FUN! FUN!

Another page that I did at a crop last weekend. I used the pre loaded cartridge that was in Laurie's E2. I love the font! I did them a bit bigger than I should have and had to put the letters on a bit weird, lol. But it is what it is so I am embrasing it.. LOL. This is a fun place we visit in Saco, ME. called Funtown, Splashtown, USA. It's and amusement park and water park all in one.. it's a blast!

BATHING BEAUTY

Here is a layout I did of my daughter from a few years ago at York Beach, Maine. It is our home away from home. We have been visiting and vacationing there for years and years. My inlaws actually live down the street from this beautiful beach.

I didn't do too much to this layout. a few glittery stickers from my stash and a strip of paper cuttlebugged in divine swirls. I stuck a ribbon across with a metal embelly that says Beach. I really wanted to show off her poses. She was pretending she was doing a photo shoot, it was cute as heck. Look out Sport Illistrated!! LOL.

Scrap Organizing

Happy Friday!! I have been on a mission to organize my scrap room (or the scrap-attic, as my kids call it, since that is where it is). My wonderful hubby, for my birthday, tore apart the closet in the room, stripped the paper, painted it and put up awesome shelving. 

My DD and I took a ride up to her fave store, Five Below where I found these cool clear bins. I love that I can just look and see what is in them. I may still label them, just because I love playing with the P-Touch labeler. 

I got this black shelving unit from IKEA (online - I still need to take the drive to check out the store in person!). 12x12 albums fit perfectly in this unit. I already need another one. They are stackable, but I am not sure that I would trust them stacked in my old, crooked house. They are very heavy and sturdy!

I also spent some time organizing my paper. I already had these 12x12 drawers, but I had scraps and whole pieces of paper mixed in together. I cleaned all the scraps out so that now all that is in the drawers are nice, clean full pieces, sorted by color. You can also see my Clip It Up bars that keep my stickers and other packaged embellies organized. the file cabinets are filled with miscellaneous "stuff:" and really need an overhaul, too. But hey, if I can't see it ..... ;) 

All my scraps wound up in 12x12 storage boxes that are under my table, but I don't think they are going to stay that way for long. Laurie has all her scraps in a tote that has separators like a file folder. I may have to steal that idea. I had no clue how many scrap pieces I had! I will be going to those for cards and embellies before cutting up any full sheets! One other thing that I have done is sort my rubons by theme and put them in a hanging file folder (red and white bin under the table).

I think I am almost done with organizing ... maybe there will be some actual scrapping in the scrap-attic soon!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Magical Memories

Last summer, we took our first family trip to Walt Disney World. I am just now starting to scrap it, with the goal of having it all done before this year's summer vacation. It is a lofty goal, as I took over 800 pictures!! Here are some of the first LOs that I have done. I am trying to keep them simple and clean. I found this great collection of sketches for 4x6 photos from Easy Scrapbook Sketches that I am using for some of them. I will share more as I get them done!

Happy Leap Day!

I am in a card swap over at Boston Area Swap Fanatics called "Leap Into February". The theme of the cards was to make something with a Leap Day or leaping theme. This was quite a challenge! These are the two cards that I came up with. The first is one is in honor of Sadie Hawkins Day - February 29th. The postcard image is from the internet and the card itself was cut with the Cameo.

On the frog card, the sentiment is from the My Pink Stamper Punnylicious stamp set ("Hoppy Birthday!" - hahahahaha) and the frog was cut out with the Cameo. I used a 2" scallop punch for the, well, scallops! Everything else is from my stash.

I hope the girls enjoy them!

Tri-Fold (well more than tri).

Good morning - I tried my hand at the tri-fold card..  I made a birthday card for my friend at work.  I am quite pleased with how it came out.

I started with a 5 1/2 x 12 cardstock, of course StampinUP, close to cocoa.  all the pink papers that I used was Tim Holtz from the Ideaology stack.    I cut the the cupcake with my Cricut with one of my pre-loaded cartridges.   Most of the embellishment were from my stash.

White Space!!!

I have a fear of white space. I love how it looks, but I just can't seem to embrace it on my layouts and cards. So, when I saw this card in the Big Picture Classes 28 Cards in 4 Weeks class that I am taking, I knew I had to scrap-lift it to give to Laurie for the scrap-tastic presents she gave me for my birthday!

I started with plain cream cardstock and inked the edges with Tim Holtz Gathered Twigs Distress ink.The sentiment is from SU!  I cut a small slit in the fold of the card and fed baker's twine through it twice, then tied it in the center. I cut the heart from some patterned paper, added the button to it and pop-dotted it off the card. I had the little clothespins in my stash forever; they are soooo cute! And that was it! My brain wanted to add more, but I embraced and walked away. I may conquer this white space fear, after all!

Yep, thats right, I said SPRING-ISH-LY, LOL

Here are some flowers I cut from the Create a Critter cartridge. I made these at 9" inches so I can write in the names and birth dates of the kids in my class on them. I realize it's odd to think flowers in New England in February, but we've had sort of spring-ish-ly type weather around here , so I thought I might as well start spring decorating! LOL. I did a lil flower and butterfly to post on my cirriculum board too.

FAMILY

Here is a layout I did using my favorite color combo. I really like red, black and white together. I like the different patterns in the papers and flowers of the same 3 colors too. I'm pretty sure that I cut the letters from the CM This and That Cartridge, and the paper flowers are CM too. I LOVE these paper flowers. They come in so many different sets. The colors are endless. I basically just adjusted them in a border type fashion and called it a day.

SO EASY EVEN A LEPRECHAUN CAN DO IT....

Here is a Step Fold Card I did for St. Patty's Day. It's easy peasy!

