Elephant Birthday Card

This is the card I made for my daughter's 17th birthday.  She is always saying she wants a puppy sized elephant, so here it is.  He is punch art with various punches.

Candles

At Christmas time, Big Lots was selling these candles for .25 cents a piece, I bought a bunch to use as gifts, I decorated them and actually used them for prizes at my niece's baby shower.

M & M Holders

These are small Matchbox cards cut to fit the snack size

M & M's, only plain work, peanut are just to bulky.

The face is made from various punches.

Pretty in Pink

This was a challenge on a blog...didn't turn out that

great.  The stamps are from the Stampin' up set

Fox and Friends.

2012 Calendar Pages

These are the pages that I came up with for the Girl's to make for their calendars.

Caramel Apple Card

Small Notebooks

These are 4 small notebooks, these are going to be part of one

of my Saturday, Girl's Day in the future.  The first one is made

with the Stampin' Up set - All Natural, the second one is made

with the Stampin' Up set - Fabulous Florets, the third one is made

with the Stampin' Up set - Embrace Life and the fourth one is made

with the Stampin' Up set - Friends Never Fade.

Spring Basket

This was a fun little basket.  It's made from a 8x8" square of paper,

scored at 2" and 4" on both sides.  The handle is made from 3 12"x3/4"

strips that I braided and they are attached on the sides by

brads.  The flowers on the front are from Stampin' Up set "All Natural".

Snowman Candy Bar Wrappers

These are the mini Kit Kat bars, wrapped with white cardstock,

the hats are a small square punch with the corners rounded, the

brim of the hat is from the Word Window punch, cut down to

match the hat.  The rest are various size punched circles.

It's been awhile

It's been awhile since I updated my blog, so much going on, and not enough time to get everything done.  Christmas was here and gone in a flash, I almost have my livingroom back to normal.

On December 26th we welcomed Brady James Jacobsen to the family, he is my niece's first baby and he decided he wanted to be here a bit early, his due date was February 6th and arrived weighing 3 pounds 12 ounces and was 17" long.  He is in the NICU in a neighboring hospital, he is doing well, as of January 7th, he weighed just a bit over 4 pounds.  We look forward to finally getting to meet him sometime in February.

It's a beautiful sunny warm day here in Wisconsin....winter hasn't found us yet.   It's 44 degrees today, I even opened a few windows to air out the house.

Hopefully this year will bring more crafting to me, last year I had a hard time finding my mojo.

Happy New Year to all!