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!!

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.

 

Making a Stamp

After creating the snow globe card last night, my friend said I should make a bunch more since I was in the groove... But I wasn't really IN A GROOVE!  It took me FOREVER to make that card. 

The snow men are hand cut and colored out of paper, and the globe alone took me like 30 minutes to cut the perfect shape from scratch without a template.  THEN:

While looking at my Crafting Mess from last night, and beginning to clean it up:

I remembered that I had some left over rubber stamp material that I save from the StampinUp Stamps.. I also have a few wood blocks from my Crafty friend...  And so I started cutting with my Sharpest scissors... And made this Little guy:

Stamped with white on black and decorated, he looks like this:

Its not much, but I'm excited for my first ever try at making my own stamps... 

Of course Hubby said that Snowmen are supposed to have 3 circles.  But mine only has 2.... So there!

Think, I'll enjoy using this little stamp for some Christmas Cards.  Even if I don't make any more globes.

But just in case, I did use some old thin cardboard to make a template from my card.  Next time, I can just trace that bad boy and be done!

Seems the Crafty Bug has bitten again.  Wonder how long it will stick around?

2 More Saturday Cards

Posting on Sunday... but they were from yesterday :-)

And by the way, After all these months of not Crafting, my mission was to fill up my Birthday and Thank You card stash... Have no idea how I ended up in Christmas mode.... But Christmas Mode I was in!

Finally Some Cards

This blog has been sorta dormant... But today there was some card making and Scrapbook Page making going on... Here are the cards...

My favorite is inspired by the last page in the Stampin Up Mini Catalog, but was a lot harder then I thought, since I don't have those stamps nor a template for the globe...  But here is what I came up with (ignore the pic quality please...)

And I found this advertisement in a magazine:

Which gave me inspiration for this (its all free hand if you couldn't tell)

And these were just piddly silly things... Nothing exciting:

CUPCAKE CARD

For Details, Click Here.....

THE WHOLE FAMILY IS IN TO CARDMAKING

EVEN THE DOG!

Silly Puppy!!

RECENT CARDS

Last but not least for the night... I took some pictures of recent cards we've made:

(P.S... as always my pictures of cards NEVER turn out true to color, so you'll have to pretend that they are pretty colors)

Twin new Baby Card, that I needed to make in a hurry (and you can tell it was in a hurry)  The coolest part, I didn't take a picture of.  But inside, I made a money pocket that worked perfectly:

Veg made this one with stamps and chalk for his cousin's Birthday, I just love his table scene.  And watching his art work change from scribble to real life pictures:

This is actually pastel colors...  And will make a nice Mother's day card, I think:

This one looks horrible in the picture, but it is quite pretty in real person with the Brown, and light colors.  I got this idea from the Stampin Up catalog.  But as usual, mine are always slightly different.  Especially when I don't have the right stamps.

So that's all on the card making front for this stretch, but I do plan to do more.  I think this little stretch of craftiness has encouraged me to do more again.  And make time.

So until next time, Happy Crafting!

LAST MINUTE CHRISTMAS CARDS

Yes I make cards... Are they good?  NO!  But they work for the occasion.. And 9 times out of 10 I don't make it to the post office to mail them on time... So what is the point?  I dunno!  But at least I try!  That means something right??  OK, maybe not...  Maybe some day I will feel guilty enough to get them mailed on time, but for now, I'm just happy to get them mailed.

Ho Hum, and Christmas is no different... I got all the packages shipped, all the gifts purchased, local gifts and cards given to their recipients... And the only thing I had left to do, was Mail the cards I had made way way way before Christmas.  And to think, I thought I was prepared....

Today, I started filling out the cards and preparing them for their envelopes then realized I was 6 short.... ACK.... SIX!!   in card making years,thats at least 4 hrs worth of time....  And not to mention the creative bug has to bight for me... this stuff doesn't come naturally...

So in my mad rush to get 6 cards done this is what I came up with, while forcing my noggin to come up with something that remotely resembled a Christmas Greeting:

 

 

 

 

 

 

And this is what my Craft area looks like (Dog and all) after I'm rushed to make 6 cards....

 

Then again this is what my craft area looks like after I do anything remotely crafty...  And actually, this is mildly calm... I still have 7 drawers of stamps and punches that didn't make it to the floor yet when this photo was taken!  GRAB AND GO.... Clean Later.. that is usually my Card making Plan! 

Happy Crafting Everyone...

