Sharpies rock… as if you didn’t already know

Boy was my husband jealous when my box from Sharpie came in the mail this week. I guess he’s been trying to get them to send HIM a package of goodies since he has a sketching website and all! Of course I was excited because I love sharpies, and they made this adorable package just for me – the bag is even sharpied out and it really was hand-drawn, not just printed to look hand-drawn. Thats the kind of love an attention any blogger deserves!

So Sharpie is hosting a Sharpie YouTube Takeover this Saturday, and they want entries at Sharpie.com of all the awesome stuff that you make with sharpies.  You should see the amazing things that people have already submitted, you can see shoes, and drawings and even a motorcycle all sharpied out!  I’ve got a few crafty ideas up my sleeve and am going to get one of them done tonight. The other idea will take a little more time so I’ll miss the “Take-over” but I’ll share it with ya’ll in a week or so when I’m done. Anyway if you have any cool sharpie creations, I’d love to see them!

Home Sweet Home – Lost & Found 2

So I finally got a hold of all my new My Mind’s Eye releases. I actually laid everything out and took a bunch of photos, but that’s a whole other post! Just looking and touching it made me really really want to play with it. So I rearranged some stuff and made some time to just get my hands dirty. First I had to unpack all my craft supplies. As I was doing that I found these three 5×6 pieces of foam core board and it got me thinking of what I could do with them.

I knew I wanted to play with all my pink goodies… if you could see how gorgeous they are, you would want to play with them too!

To make my Home Sweet Home wall hanging, I used pretty much all of the Lost & Found 2 Blush set not including the titles, and definitely including the 6×6 paper pack. I did cut some of the 6×6 papers on my cricut. For the Home Sweet Home lettering I used the Freak Show font (with SCAL) to cut it on my cricut. For the Bracket shape, I made a quick .SVG File that you can download for free.

The first thing I did was cut and mount this glittered dance paper on my foam core:

Then I used this Creamy Brown chalk ink to make the edges look a little edged.

So then I just played around with all the supplies and made these cute rectangles:

To get the striped ribbon to have those pleats, I just cut a strip of card stock a little more narrow than the ribbon, and ran the glue runner over it. Then I adhered the ribbon, and toward the end, I just made 3 loops. Then I ran the whole thing through my sewing machine – looped side first with a contrasting ribbon.

Then to put the brad on, I just took my crop-a-dile and punched a hole through the whole thing and dropped in the brad.

The other fun thing I did with this rectangle was use the coordinating stamps to stamp that cute but still subtle banner.

With this crocheted ribbon, I gathered it with my sewing machine with my very technical method of shoving it through the sewing machine quicker than it can feed itself.

One of the fun things I did with this rectangle was take the pearl swirls and cut them up to fit the bottom of the rectangle instead of using them as a full set. It worked so well and was a super easy way of customizing the pearls.

When all that was done, I glued the rectangles to a wide ribbon and looped it at the top, and hung it in my guest room (which so does not look like a guest room at all!). Yay for baby steps to decorate the house.

MME New Releases – CHA-S 2011 – Lost & Found

Okay so I know that I am late since CHA was a good month ago, but I just barely got my box of all the products that I designed for My Minds Eye. I hate taking this big product shots because they never come out super well, and the products just look so so so much better in person. Well if you’re in my neighborhood, feel free to stop by and come and ogle my goodies in person. (Warning: Photo Heavy!)

Lost and Found 2:

Rosey

Sunshine:

Blush:

Breeze:

I also released Lost & Found Christmas:

and 6×6 Paper Pads:

Those are all my new goodies. I made a super cute wall hanging today and will post it tomorrow morning!

Blog of the Week : Nautical Themed Baby Shower

This week’s Craft Blog of the Week is not so much a craft blog, but the blog author April  (who is an awesome photographer in the Houston area), is super duper crafty! She recently threw a baby shower for her Sister-in-Law that was fit for a Queen! Here are some of her photos of this awesome celebration. To see more, visit her blog: Life in Print.

Totally cute invitations! I love me a great invitation.Adorable banner and table. Those big fans are so much fun and the cake is too cute.

Bath Salt Party favors and a cute Entry/Guest Book table. This party had it all! And there is more… be sure to check out the rest of the photos including the awesome FOOD table. April sure knows how to party, and she’s a pretty great photographer too!

2-week planner *Free Download*

So now that I’m starting to get back into the swing of things after having my cute little baby, I have been trying to figure out the best way to keep myself on task and organized. Having a little one is hard because my schedule is constantly changing based on when his naps are, and though he’s on a pretty regular schedule, for some reason his nap time and duration change a lot still.

I made this “2-week schedule” to keep me on task with a”morning” “afternoon” and “evening” sections. This way I can divide my daily tasks into chunks to get done while he is napping or otherwise occupied. It also gives me a lot of flexibility with my time as well as freeing me up more during the day since I don’t feel so overwhelmed by such a large to-do list.  I also like that it is 2 weeks long so I can see and plan for the upcoming week and see what deadlines I need to be thinking of that are around the corner. For now I printed 2 sheets so that I have a whole month in front of me.

I created a blank version for you to download free (for personal use only). Click on the image to download the PDF file.

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