Childrens craft

I saw this idea quite a while ago and can't remember if I saw it on a blog or in a magazine. On one of my trips to the local thrift store, I spotted a salad spinner for a buck. I couldn't resist giving the craft project a try.

First off, I cut a paper plate (the cheap thin kind) down to fit in the bottom. of the salad spinner. Then I had Peyton squeeze some paint onto the plate.

We found it best to squeeze the paint into the center of the plate.
Next, put the salad spinner's lid back on and spin away.
This is the end result:

Peyton had a BLAST making them. We gave one to each Grandparent for Easter. :-) It definitely is a craft we will repeat!

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Catch Up

Oh where do I start...We've been super busy lately. I guess I'll start with the latest happenings and work my way back!

My mom and I were supposed to go shopping for my 30th birthday Friday (Although my actual birthday is Monday). Maddy woke up puking so we had to cancel. :-( We decided to go Saturday morning instead, making sure to be back in time for my BBQ Saturday afternoon. Chris was going to stay home with the kids. Well, Peyton ended up getting the bug that Maddy had. :-( Sick kiddos makes me so sad, I hate seeing them so miserable. The BBQ was rescheduled for Sunday (today). That was until Chris came down with what the kids had last night! :-( I just hope I don't get it.

I ran upstairs to grab something real quick before heading out for a day of shopping with my mom Saturday morning. I saw a pile of hair on the floor! What the....yeah...no question about it, it was Maddy's as it was curly! She was yelling something and saying Buddy (Peyton) did it, but we just ignored her as lately she has a tendency to blame things on Buddy when he is no where around and has nothing to do with whatever her issue is. Well, she was right this time. He fessed up to cutting her hair! :-0 I giggle now about it as I have been debating getting her hair cut and have gone back and forth on it. And to think that Peyton gave her her first cut! lol....

As you can see, it wasn't much and luckily her hair is so curly you can't tell! :-)

This is what I came home to after my day out with my mom:

Makes me so sad! I think Peyton was on that couch for at least 6 hours straight without getting up once. It was probably longer.

I realized I hadn't shared any Easter pictures! Better late than never, right?

A little Easter basket fun!

I found this 3-d book and Peyton got quite a kick out of it.

So did Chris....

So did Maddy!

This picture is bad, but I like it. The 3 older grandkids getting their Easter goodies from Mema. The littlest kiddo attempting to help Grandpa John and Chris play cribbage. He could care less about the Easter goodies! Rarely does a get together go by that a game of cribbage isn't played!

Isn't my nephew cute? Love his big smiles with itty bitty teeth showing!

The kiddos got ZhuZhu pets and had fun dusting the floors as they crawled after them. ;-)

And they are off on their Easter egg hunt in the front yard!

Thanks for stopping by! I have a few projects to share but need to wait til after Mother's Day to share them!

Cosmo Cricket Card Sketch

As most of you know by now, I'm a HUGE Cosmo Cricket fan. I mean HUGE! LOVE the company and LOVE their product. DT member Natasja posted a card sketch on the Cosmo Cricket Blog Saturday. Card's Magazine will be picking their favorite and publishing it!

I loved the sketch and wanted to play along, here is my take on the sketch using the Togetherness line and some TinyTypes:

I stitched around the large yellow piece and inked its edges. I also did the faux paper pleating. I just can't get enough of sewing and pleating!
I fussy cut a tag shape out of the strips sheet for the sentiment.

I cut a strip from the bottom of the clear tiny type sheet to create the sentiment.

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Satin Flowers

Quite a while ago I saw a tutorial on how to make these flowers out of satin. A few weeks ago I saw a package of them in a store and was shocked that they were so expensive. They were very pretty, and I wanted them, but I wasn't about to spend $5 on two flowers! Last weekend I saw a piece of lavender satin at a garage sale and grabbed it right away. This is what I made:

I LOVED how the flowers turned out. I'll definitely be making more and I think I'll be making some with more layers too! Now the hunt for more satin is on! I checked out our local thrift stores and the thrift stores in the town my parents live in for satin shirts but had no luck. Next trip out of town I'll be hitting on Hancocks or Jo-Annes for sure!

And to see what they look like on a full project I made a card. The purples stuff is really cool. I'm not sure how to explain it other than sorta meshy type material. My mom bought it for me from a scrapbook store going out of business at least 2 years ago! I sure wish I had more!

My Maddy, oh my Maddy, how she will kill me one day when she see's these pictures. lol...She cracks me up and is so full of life! She did this all by herself! Yep, took off EVERYTHING and put on the hat. She loves to sit on the toilet, but only when she doesn't have to go. :-/ We really need to get on the potty training. We've tried a couple times with no luck.

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Happy Birthday

The Paper Variety challenged us to create a card, layout or project using numbers in honor of Suzanne's birthday! It just so happened I had a few birthday cards to make! Perfect timing, right? You can't really tell from the photos, but the star is a 3-d one and popped up for more dimension. I layered a couple buttons and used a SRM sticker for the sentiment.

I'm not digging the red 60. I'm thinking after seeing a picture of it, that it should be a darker blue. I may have to pull it back out and see if blue wouldn't look better. *shrug* Why do things look so different on-line that in real life sometimes?

I was in the kitchen cooking and heard Maddy get into the coat closet. I peeked around the corner to see what she was up too. Like usual, she had taken off her pants. lol...She grabbed one of Peyton's hats and a pair of his sandals and put them on. She just cracks me up! She is very good at entertaining herself by getting into things she isn't supposed too! ;-)

Thanks for stopping by! We have a busy Easter weekend ahead with a Easter egg hunt at the park tomorrow as well as Easter meal tomorrow night. Then Sunday is another Easter meal! I better stay on the elliptical twice as long to gear up for all I'll be eating in the next few days!

Happy Easter!

Summer Fun Layout

Amy over at the Birds of a Feather Kit Co. challenged us to use the bling in our stash. But that would be too simple, right? She wanted three different kinds of bling!

I stitched the papers on and ran out of thread! :-( I ended up handstitching as I didn't want to attempt to get the sewing machine back in the same holes. I used Kaiser Craft Hippy Chick paper from the March Birds of a Feather Kit and add-ons. The chipboard leave was also an add-on.
One of the bling was adding a little rhinestone to a piece of Fancy Pants chipboard. Another one was a stick pin which I added a couple beads too.
I won these fun little Jenni Bowlin chipboard banner pieces from the March Birds of a Feather Crop. I inked them to match and then used rub-ons to give them a little flare. The rhinestones on the rhinestones on the banner were another use of bling as well as the glitter glue and rhinestone on the butterfly.

I have been super busy lately. Between things going on and Miss Maddy keeping me on my toes, I haven't had much scrapping time. What does Miss Maddy do? Lets see, she put e a ton of toys down the heater vent, she has learned how to stand on the swiveling office chair to get onto the hutch to get books and things she's not supposed too and she has colored herself I don't know how many times with markers.

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Cards

I decided to make a set of cards (although I am a beginner card maker) for a prize for my soon to be sister-in-laws bridal shower.

I rely heavily on sketches and lifts for my cards and often use previous cards I've been happy with as inspiration for new ones.
I totally lifted a card I saw on the Scrapper Forever Blog.

This was a lift off of a card I had made recently.

I was able to get a little crafty time in over the weekend but am not able to share what I made til after Mother's Day! We have a busy busy week and weekend ahead of us, but hopefully I'll be able to squeeze a few minutes in somewhere to get crafty!