Cookies!

Last month my mom and I made cookies, and we were able to stamp on them!  One thing about me is that I am NOT a baker.  I CAN cook and make yummy things but I don't like to do it.  (I do like cooking with my mom though :)  So I was super suprised at how much I liked making these cookies, and I am actually looking forward to making more!  Ok so here is how we did it...

 We first rolled the dough into balls and then stamped on them with one of the sweet pressed cookie stamps! 

The set comes with 3 stamps and 1 wooden handle.  The stamp is soft and is super easy to change.
Here you can see the shamrocks before cooking...  some with sprinkles, some without. 

Shamrocks after...

The shamrocks were our favorite, so we decided to make it an annual tradition to make these every year! 

Flowers and Bunnies before baking... (we just added some food coloring to the dough)

After, all ready to eat!

When making cookies with these stamps you need to use a shortbread dough so it doesn't rise too much.  The cookie stamps come with a recipe, I haven't tried it yet.  The recipe I used was from Janice who is one of my demonstrator friends.  One thing I love about this recipe is that the cookies are soft... and stay soft for a long time. 

Anyone want to come make some more with me?

Birthday Treat

It's birthday weekend here at our house, and I totally forgot to get a treat ready for my kindergartner to share with his class!  So super last minute (20 min before school started today) I was a mad stamper... because even though I know that every one of these will end up in the trash, I just couldn't send a treat to school without something cute on top. 

Air Heads (or air balloon heads as my 6 year old calls them) are my kids favorite treat this month, and luckily we had enough for his class :)  I think I was inspired by the "balloon" in the name to grab the Up, Up and Away stamp set. 

Well time for me to get ready for his first friend party...

Anyone Anyone???

Anyone want this flower? I made it for some blog candy but the winner never sent me her address, so I guess she doesn't want it. If you love this flower leave me a comment and I will pick another winner!

T-Shirt Re-Fashion

I have been having a lot of fun lately re-fashioning shirts, especially for my little girl. For this shirt, I used the larger scallop on the Scallop's 2 die and the letter A from the simple letters alphabet.

I also had to make a matching hair accessory. For this I used a die that is retired but you could use any one. I just layered a bunch of layers of white and pink fabric and attached it to a felt circle.Then I hot glued it to the headband and added another felt circle (one on each side of the headband)This shirt is one of my favorites. It has also lived through MANY washings and still looks great since I stitched around the edge with a zig zag stitch! I also made a shirt for myself. - my hair is all in my face - the wind was blowing like crazy but the pictures inside didn't work very well...

Can you guess what big shot die I used for my shirt? The flowers aren't very recognizable now that I washed the shirt - but I LOVE how messy they look!

I actually bought 2 of the same shirt, one my size and another the largest size I could find so I would have the most amount of fabric :) I used about half of it and now I can save the rest for another project. (I already used some for a rosette necklace!)

Here is a better picture of the flowers. They look more like flowers in this picture, can you guess the die yet? I first pinned on the flowers and layed out the ruffles like this, and pinned them on a little as well before sewing them. I started with the bottom ruffle and worked my way up and sewed on the flowers last.

Yep I used the flower folds die! I layered 4 flowers on top of each other. (the flower on top is a little bigger than the other 2) I also cut some fun ruffle strips to add as well. I sewed these on with some brown thread for a little contrast.



Sorry for the awkward picture - I took it of myself :) But here you can see the stitching a little better. I just sewed on the flowers with a spiral.

Pinwheels!

I was asked to create a super quick centerpiece for a bridal shower, I didn't have much time at all to make one so this is what I threw together. The Bride's colors were bright pink, orange, and yellow - so much fun for a summer wedding!

So I pulled out my retired DSP and buttons and got to work.

The gummy candy was perfect. you can stick the skewers right into the candy and the pinwheels stayed in place perfectly.

Sorry, the pictures didn't turn out that great... the sun was shining on the window and so it appeared darker in the pictures than it really was. oh well.

Spring Wreath

Yes I know it is almost Fall... But I just took off the butterflies so I can decorate it with halloween stuff and I wanted to share :) I decorated this for my daughters butterfly birthday. I wanted it to be temporary, so I just stuck the butterflies on with a dimensional. To make the flowers, I cut out a bunch of paper circles with my big shot, stamped them with one of the stamps from the Elements of Style stamp set, and made them with this tutorial. I keep meaning to make more so they go all around the wreath... maybe someday.

Small things make such a difference!

Look how cute this is! My awesome upline Brandi gave this to me for helping out at her downline meeting. Now the brads are AWESOME but this simple tag makes it look so cute I just had to share it! And it has a butterfly on it so it really can't get any better :)

A little bling

My Husband is NOT a jewelry fan - whatever I wear it all the time. He has forbidden me to get my baby's ears pierced until she is older. I have told him a few times to not be surprised when I finally do it :)

I got him pretty good. He noticed these right away and said something like "What is on her ears", he seemed pretty ticked so I was fast to tell him they are just stick ons! lol.
Yep you heard me right. Stampin' Up sells these AWESOME Jewels. They come in pearls and rhinestones that are self adhesive! LOVE it. The best part- they totally survived the whole day. They even stayed on through one nap!

FUN! I can't wait to try the pearls...

Butterflies and Birds on a Line

Sewing on paper is so much fun! A while ago I made this spring decoration using the bird punch. All you do sew bird after bird down the line leaving some thread in between each of them. I also made some with butterflies to decorate for my daughters birthday. (sorry it is a bad picture - it wasn't working for me that day!)

Catalogs are in the house!!!

I am SO SO SO excited to share with you the new catalog. WOW is all I can say. I am so excited for the new products and all the fabulous ideas!

If you are in one of my stamp clubs one of these catalogs are for you! If you are not in my club and would like a catalog, just call or e-mail me and I will reserve one for you! Ask me how you can get one of these for free!

Flip Flop Re-fashion

Have you seen the fabulous rainbow wall of flipflops at Old Navy? The green ones were calling my name (along with a few others :) I decided to change them up and add some rosettes!

If you would like to make your own you will first you will need a few things, a long strip of fabric or ribbon (mine was 1 inch by about 30 inches but I didn't use it all). I used a build-a-brad and some circles I cut out with the big shot. The first one was cut out of the sticky pages (LOVE these, seriously awesome) and I used 2 felt circles the exact same size as the sticky pages. (you can see the sticky pages one wasn't a full circle, but it really doesn't matter)

ok I know it is hard to see, since the fabric is so bumpy, but we are just twirling it in a circle (first twirl up the fabric and then lay it down in a spiral.)

Start in the middle and slowly make your way outward. When you get close to the edge let the fabric hang off the edge a little bit. When the circle is covered, snip off the end but leave enough to fold it over onto the back.

In this next photo you can see that I already attached my brad, took off the backing to the sticky pages, and folded over the end of the fabric (on the right).

Now, I like to put a brad in the middle, it makes me think it will stay together better, but the ones I have made without a brad hold just as well.

Then all I did was put one of the felt pieces on the back and just smash it with your hand to make it stick. (I was SO excited to see that the sticky pages stick to felt and it doesn't come apart!!!)

That is it! oh I added a large half back pearl to the middle of the build a brad with crystal effects.

Now the rosettes are finished, we just need to glue it on to the straps on the flip flops with a glue gun. Then take the last felt circle, attach it to the bottom with the glue gun again to give it a good hold onto the flip flop. So one felt circle is on top of the straps and the other one is below. (otherwise it will fall off after you wear it a few times :)

The sticky pages really make this easy, some people were telling me that they had to use pipe cleaners, sew it together, or hot glue everything and took them SO much longer.

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Sausha's Dresser

OH MY GOODNESS look how awesome this is!!!! No I did not make this, this was made by my friend Sausha. She is super talented in decorating, remodeling, and basically everything. But why am I showing you this on my blog???? It is because of this awesome stencil she ordered.

This is one of the stencils from the Cheep Talk set in the decor elements!

Ok now I know you are dying to find out how she did it, you can see her tutorial HERE and to see her blog and other fabulous projects click HERE!

Taggy Blanket - Stampin' Up! Style

My mom called me up one day wanting to make some of these taggy blankets. We had a lot of fun shopping and sewing but the thing that made these cute was the fun ribbon I have collected from Stampin' Up!

I just love the butterfly die for the big shot! (I am sure you all know that by now)

Business Cards

Does anyone want a business card? Which one is your favorite?

I have been having A LOT of fun with fabric lately. I will have tons more to show starting on april 17th :)

Sweet Pea Felt

I am in LOVE with the Sweet Pea Felt. You can use it with so many things! Today I want to show you a super fast and easy hair clip you can make with them. The Felt comes already stitched so all I did was hot glue it to the clip! I think it will look a lot cuter in my baby's hair when her hair is longer but I still love it now! And as a bonus, my husband is more likely to put a flower in her hair when he is watching them if the flower is small :)

Leprechaun Traps

Dang, I am so sad that I am LATE saying happy St. Patricks day! I am usually NOT a fan of the holidays, seriously who thinks of things like the easter bunny? lame. But I love St. Patricks day! Rainbows, Candy, and this year Leprechaun Traps! My oldest made a trap for his Kindergarten party, how fun. He told us how to help him and this is what we made. We used punches, ribbon, sweet treats cups, but my favorite was the gold cardstock!

price lists...

I am excited to share something totally different with you today. My friend just opened a salon in Taylorsville and she asked me to decorate a price list for her to display.

My friend wasn't sure what colors or images she wanted so I made 2 for her to choose from. She wanted to display it on an easel instead of in a frame so I snailed a chocolate piece of cardstock to the back to make it stronger.
To create this brown frame, I just cut out paper, sponged the edges and glued it on. The leaves were cut using the embosslit and the bird punch. I actually gave her 3 different colors of birds to choose from. She chose the yellow (not pictured).

V-day decor

Ok first off, look how fabulous and RED this is :) I gave up on my new camera and got a newer one! Thank goodness costco has a 90 day return policy :) for those of you who are wondering - do not get a nikon coolpix 220 (I think that was the one) It was pretty cheap but totally not worth it. I heard the next model up was good but didn't want to chance it.
Ok back to the stamping, my husband brought this magnet home from the store and the first thing I said was, I could decorate this... and he said I knew you would. Now I need to go buy tons more so I can make one for every month :)This is a little wreath I made with chipboard. I just inked up the circle with craft ink and covered the heart with the glittery sending love paper. Here you can see where I hung this in my home.