Mommiedom

I know I did a digital page of these and filed away my pictures from last spring of our day at Lego Kids Fest which was awesome. They had this huge pile of Legos and I had the kids bury themselves in it (the icky factor outweighed what fun photos that I got).

I belong to an Stampin Up! Facebook group and everyone has been trying to make these cards. At first all I could find was a UK tutorial in the metric system so I did more digging and ran across this Splitcoast Stampers tutorial . You don't know how bad I wanted to make this plus I just love the new DSP paper (I think more has to be ordered because I am using it in everything)

The tutorial and video were easy to follow. I would say I put it together in about ten minutes. I found it harder to accessorize it with the flowers and such. I had some stickers left over from one of the Paper Pumpkin projects and used them on there for simple greetings.

I will be making more of these in the future, This would be such a fun card to have sitting on your desk. I love that it is dimensional and looks like it will actually stay together. My daughter saw it on my desk and just gushed over it and asked if I could teach her how to make one as well.

I may or may not be totally in love with the new Retro Fresh suite from Stampin Up! It was the first set that caught my eye looking through the new occasions catalog. I loved the papers, colors, stamps , and framelit dies.

I decided that I would make a blocked page out of the awesome Retro Fresh DSP and than taking of course coordinating colors, I added in some fun die cut peices and of course I trimmed down one of those cute chevron bags to stick a little notecard in there (Notes is from Paper Pumpkin).

Now all it needs is some pictures to stick in it.


Becky

I set some goals for myself this year for each month. I wanted to sew more because I hadn't sewn much in many months. I get busy and I admit to being uninspired. I have so many unfinished projects that I need to start tackling them plus if I got them done, I would have tons of nice presents to give next year.

this project was inspired by a pattern I had. I used just 3 fat quarters one for the bottom, one for the top, and one for the handle. You could get away with just two if you used other stuff for the handles. I have light batting on hand and just sewed away for about an hour making this fun colored bag.

So this is my January sewing project.

Becky

As a Stampin Up demonstrator, we get a monthly magazine that details great cards, pages and projects to make using SU products. I have to say when I looked through this month's magazine, I was instantly in love with a tray they had created using a picture frame, DSP, and handles.

I had the PERFECT frame (you might recognize it from my December Paper Pumpkin), so I was recycling the frame and superglues on $2 a piece silver handles and I went through my DSP stash and stuck in the pretty red and cream retired paper. I can switch out paper as the seasons change, so right now it is Valentine's Day inspired!!

I love how it turned out and need to find a place for it.

This project cost about 8 bucks to make if that. I had gotten the frame for like 4 bucks way back in November on the clearance rack. I love those kind of deals!!!

This week over at The Technique Twist our challenge was to create a card using bubble background  and of course having a twist on it.

So last night I made a flank steak with cheesy cauliflower soup.  I had picked up at Aldi's for about 3 bucks. It was a special and I froze it as soon as I get home. If you have the freezer space, always pick up good deals on met. I buy in bulk and good deals with meat because it is more cost affective.

I marinated the flank steak for about 2 hours in some left over marinade I had in the fridge. I than just seared it int he pan until it was medium.

The soup was good but I don't know if I would make it again. I had bender issues and well some it spilled on the flour. It was good but not the best soup I have ever made.

So the steak I will make again but the soup not so much.

For tonight I am making: