{lovely} Fabric Wreath

a while back I was stalking...er... I mean looking at one of my {and my BFF's} favorite blogs called ps i quilt... If you have never been there... I promise you will love it! I am not even a quilter... or sewer for that matter... but....


look what I did!

this wreath is made with fabric from lovely by Moda

Thanks to {THIS} wonder, amazing, georgeous tutorial by Rachel Griffith from ps i quilt

I honestly am in LOVE with this!!! When it was complete... I actually squealed out loud! heehee!!!

{oh...and this beauty is available for purchase at our ETSY shop}

Diaper shower invite

These turned out sooooo cute!!! I couldn't wait to share!!!

One of my good friends is having a sweet baby girl come June! She has been so blessed by so many who gave her many of the things she needs.... So, we decided to throw her a diaper shower.

I got this idea from Kim over at PAPER PUSHER TUTORIALS. If you want to see the diaper tutorial click HERE

Thanks for looking!
~Mel

Cards and a giveaway

Hey Guys!!! Well..... as you know I go thru spurts of craftiness and spurts of "not so craftiness"... I'm afraid my "not so craftiness" spurts always last longer then my craftiness ones! LOL!!! ...anyway... I went to a craft night at my bff/sil's a couple of weeks ago and borrowed her Create a critter cricut cart! If you don't have it... you so have to get it!!! I love love love it!!! Here are 2 cards I made... I just love them sooooooo!!!

unto some BIG news................

....as you may know.... Mys bff/sil have an ETSY shop where we sell some paper and fabric items. We really enjoy creating these sweet things! Well... we just reached over 100 "likes" on FACEBOOK!!! YEA us!!!

So......

we are having an awesome giveaway to celebrate!!!

Just go on over to the FB page, like us, and follow the rules to be entered!
{easy peasy}

oh yeah.... I teased you all about a giveaway on here also {a while back}....
so when I get back from spring break (3/21) I'll do one on here too!

Love, Mel

I can't stop...

... Making these AWESOME {post it note organizers}!!! They are so much fun to make and look sooooo AMAZING!

BTW...

I LOVE all of {My Chic'n Scratch Tutorials} she is a Stampin' up demonstrator and has amazing ideas!

Here are a few I made...











I would recommend using a higher grade {heavier} card-stock than I used to make them more sturdy...

Have fun making these!!!

...oh and if you don't want to make your own... check out {our Etsy shop...} they'll be some available {for cheap} on there soon!

Love, Mel

It's a girl!!!

...Okay, It's not me having a baby girl, but my sweet lil' sister!!! I am so excited!!! I could not wait for her baby shower! so I made a bunch of fun stuff! wanna see???

...Okay, I'll share!!! :)

{Party Favors}

these are bookmarks I made with a poem I found on a website. I also wrote a lil' prayer on the bottom

{a stork's bundle}

on the inside is a few gifts I bought for my sweet niece, it is wrapped with 2 receiving blankets and tied with a brown ribbon. The stork is cut @ 5 inches from the sugar and spice cricut cart and popped up on a 6 1/2 in circle. I used a pink pearled brad for the eye and tied a lil' brown ribbon on her bundle to match the gift wrapping.

{A Personalized composition notebook}

I regret not taking a picture of the notebook I made for her! It is one of my favs!!! You can see some of the others {HERE} I cut the "s" from the "once upon a princess" cricut cart.

{Jumbo paper clip bookmark}

I am soooo excited about these!!! I love making these bookmarks! I could not wait to get {this punch} from stamping up so I could make these cute holders!!!

{Sweet birdy Diaper cake}

I love love love this diaper cake!!! It was so much fun to make!!! I think it's because the cute lil' birdy rattles I got from BabiesRus! oh... and cute roses I made from washcloths. The topper scallop is made from the "sugar and spice" cart, the bird is from "live simply" cart.

Thanks for looking!!!

Be blessed! <3>

fun and pretty {altered compostion notebooks}

I am LOVING making these fun and pretty altered composition notebooks! they take a good while, but I love the finished project!

here are a few for you to see...








Oh yeah... I forgot, I made matching jumbo paper clips. :)

...and an inside pocket.


thanks for looking!!!

