MikMak Creations

United Way Cards

2010-11-27T19:13:00.000-08:00

I was asked to make some cards for our United Way Campaign at work and these are the ones that I either came up with or cased.

Inking Pink Blog Hop

2010-10-26T09:59:00.000-07:00

I'm attending my very first blog hop and it's for one of the most important causes out there Breast Cancer Awareness! I'm really enjoying myself, and I know I'm suppose to post links back to blogs, just trying to figure out how and where, you'd think I would know how to do that since I've been blogging for 4 years! LOL.

Bear with me!

Carley

Swing Layout

2010-08-28T20:15:00.000-07:00

I took this picture when we were in Cut Knife, SK last month. And I just loved the dress and the old swing so I wanted to keep it a simple layout, I used liv's dress to pick the paper, I think it turned out really nice.

Birthday Card

2010-08-28T18:55:00.000-07:00

I've been waiting to use this stamp set for a while, it was perfect for my friends birthday (who's just a bit quirky and has the same sense of humor as me).

Thank You's & Such...

2010-06-14T20:01:00.000-07:00

A thank-you card, my very first stitched card too!! I'm a sucker for earthy colors, and I love the patchwork that's going around right now too.

A card I made for a friend of mine to just cheer her up a bit, the tree trunks and the works are stamped using a sparkly olive ink, and then I also used it to ink around the edges on top of the cranberry ink, turned out great!

Valentines Party

2010-02-13T22:35:00.000-08:00

Our dayhome is really good about all the holidays we have, and Valentines was no different. They had their party just before the big weekend, so Olivia and I made valentine cards for each of the kids at the dayhome including our dayhome lady and her mom (the kids all call her gramma) And Liv also helped me make pink heart shaped marshmallows. So easy and SO yummy!

All the kids at the dayhome are girls (cept for Carter) so I made them into little purses, my topnote die from SU made it SO easy!

Birthday, Valentines and Thanks.....Oh My!

2010-02-13T21:52:00.001-08:00

This is a lift of a card I saw on SC, I loved how the flower was distressed and found it was a really really easy & quick card to do, would make a great template!!!

This is another lift of a SC card I saw, this one is my hubbys V-Day card, loved the splash of red, I didn't have any red sparkly paper so I just heat embossed some paper and punched it out with my heart punch, and then popped them on pop dots. The heat embossed heart at the bottom didn't turn out perfect but it still works.

Another SC lift, I get 99% of my ideas from there or my friend michelle, This one came together pretty quick and I think it's really cute. It's a thank-you card for my dayhome.

Christmas Scrap Pages

2010-02-13T21:44:00.001-08:00

Here are the pages I got done over the Holidays.

One of my favorite Mak family traditions is our Christmas Eve PJ's. We've always opened a gift on Christmas Eve since I was a child, but when Cy and I started our family, we wanted to make it special, so we made it tradition to open PJ's, that way you can use them right away, and you look good in the pictures on Christmas morning....well....look good in theory, no accounting for bed head! So I finally got around to getting pictures of us this year.

The kids yearly picture with Santa turned into a family picture this year, it might be a tradition that we continue, it turned out pretty good, and as for my page, it's nice and simple, there's so many colors in the picture I didn't want to go crazy!

I LOVE TIMMIES!!! A True Timmies girl thru and thru, so I'd seen a page like this done in one of my scrappin mags and it hit me that I need to A: start scrapping "things" not just people and B: I need to lift this page!!! So here is my take on the "Christmas Cup"

Olivia was a butterfly for Halloween last year, but instead of using halloween paper, I couldn't help but use my cute butterfly paper I had, turned out pretty cute for 1:00am in the morning!! LOL

Christmas Cards

2009-12-18T23:19:00.000-08:00

So I finally got around to doing Christmas cards this year, it's been quite some time since I sent any out, and the last time I did I think they were store bought! But I had a lot of fun with these ones, specifically the snowmen as you can see ( I'm a snowman collector!) I abused my cuttlebug profusely with these cards, and I'm in love with my new top note die from Stampin up, thanks to Michelle for getting it to me in time for Christmas!

I like the humor cards a lot

and I liked using the blue and the green for the snowmen, not the bright traditional colors but really nice.

Another humorous card

I wasn't a huge fan of this card but I did get some compliments on it so I sent them out.

A last minute addition, I only made two of these, they were way more labour intensive that I first thought, I used my Joys of the Season Cricut carteridge for the "o" and it was a candy with the wrapper on it, so I cut those off. The inspiration for this card came as I was standing on the train platform downtown waiting to come home and a man walked by with a gift bag that looked just like this, the "o" 's were on big springs, so I put them on pop dots. Love this card!

Recent Cards & Gifts

2009-10-29T21:40:00.000-07:00

We've been so busy lately that I haven't had time to post pictures of my latest cards and such.

This is a card I made with an Elzybells set for a friend that helped us find a new dayhome.

And just a couple coordinating canning jars I embellished and then stuffed with scrapping goodies for an extra thanks.

A thank you card I made for our new dayhome, who made our transition so easy, I used the SU Trendy Trees.

A shower card for a friend who's having a baby girl in December, I cased this card off SC, but I'm so bad at writing down who I've cased, sorry!!

Olivia's Card

2009-09-19T00:37:00.000-07:00

Olivia wanted to make a card for our friends son's 2nd birthday, So I gave her a stamp, markers and some punches and we made a beautiful card!

