June has been so much fun! It truly has. We have already been to several pool parties, splash pad play-dates and it has been so fun. And all that outside fun equals no inside fun. So honestly I have not one single crafty thing to share with you today. But I do have 2 things coming up that I'm going to be working on. The first is a birthday card for hubby and the second is 4th of July mantel decor. I really want it to be nice. And so I plan to start that soon. So unitl next time, try to stay cool. I surely have been trying to espeially with 110 plus degree weaher. Smiles, Tracy

Ferris Wheel Birthday

I enjoy making cards. I truly do. I think personally out of all the crafts that I do, card making is my "fun" thing. There isn't one obligation to making cards to me. And so that is why I tend to try new things or even go the extra on making them. 

Most of my cards are something that starts out as an idea of something that I want to try or do. But sometimes my ideas become too much and I really take way too long to make one card. Last night after working on an idea for the Lawn Fawn admit one stamp set; I decided that the original idea that I had to make the card should really wait until I figure out exactly how I can make the ferris wheel turn. Not wobble but actually turn. But until then, here is the finished card that I completed.

Oh I used the polaroid diecut by Quickutz again. Mostly because I have had it since it was released and I have only used it 3 times. This being the 3rd. So I'm looking for ways to use it other than the tradional way in order to want to use it. Although I do have a scrapbook page planned (no photos taken yet) where I use it as a polaroid.

The rest of the supplies:
Balloon diecuts- BossKut die
pinking circle-Spellbinders
Flag-handcut
Scolloped border-Martha Stewart
Bling-Unknown
Bakers Twine-Unknown
Happy Bday stamp-Studio G
Copic Markers-
Patterned papers- Echo Park, WRMK

Well I was looking through photos on my camera and realized that I had never shared the photos of  my Mom's day cards and mantel, and that the one photo I had of the mantel with the flowers on it that I got was way to blurry.

I am ok with it being on a scrapbooking page but I guess it wouldn't look right if I shared it on here. But here is one of the cards and framed Mother saying from my family.

 

 

And also since I was going over photos I decided that I should show off the cards that I made with twine. I like these cards but they didn't turn out how I imagined that they would so I am going to put this one in my stash and remake the card that I imagined. But this is a really simple but cute card. I do like it now that I look at it but I really do want to play around with the design and add a few embossed clouds and such. Hopefully when I start making the new card I won't get distracted by the girls and them wanting me to sew them a rainbow too. Well I'm off to plan our Dad's day mantel.



Dies for sale

Well I have been busy going through some of my dies and taking the ones out that I don't use to be sold. I was originally thinking that I should sell them at a garage sale but it has been too hot recently to be outside for a garage sale. Which I now understand why the few garage sales that are here are done by 8am. It was in the 90s at 9am this morning.

So I am going to sell  these on my blog and the for sale board on twopeasinabucket.com also.  I will take paypal only. So here are the dies..

Sizzix letter dies (sold seperately for $10 each)

Wingo Zingo $10
Slobbery Kiss $10



Quickutz Dies

Funky Chicken $3 (RS-0272) ,

Zoo Animals $20  this set comes with all the animal the entire animal set (all 4 animals) Retired set (lowest price found of $32) ,

 Frog die set $4 (KS-0067) out of stock at lifestylecrafts.com and priced at 6.99 on their site.

Label square dies-2 dies
 (KS-0946) $4 regular price 6.99

Penguine Die (KS-0602) $4 regular price 6.99

Bracket $2 (RS-0940)

Spicy Chicken Alphabet set $45 (this price includes shipping and handling only)This set will be sent in a flat rate box.


All my dies are well kept and most haven't been used but are not in original packaging because of how I store them. They will be shipped with insurance/tracking and I will need your zipcode in order to give you th cost of shipping.

More scrap space photos..

