Mother's Day gifts

This year I had a cool custom necklace and charm bracelet made for our moms for mother's day. The scrabble pendants are made by Sunrise Mosaics. Check out her website and become her friend on facebook!

Following the tri-shutter card tutorial on The Crafty Frugalista I created these mother's day cards to go along with the gifts:

And using my Cricut I made some birthday cards to give to our grandmas for their mother's day gift.

Challenge Birthday Card

Ted at Happily Ever Crafter has another fun challenge and here is my creation:

It has the colours purple and green and for my 4 items I used 4 rhinestones. I hope you join in on the fun too for a chance to win a gift certificate from Papertrey Ink!

another new page

My "inspiration" (ie: the page I copied) was this one from the latest Creating Keepsakes magazine by Maggie Holmes:

And this is the page I did:

Not totally wild about it, but I got it done quickly and decided to just pull out things I already had and use up scraps and paste things down as I went. Usually I take forever rearranging and changing my mind about stuff so even though this page isn't perfect (at least in my eyes, as it's not how I envisioned it) it was at least a success in experimenting with a different scrapping style.

3 New Layouts

I've been feeling creative lately and getting lots of scrapping done. Here are my 3 latest layouts:

Sweet Gift for a Sweet Girl

Inspired by my DD's love of her stuffed bunny and the mini quilt that I made for her to tuck him in I decided to make something similar in preparation for a sweet little girl's upcoming first birthday. Using a charm pack and some fat quarters from the Bunny Hill fabric line by Moda I pieced together this little fat quarter sized quilt and bound it with some chocolate fabric. The floppy-eared chocolate coloured bunny is soooo soft and the pink velvet nose is just the adorable icing on top. I hope she enjoys it!

Here are some photos of the completed project:

And a close up detail shot of the backing fabric - look, there are bunnies!

Eric Carle Room

After falling in love with Andover Fabric's Eric Carle line and the adorable quilt kits from Fat Quarter Shop I've been busy sewing up a storm to decorate the kidlets room in an Eric Carle theme.

First I bought the Brown Bear, Brown Bear quilt kit. This quilt will be for my DS for his upcoming 2nd birthday:

I've also completed some new curtains complete with a blackout liner using some yardage from the Very Series fabric line. I love the stripes! Close up they have that painted look that the illustrations in Eric Carle's books have.

And now I've been working on a Very Hungry Caterpillar quilt for my DD for her birthday (which isn't until December, but I wanted to get the kit while it was available). I'm done piecing the top and have sandwiched it and pinned it and now I just need to do the quilting and binding (which will be red). I flipped over the corner so you could have a sneak peek of the adorable backing fabric. DD has requested that I make her a blanket (or "blanklet" as she says) and really wanted this one so I just couldn't resist! :)

Almost 2 years!

Time flies quickly when you're having fun! It doesn't feel like nearly 2 years ago that I was snuggling my new baby boy

He doesn't usually fall asleep in my arms anymore so I have to savour those rare moments! He's grown so much but he's still my little snuggle baby!