Sweet Dreams

Well I have been working very hard at work, at my actual real job, so too much creating hasn't been happening. Here's a quick page that I made that is turning out to be one of my favorites.

I love the photo itself but also the way everything is arranged.The most time-consuming part was searching for the perfect embellishments that weren't too girly for this photo of my husband fast asleep with my daughter. I just happened to see these K & Co. Edamame layered stars on my craft table and I think they are perfect with the Sweet Dreams epoxy sentiment. Detail view of cluster:

Well now it's time for sweet dreams for myself! I'm off to IKEA at the crack of dawn to order cabinets for my new kitchen.

Thankful greetings from Boston

Well, it's been a little crazy in the Boston area lately. To say the least. My family and I are fine and don't really know anyone who was directly affected by the Marathon bombing. Thankfully we felt too lazy to go down to see the Marathon that day and even though my office is really close to the scene of the manhunt for the suspects, I was safe at home, three miles away.

My five year wedding anniversary and my birthday also happened the same week, and we are getting ready to move, so it was crazy on a personal level as well. 

I did get to do some crafting though -- yay! Made this cute card to thank my boss for bringing me back a beautiful pearl necklace from her trip to China:

My inspiration was this card I saw on Pinterest:

This was an awesome card to use up small scraps! As you can see, I used scalloped circles instead of plain ones, moved my sentiment and raised it up on pop dots, and embossed a piece of brown cardstock with my Texture Boutique instead of using a patterned graph paper for the background. I also rounded the bottom corners and added pearls in the center of each butterfly to reflect the pearls that I was thanking the recipient for.

I fee like I'm cheating when I base my work so closely on that of someone else, but sometimes I'm in a bit of a rush and Pinterest and other sites really help get the creative juices flowing.

I have a really special scrapbook page that I've been working on that documents the first moment I saw my daughter. I'm hoping I'll get to finish it tonight (or at least sometime this week!) so I can post it.