Wendy's Card Creations

Missing in Action

Ok, I admit I have been so totally missing in action lately and I’m so sorry I haven’t posted anything crafty lately!  The honest truth is, I haven’t really made anything crafty lately, much to my disappointment.  And here are the reasons why…first of all I decided to take a break over Christmas just to enjoy some down time with my friends and family.  I so enjoyed the simple joys of Christmas this year, just reflecting on all of the many blessings God has bestowed upon me in my life.  Even though we sometimes don’t have all that we hope for or because God hasn’t worked out every little aspect of our lives like we are praying (and believing ) that he will, there is still so much to thank him for. 

Also, this is my crazy, unbelievably busy time at work due to working on end of year closing.  While I’m used to this being an accountant, this year has been even more challenging due to our whole office flooding in August which caused us to loose tons of critical paperwork and also add in an audit on top of that.  So I have been working late every night and on Saturdays.  There goes my craft time . 

However, this weekend is my little sister, Ashton’s (ok, she’s not really my little sister but she might as well be!) Sweet 16 birthday party and I plan on making her a banner and some other cutsie decorations and I promise I’ll share.  I hope everyone is doing well and that you are having a blessed New Year!  Love & prayers,

Merry Christmas

Hello everyone!  I hope you all are done with your Christmas shopping, card and gift making and are ready to settle down and enjoy the holidays with your family!  I just wanted to share a quick Christmas card that I made using Echo Park’s Christmas paper and some adorable dimensional snowman stickers from Jolee’s Boutique.  Let us all remember the true reason we celebrate Christmas and keep it in our hearts all year long…Thank you Lord for sending your one and only son Jesus Christ to be born here on Earth as a gift to all who would receive him.  He is the best gift anyone could ever receive. 

Love & prayers for a Merry Christmas,

 

Santa Card

Hello all! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We all have so very much to be thankful for! Today I thought I would quickly share one of the Christmas cards I made this past weekend. I’ve had these cardstock stickers stuck away for a long time! I spruced the Santa sticker up by adding Red Stickles around his hat and Crystal Stickles around his beard and hat trim. It really made a cute card very quickly! I hope you all are getting more done in the way of your Christmas cards than I am! Thanks for visiting me today!

Happy Fall!

Happy Fall everyone! I hope you are all enjoying this gorgeous Fall season as much as I am! There is just something about the beautiful colors, the falling leaves and the anticipation of the holidays that makes me simply love this time of year better than any other time! So in celebration of that, the card above embodies all of those feelings for me! I just adore that gorgeous little girl from My Favorite Things. The stamp set I used is called Lil’ Pumpkin and it comes from their Pure Innocence line. I hope you have a wonderful week, thanks for stopping by today!

Autumn Hershey Bars

Hello everyone! Happy Fall to you! I am sure loving this beautiful Fall weather. This past weekend I took part in my local town’s Octoberfest. I rented a spot and made all kind of fall crafty things including the Hershey Candy Bar wrappers below.

I used some retired Stampin Up DSP paper and whipped these up in no time. I really loved the way the turned out. Here’s how I made them…I just cut the patterned paper into a 6 3/4” x 5 1/2” piece. Then I scored the paper at 2”, 2 1/4”, 4 1/2”, and 4 3/4” and folded the paper around the Hershey bar and attached with Scor-Tape (love that stuff by the way!). Then, make you a belly band and attach a cute label and you’re done. Easy peasy! Have a fabulous day and give this a try this weekend! Love, Wendy

Gift Bags–Make Your Own!

See this little cutie pie gift bag above?  I made it for my BFF using some super cute patterned paper and you can do the same thing!  Next time  you are at Michaels pick up a pack of their Kraft (or white) paper bags.  They come in like 10 or 12 to a pack and they are only around 6 bucks (use that 40% coupon and get them cheaper!).  Keep them on hand for those occasions when you need a gift bag for your friend’s birthday and the only gift bags you have are baby and Christmas!  Does that happen to you too? 

