I'm Back!

Ok...I haven't posted in, well, a year, so I'm really confused, since Blogger has totally changed its look in that time.

But let's ignore that for now, shall we, and let celebrate the face that I'm BACK!!!!!!

Whoohoo!

For those of you who were unaware, I spent a year abroad studing in Israel, but now I'm home, and I'm going ot try to keep my posting regular.

I sadly haven't got the chance to make a single card since I got home, with all the unpacking and shopping and cleaning to do, BUT I'm planning on making a SUPER FANTASTIC AWESOME SCRAPBOOK of my year away, since I have nothing better to do this summer anyways (except watch the Olympics, which I'm PSYCHED for!! Gymnastics, anyone?)

So that's the plan, anyways. I still need to order Snapfish photos before I can start anything, but once I do, I really think I'll get this scrapbook done.   I am committed!

And now for some pictures....

I didn't want to just put up pictures of me and my friends, since this is a card-making blog, and I don't want to put up pictures of anyone who might not want me to do so, so I've searched through my pictures to try to find my crafty-est pictures and any cards I may have taken pictures of. 

Enjoy!

Colored sand somewhere in the South:

 Gorgeous sunrise in Eilat:

 Coral reef in Eilat:

 The one card I (GASP!) bought...fro a teacher who had a baby boy :)

 The inside of that card:

 Pretty flowers in a random hotel bathroom:

 The next few are pretty artwork from the Artist's Colony in Jerusalem:

 The weirdest car I have ever seen...at the market in Jerusalem:

A cool rock pile I made on a hike:

 Shadows in the sand by the Dead Sea

 Colorful bird painting exhibit by the zoo:

 Gorgeous ballerina art I saw at the Shuk (market) and didn't buy :(

Now I'm kicking myself...I'm obsessed with it!!!

 Painting on display at a show:

 Artsy picture I took at a winery and I'm proud of :)

 Gorgeous artwork in the Artist's Gallery of Tzfat:

 The amazing candle factory in Tzfat...all these are candles!!!

 Awesome (If I do say so myself) origami flowers I made out of my notes during class.

 Spring flowers I bought for my host on a holiday:

 Bonfire on a trip up North:

 Road sign up North:

Detail of a card I made for a teacher at the end of the year:

 Stunning light dome for the light show at the Old City:

 Painting in the Navy museum in Haifa:

 A Very Potter Musical reference my friend wrote in the rocks...it's hilarious (if you get it).

 SNOWWW!!! IN JERUSALEM!!!

 My Purim costume!

So...those are my favorite pictures from this year... let me know what you think! 

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Also, let me know if you're interested in seeing the loads of pictures I have of fun foods I cooked and baked and bought in Israel. I'm thinking of starting another blog for baking. What do you think?

Have a great one!

-Haylie

Good bye! (for now)

This will be my last post until next summer. I'm going abroad for the year and I won't really have internet access.

I really having enjoyed this blog. Thanks to the (few) followers I have. :)

Mwa!

-Haylie!

BABY CARDS!!

Mazel Tovs all around!

All my mother's friends seem to be having babies, so she asked me to make a bunch of cards for her.

As Murphy's law would have it, I took the pictures on my phone yesterday since I had no camera to take the pictures with and then today, guess what showed up? My new camera, of course!

But my mother already gave away the cards, so I can't re-take the pics. So some of them are sorta blurry.

Sorry!

So here we go, with 3 boys cards are 2 girls ones.

The two girls cards are basically the same and

2 of the boys cards have a similar layout.

That's it!

Please comment and follow my blog!

-Haylie!

Baby Card

My only solution to my camera problem, until I get a new one is to use the awful one from my phone. Sorry!

My mother's friend's daughter just had a baby boy, so I made a card for her. I'm kinda obsessed with it. Hee hee.

Good lighting:

Bad lighting:

Details:

Supplies used:

Hero Arts Chocolate note card

K& Company Amy Butler Strip of paper

Blue paper and cream paper

Making Memories Design Shop baby boy stickers (bear and stars)

K&Company recycled alphabet chipboard

Colorbok Multi flip pack stickers

Diamond Stickles

EK Success corner rounder punch

Love ya!

How's your summer going?

