milk jug Easter baskets

I made these Easter baskets a few years ago with my littles. We just glue cotton balls to the jugs and cut the the faces and ears out of paper, I have also used fun foam in the past.

we make them every year, just as my mom did with us. This one was 2011 and at 8 he was able to do the whole project himself (except cutting the hole for the goodies)

Flip and Fold Card with a fun frame

I found a bunch of blog challenges that I wanted to play along with this week, the first one was found at
http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/ what a supper cute blog. They look like they have lots of fun and I am exited to play along.
 Here's what they say about it :) Jackie is hosting our challenge today. She has chosen the theme 'You've Been 

Framed', and she would like to see a prominently displayed frame on your project, this can be stamped, die 

cut, or made up of other materials, or you could decorate an actual frame.







I made this card for a friends 2nd Birthday, she had a safari theme so I wanted my card to go with the theme. I used the baby cakes paper and a monkey sticker from my stash.
The card base is cut 5 1/2 by 12, I them scored at 2in, 4in, 8in and 10in. I cut from the top of the inside score mark to the halfway point on the 5 1/2in side and flipped the scraps for the bottom. I affixed them with my tombow adhesive. The "frame" that the monkey is in on the front is a 4in by 4in piece , I folded in the corners to the center, then folded the same corners in the opposite direction.

fun soap foam

today the littles and I made soap foam,  I found the recipe HERE. It is just 1/4 cup of water, 2 TBS of dish soap ( I have found that dawn works best) and few drops of food color. You then mix it with and electric mixer until it forms peaks.

 

 

 

SPRING/ SUMMER IDEA BOOK!!!!

So very exited about the new book and everything in it. The first thing I NEED to share is that when you order any 2 packages of cardstock ( while supplies last ) in February you get you choice of one of our embossing folders FREE!!!

What an awesome deal!!!
   I also think the stamp of the month is SUPER CUTE and wanted to share that with you

If you were to buy 4 cardstock packs you can pick 2 of our new embossing folders AND get this supper cute stamp set for only 5$ what a foxy deal!!

texture paste

 

 

So for this card I used  home made texture paste, I mixed 1 part white acrylic paint, one part baby powder and 1/2 part mod podge, I colored the cloud and sun with the water color pencils and the Honey and sky alcohol based markers. I also colored the butterflies with cotton candy and Juniper markers.

Artbooking Made Easy: Love Is in the Air

another paper rose

start with any six petal flower, I got mine from the artiste cart. and hide the center contour using cricut craft room. If you do not have a cricut I do have the diecuts for sale just send me a message and I will set you up. I then sprayed both sides with my homemade glimmer mist (water, a few drops of acrylic paint and pearl ex) then I make a slit from the inside of the petal to the center on the first one, cut off a petal on the second one, cut off 2 petals on the third one.

then fold them one petal under the one beside it until they all look like cones

shape you petals by folding them down and the glue them together