Happy Mother's Day

This is the best ever!!! What a wonderful Mother's Day it is!!!!

Kelly is my little "Imp". When she was about 2 everyone called her "mini me". She even tried to rearrange the furniture in her room at such an early age. By 4, Kelly was walking around with my cane and an old heat pack wrapped around her...LOL. What fond and funny memories.

Kelly, pretty much knows how to use all of my equipment and programs. Well, yesterday Kelly asked me how to shape flowers, I showed her how. Then she asked me to put a piece of paper down on her card, heck that's tricky even for me. I had to print out the words for the front, but she did all the rest. I thought I would die laughing, (but had to hold it in) when she finished the card, she told me that I didn't have to act surprised tomorrow.

OK it's now the day of the BIG reveal!!! Kelly and Hubby took me out for Dinner, the food was so good. But probably the best part of the Day was the card Kelly made me. It was absolutely beautiful!!!!!!! Want to see it? Ladies, I have some serious competition!!!

Finally crafting again!

Those of you of that create your own files don't get all the credit that you deserve. I won't name names...you know who you are. Creating SVG's that will actually work can be pretty difficult and time consuming....at least for me it is!

Isn't it the pits when you can't do any crafting, I haven't been able to do much of anything lately. Even though I'm still not up to par, I decided to see if I could make something new....something totally different from anything I've made so far. It wasn't easy! It took several attempts and several different styles before I was satisfied. So I went through my scraps, just had to see if my idea would actually work.
Here's the prototype of what I came up with. That's right it's a shoe! What do you think?

I had the chance to do some more experimenting today. Of course it was cut on the Cricut. The card below is the result. You can download the file here I got the idea for this file from Amazing Paper Grace Becca is an amazing artist.

Do you want to know a secret? This file is two separate pieces.
The Butterfly cuts completely out, then just the very center of the Butterfly is glued back in the cut out area. Then when dried you lift up the wings and add a pearl.

Good Morning Everyone. There's another budding Artist in my home, my DD Kelly. She wanted me to upload a picture of what she made early this morning. Last night she was wishing out loud, wish I had some yarn, wish I had some popsicle sticks. So I dug into my craft supply stash and found the yarn and popsicle sticks. But then she needed 2 different colors of yarn. That's when my brain kicked in gear... sent Kelly to get a sandwich bag. We put 2 strands of yarn in the bag and sprayed Glimmer Mist on the yarn....it worked!! Here's a picture of her God's Eye. She did a great job!!!

Animal Cracker Box

Oh WOW!! I actually accomplished something new and I'm pretty proud of myself. When you get my age it doesn't take much to become proud of your accomplishments.

(Accomplishment #1) I worked with Inkscape today, something I haven't done in months. There was a lot of trial and error, final I accomplished making a file of the Animal Cracker Box. I have tested it out and it turned out ok. I cut it out on 12 x 12 cardstock.

Accomplishment #2 I opened up a 4share account and uploaded my file. If interested you can download it here. Hope you find it useful. This is my first file ever uploaded and shared.

Paper Bow

Here's a Paper Bow that I made several months back. I believe someone made a SVG file for it. I made one but lost it. I might have to make a new file, if I can locate the measurements.

Good Morning Everyone
I hope everyone has a super day!
Yesterday Penny Duncan uploaded a beautiful file on her Blog. Penny is an extremely talented and a very giving person. She works hard creating so many amazing designs then freely shares them with everyone. I immediately fell in love with her Hat Box. I had to try it out right then and there. I finished it this morning...here's the result, isn't it cute!

Here's a mock up of my Anniversary Card to my Husband. I have plenty of time to make the final version of the card, since Our Anniversary is in June. Again the center of the card was created by Penny Duncan...Thanks Penny!