Arts and Crafts with Marie

Hello craft lovers!

Today I'm going to show you a few things that my 

granddaughter, Marie, has made recently.

One day she was working away on a picture and 

when she was finished she was very excited to give it to

Mommy.  When Sara arrived and Marie gave it to her, she knew

right away that it was their cat that had passed away a couple

years ago.  This is a picture of Poo Poo Kitty and I think

she did a great job.

I bought a few of these wood masks for the

kids to color, Marie, of course, had to do the 

cat.  Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of

Asher with his dog mask.

And Marie also colored a jack o lantern.

She is learning little by little how to give expression to

her drawing.  She put the V between the eyes to show that

the jack o lantern was angry and mean.

And there's the artist behind the masks!

One day when I brought Marie home after school, she got 

out of the car and found a stick, a leaf, and a petal from a 

flower.  She picked them up and said "I can make something

with these."  As soon as she finished her homework,

she got started.
She used a piece of card stock and I helped her glue

the stick onto it.  She was making a tree. 

The leaf was a little too big, so she decided to tear a piece

off to make an appropriate sized leaf and then added the

petal for a flower.  She drew more branches onto the

tree and added a few extras on top in the form of 

different shapes.

Our girl was so proud of her work.

And this is where she really takes after G-Ma!

She had a Slurpee and the top was sitting on the counter.

She pulled it over and said

"Hmmm, can't waste any garbage.  I'll just color on this."

She didn't get much coloring done on it, because it was

dinner time.  But she agrees with the saying
"Everything is a craft supply, until proven otherwise"
as said by Pam at the Paper Outpost

I have so much fun with Marie, she is my crafty girl

and has a great imagination and so many ideas.

Asher, our grandson, is 2 and he's starting to love

arts and crafts too.

Thanks for stopping in today to see what's been going on 

with me.  I hope you have enjoyed your visit

and will come again soon.

Until then,

encourage someone to craft.

Found In My Stash

Good day crafters!

The other day I was straightening things up

in my space at My Happy Place and 
I found a few pieces that I had made a while

ago, but had never made into anything.

I made this card from one of those pieces.

Quick and easy since it was mostly done for me.

I trimmed it and adhered it to a card base.

I found the Thinking of You stamp in my stash

and used that to make this an any occasion card.

The inside is blank, so I'll add a sentiment when 

I'm ready to use it.

Easy peasy.

I do love when I find something that is ready

to use and I can whip up a card in no time at all.

Thanks for stopping by today,

come again soon.

Until then,

check out your stash and see what

surprises you find.

 

Halloween Cards for the Grandbabies

Hello crafty people!

I love to make cards to send my grandbabies for

holidays.
Here are the cards I made for them this year for

Halloween.

I have a small stack of burlap paper and decided

it would be perfect to use for their cards

I cut out a pattern with scrap card stock

and traced it onto the back of the

burlap papers, then cut them out.

For the background on the pumpkin, I inked

some clouds for the sky and

cut green paper into grass.
I love googly eyes, so used them for the 

eyes on each card.

I stamped the background on the spider card

with a stamp from my stash and

black ink.  I hung the spider with some 

black thread glued to the card.

Inside the cards I used a simple 
Happy Halloween

greeting.

I think the kids will like receiving these cards

 in the mail.

Thanks for stopping by today.

I hope you will stop in again soon.

Until then,

make a kid smile!

 

Koi Basket

Good day my friends!

My girls keep me busy with projects

for their business.

They wanted a basket that would be a pond for

the Koi fish that they make.

Kelsie and Sara chose the yarn and I made

this basket.

They didn't want it to be totally round, so I made it a 

bit more oval.

And it's not too deep.  

The love how it works with their little

Koi, which are a very popular item for

Clumsy Cloud Gifts.

People love these little fish,

by the way his name is Kevin the Koi.

Thanks for stopping by today,

come again soon.

Until then,

try something new.

 

Wedding Layouts - Family

Hello and welcome!

It's been 2 & 1/2 yrs since our daughter got married,

and I'm finally getting close to the end of 

creating their wedding scrapbooks.

Yes, I said scrapbooks.
When I did Jaryd and Sara's books I ended up with

6 full books.

I'm sure Kelsie and Brad's will be just as many books.

Today I have a couple layouts to show you.

These are a couple of our family layouts.

I love these pictures of Dave with Kelsie.

So many beautiful pictures that it was hard to not

 choose all of them.

This layout is Dave, Kelsie and Me.

I love how this turned out.

I wanted to do something a little different,

so I cut the large heart with the same paper

as the other background page.
All the flowers were stamped on coordinating 

papers and fussy cut and arranged on the page.
I've really enjoyed working on these

layouts for the wedding.
Now just to finish them all and get them

together for a Christmas gift for 

Kelsie and Brad.

Thanks for popping in to see what I've been up to.

I hope you have been inspired in some way and

will come again soon.

Until then,

try something new and different.

 

Clouds for Clumsy Cloud Gifts

Hello craft lovers!

Today I'm showing you some clouds I made

for my girls and their business.
Their business name is 

Clumsy Cloud Gifts.

They asked if I could make some clouds

to hang in their booth at craft shows.

Of course, I said sure.

I bought a yard of white felt at Michael's.

Did you know that Michael's now sells fabric?
They have some beautiful choices and the prices

are fabulous.

I created a cloud on my computer and printed it out

in 3 different sizes.  The clouds were traced onto the felt

then cut out.

I stitched around the edges with the left over crochet thread

from the doilies I made for them and stuffed them

with a little poly-fil.

I think they are going to look cute hanging in their booth.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you will come again soon.

Until then,

use your talents to make something fun.

 

First Day of School Shirt

Hello crafty friends!

Marie started kindergarten a couple weeks ago.

Hard to believe she is almost 5 yrs old.

I made a shirt for her to have her picture taken in.

It says Class of 2037 on the front and I made an

XL pink shirt, as pink is, at this point, her favorite

color.  The idea is to take her picture in it the

first day of school every year.

When she graduates from high school,

all the pictures can be displayed at her

graduation party or in a scrapbook.

She is very proud of her little wild flower

garden behind her, so this is the perfect place

to have her picture taken.

Gosh I love that little girl!

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you'll come again soon.

Until then,

be creative!