Happy Friday!

Happy Friday everyone!

Blog reading can really really hurt your wallet.  Yesterday Becky from Fourth House on the Right had an awesome card featured. (click HERE to see the awesome card) I loved the bingo card she made.  I had used a bingo card on Monday's layout (click HERE) and I wanted to make some more.  I hated to pay the high price of them at the scrap store and I liked the idea of making my own.  Well Becky told me that it was a stamp from Paper Trey Ink.  Well, if you have follwed my blog for very long you know that I love Paper Trey Ink.  I try to stay away from them because they have so many fun stamps.   Well I went on their website and boy oh boy did I shop.  I am really in trouble--I totally went over my budget this month.  BAD BECKY BAD BECKY for putting such a cute card on your blog.  Becky, you deserve to get a free stamp or something from them for the the order I placed. hehehhehe--I will have to share pictures of my haul when it arrives. And as I am writing this I keep hitting myself because I wanted to much more--my list is always sooo long from them. 

What is everyone doing this weekend?  Any big plans?  We are so jammed pack I hope I can take time to breathe.  Tonight I am going to go for my crop.  I know I am not going to stay till midnight tonight.  I would like to be home early so that I can get some sleep.  I do need to work though.  I have not scrapped all week and I won't be able to all weekend. (Isn't it funny how this hobby is more of an obsession-hehehehehe)  Saturday I have errands and then Jack has swimming lessons, a dentist apt., my mother in law is coming for lunch and then she is going to watch michael while hubby, Jack  and I go down to Cincinnati for a birthday party( jack is invited).  Then on Sunday my mom is coming over.  The weather is supposed to by warm (60-70) but a chance of rain, but if I can get a walk in both days I will be in heaven.

I had some great news this week. I had another layout picked up by Scrap Street EMagazine. I was so excited. So my layout that was scheduled for today has been removed till June.

Also my Bee Happy card was featured on the Practical Scrappers  blog. Wow I am so honored! Thanks so much!

I had some other fun news this month- at my local scrap store, Simply Scrapbooks, I am going to be teaching a sketch class.  In the class we will be making 2-2page layouts and 1-1 page layout for $20 dollars.  The students will get the sketches, cardstock, paper, alphabet stickers and embellishments, and I will show them how to put it all together.  I am really excited about the class.  We are hoping to make it a monthly class. The class date is April 17th from 1:30 - 3:30.  Here is a look at one of the layouts that we will make in class. 

This months kit used the Chloe by 3 Bugs in a Rug.  Can I tell you how excited I am to scrap some girl layouts.  I am going to put a picture of my god daughter in the place.

Well I hope everyone has a fantastic day and weekend.  I will be back on Monday with a new layout.  See ya then and thanks for stopping by!

Thursday-Autumn Afternoon

Good Morning!

It's Thursday! Just one more day till the weekend--HOORAY!  Well today I wanted to get in another layout that I made at my crop 2 weeks ago.  I just love these pictures of Jack playing in the leaves.

Autumn Afternoon

This layout was fun to make.  I loved using up my last little bit of my basic grey paper.  I also loved using the Silhouette to create the trees and the title.  I really like the font I used for that.  It was a font that was on the Silhouette site.  Very fun! 

supplies

cardstock-neenah solar white

paper-basic grey

tools-martha steward punch, silhouette for title and die cut

inks: tim holtz

This is just a quick post today.  I have a busy day at work and tonight I have to pack all my kits up for my monthly crop.  I have been very bad and I haven't been in my scrap room all week.  The weather has been nice and the boys and I have outside or doing other things.  So I need to pick some pictures and print them off and then make some kits up.  I think I am going to finally finish Christmas and then start some of my winter pages. 

Have a great day and I will see you all tomorrow!



Wednesday Card-April Challenge at Scrap Our Stash

Happy Wednesday everyone,
Hope you are having a good day. I am excited for today because they are calling for temperatures in the 60's and sunny. Oh I can't wait. I think after school I will walk with the boys to the park.  I can't wait!