CRAFTY SUNDAY - A COUPLE CARDS

My crafty friend brought my crafty Christmas gifts yesterday and one of them was a really cool paper organizer.  So I was intending to sit down and Organize... Instead, I looked at my paper and began, cutting tearing.... until.. I had cards.... Quite a few cards!

You'll be happy to hear, I did end up cleaning the craft area later in the night.. But not until I got these all complete.  Including a card Veg made for one of his teachers.  And another not pictured here for Hubby's co-worker. (he stuck it in an envelope before I could get my camera ready)

The first two are using that homemade paper from last week.  I really like the way the colors look, Girly girl colors, but these cards are only those my Mother would love...

Being that dryer lint was used in the paper making process, there is plenty of dog hair to make these cards only special to those that would appreciate a card with dog hair built in...

 

 

While cleaning up the craft area, I found an old book my hubby brought home, that had ideas in it.. And there was one for this Chinese treasure box.  I didn't quite make a box but used the design to make this card... Its not perfect, but it is my first attempt at this funky creation..  If you want the template, let me know and I can scan it (I think)..

Here is the top all folded and closed

 

Here is the top, when its open....

 

And this little tree with apples for ornaments, was thought up in a quick way, while Veg was using his sponges to decorate paper. And I was putting my new "teacher" paper away from my friend...Here is what we came up with...

The outside:

 

The Inside:

CRAFTY SUNDAY

Now we couldn't let a holiday weekend go by with out some crafting, and so today was a busy one!!

I found the idea in a book to make our own paper...but never wanted to bother with it....But for some reason it looked like a good idea today and I didn't have any of the correct ingredients, so we improvised...

Some old mesh metal from my scrapbook stash, stapled to a cut out plastic lid, gave me my straining frame.  Then we used some dryer lint (yes, I said dryer lint, talk about recycling) and torn sheets of paper left over from our Name People (shown below)... And mix mix mash mash with the Magic Bullet..... 

This is what we came up with:

So I know it doesn't look quite lake paper, but I'm sure it will be pretty when it dries... And by the way... this is quite a lot of work to deem one piece of paper.  I think I will be treating it as gold when attaching pieces to my cards.... And those lovely recipients will know that it came straight from my Dryer....  Is that love or what?

Then I found this idea online... Who needs Sand for art when you have A Grain of Salt??  Yup some Kosher salt and food coloring... Oh and a paper funnel and old spice jar!...  This was a fun project.  We used sticks to make the designs.  If I had more coloring it could have been more beautiful according to Veg.

While looking through our junk mail and sorting recycles from garbage, I found a little deer and thought of this card... It was quick so not the perfect vision, but cute none the less...

And then I pulled out some foam pieces on this rainy day to keep the Veg Man Busy... He decided to make a sea, and as the day went on, there was a ship, a submarine, some fish... and more has been added as well...  Scissors and colored foam... and a little bit of imagination... FUN FUN:

Lastly we made these Letter creatures... HOW FUN....  You basically write someone's name on a piece of paper at the fold, then cut it out and open the fold to see what you have....  You'll see the word Veg first which turned in to a butterfly.  :-)  And I can't show the other names for privacy sake, but you'll see their images after the fact... 

Try to make the names of everyone in your family... Animals included, it was tons of fun... Paper, scissors and coloring supplies is all you need for this one!

LOTS OF CARDS FRIDAY

Last night my crafty friend came over to do well, guess....  Yup!  Crafty Things...  I was in a card mood and went a little crazy... due to my successful sleep week, and my friend bringing me some caffeine... I ended up awake until 3am, whoops!!! 

Here is what I came up with:

I love love love this one... not sure why??  :-)  Its pretty basic, but I got the idea from an older Stampin Up idea Book late last night.  It was the last of my stash for the night, and I started thumbing through the book.

This was an idea sent by a friend and I don't have the blog post it came from so I'm sorry to that crafty person that I can't credit... But hers was much more pretty so she may not want to be tied to this post anyway.  *smile*

Believe it or not this is a Christmas card.  I think I'm going to give Mr. Truck a little wreath to look more christmassy, but you'll see the inside and why I made it a heart card.

I recently got new circle and scallop punches, then my friend had a couple and turns out we had a complete set... I went a little punch happy!!

This is just a tiny scrap card.  I was playing with the scallop punch thing-a-majig.  And decided to use this for the top of a package or something at Birthday time.

