DIY Invitation and RSVP

It's another Wedding Wednesday over on TapeSwell's Blog and Eileen has beautifully photographed the invitation and RSVP I made. Did you notice the clear glass vase I added the black damask tape to as well? These were really very quick and easy to make thanks to the DIY printable templates from Eleanor over at E.M. Papers. I hope you check out both places. You would not believe just how much you can create with one roll of decorative tape. And how many other fun DIY templates are available too.
I've linked these to Passionately Artistic, Euro Stylen Cakes, Petite Hermine, Making the World Cuter, The DIY Showoff, Home Stories A to Z, and Cherished Treasures.

Save The Date

I am so tickled to see the Save The Date I made posted on the blog and Facebook for TapeSwell today! Here is the link for the blog post.... http://blog.tapeswell.com/2011/06/damask-save-date-card.html

and for Facebook.... http://www.facebook.com/TapeSwell

I have so much to learn about photography. Eileen has an incredible eye and sense for style. I can hardly wait to see how she photographs all the other wedding ensembles I made.

A huge Thank You must also go out to Eleanor from E. M. Papers to allow me to use her beautiful wedding templates. She designs  printable DIY cards and paper goods that you can download and print on your home printer. E. M. Papers provides all kinds of printables like printable graduation cards, printable Father’s Day cards,  printable wedding invitations and more. Here is the link for her website... http://www.empapers.com/

I started with a piece of white cardstock and layered it with Black Damask decorative tape. Then added a layer of green cardstock and punched the corners. Next I customized the Save The Date template, printed it, trimmed it to size, punched the corners and adhered to the card. Easy Peasy!

Notice the town of Jackson, California. I grew up there. It's referred to as the Heart Of The Motherload or as Gold Country. I certainly miss the fresh mountain air, big tall trees and clear water of the rivers!

I'm linking this to Paper Issues, Passionately Artistic, Euro Style Cakes, Petite Hermine, Making The World Cuter, The DIY Showoff, Home Stories A to Z and Cherished Treasures.

If you look back on my blog to May 3rd you will find the coordinating Black Damask Place Cards.

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day!

I made this card with one of TapeSwell's newest patterns called Crosshatch. The base is kraft cardstock layered with navy and orange cardstock. I used the Stampin' Up! tag punches for the sentiment and tied it with baker's twine.

I've linked this to Papercraft Star, Passionately Artistic, Really Reasonable Ribbon and Sew Many Challenges.

Sentiment, TapeSwell, Adhesive and Ribbon/Twine = STAR.

Swirlz Art

I had such a great time at Swirlz Art last night. I painted this Chardonnay picture. It was my first visit and I can hardly wait to take another class. I have painted plenty of walls and spray painted tons of things before, just not a "real picture". I am so tickled with my painting! The colors are just perfect for my kitchen. They have another class called Poppy Love that I'm hoping will make it back on their calendar in August. It will be perfect for my living room.

Nautical Birthday

I saw this knot on a card made by mnfroggie on Splitcoaststampers. Here is the Link on Trina's blog for her tutorial on how to make the knot. The sticker in my card is from Karen Foster Designs. The map was simply torn out of a map book and inked up. The anchor, wheel and lifebouy were recycled from a miniature ship that had seen better days. Note: a little boy may promise not to break a decorative ship, but that doesn't mean it won't get beat up! lol

Here's another masculine card I made by layering a map on kraft cardstock, inking it up and adding more Karen Foster Design stickers. I think it looks like the stickers were always meant to be there.

I'm linking these to Aud Sentiments, Paper Pretties, Really Reasonable Ribbon, Ooh-La-La, Digi Doodles, Crafting For All Seasons, Joyful Stamper, Truly Scrumptious, Paper Crafting Journey, Creative Card Crew, Penny's Challenges, Crafty Hos', The Paper Shelter, and Trimmies Craft Challenge.

Locks Of Love

I just cut 13 inches of my hair off to donate to Locks Of Love. The last time I donated my hair was in December 2009 and I donated 16 inches. I knew my hair grew fast I just did not realize how fast until this time! This was the 3rd time I've been able to do so.  Locks of Love's Mission Statement is to return a sense of self, confidence and normalcy to children suffering from hair loss by utilizing donated ponytails to provide the highest quality hair prosthetics to financially disadvantaged children. The children receive hair prostheses free of charge or on a sliding scale, based on financial need.

Here is their contact information....

Locks of Love

234 Southern Blvd

West Palm Beach, FL 33405

561-833-7332

561-833-7962 (fax)

http://locksoflove.org/index.html

Donation Form: http://locksoflove.org/HairDonationForm.pdf

Happy Pirate Mother's Day

My "Pirate Happy Mother's Day" couldn't be any more perfect!

Mother's Day Cake

Happy Mother's Day!

Yesterday my husband Chad took our son Parker to the store. Parker decided for Mother's Day that he wanted to help mommy make a cake. So he picked out a confetti cake and confetti frosting. We baked it together last night. He really just wanted to eat all the confetti! ;)    After the cake cooled I frosted it. I have been wanting to decorate another cake since I took that Wilton cake decorating class last month. I still need to work on my handwriting and flowers. I am pretty tickled with the out come though, after all this is only the second cake I've ever decorated with flowers and writing. I'm still pretty amazed that frosting can be totally smooth. I am looking forward to taking the fondant class and flowers. I'd love to learn how to make those beautiful roses and basket weave pattern. I guess you can tell I'm not a pink kinda girl. Considering the colors I've picked for the flowers.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day!

I think the cameo on my Mother's Day card is so pretty. I used kraft cardstock layered with a piece of patterned paper from Pink Paislee. The sentiment came from Stampin' Up!

I'm linking this to The Kraft Journal, Make It Monday, Sparkles Forum Challenges, Craft Your Passion, Tuesday Throwdown, Pollycraft Challenge, Party Time Tuesdays, Creative Card Crew, The Sisterhood Of Crafters and Passionately Artistic.

DIY Wedding Crafts

On TapeSwell's blog today you can see this picture of the Damask DIY wedding place cards I made.

Hehehe! So tickled :)

Check out the blog.... http://blog.tapeswell.com/

I made several wedding ensembles that will be posted over the few weeks. I can hardly wait to follow along and see everything posted!!!

I just love TapeSwell! You really won't believe how many fabulous projects you can make with just one roll.

Some of the credit must to go to Eleanor at E.M. Papers. She makes printable DIY cards and paper goods. I added TapeSwell to some of her fabulous wedding sets that will be posted soon.

Right now she has a giveaway on her blog... http://www.empapers.com/may-giveaway-help-choose-the-next-empapers-designs