note card color book tutorial

For teacher week we made our wonderful teachers From the desk of Stationary it was so cheap easy and fast I decided to use the concept and make color books for Justin's up coming party goody bags. He was totally into Ben 10 this last year, was Ben 10 for Halloween and totally set on a Ben 10 7th birthday party... only now Ben 10 isn't as 'in' as Mario and bay blades but he still keeps saying he wants the Ben 10 party so a Ben 10 party he shall get! (Ps I love Ben 10.. I even watch it when the kids are not around..its a great boy cartoon) The only issues is apparently not many party planning moms post about their awesome Ben 10 parties because all my searches turned up lame. And other then napkins they dint really have much 'party related paraphernalia' out. So here is how I made my own Ben 10 coloring books.

Material:
Blank note cards (mine were 4x6 I couldn't find 5x7)
clamps
rubber cement

Step one get online and find printable color pages, they are EVERYWHERE. Print off some cute ones, I even made a cute cover page.


Clamp them together, I clamped 10 together at once and it worked out easier then a book at a time. We made 100 page stationary for our teachers and I think the more you do together the better they turn out.


After you stack and clamp them all together apply a few coats thru out the day of rubber cement. I did 7 layers through out the day not always letting them dry all the way in between. It evens itself out so it pretty foul proof.


After it drys it was
still a little sticky to touch so I sprinkled baby powder on it, problem fixed.

Tare apart into separated books and there ya have it!



Stay tunes for more Ben 10 goodness coming up!


I linked my funness up to these parties: cheack them out for some awesome inspiration!

Day early teacher gifts, note pads

Wednesday was a dumb day the sun was shining and it was almost warm but my looser husband had to pull a sick day on his day off (ok ok he isnt a looser but him being sick was dumb) I shoveled and racked up dirt for 6 hours, in between taking and picking kids up from school and not sleeping well because Im a procrastinator. (ur neighbors dog jumped the fence and attacked our dog so we had to build a bigger fence which ruined our yard two weeks before we throw a huge party...) So im tied and cranky but i didn't have time to get the gift cards for justins teachers gifts so we had to make Fridays gift early... which i didnt plan well.. so it was another late night, but they turned out cute. I will have a tutorial this weekend

Teacher Appreciation Wednesday

So we have been making and bringing our teacher some really fun stuff all week. Monday it was jazzy scissors, Tuesday it was these yummy choco dipped 'so fortune it to have you' cookies in (Easter take out containers I found at target for .25 cents and just covered with a printable I found online) Today was my favorite thing we have made so far. I found a printable (I promise I will find it and link to you once I find out twhere I got it) anyways I found this cute printable that said thank you for helping (insert name here) bloom. I had originally pictured my kids taking in bright Gerber daisy's but then it occur ed to me this weekend that 1. maybe the teachers are like me and kill every outside living thing or 2. Every kid in the class decides to thank them that way and they end up with 30 plans (since I know most of them live in apartment I figured this wasn't Ideal) at that exact moment I was visualizing an over run jungle apartment my daughter bounced in needing help with her head band... her very cute flower head band...her i snatched it off her head because i got an aww haaa moment flower head band and very quickly came up with these (PS no daughters were hurt in the making of this blog ;) )
I got my supplies: Fake flowers, clothing pins, scrappy paper, modge podge and magnetic paper.


I traced and cut out paper (green for the steam) and modpodged them on (side note, seems i ran out of white glue) then I cut and super glued magnetic paper strips to the back of the clip. like this:


Next i realized it wouldn't work... sad face... I couldn't figure out how to get these really cute Gerber daisy flowers to stick, I tried hot glue, they looked bulky and lopsided... i tried bonding stuff from my husbands tool box, still a no go... i cried.. i ate half a bag of chocolate chip... i then remembered some straws my cousin picked up at the dollar store and ran for my office. (I was so excited I forgot to take picture of the straws before I took them apart.

I had my kids cute out 'flower pots' and we glues them together like a card:
My daughter loves to modge podge, like sees the bottle and gets excited.. so cute ;)


We made a cut to clip the clips to so the looked like they were in the pot like so:
And after I had my little panic attack and then my aww ha moment here is what we have

Cute then magnetic flower clips for the fridge or files. (those flowers were pop out honey combed flowers that were taped to straws, $1 at the dollar tree for a pack of 18)

Justin has two teachers, and Brooklyn has 3 AND a student teacher.. so we looked a little like that over grown jungle house I mentioned earlier..



Just in case my Tuesday treat discription wants enough for you here is a picture of our chocolate yummyness

How are you? #40

These make mothers day happy times ;)

I feel bad that I have been advoiding my blog... latly I have been unmotovated to share.. and unmotovated to do anything... I think I really just need some sun..
So head on over to Night Owl Crafting and play along, I love reading about everyone else..., people can be fasinating ;)







1. Are you a mom and if so how many kids do you have?
I am a mom. I have 4 kids, Justin, Brooklyn, Colton, and Carson.
2. List 3 qualities that you love about your mom!
Dependable, energetic and crafty ;)
3. What is your favorite thing your mother cooks?
she use to make me pigs in a blanket... my favorite childhood food for sure!
4. What do you love about being a mom?
Being the boss ;) jk I love watcching these kids turn into great people
5. What are your plans for Mother's day?
I plan on making the kids a HUGE swing set in the back yard, might sound like work to most people but im so excited I can hardly sleep ;)

Whats in a name?

