Tackle it Tuesday: Card Making

The principal at the school I work for is out for the rest of the week to recover from her foot surgery. Staff was going to buy her a card and flowers, so I of course volunteered to make the card instead. Who wants store bought when they can get handmade?

Anyway, I started off really conservative

It isn't bad, but it just isn't her. When I actually got thinking more about her personality and what she would like, I came up with this

Yep. That's definitely more her personality and sense of humor. Oh, and have I mentioned my new love of embossing?

As you can see, I'm still having lots of fun with my cricut. I'll just save the first card for another occasion :)

Tackle it Tuesday: 150 Gray & Yellow

I'm currently working on an order for a gray & yellow wedding. I thought it sounded a bit odd at first, but apparently it is quite popular right now. Their last name is very similar to the word "silver" so, they asked to go with some silvery hues to play off of that.

(I'm still having a difficult time getting good up close shots of my products. Even with TONS of light, I feel like the images come out looking dark. Any advice would be much appreciated.)

The monogram was provided to me by the bride. All I had to do was add the wording underneath.

I've had quite a few orders placed by wedding planners lately. I'm guessing this is a good thing, and could bring me more business in the future. Fingers crossed!

What's your tackle this week?

Tackle it Tuesday # 11

I was pretty busy with tackles this past weekend. I.....

Rolled $640 dollars in quarters from the laundry room. I flipped them around for privacy, but what you can't see is that all 64 are labeled with the full account number as the bank won't accept them without it. Ack.

All of this was done with some help from Layla, of course. This is what you get when you let them all accumulate for 3-4 months. Carrying them to the bank was quite a task as well.

I finally got my light switch changed out from this:

To this:

Of course, I had to shut the power off to do this. Since the switches were not labeled, I ended up shutting off power to everything BUT the bathroom before I got to the right one. I then had to go around resetting all the clocks once I'd finished...solved that problem with a little help from my label maker:

I also completed 2 more orders. Only 20 & 25 this time.

I did quite a bit more, but these were just the things I got photos of. What did everyone else tackle this week?