Pink, Grey and White with Pearls Wreath!

Hello my Crafty Friends!  It's Sunday night!  Sundays are such great relaxing days!  Tonight I made soup for dinner and soon we are having some apple crisp that I made yesterday!  Love fall days!  I wanted to stop in and share a wreath I just made.  It's different a bit from the other wreaths I make.  I made new flowers for it using Spellbinder circle dies, I don't have them so I borrowed them from a friend.  It also features pearls all over the wreath, a first too!  I made this as a gift to Chad's cousin who just got married in her wedding colors.  It's a great way to have your wedding colors in your home!

I currently have 4 wreaths wrapped with yarn just waiting for me to make flowers for them!  I wrap them in the car or out and about.  You would be surprised at how much I can wrap as a passenger in the car while Chad drives!  Multi tasking!  I am doing 2 small craft sales with wreaths (and cards of course!) And may try to do a bigger one, haven't decided.  I get a lot of custom orders and that keeps me busy too.

Chad just got an iphone, his cell (a blackberry) went on Thursday and well a Realtor needs a phone so we went around and checked the deals and such.  Ended up with an iphone and well we are both loving it.  Wreath making in the car may not occur as much because now I stroll the internet instead lol!  I downloaded instagram in my name (told Chad he better not think of it) and have been really loving it! So if your on instagram I am anitareck  find me!  Now I want an iphone!

Always Thinking of You

Hello my Crafty Friends, it's Friday!  After a busy but short week of course I am excited for the weekend!  We have some fun stuff planned this weekend!  :>  Today I have a card to share that I make for Scrapbooking Cafe Online!  I am so enjoying being part of this design team!  Here is my card:

I used the My Mind's Eye's Sweetest Thing, bluebell pad and the dies perched bird by Memory Box and Lorelei leaf by Poppy Stamps!

I wanted to share a wreath that I made for a friend, it was a special order she picked out everything inspired by a wreath she saw on pintrest and I made it for her.

 

Here it is on her door, doesn't her doorway look so fall?

Well that's it for me, tomorrow I am doing a kids clothing and toy sale and I am just about ready! Feels good to clean out the basement, and any money we make we put it back into the kids activities and well they always seem to need more clothes, not that I mind!

Holiday Cards and More!

Hello my crafty Friends!  It's a snowstorm over here!  Big fluffy snowflakes flying everywhere!  Wait it's only October 9th how can this be?  Sigh oh boy we may have a long winter over here!  Both kids have school today so hubby and I enjoyed a breakfast date before working!

Today I have a card to share that I had published in Holiday Cards and more, seems fitting to share since it's snowing over here!  This is a fantastic holiday issue and I am honored to have a card in it!

And this is my card:

For complete supplies and directions you can find it on page 33!

Well that's it from  me!  I have my crafty supplies all out sitting there waiting for me!  Off to create!  :>

Fall Yarn, Felt Flowers and Branches Wreath

Happy Thanksgiving my Crafty Friends!  We are celebrating thanksgiving here in Canada this weekend!  We have already enjoyed two yummy turkey dinners and tonight we are celebrating with my parents, so more turkey!  I love turkey!  :>  I have so much to be thankful for!  An amazing husband I love, two gorgeous children, a great family, a warm home, and so much more!  And I am so thankful for this hobby that relaxes me!  I so enjoy being creative!  And I am so thankful to have this blog to share my creations!  I am also thankful for all my friends I've made through this blog!

Today I have a wreath that I just made to share!  This one is a bit different:

I wrapped the wreath in a chenille like textured yarn in a straw color.  8 handmade felt flowers in warm yellow, red, orange and warm brown adorn this wreath.  I've finished it with 3 branches with fall colored silk leaves on it!  I really like what the branches bring to the wreath!  I've also added this wreath to my etsy shop you can find it here.

Well that's it from me today!  Off to spend the day with my wonderful family!  I hope to be a better blogger this week, I have stuff to catch up on!  :>

Happy World Card Making Day!