I was asked a question a couple of times on two peas so I decide that I should maybe post the answer on here as well. The question is what do I have in stored in my drawers and how do I store my items... Well the easy answer to the first question is easy lots of stuff. LOL no seriously my drawers are full of all things scrapbook/craft related. So I decided to show you the insides of some of the drawers. These drawers are all located on the left side of my desk chair/standing area. I put supplies that I really didn't have to worry about the girls being interested in on this side of my desk since it is the closes to their desk.  The first drawer is full of random office supplies that I use in scrapbooking and in my planner. I didn't take a photo of that because I really didn't think it was all that interesting. But the 2nd drawer is full of punches that I absolutely won't get rid of. I have had these forever and the ones that I didn't keep I just gave to the girls.

The 3rd drawer is my bakers twines, twine, jute and threads. I have them stored in an IKEA drawer organizer. And since they don't take up the whole 18inch drawer I added my push pin heart, and needles to the drawer too.

And finally the 4th  drawer is my ribbon storage. I had my ribbon stored like this before but I wanted a space that supported the whole 12 by 7 piece of chipboard so that it wouldn't warp and putting it in a drawer was the best decision. Plus I don't get stuck with the pin that hold the ribbon in place anymore because I can now grab them from the sides and I haven't been poked once since they have been stored in here.

I think that is enough of what is in my drawers for now. I have been scrapbooking the kids' albums and honestly I am excited to get my pages done of the photos that I printed. And once I have done that I will actually post a picture of the layouts that I completed for each one of my kid's albums. Well good night for now. Smiles, Tracy

An airplane birthday card

Well I started making a card for my son's 11th birthday. And originally I thought to use the papertrey airplane stamps that I had purchased a few yrs ago and so that is what I did.

And that card was absolutely adorable which totally was an issue.An eleven year old doesn't  like adorable. So I had to create another card that wasn't as adorable. But more pre-teen then he is.

But here is the card that I originally made. See isn't it cute!

But what I realized is that my card making skills are rusty and I really need to get to making more cards again for both my stash and maybe for my etsy shop too. So I plan on making a new card once a week this summer.

But the good part about the card is that I actually used patterened papers that I hadn't used in forever. I hadn't used any chatterbox papers in over a year. And it was really nice to pull out something from those lines that I just had to have.

And for the actual card that I made for him is below. I can't say that I love it. But he did.  I used my polaroid die from Quickutz. It is really old and I have had it well over 3 yrs (even longer) but I decided that I should use it since it would be the first time that I actually used that die. Sad but true.

Happy 4th Birthday

I completed a card for one of the May31 challenges. I needed to use the projects that I took from the challenge what worked for me since I was in a rush to get a card done for my daughter's birthday this week. I know that the challenge was to complete a project in minutes (I forgot how many) but it took me 45 minutes to make this card with supplies that I had on my desk that I was planning to use.

So here is the completed the card.

I used a lot of the ideas for the 4yr old birthday page that I did for my oldest daughter. I used pretty much the same punches and dies that I had sitting on my desk. I didn't use a stamped image because I picked up these stickers from the dollar store a few months back and I thought that they would be amazing for birthday cards. And as it turns out it was. I have 5 more stickers from the collection and I plan on making 3 more cards and then giving the rest to the girls for their scrapbooking stash. The stickers are of a couple of ice-cream cones, a cake and a donut. I altered the cupcake sticker that I put on the front of this card by cutting off the waffle cone looking thing that was sticking out the side of the sticker.

I haven't used stickers in forever, well image stickers because I got rid of most of them before we moved but now I can see that sometimes they are the perfect thing for a birthday card. The actual card measures 6inches wide by 5 inches high.   I need to make my son's birthday card because his birthday is tomorrow. Smiles, Tracy

PS the supplies are
Dollar Tree 6stickers
Spellbinders dies standard circle large, pinking circles large
Quickutz diesel alphabets, Aligator unicase alphabets and polka dots embossing folder
EK Sucess Star punch and triangle punch
American crafts ribbons
and Colorbox chalk ink pads