A little of this and that...

Well, apparently the retail therapy yesterday did good for both me and Mercedes! Last night she amazed me by totally cleaning and organizing her own scrapping desk! It had been completely covered and piled up with stuff at least a foot high! And with absolutely no help or prodding from me she totally cleaned it herself! I was so proud of her! And she was certainly proud of herself!

So here she sits, behind her newly cleaned off desk!

Mercedes is also a very creative person. We are lucky to come by some of our creativity genetically, with some extremely creative mom's, aunts, uncles, grandma's, grandpa's, great grandparents, etc. and of course we also work at it and excerise our creative muscles alot too. I also encourage her to be creative as much as possible, and I firmly believe that the more creativity you use, the more you have. So here are a couple examples of projects she's done lately.

These two pictures she made a couple days ago with some 3d paints that we got at the dollar store and they are so much fun! Definatley two dollars well spent!

This is a Layout that Mercedes made a while ago. She loves dogs so much that she did a layout using pictures of dogs that she found on the internet! lol I think that is just too cute!

I was also quite productive last night. I managed to get a bunch of paper and supplies re-organized, which always feels good. I had bought a bunch of little baskets at the dollar store yesterday so I was having fun filling them up and re-grouping supplies.

At about 10:30 I was starting to get tired, so I thought that maybe I would have a relatively early night and not really work on any cards, but then of course the closer it got to midnight, the more awake I got and the more my creative mojo kicked in, so the idea of going to bed was put off and the card making supplies were pulled out and I starting creating. I don't know why, but for some reason I am most creative after midnight!

I started with a quickie gift tag just cause I wanted to use my new cuttlebug embossing folder that I had bought yesterday, and I already had these hearts cut out, so it literally took about 2 minutes to make this one. Gotta love that!

I'm still loving these folded frame cards, so I made a couple more of these, and for a little something extra I added some distress stickles around the scalloped edge.

This one took a little longer to make, but I'm really happy with how it turned out. I used some purple cardstock, unknown yellow patterned paper, the green patterned paper is from the Basic Grey Wisteria collection, and then just white cardstock. The font is Shelley Allegro for the Sentiment and the image is just a sticker from the dollar store (man, I love that place! lol) and the photo corner is a cuttlebug die cut. The scalloped edge is done with a Fiskar's punch.

After I finished doing a few things for myself it was time to buckle down and get to work. I had made wedding invitations for my girlfriend that is getting married this summer, but she called me earlier this week and asked if I could make her 10 more, so I got started on those last night.

Since I was going to leave them to dry overnight, I decided to take the opportunity to fulfill a photography challenge and try to take some pictures of an inanimate object from a bunch of different angles. I actually think the pictures turned out kinda cool, so I'm glad that I took the time to take them, even though it was almost 5 am! (Needless to say, I'm kinda tired today!)

Anyway this is only the first layer of the invitations, under the vellum is a pic of the couple, then under that is black cardstock with a pocket which contains the RSVP card and envie, and then all the layers are attached with 2 silver eyelets and tied together with a black ribbon at the top. And there are 9 rhinestones that I put on the stamping on the bottom of the vellum. So I still have quite a few steps left before these will be done!

But anyhoo, here's the pics, and I will post a pic when they are all finished.