Dream & Happy Mother's Day!

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Hello! It's my last day to share Sister Stamps projects. So sad! I had a lot of fun playing with these cute new stamps. Thanks again for the opportunity, Jenny! I made a few projects with Haruyo. Her costume reminds me of the ones worn by dancers during Okinawan performances. See HERE for a picture. My sister-in-law studies traditional Okinawan dancing and music so Haruyo reminded me of her and I also thought my in-laws would love this image.

I made this with 4 layers of thin cardboard I had lying around. I added washi tape around the edges and just decorated the front. I wanted the girls to look like they were dancing.

I also made a couple of simple Mother's Day cards. Hopefully they will like them. The sentiment and tags are from Papertrey Ink.

Close up of one of the girls.

My last project was kind of an experiment that I need to work on! I had seen this tutorial on SCS about stamping on air drying clay. Such a neat idea, isn't it? After seeing the tutorial I went out and bought some air drying clay. But I think I am too impatient for one thing to let the clay dry completely. And I should've rolled the clay a bit thinner so maybe that would let the clay dry faster. I think it took a few days to a week to completely dry and it's not a large piece of clay. And to get the right impression takes some practice but overall I thought this was such a fun idea. I used watercolors to paint it after. I think this would make a fun kids' project too!

Don't forget to stop over at the Sister Stamps blog and Debi's too! These stamps will be available May 1st!

Thanks so much for dropping by!

Snowman gift card holder

Hi! I was planning to post this last night but I was just too tired to write or think of complete sentences. It's been a busy week with the boys on Fall break and still trying to finish up a bunch of crafts. I have been trying to make some crocheted crafts to put in my Etsy shop and finally I'm done with one. It's a crocheted snowman that can hold a gift card or anything actually that is small enough to fit in the pouch. The pattern is designed by ChiWei Ranck of One Dog Woof and can be found HERE . Here's the little snowman with his arms folded over in the front to look like he is hugging the card. I added this fun card that I stamped. You can definitely add in a gift card too behind this card. The gift card reaches under his nose. This is how the little opening of the pouch looks. I hope I can make more of these little guys. These would be so cute for teachers and I think it would be easy to put a little wire through the hat and then use it as

coffee cup shaped cards

Hi! I think after this post I may need a little nap! My right shoulder is actually feeling worn out from all the typing and photo editing I've been doing lately. And this cooler weather is making me drowsy. It's getting cold here already! I made a bunch of these coffee shaped cards using a die from Honey Bee Stamps . It's a cute coffee set but the die is extra long so it would probably help to have a longer platform to diecut. I just have the standard sized one so I would pass it through once in my Big Shot and then rotate the cardstock and die carefully to cut the other end. Manageable but the longer platform would be more convenient! I embossed the front of the card with some pretty snowflakes. I think this is a Sizzix embossing folder. And then stamped the coffee sleeve with some Lawn Fawn stamps. This is the inside. The gift card slot does not come with this coffee cup die set. I cut that opening with one of the dies from MFT's gift card dies.

Knuffle Bunny

Hi! The Greeting Farm had their Customer Challenge & Chit Chat Night "A Night at the Bookstore" and introduced a few challenges. I have to say chatting was too fast for me and I couldn't really keep up. It was still early here, and I had to pick up the kids from school and activities and make dinner and eat and so I guess the timing didn't really work out with our schedule. You can check out the challenge details on the SCS forum HERE . I made this card for Favorite Child's Book category. It is based on the Mo Willems book Knuffle Bunny . It's one of my kids' favorites and it's such a cute story. We actually love reading Mo Willems' books especially his Elephant and Piggie series. Those books are hilarious! This challenge also made me realize that I haven't read many books recently except kids' books. I used to love reading but just haven't given it much time lately. Anyway, here is my card. If you've read the story

crafting this and that

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