Magic Box - Christmas sleigh

I have been wanting to try a magic box or exploding box. The girls I work out with wanted to give our trainer a gift card so I made a box to put it in. 

Outside

Inside.

The three empty flaps is where we all signed our Merry Merry's.

Different view

I cut the deer and sleigh from Create-a-Critter. I made two cuts and then put them together so they would stand. For the sleigh I added a piece in the back to spread it so it would hold the gift card. I think for my first attempt turned out pretty good.

Oregon State Fair

My first year at the Oregon State Fair - 2014

My 1st place winners

My 2nd place winners

My 3rd place winners

My non-placing submittions

Cards from 2012

Baby shower invitations

Birthday card for my trainer.

The tree trunk is cut from a very thin piece of wood.

Birthday card for Cassidy. The big ONE ZERO.

Congratulations card and a pair of earrings I made.

I'm back...finally!

I'm moved and now have internet. It has been quite a while for sure! I thought I would post projects I've worked on since 2012 in groups. I won't post the recipes or techniques until I'm cought up and am posting regularly.

Happy crafting my friends!!!

Easter Goodies for the Ladies I work out with.

I work out with a wonderful group of ladies at the gym.  For Easter I made them all a little goodie bag.  Since I had to finish them at work on break I forgot to take a picture of them. I included the handmade card, handmade earrings, two motivation quotes I really like, a small bag of carrots and a piece of dark chocolate.

~*~*~*Card for the Girls*~*~*~

~*~ Recipe ~*~

~Cricut~

Create-a-Critter - my all time favorite cart!

~Cuttlebug~

Swiss Dots - I seem to always grab that folder I just love it.

~Stamp Set~

Encourage Me - My Pink Stamper

~Paper~

Decrative paper - Craft Warehouse

White Shimmery - Paper Zone (so sad they went out of business)

Raspberry paper - Paper pack from Michael's

~Punches~

Bubbles - Martha Stewart

Corner punch - Creative Memories special punch

~Other~

Google eyes - Craft Warehouse

Bling - Craft Warehouse

~*~*~*Earrings for the Girls*~*~*~

These were super simple and fast.  I have an over abundance of glass china beads.  I buy them every time Craft Warehouse has a sale on them.  They are so super sparkly.

~*~*~*Goodie Bags for the Trainers*~*~*~

Again I used the same paper as the cards I made for the girls and again I used my favorite cartridge...Create-a-Critter.  In the picture you see the little bag of carrots (gotta be healthy) but if you flip it the back side is a piece of dark chocolate...mmmm.

Thank you for visiting my blog!!

Tammy

Beaded Bracelet and Earring set.

This is a very belated Christmas present for my sister-in-law. Before I send it I am going to make a matching necklace for her birthday in June. I just hope I don't lose it by then...lol. I like this so much that I am making a set for myself!

Mother's Day for my Sister...

I have been a really bad blogger lately and have lots of stuff to post and will hopefully get back to blogging regularly soon.
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I made a card and earrings for my sister for Mother's Day.

I saw this stamp set and HAD to buy it so I could make a card for my sister. A couple years ago while we were cleaning out my Mom's garage she had picked up a seashell and held it to her ear. I was standing behind her and started making a wooshing ocean sound. She turned around and held out the shell and was saying how she hadn't heard one so load and clear before. She put it back to her ear and I went back to wooshing and in mid-woosh she turned around and caught me. I almost got clobbered. So now any time I find something that has a girl holding a shell to her ear I HAVE to buy it for her. She loved the card...hehe.

She loves Fairies and purple so I thought these were perfect for her. The ear wires, head pins and fairy is from Vintaj. The beads are china beads...purple and a champange color. They turned out really pretty and they almost wound up in my jewelry box....hehe.

ScrapBox Givaway!

I have been looking at this for such a long time. With limited space to craft in this would be AWESOME! Check it out on www.facebook.com/TheOriginalScrapbox.

Good Luck Everyone!!

Tammy

My Biggest Loser Journey - week 15

~*~*~ Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly ~*~*~

Three and a half months! I can hardly believe it has been that long. We did our official weigh and measure on Thursday night. I have lost 20lbs so far! Have to wait until next week to see if he has figured out my inch loss but it looks like almost another six inches total.

I seem to be losing most of my weight in my hip/tummy area which is good since that is where most of my excess weight is. I am almost down another pant size. My 20's are getting very loose but the 18's just don't quite fit yet. A friend gave me several boxes of clothes that she no longer can wear, way to go Rita!!! Thankfully we have the same taste in clothes. I have clothes from 24 down to 14 so I won't have to waste money on clothes as I work my way down to my goal but once I hit my goal, watch out clothing stores! I am so excited!

My trainer has me keeping a food journel on www.sparkpeople.com. It is one thing I really don't like to do but it has been an eye opener on serving sizes. It has been over a month so I no longer measure things since I can eyeball things now and know what the serving size is. I am still having a hard time getting my water goal each day and it has caused me to be a bit dehidrated. I just don't drink all that much be it water, juice, milk, tea or soda. I have my metal bottle that I think is 280z so I am trying hard to get at least one down before I head to the gym. At the gym I usually drink a full bottle so on work out days I hopefully get two drank.

I feel so much better and can breath deeper. I don't get as winded doing just simple things. At Tuesday's work out he had us doing a plank and then reaching one hand out and then the other. We had to do 30 each arm. We did that rotation three times and I only had to stop once during the third rotation about 20 into it. It wasn't until Wednesday morning while rinsing the contioner out of my hair did I realize six weeks ago when he had us do that I couldn't even do three arms lifts before I had to stop. I started thinking of other things he has had us doing and I started to realize how much more I can do now vs during the first month. I'm so excited about what I can now do and all the cute clothes I am almost able to fit back into that has been boxed up.

On to week 16...

YIPPEEEEE...

I got my computer back so hopefully this weekend I will get some things posted. I haven't done much crafting over the last month but hopefully soon I will get back into it. My poor craft area is a complete disaster! I'm hopeing this weekend I can get motivated to get it organized.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!