Tassels and Mortarboards

Okay, I have to confess something. It's terrible. I was unprepared, so I had to do something I said I would never have to to again...

I bought a card. At the store. *sigh* I went to two graduation parties this weekend, and didn't have any graduation cards in my stash. For the first party, I at least had a cool generic card that would work just fine. But I didn't have time between Saturday and Sunday to make another one, so I had to buy one. But I made sure I bought something that I'd never make myself... I felt like that might somehow justify what I was doing. Haha.

Anyway, needless to say, my projects for today are an attempt to make sure this doesn't happen again! Lol. This first project is for 365 Cards' challenge to use five squares. I kept this one pretty simple, but I like it.

Here are a couple more with caps and tassels...


And lastly, here's a project I did just for fun. I have a few of these boxes sitting around and I've been wanting to decorate them. I thought this turned out really pretty :-)

Teeny Tiny

Yesterday I spent the afternoon helping my mom with a project for her Apples of Gold ladies' group. She finally took a break to make lunch, and while she was gone, Gina Marie and I played with some scraps left on the table.

Gina Marie created the little paper flower by intersecting two green hearts for the leaves/base, then glued on a punched flower (Paper Shapers), and used a 1/8" hole punch for the center.

I made the little box... it's only about 1" square. At the last minute I decided to add the teen-tiny lady bug (we used the 1/8" punch again) on a little piece of wire.

I just thought it was cute. It's not big enough to keep anything in, so I don't know what we'll ever do with it, but there it is. Haha.

Yay! The front page!

I just have to say something about this 'cuz it's so cool...

I was getting ready to leave for church, but before I closed up my computer, I decided to click on Etsy one last time-- and there it was! On the front page!! Click here to see a screen shot of the treasury by olahav.

This is the item that was featured:

White Butterfly Kraft Gift Box