Emily's soccer season is over ...

Tonight was Emily's last soccer game for the season. They lost 2-1 but they played a great game!!! Nicholas will continue to play till first of June.

We woke up to 33 degrees this morning. I couldn't believe it! Its the end of April!! Thank goodness we didn't replant the garden yet. Hope to do that in the next week or so (since all of my earlier plants did not make it at all. boo hoo hoo)

Here is a recent photo of Emily & Nicholas together - Not sure when he grew SO MUCH TALLER than her. LOL

I found these awesome video tutorials today and decided to try them myself

1) is a small pocket folder book. The pockets are very tiny so I haven't figured out what would go in these pockets just yet but I think it came out so cute. It is made from one piece of 8 1/2 x 11 paper. I used 2 sided paper so that's how mine came out like it did. I found it at this blog




2) is a maze book. Its out of 1 piece of 12x12 paper and then you add the cover and back. This little book does not have pockets so you would glue on photos or whatever else you may want onto the pages. I am thinking this may be good for a Mother's Day present but since my mom reads my blog everyday I am not going to say for sure this is what i am going to do. She will have to find out in a couple of weeks when Mother's Day rolls around. LOL You can find that at the Scrapbook Lounge

Life's simple pleasures ...

DO YOU AGREE? I do!!!

I sent this card to my friend Lesa

and since she got it today, now I can show it off on my blog. I did not want her seeing it on my blog before she got it in the mail. LOL Had fun with my new Penny Black alphazoo stamp set once again. Notice how I paper pieced the letters? This is my favorite technique, in case you didn't know :).

I made 3 more cards for gift cards

Do you like them? Directions are on the next post below.

Do you need to give a gift card to anyone?

This is a really easy, fun card to stick a gift card in. I followed these directions from this blog and this is my version. Inside and out. Try it, its easy :).

If you don't want to take notes from the tutorial, here are the things you need to know:

Your piece of paper should be 4 1/4" x 11. Score at 3", 5.5" and 8". Then fold on the scores. I guess you will have to watch the rest of the tutorial so you know where to glue the flaps and where to use the word window punch and circle punch but it is really quick. I am making more now and they are going together real fast!!!

I got my new Penny Black Zoophabet letters yesterday

from HMStamps and I had to ink them up. I have been starting to cut coupons again and I hated to put them in a boring white envelope. That's too plain! So I decorated this legal size envelope and now its much cuter. Do you like it? :)