What a blast.......

I had last night during PaperTrey's "Blog Hop". There were so many projects and wonderful inspiration :) I can not wait until the next one!!!




Today I wanted to show you the birthday card for my great-grandmother birthday. I am not sure if you can tell, it is a transparency card. I adhered the white cardstock to the back piece of the transparency. I got this idea from Nicole when she made a card like this during "Women of Life" countdown. I just changed a couple of this and used the present instead of the flowers.

This is gonna be short right now. I have been staring at the computer screen for a long time since "Blog Hop" started. I need to relax my eyes, hehehe.

Oh, I almost forgot, I got my REALLY cool glasses today!!!! I am happy. They are "red" Converse glasses, hehehe and I even have a matching case. I will have to get a picture of them. I was so glad my mom let me get them. I even have the transitional lens and anti-scratch something over the lens :) I really like them, just a little to get used to. The eye doctor says that my long distance is bad, so I them to read the blackboard in front of the class and computer work, he also said I have a slight astigmatism (not really sure what that is, but I am positive it is gonna be a word that I am gonna HAVE to look up :)

I hope everyone has a good Saturday!!!! I will see you back here tomorrow.

PaperTrey April "Blog Hop"

I saw this last month, but did not get a chance to participate. So this month, I made sure I signed up early :) You can read the rules for this months "Blog Hop" here. Nichole made a special paper file with the different pattern paper from this months release :) After looking at it, I could NOT cute it into pieces, it looked so cool just the way it was :)

I wanted to combine 2 things (sewing & stamping) that I enjoy doing on this card to my Grandpa for Father's Day. I felt it was more me into this card by doing that :)

This card measures 3.25" x 6.5". First I layered the special pattern paper on the new Summer Sunrise and then I finally tried sewing on a card. But unfortunately the sewing machine did not want to work well for me, so I just used it to pierce holes and then I connected to dots with a brown pin. I think it came out just fine, I actually think I like it better than with the thread anyways, lol!!!

I got to use my "special" made "Grandpa" (you can read this post, & this post on how I did this, it was my WhoooHooo moment, hehehe). I used the tree from "Father Knows Best", somehow the ink on the tree trunk came out looking grainy, which I guess is a good thing, since it looks more like a tree trunk, but I have not idea how I did it, LOL!!! For a little dimension, I added a few more circles with dimensionals, but they are stamped on Nichole Special Paper.












I did not want to leave the inside blank, so I stamped the sentiment "Happy Fathers Day" and put that on the inside.











I really enjoyed this challenge, THANKS NICOLE!!!!!

So, my Father's Day cards are complete. Yipppeeee!!!!!

I hope you all have a very good Friday, I will see you tomorrow with more alter items and a new card set. I am having fun making sets right now :)

Quick & Easy Notebooks

My mom and I went to the Dollar Tree last weekend and I got to stock up on some cool things to alter :) I got sooo much stuff and I only spend $20 (or maybe I should say my mom spend $20, LOL!!)

I found these cute composition books, 4 for $1. You can't beat that!!!

Here is what they looked like before:

















And here is the after. I left the white square blank for now until I know who they are going to , so I can put their name on it. These little books would be perfect for your purse to write notes in them while you are on the go :)















Make sure to come back today at 5pm EST, it is "Blog Hop" with PaperTrey :) This is gonna be fun!!!!

Groovy Card Set

HAPPY THURSDAY!!!!!!!

I hope everyone is having a good week :)

For today's card, I used Groovy Brideabella, Stampin Up's Paper Pack(hostess, I think) and PaperTrey's White cardstock & Berry Sorbet ribbon & ink for the sentiment.

I actually used a new technique that I have not tried before, paper piecing :) I paper pieced her purse and pants. I color her top with Copics. I tried putting color for her hair on a few other images that I stamped, but they were not turning out right, so I scratched those and just added Stickles to her veil and ring.

I made 10 of these cards, to give as a set, but I just do not know anyone that is getting married :(

Be back later today.....

The card I was going to post today, I can not post until Friday :( I will be back after school to day with a different project. I just did not have time to upload the photos.

Whoooooo Hooooooo!!!!!!!!

HELLO!!!!!!! You will never guess what I did!!!!

Can you tell I am soooo almost beyond can not talk (or type), LOL!!!! My mom ordered all the new stuff from PaperTrey and it came today. After school I was going thru it all and wanted to start on my Father Day's cards.

Now comes I bit of a story, hehehe. I have only really have my mom since my dad past away almost 6 years ago, so I have not really made Father Days cards. I guess that is why when I see all the Mother/Daughter stuff I go for that stuff since it just fits me better. Then I started realizing that I have 2 other guys in my life and they REALLY help me in every way. These two guys are my Step-dad and my Grandfather. So this year I am making them each a very special card for Father's Day to show them both how much they mean to me. Tomorrow, I will show you may grandfathers card :)

But today, you get to see what I came up with. I liked the sentiments from the new "Father Knows Best", but it did not have the right sentiment for me, to show father & daughter. I asked my mom what can I do? And do you know her reply?

"Mom, do we have a stamp that says "Father" that matches this "Daughter" stamp from "Women in Life"? "

"No, JoAnna, but I am sure we have SOMETHING you can use. Do you see our craft room, you have EVERYTHING you could want in this room" :)

Lol, do you see where this is going, she ALWAYS makes me look up words that I do not understand and will make me sit there until something clicks in my head for tests. I know she is doing it to help me, but come on, sometimes I want some of the answers without having to sit there FOREVER until I figure it out :) I guess that is the kid in me, right?

Ok....enough typing JoAnna and get on with it, hehehehehe........ And here is the card my Step-Dad is getting for Father's Day!!!!!




















Can you read it? I hope you all can. It says"it is not flesh & blood, but the heart that makes us.... FATHER & DAUGHTER"

Whoooooo Hoooooooo, I did it!!!!!!

And now you ask how I did it, right? Well I get to tell you. I found a "F" for Friend and just inked the "f" and then stamped it, next I used grandma and just inked the"a" and then I took mother and inked just the "ther". Whooooo Hoooooo!!!!!!! There you have I made my own "Father" that matched the "Daughter" in the set :)

My mom said she was proud of me.... I think she cried, she liked it so much and even better I figured out how the two sets fit my life :) The only down side it took me 2 hours to figure it out, LOL!!!!!! I guess the 2 hours was time well spent!!!!

Ok, see you all later, I am VERY tired and need to get some sleep for school tomorrow, wait, this post is not going up until tomorrow morning, LOL!!!! I will be back after school today :)

Whooooo Hooooo!!!!! Ok, I am sorry, I am just so happy that I could make something that fits perfect!!!

Real Quick....I figured something else out!!!!

I used the "grandma" & "friend" stamp from "Women In Life" The "p" is a upside down "d" on the friend stamp and then the "a" & "grand" is from the "grandma" stamp!!!!

Sorry if the picture is blurry, I did not have enough time to retake the photo, I will try to get a better on e after school.

Ok, now I really will see you all later today!!!! I hope you have a good day!!