Title: Might as well JUMP
Description: Ecard of encouragement and best wishes for your future creative endeavors
Inspirations: Today is Leap Year Day and the conclusion of Thing-A-Day for 2008
Day 28, and nearly there!
Finally finished the Mothers’ Day card (or, as some of us here still say, ‘Mothering Sunday’) - whoops, let the secret out the bag! Hope my Mum’s not reading this. 
I’ve been upto a few crafty things and have made: some badges, a mothers day card and printed some pictures for a frame. So here they are:
Made a quick Thank You card. The petals were stitched with the sewing machine and colored pencils to add some detail.
I tried out gouache for the first time (I actually thought I was watercoloring)… not that it matters I wouldn’t know what I was doing either way. I’m also going to add that I don’t do anything delicately, nor do I do flowers. I was trying to make a card that grandma would like to say thanks for an awesomely old-timey hardcover cookbook she recently passed on to me. And all she gets in return in a sloppy test run at trying to paint…
Title: Auntie Erma’s cope card
Description: Card with hand-painted picture of a dreamer
Inside: It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Inspiration: This day in history, Erma Bombeck was born (1927)
Today I made a birthday card for my good friend Kiki
(we even share the same nickname — she’s 1 and I’m 2). Tonight I had the great
pleasure of meeting up with some very fabulous friends from my former
place of employment (some of whom check my thing-a-day so thank you so very much for
the lovely evening!). We celebrated her birthday and my new adventures — it was
a very wonderful night out!!!
I’m a dork. >_<
The text is from the song “All I Want is You” by Barry Louis Polisar. I changed the chorus from “bride” to “guide” ’cause I’m giving this to a guy. XP
this is a thank you card i did for my fiance’s sister (soon to be sister-in-law) for my xmas gifts i got from her. her family does secret santa, and she got me the following dvds:
terminator
the star wars trilogy (eps 4-6), you know, the good ones
diehard
airplane
you can’t top that. i handwrote a note on the back as well, which you all will not see because i’m cursed with horrible handwriting.
I made these cute little Easter cards today, and if no one buys them, I’m just going to use them myself:)
I used a 3-d sticker for the focal point, and added brads and fun colored paper to make them pop.
Thanks for lookin’!
Valentine’s card with pop-up heart and rubber stamp letters. Simple and mushy.
Sorry, single folk… I don’t want it to seem like I’m rubbing your face in Valentine’s Day, but this is for Thing-a-Day!
And my submission is — a valentine’s day card for my sweetie
Happy Valentine’s Day sweetheart.
A V-Day card for one of my friends.
My scanner scans things darker, the marks where I measured everything out are less visible in real life.
But FIRST I had to finish my thing LOL. I was able to put the rest of the valentines together and now they are in the beeeyoootiful envelopes, addressed, stamped and waiting on me to carry them to the mailbox. The cards look much more cool IRL, the photos just don’t show the layering very well. C’est la vie. But I got to use up a lot of scraps that I just couldn’t bear to throw away b/c they were so big. Yay!
I usually bake something to give out for Valentine’s Day, but this year my co-workers are all so health-conscious that I thought it would be best to think of alternatives. Inspired by the blooming hearts on the cards I designed, I bought a flat of organic strawberry plants and reset them into these darling little rectangular planters I got at Daiso. I even used organic potting mix when I was replanting them. Because there are only a few tiny white blossoms on the plants, I also made some heart plant picks to give it a nice burst of color.
Well, I did something today! Damn damn damn that paper store online. Now I HAVE to make those cards and send them out or I’ll feel like a sell-out. Or something, that may be the wrong word. I’m kinda tired.
The Baby actually has an ear infection and the doc says his rash looks like a combo of eczema and possibly a viral rash. Poor boy. I gave him some motrin and he was happier than he’d been in a few days. But he was never overly cranky. We’re going to wait a bit and see if it’s a viral infection before we attempt antibiotics since he’s not had a hint of a fever.
So during naptime, I got some paper crafting in. I made some envelopes for mailing out my valentines, but I still need to make a couple more. Then I lined them and have started working on the cards themselves. I just now stamped a bunch of hearts, but they’ll take a while to dry. So I’m thinking tomorrow is a good day to finish cutting out pieces and assembling. So they’ll be a little late. Heck, my mom’s still waiting on her bday gift from Jan. 6. It’s been sitting on my end table for a few weeks now. Maybe mailing that out should be my ‘thing’ some day soon.
Day 10 - As promised, here’s the photo of the valentines for the First Grader’s class, with the stack of envelopes we made behind them. The brown heart portion is sticking up a bit, the 3d effect isn’t really showing here.
Day 11 - Again, the 3d isn’t that evident. The heart pieces aren’t quite so crooked looking in real life, just need flattening. They are on foam sticky pieces, as are the photo and its background piece.
My friend just enrolled her son in one of those really earnest preschools where they’ve got very strong views on childrearing (i.e. no television til age 7). At the school they don’t write or label their names on anything. They use symbols to identify their belongings and their work. My friend’s son is Mushroom. So for Valentine’s day I designed these heart-bedecked mushroom cards for him to give out.
I ended up liking them so much I might make some to give out myself 
I think they’d look great placed in a tray of grass.
I finished up my set of cards to go sell at the flower shop.
This is one of the versions I did today.
I liked the non-traditional colors of these papers.
I had a great day today 
Almost didn’t get a ‘thing’ done, though. My sweet husband and my good friend conspired to send me to the spa for some body rubbing and exfoliating. He watched The Baby and her son as well, a 15 month old, so she could go along with me and allow us some ‘girl time’. He’s racked up major brownie points now!
Anyway, someone here on Thing-a-day is very evil. They linked me to paper-source.com and now I’m in bigger trouble than ever. I’ve always had a weakness for paper. It just has so many possibilities and as a young girl I would collect so many different types of stationery and hoard the last few pieces of each one, afraid to use up the final bits. Paper crafts are like magic, so when you have all things papery and crafty in one spot, it’s hard to resist.
So today, I made my first ever card! *patting myself on the back* It’s a bit rough, but it was fun. I also made a matching, lined envelope. A bit too matchy for my tastes, but my hoarding/fear of using it up kicked in and I didn’t want to cut into any different papers until the ones I started with were pretty much gone LOL. Then I made a valentine. The bird envelope was a page from a magazine. I put the valentine in it and I’ll be handing it over to my sister when she arrives. My 7 yr old thinks it’s pretty cool–the ‘from’ on the back is a mini photo of him.
Look, it even has beads!
A new card with a teabag folded element.