First of all, we went to Michaels first thing in the morning today just because I just printed a 50% coupon from its website. After my first crazy purchase at Michaels, I am "disciplined" by only buying tools with coupons and clearance items at this "premium pricing" store. This is a very successful store by implementing some interesting marketing strategies. I've learned a lot. And these strategies are perfect match with women's buying habit, especially scrappy ladies, such as me. lol. Other than the moth butterfly punch that I intended to buy, I also picked up a few things as usual, a clear stamp, some letter stickers, another flower punch, etc (wink wink, the strategies I just talked about).
After Michaels' visit, we went to Costco to get the chocolate mouse cake. Just love this cake at Costco.
Well, here is what I did for my DH's 36th birthday. It's very hard to get a good picture of him. My photographer friend May once said he's got "sleepy eyes" in photography language. But how lucky I was when I caught this laughing moment of him.
Supplies used:
Patterned Paper: MME's Andrea Victoria; Background Paper: Prima Marketing's ??? (a free gift came with the purchase at Two Peas); Buttons: My mom's sewing stash; Twine & embroidery floss: dollar store
Inspired by Julie Bonner's February sketch for Imaginisce
It's one of my favourite LOs. I love the colour combinatin (always love orange and gray together). In this LO, I tried three new techniques (only new to me).
Fan flower - they're simple and cheap to make. All you need is pattern paper and some embellishments in your stash, such as buttons, brads and blings. I learned this from one of Helen Croft's fantastic Flower Tutorial. She's a very sweet and talented lady and one of my scrappy idols. Instead of the "Scotch" glue mentioned in her tutorial, I used Aleene's Fast Grab Tacky Glue instead, which is only $2 something at Wal-Mart.
I made five flowers with different sizes. Aren't they neat and cute?
Stitching- Quite unlike my mom, I'm not good at stitching at all. But I have to admit that stitching does add personal element to the LO. Inspired by Julie's LO, I'd decided to give it a try. When I searched the web for info on stitching, there are tons of articles on it, among which I found this one from About.Com quite easy to understand. The orange floss on the gray background is very eye-catching.
Curling Frame - It's the name created by me, but I learned it from somewhere on the web. It's very easy. Cut the paper in stripes and use toothpick to curl the paper. They look playful and dimensional. My son said they look like octopus.
All right, that's all I want to share today. Oh, one more thing. My little Abby can roll from back to tummy today. So excited! She'll soon be crawling around. How fun is that!
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Fantastic!
ReplyDeletep.s. Is it your intention to emphasize his L-A-G? LOL! XD