Coasters!!!

Sorry it's been a while since I've updated here.  I've got my new job as a Carer at a nursing home place (only nicer then most!) and I've still got my evening babysitting job and then on top of all that this weekend was a HUGE beer fest at the pub that I work at (I babysit the owners son) so I got loads of work cleaning away glasses and being a general Go-For all weekend.  Worked on the clock for over 18 hours and was there for over 24 hours in two days time.  Was a very busy weekend!  


Wondering what all that has to do with coasters?  well the pub was given loads of coasters like normal and they normally use them if they advertise drinks or what not.  but they got alot of Heinz coasters they didn't want to use so since they know I craft and had asked if I could have a few in the past they gave me ALL of those coasters!  I got about 1000 of them or so here!  so I'm gonna be going crazy crafting with them! making little boxes, minis, frames, magnets  inspirational saying frames, wall hangings...so many ideas!  so I'm set craft wise for quite a while!  


I'm going to try to get some inspirational saying wall hangings done in time for the Fall Festival back at my home church in the states.  maybe a few name ones as well.  also gonna work out how to make the frames so they can slide in the photo after they are hooked together.  think I know how to do that though.  


so I'm off to play!  wish me luck!


~Y

I'm a Working Woman!

Sorry I've been a bit lax on my blogs guys.  I'm having to cut back how many I post because I got a new job!  that's right!  I'm a working woman!  so some days it takes up all of my time because even though it's only 8 hours a day three days a week, another three days a week I work babysitting in the evenings and sometimes (like today) I'm only gonna be home about 15 minutes before catching my ride in to babysit!  I SHOULD be able to still post though! don't think I won't!  because a couple hours of baby sitting is after my little charge goes to sleep and I can computer then, just the net is really slow so I can't always update this blog.  


this infact is just a fast update before I head out the door for some training!  wish me luck!


~Y

Halloween on the mind

ok fess up!  who else has already started on Halloween cards?  I can't be the only one!  A couple days ago I made one useing a "by the seat of my pants" masking idea. 


so I have some tape that doesn't really stick too well.  I put that on the back of these bat things I have.  then I inked the entire card just with my straight ink pad, just tapping on it.  Then I removed the bats and the tap and continued making my card on that base.  I think it worked well!  what do you think?

my diecut letters are so big I had to get creative with how I put Halloween on the card!  so I decided Happy shouldn't be on there.  instead I put some of the black bats back on, added some gogglie eyes and a couple pumpkins!  I then backed black behind that and glued it to my card.  I'm pretty happy with the over all look of it!  what do you think?  any advice? things I think I should do again?  


~Y

DieCut Fun

I've been haveing so much fun with my new-to-me diecut machine!  


here's one I had fun destressing as much as I could. Had no idea what I was gonna put as a saying then I got my diecut!  So I had to put a word on it all broken like!  

took me forever to decide what to put in that far corner!  am glad I picked something small though!


let's see... what else did I make...

this one is just a simple card.  was trying to get use to my different things I had cut out.  basicly all the blue on this card but the flower in the vase was diecut

a simple card but it would have been impossible before this diecut!  

I have so many wedding confetti!  had to use it!  I have bells, hearts, couples, just married words.... had to use some of it!


now take a closer look at the Just married though... doesn't it look like just maimed?  confused my husband and I but we think it's just the way it's written...


and last but not least (of the ones I have taken photos of and have on my computer that is!)

a very simple card... wish I had put texture in the background but oh well... live and learn.... I LOVE the big flower on the bottom of this one!  that's all diecut out!  yes I only have an alphabet but with that set there is the vase, flower stem/leaf, that odd half a flower thing... the thanks, HI, to, from, that tag, and those pointy flowers.  but that's all the ones I get for now!  gonna try to get as much out of them as I can so expect to see loads of thanks and hi cards from me for a while using the Cuttlebug! 


~Y

blog candy!!!!!

over at Pixie Dust Paperie


look at these goodies!

only got aouther couple days to enter so get over there fast and goodluck to you!

365 Cards: Day 167

My card for 365 Cards: day-167-vintage-plus-red 


Vintage with red I knew right away I wanted to use one of my Tim Holtz masks.  My little ones were too little so I used my HUGE one and just used part of it for the card.  love how that turned out.  then I knew I wanted to make it Christmasy and use my tag stamp that reads "Sending Christmas Greetings"  but I wanted to make sure my background red was the main colour and the main focus so this is what I came up with:

hope you guys like it!  


~Y

My little helper

I love my cat Raven so much!  He's awesome!  Though a bit of a butthead... he loves to sit in the window next to my desk and sleep as I craft or sleep behind my chair: (he was about to itch an inch)

and I like it when he sleeps here like this:

however sometimes he sleeps right were I can't craft OR computer because he's in my way:

one of his favourite things is to push little bottles or embellishments around my desk.  today he was chasing after this bottle for a while and I keep saying his name to make him stop.  He jumped down on the office table that's caddy-corner to my desk and well.....

But you gotta love him!  




~Y