-Haylie

Update

Who wants to hear something funny?? (Oooh, ooh, pick me!)

You know how I'm always having camera trouble?

Well, I just got back form camp today and guess what happened in camp? MY CAMERA WAS RELOCATED!!! To the bottom of the Ten Mile River!! Whoohoo!

Actually, I was very upset when it happened, but now it's just funny. I don't think I'm gonna get a new one soon, so I'll see how this blog-a-ma-jig is gonna work. Maybe I'll use my sister's camera.

But basically I'm just updating you on what's happening and I will hopefully get posts up soon!

Mwa,

Haylie

Summer Cards

I'm going to camp tomorrow morning, so I wanted to make a bunch of cards like I normally do so I can send cute cars (mainly B-day cards) to my friends from camp. I can always call, but letters and cards are so campy, and I love them!

Here are the cards I made today- I honestly feel like crap today, so nice comments would be appreciated!

3 are the same basic design...and all the glittery cupcakes are from Hallmark. The rest of the materials are all a mush in my mind...idk!!!

That's all!

See you!

-Haylie

Graduation Randomness (lots of pics!)

I GRADUATED YESTERDAY!!! WHOOHOO!!I just had to get that out there!

So I don't have many cards (that I made) to show off...actually, none... BUT I have a few random crafty things to show that are fun!

WARNING!!! LONG POST AHEAD!!! (But it's good- keep reading!)

#1:

Check out this stunning card my sister gave me with my graduation gift:

Is that GORGEOUS or what? It's from Papyrus and I love the glitter and the fact that it's a butterfly! She told me she wanted to get a super card for the girl who loves card. She totally nailed it.

(If you'd like to see the present she got for me, let me know... I just forgot to take the picture now.)

#2:

I was going through old stuff in my garage and I found a lot of things from 8th grade, including a children's book I had to write for English class. I remember working FOREVER on it, but it really was a good book. So I took pictures of it so everyone could see how awesome I was as a 13 year old. Lol, tooting my own horn.

The book is a cross between a scrapbook-style story and actual pictures and backgrounds. Most of the characters were cut out in teeny tiny pieces and assembled together carefully.

Here we go:

This was all done in a mini-scrapbook. Here's the cover. It was called Rosie and Rosalyn: Best Friends Forever, and honestly it was more like a high school or junior high drama but it was supposed to be for children so I made my characters 3rd graders.

Aw...they're cute.

I even had a copyright page. (Some things are crossed out for privacy reasons.) I thought I was so professional!

And here's the story! (You can't really read it, but the story isn't really the point of showing this.)

Rosalyn has a cute room!

I took a second picture of the classroom page since it was so cute!

Last page...happy ending! yay!

That was fun! Onto the next (and last) part...

#3:

I will hopefully be going away next year to Israel to study for a year, as will many of my friends, but we're all going to be in different schools, so I wanted to make some signs for my friends as going-away presents, that they could hang on their dorm walls. So I had the idea to make a "miss you" sign made over a background of tons of punched hearts. I used an EK Success punch, and I literally sat there punching for ages! My garbage can was full of papers that had been eaten up by my punch.

But seriously, I love that punch. It gets so much use from me.

This is the result:

I used reflective paper for this one:

Extra hearts:

All of them:

I will most likely be putting this in the center of a larger paper with picture of that particular friend and me around it, but I still need to print my pictures to do that. :)

The black chipboard letters are Bo Bunny and the rest I cut out free-hand. I just sprinkle the hearts on Elmer's- glue coated paper. I tried to stick to double-sided patterns so I wouldn't get too many white hearts.

I mainly used scraps, so this is a great way to use up scrap paper.

So..... that's it! How's everyone's summer going?

Sorry the pictures keep changing size...

Thanks for reading- please comment!

Mwa!

-Haylie

Will be Posting Soon...

...just as soon as I can find my camera's memory card!! I have no idea where it went!

But I do have some cards and things I'd like to show, so don't give up on me just yet!

-Haylie

Edit: Apparently I've been featured on ScrapbookLayoutsIdeas.com

Not sure if this is legit, but it sounds cool!

Here's the link:

http://scrapbooklayoutsideas.com/blog_awards/index.php?id=23644

Is this real? Let me know if it's a real normal site or what!