Psalms 26:3

This image I found on the SIL site and had my cameo draw it and cut it out.

Emily then colored it and I framed it using some pretty papers.

I have it hanging on my wall in my room! I just love how it turned out!

psycho shirt

Emily and I saw this shirt online and she told me she needs it.  Her sense of humor is a bit twisted, so this shirt is very fitting, lol, though not entirely sure it's fitting for a 9 year old.

I used purple metallic vinyl and she loves it!

Oceans of love

This is a card I created and Emily to use as thank you cards.

Emily's art work

Emily had taken up painting.

She is really good I think.

This sunflower painting she took the idea from a painting I have.

She did an art project with our homeschool group using white glue and salt to create a shape then added water color paint to the salt for a cool water color effect.  She did the same thing on canvas and I added the words for her.  She can't paint words well enough  she said.

Pretty Birthday

Hi there, today's card is made using some paper that Emily painted.

I've been wanting to make this type of card for a while and MFT shared it again so I decided to stop what I was doing and put it together.

I've had the die cut set for some time.

The lighthouse

First of all Emily wanted me to share with you her latest creation.  It's a milk bottle doll.  She created her skirt with some paper, added some pony beads for decoration and even gave her a purse on the side.  She drew her face with a marker and filled the bottle with dum dums.

My parents' anniversary and my Dad's birthday are just a few days apart.  I always want to get them gifts but never really know what to get, the whole they buy what they need or want so it's hard to buy them something they need or want issue...

So, they both love lighthouses and they collect statues and light up ones.  I decided to make them one.

 I kept it fairly simple making the paper the focal point.  I added some star fish embellishments and perched a mermaid at the top.

Em wanted to know how she got up there, well magic of course silly girl!

Go to the head of the class

Today I have a little bit different of a post.  We are embarking on a new journey her at the Franklin house.  Homeschool!!

We are just getting our classroom set up and it's looking pretty good.  I've been buying things as I see them and gotten most from the dollar store or on clearance.

We still need a few pieces to complete it.

The best part for me is that desk was mine, when I was around 8 or 9 my parents bought my sister and I desks for Christmas.  I'm so glad I held onto it.  Also my dad pulled out my old chalk board. It's one of the big ones on an easel, so once he gets it cleaned up he is going to bring it over.

 Emily is very excited over this, which makes it a little easier on my nerves.  She had to celebrate by making cupcakes.  Our first home ecc. lesson!  She read the box to tell me what we needed, stirred the batter and filled the wrappers.  She also told me the temperature for the oven and for how long they needed to bake! I'm so proud!  She is reading so well now!

 She spent most of the day in her new classroom with her fur budy Elsa.  She practiced some writing, watched some you tube and practiced some ballet!  lol, she informed me that since we had one whole wall that was empty she needed a ballet bar! 

So on to the main reason for my lengthy post!  This adorable project I made!  My first classroom project!  I wanted some sort of goal sheet that Em could see and we could  check off as we go.

I was trolling the school isle at Dollar General and saw the foil star stickers, must have!, then I saw the small poster board and the idea was born!

I cut up a piece of scrapbook paper for the borders, glued 2 pieces of her writing paper to the middle and added some stickers I had in my stash.  

The stars of the board are the bookworms.  Aren't they adorable? 

 I created the sticker pocket simply, it's just a rectangle of card stock with some foam tape strips on the edges.

You can find the bookworms I used in the School section in the store here

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Not a creature was stirring

This is the sweetest page, I had fun with the different patterns.

Cute little dudes all tuckered out.  See their little buttons on their bums?  (giggle)

This card just makes me smile!  Easel cards are so fun.  I used some ornament stickers I had on hand to add some fun shine to the card.

I'm adding my mouse card to the 


I have to share with you my daughter's art work.  She's so creative.  I've started do the Art to the 5th art journal so she's been watching my attempts at mixed media.

She drew The Gruffalo and the mouse then added her stickers and beads.  I love it!

Scribbles designs animal challenge

I wanted to show off another one of Emily's creations.  She is doing so good with her cards lately, she's just turned 5 last week.

I made this cute worm card using my SIL program to fill in the colors and created the frame.  I added some Trendy Twine for the actual line attached to the hook.

 He's just SO cute!

Creations by Emily

Creations by Emily

 I really like it when Em wants to craft with me.

I cut her images out for and her her card layers and let her do the rest.

 The top card is an image by Saturated Canary and the bottom is by Simply Betty

Just a couple of cards

 Just sharing a couple of random cards, this little girl is so sweet, just a simple card.

 This one is made by Emily, she has been very interested in making cards lately, I'm one proud Momma!

Scribbles designs

Emily designed this card, she colored her images and cut out the drink, I cut her card base and the layer, she did the rest and all the gluing.

Here's the card I made using the glass.  Still have to work on one with the flip flops.

Digi stamps 4 Joy

Emily wanted to make a card too, she really liked this image this month.


And as always, I'm adding to the link up as well