Cupcakes

These were great fun. I was treated to them at New Year's and asked Lisa how to make them. They were easy just like cupcakes. Depending on the glass size you could use more batter & it takes a little longer to cook, approx 32 minutes for 5 glasses. Make the recipe as directed and keep testing them to see if their cooked via the too pick method.

I spent $1 on the glasses from the Dollar store & just a few cents for the ingredients. Makes a great center piece.

Moving

A friend at work is purchasing his first home with his partner. I wanted to make a masculine card, but wanted it to have some flare. The inspiration came from a card by Connie Mccotter out of the Jan CardMaker Magazine. I hope he likes it.

We had a great trip to Las Cruces, NM. Stopped in Wilcox and had dinner with old friends, Gene & Linda Ellis, on to Las Cruces to spend the weekend with Uncle Bob, his wife Bernida & I even got to see my cousin Chris. Then we had to go visit my life long friend Jane at her place & see all her animals. I have tons of photos to scrapbook. I am getting further & further behind.

My sister recently lost a really good friend and ask some of her scrapbooking buddies to make a two page layout for his wife to add some of her favorite photos to some pages. I of course volunteered to make 4 pages and hopefully Dawn will love them. I am hoping this gives me the motivation to get some of my own pages done. I still have not completed our DC photos.

Long Weekend

I hope everyone has a safe President's Day weekend. I am off on Monday & look forward to a nice weekend with family. I am spending the weekend with my Uncle Bob (my Dad's brother) and my bestfriend of 40 years, yes 40 years. She has known me longer than anyone else on this planet (other than my Uncle). Her name is Jane, we spent 12 years together in school, she was my maid of honor on the first go-round & we have kept in touch all of these years. I look forward to seeing her.

I'll be taking lots of photos & will need to do some scrapbooking when I get back.

My Sister recently lost a best friend & had a great idea. She asked her fellow scrapbook friends for us to all make a few pages for Dawn so she can make a srcapbook of Sherwin. Naturally we all gladly said yes. So with sadness & fond memories I will be making scrapbook pages for Dawn.

Check out SplitCoastStampers tutorial: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/accordionfilefolder/
Its an accordian file made out of a manilla folder. I think it will be a neat project to try. Perhaps use as a mini scrapbook.

Blogging

I can honestly say that when I signed up to sell CTMH products I thought I was going to be selling, paper & stamps. I was going to be making cards and scrapbooking.

I had no idea how much I would have to know about social media. I now know what a freeflare is, linky's, widget's, kontactr, html's, the list goes on and on. All I wanted to do was make a place for you to send me e-mails, subscribe so I wouldn't be limited to 10 e-mail notifications.

Let's just say the past two days have been a wealth of information, and I am happy for the experience, but not happy with how fast technology is moving & how far behind I am.

I did find a fellow CTMH consultant that is extremely talented and very helpful. Check out her blog: scrappin'myheartout.blogspot.com

I am going to expound on paper craft terms, techniques and helpful hints. Please let me know what questions you have, what ideas you want to share and how I can make this a better blog for you.

Long Week

Well it's Thursday. It has been a really long week. I got the MojoMonday sketch & had a great idea or so I thought I did. It took all week to get it done with some creative help from my husband. Here it is.
The cards are 8x6" they are nice and big.
Let's hope I am more productive on Sunday scrapbooking for Valentines.

Messed Up

I actually bounced the stamp when I was making the Peacock Card. It is a really big stamp & I wanted to make sure I was getting coverge in the middle of the stamp & accidently bounced the stamp. I actually liked the results & decided to go ahead & embellish it & use it anyway.

CTMH has Opaques Adhesive Gems in Licorice (Z1335 $2.95) which comes with black, grey and light grey. They look great with the blue ink which is Pacifica (Z2192 $5.25) The stamp set is called Circle of Love (D1438 $22.95)

I am sure I can not re-create the card...

Saturday Feb 5th

Busy weekend...stamping today with the ladies. I made these cute gift bags for my scrapping girls. I will post the photos after they see them. I dont want to spoil the surprise. I just posted two new cards to Mojo Monday's blog spot. I used the Clear CTMH cards and some felt flowers I picked up at Michaels. I used the Diamond Glaze to glue the paper to the clear cards. They turned out real cute.

Tomorrow is Superbowl. I was a die hard Steelers Fan (Bradshaw era). Showing my age again. Not a Big Ben fan, so I am torn if I should route for them or not.

I hope everyone enjoys their weekend. I will post some helpful hints in my next blog.