Another Lilly Mae Project

Happy Monday!! I am off on a camping trip with my best friend - just her and I. It should be a relaxing couple of days. We spend our reevaluating our lives as well. 

Today I am sharing a project I made the other day. I actually like the way this turned out. 

Image: Lilly Mae Kite Flying (Treasured Times Stamps)

Bag Template: Tricky Treat Tote (My Time Made Easy)

Kite Border (Silhouette Store)

Kites (Silhouette Store)

I am entering this in the following challenges:

           Crafting at the Weekend - Anything Goes

           Crafty Calendar Challenge - Summer Fun

           Gruffies and Guests - Anything Goes with a Summer option

           Little Claire's Designs - Summertime

           Treasured Times Stamps - Anything Goes

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!

           

Softpencil Tuesday Projects

Time is flying by which means it's time for some more Softpencil Studios Tuesday!!! Today we are still focusing on Mother's Day images and projects.  Remember here in the States, Mother's Day is this coming Sunday!!

Well let's get on with my projects. The image on this one is Michu and Ratiny in a heart.  I created this box using the Disc-Covered template from My Time Made Easy.  It's made to fit a DVD but you could fill it with chocolates or whatever you'd like.  The butterflies are a Stampin Up Punch. I just realized that I must have lost the butterfly from the upper right corner when bringing it home from my crop. :-(  I also purposely didn't put Happy Mother's Day on the project to make it a bit more versatile.

Since I was at a weekend long crop last week, I was also able to make a card as well. For this I used Michu's Mom!! Guess I misjudged the size of "Mother's Day" but what mom will complain about that? :-)

All of the papers are from the Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients February 2012 kit!! Just love those kits. They are like the energizer bunny and just keep going and going!!

I'd like to enter the project into the following challenges -

Through the Craft Room Door - Mother's Day

Bloggers Challenge Celebrating Mom

Finally, remember that Elizabeth now has stickers, rub ons, clear stamps along with her digi stamps available in her Softpencil Studios store.

Thanks so much for stopping by!! 

Blessings and Hugs,

Softpencil Studios Blog Hop #3

YAY!!! It's finally my turn to be part of the fabulous Softpencil Studios Hop!! This is the third and final one so don't miss it before it goes. This hop will run from today until April 25th. If you arrived from Rhonda's blog then you're on the right path. If not you probably want to head back to the Softpencil Studios blog and start so you don't miss any of the fabulous projects!!

There are even prizes to be won!!

• Elizabeth will be choosing a random winner (through random.org) from the players who complete the blog hop, who´ll receive a gift certificate of $15 for the Softpencil Studio shop... and a surprise!
• All the players who participate by leaving their comments on each blog will receive a free digi-stamp of their choice. Yes! only leave a comment on each blog and win a digi-stamp! Write elizabethpujalka@hotmail.com to let me know you commented on all the blogs.
• And there is a "mystery blog" so all the girls who leave a comment on that blog will be entered in a drawing to win a digi-stamp... and a little surprise too! 

I used several different images for my project. 

Image - Lily

Image - Sunny Gardener

Ladybug and Flower

Image - Sunny with Flowers

The template and house images for the house are from My Time Made Easy - Shop Around. This is one of my favorite templates!!

Thanks for coming by now hop on along to Michelle's blog and see her beautiful project. I've also included a complete list of people on the hop just in case you get lost along the way - 

Softpencil blog  http://softpencilblog.blogspot.com

Helen Dooley   http://tomorrowstreasure.blogspot.com

Reyna Ibarra  http://lareynarosa.wordpress.com/

Maria Matter   http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com

Tere Azúa  http://tereazua.com/

Carolyn Castillo  http://carolynscrap.blogspot.com

Diana Maldonado  http://latinacrafter.blogspot.com

Laura O´Shea  http://lauraoshea.typepad.com/whirlpool_of_imagination/

Kerry  http://kerryischilling.blogspot.com

Cat Darling  http://catscraftycorner.blogspot.com

Lisa  http://inspiredbypurple.blogspot.com

Rhonda  http://bluepoohbear753.blogspot.com

Melissa  http://melissacreates10.blogspot.com (you are here)

Michelle  http://michellescreativejourney.blogspot.com

Betty  http://zacksnanaat.blogspot.com

Audrey  http://hippieaud.blogspot.com

Karla  http://scrap-fan1.blogspot.com/

Softpencil blog  http://softpencilblog.blogspot.com

As always, thank you so much for stopping by!! I hope you enjoy the hop!!

