Ideas For Gifts
Today enjoy your turkey with family and friends. Tomorrow enjoy your black Friday big box shopping and then on Saturday, turn local. Visit local, small businesses over the weekend to give a shout out to those who work hard to offer great things in our communities so that we don’t have to fight the crowds and so that we have places to go that offer unique things not found in big retailers.
Let’s celebrate small!
My lovely friend T celebrated her birthday recently and hosted her own party with a shoe theme. The night was filled with ladies, champagne, good food and all things shoes. In honor of the event I created a painting for her using the theme. I also made a companion card to go along with the art. It was a fun project!
‘It’s A Shoe Thing’ Painting
‘It’s A Shoe Thing’ Card
The shoes were cut out at different sizes using my Cricut out of pink cheetah print paper. The pink zebra print is Duct Tape.
Bazzill Basics Paper is offering an opportunity for crafters and card makers – they are hosting a Card Swap. Read on for details:
Bazzill Card Swap & Starter Kit
Bazzill wants everyone to discover the love of card making – to enjoy making something and giving it away. So Bazzill created Card Swap, a fun activity that invites card makers to register to join (it’s FREE), create 10 of the same card, send them into Bazzill and get their own card and nine others back from people all over the United States. The swap always have a theme and a specific paper to include, but the variety of cards that arrive are unbelievable. People that participate continue joining each swap and new people join in every time. To encourage participation, we have created this kit (shipping ends 1/15/13).
Bazzill Card Swap Starter Kit – ($20 value)
Send $10 to cover postage and handling and receive:
- 22-sheets of 8×8 Bazzill Love Story patterned paper (includes ten sheets of cardstock)
- 24-sheets of 6×6 Bazzill Basics Red Devil patterned paper.
Use the Basics Red Devil paper to make ten cards for Bazzill’s Card Swap. Mail in your creations and get your own card and nine other cards from swappers. For more info and to register to play, visit: http://swaps.bazzillbasics.com/Â
Paper offer available through January 15, 2012. Allow 2 to 3 weeks for shipping.
Mail to: Card Swap Starter Kit, Bazzill Basics Paper, 7001 W. Erie St., Ste. 2, Chandler, AZ 85226. U.S. addresses only.
The little ladies are really looking forward to the Oogie Loves Big Balloon Adventure Movie so in preparation for it opening today we made some  Oogie Loves crafts. I mean because it takes place in Lovely Loveville and Lovely Lula is loving that! Also, the site is filled with printables, games, coloring pages.
Inspired by Schluufy who is a fluffy hugger we created a soft cute pillow out of felt.
Inspired by Zoozie who is Sparkelicious! We printed the masks off the site and  sparkled them up!
 We also created our own Windy Window.
The Smallest one in the house just celebrated her 3rd birthday and for this occasion I worked with a theme of Nemo-esque meets gold fish. We had a lot of fun at the party and having a fish/water theme inside offered a cooling feeling for these 115 degree days we are suffering in Phoenix right now. Here are some highlights:
The Invitation
The Cake
Close Up Of The Cake
Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
Gold Fish Crackers In A Bucket
The Favors
V-8 Fruit Flavor Juice Fish Shaped Ice Cubes
Blue Tropical Punch with Fish Cubes
Punch Served with Orange and White Paper Straw
The Birthday Girl
