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Floral Fairies

I made this card for a swap that I am in. The swap is "I Love _____ Swap" - which means that I could use whatever stamp company that I love! So I used one of my new fairies from The Greeting Farm! I used Green Galore, Not Quite Navy and white cardstock. The other blue is a scrap that I had and isn't SU, so I am not sure what it is! The background stamp is from the SU set Polka Dot Punches and Fairy Tink is from TGF. The flowers are Flora Doodles by Petaloo - I got mine at Paper Source, but I have also seen them at Hobby Lobby. The ribbon is the double stitch ribbon that SU made in Blue Bayou - I still have a little left! I used my Prismacolor Markers to color her in.

A Muse Easter

I made this card for a monthly card swap that I am in. I really love all of the A Muse products and especially their notecards. They do the pattern on the front and back, so you can use it as a card, use it as pattern paper, or even flip them inside out and do a window that shows the pattern! My creativity has been lacking lately, so my Easter card is CASE'd off of this fantastic Christmas card that I made in one of Geeta Suggs' A Muse classes. If you are in TX and ever have a chance to take one of her classes, do it! She is in Austin, but teaches classes in San Antonio also. And we are going to get her up here in Dallas in May! See her blog for a class schedule and her amazing talent! For this card I used: A Muse notecards for the card and pattern papers - A Muse ribbon (this stuff is fabulous!) - Stampendous for the Calendar Chick stamp - Hero Arts sentiment - Marvi punches - Prisma Markers - Flower brads by Making Memories.

New Do!

Madison has wanted to get her hair cut short for awhile now. So, over Spring Break we did it! She loves it like this. We now have 5 months to grow it back out before the season starts for gymnastics and it has to be back up in a bun for competition!

Butterflies In Our House!

It is time for the annual project at our elementary school! For kindergarten, they needed to research an assigned spider or insect and create a 3-D version. Madison picked the Monarch Butterfly. At first I was stumped with what to do for a 3-D butterfly, but then another mom suggested doing the melted crayon between two sheets of wax paper deal - so that is what we did. I traced the wings and Madison cut them out - she helped with shaving all of the crayons and she did all of the writing on the research end of the project. In the photo album are some pictures of Monarch's that we took at the Dallas Arboretum a couple of years ago. Along with all of her research notes. She had to present her butterfly to the class and tell them three facts that she learned. Does anyone know that other animals do not eat the Monarch? When they are catepillars, they eat the milkweed plant, which is poisonous - and that makes them taste nasty as a butterfly! I sure didn't know that! I am very proud of the work that she did on this project! She is pretty proud of it too!

Emotional Baggage!

I did my first ever Challenge!! This was for Joni, Gabby and Melissa's "Emotional Baggage" Challenge. You need to make a card that looks like or is inspired by a purse/bag/piece of luggage that you love. This card was inspired by my Vera Bradley bag that I got last fall. I love the vibrant colors and the pattern on it - and it is huge, so I can fit all of my stuff in it! The stamps and pattern paper are from A Muse and the rest of the paper and ribbon is from SU.

You Rock!

I LOVE how this card turned out! This is for my friend Cheryl's (DJ) Musical Swap on Splitcoast! Our card had to have something to do with music. Since the Anya stamps are my new favorite thing, I of course had to use one of them - this is Rockstar Anya! I used my Prisma Markers to color her in, there is Silver Stickles on her headband and I used a Spica Clear Glitter Pen over the pink on the guitar. Both of the pattern papers are from the DCWV Rockstar Matstack. The color of the ribbon is a little off, but it works! I also used SU cardstock - Basic Black and Pink Passion. The silver paper behind the scull paper I got at JoAnn's, I am not sure who makes it! The sentiment is from Stamping Bella. I hope you like it!