Oh yeah...

If you like 'em and would like to buy one, check out our Etsy store

My sis in law, Jennifer, {who is my bestest bestie!} and I have just opened it this week! and actually sold our first listed item and got our first custom order also! WOOHOO!!!

thanks for your support!!!
Love, Mel

Etsy shop...

I am so excited to share with you, that my bff {sis-n-law} and I opened up an etsy shop! we are planning on selling some of our hand-crafted fabric and paper items!

I have to brag on Jen {bff/sis-n-law} she is beyond talented! she has set up our shop, FB page, and a bunch more behind the scene stuff to get us up and running! (<3 u Jen!!!)

{check us out}

go {here} to see and "like" our facebook page
go {here} to see our etsy shop

...and don't forget to check out {and follow} Jenna's page (she's almost at 100 followers!!!)

LOVE,
Mel

Look what I got!!!

My very own Cricut expression!!! YEA!

My sweet SIL/BFF has let me borrow/have her baby bug... and I have appreciated it soooooooo much, but I needed an expression to fill the whole in my heart! HA! I am exaggerating, but I did really want one. It cuts so nice and I can do a lil' bit more with it.

I did a lil research during my foot surgery recovery and found a great deal at Walmart... I just needed to wait until I started working again before I could purchase it! The very night I started back to work, I bid on a very similar bundle on ebay and actually won it!!!

This is the bundle I got from ebay! all this for...

$260!!! YEA!

the bundle from Walmart was $256 it came with all the same things... except it only came with 2 carts instead of 6. oh, this also came with 12x12 cutting mat... not pictured.

I am so happy with it!!! I love love love my expression!

Yea!
Mel

Crafting the days away

Since I've had surgery on June 7th... I've had lots of time to craft the days away!

Here are some things that I've done... I hope you enjoy!

Thank you's for all my sweet friends who made me and my family dinners while I was recovering... THANKS sweet friends!!!

(I also submitted this for a design team position at {my pink stamper} didn't get it... but that is fine! The opportunity really pushed my creativity! so I am grateful for that!!!)

The flower on the left is actually a magnet that can be removed from the sticker below it. I used {THIS} tutorial to make it.

Last year for Christmas, I really got into making compostion notebooks. I really love making them and usually make them for gifts. was thinking about selling them, but not sure... Here is a few I made recently...






Thanks for looking!!!

Love, Mel

My Pink Stamper color challenge

Over at My Pink Stamper, Robyn is having a color challenge. The Challange is to use pink, green, orange, and brown...

Here is what I came up with

Recipe:
~Chocolate brown card stock from papertrey Ink
~various scraps of paper to match paper from paper pack from Wally world
~the flower's are cut from live simply lite cart and the circle from good ol' george
~thank you is stamped in chocolate brown with My pink stamper's friend and family stamps

I think it is very simple and plain... but I really really like it!!! I am getting much quicker at making cards and I am really enjoying it.

Thanks for looking

Love, Mel

Happy Birthday Bestie

My Bestie happens to be my SIL!!! How lucky am I!!!

We met back in 1994 when I became a Christian and started to go to church. She has always been way cool!!! :) In 1997 she married my Hubby's brother and we became family, so she's WAY cool now!!! ;) We started to be really close the summer of 2000 ( I think that's when it was) when my hubby and I went to visit her and his bro at college. After 9/11 I lost my job and we began to talk on the phone almost everyday! ...so here we are a {million} years later, we still talk almost everyday. Her and her fam are AWESOME.

Happy Birthday Jen!!!

I made the card using my new cricut lite cart, live simply {it ROCKS!!!} my new "happy birthday" cuttlebug embossing folder, and a bunch of new paper and ribbon I bought from {PAPERTREY INC}.

Thanks for looking!!!

Blessings!!!
Love, Mel

Freezer paper painting

I have been wanting to share these with you all... but had to wait until after all the fun Birthday parties I've made them for to pass.

My BFF/SIL found {THIS} tutorial... we had a craft night a few weeks ago and had a blast!!! Check out her {BLOG} she has a great one!!! :)


Jennifer is the bright one on the left! heehee... don't you love our mess!?! this is only part of it... the rest is on the floor and on the ironing board. {Messy... just like we like it!!!}

Here are the fun shirts I've made over the last few weeks.



