Quilled Owen

Here's the quilled name plaque I made for a new baby in our group of friends. His bedroom is painted in green stripes and has a jungle theme.

Quilled Invitation

I have been doing a bit of quilling. This is the only one I'll post now, because I don't think Kim checks my blog. The others will have to wait until the gifts have been given....but I'm looking forward to sharing. I've never been very good at waiting for things like that!




This was my first time doing some non-quilled flowers on one of my projects. The lilies are made by curling the wide end of a teardrop shape and attaching a stem. Then putting a yellow quilled cone in the center. (You can click on the photo for a better look) I wan't too sure of the look at first, but it has grown on me and I do like the result. Do you think I've done enough to this one. It feels a little plain, but I can't decide if that just makes it elegant?

Earrings

I made a pair of earrings to match the red necklace from yesterday.
I was inspired from a library book I found while just browsing this morning. So, I took these earrings from my school-days....












And with a few red beads, some thin jewelry wire, and a nap-time at home, I made this....


I'm quite happy with them and can't wait to wear them out!

Necklaces

I spent my morning making necklaces.....

This was a super-long, red/black/silver. I expect I'll wear it both ways, so I took both shots.















My medium-long yellow. Doesn't fit twice over my big noggin...




















My shortest, a blue.
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I couldn't get good photos of them because the glare made the necklaces a blur, so I had to do this weird sideways view.

More Funny Cards

I made these two today:






This one says "...if you're a tree!" on the inside.

3 Cards & a Favor

Here is a favor my dear friend Amanda and I made for a baby shower last month. It was two of those small (5 piece) packs of gum, wrapped in cardstock that we put a Wild About You giraffe on and a "Thanks" sentiment on the side. A take on the favor we made 2 years ago for Amanda's shower with a larger pack of gum. I love making the colors/theme match the shower decor....and so fun to give something useful!
















I have been working on some cards with humorous sentiments too....I hope you think they're as funny as I did!

Inside "It just comes in flashes now!"








Inside "...enjoy a new floral moo-moo"






I put some flower eyelets on the cow and colored her yellow to make her look like she was floral! It was so fun to see it come together!




Inside "I'm udderly embarassed"

Necklace

I saw my friend wearing a beautiful necklace on Saturday at church and thought, "I could make that!" I got out the beads yesterday, and this is what I ended up with today.




I used a bunch of glass beads my mom had given me a while ago and put three seed beads (clear, brown, clear) in between each glass bead. Then for the back of the necklace, I strung on about 40 brown seed beads so I wouldn't have a bunch of those big glass beads in the back - and in hopes that it will keep the necklace in place well. I think it's great and I'll wear it a lot, but it is not as beautiful as yours, Adrianne. (I hope you don't mind my copying!)

Quilled Ben

This is the latest name quilling I have been working on. Another little boy! I have quite a few friends having babies, and I'm so glad to have these special gifts to make for their new babies! The shower is tonight. I hope his mom likes it!

I originally made it with a tiny little car in the upper left, but switched it later for the clouds. I thougth they were better because the white was less 'busy' than the red & black car, tied in the white mat, and the little car was just not as cute as I wanted it to be!!!

Quilled Sean

I made this over the past couple weeks for a friend's new baby. I am bringing them dinner tonight and bringing it along. I made it to match his sports themed lamp and mobile. I enjoyed making the football and bat. I have never made these boyish things with quilling!

Mother's Day

I get to make/send three Mother's day cards....I made the all different - as different as the Mom's!

This pink/blue purse is made from a tag punch, folded down to make the flap. An idea my Mom sent me a month-or-two ago and I decided to use it on her card. :)

I decided to showcase the die-cut letters on this card for my mother-in-law, and made the flower a theme, as she loves to garden. Her favorite color is blue.....

The last one is made with paper my step mother-in-law gave me for Easter. Love the earthy, rich colors and wanted to use them with this trendy bird stamp for her card.

I hope they all 3 enjoy them & feel special!

Wrap Pants

So I saw these pants and thought I would like to try them. They are comfortable, adjustable to the waist and big at the bottom, which I liked.

http://laupre.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/easy-breezy-wrap-pants-tutorial/


They look so cool and trendy on her.


Well, I got out a sheet that I had in a box and tried them. This was the original, made to her instructions, except that I used buttons because I found that they were so big around the waist.





You can see that my pair is not near as cool and trendy - and look terrible on me! So I cut the front of the pants off to make them a little less huge and put a string on them instead, thinking this would make the legs less humongous. I don't think I'll be wearing these babies anywhere except to bed! They are quite comfortable, as promised, but my, they don't look good!

Congrats Lion

I made this for baby Sean today and plan to send it to his mom tomorrow. So thankful for a healthy baby boy! Maybe not the most baby-ish of colors, but I like the looks of the card, and just wasn't in a baby blue mood today!

I aged all the pieces of vanilla cardstock by patting an old toothbrush in my Chocolate Chip ink pad and then patting it on the paper. I thought the technique was really easy and fast and not near as messy as splattering the ink with the toothbrush (though that was the technique I was planning to use if this failed!). I plan to do it again.

Sympathy

I regret to say that I made two of these this week. Not that I dislike the card, but it is my least favorite kind of card to make. I put a few clear flowers stamps on my clear block and stamped them randomly in Cranberry ink on the Vanilla cardstock. I stamped the sentiment on barely patterned paper in the same ink, put a cut of ribbon behind it off to the side and matted it a few times to make it pop. Then set it all at an angle. I almost didn't angle it, but it seemed too boxy.

I just can't get stop myself from making monochromatic cards. I don't know why, but I seem to like them best....and they are so easy! No matching necessary.

Happy St. Patricks Day

I wanted to create a card for St. Patrick's Day, but only had one stamp for the holiday and that was this shamrock. I decided to go with swirls and dots since the shamrock was covered with swirls and this sentiment had dots following the butterfly. Since I do not believe in luck, I wanted to use this sentiment instead of the traditional "good luck" type ones. I simply stamped the shamrock three times, put it on the green strip, evenly spaced with a little extra on the right. Added a torn circle of coffee fliter and a green jewel brad on that empty space. Then I stamped the card and the light green with the same stamp and green ink. I simply stamped it closer together on the light green to give it some variety. I mounted the sentiment on an angle on the right.

I made two more cards with the die cuts that slide on ribbon, and the stickers I got from my mom. On all these cards, I tried to just match color scheme to the stickers.

This first one, I used a piece of paper to put through the holes on the die cut and stamped in Chocolate Chip and More Mustard on the Vanilla cardstock. I also pressed the die cut into a Mustard stamp pad before I put the sticker on so that it would have a little texture. Stamped the branches onto the Chocolate cardstock in VersaMark and put it all together.

On the second one, I used an over

sized Vanilla ribbon that I had to fold to fit it into the holes, and I put it all on some patterned cardstock. I stamped the bird in Cranberry and the flower in Mustard and put it all on Mustard cardstock to form the card. These are so easy!