Blessings and Hugs,

The Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog Inspiration

Yep it's the 3rd Wednesday of the month which means it's time to share another project for The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog. Remember the theme this month is "Spring with pastel colors."

Our wonderful sponsor is Meljen's Designs!! The prize is four (non-colored) images of your choice from her store!! Let me tell you there are some FABULOUS images over there. 

Melissa was kind enough to share some of her fun spring images with our DT to help inspire you!!  For this project I used one of Melissa's whimsical word art images - Spring is the Time for Growth.  The sentiment made me think of planting flowers and one needs a wheelbarrow for that right? So I created this wheelbarrow using the Barrow of Blooms template from My Time Made Easy.

While you can't fill this one with dirt, it would make a fun little pick me up gift for a friend filled with chocolates or candies!! 

Be sure to check out the rest of The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog's Design Team's inspiration over at the blog! I look forward to seeing your "Spring with Pastel color" creations over at the blog!! You have until the end of the month!!

Thanks for coming by!! 

Blessings and Hugs!

Get Hippity With Ippity Challenge #16 Sketch

Welcome to the newest Get Hippity with Ippity Challenge #16 !! Yep it's one of my favorite types - a sketch!! Don't forget if you use an {Ippity} image you get your name entered twice for a chance to win!!! Also be sure to read the challenge rules and follow them so you don't give up your shane to win!!!

And you may be asking where might I get some lovely {ippity} images? Well at Aletha's blog of course!! 

This month we used a sketch from SplitCoast Stampers.  Remember if you join us for Challenge #16, you can also post it in your gallery at SplitCoast Stampers. Don’t forget to put the “SC349” in your keywords. 

Here's my little inspiration piece -

I used one of my favorite and definitely go to sets - Flowers + Friends = Priceless.

I thought it would be fun to make the flowers pop a little so I put some pop dots behind each one. All of the papers came from my scrap stash so I have no idea what company they are from. the sentiment is from My Time Made Easy.

We'd also love to have you join our Get Hippity with Ippity group at The Crafters Cafe  where we have a Card game that gives you another chance to win. We also have a new Facebook group as well.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenge - 

Crafty Calendar - Spring Cleaning - use your stash

As always, I am so grateful that each of you take the time to stop by!! Blessings and hugs!!

More Christmas Projects to share!

I can't believe how quickly this week is going by and I still haven't had much crafty time. Honestly, it's not been so much a lack of time but rather a lack of mojo!! I am really hoping to spend the next couple of days getting that mojo back!! :-) 

I wanted to share a few more Christmas gifts I made this year. All 3 were created from the templates from My Time Made Easy. 

As you can tell, I LOVE creating 3D projects. Well this turned out to be a bit more of a problem this year. 2 weeks before Christmas our PC crashed and with it died my SCAL software.  Of course, I hadn't backed it up.  Many of you know about the whole Provocraft issue - suing Craft Edge and now they can't sell it anymore.

Since, I never used my cricut with cartridges (I only have about 5 of them),  but only used it to cut SVG files I was pretty much out of luck!! Well I decided to buy myself an early Christmas gift and bought the new Silhoutte Cameo. I also bought the upgraded Designer Edition software but couldn't make it cut the templates to the right size. Then I bought SCAL3 and while the files still aren't importing at the right size, I am able to resize them to work! It's an extra step or so but at least I'll be back in business with making my projects!! Oh yeah - this time I already backed up my SCAL software!! :-) I am seriously considering selling my Cricut Expression since I won't use it with cartridges. I have to admit I basically don't even know how to use the dumb things!!

OK on with the projects!!  This one is called the Flapper. We filled it with candy and candles!!

The is Fresh Popped also filled with candy and candles!

Take Time

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!

Many Blessings and Hugs,

PS - Don't forget about The Stamping Boutique blog candy here. 

Sharing some homemade gifts

Happy Day After Christmas!! I hope everyone had the most fabulous day ever!!

