Sep 18, 2012 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages, Wildlife |
I posted this My Digital Studio scrapbook page on MyDigitalStudio.net today. It is an older page that I made quite some time ago. I’m posting it again because Stampin’ Up! now has a weekly contest and this weeks challenge was to create a project that used 10 or more photos – and guess what this one fits the challenge! So I’m asking you to do me a favor – go visit the site and LIKE my page – http://mydigitalstudio.net/photo/tufted-titmouse – and if you want leave me a comment too.
This is the story of the Tufted Titmouse that raised their family in my backyard. I thought it would be neat to do this page as a calendar and insert the pictures that I took on the days that I took them so it would show the progress from choosing a bird house, building a nest, laying the eggs, feeding and raising the babies and then when the finally fledged. I wish I had been there on that last day to take a picture but its hard to be there right on the exact day.
So vote for me and if I win I get a free My Digital Studio digital download next week. Every Tuesday Stampin’ Up! has new downloads available. And the My Digital Studio 2 is awesome – I love all the new features. If you live locally to me – Cindy and I are having My Digital Studio Digi Crop nights on Tuesdays starting next week on Sept. 25th. Visit my Facebook business page for the event details – you can rsvp there and while you are at LIKE my page – I just hit 100 likes today!
Thanks!!
Jul 14, 2012 | Almost Artisan, Wildlife |
I wanted to finish sharing my Stampin’ Up! Artisan Design Team entries with you. Since I wasn’t selected as a finalist hopefully they will at least be on display at convention. But since you can’t see who created the display items I thought I better finish sharing them here. This is one of my 3D projects. Every spring I love to watch the birds in my backyard – they search for places to build their nests, decide on a house, build the nest, lay their eggs and raise their babies. In fact I just had a family of bluebirds – with 3 eggs and I think just in the last day or two the babies have fledged (left the nest). Anyway I try to take pictures through out the spring of the progress and decided to use those photosas the inspiration for this project.
I used one of the popular sectioned frames (I’m not sure what they really call it) and created a collage type project with various pictures and elements. Here are some close ups of each section.
frame 1
frame 2 – poem
frame 3 – the eggs, a little chipboard house
frame 4 – love birds
frame 5 – feeding the baby
frame 6 – at the birdbath
Each section has different elements. The colors are Baja Breeze, Cajun Craze, Soft Suede, and Very Vanilla.
Have a great weekend.
Do you like my new little signature? I thought it looked just like one of my boys (when they were younger) playing with one of the dogs. Today is actually Ryan’s birthday – my baby is 16 years old! Oh my! Happy Birthday to my sweet Ryan!
May 7, 2012 | Wildlife |
The bluebirds did come back and build a nest – I’m not sure if I told you that already. But they did and they finally laid some eggs – 4 eggs.
This picture is from April 25th. So sometime this week they will probably start hatching. Today I saw the mom hanging her head out of the house – I think she was hot – it was hot until the rain came this evening – thunderstorms with lightening. I have a couple of other pictures of the bluebirds from earlier in April.
This one has both the male and female at the feeder – the male is up on the top house and the female is down on the peanut feeder.
Some days I see the blue bird sitting on the rail on our porch – he looks around – I’m not sure what he is listening to or waiting for but he usually stays for a little while turning his head in all different directions. I was able to get some good pictures of him.
Have a peaceful day.
Apr 7, 2012 | Big Shot, Easter, Stamper's Club, Watercoloring, Wildlife |
I hope you are having a great weekend and that you have a Happy Easter with family and friends. I’ve been getting ready all day. The casseroles are ready to assemble and bake tomorrow, the ham is in the fridge, the brownies, cookies and treats are made, the tables are set, the eggs have been filled and the baskets are ready. I have laundry to finish and final cleaning to do and I’ll be all ready.
But for today I have one cute little purse to share – we made these last night at my stamp club meeting.
This is the new Petite Purse Die – a sneak peek from the new catalog – you can get it now during the month of April and then it will be available in our new catalog starting June 1st! These are so cute.
I made this one as a little Easter purse. The purse is cut from Crumb Cake card stock, then I cut an extra front panel and ran it through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice Textured Embossing Folder and glued that to the front. I cut the back and flap out a second time with some designer paper – the new Summer Smooches Designer Series paper – also available as a sneak peek in April – I used the piece that had the Tangerine Tango print. The purse is assembled with a little bit of sticky strip on the two side flaps.
The handle is cut along with 
purse and I glued it to the back side of a piece of Tangerine Tango scalloped polka dot ribbon. Then attached the ends inside the purse with a little piece of sticky strip.
I added a “Happy Easter” tag to the handle and a little button to the front flap. Finally I stamped the little bunny from the Every Bunny stamp set on some Naturals White card stock using black StazOn ink and Watercolored with an AquaPainter. The bunny is Crumb Cake and the scarf is Daffodil Delight. For the egg I stamped the image on a scrap piece of the same designer paper and cut it out and glued it on top of the watercolored image. The cut out bunny is then attached to the front of the little purse with a Stampin’ Dimensional.
Inside the purse is none other than a yummy Peanut Butter Egg!
And I checked the bird house this morning and we have babies!
See TWO babies ready to eat!
There were 5 eggs and mom was watching me so I only took a quick peek and got this pictures showing the 2 babies – I don’t know if the others hatched yet. I’ll check again in a day or so. These are the chickadees.