The Next three cards were so much fun to do and play with.  I had no ideas in mind except an old vision in my head about the blue and pink haze behind the trees from another blog post (that I can't credit.. so sorry)   The rest was just using what I had and seeing what I came up with.  Some trial and error.

FLOWER POT LOOK-A-LIKE CARD

A few months ago, Veg and I were talking about a pretty design on the Kleenex box, and I said:

"That would make a cute card"

Veg said... "You can't make a card out of a kleenex box!!" 

So I explained to him that we can make cards look like anything if we tried hard enough.  So he grabbed his little watering can and said "Can you make a card look like this?"

Here was my attempt at that card.... Realizing tonight I never posted it here, so now consider it posted :-) 

PEEK-A-BOO CARD

I made this little window a while ago and never did figure out what to do with it, until tonight... For some reason the crafty bug bit me and all kinds of things are happening....  Think I like the way it turned out.

CELEBRATE THE SEASON

Playing with some new Stampin Up stamps.  As always sorry for the poor quality photo.. the colors aren't really like they are portrayed her.

JUST A NOTE CARD

Just some pretty butterflies and playing with my new gigantic circle punch, that happens to fit just write on the gigantic scallop punch that I got last Spring.

SEASON'S GREETINGS CARDS

This is my new favorite thing to do... Buy a whole sheet of rub-ons that I like.  Rub the whole sheet all at once on to a scrap book page, adorn with pictures, and your done!   Well I decided to do the same here.  Putting the entire sheet on to a piece of black card stock.

Then as you can see, I cut up the piece with all the rub-on's already transferred, and made three cards out of that one sheet.  So easy and Quick.... Add a little sentiment and your done!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CUTIES

I just love these little guys... My friend got me this stamp for my Birthday and this is the first of many times I will use it....

DOG GONE THANK YOU CARD

A friend recently watched our dogs and the idea for this card came to mind...  It's using a Masking technique I learned from an old stamping book where you make things appear in front of the item in the back ground.. Took me a bit to remember how to do this and to get it the way I wanted.

But here is the finished product!!  Simple but to the point....

As for the Masking..  Basically, I stamped the dog where I wanted him on the card.  Then stamped him again on a thin piece of paper.  (supposed to be a post it-some what sticky on the back)  I cut out my dog from the thin paper and place him over the dog that was stamped on the card.  Then when I stamped the letters, they don't cover the good dog, they only stamp the "mask" paper version.

Remove the mask, and finish the card... Voila...

A FEW CARDS

I've gotten myself so wrapped up in work and web stuff and when not doing that, there is cleaning to be caught up on or groceries to buy and of course the most amazing part of my life is my kiddo and his Daddy... So making time for crafting has been cut short lately.

This last week I decided to make some changes, getting my life back in the middle of my life... And it worked to an extent...Although even the best plans can be altered.  I was supposed to go to a friends last night to craft..but due to some unexpected circumstances the plans changed....

Instead we each stayed at home, and worked on cards, while writing to each other to show what we were working on.  Kept the motivation going, and I actually got three quick cards done before bed.

The first is a pattern I saw on someone's dress the other day and thought it would make a cute card.

You'll see it is very basic!  :-)

 

And the inside of that card.  Hard to tell but the thinking of you paper and the smile paper are both a sea green type color.  It actually goes really well with the different shades of brown.

 

And these two cards were my rendition of some ideas I found in the Stampin Up idea book...  I'm really happy with the Christmas one... Almost makes me want to make some more before the holiday gets close.

 

CRAFTY BLOG

I Found a new favorite Crafty Blog... Check out Capture the Moment....  One of our local Mom's posted about that site, and I think I could get swallowed up in it.

The tutorials on the Left are so cool... some are too hard for my blood, but I'm looking forward to trying others!...  I'll post some pics, if I ever get a chance to do so!  *smile*  this week will be busy and next week much of the same.  So I may not have anything exciting to post to this blog for a while.

CARD MAKING NIGHT

My friend came over last night as a spur of the moment... what the heck, kind of get out of the house, gotta craft type of night.  Turned out we did lots of talking and not so much crafting... but I did get several cards done and then a few more today before cleaning up my mess... 

The colors in my photos never come out true to the card.  But hopefully you can see enough to get the idea:

Inside of Cupcake card:

I have found myself looking in strange places for Inspiration...This was inspired by the colors of the Tcby Berrio Cups while in a meeting last week.  A Co-worker walked in with the cup and the first thing I noticed was the colors...  I loved the way Red and Purple looked so nice together when stuck to the bright white...

