Some more birds!

Last week, I found these little birds and decided to make some vinyl birds for my wall. 

I got the birds from the SCALe-files website.  This person it sooo very talented and has a lot of different cut files.  I found the little birds HERE.

Food & Coloring!

On the food front, Eric and I will be doing our first food tasting for our wedding! I am super excited to try some of the menu items we choose.  Since the caterer was the only one to get back to us, I am hoping everyone enjoys the food.  Did I mention that we will be having 4 other people to help us decide... anyway. Since I don't have any pictures of the food, I will show you something I recently did.

Last week while at work, I went on a shopping spree and bought a couple of cat related digi stamps. They are all really cute but I didn't find to many.  I did got the heart tailed cats on squigglefly.com

I am still new to digital stamps and am getting use to printing in the size I need.  This one I printed so it would fill the 8 1/ by 11 paper. I used some watercolor pencils that I have had since high school.  It was  easy to figure out how I wanted to color it.  Now I need to decide on if I want to frame it and give it as a gift or if I want to put it in a scrapbook. O.... decisions ... decisions.


In the next couple weeks, I will be trying out the digistamps I either purchase or got as a freebie from various sites.  I am going to try my hand at making some cards and I will post as I complete them.

Learning to Use Adobe Programs: Making a JPEG

I purchased Adobe Creative Suite CS4 a couple of months ago and have played with it a little.  I am still learning what things I can do with which programs.  I have gotten some free adobe brushes from various sites.  I created the about Jpeg as an e-mail reminder for the people coming along on Eric and mine wedding food tasting.  We are really excited to be moving forward with the wedding planning but I am realizing how much I still need to make decisions on.  Anyway, this little 10 minute project made me realize how easy Photoshop can be.  I am hoping to use Illustrator and Photoshop to design our invitations.

Cat Theme Birthday Cat!

My FMIL's birthday was this past week and I wanted to use some of the digi stamps that I recently bought.  I bought a cat butt digi on squigglefly.com.  So while Clint was sunning himself, I made this card using the digi stamp and my cricut machine.

Learning new photo skills

I haven't had to much time to do any crafting or photo editing but while at work I have been researching.  I have wanted to take some childhood pictures and enhance them.  This is something I need to do when I have a day to spend in front of the computer.  Anyway, I was reading the Crazy for Crafting blog and found some great tutorial videos about enhancing color in pictures.  I want to try this technique out on some garden pictures I have.  Hopefully, I will have some time between studying and work to try it out on the picture above.

I looked around Crazy for Crafting blog and loved a lot of her projects. I might try and make some but for now I have lots to do but no time to did it.