And one more picture to share with you today. In my craft room I have two dogs beds for the dogs but they are different and they both always prefer the one the other one is in. So on Friday Magnolia was in the dog bed and all of sudden Aspen hops in and lays down and she gives me this look – “Mom, look what he did…….”
I hope you enjoyed the cute little project and the fun pictures. Have a great Easter Sunday and I’ll be back next week.
Apr 4, 2012 | Big Shot, Cards, Demonstrator, In Colors, Mini - Love Notes, Wildlife |
Look at these cute little note cards! Cindy designed these as one of the Make&Takes for my last PAWS meeting. She used all five of the 2011 In-Colors – Pool Party, Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Calypso Coral and Wisteria Wonder. These are 3×3 folded notes. The fronts are embossed with the polka dot embossing folder and then a strip of card stock is added to the front. The flower from the Mixed Bunch stamp set and punched out with the coordinating Blossom punch. The centers were stamped and punched with the 3/4″ circle punch and added to the flower with one of the In-Color brads. On the side of each card is a half of the decorative label punch with one of the words from the Fabulous Phrases stamp set.
On the inside is a business message from the special stamp set that demonstrators were able to earn at convention last year. There are some messages like “thank you for your order” and “Bring a Friend”.
I have a few wildlife pictures for you – the robin gathering materials for a nest.
Robin gathering nesting material
And check out this squirrel that I saw the other day – I wonder who he stole that big apple from!
squirrel that stole an apple
Its so big he has to stop along the way – or maybe he is just hungry and keeps stopping for a bite. Here he continues on his way….
running away with the stolen apple
And here is another squirrel sitting on the wall – it looks to be a mama squirrel to me – maybe she is praying for the peanut feeder to open up for her. The new feeder which is in the tree right behind her is squirrel proof – it shuts when the squirrel gets on it.
mama squirrel
Have a great day!
Mar 28, 2012 | Big Shot, Easter, Occasions Mini 2012, Punch Art, Sale-A-Bration 2012, Wildlife |
Well it’s getting close to Easter and I better start sharing Easter projects before it is too late. This super cute Easter Bunny idea came from my friend and upline Wendy Randall. I thought it was just perfect for my Easter class so we made this a couple of weeks ago and during the class I started thinking how cute he would be on a scrapbook page so at last weeks scrapbook class we did just that. Today I’ll share the box and tomorrow I’ll show you the scrapbook page.
Isn’t this the cutest bunny ever?
Don’t you love the big floppy ears? Those are from the Dresdan Die in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog. This is a Big Shot/Punch Art project. For the ears I cut two sets of the Dresdan die petals and for the ears I used the smaller ones. I used one of the large ones to punch out the cheeks for the bunny face. And tomorrow you’ll see what I did with the other one. The bunny face is the Scalloped Oval Frame die – just use the inside oval and save the scallop frame for something else.
The cheeks are the 1″ circle punch and the eyes are Basic Black punched from the 1/2″ circle punch. His nose is Pretty in Pink small heart punch turned upside down. The whiskers and mouth are drawn on with the Black Journaler and there are some white gel pen highlights on his eyes. The inside of the ears are sponged with Pretty in Pink and the outsides of the face and cheeks are also sponged.
The box is Pretty in Pink (scored with the Simply Scored – love it!) and a piece of the Everyday Enchantment Designer Series paper from the Sale-A-Bration brochure is added to the box front and back. A handle is attached with the coordinating brads. A piece of the Calypso Coral ribbon was tied around one of the ears.
The little flower embellishment is fun to make – I used a strip of the designer paper 6″ long by about 1-1/4 or 1-1/2″ wide – punched first with the Eyelet Border punch. Then I used my bone folder to curl and break up the fibers of the paper so it would be easy to work with. Then starting at on end pleat the paper and fold it into a circle to create the flower. Just smoosh it into the shape you want it. The center has a punch flower from the Boho Blossom punch to cover up the ends of the pleats. I used the crop-a-dile to punch a hole through the center of all of it and added the brad to hold it all together. If you need to add some snail or other adhesive to make the ends stay together you can but you don’t necessarily need that. Add to the bunny ear with a stampin dimensional and then add a tag that says “Happy Easter”.
Fill the box with some treats and you have a super cute Easter treat for someone sweet.
And a quick update on the birds – it looks like the chickadees ended up with 5 eggs this year.
Now we wait while they incubate which is about 11-12 days. So maybe by the end of next week the babies will start hatching.
As for the bluebirds and other houses – no luck in any of them. Just the starter nest in one which I guess didn’t suit the bluebirds after all. I’ll keep watching – maybe some later bloomers will move in soon or we’ll get the second brood for those that have more than one set of eggs in the spring. Everyone is still coming to the yard to feed. But I do need to refill the feeders.
It’s also time to hang the hummingbird feeder again (actually I should have already done it). I’ll get to that in the next day or so.
It’s a beautiful spring day in Georgia – I hope it is where you are too.
This is the story of the Tufted Titmouse that raised their family in my backyard. I thought it would be neat to do this page as a calendar and insert the pictures that I took on the days that I took them so it would show the progress from choosing a bird house, building a nest, laying the eggs, feeding and raising the babies and then when the finally fledged. I wish I had been there on that last day to take a picture but its hard to be there right on the exact day.
