I spent a couple of hours the other day creating these little lunch box notes for a friend's granddaughter.
I like how they turned out.
I created the card body on my Silhouette complete with cutting the notch for the closure. I always enjoy when I can figure out how to make something work, it makes me feel so happy.
I am thinking about perfecting this and possibly expanding it - of course I probably should have done it earlier and capitalized on kids going back to school now. I need to be more forward thinking.
I am going to make another set for another friend's daughter, so it gives me an opportunity to perfect the design and see what else I can design.

Other crafting projects this past week:

I belong to a civic sorority that does various activities to benefit different community projects. One of our favorite services that we like to do things for is Meals on Wheels. We make a tray favor to donate to the group in LaMirada. I always like the creative process of designing the favor - I try to think of something seasonal and since it's been sunny lately this just came together very easily.

Some Past Project Stuff

Since it would be really a long post to show all the projects I've done but haven't posted in the past year, I will share a couple in different posts.
An Exploding Box made for Vonda for Mother's Day 2012(!)

Flat Stanley - for a Friend's Son

A decorative plaque that I made for Nicole and Jen

The Sonja Project - three identical books made for her daughters that capture the letters Sonja and her husband wrote to each other while he was in the service.

Okay, enough sharing for now!

All Kidding Aside

Okay, I know that I have said this several times already - but I am going to TRY to keep this up.
I have more impetus now to do so.
I will be opening up an Etsy store very soon. I just need to decide on a name and branding and such.
So once I do that I will HAVE to keep this up because I will be cross posting between the store and here.
I have also been teaching scrapbooking classes, so I will be doing some posts of that.

Here we go kids, tighten your seat belts!!

Oh my goodness...

Someone please tell me that I am not the only one who is bad at this...
Wow, that's...yeah...I don't know what to say.

A year? Really?
Silly Karen indeed.