Birthday Bag

Alia's 9th birthday was a couple of weeks ago. Boy did she get a lot of presents. She is one loved 9 year old. As I was looking at all of the wrapping paper and birthday bags get searched, one bag stood out to me. It had a bunch of presents on it with their little arms waving wildly and along the top of the bag was a pink band with "Pick Me! Pick Me! Pick Me!" all around it. Immediately the light bulb goes off in my head and I know that I need to make a card just like that bag. I love how the card turned out. The vibrant colors just make me happy. I can't remember which stamp sets the presents were from because I have all the "presents" on one page in my stamp binder. I guess I should start storing all of them in CD cases so I know who designed what!

My Crafting Buddy

I just wanted to share a picture with all of you of my crafting buddy :) My kitten Shadow loves to sit in the container, that I store all of my stamps in , while I craft me cards. It makes me smile!

Card Challenges...

I have roughly 50+ blogs that I read thanks to the Blog Reader feature on Google. I always see these women that inspire me doing challenges. I never have the guts to try one because compared to them I am an amateur. But lately, I have had this urge to experiment with some of them.

The first card I created was based off of a layout challenge that Taylor issues every Friday called "Taylor's Cupcake Challenge". You do not have to use a cupcake stamp when creating your card, but you can. This particular layout is Cupcake Challenge Number 23.

The second card I created was based on a quilt picture that Michelle had used over at her blog Mish Mash. She was inspired by the design of the quilt and I was inspired by the colors :)

So I am slowly getting into these challenges, however I think it will be awhile before I actually submit my work for any of them!

July Already????

Can you believe it? It is already July! Time is surely flying. Last night is the first time since the craft show that I got out my stamps just because and did some stamping. My stamping mojo just isn't here at the moment. Hopefully in the next couple days, I will feel a bit more motivated and get to enjoy some of my time off with some creativity. Until then though, I will share a card I made for the craft show. It is not too complicated, but it turned out quite elegantly!

Jerry's Brought My Mojo Back!

So I went to Jerry's Art-o-rama today. If you live in Raleigh and are any kind of artist at all, you MUST go there. It is an artist's haven. Almost anything you could ever need is there. I got lost in the aisles of paint, pencils, and paper. It was wonderful.


As I was wandering through the aisles, my urge to draw returned. This is a HUGE deal because I really haven't picked up a pencil much in the past 8 years. I have drawn a few tattoos, but really not much else. My inspiration just left me. So as soon as that excitement returned, I picked up a brand new sketch book. Sure I have 4 at home, but I thought with such a special occasion I deserved another one. As the night has worn on, I have been working on a hibiscus flower. It is not as nice as I would like it to be, but my drawing skills are a bit rusty. When I have it finished, I will post it.


I want to finish the basic shading before I go to bed, and since it is just past midnight now, I had better stop writing :)

Until the next time!

One Festival Down, One in the Future

I was called something this weekend, that I haven't thought of myself as in a long time... an artist.


When I was in grade school and high school that is what I always thought of myself as, but since I have graduated and moved on to other endeavors it has not crossesd my mind that I am still an artist. It brings me a sense of pride that I am looked at in that way!

Overall the festival this weekend wasn't a successful one monetarily, but it definitely was a learning experience! Next time I will be more prepared and until that time there will be a lot of people getting some cute cards!

Working Hard

Only 2 more days until the big day... My first craft fair! I can't wait. I am working hard making some paper clip bookmarks in all sort of different varieties. I wanted to make more monogram choices, but I don't know if I will get around to it. Plus, I want to make a sign and some business cards for special orders... So much to do and so little time. Tomorrow is going to be a busy day since it's the only night I will have to devote to the cards and such since I will be going out Friday night for my birthday.

Speaking of that, I decided to post a my "Birthday Fishes" card. Not only in honor of my birthday, but also of my husband's birthday (which is today) and my best friend's husband's birthday (which is tomorrow).

Back to work for me!