Hope you like them and learn something new!!! We just can't stop making them so check back soon to see more!!!

Blessings!!!
Love, Mel

Father's day was a blast!!!

Hey there everyone! I hope you all had a great Father's day!

We really enjoyed ourselves! I usually work every weekend, but needed to have foot surgery... so I am taking 6 weeks off to recover. what a blessing it has been. I have been able to go to church... WOW!!! I loved loved loved yesterdays service! I never ever get mother's day or father's day off so that was so awesome too!!! We had a great day! After church we went to My hubby's favorite resteraunt... which happens to be all of our fav! then we came home and took a great Sunday nap!

We also crafted a lil' bit... well not my hubby, but me and the kiddo's did! I love love love the gift we made Him for Father's day!!! It is not what I planned, but I LOVE how it came together.

My hubby loves to write and goes thru comp notebooks quite often... so we decided to decorate one for him. Every year, I try to make a card or craft with the kids hands on it, so we can keep record of how there hands grow... well this year, I couldn't get there hand, and a pic of them to fit... :( there growing tooooooo fast!!! ;) after brainstorming and moving things around... I had the idea to take the hands and make a heart! Isn't it AWESOME!!! we think so! My hubby even likes it... which is awesome, because he's not really that interested in my "craft-ability" heehee!

I used just a plain black composition notebook... (there are some really cute ones out there now that actually have different colored binding... so you can buy to match your theme. keep in mind their usually a couple $'s as opposed to the plain black ones which are usually less then a $). most of the paper I used is way old and I have no idea where it is from, but the red is brand new... It is from papertrey ink. I cut out "daddy" using the calligraphy collection cricut cart and the heart is cut out of george basic shapes cricut cart (but I had to cut it down to fit in there hands). When it was all glued down I painted it with 3 coats of modge podge... (this pic was taken before I modge podged it. :) oh and I used my brand new pink stamper stamps... I think this set is called friends and family... I used "father" and "you rock")

We are also surprised our kids with the knowledge that we are going on vaca to the mountains in July! we are all so excited but the kids think we are going today... hahaha! so I borrowed this idea from my BFF and made a paper chain picture... so everyday, we can pull a link off... then we know how many days there are left.


My daughter, who is 5 helped me... she is very creative!!! She picked all the colors for both the picture and the links. I LOVE the pink mountain!!! she cut out the grass and mountain using some edging sissors I have... and what a cute idea she had to use cotton balls for the clouds instead of boring white paper. I wanted to use the cricut and cut out "vacation" and the date... but crayons were the instrument chosen by my 3 yr old who wanted to help when we were almost done. (like daddy, like son! ;)


How fun is this! 1st thing this morning... instead of getting snuggle time, I got come on momma... let's go downstairs and rip the chain. I LOVE IT!

Also, I am working on another devotional... God is totally dealing with me about believing and trusting his promises. hopefully I'll have it up soon. check out my other devotionals if you like... and let me know what you think.

Thanks sooooooooo much for visiting my blog!

Love, Mel

Collage Frame...

Emma at "My Creative time with Emma" is having her "Throwback Thursday Challenge". Every Thursday she uses an old cricut cart and makes something AWESOME!!! she makes the cutest things!!! you have to check out her website!

The challenge for this week was to make a 3D item or altered item using an older cricut cart.... which is perfect for me because that's all I have lol!!! Anyway, I wanted to make collage frame or shadow box for my brother... so I am going to enter it in her challenge.

My Dad passed away in 2002 and he was a United States Navy veteran and my Brother got his flag in a pretty display case. After my Grandma died last July we got a huge box of our dad's stuff to go thru. It was so neat to see all his "old" navy pics and stuff. I immediately got the idea I wanted to do something for my brother so he could have some of the things hanging next to his Flag.

So here is what I came up with...


I used some awesome patriotic paper from Michael's, Calligraphy collection cricut cart, and some Navy stickers I found at Michael's as well.

I really hope my brother likes it!

Thanks for looking!!!

Love, Mel