This was a wonderful Christmas in our house. Last week my 10 yr. old announced that kids at school were telling her there was no Santa but she didn't believe them. She just knows there has to be a Santa. Her reasoning went like this - "Mom, there is NO WAY you could stay up that late or get up that early to put out presents and not be crabby on Christmas day. And you are NEVER crabby on Christmas!!" I will treasure that thinking forever!!

Ours was great even if it did start at 2:15am!! Yes my 10 year old couldn't sleep any longer since Santa had come and she was dying to open presents. She would come into my room every 15 minutes and announce she couldn't sleep.  My 7 yr old woke at 4:15am and we opened presents. Needless to say we were all in bed at 8PM!! I have to say even though I was exhausted, I really enjoyed the excitement my 10 yr old showed for Santa!! It made this a very special Christmas!!

I figured I would share a few of my Christmas gifts I made for my girls teachers. Since Natalie had a list of 7 people to make gifts for, I'll just share a few at a time!! 

These gifts all used the same template from My Time Made Easy - Keep It. There's whole other story about my creating these gifts that I'll share later this week. On with the gifts -

I made this one for the secretary at Natalie's school. She is a card maker so I set it up as a card organizer and address card organizer. I also threw in a notepad!!

This is the one I made for Kendra's homeroom teacher.  I filled it with a notepads, note cards, and other general teacher supplies.

 Cards and notepads included above.

This is the organizer I made for Kendra's second teacher. She has a team of 2 teacher this year.

The cards and note pads I included in her box.

Supplies:

   Template - My Time Made Easy - Keep It

    Stamps from the following companies - Unity, Just Rite, Papertrey, {ippity}

Thanks so much for coming by!! 

Blessings and Hugs,

Another Basket

Can you tell I'm on Christmas break? :-)  I actually have time to post! 

My girls still have school today and tomorrow but my DH and I are off. So we are planning to try and finish our Christmas shopping today! I'll still have to get him something but I have no idea what to get him. Suggestions?? 

I am really working to remember the importance of slowing down and listening and following the Lord. Today he spoke to me about just that in today's devotional in "Jesus Calling" by Sarah Young. She states  "DO NOT BE WEIGHED DOWN by the clutter in your life; lots of little chores to do sometimes in no particular order." and then goes on to remind me - "Remember the ultimate goal is living close to Me, being responsive to My initiatives."   I often get caught up in creating and completing my to do list rather than pausing and asking God what he would have me do. So today that is what I will do my best to do. Keeping in mind -  Matthew 6:33 "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." 

On with the craftiness.  Here is another basket I made for my friend's fundraiser.  

I made the coffee shop from the Shop Around template at My Time Made Easy and the stamps are from there as well!! I filled with coffee shop with Kcups.  I thought I had more pics but nope I don't.

Hope you are having a blessed and not stressed day!! 

Blessings and Hugs!!

Christmas Basket

I can't believe next Sunday is Christmas!! I still have SO much to get made, bought, and wrapped.  I have been so busy running the girls here, there and everywhere and making lots of gifts, I haven't had much time for blogging. I did want to share a few of the projects I made for a fundraiser at the beginning of the month.

The good news is that I'm on Christmas break from school. Let me tell you it didn't come soon enough!! 

 I am ready for some time to slow down, reflect and prepare for a new year. I am also ready to focus on the coming of our Lord and Savior - the real reason for celebrating Christmas.  I have so much to learn and am so grateful that our Lord is always there to show the way - my life is truly blessed!

The first one is a Christmas themed basket of cards and wrapping goodies -

Sorry this next picture is so out of focus! I should have checked before I gave it away! I thought it would be fun to have a place to keep all your Christmas card addresses.  I used the Card Catch All Template from My Time Made Easy. 

I included a set of 12 cards - 4 of each design below. I used Gingham Christmas and Kissmass and Mistletoe from{ippity}.  Remember my dear friend Aletha sells {ippity} here.

I also put a note pad in there - everybody needs to keep lots of lists during the Holiday season right? I used notepads and the cover template from Papertrey Ink.  The images are from My Time Made Easy.

I finished off the bag with a few gift card holders, hand made tags, gift bags, ribbon and bows. 

I really had a great time putting this together! I'm sure many of you feel this way as well - how wonderful it would be to be able to create as my job. :-)

Hope you have a wonderful day! Blessings and Hugs!!