My first comment and VSN creations

Hooray for my very first comment in my blog from Allison!

I am really staring to getthis all going well for the sake of my new baby....my business! My friend Toni and I are officially in business with our first event tonight. Handmade by Me! is now a business! We are focusing on craft parties, workshops and all day crops right now. Tonight is our debut with an Adult Stamp a Stack, in 2 weeks we have our first Scrapbook workshop and May 12 is the big ALL DAY Crop!
So now I promise you, my little blog to post at least one project a day. Hold me to it, I can get pretty lazy! So today I am posting all of my VSN favorites...





These were actually winners...the first was a challenge from flaxychick to use diamond dust and pearl ex on a card. I went with the pearl-ex and lumiere paint [since it was all I had] and came up with this background for the buterfly. Then I used red line tape to make a border and put these awesome glitter-like beads on it. They were a gift from cobrielle who was my secret sweetheart for VSN.

Next was a genie bag challenge from stamphappy6805...I never made one of these awesome little baggies before! How cool are they! he instructions are posted in the SCS site's VSN forum here
Just a regualr lunch bag and some pretty Anna Griffin paper, carte postale and some gold embossing powder and viola!
The last was for one of the kid's challenges from flutterbees...Gia loved this one. They were to make a mouse out of a cut out heart. Well, when she made the first one, she got so excited she had to make a whole family! These were a lot of fun!

So tonight is Stamp a Stack, our very first and I will be sure to post the cards we made here tomorow...TTFN

Ok I am slowly starting to get this blog thing down....I want to do so many things to tweak it and just can't figure it out....

Anyway here is a card I made today for a black and white challenge...
it was inspired by this Valentine's Day card from my DH




Yesterday I recieved a wonderful gift..not from my kids or DH either...I had been complaining about my keyboard being wacky...partly why I have been neglecting my poor blog...the symbols above the numbers don't work and some capitals won't work either. So out of the blue I get a package and in it is a new keyboard. Of course I assume DH did something nice and unromantic but it wasn't from him. It was from another SCSer, Vicki, aka flutterbees. She said "sending you some exclamation points and capital leters. Consider yourself RAKed." How AWESOME is that? Angels are everyhere around us...really.

cheap things at Michael's

So last week I found the big wood clothespins and blanked after I painted it...so I tried stamping and embossing it and since I have only a few colors of embossing powders I went with red. I think it looks pretty cool! Glad I tried it!

cuttlebug

So, I was going to sell my sizzix and get the new Cuttlebug...until someone from SCS told me NO, that I could use the embossing folders in the sizzix. So I took it off ebay and viola! It really works great...not to mention they are cheap and you can also use a rolling pin! Here's a card I did with the big folder...



This was also using my new SAB sets (thanks to my MIL) "very punny"...I think this set is awesome...so many ways to use it. On another note, my girlfriend Toni and I have a craft fair to do March 17th...gotta get busy making stuff!

Success!

FINALLY found the mini mailboxes I have been searching for! Now to figure out what to do with them! As soon as i think of something I will post....

paper purses

Ok, I have taken on what i consider my first real crafting job (since it is for no one I know personally). She called me last week and said she met me in September at a craft fair I did. She needed 50 favors for a bridal shower by Jan 14th! Yikes. She wanted the paper purses, so I breathed a sigh of relief. i have made so many for the fair I had the groove of making them down to a "T". Here's what I came up with:


She gave me a deposit, so I am pretty sure I won't get stuck. So now I gotta get busy, only a few days left!