Nataliya's Cafe

We're down in Carthage right now, and we're going to be heading to EAA's AirVenture 2011 next week.  This is like Graceland for my husband and his family.  So, this coming Monday we will have quite a few family members hanging out at our place. 

John's niece Natalie is 9, and my niece Aliya is 11.  Ever since they were little they would help me in the kitchen.  One of the things they now both love to do is play restaurant.  A couple years ago for Christmas I gave them a 'restaurant kit'.  I bought some menu folders, a small serving tray, a waitress apron, a bus tub, and a plastic water pitcher.  Since both of them will be here I thought the night before we head to Oshkosh they could open their restaurant at our big cookout. 

For the name of the restaurant I combined both of their names and came up with "Nataliya's Cafe".  One of the catch phrases I came up with is "We'll see ya's at Nataliya's".  Using my Storybook Creator software from Creative Memories I created their logo and menus.  The menu items are what I've chosen to prepare for the cookout.  I also made the front page of the menu (the 'Good food, great service' page) a little smaller and did an iron-on transfer to the left lapel of their 'work shirts'.  The logo with the catch phrase I left fairly big and did an iron-on for the backs of their shirts.  I also made even smaller ones of the front page, cut them out using my Cuttlebug and a small circle Nestabilities die, added a purple Lacey Circles cutout, thread a ribbon through it and use them as napking rings.

Here is page 1 of the menu, and the one I reduced down to iron-on to the lapel of their work shirt, and also made napkin rings:

Here is page one of the inside of their menu:

Here is page two of the inside of the menu:



 And here is the back page of their menu, and also what I made as an iron-on for the back of their work shirts:

I had so much fun doing this!  I found clipart from a website and used that for their faces, and also the flower border and font for the inside of the menu.  My niece Aliya has already seen these, and she's super excited about 'opening the restaurant'!  I hope Natalie will be as excited.

Do your best!



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Hey there,
I just had to play around with this stamp set. It's another Pure Innocence set from My Favorite Things, and it's called 'Start the Day With Whee!' I love this little girl. She's so cute!

The card base is the Pure Luxury Heavy Base weight cardstock in Kraft, and it's from Gina K Designs. The light blue mat is from the Martha Stewart collection, and the red cardstock came from Hobby Lobby. I stamped the image using Memento ink in Tuxedo Black onto an X-Press It blending card, and colored it with Copic Sketch Markers. I cut it out with Spellbinders Classic Rectangles Small Nestabilities. The red cardstock was cut with Nestabilities Labels Seventeen. The cloud dies came from My Favorite Things as well, and I colored them with Prismacolor Pencils and OMS. The sentiment at the top was cut out with Spellbinder's Banner dies, and I stenciled it with Tim Holtz's distress ink in Tea Dye, I believe.

The other papers I used came from the Stella & Rose collection from My Mind's Eye. I used them for the Open Scallop Border and the Simply Scallops Medium, again from My Favorite Things, and also for the girl's dress.

Whew! I hope I didn't leave anything out! I've been trying to write down everything that I use after I make each card. It's best for me to do it right away while I have everything on my table. I need to start keeping note cards so I can refer back to those if I want to make them again.

Thanks for stopping by. I'll soon be posting a project that I did using my Creative Memories scrapbooking software Storybook Creator. I'm so excited to show it to you!

Do your best!

Welcome to July!

Sorry it has been awhile since I last posted. We've been busy with life. Also, our current housing situation is a bit unique. We are planning to move to my hometown, so we pretty much live with my parents until we can get our house sold. The house is big enough that we each have our own areas, with the exception of the kitchen. The property we own is very special to my husband and he would like to keep it in the family. For now we're waiting for his nephew to sell his house so he can buy ours. Until that happens, I don't have a lot of room to do my cardmaking. I'm basically using 1 table to do everything. For me, I need about 3 or 4!

Back to the card: A cousin of mine just had a loss in her family. Her mother-in-law passed away after battling cancer. I made this card to give to her. I used Gina K Design's Pure Luxury base weight cardstock in Ivory for the base of the card. I then took a separate piece of lighter weight cardstock and embossed it using Spellbinder's Impressabilities called Flourish. I then sponged it with Tim Holtz's distress ink in Antique Linen. The sentiment came from Gina K Design's stamp set called 'Take Flight', and was stamped on some basic Ivory cardstock I got at Hobby Lobby with Memento ink in Rich Cocoa. I used one of the dies in a set from My Favorite Things called '1st Place Award Ribbon & Die Set' to cut out the sentiment, then inked the edges with the Antique Linen distress ink. The butterflies were punched out with Martha Stewart's Monarch Butterfly punch. I did that in both Ivory and Tan cardstock and after I inked the edges of the Ivory butterfly, I layered them using micro pop-dots.

Hopefully I will be able to submit my next post a little sooner. Until then, do your best!

-Kim