Get Well Wishes

Here's a cute card I made for the DF's Grandfather who hurt his back recently...

Spring is in the Air!

Well... I haven't posted in a couple of weeks... but I believe I have a good excuse.... I'm ENGAGED!! woo hoo!! The boy popped the question on 3/29/08 (six years to the day of the night we met) and I said yes... get ready for the deluge of wedding crafting coming your way!

I guess spring was in the air because I had 4 other friends all get engaged last month. I had seen this super cute set of retired stamps by StampinUp called Lifecycles last year and I knew it would make a great engagement card. Once everyone started getting engaged I decided to buy it from ebay and make some engagement cards for my friends!

Happy Birthday, Liz!!

Here is a bookmark I made for my friend Liz's birthday! Not a huge project, but I thought it was a cute little present to include in a birthday card. I even bought laminating paper to make it a little more substantial :-)

Happy Valentines Day, World!

Well.. today I am showing you the Valentines day Card that I sent to my friends and family this year. Since December was crazy for me with finishing school and all... I never quite got to sending out my holiday cards... enter valentines day! It seemed like a reasonable solution... what do you guys think?

All stamps in this card from StampinUp.

Crafting Rachel @ Home

Since I finished grad school in december, I figured it was time to attempt to make my apartment look less like a dorm room and more of 'home'. My previous decorations include mine and the BF's diplomas, one painting inherited from my grandparents, and a clock commemorating the White Sox win of the World Series in 2005 (thanks BF!).

Enter crafting.

Who said paper is just for cards! Being the crafty person that I am, I came up with 3 projects

Project #1 - The bathroom vanity

Ok, so contact paper isn't really craft paper, but I think it still counts! I wish I'd taken a before picture so you could see how hideous this bathroom was when we moved in. BRIGHT purple paint, walls, ceiling, EVERYWHERE. So the first step was the paint it white. (thanks mom & dad!). Step 2 was to cover the peeling, old, disgusting P-lam vanity with black contact paper.
So here's the result (Much improved, I do believe):

Its been a long time, baby!

Well... I haven't been very diligent about my posting here...(its been about a year *cough*) Anyhow, now that I'm done with Grad school, I am back into some major crafting and I can't wait to share it all!

I'll start today with an old Save the Date card I helped make for my friend Kristy's wedding. Just to prove how old this save the date is, Kristy now has a beautiful almost 6 month old baby!

The scan of this card doesn't do it justice, but I guess that's what happens when you think something is so cute you leave it on your fridge for 2+ years!

My first blog post!

Ok, so its finally time for me to start my stamping blog!


My goal for this blog is to have a showcase of my stamping work.


I am going to start posting work that I did a long time ago and hopefully (sooner rather than later) catch up to today and post my current projects as I'm working on them.

My first foray into invitation making came during college. These are the invitations from my Sophomore and Senior year AXO formals.

The black and red invitation was for the Red Carnation Ball in the Spring of 2001. I can't show this invitation without giving credit to Becky , my partner in crime! Lets just say we didn't quite stay within budget for these invites. I think i've learned a lot about material costs since then!!
The pink and black invitations were from the spring formal of 2003. These invitations were slightly less formal, but very cute. I have to give credit for helping me make these invitations to Ilana and Lauren.