Cosmo Cricket Goodness

I recently received a bunch of Comso Cricket goodies. Here are some things I made using the Jack's World Collection: I used the Jack's World blackboard and covered them with the matching Jack's world stickers to make the house, tree, crocodile, doll and car. I stuck some magnets on the back. The big, long magnet at the top of teh picture is a paper strip with magnet on the back, and the Friends magnet is one of those free magnets you get (from realtors, doctor offices, etc.) that I just covered with paper and the friends sticker. I decorated it with a button too. Angel LOVES playing with these! I also made these boxes that you may have seen on my desk in a previous post:

These are my Cute Cosmo Cricket Boxes. I copied a tutorial by Sankari. You can find it HERE. I used all JAck's World papers, blackboard, stickers and ribbon. Here's a sideview:

As I said in my Craft Room Tour post, I usually keep my italian gummies in these boxes and Angel is always asking for some.

I hope you enjoyed my little post for today.

Until next post, be blessed.

It Exploded!!!

So, Tuesday night I won a bottle of wine at the ACES (Aviano Community Enlisted Spouses) meeting and last night I decided to open it and have a glass. Well, look what happened! It exploded! It sounded like a gun went off and glass and wine went EVERYWHERE!!! Luckily I didn't get cut, but there were little shards of the bottle all over the kitchen; not to mention wine sprayed all over the walls! I know I wasn't pressing down too hard so I think something happened during the bottling of the wine causing a weak spot in the bottle. I don't know, but it was crazy! Anyway, I needed to make some birthday cards for some ACES members, and here's my first one:

This one is for a lady who's birthday was last month. I paper pieced the hippo and the balloons and drew the strings for the balloons to be tied to the hippo's tail. Here's a pic to show you the dimension in my paper piecing:

Well, after I left the card on the desk for a little while, I went back and it didn't look done. Do you ever do that? Walk away from a project and come back later for a fresher perspective? I ended up making a frame by just drawing straight lines around the edge of the card:

I feel like it gives the card it's finishing touch.

Last Thursday I participated in my first Twisted Thursday Challenge and guess what? I won! Yeah, it was a random draw, but still!!! I participated again this week and here is the card I made:I admit it, it's not my best work. I'm not entirely happy with it, but this is as good as this card is going to get. I followed the sketch, only I turned it on its side. The Twist this week is to have some purple in the card, and purple is one of the hardest colors for the to incorporate. I actually made the hippo card AFTER this one, and that purple worked out just fine! Maybe my mojo was on a little break...

One more thing before I sign off, sheck out this BLOG CANDY at Michelle O's blog! OMWord I want it!!!

Well, that's all for now. The boys are officially on summer break, but the weather isn't cooperating so we've been in the house! I hope the summer weather shows itself soon.

Until next post, be blessed.