Here fishie fishie...

Yes, your eyes are not deceiving you...I have posted again!

I know, either I don't post for awhile or you can't get rid of me!

Just think of it as me keeping you on your toes! LOL!!!

I was able to finish a krafty item that I had in my head for a while now

and wanted to share with you.

 It's a box of assorted handmade cards.

I've been thinking of it for so long, but couldn't decide on which kind of cards to include.

I think I may have a good selection, but would love any feedback whatsoever.

 Included in the box:

Three Birthday cards

Two Thinking of You cards

One Congratulations card

One Get Well card

One Thank You card

One Sympathy card

and

One Love card

(which you can use as an anniversary or such)

 I have also included envelopes for all the cards.

Honestly, I hope you will let me know what you think.

I only put in 10 cards for the set...so it was hard to figure out what to include.

I put this up in my Etsy store and hope that it is a set that people would enjoy.

I also wanted to make something this weekend for my desk at work.

I had an idea and told my hubby...

but I don't think he knew how I was going to accomplish it...

tell you the truth, I didn't know either until I started working on it.

So I told him that I wanted to make a fish tank for my desk at work.

Nothing alive in it...all krafty.

Here's how I started it.

I made two 12" x 6" x 1 1/2" cardboard boxes for the top and bottom.

 Then I used cardboard for the corner pieces and to add the top and bottom in place.

 Next I added clear, frosted, green and blue glass pebbles.

I also added green and blue sea glass.

All of the pieces were hot glued down.

 

 Here's a closer view.

 Next I stamped and embossed in green, blue and gold a bunch of fish I had.

Then cut them all out.  

I also hot-glued those to the sea glass, 

back and front so that you can see fish from every angle of the tank.

Then I hot glued some small glass bubbles to the ceiling of the tank.

 Finally I added transparency film to each side and closed it off with black cardboard.  

The funniest part of the making of this tank is that most of the materials I have had for so long...

not knowing what I would need them for...until now.

It's crazy how I will purchase items at the various stores I go to, 

and they look cool, 

but I don't have anything in mind for them, 

and then all of a sudden, they are exactly what I need!

I love when that happens!!!

 Here's a closer look at the finished tank.

 Hope you don't mind, but I don't have a manicure this weekend...

too much crafting!!!

Would love to know if you like what I shared with you.

Comment below, I LOVE comments!

Take care and hope to share some more soon!

Pastels and Jewelry

Hello Everyone!

This post was supposed to be posted a while ago, but again...I am a slacker!

But if you follow this blog at all, you knew that already.

Anyway...I have made a new item for my Etsy store that I am rather proud of.

My rendition of a Jewelry Box.

You can use it for just about anything though...

It just reminded me of a jewelry box I had when I was young.

It's made out of all cardboard and card stock, 

along with a bunch of embellishments.

I'd love to hear how you like it...let me know in the comments below.

And as always, you can click on each picture to see them bigger.

Here it is from the front view.

There are 5 drawers that you can hide anything away in.

Here it is with everything opened.

The drawers, the top and the side doors.

A picture of more of the top part.

Here is the top closed where I embellished with rhinestones and flowers.

There are also clear acrylic butterflies in each corner of the lace that I added.

Here's the back...as always, finished too.

Now on to the nail fail that I did.

I, again, saw a great picture on Pinterest of nail art that I wanted to do...

but when I tried it, it did not come out the way I wanted.

I think it came out ok, but the light nails you just can't see the dots...

so I totally didn't like it.

So I decided to start over and here is what I came up with.

I stuck with the pastel colors for the Easter Holiday.

I just went with doing the tips and then did a broken line under each color.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Would love to know what you think.

Take care.