Fall Baby Shower

My daughter Jennifer is having her third child, Emerson Rhys, in January. Her sister Megan and I are preparing a Baby Shower for her.  It is going to be a gift card shower.  She has a lot of baby things, but this little guy is arriving in the winter and the other two were Summer babies.  She wanted a Fall Theme so here are a few things we have been working on.  Can't wait to put it all together.  I will post pictures of the actual shower once we have it.

 This is the invitation we made using Stampin' Up! products. Jennifer really liked one she found on  Etsy (the printable is the one on the left), but I knew I could hand stamp my own and make it similar to the one she liked.  So this is my version. I used Baked Brown Sugar Card Stock, and ink, Pumpkin Pie ink, Hardwood background stamp, Larger Than Life Alphabet and Numbers stamp set for the "b", and the little pumpkin is from the stamp set Holiday Home.  I also used our Crushed Curry and Tangerine Tango Bakers Twine.  I hand cut the little banners from our Motley Monsters and Brights Color Collection Designer Series Papers.

This is a big wooden letter that we covered with fall leaves

 I gathered pine cones on our camping trip lat month and made this garland.  I screwed  small eye rings to the tops of the pine cones and threaded jute string through them, then tied on fall fabric strips.  My floor looks dirty but the pine cones wee shedding their seeds!

This was fun!  I went out to my storage area and found these old mason jars.  Painted them with acrylic glass paint in fall colors, then distressed them.  These are all over Pinterest.  Love Pinterest!! Aren't they cute?

So this i it for now.  Still have some projects in mind to do.  Will share those later!

Christmas Card Class #3

If you missed it, here are the cards we made this month.  This class was held on the 2nd.  This class featured the stamp set Ornamental Pine, Gold Metallic Bakers Twine and Dazzling Diamonds Glitter. I found all of these ideas on pinterest, some I tweaked a bit.

These pine cones were heat embossed with Early Espresso embossing powder.

Added Dazzling diamonds to this card and the two below to add some beautiful sparkle

Heat embossed this ornament with gold embossing powder

Inks and Card Stock used on these cards

Garden Green
Mossy Meadow

Early Espresso
Baked Brown Sugar
Cherry Cobbler
Whisper White
Crumb Cake

Don't miss the last class #4 which will be on December 7th at 2:00.  You must reserve your spot by November 28th! Details below:

Christmas Card Class #4

This class includes the White Christmas Stamp Set and the All is Calm Designer Washi Tape.  This is a fun little set and it is a photopolymer set!  And you will have left over washi tape to take home!  We will also use the new Lucky Stars embossing folder with this set which I will provide, (but you will want it)!

Date: December 7th, Sunday

Time:  2:00

Where:  My House

Cost: $40

Please bring your clear blocks to class

RSVP and Check due by November 28th

I'm Back and Once A Week Cooking

I knew it had been awhile since I posted anything, but AUGUST 28th!  I was trying so hard to keep up to date and stay consistent. Well, so much for that!

I am back and I am going to try a little something different.  This has been my Stampin' Up! blog with a little family thrown in, but I am going to expand and blog about other things as well.  I have so many interests and so many things to share that I thought I would share a variety of odds and ends.  I hope this won't be confusing or turn people away, but we will see how it goes!

Join me as I start this somewhat new journey into blogging. It is hard to do wonderful things when you use a free blog service, but I will do the best I can. This blog is pretty bare bones, but then I am not very good with the computer so I guess for now, that is OK.

So I would like to show you what I did last weekend.  We have embarked on a healthier lifestyle, more about that in a minute.  I decided to make our lunches and breakfasts for the week so we could grab and go and they would be healthy.  No trying to figure it out as we go! I made 4 each leaving one day for something different.

I do have to get better at remembering to take pictures as I go, but this is the end result:

I marinated chicken, then grilled it and roasted a variety of veggies.  Each container has 1/2 cup of rice, chicken and 3 vegetables. 

 

I put out initial on the container so we would know which ones belonged to who. (Tim doesn't like cauliflower)

I also made Healthy breakfast sandwiches. Wholegrain English muffins, egg, chicken or turkey sausage and the thin slice cheese.  So this is Friday and it has been working great!  Made the week easy!

So the healthy life style...

We are doing this as a family.

My beautiful daughter Megan came up with this idea.

We have a chart we add points to each week.

5 servings or more of fruit and vegetables per day, 64 oz of water per day, no eating after 9:00pm,30 minutes of  exercise 5x per week, Staying on track with calorie count or WW points daily, limit sweets to 3 times a week, weight/inches lost at end of week.

At the end of the month the one with the most points wins.

We are picking our own prize. We decided to make it a gift of time or labor not monetary. Example: house cleaning, baby sitting, freezer meals, help painting a room, etc.

I will keep you posted as to how it is going.

Project Life Class

I wanted to share some Project Life Pages with you.  Aren't they cute?

Today I am working on pillow gifts and surprises for my ladies going on the retreat NEXT weekend.  Such cute stuff!  I wish I could show you but you will  have to wait until the week after the retreat.  I don't want my ladies to see what they are getting!  I still have 2 spots and would love to have you.  You will love your gifts!!!

I will be working on my memories keeping with Project Life by Stampin' Up!  while on the retreat!

I also want to share a couple of pictures from my last Introduction to Project Life by Stampin' Up! Class. I forgot to take pictures of the others!  Sorry ladies!!. These ladies enjoyed the class.  It was quick and easy and they went home with a complete page!

I am having another class on September 23rd!

Comming This Thursday!

My Perfectly Bundled Class, Papercrafting Possibilities Class and Traditional Scrapbooking Class are all this Thursday!  Open House style.  Come anytime between 3:00 and 7:30.  If you are taking more than one, the earlier the better.  Class ends at 7:30 so give yourself enough time!

Here is a little sneak Peek of one of the cards and one of the papercrafting projects.

 Beautiful Bunch Stamp set, Oh my Goodies Stamp set, Back to Black DSP, and  Fun Flower Punch

Index card note pad on a ring.  I cased this from Becky Roberts.  Isn't it adorable?   Didn't have the same stamp, but used what I had which is Cycle Celebration, Positively Chevron and Alphabet Rotary.

Sharing a Little Nature

So this morning I went outside and saw this little bunny in my yard.  I know it is just an everyday cottontail, but he is so cute!  Look at him eating the dandelions!

And this was the moon this weekend.  I forgot about it!  So by the time I went out to take a picture it had already risen pretty high.  Darn it!

Stamp A Stack

On Saturday the 2nd we had a good time making Anniversary Cards and Blank Cards.  We left them Blank so any Greeting could be added as needed!  Here are a couple of the cards we made. I cased both of these

 I didn't take pictures but we also used the little star punch and the little heart punch.  One of my ladies put the stars at the bottom of each color strip and it looked awesome. Another staggered the flowers and some did hearts.  They all looked very nice.  The only stamp used was one from the set Gorgeous Grunge. These are the In Colors, Blackberry Bliss, Lost Lagoon, Mossy Meadow, and Hello Honey. Cardstock, Basic Black and Whisper White.

This card is made with Very Vanilla Card Stock and the hearts are brushed gold, punched out with the sweetheart Punch.  We used gold bakers twine and the stamp is from Memorable Moments.

In-Color Club

Would love to have you join my In Color Club.  Contact me if you are interested! I love these NEW Colors and they are perfect for your Fall projects!