Play Date

Happy Monday Everyone,
How was your weekend?  I have to say this was an awesome weekend.  All I did was rest and relax!  It was wonderful and it is just what I needed!  I was able to get so much stuff done in my scrap room.  I loved it!  I finished 2 layouts (I had started them 2 weeks ago at my Friday crop),  3 cards, 9 Rolodex cards for a swap that I am in, and I made a  2 sketches for two new layouts.  I loved it!  I know it seems like I must have been in my scrap room all weekend but really I had my mojo going so I was in a great groove.  Plus I was able to make my own sketches while watching t.v.

Last week I was honored to receive two blog awards.  Thanks so much to Tracy and Harmony SweetPea.  I truly appreciate it very much.


I have to tell 8 things about myself:
1.  I love dogs.  I have always had a golden retriever or Labrador dog.  Currently I have a golden named Bailey.
2.  When I work out I listen to my Pandora Radio and it is set to Pop 80's music.
3.  My favorite CD to listen to when I scrap is something by Train.
4.  I secretly enjoy it when Jack listens to Kidz Bop--hehehehehehe
5.  My best girlfriend and I have been friends for 43 years---wow I am getting old--we met when we were 2 years old.
6.  I love spending time with my family.
7.  I love taking walks.
8.  I have lived in Europe a couple of times throughout my life.

Now I have to pass this award on to other people.  This is always so hard because I have THE best followers and everyone is awesome--so here goes
1.Christy
2.SMDLUXE
3.Kerryn
4.  Michele
5. Tammy
6.Catherine

You should really check out these blogs.  These are such inspiring blogs and I love checking them out.!

Now on to my layout.

In December Jack had his first play date with his friend. He was so excited to have a friend over.  One of the things they did was play the Wii.  These are pictures were taken during his first play date.  They didn't even know I was in the room.

Supplies

bazzill, basic grey, paper trey ink, tim holtz distress ink

Well I hope everyone has a fantastic week.  I have a busy one again, but when they are busy they seem to go by fast.  Thanks so much for stopping by.  I will be back tomorrow with a new layout.

Finally Friday

Boy, am I glad it is the weekend.  This week has just been terrible for me--being sick, not sleeping etc.  All I want this weekend is CALM!  I don't want to do anything. 

Little Yellow Bicycle had another sketch challenge.  I love their stuff and they had another awesome sketch by Liz Qualman.

I loved it and I had just bought some of the new line of theirs called Twig.  Oh, I love this line.  I knew exactly what photos I wanted to use for this.  Jack and I were sitting at the table doing some work on the alphabet and he was just sitting there so darn cute that I grabed my camera and started shooting.  He doesn't like it when I do this but he was in a good mood and I captured some great pictures.

Here is my take on the sketch

My Sweet Boy

I used my Silhouette and cut the font, and I place a couple of their faux buttons.

I was in love with the little tree and charms.  Each one has a word on it for example: thoughtfullness, kindness etc.  The were perfect for my layout because all the words describe my Jack.  For the journaling tag I stamped it with Ali Edwards stamps.

I added a couple of the dimensional buttons.

I also used their canvas border strips.  I love these.

Supplies

bazzill, little yellow bicycle, ali edwards

Well, I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend.  Any big plans? I will be back on Monday with a new layout.  Thanks for stopping by!

GYSO #8

Happy Thursday!.

Normally I put my weekly GYSO sketch out on Friday but I still am working on the finishing touches on my layout for the Little Yellow Bicycle challenge.  So I thought I would shake things up a bit.  Here is the sketch:


And here is my take on it.  It is Michael opening up his presents Christmas Morning.  He was opening up his favorite present--Curious George.  Jack, god love him, wanted to get Michael a present and he remembered that he had a George stuffed animal that he NEVER played with and he asked me if he could give it to Michael.  He knew that George was Michael's favorite.  How cute is that?

Supplies

bazzill, imaginisce, paper trey ink

Sorry for all the quick posts but still not feeling that great.

Well I hope everyone has a great day.  I will be back tomorrow!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

Wednesday Card

Happy Wednesday!

Well as you know if you have followed my blog for any length of time is that I LOVE Imaginisce.  I have entered every contest and challenge they have posted in the last year (sadly I have never won--still hoping!!) and this month's challenge was a huge stretch for me.  The challenge  was to create something using their products and based on these colors:


Well, with 2 boys I really didn't have anything from Imaginsce with these colors.  So I wasn't going to enter this one, but........ then I kept thinking about it and then decided to make a card using the adorable Enchanted line for my God Daughter.  Her birthday will be coming up soon and this was a perfect opportunity to buy some of this paper.  I feel in love with it.  So here is my card:

Birthday Girl!

