Just a quick post

Just a quick little post before I jump into bed. I don't get to do my usual go back to bed after getting Mercedes to school in the morning tomorrow, so I really should have gone to bed an hour ago, already, but I just keep having one more thing that I need to finish before I hit the hay, and then there is just one more, and one more...who and I kidding, I am just a night owl and no matter how I try I can't go to bed before midnight. At least I can sleep on the ride tomorrow since I don't have to drive.

The main reason for the trip into the city is an appointment that I need to go to in order to get the ball rolling on some important things in my life and a quick stop to drop off my bff's very late Christmas gift and a quick stop at Walmart to get the stuff that treat's the water for our aquarium's. And then it's right back home. All and all we probably won't be in the city for more than a couple hours, but that's fine by me, since I've been in stay at home mode lately anyways. I don't even have a stop planned for the scrapbook store, but I may take a quick peak at the scrapbook section at Walmart, but it all depends on our time si nce my mom is coming in with me, but she has to be back to work tomorrow afternoon, so depending on the time I may not get to stop even if I wanted too.

Anyhoo, here's a couple things I've done in the last day or so...

This is a 10"x10" canvas that I made for my bff for her Christmas present. The flowers are more of those dictionary flowers with frost, hydrengea and torquoise glimmer mists, patterned paper is K&Co, ribbon is some I found in my stash and the pearls I got at Walmart and the bling is Prima Say it in Crystals


Another thankyou card with the dictionary flower, but this one I made a size smaller than the other ones and I think I like it as a better size for cards. I used bright glimmer mists on this one and I think it goes really well with the patterned paper...more K&Co from Walmart.


This is just a quick card that I made using K&Co patterned paper that I got at Walmart, and then stickers from the $1 store and a Studio G stamp

Learned something new...

I came across this technique on ScrapCentral, and I just love these flowers that you can make outta of paper you would otherwise throw away, so once I mastered the technique I had some fun playing with it, and then made some cards using the flowers that I had made using scrap paper...things like dictionary pages, old phone books, old music and an old encyclopedia. I'm even going to try to make some flowers that are a little smaller to see how those will look on the cards.

Here's the website to the flower technique...
http://thegirlfriendsclub.typepad.com/the_girlfriends_club/2009/10/vblog-84-donnas-layered-flowers.html

*All patterned paper in the following cards is K&Company
Here are some cards that I made using the flowers I made. This one I used the Spellbinders Peonies largest die, and some pink & orange Glimmer Mists to color the flower.


Here's another one with the Peonies die, with green and pink glimmer mist.


These last two flowers were done with the large scalloped circle with orange & blue glimmer mist


And this last one was made with map pages, tissue paper, dictionary page, and another map page which went perfect with the blue & green patterned paper.

Freebies - Whimsie Doodles

Freebies - Whimsie Doodles Love this little free turtle, and he looks so cute on little 3x3 cards, plus it's good for practicing with my copics.