and then I lost my mind

Tomarrow is Little Dudes birthday party with all his friends, and I must confess I have never been so worried over a party in all my life.  We love having parties and the planning and the decorating, but this is different.  This is all his friends and I don't know any of them and people now a days don't rsvp anymore, except of course me.  I woke up at 4 in the morning last night worried over if anyone would show up, I mean I have it's getting out of hand, my worrying that is.

So today I needed to put together goodie bags and decided I needed a stamp with LD's face on it to stamp on the bags.  I have no idea why I just felt it needed to be done.

1.  Here is the pic I chose all cropped up nice. Then I ran the photocopy filter in Photoshop on it.

2.  After printing it the size I wanted I drew over it with a pencil.

3. I took the paper and layed it on the carving medium and rubbed the back of the paper, the pencil lead comes right off onto the rubber.

* Carving medium here I did get mine at Micheals though so check there first if you have one close buy.

4. I carved around the lines, leaving the lines high and the negative space I carved away.  The carving tools I have are a set of 6 I picked up for 5 bucks at Sam Flax, they rock!

5. Here he is all ready to go on the bags, I am going to use the red as I am putting it on paper bags and want it to stand out.

In Kitchen News

I am going to GNO (girls night out) tonight, I signed up for dessert, yum!  I am making the almond cake that Angry Chicken raved about.  I did make this a few weeks ago and it rocked except for I lost my bundt cake pan and used two load pans instead and I opened the oven.  This made for sunken cakes, and while still good, not presentable.  I went out and got me one of those new fangles silicon pans, the blue thing in the pic, and will have to let you know how it comes out.  It is in the oven now with 5 min to go, fingers crossed.

Comments

[Cameron]

Wow! That stamp is a testament to motherly devotion--you make it look so easy, but it's clear from your final result that you are a pro!

(so happy to have found your site through the purl beehive!)

[jen]

I love your blog. And that stamp is gorgeous!