This is such a cost effective way to make your own gift bags for a fraction of the price that you would pay for a gift bag in the store.  Have you seen how much they sell those things for?  Usually they are $3 or $4!  You can make your own for under a buck, and they will be much cuter I must say!  It’s also a great way to use up that beautiful patterned paper you’ve been hoarding!  Thanks for stopping by for a visit today.  Have a great day!

Because I Care

 

Hello Everyone!  I thought I’d share a card with you today that I made a while back for a color challenge on the Paper Crafts Connection blog.  I really love the way it turned out.  The color combo of melon mambo, pumpkin pie and black is right up my alley! 

So, where have I been this time?  I have been creating away for the past couple of weeks for Paper Craft’s latest submission call for their March/April 2012 magazine!  I created 10 cards/projects for the call!  I think I was really inspired this time because several weeks ago I got some happy email from Paper Crafts…  They are going to publish one of my cards in their January/February 2012 issue!  Needless to say, I was absolutely thrilled!  So tomorrrow, those who submitted cards for their March/April call will find out if any will be accepted for publication.  So the way I look at it, if all () or none () get accepted I am still happy because I’ll get to share them with you!  Thanks for stopping by today! 

Happy Birthday Aunt Ann!

Good morning!  Today I’m sharing a card with you that I made for my Aunt Ann :)  She was away at the beach and I thought I’d surprise her by having this birthday card waiting patiently for her in her mailbox when she returned!  I used the new Flower Fest stamp set by Stampin Up to make those beautiful flowers.  The picture doesn’t quite show all of the gorgeous details of the flowers…I embossed them with Versamark and clear embossing powder.  They really pop in person.  Oh, and here’s a hint…the large scallop circle punch by Stampin Up will punch out the largest flower…don’t be like me and hand cut those out (learn from my mistakes!).  Hope you are all having a wonderful week.  Thanks for taking time out to drop by and visit me today!  Love,

Where I’ve been…

Hello everyone!  It’s been waaay too long since I’ve posted and I sincerely apologize!  I have missed you guys so much!  Here is why I have been absent lately…

This is my home away from home…the wonderful place where I work, Environamics, Inc.  On August 5th, 2011 we were hit with some torrential rain…approximately 6 inches of rain within two hours.  Our office building is situated fairly close to Stewart Creek…which overflowed and completely flooded our entire office within hours.  Over 5 feet of water came inside and completely flooded our office.  Here is what my office looked like…

Since then, we have all been working hard to clean up and start rebuilding.  I have been working from home for about two weeks but now we have job trailers set up for temporary office space, so today was officially my first day actually back to work.  I have been soooo busy though even though I’ve been working from home, and today it was extremely hard to get out of my PJs and get to my office by 8!   So, this is why I haven’t found much time to be too crafty or post any cards!  However, I will post some beauties soon!  Thanks for stopping by!

Dress up any Homemade Goodie!

Happy Friday!  Today I wanted to post a quick and easy idea to dress up any handmade treat…or any other gift for that matter!  We as tried and true papercrafters know that presentation is just as important as the gift itself, right?  Right! 

Well, it began like this…Jeff told me he had new neighbors and brought me over some cake mix, icing and a package of square aluminum cake pans and asked if I’d make them a cake.  I said sure and even though I really prefer to make baked goods from scratch and not a box since he bought the stuff I made the cake.  Then I realized the pans he bought had no lids…problem…it definitely wouldn’t be pretty with aluminum foil wrapped around it, plus the icing would stick – it hate that.  So I ran out and bought square cake pans with lids…the lids didn’t fit the cake pan I baked in…problem…ok so now I take the cake out and squish it down in the pan that came with lids and covered well with icing so you couldn’t tell :)  problem solved. 

Then I simply used that beautiful melon mambo striped ribbon from Stampin Up and the Daily Designs and DD Sentiments sets from Papertrey Ink to create that cute tag and voila!  Simple but so elegant!  I was busy yesterday afternoon and couldn’t go with Jeff to deliver this to his new neighbors but when I handed it to him to take over there I told him to make sure and tell them I made it.  He said don’t worry that will be the first words out of my mouth, I don’t want them to think I did it or they will think I’m gay!  He’s so funny.  I hope you enjoy your weekend and find some time to be crafty!