Happy St Patrick's Day

Well it was really a perfect day for St Patrick's Day.  Sunny and close to 70 degrees.  I remember years when it was so cold and windy that it was actually torture walking up Fifth Avenue, but I wouldn't let the weather keep me away.

Many years have gone by since I marched with the NYC Transit Police Department, which was disbanded in 1995 and merged with the New York City Police Department.  For a few years after the merger we continued with our own Emerald Society.  Those were the days...

This year I broke out my St Patrick's Day stamp and made some cards.  I found some Irish sayings that fit perfectly around the edge of the cards.

Will you be mine?

Valentines day is right around the corner and I wanted to make cards for my husband and two boys.  I recently purchased a heart punch because I had some ideas.  I also found some inspiration from pinterest of course, using paint chips.  You can find lots of shades of colors and they are free.  I took one of each from the red family.

Etsy

I have been out of the loop for a while.  The end of July, beginning of August I was wrapping things up at work... FOREVER!  I am moving onto a new phase and I am excited.

I have been working on some new projects to add to my Etsy shop.  I started a Etsy shop late last year, and I had my Mickey autograph albums.  Little by little I have added some more products.

Simply Missy's Etsy

Next I will be tackling the attic and getting my crafting space in order.  Right now it looks as if, as my husband says "Terrorists have been in the attic."  Maybe even an hour a day will make a difference.

Get Your Craft On Card Night

Well is was craft night at the Keneally's with the mom's group. The plan was to make a total of 20 cards, 5 different cards, 4 of each and that is what we did. We had a feminine, masculine, girl, boy and a gift card holder.

I put allot of thought into the design of the cards, I wanted them to be creative but not over dressed.

The nice thing for the attendees is I have all of the pieces cut before they get here, it was a little time consuming for me, but those who know me know I love to craft and love to share craftin'.

Make & Takes

One of the things I love about going to crops are the Make & Takes, little projects that help showcase some of the products one of the vendors at the event might be selling. The most recent crop I went to had a few make and takes, a scrapbook layout, a Christmas card, a Halloween treat box and a glittery diecut pinecone.



This card is a stamped image that I colored in with watercolor pencils and markers. In order to smooth out the pencil/marker lines we used a blender pen that gets filled with water and makes the colors look like it has been painted with water colors.




The treat box was real cute. The box itself was cut out of a piece of cardstock using a Sizzix. The hardest part of the box was the creases and getting it folded. I couldn't really get it folded perfectly but neither could anyone else, so I decided to use the ribbon to pull the rest of the sides closed. The image was stamped and cut out with a circle punch then backed with a scallop punch. Cute right!


The pinecone was a die cut from the Cricut that was already cut out for us to use. This was a real easy project with real pretty results, you could probably even do this with kids. We used a pen adhesive and just "colored" in the whole pinecone with the glue and sprinkled on the glitter. Simple!

National Card Making Day

Yes there actually is such a thing. I saw something on Facebook from Archivers about it, so of course I googled it, and sure enough there is such a thing. So as things winded down around the house I busted out some stamps, ink and paper and got to work. I didn't go to crazy as I tend to make a mess once I get going and I didn't wan to spend allot of time cleaning up. Just two cards to say I participated in this national day, I find it a far stretch to call it a holiday.




These cards were not my favorite, I felt like the were missing something, so I may still add some ribbon and brads. I did use some ruby red stickles on the cherries and dish for some bling. I was trying to make a "fun" card, but don't feel like it was a success.

Just some cards...Beautiful Day & Smiles

Tonight I felt inspired to break out some card making supplies and whip up a few birthday and thank you cards.




Recently I had gotten some new punches too that I knew I wanted to incorporate onto the cards. I started with choosing the colors, and coordinating the paper with the stamp pads. I went with a celery, plum and pink; I just love that combination. For the stamp sets I went with some florals to go with the "girly" colors, Beautiful Day and Smiles.

Creative Cuts Crop

This whole crop thing began during a lunch at Applebees with Donna. What was just an idea quickly became reality. The first one was on National Scrapbooking Day back in May, and we just had our second one yesterday. Yesterday we just about doubled in size from the first one where we had 12 attendees, this time we had 22 woman who love to craft all in one room. Good friends and lots of laugh filled the room. I had good intentions of taking photos to share, but between doing my own scrappin', laughing and making sure there was plenty of food and drink the camera sadly never left my purse.






I want to thank the vendors who came out and supported our crop, Koren from RJ Creations, Laurie from Stampin' Up, and I had some Close To My Heart. They shared ideas and had supplies on hand for anyone who may have forgotten something at home. The make & take's they did were really cool too. Koren did a project using flocking, and Laurie stamped up a cute thank you card.






I did take some photos of the projects I worked on to share with you, as you can see them scattered around this post.

Wet Embossing

Well today I took a class at Scrap-a-Doodle-Doo in Ramsey, NJ on wet embossing. I had no idea how many types of embossing there were. I had done the wet embossing before but that was years ago and quite frankly I just couldn't quite remember what to do. During the class we made three different cards, none of which were really my style, but it was what we were making.

I do think it is necessary to make a few cards at a time, I can't see breaking out stamps, paper, inks, embossing powder, heat gun, etc...to make one card. I have a cute cupcake stamp that I do want to make a bunch of birthday cards, I keep saying I am going to get up off the couch today to make them, but I still am in recovering from vacation mode. Long ride from Myrtle Beach to NY.