Thank you cards and a cake

This week’s challenge over at The Lounge is to Ruffles on your card/project.   I haven’t had a chance to play along but wanted to give a shout out to the challenge anyways.  I did use Our Craft Lounge stamps on my cards that I’m about to show you.

Last week was our Valentine parties at school. I was put in charge unexpectantly with a 2 week notice but with a great group of parents that were willing to help out so the kids had a great time. So I decided to make Thank You cards for the parents that gave their time.

I kept the cards clean and simple as I am making a handful. I used Fabulous Florals and stamped in distress inks. Stamped the sentiment from You Make Me Happy.  Here is what I have done so far:

 

Today is my baby’s 6th birthday. She was so excited to go to school today as her teacher makes each kid feel special on their birthday. She asked for a horse cake so here is what I whipped up for her:

         Thanks for stopping by!

                      Amber

Little vintage

So last week’s over at The Lounge, the challenge was to make a Vintage card. Well you still have time tonight and tomorrow to play as the new challenge will be issued on Friday. I’m glad as I love Vintage and wanted to play along.

I used Vintage Roses by Our Craft Lounge and copics to color. Did a little out of the box cutting. The trim is from May Arts and is actually two pieces, I just threaded the twine through the lace.

So come play with us over at The Lounge. I can’t wait to see your Vintage card. 

 
         Thanks for stopping by!

                      Amber

True Friends and another braid

Happy Valentine’s Day! The challenge over at Paper and Such this time has a LOVE theme.

Use the picture below as inspiration, or just use a LOVE theme - it's totally up to you!

I used the sentiment from the Poppies set for my card. Colors were inspired by the picture.

For Valentine’s Day, I did little one’s hair up again as a heart but this time tried my hand at the Lace Heart Braid.





         Thanks for stopping by!

 
                        Amber

My Craft Area Makeover

I am so excited to finally be able to show my craft room off!  I have a little nook in our bedroom that jumped right out at me to be a craft room when we first looked at the house just a year ago. (wow, can’t believe it was just a year ago we were looking to buy our first home!)

Of course I have to show what it looked like before. *shudder*  Warning, the following picture is not pretty and not for ocd eyes!

Look at that mess!! Someone please give that craft room a makeover!

Drum roll!!!

Ta da! My new craft room!


    Wow!  What a change!  I’m still pinching myself every time I walk into my bedroom!
(k, don’t look at the chair, that still needs an upgrade!)  Front corner section of desk, in top two shelves holds cardstock that the kids can use. The two big drawers houses all my Helmar adhesives and other items.  Filing cabinet on bottom holds Stampin’ UP cardstock that I don’t use as often.

Now for some close up pictures of the area.

         the “stamping” desk, copics, paper,
       top two drawers hold Our Craft Lounge stamps 
      and bottom drawer holds misc stamps.



        The sewing side. Laptop is here while I stamp on the other side, then when I want to sew, I can move the laptop and set up the sewing machine! 
             Ribbons on wall, along with border punches on top,
            Long thin drawers of the desk “leg” hold ink pads, tape and zapdots.



   Drawer holds: Sparkly Fluff n Crafty Sparkles, stickles, 
     distress reinkers, Flower Soft.



side wall where the sideboard use to be. Moved shelf to the side instead of in the middle. 
 
Cuttlebug and printer station.  The three drawer box holds; top drawer: cuttlebug folders and plates, middle drawer: bling, bottom drawer: more MuddPuddles, emobssing powders, twinkling H2Os and more.

Another filing drawer on the far side for the Stampin’ UP cardstock I use the most. Another 12x12  paper box and the bottom middle holds Magazines, more paper, you name it!




Drawer under the open space holds all my eyelets, brads and some buttons.



holds my punches, some more papers pads and my scrapbook.



  Holds ribbon pieces, buttons, Prismacolor Markers, SU markers and more.



I finally have a place to put scrap pieces of paper!  And yes, I have been using them now!



  this drawer holds my Paper Pretties, Paper and Such and Sweet ‘n Sassy stamps.

