Solider

My great grandfather, grandfather, and my mom as a baby. I love these pictures.

Baires Brothers

This was many years ago. Now Andrew looks so young.

My boys being goofy

My kids were being goofy so I just kept clicking away. This is a few years ago, Alex looks so young

BYE BYE MARCH..

Don't forget about My Life 2010! Get some March 2010 memories in your book, etc., How about some pics of kids and umbrellas..?? puddles?? maybe you saw a fun movie?? Write it down, the present will soon be the past!

WORKING ON IT....

I'm working some kinks out of a video I did featuring my friend the cuttlebug, LOL. I am hoping to get it posted soon. In the meantime.. talk amongst yourselves..lol. Send me some fun pages you've been working on so we can scrap the ideas forward! :)

Dawn made this card for Andrew's birthday. It hold a gift card inside. It was so cute I had to post it. I am thinking Silhouette, but I am going to let Dawn answer that question!!
Surprise, this is inside. This card in person is so cute!! Nice work Dawn

Thank you card by Best Hobby Eva

Easter Cards by Best Hobby Eva

MY APOLOGIES

Sorry gals.. we have TWO winners in the challenge. Apparently I wasn't paying attentiong and Dawn had submitted the celebrate page for another reason. But because I'm so excited to have TWO awesomely bright pages.. You both get a lil something. Tara, send me off your regular address too! Congrats ladies. I'll slow myself down a pace!

CUTTLEBUG CORNER

Me and Best Hobby Eva LOVE our cuttlebugs and we like to show them off as much as we can. We are planning to get together with some excellent embossing & die cut ideas with our "bugs". So, get ready.. GET FOLLOWERS!, get set and off we will go! We'll launch the new Cuttlebug Corner "blogment" if you will.. lol Tonight with a layout showing off some cute little sheep I recently "bugged" and want to show off. It's easy, it's fun and it's texturlicious!

CONGRATS!!

DAWN, your name was picked fair and square. You will be getting something fun in the mail this week. I'll post a pic after you get it so as not to give away the surprise.. I think waiting is half the fun!!

BRIGHT AND STAMPY CHALLENGE ENDING at 9p.m.!

Ok, so we've got Dawn and Tara's challenge..very nice ladies.. I'll post mine a little later. Anybody else?? Dave decided he wants me to give something away. So, I'll have him randomly pick a challenger and he'll pick a prize from my prize box.. to send to the winner...woo hoo... Hey, this is how all the big blogs started.. LOL. Good luck!

SPRING COLORS/STAMPS CHALLENGE by Tara

Here is a spring-y colored sb page that I used stamps on the background. Versamark ink is great for this because it creates a watermark effect on the paper. Tara
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AHA! NOW THATS A GOOD IDEA!

I got this tip from Cardztv..please visit below...I love this blog! This may seem simple, but to me was an aha moment.. LOL. Mary, the blog owner was doing a Q&A and somebody asked her how she chose colors..more specifically solid colors. She said that lots of time's she just goes to any patterned paper that's already printed and takes the color combos they used! She usually uses 3 of them. One color she pulls and uses mostly, then a second not so much then a third just to accent. I thought this brilliant..DUH! LOL. I mean I've tried color wheels, scraplifted, done it blind.. but NOW.. i will just flip through my favorite eye catching patterned paper and use the combos that somebody else dealth with putting together.. LOL! I'm so dang creative!

THE WINNER IS.....

Aislinn's team.. woo hoo.. Way to go!!!

CELEBRATE!

A page Dawn did at the crop. LOVE IT.. Such cuteness!

3/21/10 SUNDAY CHALLENGE

In honor of this weekends nice spring weather, I think a very appropriate challenge would be to see a layout using bright color...pastel, spring-like colors. I don't use a lot of those and would love some great ideas to lift! LOL. I also don't use a lot of stamps & I have so many, so lets incorporate stamping as well.
A pastel-ish, stamp-ish, spring-ish challenge-ish! Have fun!

CROP SUCCESS!

The CM crop was sooooo much fun! I think me and my bff's had some great success in finishing up some adorable pages! Send in your fav so we can all enjoy! I think I may be right in estimating that the average was 10-15 pages each?? I believe I did 12 1/2... LOL. Yep, I got one that needs a few more things on it. Well ladies have fun, enjoy your Sunday! Kel

OH CROPPING WE WILL GO!

I'm off for a day of cropping with my scrappin bff's!! woo hoo. I hope everyone has a fantastic Saturday, enjoy the gorgeous New England weather!!!