First choose a heavy duty cardstock for this. The card can get heavy. FIRST you CUT your CARDSTOCK 5 1/2 by 10 1/2

Then you SCORE your CARDSTOCK at 1 1/4 and 2 1/2 and 4 1/4 and 6 and 8 1/4.

Then you want to FOLD your card starting at the 5 1/2 end in a Mountain, Valley fashion. Which is a fancy way of saying Up, down, up down.. LOL

Then simply have fun decorating any way you choose!

CHASING WATERFALLS...

Here is a card I meant to post before Valentines day. I did it or my daughter. This is a waterfall card. It's name comes from the idea that when you pull the ribbon at the bottom, the small squares flip one over the other making it sort of flow. I will have to do a video tutorial on this to show how easy peasy it is to do and how fun for the recipient to get a "moving" card. I hope everybody has a great Friday!

LAKE TIME FUN.

Yet another layout I did at my January crop. This is another older picture in my picture stash. I was pretty simple with this one as I really wanted the picture and journaling to stand out. I took some CM paper and stash paper and layered them up pretty simply. Ijust used some brads and letter stickers from my stash to add a simple title.

This was from a camping trip in Maine we took. We used to have a Bass boat as my hubby was quite the fisherman. We took the boat out for fun all day and found a lake that we could jump off the boat and swim around. My hub and two kiddos were just having the time of their lives and I just turned to them with camera in hand and told them to smile and they posed like this. I just thought their faces and pose told the story of the mood of the whole day. Soon after this we had to sell the boat, so I'm glad I have some fun memories scrapped.

WE MADE IT... SWEEEEET!

This was a fun day I spent with my family at a huge hay maze. I don't know if anybody has done these, but they can be quite intense. Some take hours to find a way out. Well, we almost did it in minutes. My husband is diabetic and all of a sudden his sugar starts to drop a bit about 20 mins. into the maze. So not too much of a big deal, he just needs a sweet. So, onward we go on the hunt for a staff member to guide us out. Well in the process of looking, turning corners, and taking path after path, we were just SO good at mazing, that within minutes we hit our first check point! We are like.... Whew, we are out of here! Well the kids get their little stickers for finding a check point... THEN we couldn't believe that the prize for hitting a check point was of all things.. A handful of CANDY!, lol. So, my hub had a few pieces and we were on our way. We spent about another hour or so in there and they paid a buck for a map that helps you cheat your way out. I give it to all the extreme mazers out there, its HARD!

So with that experience, I had to scrap this. Here is another LO I embellished with CM products The adorable fence border is done with the NEW CM BORDER MAKER SYSTEM. This thing is awesome. It's easy and they have great cartridges! I plan on getting mine soon and I will post al lthe deets for you. It's a MUST HAVE. The lettering was done by none other than the THIS AND THAT CM cartridge. I told you I fell in love.. LOL.

MAKING A SPLASH...

These were taken at a camping trip my family took yeeeeears ago. We were doing a water balloon game. It was fun fun times and loads of laughs so I had to scrap it. This was a 2 page LO I did at my recent crop. I used the letters and the cute little splash cuts are from the THIS AND THAT CM cartridge. I fell in LOVE with this cartridge. I pretty much just put the pics on in a collage type of fashion. The trees are stickers from my stash and I haven't journlled yet because I'm still foggy on the dates and camp name so I need to inquire with other family.. LOL They know all! LOL.

Spin Card

Happy Monday!! I can't believe another weekend gone by!  They go by so fast!!  I worked on this card for my  mother in law.  She was in town (actually the country, she is from El Salvador) for her birthday.

I decided to give the spin card a try. I saw it in the Scrapbooks Etc. magazine.  The instructions were ok, so I kind of had to wing it.   I am a perfectionist as well, so that made it harder!  My mother-in-law speaks Spanish, and I happened to get these Spanish stamps from a Noni sale (thank you Noni). And believe it or not the stamps are StampingUP!!  Abuela means Grandmother in Spanish.

The card was a great hit at the party.  Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Friday!

January and February are full of birthdays around here. Here is an altered canvas that I made for a friend who is one of those birthdays. This is her pup, Juno and a sweet pup she is!

I started with painting the canvas with acrylic paints; added patterned paper from the DCWV Pets Stack, sanding the edges for texture; and then covered chipboard shapes with some other patterned paper from my stash and sanded those, too. The dog bone with the words around it was cut with the Cameo, using a file from the very talented Chirs Durnan at Visual Designs by Chris.

I wrapped it all up in a pretty organza ribbon and added some bling and a metal heart up in the corner. My friend did love it!

Hope everyone has a fab weekend!

GETTING TO THE HEART OF THE HOLIDAY....

Here are my Valentines. I saw a similar idea on a site out here. I'm sorry I forget where. These guys came together pretty quickly. I used some pre-embossed white paper I had for the outside mat and inside mat. I then found some valentine-ish paper to cut into strips, I layered the inside mat and punched a boarder around it, I punched a heart from the punch shown there from MS and that was that. Simple and cute. I hope you like them!

Dog gone cute

Good morning everyone!   Our Pats lost, so we are a bit somber here in the Northeast!!  We will recover and be ok, lol!  I decided to join in a challenge over at ScrapFit., http://scrapfit.blogspot.com/, they have a very talented design team over there and some fun challenges. This challenge is to start with a blank canvas.  Using a white piece of cardstock as your starting point. I have to say I had a lot of fun with this one!!  I used my glimmer mist, and a few different colors as well!  I have a DCWV dog paper stack that a lot of the embellishments came from.  The clock is Tim Holtz.  This is our Golden Retriever, Lightning, sitting under the kitchen table, resting his head on the chair as he always does.  My son thought it would be fun to get down there with him.   Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!!