HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Happy Mothers day to all the mother's out there. I hope you have a fab day with your families. Hopefully you were spoilt with breakfast in bed and some nice pressies!!! I love how my kids buy such great presents from the school stall. Lili got me a little manicure set in a handbag shaped case and shopping list memo board that sticks on the fridge. Jazzy made a lovely gold glitter card and a drawing of herself. So cute.

I got my mothers day cards finished yesterday. The first one is for my MIL and I found the idea on Teneale Williams website. If you havent seen her work, you are missing out she is brilliant. If you pop over to www.tenealewilliams.com.au you can see what I mean.

The second is for my mum. Same sort of layout but in colours that my mum will love!!!

I used all Stampin' Up! products for these cards except for the Happy Mother's day stamp.

Anyway I'm off to get organised for Lili's birthday tomorrow.


Have a great day!!!!

Emma xx

Birthday cards

I was lucky enough this weekend to have 2 birthdays that I had to make cards for. It is such a good excuse to sit and craft my little heart out. I am also lucky that my MIL arrived today and took the kids off to the park so that I could get things done.

The first card is for a 21st.

I did a lot of embossing on this one. Actually I love this design and have made a few cards using it. I added a few Rhinestones for a bit of bling and that's the end result.

Next up is a card for a little girl from Jazzy's preschool. It is Jazzys first party from preschool and she is super excited. Although the background colour is brown, the flowers and stars are so bright that I thought it worked well for a girl card.

Well I think I am happy with them!!! I stuffed them into envelopes so I would stop analysing them LOL
What do you think??


Have a good weekend

Emma xx

AN EASEL CARD DRAWER

Hold on to your hats 3 blogs in 3 days crazy stuff LOL. I wanted to share this easel card that I made today and well it turned out better than I thought it would!!! For a first attempt I am quite happy.

It is a cute little box with 4 drawers and an easel card on the top. I hope to recreate this with some of my favourite paper. I got all the instructions from inksomething.blogspot.com. Its actually not as tricky as it looks!!

Hope this inspires you

EMMA xx

A thankyou gift for the helpers

The school that my eldest daughter goes to is having a fete in September. We invited the parent to a craft night as her class has the craft stall!!!! I showed everyone how to make the little handbag gift box and they ALL turned out looking amazing!!!!!!!



As a thank you to the mums who gave up their Friday night for us I made a little Thank you chocolate box. I just wanted them to feel that their efforts were appreciated and I think they were well received.

A whole new corner !!!!!!!

I am sooooooooooooooo excited that finally after 5 years I have my very own space to craft!!!! No more plastic crates and no more searching for hours to find things!!!!! This has got to be the best mothers day present ever!!!!!!!

This is the before shot that I was whinging about a few months ago!!!

Wait for it

The brand new corner!!!

I love it so much I just keep opening the cupboard to admire the neatness inside LOL . Anyway I hope that this will keep me inspired to continue to craft and blog a bit more regularly.

A few new friends!!!!

After months of having these little guys bookmarked in my favourites I finally found a few minutes to give them a try. So I hope you can make out that they are the sesame street characters!! All instructions can be found on YouTube - dawn5377's Channel .

All card stock and punches used are from Stampin' Up!.

Thanks for stopping by

A box full of bunny baskets

So over the past few days I have punched and glued and coloured and glued a bit more until I had a box full of bunny baskets!!!!!

I have been having serious craft withdrawals lately. I just cant seem to find the time to do anything. So with Easter here it was a great excuse to dust of the craft boxes. I ask Lili to make a list of her close friends, so we didn't miss anyone out!! Lucky for me she wrote the entire class down and then a couple of extras!!!! So the final total for Lili was 31. She was super excited to take them today and for the first time ever she was the first one dressed ready and in the car!!

Each bunny came complete with its own little personality LOL but I thought they were all so very cute.

I made Jaz the same baskets but changed the bunny. Jazzy however was far more content with giving the baskets just to her teachers so her final total was 8!!!

Each Basket was filled up with shredded tissue paper, Easter eggs and the final touch a little chicken.

Lili only had a half day yesterday so she was a huge helper. She put all the adhesive on the tails and cheeks, as well as colouring the cheeks the right colour with ink. She had a ball.

If you would like to make the baskets here is the you tube link

YouTube - Easter Basket Tutorial

And the link for the bunnies
YouTube - Bunny Punch Art.mp4 or from the blog
www.mercedesweber.blogspot.com

Thanks for visiting and next time I will try not to leave it so long between entries!!

I had a ball making these and everything that I used to make the baskets came from Stampin' Up!. The card stock is Soft Subtle for the basket and the bunnies are Pink Pirouette and Whisper White. The ink used was Pretty in Pink and Pixie Pink.