Best Wishes Tea Flower Card and a few Wreaths!

Hello!  Happy Tuesday! :> It's snowing here and is so beautiful outside!  We are coming off a long weekend!  Ariel actually had 4 days off school as Friday was a pd day and Monday here was Louis Riel Day. Many other provinces it was family day!  The province decided that a long weekend in February was needed and so came Louis Riel Day (a famous explorer!)

On Friday night my brother called and told me he needed a bridal shower card!  So I got to work and played with a new stamp:

I embossed Tea Flower by Hero Arts with chestnut zing embossing powder.  Than I colored it in with inks using perfect pearls mixed water and a paint brush.  I really enjoyed coloring it in this way!  I used some pp by My Mind's Eye and am entering this into the current Lily Pad challenge which is to use up your pp!  Here's a close up on the flower:

We had such a great long weekend.  On Friday Carter was so happy to have Ariel home with him and they enjoyed playing outside!  I gave them a bath afterwards and made some homemade bath paint and it worked so well.  Here is the recipe:

1/3 cup body, baby wash or dish soap (I used aveeno body wash)

1 tbspoon cornstarch

Mix together put into ice cube tray and add food coloring drops to make color.  Use fingers to paint the bath tub away!

On Friday night we went as a family to a friends for dinner and she had invited other friends to so I enjoyed some girl time as the guys watched the Jets game (NHL Hockey)  On Saturday we went to my parents for dinner and went sledding at the hill I sledded as a child!  Yesh walking up the hill is so much more tiring now as an adult!  On Sunday Chad's parents had the "little" grand children over for a sleepover so Chad and I went on a date!!!  We saw this  movie:

And we both really liked it!  Perfect date movie as there something you both will love!  Totally suggest it for date night!  We enjoyed sleeping in Monday morning.  Although I only slept till 8:30 but it was nice to wake up on your own not to a little one! Monday afternoon we took the kids to our church, they had an amazing family fun day!  A few bouncers, fun food and wagon rides outside!  It was fun to see so many people and the kids really had fun!  We finished the day with my brother and his fiance coming over for dinner, love her can't wait for her to join our family!  What a great long weekend!  :>

A few weeks ago I finished up an order for 3 wreaths from a friend.  She picked all the colors and I am really happy with how it came out.  

What do you think?  I really enjoy making them and have a cool idea up my sleeve!  Well I am off to get the kids ready for bed.  While I typed up this post they were downstairs playing a computer game (once Ariel does her piano and school work if there is time she can play a bit!)  Have a great week! 

Valentine Wreath!

Hello!  Happy Wednesday!  It's been a great day!  The weather here has been amazing, only a short oh so cold spell but other than that it's been a fabulous winter!  I think most of North America has been quite lucky!

Today I have a new wreath to share with you. I love it!  I had seen it on a few crafty blogs and had to make it!  I was delighted that Chad found me a heart wreath!  I wrote about it on facebook and a friend said she was interested in it so I made it for her!  :>  

I followed the tutorial from the Idea Room here.  I won't lie to you, it took a long time to make.  I worked on it each evening for a bit and had to keep sending Chad back to Michaels to buy more felt.  I handcut more than 260  3 inch circles and pinned them on the wreath.  I was a bit apprehensive about just pinning it with a stick pin but when I tried it was very sturdy and I knew it would stay put.  I thoroughly enjoyed making this! 

I want to share a tip with you. I often use circles when I make flowers out of felt, lots start out as a circle!  Rather than using a paper circle as a guide or tracing circles on the felt I ink up a cup, or a vitamin lid and stamp it on the felt so much faster.  You can see it here:

It saves so much time and it's easier to cut a nice circle.  And the white ink wipes off easily!  

Oh and I have the sweetest photo to share with you:

This is a familiar site around here.  My two love each other so much!  Carter wakes up first in the morning and used to come to our bed and cuddle us but has moved on.  He now wakes Ariel up each morning with "Ariel I want to cuddle you!"  And she is more than willing!  I often find them cuddling together in either his or her bed!  It is the sweetest but the only problem is that he wakes up earlier than her when she would like to sleep about half an hour or so more.  On Saturday Chad caught him going to her at 6 am!  He put him back in his bed and they both slept for 2 hours more.  We are trying to convince Carter to come to us but that hasn't worked and I have been trying to convince him to go back to sleep when he wakes up and wait for Ariel to wake him up!  By the way like Carter's pj's?  He spotted the material at fabricland when my mom and me were there buying the fabric for Ariel's birthday skirts and she bought it and made those pjs for him!

Hope you have a great crafty day!  Thanks for visiting today!

Teal, Red, White and Grey Wreath and Sledding Fun!

Hello!  I hope that you are having a great weekend!  :>  We sure are! :>  Enjoying a lazy Sunday at home is the best!  Today I wanted to pop in and share a new wreath that I made.  My friend ordered this one from me and picked the colors, and I just love how it turned out!  I love it so much it deserves it's own post, I also had fun taking a bunch of photos of it:

Wreaths are quite popular these days and I think having one on your door all year really makes your house shine!  I really love this color combo as it's bold and draws attention to your door!  :>  I love adding pearls to the wreath as I think it finishes it quite nicely!  This is the first time I used silver pearls, love how it looks!  You know I love playing with paper but I also really enjoy making wreaths too.  I often wrap the yarn around the wreath when driving (as a passenger!) I find myself working on wreaths when it's late and I can't stamp straight!  I can't keep still very well I gotta be doing something!

On Friday after school we all went sledding as a family.  The weather was warmer and it was perfect sledding weather!  We recently discovered that a park close by has a toboggan run.  All my life the idea of a toboggan run terrified me and boy was I missing out!  I love it!  I grew up next to two huge hills that we would go sledding down all the time but now as an adult and mommy I find myself screaming the whole way down and putting my legs out to slow it down!  LOL I know what happened to me?  And this is where I love toboggan runs yes it's fast but it's a cleared path and no chance of crashing into someone or something!  And the walk up is easy and I don't end up having to carry a child up the hill! As my kids grow up I see that there is so much you can do with them (makes it a bit bearable that they aren't my little babies anymore)  I took some photos:

I got some great photos didn't I?  Love that when I asked Ariel and Carter to sit together they sat this way!  :>Gotta love winter fun!  Oh and I have a love for animal hats!  :>