Calendar Girls - February

A little late with my post, couldn't get a good picture in the nighttime darkness.  I still had a hard time getting descent pictures in the light of day, but here it is.  It was Kelly's turn to host.  The theme.......Share the Love.  You had to create a card that was about something that you love.  Well, papercrafting, of course.  But, I needed another so I took my second love, Sewing.  I am the daughter of and early 1960's old fashioned Home Ec teacher.  Though my mom only taught for 4 years in the school system, she has used her education throughout her everyday life.  Sewing is a huge love for her.  She uses her sewing machine almost daily.  I've been sewing projects for as long as I can remember, though my mom has always been there to help out when needed.  As my kids have grown up, I've given her my "requests" for outfits and such and gotten her assistance with projects of my own.  Two years ago I decided it was time to get back into sewing and not just watch my sewing machine collect dust.  My mom and I joined a quilt block club at our local sewing store.  Now my mom knows how to do all this stuff, but I don't.  So it's been a fun mother/daughter club that I hope continues for many more years.

The front stamp of the pincushion is from Hot off the Press and a gift from my friend, Barb that I've been wiating for some time to put it to use.  I added some real pins and found a sewing set of buttons by Jesse James with a shiny thimble button.  I cut out the spool of thread and wrapped thread around.  I will definitely be using that stamp many times.  It's so fun to embellish.

The other stamps are from SU Sew Suite and SU designer paper with the little girl being a rub on.  I'm a little addicted to the line.  I've got a few packs of the paper, about 10 sets of the fabric (when it was $1 and it kept showing up in the clearance bin) the stamps, the rub ons, the fabric covered buttons and  the scrapbook.  So you might see this stuff again.  Thanks for stopping by and thank you Kelly for being such a great hostess with a wonderful theme.

  

Calendar Girls - January

I've been so blessed by being asked to join the Calendar Girls this year.  It's full of all my SCS friends and such a great inspiration to follow their blogs and keep adding to mine.  Our first challenge for the year, find a photo for inspiration and make a card for it.  So I went through my cell phone photos (where all my photos seem to live now) and found quite a few that I could work with, but this one stood out.

This is the Furby sitting in Walmart on the shelf.  My three daughters all ended up with a Furby for Christmas this year, but it was my 9 year old that had one on her Christmas list since September, or whatever day they were announced on tv that they were arriving.  The funny thing is, first she wanted an all Teal one, so that's what I bought.  Then they started selling them in the grocery store around Thanksgiving, she found a black and white one with different colored speckles in his fur.  Then about 10 days before Christmas we were in our local Walmart and she found this guy with the spikey hair.  In an effort to appease her, I took a picture of him so I would "remember" what he looked like when I could get back to purchase him.  What She didn't know was that I was quickly texting the picture to my husband who was also in the store so that he could purchase the little bugger before someone else got to him because he was the Only one.  So the original Furby that I bought in September could not be returned, but I wanted my 13 year old to have one anyway, so we gave him to her.  The second one from the grocery store, was returned to the store.  Christmas day the two girls open their Furby and by the end of the day, my 18 year old is planning a 7am shopping trip the next morning to purchase her own (she got quite a bit of Christmas cash and offered to buy her own).  So we now have a family full of Furbys, though my oldest has taken hers to the college dorm for the semester.

So here is my card.  I was really surprised when I did a search on Splitcoaststampers for "Furby" that nothing came up, but I decided to work with my photo and my punches until I came up with this little guy.  Having a large selection of punches to choose from, it didn't take long to get this little guy together.  I went with a Valentine theme because, it might be the first year I'm actually ready before Valentine's Eve so I jumped on the chance to "be prepared".

Here is the inside.  I kept it simple, she's only 9 and will barely open the inside anyway.

I'm looking forward to seeing what the other girls have used for inspiration this month.