For the card I started with a 5x5 base and covered it with the Imaginisce paper.  I then made a die cut and stamped the image of the little girl using memento ink.  I then colored her in with Copic markers.  I then made a mask and placed it over the girl and used my Spun Sugar distress ink and colored all around the girl in various amounts making some areas darker and around the little girl lighter.  I then used my white gel pen and made faux stitching around the edges.  Finally I added some bling to the little girl's crown by using my IRock.  I then cut a small strip of another piece of pattern paper from Imaginisce and stamped the greeting and again added some bling.

 Here is a close up.

I also like to dress the inside up so I stamped my greeting and added a bit of bling on the inside to make it a bit more fun!

Oh, I just love how it turned out and boy let me tell you --I LOVE scrapping girl stuff--the pink--the bling--oh what fun!

Supplies
cardstock:  neenah solar white
paper  Imaginisce
ink:  tim holtz, memento
stamps:  Imaginisce, Hero Arts
bling:  I Rock tool and Gems
Markers:  Copic

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

Best Friends

Happy Tuesday!

I want to thank all of you for all your wonderful comments.  It really helped!  Even though a lot of us have never met I so look forward to hearing from you either from your blogs or the wonderful comments you leave for me.  I am so honored that you come and visit. 

Well I always post my post the day before, but we have no news yet as to what my hubby's mother wants.  We only know that there is not going to be a service now.  So I am still in limbo.

Yesterday I had the day off and I got so much accomplished.  It is amazing what you can do when you are motivated.  I totally cleaned out the closets of the boys.  I was packing up the clothes that don't fit the boys and packing it up for charity and saving others for Michael.  I was also taking a tally of what I need to buy for the boys for spring.  I have to start shopping the early sales for the bargains.  I have some stuff that I bought on mark down, but I need a bunch more.  Oh I hate my credit card bill when it is time to buy them clothes.

I also was able to finish a page and make a card.  So happy I got to scrap today.  I totally miss it when I can't get in the basement to play.  Still not feeling great.  Whatever this is I think I need to see a doctor.  YUCK!!!

Well on the my layout.

Best Friends

Several weeks ago on my What am I working on Thursday posts (HERE) I showed the paper and my sketch for my design team  layout for my lss (simply scrapbooks).  I had to use the new line of paper by pebbles inc.  I think it turned out really cute!

Sorry that the pictures are out of order--I don't know what was going on today?

supplies

bazzill, pebbles inc, tim holts mini clips, ek success punches

Well I hope everyone has a fantastic day.  I will be back tomorrow with my Wednesday Card!

Thanks for stopping by and I will talk to ya tomorrow!

Christmas Card 2010 + Giveaway Winner!!!!

Happy Monday!

I hope everyone had a good weekend.  I had high hopes for my weekend but nothing happened the way I wanted.  I started to not feel well after school on Friday and by Friday night I knew I had a little bug.  I was up 1/2 the night and then was totally exhausted on Saturday.  I wanted to get so much accomplished but all I did was lay on the couch.  Hubby was great and watched the kids.  We were supposed to have a date night but I cancelled that.  Sunday I was feeling better and just taking it easy when we got a call from my brother in law that my hubby's step father had passed away.  This was very unexpected.  We still do not have any details yet, but we may be traveling to Arizona later in the week.  My in laws are snow birds and go to Arizona for the long winter.  Needless to say there wasn't much excitement going on in my house.  I hope everyone else had a much better time!

As promised I have the winner of my Imaginisce Snag Em's giveaway.  I used the random.org generator--sorry I don't have the picture--there was a glitch with the picture.  So without further ado the winner is #10 ---Becky!!!

Becky said...


Sounds like a busy week ahead! Your card is super cute and so are those stamps, especially that ticket!
February 14, 2011 10:45 AM

Becky,
Please email me your address so that I can send these right out to you!

Now on to my layout.
Every year I scrap our Christmas card.  Here is the one for this year.  I used the Echo Park paper line. 

Here I used the Tim Holtz mini clips.  I love those.

I attached some twine to the ornament sticker .

supplies:  bazzill, echo park, dcwv

Well I hope you all have a wonderful day.  I have the day off and I am going to try to wrap up some of the last minute things I have been working on.  I had big plans on scrapping this weekend, but I didn't get to at all. 

Thanks for stopping by.  I will be back tomorrow with a new layout.  

Last Chance for Giveaway!

You have till  Sunday at Noon (eastern standard time) to enter the giveaway for the awesome imaginisce snag em stamps.  Please go HERE to read about the giveaway and to enter!

have a great weekend.