On Friday I blogged the card in this post for the Embellish Magazine challenge (thanks for all the love it received on SCS's Facebook page and here on my blog.....love that!) but I must confess it was actually card number 2. The card above is the first one I made for the challenge but I realized it wasn't cutting it when it came to the required colors....light blue, bright blue, light yellow, dark yellow. I used patterned paper from Cosmo Cricket to make those rolled flowers and you can sorta kinda see (ok not at all) how I was hoping it worked for the colors. Yeah, not so much.
But I still love it so I wanted to share. The rolled flowers are so much fun to make and what a great way to use up some smaller pieces of patterned paper you've been keeping. I highly recommend the die which is the rolled rose from My Favorite Things stamp company.
Next up. A couple of weeks ago I went to Kimberley BC with a couple of friends to enjoy a mountain getaway at a rented condo. Good food, cocktails and great friends. You'd think it couldn't get any better than that but it did.....there was a private hot tub on the deck which I loved.
One of my friends is super crafty and one is not but I thought it would be fun to have a little project for all of us to do. I put together a kit to make these cute little button tags one night. I die cut a bunch of tags, took a huge container of buttons, embroidery threads, fabric, inks, stamps and adhesives. {{Glue Dots really are your best friend when it comes to making these}}. I think the girls really enjoyed it and here are the ones I made. Aren't they fun?
This one was my favorite. I truly love this stamp set and dies. I feel like Papertrey made it just for me.
This past weekend it was Mike's birthday and I made him a 2 layer white cake with chocolate buttercream icing. I'm not a big fan of cake mixes (unless it's Angel food cake or brownie mix .....which BTW I swear the Walmart no name Good Value brand brownie mix is the best)and this white cake recipe was super easy. The recipe called for Almond Extract and that was SO GOOD! I will make this again for sure. Yumm-o!
Last but not least I wanted to share a couple of Easter cards from a shoe box swap I did with some other girlfriends about a month ago. {Does anyone else do shoebox swaps too?} Anywho....my super duper creative and genius friend Brenda designed these cards for us to make. OMG the cuteness is killing me so I just had to share. I don't think I'll ever part with these and I'm pretty sure they will be used for Easter decor each year. Not that I really decorate for Easter but I might now!
This weekend my nieces were visiting and I got out the oval punches and we made each one of them a bunny. My 3 yr old niece actually hugged hers when it was done. So cute.
Well there you have it....just a few things I wanted to share with you all.
