Easter basket

Well, here was my April artwork for my aunt's event calendar. The egg stamp set is from Close To My Heart called Eastertime, the butterflies are a Martha Stewart punch, and the basket is punch I bought years and years ago. I just randomly snipped my green cardstock to make the grass. The bottom of the calendar has a bunny in the basket with its feet hanging out...too cute.
My goal this weekend is to be a crafting maniac. I want to make loads of cards. I have a ton of ideas floating around in my head from various magazine, blogs, and websites and I cannot wait to try them out.
Oh, I think my next post might show my new venture into living green. We have a very small garden. I planted carrots, red and yellow peppers, zucchini, squash, cucumbers, butternut squash...I cannot forget my two herb herb garden of basil and parsley. I even used some basil tonight with dinner. It is amazing how much better it tastes when you grow it yourself. I am just starting out, but having a blast with it. Watching it grow by leaps and bounds it so much fun.
Have a fantastic Friday...=) Also, please have a safe Memorial Day Weekend. Remember those who fought (fight) for our country.

March on in...

Ok, even though I have a little bit of Irish in my ancestry my March layout is pretty weak. I used stickles to outline the shamrock. I also used a shamrock button to highlight the actual date (although you cannot see...just imagine).
I hope every mother had a wonderful mother's day. I wish I could have celebrated it with my mom, but I know she could feel my love and good thoughts with her ALLLLLL day long.
I hope you had a marvelous Monday and that tomorrow brings a terrific Tuesday to all.

Happy Valentine's Day...

Ok, here is February for my aunt's calendar. The reason for the fish is that my uncle LOVES to fish and thought it would be cute. The fish stamps are from Stampin' Up and the heart stamps are from Verve. I used liquid glass to enhance the bubbles. Yes, I know it is blurry, but if you drink a glass of wine, margarita, martini, bottle of beer, it will be clear. I was actually in a hurry to get the pictures taken to mail out the gift, so please cut me a little slack.
I hope all is well with everyone and I hope y'all had a wonderful Wednesday.

Event Calendar...

I know. I know. I know. I have been a bad blogger. The only excuse I have is that I just didn't feel like doing anything. Plain and simple.
For Christmas 2008, I made my mom an event calendar from Close To My Heart. I decorated each month and added only a few special dates (my birthday, her birthday, my wedding anniversary, etc.). She loved it and I guess my aunt saw and wanted one. So for the past 3 weeks I have been working on it. In the coming days I will post the months I created for my aunt. I never took pictures of my moms calendar. I should have. My hind sight is 20:20.
Ok, so for January I used a Close To My Heart stamp set called All Decked Out. This stamp set is full of imagination. You get to create your own snowman, the type of scarf, hat, face, number of snow balls, etc. For my snowman I stamped the hat and scarf on a piece of paper that was highly textured (and I just stumbled upon it) and cut them out. I used silver stickles to highlight the snow flurries at the bottom of the snowman and orange stickles for his nose.
Even though you cannot see it, I decorate the entire month. I put snowflakes all over. I also stamped Happy New Year! from the Say it in Style stamp set also from Close To My Heart. I think this is my favorite decorated month. I love the way the stickles adds the perfect amount of sparkle.