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.

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! :)

Menu Board

I've been wanting to have a menu board for a while now and I finally got around to making one. I used a large picture frame that I bought at Walmart and then used the Cricut cartridges "Opposites Attract" and "From My Kitchen" to decorate it. You can then use a dry erase marker on the glass and have your menu on display so your family knows what's for dinner this week!