Hello Friends, long time no hear...

Hello everyone, long time no hear from me, I am so sorry, but I have had some family things that have kept me away from here and crafting in general...all I can say it's not easy to be a Mom today!!!  

I have a couple of cards I have made for friends and family, that seems to be all I have time for, thanks for stopping by. 

I made the above card for my neice for Valentines Day!! I love these images from Magnolia colored with my Copic markers!!   Thanks for stopping by.

Make it Monday Challenge

This week over on Nichole Heady's Blog- Capture the Moment Betsy Veldman has a video on a great stamping technique, that I just had to try. I love Betsy creative style, she is just amazing.
The technique was second generation stamping, where you ink up your stamp image, then stamp it off twice before stamping on your project. It creates a beautiful background for your card projects, brings a whole new use for all your stamps. Watch the video and you'll see what beautiful results you can get. Here is my card.

The stamp set I used was  Snowflake Serenade  . I used Pure Poppy and Antique linen card stock, Dark Chocolate ink, Pure Poppy bakers twine, and my Tim Holtz Christmas dies, love these !!! I posted this card over at Two Peas in the stamping gallery and it was chosen as Featured Porject of the day!! First time ever, that I have had one of my projects highlighted, very exciting. Thanks for stopping by, have a great day.

My First Acrylic Album

     I attempted  something that I had wanted to try for a while, making an acrylic album. This has intimitated me for some time...I have had the album sitting in a basket for a while, but was not sure just how to go about it.

     My Daughter turned 16 last month and I wanted to make her a keepsake about her life right now. So I thought what better than a mini album, and when I was looking through my stash, I came across my acrylic mini just sitting there...and thought well why not. I am so glad I did, I am really pleased with how it turned out, she loves the color aqua, so this paper from Bo Bunny-Gabrielle  collection was the perfect choice, so pretty, I added lots of butterflies and Tim Holtz goodies, and photos of her friends and family, I also added some really great quotes I found on Pinterest.  I still have a few pictures I want to add, and a few other things to finish up. Here are a few photos of it.

If you would like to see more of this album, you can go to my gallery at "Two Peas in Bucket" see my left sidebar . Thanks for stopping by, Have a Great Day!!

Make it Monday Challenge

I made a card for the "Make it Monday" Challenge over on Nichole Heady's Blog Capture the Moment. The challenge was to use your dies to make mats and frames. The card I made is for my Daughter's sweet sixteen birthday next week! Oh my goodness where does time go? The base of the card is Papertrey Inks Aqua mist, which I embossed with one of the Papertrey Inks Impression Plates called Giga Guildlines, I inked the impression plate with aqua mist ink before I ran it through my cuttlebug, which gave it a beautiful letterpress look. The patterned paper is from Bo Bunny's Gabrielle line, I just love the colors of these papers and they matched perfectly with Papertrey Ink's aqua mist and melon berry!!! I used my Mat stack 3 die from Papertrey Ink to make my frame from one of the patterned papers and then cut the circle out with one of the Limitless layers dies. I stamped my sentiment form the Daydreamer stamp set from Papertrey Ink, with aqua mist ink onto aqua mist cardstock, I then used foam adhesives to give the frame some dimension, added some bakers twine and a "16" bling I found at Micheal's, the flower trim is Maya Road and the butterfly is a Martha Stewart punch. Thanks for stopping by, Have a Great Day!

EXPLORE!!!

This is a new class I am taking!!! With Shimelle Laine, she is just an awesome scrapbooker and teacher!! I have taken a few classes with her in the past and they always inspire me. I am hoping this class will do the same. I am a little late registering, but I will try to keep up. I have been working on my playbook, and it's almost done. I will check in latter with my first post...

Pocket Card

This is a card I made for the "Make it Monday" challenge over at Nichole Heady's Blog for Papertrey Ink. The challenge was to make a card with a pocket, using a die. this is my take on the challenge.  The die, cardstock, stamp, and ribbon is from Papertrey Ink, the patterned paper is from my stock, some older Melissa Frances. Thanks for stopping by, have a great day. 

Where has the time gone???

     I cannot believe it has been 3 and a half months since I blogged....where has the time gone, well it certainly has been busy, I always find Spring time busy, with school finishing, exams, and summer activites starting up. There is all the yard work to do, the clean up and then planting all the flowers. I always love spring, it is so great to get outside after a long winter and work in the garden, it's my favorite thing to do, very peaceful and relaxing. I have not been doing very much crafting, as usual that is more a fall and winter hobby, but I still sit some evenings and play with my goodies. We are planning our vacation in just a few weeks ( I can hardly wait) we are meeting my family at a cottage for a week, will be so nice to see everyone, especially the little ones, they grow so fast.  I guess that's it for now. I will try to check in a little more often.