Poor Neglected Blog!

I have been so busy lately that I have not had any time to craft *gasp*! So today a good buddy is coming over and we are going to craft it up I hope to overload this blog with posts!!! So stay tuned!!!

My Valentine Window

Well we have had a crazy time around our house which has included going to NYC to meet my husband's daughter! I am planning on blogging about it on our family blog. So needless to say I have been decorating or crafting very much. Well yesterday I decided our house needed some Valentine cheer! I saw this fabulous idea and decided to try it. If you have not read the Homespun Heart, I highly recommend this blog. She is to me the ideal homemaker and her family seems sooo sweet! She also has the links to the great vintage Valentines!
So here is what I did:
STEP 1

Gather your scrapbook paper and vintage images.

STEP 2
Cut out hearts to size you want. I used the cricut and the George cartridge and cut the heart out at 9 inches. Homespun Heart said to used double sided scrapbook paper, which I HIGHLY recommend. I didn't have any so I used two pieces and sewed them together to make them doublesided.

STEP 3

I inked around the edges of the heart to continue with the vintage theme.

STEP 4
I don't have a picture for this but you can refer to Homespun Heart. Cut out your vintage images and glue to your hearts. The fold the hearts in half.
STEP 4.5

Make sure you have a cute (embarrassed) assistant!
STEP 5

Take two of your hearts and sew down the center fold. Punch a hole at the top and this is what you have:





And here is the completed banner. I heart it!

Kazan's Sketch 44

Yea!! I am finally back to crafting. I joined in over at 2 sketches 4 you this week to participate in the card challenge. It has been MONTHS since I last participated and that was on my old blog. So click

HERE to check out this challenge blog and see all the fabulous entries!

Here is this week's sketch (i have no clue why the font just changed, lol.)

Kazan's Sketch 44

And here is my take, it is a birthday card for my big brother. I have such a hard time making cards for men, but this stamp set for StampinUp helped me out!

Cards galore

***Be sure to click on the photo if you want to see a larger image.
My best friend is the best, lol! She gave me ALL of her card and scrapbook magazines and there were a ton!!! Should post a picture, maybe I will later. Any way these cards were inspired by one the examples in one of the magazines. They are thank you cards for all the great Christmas gifts we received.






This is a thank you card for a dear friend also inspired by the magazines.

A Birthday card for my niece based on the same layout:

I didn't write down the dimensions of these cards but from now on I will try to give those along with my sources.

Welcome!

I am so excited to start this blog. I still have my family blog over at www.pgmscraps.blogspot.com (probably should change the name!). I created this one to display my craft projects. While I love crafting I often have a hard time coming up with ideas hince I am a craftlifter. So I will be sure to link to the blogs that I get my ideas from. I won't put up the tutorials on here that way you can go to the blogger who orginally had the idea. If I make any changes to the project I will give the information on here. I also will use this blog to enter challenges. I am hoping the challenges will keep me on track for getting cards and scrapbooking done! So Welcome and I hope to meet a lot of crafty bloggers!!!