More cards to come

Really....I have been crafting....I think my camera "ate" some of my cards. I'll try again later.

Oh, if you've always wanted to buy the Martha Stewart craft line but eeked at the price....Michaels is now accepting their 40% coupon for the line - and is even putting some stuff onsale.

For a sweet baby....

Here is one of my new fav. designs...it's so simple and streamlined. Here I've used some of my old stash of Creative Impressions ribbon, a CTMH button, and images are from A Muse. So sweet...this is going to a friend who just had a baby...boy - of course!

A dog leash, tote and some embroidered tea towels

Here are some of the lastest things that have come from my sewing machine. I am so excited to be finally getting my new stash of fabric. Tomorrow morning! Yipee!

The leash idea came from Anna Maria Horner, the tote bag pattern is from Simple Sewing by Lotta Jasndotter, the embroidered tea towels are well...all mine.

Brithday Card for CJ

My littlest and onlyest is 4. Wow! Here is a card that I made for her. CS is bazzil, patterned paper is some japanese paper, stamps are A Muse and PSX.

Also, to go with her *cars* themed birthday party, a stash of thankyou cards that were so quick. Diecut is Quickutz, stamp is CTMH, paper is Sandylion cut into 3x3 and cards are 4x4.

Piston cups

So we just had a CARS ( Disney) themed birthday party and I made some piston cups for the kids to decorate after their obstacle course. They turned out pretty neat. Just 2 sizes of cups, gold spray paint. Some wings and a place to put their names. Spelling out that it's a Piston Cup probably helps too. Still - for a cheap activities and ties to the theme, low time preparation, you can't beat it.

Nap blanket

This is the "nap blanket" that I made from Courtney. Originally, I was just going to take the pink Japanese terry cloth fabric and turn it into a blanket, but it was too hard to match the pinkiness and then it was thin. My husband said her blanket should be cozy. So, after 2 more trips to 2 different fabric stores, I had all the materials and trim. I like how it turned out...it's hard to see but I did embroider 3 differents designs of hearts and her name. This was my first time embroidering and I can see why people enjoy it so much. It's so instantaneous. I still have a bit of that hedgehog fabric left and just ordered more. It's just sooo cute!

At the moment, my daughter also wants to be an action hero - so the blanket is also a cape.

A different style for me.

It's kind of collagy, a bit vintagy, and artsy too...definetly, not the cutesy that I usually do...but I like it. What do you think? I also finally got around to using some UK stamps that I friend gave me in the summer. There's a lot going on, stamping, stitching, layering, piecing. I've used quite a bit of a lot. Stamps are from Crafty Individuals, The Old Island Stamp Company and Judikins. Ink from Tim Holtz and CTMH; patterned paper is from Autumn Leaves, and old old French/English dictionary. Flower is from Heidi Swapp; and button is from CTMH.