Happy Birthday Mom!!

Happy Birthday to you.  Happy birthday to you.  Happy Birthday dear Mom, Happy Birthday to you!

I found my inspiration for Mom's card here in

 

Go to Sketches

If you're any kind of a card maker, there's TONS of cute ideas to be found here.  I guarantee you'll be seeing more projects inspired by this one!

Hope you all have a great day and don't for get to eat lots of cake & ice cream!

Duck, Duck..... umm, Duck

Have you ever been out shopping and seen just the perfect thing for your home?  I mean, the perfect thing.  Cute, fun, totally your style kinda perfect?  But for whatever reason, you didn't buy it at the time.  It was too expensive or too big for your car or you just KNEW that you had a 50% off coupon at home somewhere.  

Yeah, I do that stupid crap too. 

Today's project is the result of such foolishness.  

We saw the duck poster.  We looked at the duck poster.  We talked about the duck poster.  The decision was made that the duck poster would be simply Perfect for our upstairs bathroom.  But for no logical reason that I can think of, we did not buy the duck poster.  And now, of course, the duck poster is nowhere to be found.  

Well, to heck with you, big-box-chain-store-that-teases-me-with-perfect-household-good-then-stops-carrying-them-before-I-have-a-chance-to-buy-them.  Who needs you??

I'll make my own damn ducks!

I started with fun papers & a Cricut Cartridge with the right image on it.

And this is the result!  I think they turned out waaay cuter than that dumb ole poster!

Love Song

Good morning fellow scrappers!  Tomorrow, on July 3, it will have been 3 years since Steve & I started seeing each other.  I never imagined when we went on that first date that 3 years later we would not only still be together, but living together & planning a future.  Guess that just proves that sometimes life turns out better when we don't try to plan things.  

In keeping with the spirit of my lovey-dovey mood, I decided to share an mini-album that I made.  

Inside the tin without the album.

Tin with album inside.

Front of album

Back of album.

Supplies used:  Tin: JoAnn Crafts, Patterned Paper: Love Elsie, DCWV, Ribbon: KI Memories, Fun Fur, Flowers: Prima, Brads: JoAnn Craft Essentials, Retail, Inc., Metal Emblies: Making Memories, JoAnn Craft Essentials, Bind It All, Mod Podge, Cricut Cartridge: Zoobaloo, Accent Essentials

The tin for this album is a zip-up metal CD case that I bought on clearance at JoAnn for $.50. (Of course, I didn't buy 1, I bought every one that I could get my hands on!  I'll use them all eventually!)  I used Mod Podge to attach the papers & seal the whole thing up.  Just make sure, if you plan on making something like this, that you attach an 3-D embellishments (like flowers) BEFORE you put your first coat of Mod Podge on, then carefully apply Mod Podge around them.   In my experience, once Mod Podge is there & dried, nothing sticks to it, not even glue dots.  

I used a craft knife to cut the plastic CD pages out, then attached one sleeve to the inside back cover of the tin, thinking that once the album was filled, one could burn a CD of the couple's favorite love songs to keep with it.   

You know, it's been a while since I actually put this little album together and I had forgotten how much fun I had making it.  Next week, when I'm back to being unemployed (Good Gravy I just can't wait!!) I think I'll make something like this for us, to commemorate our unexpected, by thoroughly happy 3 years.