Happy World Card Making Day my Friends!  Yay it's our favorite day of the year!  The day we celebrate our love for card making!  :>  Do you have card making fun on the agenda for today?  I do!  :>  

First I wanted to send out a big thank you for all your amazing comments on my last post where I shared the clips of Ariel and I on the tv show we did!  Thank you so much for all your love!

I have to have a card to share with you today!  :>  It's fitting because it's a thank you card:

This is one of my favorite color combos!  I stamped with white frost ink the dot flower background by Hero Arts onto the kraft cardstock.  Heat embossed with Chestnut Zing powder the Engraved Flowers by HA and colored them in with Tattered Angels spray mist!  Heat embossed the sentiment from the Good Friends set by HA in white and colored the lace with tattered angels mist too!  :>  This card is very me isn't it?

I wanted to share with you my new way of taking photos of my card, I used to take photos on a chair beside the window but now I've actually started taking photos on the window ledge when it's sunny directly on the window like this:

I layer maybe 5 pieces of white cardstock of the background (otherwise not solid enough) and one of the bottom, it's so much brighter and works so much better! I want to get a few 12 by 12 to do this so a bigger background.  I am really happy with this as it saves me some editing.  I hate editing and am not so good at it.  I took the above photo of the card like this and it looks bright, right?

Well that's it from me today!  :>  Hope you enjoy WCMD fun!

Thanksgiving Kids Crafts!

Hello my crafty Friends!  Today is an exciting day!  This morning Ariel and I were on a local Winnipeg Television show doing Thanksgiving kids crafts!  Thanksgiving here in Canada is this Monday!  I think it went really well!  Everyone at Breakfast Television were so kind and easy to work with!  Just two days ago it was hot and short wearing weather but this morning when we opened up the garage we saw rain and snow!  Thankfully we left so early that even in I can't believe it's snowing already I forgot how to drive traffic we made it early!  Why is it when it snows for the first time Winnipeg drivers forget how to drive?  We drive in snow most of the year!

These are the crafts that we made:

A leaf turkey!  Would you like to watch the video of the show here.

And in the second segment we made these pine cone turkeys:

You can see the video of that here.

I hope that you enjoyed it!  Ariel and I really did!  Ariel loves crafts just as much as me and was really excited for this!  :>  And if your wondering I would do it again!  I love sharing my creativity with others!  I feel passionate about being creative in all areas of my life.  I find joy and relaxation in being crafty and with how busy life can be it is much needed!  I want to spread the joy of creating can be so locally here in Winnipeg and area I will be teaching Holiday Card Classes (click the photo for it to get bigger easier to read)

 

 Well that's it for me!  Hope you have a great night and thank you for stopping by!

September Publications!

Hello my Crafty Friends!  Can you believe it's October?  I sure cannot!  Thankfully after a dreary cool September gorgeous warm fall weather came here this weekend!  We enjoyed it immensely! Just a few minute drive from our house the city built a new park and we have been enjoying it so!  The kids have been having so much fun, well so have I, it's a great park!

Today I am here to share my September CARDS and Create: Stamping Idea Book publications!  September was my best month so far with publications!  What a blessing!  AND the night that all the emails went out was the day that it was announced that I was one of the Stamping Royalty winners!  So yes it was an amazing day!  I had 6 cards picked up between both magazines!  3 in each!  I am going to share 4 cards, 2 from each!

This one was in CARDS for Back to School!

This one from CARDS too for Baby:

This one is in Create:  Stamping Idea Book for markers:

And this one also in Create: Stamping for My Favorite Stamp (this one really is)

That's it from me!  I am excited to share that on Thursday Ariel and I will be on a local television show Breakfast Television on Citytv here in Winnipeg (channel 8 for local peeps) doing a Thanksgiving craft!  I for sure will be blogging about it! :>  Thanks for all your sweet comments and visiting!  ::>