Archive for the 'Verve' Category

Happy Easter – card for my daughter.

Monday, March 10th, 2014

It dawned on me this weekend that I am pretty dang behind on Easter.  I pat myself on the back being way ahead of the game for some holidays and occasions, and others sneak up on me and I don’t get all the things that I wanted to do done.  So this weekend I did […]

Easter Goodies.

Thursday, March 28th, 2013

When I buy candy (on the cheap with coupons ;)), I try and think of specific uses for them since we really don’t need to be eating candy around here.  So when I got these Dove bar coupons, I decided to buy purple ones and use them for Easter.  Purple is the Easter color, no? […]

Christmas Blessings.

Saturday, December 22nd, 2012

Up today are the lil’ goody bags I made for the kids’ Christmas parties at church last week.  Candy, more candy, and cheap silly bands and fun tattoos from Oriental Trading. I am not not not a fan of mass producing, so I had to make these fun but with limited elements and work on […]

Blessings.

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

The church lady called last week.  Said it was time to get things done for teacher appreciation (religious education).  And she was thinking bookmarks.  160 of them.  Yikes.  My challenge was that I only had 4 days to get them done.  Yikes again.  So I enlisted the help of my husband, and we got ’em […]

The best Dad.

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

Hey hey whattaya say, it’s another Father’s Day card. I’ve got some sparkly bits from My Mind’s Eye, but I think with the yellow and the other muted and antiquey colors, this can work for a man. Thickers from American Crafts, and a stamp from Verve.