I'm Jack's "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"..

Mumsy took today off work so we could get some craft on. :D I woke up early, went to the store to pick up a bagel, a get well soon card, some milk, and warm French bread. After the store, I hit up Starbucks to get Mumsy some hot cocoa, and then 7-11 in case she wanted some Dew.. When I came home I woke her up, and then we got started. It took us awhile to get going because we were having a hard time figuring out how to construct my Halloween costume. We headed out to the craft room to find some material to use for our December Daily albums. When we came back in, it was time to make cards.

Mom's Card:


My Card:

Card Challenge #3

My challenge today was:

Basic Grey paper and a tree.

I was having a hard time with the papers my paper-holic mom had for me to choose from, not to mention trying to match that with one of two tree stamps I knew of in the house. So I decided I could make a tree.. heh..

Card Challenge #2

Since Timby is working from home Tuesday, I'll be lucky if I actually get my challenge met.

My challenge:


Piece finished so far (Monday night):



My finished card:

I am Jack's Poetry and a Pattern Cake.

Last night Mumsy and I decided on a challenge to get us out of our creative ruts. Since I got into the card movement this weekend, while waiting to take a trip to Shipwreck Beads, and she's in desperate need to write some poems, the challenge is as follows: I will provide her with a prompt that she will use to write a poem, and she will find a design/paper/stamp set/etc for me to create a card. Hopefully this will last more than a day or two, and actually have good things come of it. My first challenge is to create a card similar to this, but closer to our style/color scheme/stamp sets.



My Card:



The pink that the owl is on doesn't quite match, but right now I don't have the pink that does. Until I get the other pink, it'll just have to be a little off.

I am Jack's Costumed Animals.

So while I was cleaning up the craft table today I found some scraps from the card I made yesterday and decided another Halloween card needed to be made. I used the same papers, same concept to an extent, and my other Halloween stamp set.

I feel like it still needs something but I don't know what..

I am Jack's Glittery Mess.

Today I embarked on a journey to make a card. I thought about making Thank You cards in advance for the two baby showers I'm having. But, I needed Mumsy for help to bounce ideas off of for that venture.

After organizing Mumsy's craft blocks, with emphasis on the punch drawer I raided our clear stamp drawer and chose a few sets that I could brainstorm with. Two Halloween, one Christmas, and one with a really cute owl.

I decided on my favorite little Skull Girl. Then I went with the new "in" Halloween colors. Black, olive green, orange, and a bold but light purple. Earlier in the day I was crusing some crafty sites looking for some inspiration and I found a card layout I really liked at KWerner Design Blog. So I decided to use that for my card layout.

Once I assembled the layers, and cut my circles, I decided the front needed something more. So I drew some spiderwebs by hand using my Martha Stewart glue pen, and added some glitter. After the glitter was applied and my layers were glued together, I was happy with the final product.



This was a little spidy friend I came up with after the card was finished. I decided not to add him to this card because I didn't want TOO much going on. But he might make his way onto another card..

I am Jack's Baby Shower.

This post is going to be about all of the preparations and craftiness for my baby shower.

It was extremely difficult to figure out a theme for the baby shower. Should we do something centered around the fact I'm having a boy? Should we do something catered toward my wants? Not to mention, I'm really picky when it comes to stuff like this and I don't want to settle for just whatever boy stuff we can find.

I was planning on doing jungle themed invites from PaperCrafts Magazine, but the overwhelming amount of cutting that had to be done, cut that from the list. Then there was the simple fact that we didn't have a theme picked out. It's extremely hard to think of a cute card when there is no theme.

One day Mumsy and I went up to Party City to look at the baby shower supplies they have there, hoping for inspiration. We were getting ready to leave full of disappointment, when Mumsy saw these cute little pea pod favors. Then and there we had out theme. Pea pods and Poppies! Light greens, orange accents, and of course light blues. My favorite color scheme of them all.

Now that we had a theme, it was time to brainstorm baby shower invites. We found some really cute clear stamps at Michaels. Finished product:


Cupcake Pins I made:


Peapod Favors, finished:

I am Jack's Fall Resolutions..

I decided today that I want to do something crafty everyday and blog about it until little Kennedy joins the party.. so for today, I figure I'll post my list as of right now.. and post as I work and/or finish the projects listed.

Baby Shower Invites - finished
Baby Blanket/Quilt
Family Scrapbook for Kennedy
Poppy Decorations for Baby Shower (by 12/6)
Nursery Decorative Blocks
Halloween Costume (by 10/30)
Lucian's Birthday Present (by 11/15)
Sock Animals for Twins
'Pretty' Bracelet (by 11/20)
'Zebra' Bracelet (by 11/20)
'Fringe' Bracelet (by 11/20)