thirteen: crafting a mess

Help! I haven't been in the craft room for awhile now and when I opened the door this morning I couldn't believe my eyes! A HUGE tornado came through! Literally, no walking space or even crafting space! Its a little embarrassing and I'm debating on uploading the photo...just trust me I'm totally not exaggerating. The one thing I need the most is storage. I've been searching everywhere for shelving to store my paper..that's the cause of majority of the disaster.

I guess I won't be crafting today..it's a cleaning day :/

twelve: flower power - trying new techniques

Besides locking myself in the craft room, I love watching video's online. That's where I get my inspiration. I stumble upon Custom Crops videos again and they explained the different type of core'dination paper. I thought, I should use this technique (I find all these great techniques but never apply them!) I actually had some core'dination paper and made a simple card. It was a little too simple but effective as I used the embossing and sanding technique. However, it was missing something...aha! Months ago I wanted to try quilling. Using my memory (that's a first) I remembered how to quill a flower which matches perfectly with the embossed flowers :)

eleven: birds of a feather card set

I recently picked up the wet embossing technique. I love the whole process of it, though it gets a little messy..Here is a set of cards I made using this new found technique. The bird perched on the branch is my favorite and the inspiration of the others.

ten: no smoking

First off, Happy Birthday to my dad! :) He turns the big six-oh!

My sister's boyfriend wants to quit smoking. He told her that I could make a chart with my cricut (he obviously thinks the cricut is cool, which it is, and wants a piece of it!) Almost like a potty chart, I created this little number. It was the most tedious thing, gluing those little cigarettes together, lemme tell you.

nine: piiikaaa

chuuuu!

The boy I nanny for has his birthday coming up. A Pokemon themed party. Using DS, I created a Pikachu. He came out pretty cute. It's just a simple tag using Plantin Schoolbook and Doodlecharms (I have been searching for a reasonably priced George and Basic Shapes cartridge for a while now...)

eight: hello, hello, kitty. hello my friends

I love hello kitty!
I actually love my melody more but this will have to do. I actually created a DS file of my melody :), though I haven't cut it yet...Anywho, I bought this Hello Kitty cartridge a while back and never used it. This is the first time using a layering cartridge and let me tell you, I had no idea what I was doing the first time around. When I figured out the little marks is a guide for the pieces to be glued, it all made sense. I guess maybe I should read the introduction pages from the book manual..













At first I thought of selling these as a card set..but I think I may just keep 'em for myself :)

seven: pacheco wedding

Hi! Here is a card that I made earlier this month. However, I had to remake this wedding card for my bff (it's a long horrible story..choose your friends wisely). It's a pop-up cake I created on the Design Studio and emblished it with glitter and pearl bead accents.


I wanted to also make her something special to highlight the best part of her wedding night so I created a tri-shutter card which can be dislayed. I think what took the most time was printing the photos! I've never printed in wallet sizes, to be used for a tiny project so that part became really frustrating. But it's done and I think it came out great!