Thursday, August 18, 2011

Feeling out of the loop

Woah! What a crazy week it has been. Pretty damaging storm blew through on Saturday and took out the Internet. Woke up Sunday with full intentions to craft only to discover that opening my left was excruciatingly uncomfortable as my eye didn't like the light. Took a trip off to the doctor to discover a corneal abrasion. Can I ever start a school year off right?

Monday (first day for teachers) back to the grind and not really feeling up to par. Internet didn't come back until last night and this week has been crazy finishing up classes/tests, starting work, and trying to manage my eye issues.

Good things this week:
1. No more classes/tests ( as of tonight I am officially finished with my Masters degree)
2. Received my Praxis scores (passed woohoo)

3. I can now craft any evening I want

Anyone read "The Help"? Great book I highly recommend it.

Oh yeah my new craft technique I learned tonight ( quick and easy)




More projects coming soon
I promise!
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Wednesday night project

Tomorrow is my last full day at my clinic rotation. I spent this evening making this for my supervisor.




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Sunday, August 7, 2011

Quick photo montage

















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Something quick

It has been a busy weekend and my allergies are running amuck so I haven't felt like crafting much. My DH and I went to JoAnn's on Thursday night and discovered that the project carts were on sale for 20 bucks. Always a bargain hunter I grabbed Flower Shoppe and I have to say that this is probably one of my newest favorites! (My all time favorite is Create a Critter which has decided to play hide and seek with me). I am currently working a big project with this cartridge and will post pictures as soon as it is done.

My DH is a big gamer and there was a convention in Indy over the weekend and of course we had to go. While it was ok, it caused me to miss the FedEx man bringing my CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge. Who knew that FedEx isn't open on Sundays and Mondays. So no new cartridge until Tuesday :( But I will at least have it for my crafting play date on Tuesday night.

On to the things that you really want to see. My latest crafty projects. I'm always looking for great ideas and I'll admit that sometimes I scraplift something I really love. The following card is one that I have scraplifted but added a few of my own touches to it.





I added buttons and shiny gem stones to make the flowers a little flash and used a SU stamp for Happy Birthday. I enjoy making cards for others and love to see the look on their face when they open it. I used the imagine and Walk in my Garden to cut the various flowers and fill them with different patterns. It turned out much better than I even thought it could.

Another big project that I finished this weekend has been my niece's birthday invitations for her party. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of it before giving them to my sister-in-law.

At my last crafting play date, I was very productive and managed to complete seven cards in about 4 hours. If only every time I sat down to craft was so productive.































While the first three are not my favorites at all, I had an assistant (a little cousin) who wanted to help so I let her have some say in where things went. The pirate card is one that I started trying to show her how to place things for the maximal effect. I think she'll be creating things on her own very soon.

going to try and finish a few more projects before calling it a night. Last week of clinicals starts tomorrow and then I will be free to craft to my hearts content in the evenings. yay!
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