This following wall isn’t completed as I would like to put up an inspirational wall decal above the fabric but don’t know when that will happen so for now:


       Saw this idea on Pinterest and knew I had to
do it as I have so much fabric and I want to be able to see what I have. This still isn’t all of it as I ran out of rings. I still have 3 more boxes of material! (I told you I had a lot!)
 Craftaholics anonymous is where the idea came from. Make sure you go over and check out her awesome craft room!



      another pinterest item I saw.   
   Hubby made this for my birthday. You can find directions at the original maker’s blog, grey luster girl.


So there you have it! My own little happy space! Now if I only had a small fridge, coffee pot and a bathroom, I would never have to come out of my bedroom again!

Thanks for stopping by!

Amber

Valentine hair style and cake pops

Today is Valentine Parties at our school. I was put in charge of the sweet treat for both daughter’s Kindergarten class and son’s third grade class. 

Since I made cupcakes for the last parties, I went with Cake Pops this time around.  And since we are ‘celebrating’ Valentine’s, I made heart cake pops.

Friday is also Spirit Day at school where a challenge is issued and the class with the most participants gets to have a trophy in their class for a week.  Today’s challenge was to wear red for love and since the parties are also today.

My youngest wore the perfect dress and we did another hair do that matched… a Heart! 

To see a video on how to do this hair-do, please see CuteGirlsHairstyles youtube. Also check out CuteGirlsHairstyles for more fun and cute hair styles.

    
           Thanks for stopping by!

                       Amber

Paper and Such Release and Blog Hop

Are you ready for a new release from Paper and Such? 3 brand new sets being released today!

I did a clean and simple card with Simple Sentiments. I saw the layout on Pinterest and had to case it as I have a cold and mojo just isn’t flowing too well.



My second card I have to show you is my favorite of the release, You Lift Me. This is a new line of stamps being released at Paper and Such that is called the Giggle Bunch. I can’t wait to see the next little kid in the series!

I used a cloud stencil behind the little girl. Paper pieced her dress and used copics for the rest of the image. Stamped sentiment on side strip and added some bling.

You'll want to comment on as many blogs as you can, which will increase your chances of winning. 

One random winner will win the entire release!

Winner will be posted on Sunday on the Paper and Such blog!

Here is the list for the blog hop. Enjoy all the yummy eye candy. We can’t wait to see your creations with these images!

Paper and Such Design Blog
Julie Smith
Janice Melton
Kim O'Connell
Amber Hillman <----  You are Here!
Pattie Goldman
Kendra Sand
Meredith Winston
Stephanie Mino
Naomi Gong
Mindy Young
Paper and Such Design Blog

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Thought I’d share a picture of my youngest hair, a new braid I learned tonight. All because I saw a picture on Pinterest (that place is terrible! lol).  So I searched YouTube and found the same picture and a tutorial on how to do the braid. (Hopefully if you click on YouTube, it will take you right to the video.)  It is called Mermaid Tail and I love it!




   
          Thanks for stopping by!

                       Amber

Cowgirl Invite

Time for another Pretties Wednesday Challenge over on the Paper Pretties Blog.This week's challenge is to add texture to your card.

My little one turns 6 next week and wants a horse cake. So I figured for her invitations I would use Howdy Girlfriend Sophia and paper piece her. Of course by the time I got done piecing just one Sophia, I think the rest will just be colored with copics! lol

For my texture I used an embossing folder on the middle strip after I had stamped the sentiment from Party Giraffe. My design paper does have a rough texture to it which you can see on the piece behind her.

I borrowed the layout from Deb Felts as I loved her card.

How to Enter: If you would like to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project using the above challenge and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword PWC192.

Don’t forget to include a link to your card on the Paper Pretties Blog, so everyone can see it too. You don’t have to use Paper Pretties stamps to play, but of course if you have them we would love to see you use them. One random participant will receive a Paper Pretties Stamps set … see the Paper Pretties Blog for more details.

 
          Thanks for stopping by!

                     Amber