Mother's Day cards

Here are the mother's day cards I made for my mom and my MIL....also some of the pages from a mini album I made for a upcoming swap:

Some new creations...

I am currently working one several different swaps, one of my favorites right now is a American Themed swap...even though I am not american (the person who is making things for me, will be making summer themed items), I am sure enjoying playing with the red, white and blue colours. I thought maybe this swap would be a little hard for me, since at first I had trouble finding american themed scrapbooking stuff...but instead I just went with the colours, and stopped looking for actual american items.

I am not going to post all the items I made for that american swap, because I don't know if my secret sister is reading my blog...but I wanted to post two of my favorite so far (I am not done making items yet!). And a couple cards I have also made recently...

So behind...

I haven't posted in a while, I have been so busy with home renovations, Easter weekend and a darn sinus cold that just won't go away!

But I was FINALLY able to get a layout done today, even though the weather has been so gloomy and rainy (makes me want to sleep).

This is a layout on my oldest son's 5th birthday:

More sweets...

So I have done a few more cupcakes and a cake. The pool ball cupcakes was for my Mom's boyfriends birthday. They are Peanut butter chocolate chip cupcakes with chocolate buttercream and fondant on top. They were fun to make!

And next is a Pink, Green and zebra stripe birthday cake for my friends little girl, who just turned 5. I made matching cupcakes to go with it :)

Handmade flowers

I've been playing around with making my own flowers. This are completely made of white paper, LOTS of blue and pearl Glimmer Mist, Broken China Distressed Ink,  and I used Tim Holtz Tattered Floral Die and a Martha stewart punch for the centres. Oh and I added a tiny bit of the new dark blue stickles to the centres also!

I am so pleased with how they came out!

And my newest layout of my daughter...

I got a new camera!!

I got a new camera...I am so in love! I got a Canon Rebel DSLR!!! It takes amazing photos without even trying.

Oh and I got a few new things done, a layout and a couple cards:

STSB Swap (Cricut Messege board)

I took part in the latest round of the STSB (Stuff that shoebox) swap, were you take a box...which doesn't have to be a shoebox, or even a box for that matter...then you are given 20 days of words (for example: Metal Mainia) and you have to buy/make a item that would match that day, tag it and put it in the box.

Here is the box I recieved from TU, its beyond amazing...she picked items that are perfect for me, I cannot believe how much thought she put into this box!

My box....which was a green recycling box to match my scrapbook room, and all my amazing goodies that came in it!!!