Valentine projects

I covered some large size candy bars for the boys with some MME patterned paper, stamped an AE stamp and cut it out, then created rolled roses from some scrap paper.

 

For goodie bags for the guys, I filled some plain paper lunch sacks, stamped doilies with an AE stamp, added some glitter heart stickers I had picked up at Michaels last year for .49, then folded over the bag and stapled the doily over it. I did something similar for Terri's kids, but forgot to take a pic.

My other project was a garland. I had found this canvas mini album at Michaels for $3 (minus a coupon, of course) and knew I wanted to turn it into a garland. I searched for some flowers that wouldn't overwhelm it, and settled on these felt roses from Hobby Lobby ($1.47 for the package). To help the letters stand out, I misted some doilies then searched through my chipboard letters. I didn't have the letters I wanted in either gold or silver glitter, and wasn't really in the mood to paint and stickle anything, so I searched my metal/plastic letters and was thrilled to get to use some more of my MM mailbox letters. (Oddly, when I bought them 7-8 years ago, I paid $6.99 for the set. When Michaels brought them back 2 years ago, when they were well out of "fashion", they were priced at $9.99 for the set and nobody bought them. Michaels is usually hopelessly out of touch with what's current in scrapbooking, with small flashes of awesome ness, i.e. the recent deal with American Crafts and Heidi Swapp). Some close-ups:

And finally, the boys have been asking for a cookie cake, so this is what I came up with. Not the prettiest, but it was pretty tasty.

 

Weekend Crop

This weekend I got to go have some fun and go to a weekend crop with some friends. I played Friday from about noon to about 10pm, Saturday from 8:30 to 4:30 (then left to run the ColorFunFest 5K with Terri), and Sunday from 8:30 to 4. Because Gracie and Vivian are awesome, there were themes, goodies and make and takes each day. Friday was a Thanksgiving theme:

 The make and takes were the feather headdress and the 3-d tree. Saturday was Princess/diva theme:

 The makes and takes were the crown and the post it note holder (on the far right). Sunday's theme was Christmas/winter:

The make and takes were the crown an the ornament. We left for part of the day on Saturday to go to the craft fair at Terri's church, and while we were there Vivian saw some ornaments that she liked and so we make those on Sunday:

Gracie and Vivian are masters at turning little bits and bobbles into gorgeous decorations. A few of Vivian's:

 There is an opening at the back of the house that houses a large handmade photo album.

And it even lights up :)  Unfortunately, I forgot to take a pic of Gracie's Hannukah house, which was adorable.

Halloween decorations

I love the MME Mischievous line that came out this year, in fact, I'd say it's probably been my all time favorite Halloween line. However, I certainly don't need more Halloween paper and such so I limited myself to just the 6x6 pad, which ended up being perfect to cover the chipboard letters of the banner I've been moving around. A few close-ups:


All the accents are from older MM lines. Inked around the edges with TH Walnut Stain Distress Ink.
And these guys...thin wooden shapes that I covered with paper. The purple is the backside of a paper from a Halloween pad (Recollections) and the spider paper is from a pack from the Target $ spot last year.