My mother-in-law's birhtday cards

I found the idea for this card on sizzix.com about 2 months ago. I had no idea what I was in for, though! Each PETAL of the flowers is a separate piece and the die only allows you to punch 4 petals at once. I also added rhinestones and pearls to the center of each of the little flowers. Very time consuming to cut them out but not as bad as I thought to put it all together. She's a scrapbooker, too, so I know she can appreciate the time and effort that went into this one. The other card is just a little 2 3/4 x 4 notecard...I found a nice sentiment online that I wanted to use and just did a simple card with a Prima paper butterfly in one of Marge's favorite colors.

Another birthday card and checkbook cover

A simple, understated 30th birthday card =) The checkbook cover was a little more work. My friend, Chu, loves an anime show called Bleach. I have NO idea what it is so I did my research and found some pictures on the internet. I don't know the characters or anything else about it so I chose one with the whole cast and thought that it turned out pretty well.

James & Jayne's birthday cards

The Haubner twins will be 5 on July 13th and are counting down the days! I've had their presents for a long time but just now got the time to work on their cards. It was nice having Hannah here - she likes working the Sizzix machine and was such a big help with these cards! This was a 2 night project because we didn't have enough steam to finish them on Monday night but we got them assembled and completed yesterday. Mark 2 more things off my list! YAY!

Helping the Haubners with scrapbook pages...

On Monday, Krista (my "boss" - hard for me to think of her that way!) asked me if would mind helping the kids each make a scrapbook page for a birthday party they were going to that night. DUH! =) She made copies of pictures of the kids with the birthday girl and wanted those on there and then gave us a ladybug stamp to use, since that was the theme of the party. Jayne had already done hers, I think she's a scrapper in the making, but decided that it needed a few extra embellishments so she worked on it with us. James is not really into crafts much though he has recently started to color a lot so he colored a picture and we cut it out to make that the main part of his page - seemed fitting. He also likes to use the craft punches, so he punched out the shapes for his page. Jenna pooped out and was asleep before we even got started on this so Jayne colored a picture and she and I put her page together. It was so much fun! I'm excited that Jayne is getting into this - she loves making cards and things for people!

Another Checkbook Cover

This one was a little harder to do and required a lot of help from my computer-savvy husband to make it happen. My friend, Kathy, owns an online business and I wanted to use her logo to make her check book cover. The logo was too big to just photo shop so it took James quite a while to get it just right. She's into south west type things and I wasn't able to find any stickers or even nice photos online that I could copy and I think this turned out better anyway.

Love notes?!

For some reason, Jayne (one of the 4 year old twins that I watch) decided that she wanted to make a picture for my husband. She worked long and hard on it at the little table in their play room and wouldn't let me even have a peek before it was finished! She also has a brother named James so she called in to me, asking how to spell "Fischer" because she wanted to put James' name on it but didn't want her brother stealing it! *laughs* She also told me to be sure to tell James to take this picture to work and hang it up, which he proudly did. He then decided to draw her a picture in return and had me bring it to her. She was so proud of it that she had to clear everything off of her white board and hang it up there (I have no idea where it is today, though). Am I passing love notes back and forth between Jayne and my husband?! =) I thought it was so cute. As you know, I just have to share:

Misty's Birthday present

Well, part of it, at least. =) I made this tote bag for her - just an iron on and a canvas tote bag from Michael's.....

A productive 4th of July

With no plans and nothing really to do (who wants to clean the house?!), Hannah and I came to the basement to do a little scrapping. To my surprise, she even jumped in and made a birthday card and a book mark for herself! I've been trying to convert her.... *laughs* My accomplishments were a birthday card for my sister in law and I made Hannah a cover for a planner for next year, since she doesn't have a check book...yet. We've had iTunes playing in the background and have had a fun girls' night! The first picture is the card that I made and then the planner cover and the other ones are Hannah's things. Oh and I forgot to mention that we've been to Archiver's since she's been in Cincinnati! She seemed to enjoy herself =)