Tuesday, June 26, 2012

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIFTS ....

Oh, I am quite miserable today !!!! A visit to the dentist this morning, has left me with a mouth that feels like it had a go around with a jack hammer .... what a wonderful discovery Aleve is :-)

My Mother-In-Law turns 80 tomorrow - quite a milestone birthday, I'm sure you'd all agree. I thought I'd show you what I made for her ...


Using these artist canvases (readily available at Hobby Lobby), I created this ....




A keepsake album, full of family pictures. It is lovely and sturdy, and stands up easily - book style. I can't take credit for the idea, my mom and I saw an album like this when we attended the Great American Scrapbook Convention in June. I do love how it turned out, and I hope she likes it too.

I also knitted her one of my frilly scarves (like I made for end of year teacher gifts). I thought I'd taken a picture to show you, but it seems I didn't.

Her birthday card was also handmade using a tutorial I found on line. It's called a cascading card ..... boy, does it have so many embellishment possibilities .... The blog I got it from stempeleinmaleins.blogspot.com is well worth a visit. It has some fabulous ideas.



The bottom picture, gives you a better idea of how it all pops together. I used my trusty Cricut to cut out the gnome, flowers, grass and clouds, which I then arranged to make my "picture".

Happy 80th Birthday Mom !!!!

3 comments:

  1. I love the gnome of course, but that canvas album you made is awesome. So creative! I'm sure she will love it!

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  2. The gnomie is adorable! The keepsake album is amazing. I'm sure she loved it! You always astound me with your paper crafting projects, they are all so amazing!

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  3. The effort you made is easy to follow...I am going to keep it in mind and will use if i remember.

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