I'm on a roll...more cards

I made some cards on Easter night. I was lucky, my students were off the next day, so I didn't rush back to school. Instead I cut the lawn and then played in my scrap room. I am excited to show these off...and I realized I didn't bring any supplies to show my friends at scrap night on Friday.

My first one is another Thank You Card. I realized I have a lot of people who deserve great thanks. I have had some awesome professors and other people in the community who have been wonderful to me. 

 This next one is my friend Em's Birthday card. I had another birthday card, that I forgot to photograph before I gave it to her.

 I really like this last one. Its cooler in person. I might run some twine down the edges for a little dimension.

Its been a whirl wind the last few weeks around here. We had two days with snow last week. 77 degrees and A/C on Saturday. Monday we got pounded with a mini-blizzard. Ice pelts, freezing rain, and snow. It was not fun attempting to open my frozen shut car, and then scrape it glove less. Hopefully this is the last of the winter weather.

Still playing the waiting game on the student teaching assignment. Its not fun waiting. It is really wearing on me, and its hard when all your friends are excited about their placements. Only time will tell.

Card Making Night

My friend Em invited me over for some card making fun last night. I was super excited, because she has so much fun card making stuff. Of course silly me realizes that I was near multiple scrapbook stores during the day, and all my glossy paper (for alcohol inks) is back at school...I'm at my parents house for the holiday weekend. So a quick run to my favorite local scrapbook store, and I was back in business. I worked on 5 cards, one will not be debuted until Mother's Day...look's who's getting ahead! I had a blast trying all Em's fun stamps, and playing with my new favorite alcohol inks.

This is my favorite from last night! I love the background stamp, it's Em, but I have to figure out where this is from, because I am in love with it. Her parents probably thought I was nuts when I asked for their iron. This is a resisting technique I learned in my inks class.

This is my Grandma's Mother's Day card. I used two new ink colors last night .This was the first time with the pink color. I also jazzed up the butterflies with a little bling.

This was my mom's favorite card. The stamp was Em's, I totally love being able to share supplies. I have a small stash of stamps, but I don't pull them out enough.

This card was a big experiment, and a major attempt to cover up a goof up in embossing. I sent the paper through the cuttlebug in 2 parts, and I must have flipped the embossing folder over, so my card has some odd dimension to it. The flower stamp is one of my few, but it turned out really cute. This time I stamped over the embossing ink.

We had a super fun night of card making. I learned my lesson that I am totally allergic to plums. We are going to start crafting more this summer, so I have something to look forward to!

When Life Gets Tough...our little joke

A good friend and I always joke that when college gets tough we are running away to Florida to be Princesses at Disney or Penguin and Dolphin People at Sea World. The good news is we are only 8 more weeks from finishing our degree's...so hopefully we don't need to do any running away.

So was my friend's birthday yesterday, and I made her this card. I am hoping she doesn't read my blog post, because it just went in out the mail a few minutes ago.

I cute the cute little guy on my Cricut from the Create a Critter Cartridge. The twine is my ever favorite doodlebug, and who doesn't love some stickles! Needless to say I have a lot of card to keep making. In a 7 week period of March and April, we have a good 15+ birthdays coming up...including me!