Finally, here I am getting back into the swing of things... Life gets a  little  more hectic when pregnancy is involved! Anyway, here are a few of the cards I've done recently. All are available for purchase at my Etsy shop.

Stamps: Stampabilites

Cardstock: SEI
Stamps: studio g
Ink: studio g

Cardstock: SEI
Stamps: Recollections, PTI
Ink: studio g

Cardstock: SEI,
Stamps: studio g, PTI

Christmas Decor 2011

I've been meaning to put up some pics of my Christmas decorations and I am finally doing so. Inspired by Martha Stewart ideas and random ideas I saw on Pinterest, here are a few pics of some of the DIY decorations I put together. This year's theme was red and white with silver accents.

 

Ornaments make for super easy table decorations 

Had these candles I'd gotten from Kohl's on clearance, also got the candle holders on clearance.
The fake snow is super cheap from Target, but the glitter they put in it is MESSY!
The fake pine tree garland was pretty cheap too - and reusable.
I also hung some of the garland with ornaments, but I'll need to take a good pic of that one.

Pinterest Inspired

Spending hours and hours on Pinterest gave me lots of ideas, but I realized I needed to actually DO something to justify the fact that I was able to spend an entire day looking at other people's creativity. So I tried to figure out what project to begin with... and I came across this little pin-of-an-idea: glittered heels.

Here's my own verson...

Before

And

AFTER!

Such an easy project too - just some Mod Podge and extra fine glitter (I recently bought a set of like 30 bottles of different colors of extra fine glitter from Micheal's that's been dying to get used). You'll want to use a good portion of glitter to really saturate the glue, otherwise it'll take A LOT of coats to really cover the shoe. I didn't want to use up all my glitter (which I certainly didn't anyway) so I used less than I should have. I had to do about 10 coats to fully cover the shoe, which (although easy) was very time consuming, since I let the glue dry about 70% each layer. Lesson learned. Since my heels weren't just getting wear and tear on the actual heel, I decided to just go for it and glitter the entire shoe... and I love it. I have a silver sequined dress that will be perfect with these babies!

Lovely Love

Less Is More Challenge

Week 47 - Just One Word

CS: DCWV, Recollections
Stamps: Papertrey Ink
Ink: Studio G

Allsorts Challenge Week 135

Allsorts Challenge

New Beginnings

CS: DCWV, Recollections
Stamps: Stampabilities
Ink: Studio G

Christmas Thank You Cards

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and are enjoying the holiday season as much as I am. This year my husband and I spent Christmas with friends and had a lovely time. I made little gift bags for everyone at dinner, but in the rush I forgot to get pictures of everything... bummer - was looking forward to showing off my little projects! Anyway, we opened our gifts on Christmas Eve and were delighted with all the lovely things that were sent to us from our families in California. These are a few of the thank you cards I made this year for the family.

CS: DCWV, The Paper Studio
Stamps: PTI
Ink: Studio G
Dies: Sizzlets 

CS: DCWV, The Paper Studio
Stamps: Stampabilities
Ink: Color Box

CS: DCWV
Stamps: PTI
Ink: Studio G 

CS: The Paper Studio, Recollections

Stamps: Stampabilities

Ink: Studio G

CS: DCWV, Recollections
Stamps: Inkadinkadoo
Ink: Color Box

Birthday Wishes

Cardstock: Bazzill Basics, The Paper Studio
Making Memories
Stamp: Hero Arts
Embellishments: Hero Arts