baseball birthday

Ok - I give up! I keep trying to re-save this birthdyay card facing the right direciton but nothing will work! I am just going to post it like this -p sorry if it gives you a headache! This is a birthday card my DS made for his friend's birthday - I thought it was so cute! Can you tell he loves baseball? Any way - the background layer was created with a SU baseball stamp and the mddle section was made with a SU read red background behind it! The sentiment is stamped across the middle and I think he picked it b/c its in cursive (he thought that was cool! Not too shabby for a 7 year old huh?

Finnally a crafty post!!

So I have been doing lots of little crafty things to keep busy over the last few months - but while my computer was down I couldn't blog or anything :0( I wanted to share a few things tonight and try to get caught up with my blog sistahs blogs. This first blog post is another crafty project I have been working on off and on over the summer. Every time I try these little cake pops I get a little better! This all started b/c my DD and I are addicted to cupcake wars on food network! One afternoon after cupcake wars there was a challenge where the contestants were making these little mini cupcake pops - and I thought they looked fun! DD and I made two little "pop" boquets for her girl scout leaders at her bridging ceremony this summer - they were a huge hit! Not only cute but also very tasty! I am so glad to finally be able to share this cute little pic!

WOW !!!

I am so sorry for such a long absence! Sometimes I think if it weren't for bad luck I would have no luck at all!!! My laptop has had a virus AGAIN !! My husband has been working on stripping every program off - and reinstalling. Through this process I have larned a lot about protecting my files. I have several anti virus programs that run on my computer daily - but this one somehow got through my firewalls! I have definately learned about back up through this process as well. I have TONS of digital memeories stored as jpg files on my laptop - which date back to when I first went digital back in 2005 when my son was just a baby. I was so afraid I was going to lose all my pics! As a scrapbooker - this is terrifiying! I have now purchaswed an external hard drive and have been trying to move all my digital files over to this hard drive - so if my computer completely crashes - I won't lose my kids childhood memories!

I have no cards to post today but I do have a question for my blog friends out there! How do you back up your digital memories? Any scrapbookers out there want to comment and help me out? Is my external drive the best answer? Or is there a better solution?

Love ya!
H

quilling?

I stopped by the archievers craft store on my lunch hour last week - needed to browse for fun and let my brain relas a little from a CRAZY week! They were having a little demo using quilling - which aparantly was in before and is in again! We made this mini card using the quilling technique - and it was super fun! I have never used this technique before but did buy some quilling supplies - so I hope to be using my new supplies to make some fabulous cards very soon!!!

Happy Birthday Jesi!

Does it feel like I make a lot of birthday cards for kids!!!! I feel like that is mostly what I get to make - I think that is why I like the cutsey images over floral stuff - easier for what I spend my time making :0)
Last weekend we went to our friends daughter's 3rd birthday party. She is growing soooo fast I can't even believe it! I grabbed this image right away for her card! The image is stamped in tuxedo black momento ink and colored with my prisma markers. The image layer is mounted on a layer of sahara sand cs from SU and then layered ontop of the card base with is certainly celery with a small layer of pink polka dot dp from DCWV. Both the image and sentiment are from Stamping Bella.

Mickey Mouse birthday

Happy Birthday Dominic! We had a birthday party last weekend to go to for little Dominic. He turned 1! Since the whole family loves Disney - and the favorite cartoon for Dominic and his brother Tanner is Mickey Mouse clubhouse I decided to make his birthday card using a Mickey Mouse stamp from my Disney stamp set that I purchased at Michaels a LONNNNNNG time agao. I don't have the carton they came in - so I am not even sure who makes them! ANy way - the cs is real red with a layer of yo yo yellow from SU! The DP is from a Disney pack from Hobby Lobby - I bought the paper pack while working on my Disney album in the spring - and now have extra papers to use for all papercrafts! Mickey is holding a cupcake - stamped from a set of birthday stamps from Hero Arts. Both images are stamped in momento tuxedo black ink and colored with my prisma markers. I also added a little bling to the cupcake icing using doodlebug sugar coatings in red. They give the cupcake a little pop! THe cupcake was cut out and mounted on Mickey's hand using dimensionals.

Cute huh? I hope you love it!
Heather

Schmoop's fathers day car

I made this card for my hubby (I jokingly call him schmoopy) for father's day. I have a ton of the changito monkey stamps and I have always loved this one! I always think it would be perfect for a father's day card - but when father's day rolls around I forget to pull it out! The image is stamped in momento tuxedo black ink just like the popcorn image below and colored in with my prisma markers on SU! whisper white cs. The cs layers are also cut with the cricut storybook cartridge. Layer one is SU! whisper white - and layer 2 is SU! bliss blue.


I hope you love it!
Thanks for dropping by!
H

Father's Day cards

I was deleting some pics from my phone yesterday and came across these little father's day cuties! I realized that these have never been uploaded to my blog> I swear we are running around crazy every day - and some days I come and mean to b log some pics of cards - and get sidetracked. Then once the thought is gone - I kinda forget about it!

Anyway - this is the father's day card the kids and I created for my father in law. The stamp is popcorn the bear-isn't he cute!!!!??
The card base is basic blue from a texture pack from Hobby Lobby (DCWV). I am really loving the look of the textured CS for bacdgrounds and accents on my cards lately! The image is stamped in momento tuxedo black inkand colored with my prisma markers. This image is on SU! whisper layer of cs which was punched out in a scallop circle from my cricut (story book cartride) and then layered ontop of a layer of SU! bliss blue cs that was cut 2 sizes bigger in the cricut. They are both layered ontop of an old SU DP scrap and then mounted on the card base.

Hope you love it!
H