Here’s my usual Monday post, with a pretty Valentine’s Day card!
Cardstock:Bazzill Basics; Patterned paper: Making Memories; Dies: Spellbinders; Rhinestones: KaiserCraft; Stamps: Hero Arts; Ink: Colorbox Chalk.
How did I miss this birdcage stamp?! Apparently it came out in 2007, but I didn’t even know it existed until I saw it at my local Paper Source! It is so, so adorable! With it I just used some Spellbinders dies (small and large label sets), and some new Making Memories paper. I just love how it came together.
Thanks for stopping by!
<3 Maeghan
Scroll down for a card I posted earlier today!
Hi all, once again!
I’ve been thinking about how much personal stuff I should share on this blog, and it hasn’t been easy to find that balance. I debate back and forth on whether or not I want to post a picture of myself, or even how to share what’s going on with my life. And so I thought, why not just do something small every once in a while that’s a bit more than just posting a quick card and telling you what I used to make it? Kayla Aimee Terrell (whom I find incredibly, incredibly funny) posts five things going on in her life that day every Friday, and it seems like a good way to break the ice. It’s just five bullet points, but it does say a lot about me.
- I’m applying to graduate school, and am currently playing the waiting game. I’m a current senior in college, and this pretty much determines the next two (maybe seven?) years of my life. I hope I get into a school where I feel like I belong. Or, at least, where I will be less awkward.
- I started this blog mostly to push myself to get over the way things had gone for me the year before, when I was a third year, and to separate myself from that experience (and the blog that documented it all). And I have to say, doing so has made a super big difference in my life.
- My favorite Bazzill colors are French Vanilla, Pinecone, Java, Pomegranate, and Hillary. I am never without them, and I secretly fear that one day Bazzill will discontinue these colors, or rename them without me knowing. Paranoid, I know.
- I make cards a lot faster than I take pictures of them, which is why I usually only post once a week. I have to stagger how often I post them, LOL!
- I’ve been getting super random coughing fits whenever I’m in class, and they all randomly disappear once I get out. I secretly think I’m getting allergic to class, which is terrible because I am a) planning on going to graduate school, and b) LOVE going to class. Well, maybe not love. But still, I haven’t ever really skipped class my entire four years here. I skipped once, and that because it was optional. And I apologized to the instructor when I did.
Hope you enjoyed the list!
<3 Maeghan
Hello again!
I know I usually only post on Mondays, but I have a lot of valentines to share, and so I thought sharing another one at the end of the week wouldn’t be too bad of an idea ;-)
This type of card probably wouldn’t go to just anyone, so once I made it, I had to think of someone who a) has a pretty good sense of humor and b) wouldn’t read too much into it. And then I thought of my super amazing friend Michelle, who a) has a pretty good sense of humor, b) won’t read too much into it, and c) doesn’t read my blog. I haven’t physically seen her since I was a senior in high school (four years ago! EEK!), but we reconnected through Facebook a few months ago. She really supported me creatively back then, and she’s one of my favorite people to give cards to. It’s the best combination, right?
Cardstock: Bazzill Basics; Patterned paper; Cosmo Cricket; Die cuts: Spellbinders; Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug; Stamp: Inkadinkado; Ink: StazOn.
The stamp is a $1 stamp from Inkadinkado that I got at JoAnn’s a few weeks ago; I stamped it a couple of times onto different patterned papers from Cosmo Cricket’s Earth Love collection. I then cut out different segments of the birds from the papers and glued them onto another, and voila! A cute, cute card with just a few supplies!
Have a great weekend!
Hi all!
It’s not raining anymore here!
I have some photos waiting to be edited, but in the meantime I decided to share two pretty pretty Valentine’s Day cards. I made them way back in the beginning of January but I didn’t post them until now because I wanted to keep them a surprise for those who read my blog pretty regularly and receive my cards. I couldn’t wait anymore ;-)
Cardstock: Bazzill Basics; Patterned paper: Bo Bunny; Rhinestones: KaiserCraft; Border punch: Fiskars; Stamp: Hero Arts; Ink: Close to My Heart.
And another:
Cardstock: Paper Source; Patterned paper: Bo Bunny; Rhinestones: KaiserCraft; Stamp: Hero Arts; Ink: Colorbox Chalk.
I only had one sheet of each of the floral and the stripe, and so I really felt like I had to make it stretch for some reason. I made both cards out of a single cut of the floral paper, which is pretty amazing for a girl who makes mistakes all the time in cutting and ends up chopping up entire sheets to make two cards :-D I think I’m finally learning from my years and years of mistakes!
Hope you have a good week, and Happy February. I can’t believe one month has come and gone already (and that I’m still writing 2009 on all of my notes)!
Well, not right now, but it will be.
I love the rain, and the way it smells after it rains, or while it’s raining. That clean smell that’s so perfect.
But what I DON’T like is when the rain comes so often that the wash/creek/random body of water by my college is so high I can actually see it from the street as I drive past it (and there’s a two lane bike path, a small slope, and trees between it and the road). I also don’t like it because all weekend, even if it wasn’t rainy, it was too cloudy to take decent pictures of my cards.
Oh well. At least Southern California won’t be so drought-infested in the summer, maybe? The upside to this, though, is that it means a lot of homemade chicken soup (I actually cooked something edible, and from scratch! Yippeee!!!), and brownies (I’m an excellent baker, if I do say so myself. I’m a significantly better baker than cook). And, of course, definitely a bunch of cards waiting to be photographed. Just. Waiting.
Anyways, here is a card I made with Basic Grey’s Nook and Pantry line. I’ve been super obsessed with the cupcake stamp (you can see four cards I made with it here) but I haven’t gotten around to showing the cards I made with the paper just yet. Here they are!
Cardstock: Bazzill Basics; Patterned paper: American Crafts; Chipboard tag: K and Company; Chipboard letters: American Crafts; Button: My Mind’s Eye; Fiber: DMC.
I think I must have had that chipboard tag for at least four years now, since it came with me from home when I moved out for college. I finally got to use it! Yay me and yay for working in old supplies with new ones!
Have a great day!
<3 Maeghan
