to add a sentiment to the fronts or just leave them blank for her to use for whatever occassion she would like to... What do you think? Sentiment or no sentiment?

Supplies:

Paper: Textured card stock from Michaels, patterned paper from my cousin (Don't know what brand - I have a horrible time remembering the if I don't have the names written down somewhere)

Ribbon: from a friend

Playing with Paper

So the other day I went to the dollar store for valentines stickers for my niece. While I was in the store, I decided to see if I could find any cheap mini notebooks and large sticky-note type notepads. I was pumped when I found a pack of 3 mini notebooks for a buck and some large sticky notes. The only problem with the sticky notes is that they were neon colored, so I bought a green one because I knew I had colored papers at home that would work with it. I've been wanting to branch out from just making cards to other paper crafts, so I wanted to just buy one of each to experiment with...

Beware.... I took a lot of pictures this time...

This one is for my niece (LKG = her initials). She is 5 and absolutely LOVES to draw and write herself notes, so I thought this would be a cute little notebook that she could put into one of her purses....

The last mini notebook I made in colors to match the sticky note holder. I'm thinking of using them for a gift set of some kind. I might make up some matching small note cards and get a pen. I found this great tutorial for making up containers for paper gift sets. I just have to find the URL again! lol....

Hope you are all having a great start to your short work week!!!!! Me likey short work weeks :) I worked a half day from home yesterday, but I got to sleep in an extra 2 hours and get up at 7:30 instead of 5:30 so that was a nice bonus!

P.S. I need a better adhesive or system for putting paper around the binding of notebooks. (Which is why I only did this on one of the notebooks.) Right now I am using the "Wrap a ton of string around the notebook and tie tight until the adhesive sets" method and hoping that the paper doesn't peel off when the string comes off. Have any of you made notebooks like this? Any tips?

Oh... yeah... supplies used..... Forgive me peeps, I was up early this morning and I haven't quite had enough coffee in my system yet....

Supplies:

Paper: Basic card stock from Michaels, Patterned paper from a friend

Embellishments: Ribbon from a friend, my cousin, and from K&Company dollar scrapbooking supplies at Target

Letters: Stickers from K&Company dollar scrapbooking supplies at Target, don't remember what paper pack I got the pink letters from

I used my score board for the top flap of the sticky notes holder to add a little bit more visual interest. Doesn't really look like it in the picture, but you can tell when you are looking at it in person :)

Thinking of You

Hi there ladies.... Guess what??? It's Friday!!! PTL!!!! This has been one loooong week and I am very thankful that it is almost over (the work week anyway). Today is a quick post, but I wanted to share a card that I made late last week for a friend. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!!!

I cut the flowers out of patterned paper and used Scotch brand square mounting blocks to give the flowers a little dimension. The background of the flowers I put together with some scraps I had laying around.

Supplies:

Paper: Card stock from Michaels and scrap supply, patterned papers from friend

Ribbon: Friend

Embellishments: acmoore