Oh so pretty centerpiece

A friend came to me for a special request.  Her parents were going to be renewing their vows and she wanted to make sure it was extra special for them.  

She knew she wanted a centerpiece to use on the cake table and her requirements were: red, black, and white.  Hmmmmm, so many options to choose from!

We went through a few different ideas and finally landed on one that she fell in love with.  It was fun to yet again, step outside of that paper box and challenge myself.  

She loved how it turned out and said that her mom was trilled and will be keeping it as a memento.

~Enjoy~

No more boring mail box for the Wells family

Finally - a year after we moved into our little paradise - our mail box no longer has the previous owner's names.  :)  Who would have thought updating a mail box would not be on my priority list for while.  

Any-who... I went through quite a few images online and found one that I loved and knew it would be perfect for us.  I used the trace tool on Silhouette and here's the results of what we came up with.

~Enjoy~

Thank you card

Those of you who know where we live - there are trees everywhere!  As lovely as they are to look at, maintenance can be a bit of a pain.  We had a few that were leaning in towards our house and one leaning right over our shop.  A friend of ours works for a tree trimming company and offered to come out and take out the trees that were "threats"  

This poor guy spent all day in trees, cutting out limbs and cutting entire trees down.  By the end of the day, he didn't want to walk any further than he needed to.  It was absolutely amazing to watch the process and how he made it look so simple.

I knew we wanted to thank him for what he did but let's be honest - it's so much easier to make a card for a girl and add some gems and faux stitching.  And a lot of the card ideas I come across, just don't seem fitting for a guy who works closely with a chainsaw all day.  

Little did I know what a challenge it would be to me to not add that many accents to a card.  haha.  

Challenge excepted!

I used the trace tool in silhouette after finding a royalty free clip art image of a tree trimmer and got to work.  here is the final product.  he even called to thank us for the thank you card because he liked it so much!

~ Enjoy~

5 Days of Simple Cards - Day 5

It's Day 5!!  Today's the final day of my 5 days of simple cards

I had a rush rush moment at my house a few weeks back.  We were invited to a dinner to celebrate a month of birthdays, anniversaries, and retirements - I had a day to create 5 cards for these special people.  

Luckily the Silhouette Store has some great card bases that I was able to use.  

Here's the card for today: 

Happy Birthday Mrs. Heidi!  Yet another dear friend of ours celebrating her special day.

This one didn't show well in the photo.  I cut the card base out of a textured lavender cardstock and the background out of a pearl white (looks yellow).  I added gems to the centers of the flowers.  This one I will be using again, turned out great.

Just because 5 days of simple cards is over, doesn't mean I won't be back with more fun... stay tuned :)

~ Enjoy!~

5 Days of Simple Cards - Day 4

It's Day 4!!

I had a rush rush moment at my house a few weeks back.  We were invited to a dinner to celebrate a month of birthdays, anniversaries, and retirements - I had a day to create 5 cards for these special people.  

Luckily the Silhouette Store has some great card bases that I was able to use.  

Here's the card for today: 

Happy Anniversary to Grandma and Grandpa Gale.  These two have a special place in my heart, and we are very fortunate to spend time with them.  Love you guys!

I cut the cardstock out of a bright blue and added the fun plaid background then topped it off with faux stitching.  Grandma loved the card, I even caught her showing it off :)

Tomorrow - Floral Happy Birthday

~ Enjoy!~

5 Days of Simple Cards - Day 3

It's Day 3!!

I had a rush rush moment at my house a few weeks back.  We were invited to a dinner to celebrate a month of birthdays, anniversaries, and retirements - I had a day to create 5 cards for these special people.  

Luckily the Silhouette Store has some great card bases that I was able to use.  

Here's the card for today: 

Happy Birthday Jimmy!  Our fellow Texan, what else belongs on a card for a Texan?  Of course a boot!  HA

I cut the boot out of this fun animal print and added black leather accents.  I included a brad on the boot to hold the strap on.  Very simple and it made him laugh.

Tomorrow - a cute Love Bird card

~ Enjoy!~

5 Days of Simple Cards - Day 2

It's Day 2!!

I had a rush rush moment at my house a few weeks back.  We were invited to a dinner to celebrate a month of birthdays, anniversaries, and retirements - I had a day to create 5 cards for these special people.  

Luckily the Silhouette Store has some great card bases that I was able to use.  

Here's the card for today: 

Congratulations to our dear friends Jerry and Stephanie!  It was their anniversary.  I just adore them to pieces. 

I cut the base kraft card stock and then used different shades of tan and brown for the rectangle backgrounds.  the scalloped rectangle and hearts were a part of the kit as well.  I just added chalk and some faux stitching to the card.  Very simple and they loved it :)

Tomorrow - a fun boot shaped card

~ Enjoy!~

5 Days of Simple Cards - Day 1

I had a rush rush moment at my house a few weeks back.  We were invited to a dinner to celebrate a month of birthdays, anniversaries, and retirements - I had a day to create 5 cards for these special people.  

Luckily the Silhouette Store has some great card bases that I was able to use.  In the next 5 days I'll be posting those cards to show how cute some of these very simple, quick and easy cards can turn out.

Here's the card for today: 

Congratulations to our friend Wendy - she has retired as a school teacher after many many years of teaching our kiddos.  

I cut the base out of a teal cardstock and the overlay out of purple.  I added some gems and faux stitching to the card.  Very simple and she loved it :)

Tomorrow - an adorable heart card

~ Enjoy!~

Ladybug Centerpiece

Oh my gosh - talk about outside of my comfort zone - recently I have been asked to make products that are not paper based.  It has been fun experimenting outside of my box :)

For this project, some very dear friends of mine who are having a girl had a lady bug themed baby shower.  I was asked to make center pieces for their tables.  I searched high and low for ideas.  I knew I wanted to make something they could get use out of after the shower was over.  

I came up with this idea for a diaper cake and found some images in the silhouette store to use as decoration.  I absolutely loved the way these came out and I had to share these babies.  har har har.

~Enjoy!~

Flower Candy Sticks

This was another project I completed for the last day of school for a teacher gift.  I had so much fun making these flowers.  I found the image on the silhouette online store and went to town :)

I cannot get enough of how much fun these were to make.  

~Enjoy!~

Happy Summer

Even though Summer is almost over, I had to make sure and get these adorable sticks out for sharing today.  I made them for a kiddo's last day of school and with it being such a busy summer, I dropped the ball and didn't post them.

Here's some very easy candy sticks I made using M&M's and some of my favorite Jaded Blossom Stamps.

~ enjoy!~