Thankful for You

I made a bunch of thank you cards for a friend. Here's one of them. As you can tell, I've kind of been in a anti die-cutting phase. I think I get like this when I'm pregnant because I have to stand at my Cricut and Big Shot, and that puts a lot of pressure on my belly and takes energy. It just seems easier to sit. Hopefully this phase will end soon because I need to cut a bunch of elephants for McKay's birth announcements and the invites for Carver's birthday party.

Details:

Recollections - Kraft; Bright & Basic Stack

Pink by Design - Bountiful Blessings

Marvy Uchida - Star punches (blue & green)

Old-Fashioned Hello

Since I had my stamps out for the Valentine's Day cards for my boys, I figured I'd make an extra card.

Details:

My Minds Eye - Quilting Bee

Pink by Design - Call Me; Canvas background

Gems - Michaels $1 bin

All My Love Jar

Here's the card I gave Carver for Valentine's Day. I don't think he loved it as much as I thought he would but that's ok. I had a lack of inspiration for him this year.

Details:

Echo Park - Happy Days

Pink by Design - Fresh Goodies

Ribbon - Michaels

Call Me Maybe

I'm baaaaack!!!!! This pregnancy has kicked my butt in the energy department. But since today was National Scrapbook Day, I figured I should get a few layouts done. I actually got four one-page layouts done!!! But... I can't find my camera cables. :(

So here's the card I gave Chris for Valentine's Day. I'm really going to try to catch up on all the projects I've done but not had the energy (or as Carver calls it: engine-ee) to post.

Details:

Spellbinders - Standard Circles Large

Pink by Design - Call Me

My Mind's Eye - Quilting Bee

Twine

In the baby department, I'll be 30 weeks tomorrow and everything is progressing perfectly!! Oh, and if you hadn't heard, we're having a girl! It's been a big mind set change but we're really excited. :)

Owl Baby Shower

Hey everyone!! I hosted a baby shower for a high school friend last month and it was so much fun!!! She's having a little boy and is due in a short 3 weeks. The nursery theme is owls so I took it from there and did a blue and grey theme. Loving grey right now!!!

Here's the invites. I love how it stretched my creativity to do something different and the end result was exactly what I had pictured. On the back I put a bigger owl silhouette with her registry information.

 Wishes for Baby. This is becoming a staple for all baby showers. I love peaking at some of the answers people come up with and it will be something to treasure for years to come.

 Cover of the Words for Baby

Words of wisdom for the mommy. I put them on a book ring so that she can hang them in the nursery for those moments when she needs a little advise.

 Banner

 Favors - I did smarties and the tag says "Thanks for giving a HOOT!"

 I made three of these to put on the food table. Even though my thumb was numb when I was done, they're just so cute! Oh, the gummy bears in the background were because she is craving them. And just so happened I crave them too! :)

 Wreath for the front door. My mom has a thick (think 3-4" thick) door so we a traditional wreath hook wouldn't work. I picked up a magnet wreath hook thing that I thought would work since most of the door is glass. That didn't work either because the glass was thick too. So I turned to my stand-by... packing tape. Worked like a charm and wasn't too noticeable.

Details

Invites:

Core'dinations - Jet Stream & Elephant

ColorBok - Aqua Stripe

Create a  Critter 2.25 & 3"

Peachy Keen - Bird Faces & More

Spellbinders - Labels Eight

Words of Wisdom:

Core'dinations - Jet Stream & Elephant

Create a Critter 1.25"

Wise Words for Baby:

ColorBok - Aqua Stripe

Core'dinations - Jet Stream & Elephant

Spellbinders - Labels Eight

Cherry Limeade 2" shadow

Create a Critter 2.5"

Can you help?

A blogging friend, Debbie from Workin' Scrappin' Mom of 4, lost her husband to cancer earlier this week. I know that the coming weeks will be extremely difficult with not only the grief of losing her husband and their four children losing their dad. But also having to go through all of the decisions that go along with losing someone. They could really use our prayers over the next days, weeks and months as they process and grieve this loss.

Also, if you would like to make some thank you cards to send to Debbie for her to use, or just send her a card, you can mail them to her at:

Debbie Butcher
1623 Gruenther Avenue
Rockville, Maryland, 20851

I had time to prepare with Noah, but it is still difficult and I used way more thank you cards than I thought I would ever have to use. It's something you don't really think of but this would be a great blessing to her if we could take care of this and make it one less thing that she will have to think about.

Hello my name is...

Hi! My name is Tana and I'm a neglectful crafter. Ok, maybe more like a neglectful blogger. I haven't stopped crafting, I just run out of energy when it's time to post. So please accept my sincere apologies for my absence. I'm going to try to be better at posting, but it won't be an every day occurrence like it was in the past. I haven't been sleeping well so by the time Carver goes to sleep, I'm a vegetable on the couch. Hopefully this sleep thing gets resolved because I'd like to have my life back.

With that said, here's what I made for Carver's teachers for Valentines' Day. I picked up the mugs and chocolates from Target and cut a 2" heart out of chalkboard vinyl.

 Here's the Valentines' we made for Carver's class. There are 7 girls and 5 boys (not including Carver) so I decided to make two sets of toppers. The front says "Tweet tweet, you're sweet".

Details:

Straight from the Nest 2.75"

Core'dinations Jet Stream & Lipstick

Recollections white & kraft

Pink by Design - Just Sayin'

Clear Bags - 4.75 x 6.75

Cuttlebug - Diamond Plate & Heart Blocks