Day 80

My dad's birthday is next week and I of course wanted to make him a card, so I did that tonight, and even though I'm pretty sure he's not visiting this blog, I don't want to give away any surprises, so I'm only going to give a sneak peak tonight and after his birthday (May 6th) I'll come back and repost this with better pictures!

Until then....

Day 41

A while back I saw a craft in one of my books for a charm similar to this one.  It's pretty versatile.  You can make so many different designs, so I chose to do one that is like a little secret.  Every time I look at it,open it and check it out, I'll think of Stan.  Some days I just need a smile, and opening this will trigger one in no time.

I used a "Memory Frame", card stock, letter stamps, yellow ink, waterslide transfers, stickers, glue stick and Mod Podge decoupage.  I cut out a long piece of card stock, put two waterslide transfer pages on pink card stock using decoupage and then used the glue stick to stick them onto the black card stock.  I then used stickers and then letter stamps with yellow ink to spell out our names.  It came out quite cute.  I need to pick up the glass for the Memory Frame though because the little book keeps popping out of the frame, but other then that, it's adorable.

The Memory Frame and black card stock:

 

Front side unfolded:

The back side unfolded:

Front folded and tucked away:

 

Back side folded and tucked away:

Day 10

The other day I was looking online for card ideas and came across a charity website called Make A Child Smile (http://www.makeachildsmile.org/).  The site lists kids who are have various illnesses, tells their stories and gives you the opportunity to mail them a card, to make them smile.  I thought it was a great idea, so today's craft is a card for one of the kids on the site, a 3 year old named Nathan. 

The outside is a 3D sticker of Cookie Monster (it's fuzzy too!) with some 3D cookies!  Really adorable.  The inside, I wanted to put a joke but the only one I came up with was "Why did the cookie go to the doctor?"  "Because it was feeling crummy!".  It's really the only cookie joke I could find online, but I was sort of hesitant to put it in the card, as it's going to a "sick" child!  But after some thinking, I thought it would be okay, as it's a card about cookies and Cookie Monster!  I really hope I don't offend with the joke, but again, I feel safe sending it.  I did the joke on a little flap, so you have to lift the question to get the answer.  And put cookies around it, with a personal note at the bottom.  I hope it makes him smile. 

Day 9

I could not for the life of me figure out what to do today, so I enlisted Stan's help.  He suggested a frame, and I have had this picture of our cat Rascal (aka "Coo Coo") sitting next to my alarm clock for a while frameless, so this was a great opportunity to get him looking even cuter!  

I had an empty cardboard box that I cut down to about an inch bigger then the picture on all four sides.  I glued the picture to the cardboard, used acrylic paint around the edges in blue, stuck the various stickers on it and added the brads in the "I love my cat" banner.  On the back I stuck an extra piece of cardboard in a triangle to hold the frame up.  Overall an elementary but totally adorable frame.  It's super cute, but that might just be the picture!!  Below are some not so good pictures of the frame, the lighting is really bad.  Also, there is a picture of Izzy trying to help get a good shot.  Obviously it didn't help.  :)