Sugar and spice and everything nice! These are a few of my new fav things!

Ok, so first of all I want to say Im a dummy!!! I didn't take before and after pictures.........ugh. But honestly I wasnt even trying when I made these. See my mojo has seriously failed me these last few months and I haven't done ANYTHING.....CRY!!! I didnt even make x~mas cards and I used reg'ol boring wrapping paper to wrap my gifts......gasp! I was even considering selling everything I own that had to to with crafting......(shreek) But I have since snapped out of it. ( I hope) lol I was at target the other day and I had a 10 gift card for there and so I picked up these dollar frames there (8x10) for my kids school pics i have been neglecting to put in frames. I had an old frame with no glass that I was just going to throw away. ( I had a pic in it but replaced it with shinny new glass included frame....haha) I set it on my craft table and next thing I knew I was dressing it up!!! I have never done this before and I LOVE it. I am hooked on this now and so I took another frame that has been collecting dust cuz the backing fell off and I never threw it away, and jazzed it up a bit as well and.....taaaa da!!! They are my favs now......I think my mojo is BACK!!!!!!! (sobs uncontrollably)




Anywayz!~~

I am kicking myself now for not taking before and after pics. oh well! Im sure you all have seen a plain'ol frame b4! hehehe

mini photo shoot

Here are a few photos I took about a month ago when all the leaves just began to fall. My hubby and son were off playing with thier goKarts and lexi (my daughter) Zoey ( my doggy ) and I did a mini phto shoot in the front yard. LOL She was looking super cute and IDK I just felt like taking a few pics. I really loved how they turned out. We are doing another one real soon. I just hope I can get my son in on this one this time. I swear I have to bribe him to do "girly" things like a photo shoot! I'll keep my fingers crossed.

I have a few more but these are my fav's!

Morning Sun & Zoey

I let my German Shepherd, Zoey out this morning and it was simply beautiful! Even she stopped for a min to appresheate the moment! I wished I had my better camera on hand, But all I had was my phone. At least I was able to capture the moment. I thought is was too pretty to keep to myself and decided to share with you!

Enjoy!

Halloween star decor

I made a 5 point star out of 5 12x12 papers. Each star point is a piece of 12x12 card stock. 24 inch total in width ( I love stars and wated to make a nice big decor piece to go on my mantel.) I then cut a 10 inch circle out of the back piece of a paper pack. (You know the thin chipboard piece?) I used my hot glue gun and glued on the spanish moss to it. I used the haunted house, ghosts, skeletons, fence, spiders and the witch from the Spooky Silhouettes Collection over at svgcuts.com. One of the jack~O~ lanters is a svg freebie at svgcuts.com/blog and all the other elements I collected from differnet places. ( if anyone would like to know where I got any of the other ones I can track them down for you, I am trying to label the newest ones I have gotten from where I have gotten them from, but older ones....I haven't went back to re~do!) <<<----- thats a project for another day lol


I also used some really thin thin wire, ( my mom sent it to me so I can't say what kind, looks really old tho! LOL ) to put the witch, bats and ghosts "in flight". I also added some feathers for flare and inked everything I could. I had a bit of a challenge on this because a lot of things were black and I really needed to make things "pop". I had origanlly made the fence black but it blended to much so I made it a light gray and inked it black and pumpkin spice for a "rusty" look. I inked the moon and the glowing windows of the house. I really like the shading effect that it gave. everything that isn't black has a bit of inking on it. My pictures arn't that great. ( sorry)

Anyway~ I hope you like my entry and it inspires you to make some spook~tacular halloween decorations!!!!

My first ever diaper cake

Ok these are so stinking cute!!!!  I can't beieve I was able to do it!! You know they look really hard but theie NOT!!  LOL   I made this for my sweet sister in law and gave it to her at her baby shower on Aug 7th. I am late in posting this I know....( lifes been a little busy!) She LOVED IT!! I am super glad too!! hehehe 

Enjoy!

Animal Letter Book

Over @ svgcuts.com/forum they had a challenge to make something using their cuddly animal set ( for sale @ svgcuts.com ) I decided to make a little book for my nieces for when they come to visit. I created all the little animals from the set and then cut the beginning letter of each animal behind them. I can use this as a great learning tool for them, learning their letters and animals. They are super cute and perfect for a childs book! I really loved how this turned out.

The book is bound together with a binder ring

close up of the pages

Here I laid them all out so you can see each page

other side

Front all bound together!

Boo Halloween pop up card

Ok So I went to a crop this weekend and though I didn't get much done...( too much talking and showing off scal and svgcuts.com lol) I was able to make a couple things. I put together this card and it was the talk of the night!




I used the boo word A2 pop up card from svgcuts.com, I used the ghost from the set plus a ghost, spider, haunted house from the Spooky Silhouettes Set also from svgcuts.com

I also used a spiderweb and bat svg I got from somewhere ( sorry i am horrible about keeping track where I get stuff )
I inked the ghosts with orange and black ink then added a red gem to the spider. ( black widow spiders )

On the front of the card I embossed it with some ghosts. I am not sure how well you can see it in the pic. I used the ghost from the boo pop up card to make this folder.