What is in a name... a rose by any other name would smell as sweetly... REALLY???!!! Sure a rose may smell as sweet but my daughters name is not a stinkin rose!!! There are few thing in life that i consider pet peeves, those things that rub you the wrong time EVERY time it happen, for me its little things, like people who take 10 minutes to order from Taco bell... dude the menu never changes order the burrito already! #2 People who are late, its not that hard to be on time, even early, but its not ok to be 30 minutes early for a party.. that valuable prep time. And the most annoying thing is when people (mostly family members..) call my daughter Brooke. Dont get me wrong its a pretty name but its not her name and its not something we want her to be called. Her name is Brooklyn Jane. She will answer to Brooklyn, Jane, Janie lyn, or lyn... we have asked a million times she be called Lyn and not Brooke. Simply because that is who she is to us, she is Lyn. For example my SIL has a daughter named Isabelle, and they call her izzy... i dont personally like it but im not going to call her Bella because I think its prettier.. but yet they all feel its ok to call her Brooke and then make fun when I correct them. GGRRRR im sorry I had to vent but its either I have my pity party on here or I get uninvited to family get together ;)So my question to you is, are there thing that drive you absolutely insane like this?

Bird crazy!

So after getting our new smart phones we totally took the family plung and downloaded angry birds... now im not saying I wish I had never ever showed it to our children... or the husband.. but I really miss my phone! My kids are angry bird-aholics.. and we are not talking the casual 'hey mom if your not on your phone do you think I could play angry birds' we are talking knock down drag out brawls to get to an unmaned phone!! My poor phone is constintly trying to hind by letting its battery die. My 6 (will be 7 on the 16th) year old is crazy for it, when he is not playing mario karts or drawing bakugan he is talking non stop about the silly game. For show and tell he even made a scrapbook of all his accomplishment and egg findings (he found all but 2 easter golden eggs.. he is outta controle) Now put away all those judgmental thoughts I hear you thinking, they are now allowed to be glued to my phone 247, no they earn angry bird time. My three year old changes his socks 3 times a day to get sock folding minutes. My four year old is now a pro window washer and bathroom sink scrubber. and I have not folded laundry in 3 months!! For Justins birthday we have decided to get him a DSi, a first huge purchess for us in his growing up process. Since those stinkin things run for $140 (we tried on Ebay but they go for just as much.... just crazyness) I decided to make him some 'filler' gifts. And then I saw this Angry Bird tutorial on Obessively Stitching So I have made my own army of birds, which im concerned now might be a better present then the DSi! There is one thing about Justin thou that makes him harder to make things for he is anal about little details, and im by no means a great sewer. but I wanted to show you how I changed the white bird around a bit and made him more real to the game.. and what is the spechial feature of the white bird you might be trying to recall... he poops bombs (my kids are convinced its poop because if it were just an egg why would they care about the pigs taking them?) Here is what I did:
I fallowed OS's plants but I took and 3x6 piece of felt and stitched two sides makeing a pocket.

Then I sewed it down where all the sides meet up and added the tail feathers to the top so they wouldnt be on the side.



And here is what it looks like, insert ping pong ball here:



lol so if your kids are anything like mine, add some poop! I will let know on the 14th how much he loved them!

toy story birthday!

I can not beleive my little Coco bean is 3... I just can not beleive it (but I cant also beleive last weekend he was 2) He was a cubby little ham ball as a baby, happy smily and always into something... 3 years later we have a chubby HUGE ham ball that is always into everything ;)


to this:


I wish I would have taken the time to take pictures of all the details I added to the party but people actually showed up early... which at our partys is never the case.. so I will just have to fill in on my awesomeness with words ;)

I printed out some signs, this was the 'snack table' I made rice krispy treat etch a sketchs, marshmellow pop aleins, sugar cookie Rex and Woody stars with 3's on them, I also made Ham cupcakes just cause the cake turned out a little smaller then I had planned.

Here is a closer look at the cake and Lotso pinata (I made the pinata out of paper machae and tissue paper) The cake was the box that they went to the day care in it turned out better then I had pictured in my head.
I wish I had a picture of the goodie bags they were so cute. I wrapped a cowboy bandana arond a cup and added a sheirf star.. they were adorable, I filled them with toy story fruit snacks, little army men, poppers, and tatoos, and bubbles.


We palyed pin the tail on bullseye which I printed off line, I had other games planned but we tend to the the problem once kids come over and get a look at all our toys and fun stuff in the playroom, pulling them out for games just wasnt happening!

Things you didnt get to see besides the cool good bags: I glass drink bottles which were cool colored, they even had cute little matching tags on them. We made hot dogs, noodle salade, bean and really awesome fruit kabobs (I will show you on our next party my cool fruit kabob sticks) I was really a fun party. here are just a few random funness to share


And after it was all said and done my kidos decided to have a slumber party