Hello my wonderful blog friends! I am sorry for the long blog silence. I have been struggling with finding a balanced schedule for everything. I am still working on one but am slowly getting things organized.

​The last couple of months have been all about Keira's dancing! We changed dance schools at the beginning of the year so she was not able to compete for the first half of the year. She got back to competing in July and everything since then has been taken up with dancing. Lol! We are not complaining, but we have been busy!

​Even though I have not blogged in forever, I have still been creating. I am currently working on Keira's dance class Halloween treat boxes and her dance class Christmas cards. I cannot wait to show you!

​I just finished making my first Christmas card of the year. Here is a little sneak.

I am hoping to get some more cards done next weekend as I have a very busy week ahead of me.

I hope you enjoy this little sneak peek and I will post the full card later this week! Have a wonderful Monday

I watercolored the background and colored in the adorable Lawn Fawn monsters. I stamped the sentiment on a fishtail banner and popped the monsters all lined up to wish the recipient a happy birthday. Love these monsters!

Have a great weekend!

Happy Monday morning everyone!

​Life seems to be just getting back to a regular schedule. For the months of September and October, Keira had 5 dance classes every week! She was preparing for the Eastern Canadian Irish Dance Regionals (Oireachtas). She danced very well and did a great job for her first time competing against champion dancers!

We are now getting into the holiday spirit around here! 

I took Keira to see Santa at the mall yesterday for his arrival. I believe this will be her last year believing, so I am going to embrace her enthusiasm for all things Santa.

I created a template for her to write her letter to Santa. I had a lot of fun creating this one! I used a couple of Lawn Fawn stamp sets to create the image I had in my head for this letter.

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I love how it turned out!

I left it uncoloured for Keira to colour herself. She is so excited to write her letter today as part of English class!

I have added this Letter to Santa as a PDF download to share with all of you as well! I hope you enjoy and have fun watching your kids create their letters.

​Have a great day!

I hope everyone is having a great week so far. I am not liking the heat that we have been getting! I am so ready for the cooler temps! 

I am already starting on some fall crafts. Keira and I made some fall wreaths from cardstock last week for art class. You can see a picture of Keira's wreath if you follow along on Instagram.

I the meantime, here is a birthday card!

I stamped the jar from Lawn Fawn and the flowers from a Sizzix set. I love the colour of the gingham!

Hope you enjoy!

Have a great end of the week!

I hope everyone is having a great summer so far!

July was a whirlwind and relaxing at the same time! Keira and I went to Rhode Island for the North American Championship, where she did a fantastic job! I am a super proud momma!

When we came home, hubby and I were on vacation for another week, along with my two step-daughters. We really took it easy and just relaxed. It felt great not to rush!

I have been getting in some crafty time and getting some new goodies to play with!

Hubby's aunt and uncle celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary recently, so I just had to make a card for them!

I just love these little birds from Lawn Fawn! I sprayed the card base with a pink mist and layered on a piece of vellum. I die cut the banner using Lawn Fawn's Stitched Hillside Borders dies and then heat embossed the sentiment in gold. I also die cut a bunch of different hearts from Lawn Fawn's Hearts dies and covered them in clear Wink of Stella glitter.

I popped everything but the vellum up using foam tape to give the card a little dimension. Obviously I forgot to take photos before I wrote in the card! Happens more than you think!

Thanks for hanging in with me through my absence! Have a great Monday!

Sorry I have been so sporadic with my blog posts lately. I am trying to come up with a schedule for everything that will work for us. Along with Keira's 4 dance classes a week to prep for the North American Irish Dance Championships! Did I mention that this is happening this week! We leave on Wednesday for Rhode Island. 

Keira has worked so hard on her dancing this year. Hubby and I could not be more proud of her! I will probably cry like a baby while she is on stage and suck it up for when she comes back to our seats! LOL!

Now, onto the crafty side of this blog!

I have been crafting and making cards when I can squeeze in some time. Earlier this month, I made this birthday card for my mother-in-law.

I started by die cutting the largest stitched rectangle from Lawn Fawn's set out of some aqua cardstock and sprayed it with a gold mist. I then die cut then next largest stitched rectangle from the set out of some white cardstock. I used Finley's ABCs dies to die cut the word Happy into the white cardstock. I love the richness of the razzle berry in from MFT! I glued everything down except for one flower that is popped up onto foam adhesive.

I think I need to stamp some images to take with me to Rhode Island! I can colour while Keira goes to sleep!

Have a great Monday!

We have been super busy so far this month! And the month is not over yet!!!

This past weekend, we were in Brampton, Ontario for a dance competition. It also happened to be Keira's birthday! Because we have a busy schedule until the first week of July, I made a compromise with Keira that I would take her to the Disney store in Brampton in lieu of a birthday party. She agreed!!!

She had a blast! They even sang "Happy Birthday" to her and gave her a pin. She had a permanent smile on her face the entire night! She also had a great day at feis on Saturday, coming home with 3 first place medals and 1 second place medal!

My oldest step-daughter had her convocation the week before last. I just had to make her a card, but I didn't want it to be the traditional graduation card.

I love this little stamp set from Lawn Fawn. That little hippo is just adorable! I covered the letters with clear Wink of Stella glitter for some sparkle.

I fussy cut al the images as I don't have the dies for this set yet and popped them onto some foam adhesive. I then covered the balloons with glossy accents to give them some shine.

I hope you enjoy and have a great day!

I am loving the Monster Mash stamp set from Lawn Fawn! I can't seem to put it away!

I have made 3 cards with it so far and have all of the little monsters stamped out and ready to colour for some more!

This first card is very simple, but I just love it!

I die cut the largest stitched rectangle from Lawn Fawn using some grey cardstock. I then cut the next rectangle from the Large stitched rectangle set out of white. All of my images are stamped directly onto the white stitched rectangle and coloured in with copics. I added some glossy accents to the little monsters eyes and a googly eye to the big monster. I love this sentiment with these cute monsters! 

I of course had to add some clear Wink of Stella glitter to the little hearts!

Have a great day!

I am so looking forward to this weekend! We have nothing planned for Saturday, so I am going to relax and do some crafting!

I got some new stamps and dies recently and I can't seem to stop playing with them! I love all of the cute critters that Lawn Fawn comes out with, so I just had to play with these cute little hamsters!

I used some modeling paste for the first time to stencil on the dot background. I think I need to get some more stencils!

I stamped the sentiment that comes in this set. I think it adorable, just like that cute little hamster!

A few die cut glitter hearts finished off my card.

I can't wait to play with this set again!

Sometimes I like to make little gifts to give to Keira. She is a great kid who works hard at both school and dance. The gift could be a little note, a new barrette, or something else altogether.

I decided it had been awhile since I made her a barrette, so I needed to make her a new one!

I grabbed some turquoise felt, some shrink plastic, and a stamp set!

I cut a square out of the felt and made it into a pin-wheel. I then used an ice cream stamp from a company that is now closed called There She Goes. I stamped the ice cream onto some shrink plastic, coloured it with markers, and then shrank it. I love this stuff! Watching it shrink is great fun!

I then hot glued some ribbon onto a barrette, and hot glued everything else onto the barrette.

I couldn't give it to Keira just like that, so I made a little goodie bag to gift it to her in.

I used some Lawn Fawn stamps to heat emboss the hearts in gold and the sentiment in white.

Keira was so happy with her new barrette! I think she wore it every day that week!

I can't wait to see her face when I give her her birthday card I made her!

Have a great day!