Little gift bag.

My son came to me the other evening

and asked if I had a bag for a little gift for his girlfriend

or if I could "fix one up" for him.

Here's what I came up with.

I used "Tulips" (#28502) from

Eureka! Stamps

I used the same technique

as I did for the Mother's Day card in my last post.

I just thought they were so pretty

and he just wanted something simple, but nice.

Lauren, his girlfriend, loved it.

It was an easy way to pretty up a bag, don't you think?

 

Thanks for stopping by today, leave a comment if you will.

Come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!



Mother's Day challenge

Mother's Day is almost here and this week's

Eureka! Stamps Challenge theme is

Mother's Day.

I chose to use 2 different images from

Eureka! Stamps

"Tulips" (#28502)

"Butterfly and Sunflower" (#20801)

I stamped the tulips across the bottom of a piece of white card stock

and colored them with water color crayons.

I then stamped them again on some scrap white and colored select tulips.

These tulips I fussy cut and adhered them over the tulips on the background piece with foam tape. I also cut some random tulips and added them with foam tape to give more feeling of depth.

The butterfly was colored and cut from the stamped image of

Butterfly and Sunflower as I only needed the butterfly.

Here is a close up picture that shows the layered tulips.

The blue background was created with water color crayons

and a good amount of water.

The sentiment is printed from my computer.

 

For all the details about the challenge, be sure to go to the

Eureka! Stamps Blog

I hope you have been inspired in some way

and will create something for the challenge.

 

Thanks for stopping, I hope you'll leave a comment

and come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

First Communion Card

Talk about leaving things till the last minute!

My great niece, Emilee, is making her first communion and of course I wait until the night before to make the card.

I've known about this for almost a month, but leave it to me to procrastinate!

Of course, when I went to look for the paper, that I know I have, with little crosses on it, I can't find it.

Could it be that I have a gazillion sheets of paper, or maybe that I have a bunch of my paper over at My Happy Place, the crafting studio where I work?

Well, my paper hoarding is for another post.

So what to do?

I decided to make my own paper.

I found an image that I could use from the internet and printed up some communion paper.

Below is the card I made.

Here it is, all folded up.  I felt the 'belly band' needed a little something more, so I wrapped it with gold thread and made a little bow for it.

Here is the card opened.  The center is a little pocket where we will put a little cash for her.  This style of card is great for gift cards too.

I also figured out how to use the envelope attachment on my
Martha Stewart scoring board and made a little envelope for it.

It measures 3.5" x 3.5" so making an envelope was the best bet.

 

Thanks for stopping by today!

I hope you will come back soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Mashed Potatoes and Crafts Tutorial day

It's the first Wednesday of May already.

Can you believe it?

I have a new tutorial up on

Mashed Potatoes and Crafts

Here's a little peek

 

Has that got you wondering what it could be?

Now pop on over and see what it's about.

 

Leave a comment there and here and let me know what you think.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Black and White Challenge

Hello crafty friends!

Today I have another Eureka! Stamps Challenge

For more details check out

The Eureka! Stamps Blog

For my card I used 2 different images from

Eureka! Stamps

"Heart Background" (#57901) and

"Lg Knot Heart" (#58801)

I stamped both the image onto black card stock with Versa Mark ink

then heat embossed them with white embossing powder.

The Large Knot Heart was fussy cut, adhered to white card stock and fussy cut again.

The Heart Background was cut into a strip and adhered to white card stock then adhered directly to the card.

The Knot heart was adhered with foam tape.

 

I hope you'll take a moment to check out the other inspiration pieces on the Eureka! Stamps Blog,

then create something of your own for the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Animal Catwalk

"Animal Catwalk"

is the theme for the

Eureka! Stamps Challenge this week on the

Eureka! Stamps Blog

Are these guys too cute or what?

They are

"Party Poopers" (#14303) from

Eureka! Stamps

I used a red rubber stamp of this image,

 but it also comes in digital format.

These cuties were colored with FlexMarkers.

Eureka Stamps has lots of great animal images,

so pop on over to their shop and see what's available.

I hope you'll join in the challenge fun and

show us what you create.

Thanks for stopping by, come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Layouts

Hello blog friends!

I thought I'd share a few layouts that I have done recently.

One of my scrappy friends challenge our group of scrappers to do something that was outside of our comfort zone.

These first 2 pictures are just that.

The first one wasn't so hard, but the 2nd one was a whole other story.

 

This layout is long over due!
I took this picture of Dave on our first date.

Dave hadn't had his camera for more than a few months,

he wanted to get out and try it out, so we went to the
"Alabama Swamps"

This isn't in Alabama at all, but not far from where we live

in Western New York State.

When my friend, Jen looked at it she asked

"Where's Kristie?"

My answer, "Well, he didn't take any pictures of me."

Guess he didn't know that this was the start of something big.

Not only our relationship, but also his becoming a photographer.

 

These 2 pages were very tough for me and were totally

out of my comfort zone. (Sorry about that glare!)

I have a problem using just one picture on a page and this was no exception.  I hemmed and hawed over these pages.

Finally, Jen, that same friend told me that I should leave it like it is.

That they looked great.

So I did.  It was so hard to not fill up that empty space!

You can see I'm a bit behind in my scrapping,

Kelsie was 6 in this picture and she is 23 now. 

Jaryd was about 4 and is now 20.

These are a couple of my favorite pictures of our kids.

 

When my family gets together for Christmas,

I try to get a picture of all the great grandchildren together. 

Of course since there were 7 of them, I had to take a bunch of pictures. 

I don't think there is a one with all of them smiling and looking at the camera.  In fact I know there isn't, but they are all so darn cute!

"Aunt Kristie and The Greats"

Every Christmas I take a picture of myself with each of the Greats.

That's what I call my great nieces and nephews.

There is another one, Sienna, who wasn't at that

Backstrom Family Christmas.

She was only a matter of months at that time

and was with her Mom at her family Christmas.

 

Well, that's it for now. 

I hope you have enjoyed seeing a few of my layouts.

What is outside your comfort zone?

Why don't you take the challenge and create something

outside the box?

I did it, you can too.

 

Thanks for stopping by today.

Leave me a comment and let me know what is outside your comfort zone.

Come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!