Mommiedom

Burlap is still so in and I love it and could burlap the world but I am learning self control with it. This is the burlap ribbon from Stampin Up offered in there 2014 Occasions Catalog. It is five yards and just covered the chipboard wreath I had in my stash. I had a small part left open but that was where I covered it with the felt flowers.

The felt flowers are so easy. I just cut strips of felt, fodled them in half, hot glued and cut them to create the pom pom effect. The flat flowers are an old die I have for the Sizzix that I just cut out with the left over pieces of felt.

So way back at the beginning of the month, I hosted the first Pinterest party of the year. We did 4 crafts and the inspiration  was budget crafting. I also wanted to make the last item but the store didn't have anymore of the flat candle bases. 

I love the monthly challenge over at Stampin Celebration Challenge  and I like to wait till mid month because I love to see both inspirations for the month which one is usually a color and the other a sketch.

Here are the inspirations:

It is challenge time over at the Technique Twist and this week we are doing the Puzzle Piece Resist.

I was so stumped as to what to do with this week's challenge and than I went through my embossing folders and was inspired by the cloud. I die cut out the banners and than embossed top part. I than took whisper white and put it on clouds. I also die cut out the the red papered flags and digging through my stash of stuff, I decided on a Hello sticker from an old paper pumpkin kit.

The January Paper Pumpkin arrived and I loved that it could be done a ton of different ways.  I did two cards just like the examples and than because of the pretty paper inside, flipped the cards to make the other side.

I also love that I have a WHOLE extra sheet of stickers to use as well on other projects.

I went through all of my photos a few weeks ago and sorted like crazy of the ones I wanted to make into pages and the others that go into the photo box. These two 5x7 struck me as needing to be scrapbooked. The one of my son was when we went down to the beach spring of 2013 and the one of my daughter was likely back in like 2011ish when she was about 5 (at least that was the last time she had bangs!)


She looks so different to me now that she is nearly eight years old and in second grade though honestly not terribly much taller.