Over at Scrap Our Stash they are having their monthly challenge.  This months challenge is to Bring in the Sun.  Well I was stumped at how I was going to incorporate a sun into a project.  I thought about it all day and came up with NOTHING!  So I went to bed and I had the best dream.  I came up with the entire card in my dream.  I love it when that happens.  As soon as I woke up I got my sketch pad out and sketched the layout so I wouldn't forget.    Here is what I came up with:

Bee Happy

I loved making this card because I got to include all my favorite things:die cuts, inking, stamping, coloring.  What could be better?

First I used my scraps and traced and cut out my hills.  Next I went to town using my Silhouette. I made the postage stamp base, the sun and the cloud.  I then stamped my bee and made a little mask for it.  I also made a mask for the edges of the postage stamp.  I wanted those to remain white.  I then used my Tim Holtz distress ink and my blending tool and inked up the sky.  I then inked the edges of my cloud.  I colored in my cute little bee with my copics and then stamped the sentiment.  To give the hills a bit of dimension I added some faux stitching to them, and then pieced it all together.  I had a ton of fun creating this card.  I am not sure who I am going to send this to, but I hope it will brighten someones day.

If you want more information on the Scrap Our Stash challenge please click HERE.  If you haven't stopped by, you really should!  There are really fun challenges and just a nice group of people.  What are you waiting for --Give it a Try!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope everyone has a great day.  I will be back tomorrow with a new layout!

Tuesday-Game Time

Hello,

How is your week so far? So far so good here. Nothing exciting which is a good thing. I couldn't handle another week like last week with back bumping his teeth, dentist appointments, and running around.  So I would like to have a nice quiet week. (fingers crossed)

I was so excited because one of my cards from my Jillibean Soup card week was featured on their blog. Click HERE to see. I was so excited! What an honor!  They have one of the best design teams ever. They always inspire me.

Two weeks ago at my crop and this past weekend I was able to get caught up on my scrapping.  I scrap out of order and sometimes some pictures get left out or forgotten.  I still had pictures from the fall that needed to get done.  So I worked really hard and I finally finished the fall.  Now I need to focus on finishing Christmas.  I need to then get working on the winter.  Here it is spring and I haven't even started the winter and all my snow pictures.  I have been chomping at the bit to use my Echo Park Wintertime paper.  So much to do and so little time. hehehehehe

I have to say that this turned out to be one of my favorite layouts.  I just loved the pictures and the sketch I used was perfect for it.  It was really fun.

Game Time

For the journaling block on this layout I used my memo stamp from Hero Arts and cut it down to the size needed and then punched the border so that the block looks like a page torn out of a football play book. I really liked how that turned out.  For the title I used my Silhouette to create the welded title (I really love the look).

supplies

cardstock-core'dinations, neenah solar white

paper-october afternoon

tools-silhouette, ek success punches

stamps-hero arts

inks-tim holtz

I hope everyone has a fantastic day.  Tomorrow is Wednesday so I will be back with another card.  Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Monday-Got books?

Good Morning!

How was your weekend? Mine was pretty good! I got some crafting done and hubby and I were able to get a sitter at the last minute and have a date night. We had a wonderful evening.  We looked at our schedule and we are totally booked till the end of April.  As I have said before date night is so important!  Poor Michael though hates it when we leave.  The boys sitter is my cousin so the boys know her very well, but Michael just keeps saying to her "I want mommy and daddy back".  Poor little thing!

Got Books?
Everyone in my family loves to read, and when Jack was little I started reading to him and he just loves books.  At his school the librarian comes every week to read a book and she said that you needed to be 5 to get your first library card.  Well Jack came home after school and he was so excited because he just turned 5.  So we went and Jack got his first card.  Oh, he was way too happy.  You know me.  I carry my camera with me everywhere so I took these pictures.  I just love them and I created this layout with them.

supplies

cardstock-core'dinations

paper-basic grey

brads-basic grey

journaling card-internet

title-silhouette

Well I hope everyone has a fantastic day.  I will be back tomorrow with a new layout.  Thanks for stopping by!

