Beary Thankful

Here is a thank you card I made for a dear friend. I found the button brads and couldn't resist using them with the bear. He has buttons at those spots. The bird ended up being a cardinal. It looked much better that way.

I have some projects to share at another time when I have more time. Cards and knitting of course and another peek at a big one for next month.

My busy boy is working on one too. May share that one too. Just for fun.

Have a great Wednesday.

All Wrapped Up

Here is a knitted project for you all. I made this last week for the oldest son. He was at the knitting store with me when I was using up my gift certificates that I got for Christmas and my birthday. (Thanks you my sweet husband and friends.) He has some cash and wants a scarf. I said I would make it. Free yarn and project for me, scarf for him. Win, win all the way for both of us. I knitted a simple 2 by 2 rib pattern on 10.5 needles. The yarn is called Cyprus. It is soft and warm. It was hard to let this one go.

Hello My Friend Hello

It has been way too long for this post. I noticed it was last April that I made the last one. Will try to be better at this. I will try to remember my password. I will post at least once maybe twice a week, maybe more. I will not get to busy to create.

There you go a simple and hopefully able to be accomplished New Years resolution.

Let's catch up.

The last card I posted I sent to my grandmother, it was the last one she recieved. I regret to say the day before Mother's Day she passed and all the cards I sent her came back to me. I made quite a few. She lived a distance and I didn't get to see her much, but when I started making more cards I tried to send her one a week and then one a month. The cards above are hers. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did getting to see them again.

Happy New Year four days late and lets make it a good one.

Spring has Sprung

This card expresses some of my favorite things in nature: birds, flowers, and butterflies. This was a little different color combo. The image and all colors and paper are from Stampin Up. The image is Serene Spring . The colors are Only Orange, Garden Green, and black. I used a Tim Holtz ink pad called Tea Dyed also.

I inked the image on white card stock. I colored it with Stampin Up water color pencils. I also hightlighted the flowers, bird, butterfly, and pot with a white pen after I wet the image and it dried. Then I sponged around the bottom with Garden Green and the top with Yo yo Yellow. I wanted to tie the orange in so I sponged some of that around the top too. The green card stock I sponged on the edges with the Tim Holtz Tea Dyed. On the orange I made lines up and down with the Tim Holtz Tea Dyed Pad and then pulled it across left to right. I really like the texture to the card stock. I foam dot mounted the image part on textured black paper from Stampin Up. Well, I have to say this is one of my favorite cards I have made. I sent it off to my grandma today. Hope she likes it too.



I have been knitting alot lately. It really calms the nerves. Its getting close to summer and as busy as I have been it will be here before ya know it. So I feel stessed at times. Hope to have something to share soon.



Hope you all have a fabulous rest of the week.

Happy Easter

This is one of my favorite "holidays." Since I became a christian about eleven years ago. It has been a wonderful thing to celebrate the act that has brought such change to my life personaly and many others I know. I am reminded of my sinful nature and what was paid to cover it. Thank you Jesus for your sacrifice for me.

Before I became a christian it was all about the candy. I still like that aspect, so here are the Easter baskets. I bought a big bag of candy and didn't want our family to eat all of it.

Each one is made with Stampin Up designer paper cut at 6"x6". I scored the square at 2" & 4". Then I scored them on each corner. Folded the corners out, put sticky strip on the flap. I then stuck it down added the brads voilia'. Easy baskets you can use for any little gift. I can't take the credit, I got the idea on a blog called "Dawns Stampin Studio". Well, I hope all of you have a blessed weekend.

Blueberries Oh How I love them.

Blueberries oh how I love the tast of them.I made these today for a very late breakfast. I don't know but I have been hungry for blueberries. I googled blueberry breakfast bars and got a really delicious recipe.I used blueberries that I bought at the store in the frozen section. I didn't have enough left from when I picked them last year. A pie and a couple of blueberry muffin recipes pretty much wiped out my supply. Here is the website I got the recipe from. I would use less sugar. I have a sweet tooth but these are a little sweet. The oatmeal crust was the best!

http://foodiefarmgirl.blogspot.com/2006/06/blueberry-breakfast-bars.html

I just got a couple of books yesterday. I have made time to read. I have been so busy with end of school year stuff and cub scout pack stuff it was a treat to see them at my door yesterday.One of the books is called "101 Designer One-Skein Wonders" by Judith Durant. The other book is called "The All New Square Foot Gardening" by Mel Bartholomew.

The knitting book it just my level of time and attention right now. I hopefully will have some knitted items to show off soon. All of them are knitted with one skein of yarn as the title dictates. There are patterns for kids to adults, hats to bags. I was impressing with the variety of projects, the nice quality of the yarn suggested, and that there really are 101 projects. ( I counted them.)

The gardening book has opened a really different way of gardening to me. I like he has these tips to save money on the margins of the pages. That really works for someone who does not have much money to invest in a square foot garden. So I hope to get that going soon. Will chart progress for anyone who shares a like to gardening.

Well that whats up lately. I hope everyone has a fabulous rest of week.

Paper Sack Photo Album

Here is my attempt of a photo album. I am not much of a scrapbook person. I took 3 lunch paper sacks and put big eyelets on the side to hold them together.

The tree image and paper is Stampin Up. The beaver (being my last name) I found online. I really like it!

Hope you has a fabulous weekend and following week.

Here is a photo of a family members crafted item. I think he did well. That is a third place ribbon there. Too bad he didn't have on his Cub scout shirt. Oh well, maybe next time.