CPS #98

A circle card instead of square. :) I used up some OLD scraps. MOD to be specific.

Papers: MOD by Autumn Leaves & Bazzill

Cricut carts: Celebrations & Wild Card

Embellies: Dew Drop, AC flowers

Clean Room

I spent some time the last few days doing some reorganization in my craft area. We moved the armoire upstairs when we got a flat screen TV for Christmas. I'd really like to paint it white, but I think it'll have to wait until this summer. BUT, I put all my Scrap Room kits away and labeled all my papers. :)

This summer I think I will paint the armoire white.

Baby Shower Card - 2S4Y

I spent some time reorganizing my space this last week. I got all my Scrap Room kits put away. I just hope I can start USING all of it now. I also sat down with my sketch book and sketched some of the sketches. LOL! Follow that? My scrap space is small and I just find it easier to have my little 3x8 book on my desk than my laptop. Plus, I tend to get distracted by the computer.

I had to make a card for a baby shower, so I used Kazan's sketch #17 from 2S4Y as my starting point. I used some OLD paper scraps here, but that's another one of my goals. To use up some of those SCRAPS. My goal is for 5 cards total this week - 4 more to go! We'll see if I can accomplish that.

Recent Pursuits of Crafy-ness

I'm trying very hard to be creative. I mean, I have the creative mind and ideas, but the energy itself is severely lacking.

Here are some recent projects I've been working on though.
This is just a little "soft sculpture" for Evan's nursery. Basically, I didn't feel like paying $15 for a stuffed animal. I free handed him on a receiving blanket and then cut him out, sewed him up and stuffed him. Then I added a fun coordinating ear and button eye. It was fun! I haven't done much "fabric" sewing before. I tried once upon a time and SUCKED, but apparently all the time/effort sewing on paper has made me better on my machine in general. :)

More Sewing Projects - a pillow and burp cloths

All kinds of fun patterns here. The pillow was also from a receiving blanket. The animals/colors somewhat matched my bedding set and the flannel is so soft. I figure I'll be spending a lot of nights/time in this chair!

The burp clothes are diapers. Some of the fabric is more receiving blanket material - the green was leftover from the elephant, and there's another that uses the same flannel from the pillow, but others were just fun fabrics I ordered awhile back for this and another project I had in mind for Baby Evan.

Artwork for Evan's Wall

I've had that frame for at LEAST three years. It was almost last year's garage sale fodder, but for some reason I held onto it. We don't really have any dark wood anywhere else in the house which is why it never got used. I'm going for simplicity in Evan's nursery, so the artwork is simple too. I used the Zooballoo cart and my Cricut to cut out the animals. I mounted them onto the cardstock and that was that. Very quick project.

Sewing

It's been awhile since I hit the craft desk. I can't seem to motivate myself to get off the couch and CREATE, so I brought the create to my couch. :) I have a laundry basket full of fabric/sewing notions next to the couch and my sewing machine on the coffee table. I managed to make: an elephant, a pillow and several burp clothes. Fun stuff for the baby mostly.

The kit club kits from Scrap Room keep rolling in though and I REALLY want to get back into paper crafting, although at this point I'm intimidated and don't feel like I remember HOW to. So, I think I'll start easy with cards. I'm going to make it a goal to make at least one card per week. From there, well, we'll see what happens.

I need to get my photos and stories organized for myself SOON - I have all of 2008 and part of 2007 to finish - we're going to have a whole 'nother person here in a few short weeks. I'm going to do a better job of keeping track of Xander's quirky little sayings this year. I think I'll start a notebook that I devote just to those things.

I'll have to make a list of goals and get on that. Luckily I can do a lot of this from the couch since that's where I've been relegated to.