Sorry about the lack of posts lately. I have been really busy crafting, but I'm really sad that I can't post them because they are for Christmas presents and I would hate for people to see their presents early!!! So here are a few things that aren't for Christmas presents:

This is the banner I made for in our dinning room. I strung it on the shelf that I display a few of my crafty creations. I made it using a tutorial on splitcoaststampers.com, and you can find it here. I used the Ski Slope Designer Paper, and chipboard from the back of a paper package. I also used that chipboard to make my letters, cut them out then traced them onto the patterend paper and cut that out, glued it on to the letters and then sanded them. That took the most amount of time. I then stapled the triangles onto the ribbon with some red staples and then tied the red bows in between each triangle. Pretty simple and I was able to whip this one up in a few hours.



This is the album we made at my friend JM's birthday party, which was a blast and so hillare! This is the first acrylic album I have made and I did enjoy it, you just have to make sure that things match up from front to back or else this are showing through that you don't want to! The funniest part was when JM realized that on the very front cover was just her husbands face poking out from another page...sOOO funny! We all laughed so hard for so long.!





And last but not least, I can finally show you the cute card I made for my niece Paige who is 1 today!! So cute, Happy Birthday Paigey! The hilare part of it is that I put a little too many layers of paper and ribbon and poor Gary had to pay .65 cents to get it! So sorry....


I used Chocolate Chip, Barely Banana, and a retired colour Groovy Guava. The raised bumps were used by embossing with my Cuttlebug. The cute hippo is from "Pun Fun". The brown was too dark to write on so I also decorated the inside, hence the "too many layers of paper"!
That's all for now, and thanks for looking!