Vegmom Crafts

Valentine Class Cards

Veg wasn't much in to card decorating, and I was OK with that.  We don't do much for this Holiday in our house but always try to send handmade cards for school.  Of course he used to be in an early childhood class, so exchanging cards was "cute"

Now he is in the Big Kid class, and passing out little handmade hearts isn't going to fly.  He also doesn't like crafts anymore. 

But when we came up with Tic Tac Toe cards...He was thrilled!!!  The three of us set up an Assembly line and popped out 20 Tic Tac Toe Cards.. He was SOooooooooooo excited... They are just free hand marker, a couple stamps, and punched out circles... 

Here is the Front of each card:

 

And the Inside with game pieces:

 

The boy cards have different color game pieces....Otherwise, they all look the same.

Except this one....This is the special card he made for a special girl, it ended up with a few hearts.  *smile*

 

The whole set:

 

Easy Peasy and Mission Complete!

A Bunch of CARDS

The Craft Bug struck again this weekend and I was able to knock out a bunch of cards.  Nothing fancy, but going with my 2010 Simplify, do in batches, and clean as I go method... I will consider this crafty weekend Successful!  ... So here goes  my Pics...

The first two are using bubble things that my friend gave me.  Your supposed to put stuff inside like candy or trinkets, but I kind of liked them with just a stamped image inside. :-)

 

 

Some Father's Day Cards .. Am I prepared, or what?

 

 

And Mother's Day Cards.... Too fun... I was on a roll :-)

 

I made several of these sleeves, and was having fun filling them.  This one is a Thank You card:



 

And this Sleeve Card is going to the troops my Aunt adopted :-)  I'm soooo enjoying this project!

 

I think you'll have to click on these to see them full size, since the images are small.  But really really really liked the way these turned out.  I want to keep one for myself :-)   They are so simple and clean... Not to mention the little cute coffee cup :-)

So that' all for this batch!!  more to come I'm sure as 2010 chugs ahead!!

Some Thank You Cards

I did batches of Thank You cards because I had many to send.  Hopefully each person won't show the other person that they got the same card.   And if more then one person sees this blog post... SORRY, Your all getting almost the same card... With some variations.

So doing  a Batch System, I realized was great for my Thoughts of 2010.. More Simplifying! 

And using much of the same colors solved the following problems:

• Save Time
• Less Scraps
• Less digging through scraps for pieces
• Less Mess
• Less Planning
• Less Mess
• Save Time...

You get the idea... And did I mention less Mess... OH YES!  My First Craft day of 2010, I got my Mom's Scrapbook Calendar totally done and all my thank you cards made.... All, with not a single mess to show for it! 

I developed a system that goes much like Veg's Book shelf... ONE OUT - ONE IN.... Before I take out an item, I put the other one away...

The end of night clean up took TWO Seconds!  It was Soooo Cool... And a new trend that I think will follow me for a long time... Where possible... Some days this won't be, but while doing cards in batches it was TOTALLY Possible...

With out further gabbing...

I made two of these:

And three of these:  (those are little plastic windows, much cuter in person)

Outside:

Inside:

 

And the Clean Craft Area:

It was a Good Craft Day!

Two Front Teeth

When we were kids, we sent our teeth to my Grandma as they fell out.  She would send us back a dollar.  And it was something to this day, I remember.

Well, when my Vegman lost his two front teeth for Christmas, we had to send them to my Mom.  After all she is his Grandma and that is how tradition goes... But times have changed... I can't just send her a piece of paper with teeth stuck to it????

Oh No, that just won't do....  I had to make a Card!  But the teeth were pushing through the front and making an indention.  I wasn't sure it would last in the mail... So I decided to make a hole for the teeth.

And it came out something like this:

 

The Inside:

 

Now, he still has a lot more teeth in that cute little face, so I'm not sure I will be able to keep up the card pace.  But if they keep popping out in twos, it shouldn't be so bad!!

Ornaments

Every Year, I make and buy ornaments for our Advent Boxes.  Veg opens them one by one and pops them on a special tree that is all his... Trick being, they have to be small enough to fit in the little doors.

This year, my crafting ability (or time) seemed to go out the window.  And so I was lucky to get these done.. But thankfully, with this stash and all the ones I purchased (in cheap sets) we were able to fill all the boxes... And now I can relax with Christmas coming to a close:

First one was just a cut down and sanded tongue depressor, with rub on transfers...

This one was layers of paper and rub on transfers, then matted on to cardboard for the chipboard look.

Simple and quite ugly actually, but he liked it :-)

This one had me really excited.  It was late last night after all the presents were wrapped, and I realized I missed the last ornament for the last day... Quick on my toes...  Came up with this..

I found an old clip a friend gave me, then cut out some cardboard to make the "clip board"... Used card stock and pens to make my paper, then clipped it all together.

And there it was!  A cute little clip board for his tree.  The reason this one is special, is because he uses a clipboard at school this year.  So it worked out perfect for this craft.

I cheated for this one, just a rub on transfer stuck to a clear plastic circle I had lying around from Scrapbook years of past.  But hanging on the tree, he actually looks really cute.

 
 

And this one had a little help from Hubby in the Drawing Department.   Matted on red card stock then stuck to some cardboard (still making my own chipboard), then a hole punch, and Voila!  Ornament of the Cutest proportions.

 

These ornaments were certainly all last minute, and not as grand as year's past, but they did the trick and Veg enjoyed finding them each morning... So that is all that matters...

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas, and maybe even got a little Crafty!

Some Christmas Cards

I didn't get enough Christmas cards made for everyone in my family this year because I was honored to put some together for our Troops fighting in Iraq... 

So I'm sorry to the family, but these guys took precedence this go around.  I'm sure family will understand. Some people got Emails in the family.... or *GASP* I even sent some boxed cards... OH MY! 

But here are a few I did get done, and there were more that I didn't get pictures of:

 

 

This one got some arms and a flower on his hat... Poor guy above was a little plain.