Happy Easter!

What a  busy weekend! 
My 4th grade students had some time to do Easter crafts in the classroom and they had a blast doing that! 
Some of the creations were masks, bunnies, decorated paper eggs, and much more! I wish we always had time for that, but it isn't easy to find that extra time for their artistic creations...

     Friday evening, I went to Pullman, WA with my husband because he won an excellence award through WSU for advancing diversity at Washington State University through distinctive and outstanding teaching, research, creativity, service, and outreach! It was a lot of fun!!! Needless to say that I'm VERY proud of him! For sure I'll scrapbook on those pictures pretty soon!

        Well, then on Saturday we got to hang out in Pullman, WA for a while and we ended up buying all sorts of WSU t-shirts and even WSU whiskey glasses! Sweet! They are really cool!
Then Easter came and we ended up at Anthony's for Easter brunch! Yummy! It has become our Easter tradition already. With so much going on, I ended up doing NO Easter crafts at all. So, I decided to look online for a Close To My Heart card that would express the Easter spirit! And that's what I found:

 

 Cute! 

Now here I am trying to post this and also trying to do my master's homework. Booooo :.( Posting on the blog is so much fun! Better than doing homework for sure, but the bad news is that it has to be done! 

Here are some pictures of our Easter celebration! 

 

Happy Easter everyone!

March Stamp of the Month

Happiness is Family Card

"Happiness is...Family" Card 

Card created by Karen Pedersen. The complete tutorial can be found at her blog.
Click here to access it.

I just loved her idea! Super cute card! :.) 

Here's a little step-by-step tutorial on how I created my own B&T paper:
1.  I began by stamping the chevron design stamp from the new In the Background stamp set in Champagne ink on a sheet of Colonial White Cardstock. This is a big stamp and so easy to line up.  This set also includes 2 other background stamps.

In the Background:  Actual size of carrier sheet is 6" x 6"

2. Once I filled a 12" x 12" sheet with the chevrons, I moved on to the stamps I wanted to use from the March Stamp of the Month (Floral Happiness). I started with the big, solid rose and stamped it randomly with Ruby ink.

March Stamp of the Month - Floral Happiness (actual size of carrier sheet is 6" x 6")

3.  Next I went back with the detail stamp for the large rose and stamped it on top of the roses in Cocoa ink.

4.  I filled in some of the blank spaces with a solid leaf stamped in New England Ivy ink.

5. I then topped of the leaves with the lined vein stamp done in Ponderosa Pine ink.

6. Lastly, I filled one of my Spray Pens up to the first measure line with Saddle Reinker.  I then filled up to the 5th line with water and shook it up.  Then I misted my whole sheet of patterned paper lightly with this spray.

Voila! Now I had a whole sheet of beautiful rose patterned paper. Actually, I had 4. I made four sheets and got about 25 cards and a layout out of them.  Here is a photo of my paper:

If you want to know the rest of the details of how to make this card (or even if you don't...lol!), here they are:
1. The card is a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card. I used one of our value pack Colonial White Cards and Envelopes. Love these!
1. The size of the piece of patterned paper at the top is 4" x 2 1/2"
2.  The Ponderosa Pine Cardstock piece at the bottom is 4" x 1 3/4"
3. The middle piece that says "Happiness is...FAMILY" is 4" x 1 strip of Colonial White Cardstock. I stamped it first with the chevron in stamp in Champagne ink and then the sentiments in Cocoa ink. The word "Family" came from another set, Family Love.
4.  I then glued that strip to a 4" x 1 1/2" piece of Ruby Cardstock and used my scallop scissors to trim both sides.  This then was adhered to a 4" x 1 1/2" piece of Colonial White Cardstock and then glued to the middle of the card.
5. To finish it off, I added 3 of the large Pearl Opaques to the bottom right corner.

Scrapbooking with fabric

Glitter Glam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Making memories!

One more fun Saturday (2 Saturdays ago)! 

 I miss my mom already since she already went back to Brazil last Thursday!