Another Cupcake Card.. I even made a batch of cupcakes last night... I was just in a cupcake mood:

Not sure why I thought to make a Sympathy card.  I suppose it was due to some recent Stories of local families that have lost love ones.. Anyway.. the colors in this one, are not colors I would normally use since I've never been a fan of brown.  But while out this weekend, I saw a girl wearing Brown pants with a green and pink color floral design...  Told you I was finding inspiration in strange places... So I decided to try a floral pattern using those same colors when I got home.  This is the result:

Inside:

This was just a fun bright Spring type card.. Nothing fancy but I like the way it turned out....

   

Here is a Father's Day card that is simple... but I just love it... The picture says it all:

I never thought to use a picture on the face of a card, but I saw the suggestion in one of my Friend's Magazines... 

This one was inspired by a Dollywood Advertisement that had Butterflies floating around... You'll have to click on it, and hopefully you'll be able to see the flower inside that peaks through the circle...  Again, I'm not sure why the colors are so horrible in these photos (they look great on my camera)  but the butterflies are a sort of apricot color.  Not really that pink, as shown here.

So as you can see, its been a fun crafting weekend....  Sadly, I have to put my supplies away for a while.  Not sure when I'll find time to get them back out.  But this was fun....  And my stash has filled back up slightly... Now if I can only remember to send them when I need to!  *smile* 

Have a great week!

MORE OF THE CARD CHALLENGE

So after my friend and I swapped pics for our Weekend Card Challenge, she raised the Ante.  Adding one more challenge to finish off the weekend.  Because all my stuff is already sprawled across my living room floor, it was easy to get these cards done in a short time. 

So here they are!!

The orange'ish flowers in this one are actually a sort of Apricot color... Pink/orange... Not as bright as they portray in this photo.

And this is similar to the other card challenge shot I posted earlier, but the petals are turned to make a tulip....  Thanks again to my Crafty friend for all this inspiration!  Now I'm going to go make some Scrapbook pages before I crash for the night...

CARD CHALLENGE AND MORE

My friend and I had a card challenge, along with that came inspiration to do some more cards.....  So here they are...  Each took less then 20 minutes... Except the Challenge card, it took a little while for me to put the colors together.... I'm not so good at that...

Here is the challenge, all done free hand... Scissors and pens.

Father's Day Card... hopefully I'll remember to send these in time since they are made in advance.  This is just a Stamp that hubby found me at work, and colored pencils...  Also the Stampin' Up Paper...The Father's Day words are rub-on transfers.

I just love this card... Not sure why, it is so simple... The background is an entire page of rub-ons and it scrolls around to the back as well.. (rub'd on then folded it)...  The Big flower is a Stamp on Stampin' Up Paper, using Black, and then versamark with embossing powder over the black... I'm not sure why the center shows up white in this photo, it is actually black.  I also cut the edges a little free hand, so its not a perfect rectangle...

My Friend has issued another challenge.... Veg and I also did a little craft earlier that I still have to take a picture of.  So check back soon!

MOTHER'S DAY CARD CHALLENGE

I found a great card last week and issued it as our "card challenge" for this weekend....  My friend has accepted this challenge, although we both pretty much skimped on until today. 

I finally got my crafting bug back, and made this very fun card.  It looks nothing like the original, took MUCH longer then I thought, but I really like the way it turned out.  Every thing on this card is hand cut.  There weren't any punches used.  So you will see some very odd shaped things but that is on purpose!  *smile*

Here is my finished result:

GARDEN NOTE CARDS

I thought it may be fun to make a set of cards for my MIL's Birthday and since she is totally in to Gardening and Floral stuff, I used these stamps.  The best part is that Hubby was involved in getting these done.  Not only did he stamp them but he helped color (the dark colors are his)  *smile*  We also decorated the envelopes to match and put a ribbon around them for completion... 

They are only ink and pencils, so nothing fancy, but Hubby thinks she will keep them for herself and not send any  :-)  We left them all blank inside so she can do what she will with them.

FOUND SOME MORE CRAFT BLOGS

Craftiness has been limited around here since my last post... But I came across some websites that I must share...  Today while doing a search for a butterfly punch, several cool blogs came up with some great ideas.  So I thought I would share them here:

Polished to Perfection

Embellish Me

Thinking Inking

By the way, I never did find the Punch I was looking for, but coming across some good crafty blogs makes it all worth while.