orange dots made with the eraser on a pencil. the “e” was cut out pretty poorly. the button is orange but after lightening this up it looks red. need to convince the sun to shine in order to get better pictures! thought maybe making a sunny card would do the trick. not working yet.
since the house is clean and the larder is stocked i made bagels! i have made bagels several times but this most recent method i found resulted in great bagels.
i got my (mostly) DP paper order from two peas on Friday and to my great surprise there were FIVE bonus sheets of DP! it can be a risk to order paper from an image but I am thrilled with all the sheets I got. they look even better in real life! thanks peas!
anyway, I made this quick birthday card for my sister using belle gothic rose glitter paper from amy butler (38¢ a sheet right now!)
ok. so my post titles could use a little work. and we didn’t have school monday so there’s no card for that day…
tuesday: i really don’t like this card. i think i need to work on my “combining multiple pattered paper” skills. well, they aren’t all winners and that’s ok.
wednesday: i finally figured out how to use my quickutz die (that i won) on my (vintage) sizzix original. this is a just a piece of the baroque flourish. i used it on a page from an old thesaurus.
thursday: this is big for a lunch note. (i knew it was big but when my daughter came home from school she said, “that lunch note was HUGE.”) it’s actually about 4.25 x 4.5. and it’s mathy because it was the day they took the short-cycle assessment for math. not that there was any calculus involved…it’s only 5th grade.
friday: more maps! and a giant “S”! and that edge punch! (the inside is pretty clever because it reads, “Keep up the great work and you’ll go far!” yep. i’m super witty.)
(minus january 11 because i can’t find that day’s card)
dur. frayed ribbon.
and to think i nearly threw away my old road atlas!
i added the rhinestones…they were not originally on this map of san francisco
this one has a window! with a grumpy seagull in it!
the perfect sentiment for a day featuring new clothes!
notes for the first few days back after winter break (we lost two days due to snow but i had alread made one note before school got called so i gave it to her at dinner instead!)
i forgot to make a note for the first day back to school for 2010 [gasp] but she was cool with it. this was for tuesday when we had a 2 hour delay due to snow. diamond stickles!
wednesday…using up the scraps!
button snowman. i tried to make black floss/coal buttons and an orange knot in the nose area but it just wasn’t working out. and then the stamping was too light so i went over it with silver pen and that looked sort of crummy but oh well. this was the lunch note she got at dinner.
monday’s note: the day was likely to be crazy (cat) after two snow days followed by the weekend.
and now we should be back on track. of course i’m working the rest of the week but hopefully i will keep up the posting pace!
making a card doesn’t have to take a ton of supplies or a lot of time…
this is just a section of DP on top of kraft. (actually, it might be two separate pieces glued together but i can’t remember that far back.) then i stamped the sentiment in chocolate chip ink and made a sparkly, um, asterisk? flower? star? using turquoise glitter on chipboard.
from an unintended hiatus.
here are some random notes for lunches occurring before winter break
she doesn’t really look like she loves pie but she really does. love pie. or at least like pie.
smudgy ink and slightly bent tab from being in the lunchbox.
this card looks much better in real life.
yes. that is an actual tiny hunk of granite glued to the card. tacky glue rocks!
this image is from an old paperbook book of movie monsters. i’m not usually allowed to post the insides of the notes but this one says, “hope your day doesn’t involve this guy.” i thought it was pretty funny.
white embossed snowflake on pale blue CS.
seems like a good day to pass along the Over The Top award I got from nikki to 5 amazing paper crafters:
just give me stamps
thinking inking
here i am, here i am
circus life
paper playhouse
i left a little love on your blogs to let you know you are all Over The Top wonderful!
and for the last part of the award, here is my list of responses to the questions with one-word answers:
1. Your cell phone? orange
2. Your hair? annoying
3. Your mother? gone
4. Your father? irish
5. Your favorite food? potatoes
6. Your dream last night? forgotten
7. Your favorite drink? coke
8. Your dream/goal? health
9. What room are you in? family
10. Your hobby? art
11. Your fear? fire
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? here
13. Where were you last night? Home
14. Something that you aren’t? mature
15. Muffins? cranberry
16. Wish list item? housekeeper
17. Where did you grow up? ohio
18. Last thing you did? ate
19. What are you wearing? Jeans
20. Your TV? HD!
21. Your Pets? cat
22. Friends? patient
23. Your life? charmed
24. Your mood? Happy
25. Missing Someone? mom
26. Vehicle? element!
27. Something you’re not wearing? mittens
28. Your favorite store? goodwill
29. Your favorite color? blue
30. When was the last time you laughed? Today
31. Last time you cried? unknown
32. Your best friend? husband
33. One place that you go to over and over? grocery
34. Facebook? Yes
35. Favorite place to eat? home
i could be a responsible blogging-type person and put each note in its own entry but in the interest of getting these notes from queue to post, i’m just putting them all together here. i did finally create a watermark (and use it!) on a few of these. and i caved and bought the edge punch du jour: Fiskars Upper Crest punch. i love the shape of the curly bracket (also known as a brace)! and it was 45% off!
this card was sent along in the lunch that followed the H1N1 vaccination extravaganza at school. celebrate your vaccination!
here scooby-doo helps showcase the note. which is just a corner from an 8×8 sheet from the retro collection of scrapbooking papers.
practicing the white embossing on some swiss-dotted kraft…it was in the “use it up” stack.
this note is stamped on the back as well. the pic of the whole card did not turn out and i was too lazy to reset after downloading the pics. love those trees!
this is today’s note. last night was our parent-teacher conference. the first half of the conference was student-led where she got to show us papers she was proud of and read a letter she wrote detailing things she loves about 5th grade, things she’s learned and things she feels she needs to improve on. must brag a little here: the two math papers she shared were 106%-ers…one a worksheet and one a chapter test! i’m sure the lunch notes have something to do with it! 
the sad thing (or happy?) is that she has started buying her lunches some days. she still wants a note every day but for now they can be no larger than 2.25 sq and not too layered or they won’t fit in her coin purse. that makes things a little easier for days i’m short on time, i guess. thanks for stopping by!