My Core'dinations Creative Frenzy

I was so excited when I saw on the Core'dinations blog that they were having try outs for the new Design Team.  I love Core'dinations cardstock because they have so many wonderful colors and  because there are so many things that you can do with it-sand it, emboss it, score it, tear it, and the  list goes on and one.  Core'dinations also teams up with other amazing companies to bring the best selection of cardstock. I just love it! So when I saw they  were looking for a new Team  I knew I had to try.  So I went to work and here is what I came up with using their amazing cardstock.

My Boy

I used so many different techniques on this layout.
1. I scored the base of the layout and then sanded it.
2. I wrinkled the brown cardstock and then sanded it to give it the distressed look
3. I embossed the red layer and then sanded it
4. I sanded the preembossed light blue sheet and finally
5. I tore the second layer of red

The look has so many differnt textures.  I just love it.

supplies
core'dinations cardstock, echo park paper, alphabet, stickers and stamp, paper trey ink buttons, tim holtz distress inks, cuttlebug

Enjoy Every Moment

For this layout I used the Jillibean Soup Core'dinations paper and did the following techniques:

1. Sanded the main layer of cardstock.  I really love to mix up the sanding and sand really lightly in some areas and then really heavy in others to give it that uneven distressed look.

2.  For the orange cardstock I used the reverse side so that the design was deembossed.

3. I then used the front side of the above cardstock and cut 2 strips and then punched it with my border punch. I then rubbed the Tim Holtz ink with my blending took to pick up the embossed layer. Love this look!

5.  I then used my Silhouette to create the title using the cardstock.

supplies:  core'dinations cardstock, jillibean soup paper and journaling tags and buttons, silhouette, ek success border punch

You can really do everything you need to make wonderful pages with the cardstock!

Pure Happiness

This layout once again I wanted to use  several differnt techniques.
1. I scored the base and lightly sanded it.  I love this! It makes such a nice frame for the inside piece.
2. I embossed and sanded the blue and green pieces.

supplies: core'dinations cardstock, october afternoon paper and stickers, cuttlebug

Happy Birthday



 For this card I used once again the Core'dinations cardstock as my base and then added another layer and sanded the pre embossed paper.  I then added some of the coordinating Jillibean paper. 

I just love the texture that you can create using this amazing cardstock!

supplies: core'dinations cardstock, jillibean soup paper and tag, paper trey ink buttons

I want to thank Core'dinations for considering my work.  It would be  both a dream and an honor to work for such an amazing company.

Thanks again for stopping by!

Happy Friday-Bag Topper

Hello and Happy Friday!

First let me say, I want to thank all of you for coming by each day and looking at my work and taking the time to write such kind comments, but I feel that right now I need to take a break from scrapping and spend less time on the computer and more time with my family.  I am going to be selling a lot of my supplies----

Wait-----April Fool's--hehehehhehehhe

me--quit scrapping--quit blogging--selling my supplies----no way-- April Fool's Day Everyone!

I am so glad it is the weekend.  What is everyone doing this weekend?  So far we don't have any plans.  I just want to relax.  I wish the weather was going to be nice.  I would love to plant some pansies in the front of the house but still way too chilly for that.  I just need spring and some regular sunshine. 

Jack's tooth is hanging in there.  The one tightened up a bit but the other one is still wiggly.  I wish it would just come out so that he can eat and everything as normal.  He loves telling everyone about his big accident on the playground.  He is too much.

You know me--I am not normally a paper project kind of girl.  I love to make cards and scrapbook but I am not really into projects; however, I say this and I knew I needed to  make these.  My friend's son is having a little party and I volunteered to help make the little gift bags for the couple of kids that were coming to the party.  I used the jillibean soup spotted owl to make these along with my Silhouette.  I think they just turned out so cute.  I just put bubble gum in them when I took the picture.  She will be able to put in her little goodies once I drop them off at her house. 

I tell you I am still on my card making kick.  I am loving that I can get a quick one in while the kids are playing.  I guess I just needed a bit of a change.  For the first time I know have a surplus of cards.  I am going to give my mom a nice little pack of them for helping us out this week.  She loves to send little cards to her girlfriends that have become snow birds in Florida. 

I hope everyone has a fantastic day.  I will be back on Monday with a new layout.  (It seems like forever since I have had a layout on.)  Hope everyone has a great weekend! Try to rest and relax and of course scrap!  See ya then and thanks for stopping by!