Chocolate trifold

I started on this last night after my kids went to bed. I was working on it but decided that I just had to go to bed. It felt like it was about 11 or 12 midnight. I cleaned up my area a bit and went in to get in bed and it was barely 10 o'clock! Weird...so I went to be early. Yes, 10 is very early for me. It was a good thing because daylight savings started today and I lost an hour of sleep.

I finished this this evening. It wasn't a very difficult project. I just covered three coasters with the new chocolate paper from the SU spring mini catalog, using the snail adhesive. I used my new cropadile to punch the holes in the coaster (love that new tool!!) and then tied chocolate ribbon through them. I tied them with the knots on the front because I thought it looked cuter that way. This is meant to stand up on a mantel or something, not to close up, so the ribbon is mostly for looks. These pictures are some of the same ones that were on my canvas I posted a few days ago. When my mom saw that, she did the pouty...."I wish I had those pictures of the kids..." thing, so this is for her. I added some prima flowers and beads using glue dots and crystal effects. I stamped "LOVE" with my new Rough edges alphabet and punched the letters out using the 1/4" circle punch. I hope mom likes it!!

Comments

shari said…

The chocolate paper looks great with the sepia tone pictures! Thanks for sharing!!

March 12, 2007 at 12:08 PM

Bradley

Sunday, my best friend died. My sweetheart of 20 years died suddenly from diabetes. We didn't know he had diabetes. It came quick and took him from me. Brad was more than just my husband, he was my best friend. I relied so very much on his strength to guide me and my children through this life. I admit I feel a bit lost without him, already. I had planned on much, much more time with him. Brad and I met on January 28th, 1989. We were both at a nightclub for under age night with our friends that had dragged us there. We were both ready to leave when we were talked into one more dance. That dance changed our lives. We hit it off right away and danced the rest of the night. In face, we were together from then on. I remember that after that night, I waited all day for his call. It was love right away for me. I felt something I had never felt before and knew that he was the one for me. We dated for six months before Brad went to Texas to go to school. We talked a lot on the phone, and I

Bloggers challenge and candy

I know I said I would post some blog candy yesterday but I didn't even get near my computer! What a crazy day! I had planned on doing it the night before but...I was in the kitchen doing the dishes and I was so dog tired that I laid my head down on the counter for a minute. My son came into the room and said, "go to bed mom, dad and I will do the dishes." Now, who in thier right mind would turn down that offer? My boys HATE to do anything in the kitchen that doesn't involve eating. I immediately turned off my water(boiling for herb tea) and skedaddled upstairs and went to bed. I'm no dummy! The kitchen was not cleaned to my standards, but I'm not about to look a gift horse in the mouth! Speaking of gifts, I have a little blog candy offer today. In honor of my 8000 hits, I am offering the following: A simply scrappin kit "Just Delightful", a stamp set "Delight in Life", three mini spools of ribbon, some acrylic tiles AND a copy of the latest

Doubles with candy!!

Today is another fun summer day at my house. The kids are running here and there and I'm just trying to keep up. I realized I hadn't sent out Father's day cards yet, so that is what I worked on today. I tried to keep these nice and clean and manly. I remember going to a demonstration at a Stampin' Up! convention years ago where Kevin Theeson and another guy(I forget his name....) talked about 'manly' cards. One of the things they stressed was that guys don't like cards made with pastel cards. They prefer bold bright and earth element colors. I'm not sure if they suggested we stay away from florals too, but I kind of figured that was a safe idea. ;o) For this card I started with some textured Wild Wasabi cardstock cut to 10-1/2 x 5-1/4. That gave me a 5-1/4" card when folded. The striped paper across the center is from a retired SU simply scrappin kit...primary colors I think it was called. I added a strip of Real Red to each side of the stripes for

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