More Glass Etching

The other day I worked on this new glass etching for my Mom to give to someone. I think it turned out great. I think I'm getting the hang of it! My Mom went crazy while out shopping, she bought all these different glasses for me to work with! She came to my house the other day and unloaded the haul. She found these really cute glass mugs which I can not wait to etch.

My weekend fun!

Well this weekend I was able to work on a few things! My husband was over with his Dad all weekend to help him out while he recoperates from his hip surgery. His Dad started to have some blood dripping near his surgery site, so I pray he is doing better. He goes to the Dr. today so we will find out what is really happening. Dave & I being the "experts" haha think one of the staples some how came out? So while Dave is with his Dad, his Sister calls and says she has to go into the hospital with an infection on her leg! The antibiotics she was given didn't get rid of it. So she needed something stronger...so in the hospital she went for IV's, poor thing! I hope she gets better fast. Dave's Mom was out in Las Vegas with her sisters and we decided not to tell her about all this, because she would worry for one and feel bad that is was away. We thought if it was more life threatening we would! So while Dave was there during the day I stayed home to get a few things done for Christmas since it's arriving so fast!

Abby & I finished our Penguin shower curtain. Unfortunately I didn't have any orange wall-pops to put finishing touches on the penguins, but perhaps one day I will get out there and get some orange! But we thought it turned out cute. I used my cricut to cut out the Penguins and their items they are holding....the snowflakes I used my Pazzles and downloaded the snowflakes from one of the groups I belong to for Pazzles. (thanks for sharing those snowflakes, I forget who posted them to the group, will have to find the name and give credit!) But they are beautiful snowflakes!

close-up of my penguin

The other vinyl project I worked on was a Christmas saying above my front door. I'm wondering now if I should have put it over the piano, where more people would notice it. If someone comes into my living room, I'm thinking they will not look above the front door! Oh well it is staying where it is this year, but perhaps next year I will move it! I was on the Cricut forums and this very talented lady was showing some of her work and had her blog site listed. So I took a look at what she all had on her blog, which is really great place. Here is her website:http://cardmkrleslie.blogspot.com/. You must check her out, she has really good stuff on her site, more informative than what I have going on! haha....But I wanted to give her credit for this idea....since I scraplifted it from there. I loved the saying and thought it would be fun to recreate....

I hope the photo turned out ok! Abby was helping me by giving me the right letters. That way I didn't have to get up and down all the time! What a big helper she is! We had fun Sat. working on these projects.

Sun. before I had to go into his Dads ( I would go over in the evenings and hang out with them then and get some supper!) I decided to try etching some glass. It's rather easy and fun to do! The stuff is expensive! Defintely use a coupon to buy this stuff. It's Armour Etching Cream. I got 10 oz. at Michaels, the price was 27.99! ugh...luckily I had my 40% off coupon. I had been wanting to try this out for awhile now and decided Sun. I will break out the cream and use it! The same blog from above has some great intructions on how to use the etching cream. I cut out some vinyl stencils, stuck it on my glass item, spread the cream on the glass, and let it sit for 5 mins., then I washed off the cream! Pretty simple. The last letter of JOY on my glass didn't turn out as well as the others, must have been how I applied it. But I'm getting the hang of it hopefully! I aslo made my sister-in-law an ornament....I need to jazz it up still but I'll share the photos. If you are wanting to try this, it's really fun to do and prett easy. My mind is reeling on what else I can do! I'm thinking I need to get some cheapier contact paper to use for the stencils instead of using my wallpop stuff from Lowes!

Frankenstein Halloween Boxes

I got the idea while searching online for something cute to make for my Daughter's class. I came up with these Frankenstein boxes. We had fun decorating them for her class! I used my Pazzle to cut the box out which was much easier than cutting them all by hand!

These were some gift bags we decorated by embossing cute little halloween kids in costumes! Perhaps you can see the image better when enlarged? They were super easy to make and turned out cute!

Christmas Cards

My first attempt in Gift cards pop-up card

Well I've decided to start blogging to show my family and friends what I do when I have some free time. Hopefully I will get some crafts done to post them on here, I always have good intentions to create new things but somehow never get anything done. My Mom bought a gift card from our daughter's school TWB program that my husband and I run together. She was buying it for her lawncare people. I told her I could make her a card to go with it for her. Then we came up with the idea of having the gift card pop up on the inside. Lately when my daughter goes to a birthday party from her school, I've been making pop up name cards. I've been having fun making them for the kids. So I wanted to share with you my first gift card pop up card. I didn't get to put too many details on it because, like usual I'm always waiting til the last minute! I doubt I'll ever change that too!

Here is the front of the card. And then showing you how the inside of the card looks like! I just might make some more today! If so I will post them when I can..