All You Need Is Love!

 

What better way to say I love you than with a simple but beautiful card!  The card says it all.....All you need is Love!

 

I used white cardstock for the card.  I cut a piece of plain black cardstock and attached that with red ribbon to the middle of the front of the card.  I had strips of red cardstock that had hearts punched out of them and all that was left were the frames.  I used one of the frames and attached a piece of white cardstock to it then stamped the sentiment in the middle of the white.  I had some glittered heart embellishments as well as some round red embellishments and glued them to the front of the card.

 

Again very simple and clean!





 

 



Super Bowl Time

Football shaped and decorated cookies for my Superbowl table!

 

 

Heart Softball Cookies

The college softball season starts Friday and I wanted to make a special treat for the girls to get them going!  Tomorrow they will have a team building day, spending the whole day and night together as a team, playing games, having fun and bonding as one.  I thought these cookies would be a great way to add to their special day!!

I cut out large heart shaped sugar cookies and frosted them in white royal icing with a black seam.  I also cut out small heart shaped cookies and frosted them in the team color which is royal blue.  I placed a large and small cookie in a cello bag and tied it off with curly ribbon in the team colors. 

For the tag, I stamped a hornet, colored with copic markers and added the colored paper as a background.  I hope they like their cookies and hope we have a great season.  GO HORNETS!!!!

We are attending a 60th birthday celebration this week-end and I decided to make a card.  I wanted something simple but not plain.  I did a card a few months back for a quincenera and had some paper left over.  Since the theme of this party is gold tones, I figured I would try to put something together with the same papers.  I used the "Tall Flower" stamp from HERO ARTS and the sentiment is from Inkadinkadoo's "Thoughts for the Day."  I used a piece of gold ribbon to accent the card. 

I like to add some extra dazzle by decorating the envelopes for the cards I make so I covered the envelope with the same rust colored paper that was used as the background for the card and tied a gold ribbon around it.  Simple but definitely a stand-out!

Christmas Tags

Homemade Christmas tags made with rubber stamps and copic pens.  These cute little tags are great for any holiday or gift.  Adds that special touch!

Holiday Baking

Every year I make mini breads to give away.  This year, I sort of got carried away with my baking.  I ended up making 30 loaves of bread - Pumpkin Bread, Cranberry Orange Bread and Banana Raspberry Bread.  Pumpkin was my personal favorite!

I also made about 4 dozen sugar cookies, decorated with royal icing and oreo cookies dipped in white and dark chocolate.  Then there were the pretzel sticks dipped in chocolate! 

I wanted to make truffles and rum balls but time ran out so I guess I'll save those tasty treats for Valentines Day!

Cute Little Blankets

For Christmas I made these cute little blankets out of fleece.  As I was cutting and tying, I thought about how nice it would be to make one for myself and curl up by a nice fire.

I love blankets that are not too heavy but comfy and cozy and I hope these bring lots of joy to the two beautiful babies I made them for.