Bee HappiLeaCraftin with Tamara

      I think now that I am back in my craft room, I am feeling how much I missed it not big in there from October of 2021 to May 2022! I am on a roll now that I am crafting again... work is totally getting in my way 😂      I took a couple vacation days this week and next weekend it the long weekend so I will get to play again and hopefully complete another project!!      This one is one of my 2 Day Folios that I started after making a series done by Vanessa Peter of Scrappin' It Up called Forever & Always! She made it so easy to fall in love with constructing these awesome projects.        Anyway... this one I am calling The Best Place To Bee Folio and I just uploaded the FREE Tutorial video to my YouTube Channel . Check it out for lots of FREE project tutorials!! The paper I used here on this one is a digital collection and I absolutely LOVE it!! It combines my 2 favorite things right now, Bees and Gnomes! I now hav...

Well, my Daughter left me for the weekend! Her and my Mom went to the lake for a family Birthday Party and I decided to stay home because I couldn't find anyone to watch our puppy and I had to work Saturday nigh. I wasn't sure what I was going to do for 3 hole days by myself! The first wasn't too bad as I had to work an evening shift. Sunday morning when I got up I came into my craftroom and started on the door prize for my card club. That took most of Sunday as it was a bigger project than I thought! I have had the instructions for quite some time, along with many others, so I thought door prizes would be perfect to do all these things! Kelly Acheson's  instructions  for this project are very simple and easy to follow! Here are the pics of my take on her Holiday Recipe Book. ☺ Happy Crafting ☺

I am really excited for this months Card Club because it will be the first time doing it at my house. I cleaned up an end of my basement and we are going to do it there. It will be so much easier doing it at home, I tend to forget things and even thought it was only next door. It was a royal pain in the you know what to go get what I forgot.  I hope it isn't to crowed down there but I guess we will see! ANYWAYS I don't have the cards yet but I have the Door Prize all done! Wallet Style Smash Book I had found a video on Youtube on how this amazing project was done!  I like to have printable instructions so I used the measurements she had for the main wallet and I added the measurements I used for the tags in the wallet and used my pictures. I will add my instructions and hopefully you can print them for yourselves. 

Here are 5 cards done with the November 2013 My Paper Pumpkin Kit. When they came out with being able to purchase the refill kit I thought that would be perfect for my Card Club! I made sure that everyone would be ok with it first and got for each of my ladies. I have included my instructions on each card if you would like to use them for any other cards. They are really quite simple and are basically just the measurements for everything Card #1                                                                Card #2                                                            Card #3                       ...

I loved this idea as soon as I saw it! There is no way they would guess it is a gift card inside! This was the perfect thing to do for my friends son, we are exchanging gifts and I wanted his to be harder to guess at.   These are really easy to make and the Gift Card Box Tutorial can be found on SplitCoastStamper in the Tutorial Forum of the website.   This is the box closed. I put the ribbon around it to act as a belly band to help keep it closed and to have somewhere to secure the tag to.    Here is the inside view of the box. I used Icy Squares because it was easier for the box to close than to use anything else.  I used DSP for the inside piece but still wanted to add a little something so the little Merry Christmas was perfect. The inspiration for the tag came from a group of tags I found on Pinterest. I really liked the simplicity of them and choose one for this project.   Enjoy making this amazing project and fo...

This is an AMAZING kit!!! I got it with my starter kit when I signed up with Stampin' Up! It has been hanging out in my craft room for the last 2 1/2 months.  So I decided to ask my Card Club ladies if they would like to do the kit for November. We aren't holding a group in December so I thought it would be perfect... 8 cards instead of 2. They all agreed so that is what we'll do. They are a very easy card to make and I am all about simple and not too fancy but these are just a little too simple for me. I decorated them up just a bit with some inspiration of other & Pinterest! Simply Created Kit Merry Little Christmas Card 1 I have to admit I messed up this one just a little bit... Hopefully you can't even tell. I used Cherry Cobbler to color the stamp instead of Real Red.... Oops! Simply Created Kit Merry Little Christmas Card 2   Simply Created Kit Merry Little Christmas Card 3     Simply Created Kit Merry Little Christmas Car...

The Advent Calendar Class today was a great time! There was 5 of us making the advent calendars I had done a couple years ago. I made my daughter a new one this year and am going to spruce up the old one and give it to my cousin for his son.    These are great gift for grandparents to give there grandchildren. My daughter is 13, turning 14 this year. The other ladies did theirs for their grandchildren, ages ranging from 15 months to 5 years. It's all in what you put in them.... and I have no idea what to put in mine. Like really! What do I put in each of the 24 tins for a 13 year old. I don't want to do all treats or chocolates this year so have to come up with some other ideas!   Here is the calendar I did at the class today It is using the Festive Furry Specialty DSP from the holiday mini catalogue. The tins you can get at Michael's but white seem to be harder to find. They are wedding favor tins so look for them in the wedding sections of Michael's. ...

Wishing Everyone a Happy Thanksgiving Long Weekend!!!   I was able to spend most of today in my craftroom getting ready for my "Christmas All Year" Card Club. I am really pleased with how the first card turned out. If I can be so lucky as to have the second card turn out half as well as the first, I'll be happy :)     It's not a hard card at all but I am working on some instructions, at least for all the dimensions. Want to make this card in the comfort of your own Craftroom? You can!! Just CLICK HERE for your very own tutorial :)