Photo Book

2009-09-19T00:30:00.000-07:00

I also cased this off one of my friends secret sisters projects. It was pretty simple, the basis is 3 regular letter envelopes sealed & cut at 6 7 & 8 inches, bound together so they flip, some coordinating paper and some embellishments, I haven't completely finished embellishing the outside or the inside front envelope. But I won't do that untill I give it to someone and I usually don't remember to take a picture before I give it away! LOL. If you require exact measurements just let me know.

Kid Birthday Cards

2009-09-19T00:24:00.000-07:00

This card is for my neighbour's daughter who's turning 2, it's a spin on my earlier card below. I used the Walk In My Garden Cricut Carteridge for the flowers and just staggered two different papers, and used my "cut grass" scissors to make the grass, and some ribbon for the stems and pop dots for the flowers.

Autum Cards

2009-09-19T00:16:00.000-07:00

Autum is my favorite time of year, I just have a thing for the beautiful colors and the crisp air. So I was inspired to make some Autum/Fall cards. The Tree I cased off a card I saw on Splitcoast, sorry I can't remember who, but she had done butterflies, and since I don't have a butterfly punch I decided leaves would be perfect....on a tree....duh! LOL. I cut the base of my tree on my cricut using my stretch your imagination carteridge. And the pumpkin card I cased from my friend who is part of the secret sisters on Splitcoast. She recieved a card from her secret sister with a basket weaved with ribbons, so her and I were tossing around ideas of "stuff" to put in baskets and I thought pumpkins would be great. Sadly these aren't actually pumpkins, I don't have a pumpkin stamp and I'm dissapointed that there isn't a Halloween Cricut Carteridge (which I hadn't realized till my friend pointed it out) SO, these are the bodies of turtles with the head & legs cut off from my Walk in My Garden Cricut Carteridge LOL. Worked great tho!

Friendship Card

2009-09-19T00:12:00.000-07:00

This is a card I made for a coworker of mine that was going on mat leave. I used the tutorial off Split Coast Stampers at a friends place, just havent finished embellishing my first card, I'll post it when I decide what to put LOL.

Baby Card

2009-09-19T00:08:00.000-07:00

A baby card that I made for a neighbour last month. I used my cuttlebug with a circles embossing plate, and Elzybells acrylic stamps for the cow and the saying.

My Scrap Room

2009-07-04T22:29:00.000-07:00

My room is finally coming along, I still need to buy some shelves and such but the basics are there!

My desk is a bit messy, it's usually much cleaner!

Cy just finished putting up my tv and dvd player, YAY!!! he's the best, and of course christening it with my usual scrappin show, Murder She Wrote! LOL

My funky shelf from ikea and my kit for crops

The old kitchen table that I re-cycled from my parents into the best scrappin table ever, the drawers are HUGE!!! Love it!!!

Oh Baby!

2009-07-04T22:26:00.000-07:00

The first card is for some friends that just had their second son, and the second card is for a coworker of mine who is due with her first child, a boy, in September. And the "cupcakes" were something I saw online and could help but make, they're so cute and very easy!

Weddings & Congrats

2009-06-01T15:20:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine asked me to make some bridal shower and wedding cards for her. I cased the two bridal shower ones, I saw them and thought they were so simple but pretty. And the congratulations card is actually for my friend that asked me to do these other ones. She just graduated her MBA so I wanted to make her something special!

Birthday Cards

2009-05-29T21:52:00.000-07:00

Here are two more birthday cards I've made, One was for Nicholas' first birthday and the other was for Aly's 3rd birthday.

Crafty Mothers Day!

2009-05-13T20:06:00.000-07:00

My fantastic husband who is a self proclaimed anti craft guy make me a fantastic mothers day gift. I was very surprised and delighted with it! Thanks Honey!

Seeing Stars

2009-05-13T19:59:00.000-07:00

I found a template for this online a while ago couldn't wait to make one, I had a love affair with Basic Grey's 2008 Christmas line so I couldn't help but use it.

My friend Jen does amazing stained glass work and she had me over one day to show me how to do it. It's awesome, I almost want to start doing....along with quilting, and ........so many more!

More Scrap Pages

2009-05-13T19:51:00.000-07:00

Some more of my scrap pages.

Thank you Cards

2009-05-13T19:22:00.003-07:00

A couple thank you cards I've made lately, One for my sister and the other for Emma.

Birthday Cards

2009-05-13T19:19:00.000-07:00

Two birthday cards I've made lately. One for my mother in law and one for my niece.

Scrapbook Pages

2009-05-13T19:04:00.001-07:00

I've posted some of these on my family page but I figure why not, this IS a craft blog. So here are some of my past pages.

Baby Shower Crafts

2009-05-13T18:58:00.000-07:00

I saw these made for a friend of mine and I couldn't believe how cute they were, so I decided to take a good look at each of them before they were dismantled and this is my take on the typical Diaper Cake and Wreath.

Why Am I Doing This...

2009-05-13T18:48:00.000-07:00

So, I'm still not sure why I decided to create a craft blog, I have enough trouble keeping my family blog up to date! haha. But I'm proud of my craftiness (craft lifting) and I'd like to showcase it here, and when people wonder what my projects actually look like it'll be easier to tell them the website than trying to explain it! Hope you all enjoy and feel free to leave your comments and questions too!