LOVELY PIC OF SPRING by Best Hobby Eva

HOW SWEET...& maybe a bit sour....lol

ADORABLE!! The kids were made from love, the lil pitcher from the Silhouette!! Too dang cute!

TOP O' THE MORNIN'..ST. PATTY PAGE TITLE IDEAS

"You are the end of my rainbow" "Feeling lucky" "A Kiss for luck" "Blarney" "Irish Eyes are smilin" "You are my Lucky charm" Have fun wearin and scrapin of the green. Happy St. Patty's!

3/14 SUNDAY O'CHALLENGE

Great black & white ideas ladies, thanks. Well, I bet you saw this comming for this week....The challenge is to use GREEN in your project, lol. Woo hoo.. Happy St. Patty's Day everyone have fun and be safe!

ANOTHER CARD by TARA (4got to post..sorry)

12x12 LAYOUT by DAWN

finally finished it! This LO is about how when Tama was 6, I came downstairs to find that she had "made" breakfast for everyone. The photo with the remote is highlighted because we call her the "clicker nazi". She always (even to this day!) has it and will actually hide it so no one can change the channel!

CUTE TITLES FOR SPRING LAYOUTS

"SPRING FLINGS & EASTER THINGS" "SPRING RAINS AND BASEBALL GAMES" & I just like this one.. LOL "BORN TO CROP, NOT TO MOP" LOL

GREAT GREEN from TARA!

Best Hobby Eva -B&W Challenge is complete

GORGEOUS GALLERY of GREATNESS by Dawn

Here are some challenges & stuff from Dawn. outstanding per usual my friend!

THANKS BHE for fixing the comments!!

your a fantab friend!

Best Hobby Eva just got the new cuttlebug

Challenge done by SHELLYK

Here is the BLACK & WHITE challenge and the KIDS SONG challenge.  The kids challenge was done before Kel's so it wasn't a scraplift.. LOL

SORRY "comments" not working.. I'm looking into it..ugggg can't seem to fix!

You can click on the envelope and email ur comment to people if you want. If anybody has any bright ideas..send along, I've chkd all my settings! uggg!

3/7/10 CHALLENGE

This week I'd love to see some layouts using black and white photos.  This is something I think of doing  often, but never get to it.  Or, I start and don't seem to get it together, so I put the photo away for next time. Or, I'll  see a gorgeous layout and think "ah...I'm going to do that next" and ...ah, I never do. LOL.   I'd love some inspiration from all you bff's! So this week, lets go forth and conquer black and white!! Have fun!

2/28 CHALLENGE by KEL

It's not too often I get these guys to smile that good standing that close.. LOL.  They are my sunshine! 

2/28 CHALLENGE done by TARA

This is the cutest!

LOVIN THE GREEN!!!

FOLLOW FOLLOW FOLLOW THE YELLOW SCRAP ROAD! LOL

We are all talented and creative, but I say lets get some MORE creative minds in here.  Tell a friend.. tell a friends friend..tell a friends friends friend!! Tell them to come and join the fun.. The more ideas the more fun, the more fun , the more scrapping. Ok.. FUN TIME!  Get a friend to follow, get a prize in your mail.. woo hoo.. I LOVE prizes!!!

GETTIN READY FOR ST. PATTY'S?

Here is my St. Patty's card.  AMAZINGLY done and sent out.. woo hoo.  Huge HUGE for me since I'm really not a card maker...aspiring maybe..lol This image is from Child's Year cricut cart, cuttlebugged, and the punch is from Stampin up!  LOVE IT!. as well as the lil stamp on the tag.  Lets see some of your greenery! card, layout, tag, whatever! The irish lass in me is in the greeeeen mode :)

KIDS CAN BE CRAFTY!

Keeping w/ the kids theme. Has your child or a small one in your world done anything crafty lately? Lets see.. Email them to me and lets show em off!

IDEAS ON CHALLENGE

Any ideas on challenge yet?? Here are some oldies but goodies to get ya thinkin:
"A tisket a tasket a green & yellow basket", "She sells sea shells....", "It's raining, it's pouring.....", Chinese jumprope, four squares, hopscotch....

QUICK TIP-TECHNIQUE

"For an interesting change from ribbon and lace, try using jute or raffia." I lifted this idea from a scrap site. Iv'e seen jute on pages, I think I might give raffia a try.. geesh, who knew?? Anybody have any pages with jute or raffia to share??