Thanks a Bunch!

Good morning!!  Here is a card and that Kel and I did, sometimes it takes two!!  I made this for Dawn and her family for the gift they gave my son for his bday.  The frog and his super cute lily pad are cute from Create a Critter. We ran the frog through the cuttlebug, I believe Mosaic Folder.  The lily pad we ran through the cuttle bug too, but I can't remember the name of the folder.  Thanks a bunch comes from My Creative Time, love, love her stamps.  

Looks who's 12

Good Morning everyone!!  Sorry we haven't posted in a while. Life keeps getting in the way.  Here is a page I did of my son, he just turned 12.  Kel showed me this cute little trick to using twine!  I cut out the number 12 on craft paper and wrapped in in twine, and done!  Such a cute look. One of friends sells stamping up and I bought some stuff!!  The Party this way is from you guessed it, Party this way stamp set. I stamped it and used embossing powder and heat embossed it and cut it out. The balloons are from the same set, so darn cute this set is.  Easy, quick fun page!!  I hope everyone is staying cool, we hit a record 88 today.  Poor runners of the Boston Marathon!!  Thanks so much for stopping by!!

SMASHbooking!

Hello! It's been a while since I've posted anything so I thought I would put up some pictures of a Smashbook/Junk Journal I've started. This is a fun project ! For my pages I'm using boxes from around my house like cake mix boxes and cereal boxes. I even have Laurie saving stuff for me too! The fun part about this is that you can have as many pages as you want. Its a great place to put fun quotes, family pictures, memories, art work or whatever! If you want to make your own, K and Company does have a "smash" book line of products that can get you started if you don't want to go the homemade route. My daughter has stared her own too, its fun for the both of us to play around with all kinds of scrap supplies coming up with unique pages.

Wishing You All ....

... a Happy and Blessed Easter! Here are a couple of cards that I made for my mom & dad and my godmother. The cute little peeps card was made at a shoe box swap that Laurie, Susan and I went to last week. I think all the stamps are from Close To My Heart. The little basket of eggs is a Stampin' Up stamp.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and gets to enjoy the holiday with family and friends!

Cook-Off

My older brother came up with the fun idea of having a family cook-off.  I thought, what better way to have a party!  So our food for the 1st Annual Cook off was to make either Chili or Mac and Cheese.  Let me tell you the food was amazing.  I wanted to make a poster welcoming the guests, off course I didn't have any poster board, and thought of this idea at 9:00 the night before the event.  Kel came over and helped me make this 12x12 "poster" .  We thought it looked so cute, and let me tell you the laughs we had with this, so much fun.  I also added  a few pictures of my kitchen, kind of looks like my scrap area.

We used From my kitchen cartridge for the pot holders, the pot and the plate and fork and knife.  The letters I believe were from a letter cartridge, the name escapes me right now.

I hope all is well with everyone and thanks so much for your awesome comments, they meant a lot to us Massachusetts Gals!!

Up, Up, and Away!

I focused on the airport and the actual flight in these layouts from out trip last year. It was my kids first time on an airplane, so I just had to scrap it! Everything on them is from my stash, except for the cool airplane patterned paper that I got from Scrap Your Trip (trying hard not to buy new supplies! Not easy!)

Cameo Background cuts

One of the big things that attracted me to the Silhouette Cameo was that I could cut background shapes for 12x12 layouts. Here are a couple that I did this weekend.
For the Beach layout, I used this phrase shape, then inked the edges of it. I also made an outline of it and then used the negative space to make the patterned paper seem to outline it. The shells are stickers that I have had in my stash forever.

On this layout, the title, as well as the fire fighter emblem were cut with the Cameo. I think I got the journaling stamp in the dollar bin at Michaels. The little fire department ID came with the outfit that my son is wearing in the picture.

Friendship Mini Album

I had this mini album kit from We R Memory Keepers forever and finally used it to make for my 12 year old daughter. For her birthday this year, she had a sleep over at our house. She wants to fill the album with pictures from that night. How fun and tweenish is it? Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!

Hoppy Birthday!

Laurie's youngest has a birthday coming up next week, so I altered an Altoids tin to hold a gift card for him!

The frog was cut out with the Cameo and then I dipped him in UTEE that I melted in my melting pot. The sentiment is a from Pink Stamper. Patterned paper, google eyes and metal flower are all from my stash.

Birthday Card Collection

Here is a gackle of cards that I have created in the past couple of months, which were crazy busy with birthdays for us!

More Disney!

I got some more Disney/SeaWorld LOs done this past weekend! I am on a mission to finish this album before July. Only like 780 pictures to go! Ha!

NEW MOON CANVAS

This is not the usual for this blog, I usually just post this over on my Craftytwilightmom blog but I figured I'd toss it up here too. My daughter absolutely loves the whole Twilight Saga stuff and her room is filled with all kinds of Vampire and Twilight-ish stuff and she is definately Team Jacob, who is this cutey guy/wolf.

MAY YOUR TROUBLES BE LESS AND YOUR BLESSINGS BE MORE....

and nothing but happiness come through your door!!!!!

Happy st. Patty's to all of you! I hope everybody has a great time celebrating this fun holiday. Be sure to be safe and if you hit the Irish Wiskey... hit it hard, but make sure you have a designated driver to get you home safely! Here is a card my sister in law Maureen sent me. I just think its adorable with the checkered bottom and the shamrock paper is too cute too!

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE DRESS (er) LOL

Here is side step card I did. I saw an idea like this and it was for a baby shower so it was all done up like a cute lil baby dresser. This was easy to cut and fun to decorate. I made it for a good friend. I used paper from DCWV Rustic Paper pack and I got the brads and stickers from my stash. , I messed up on the punch on the bottom left and the bottom right punch should be bigger to go across the entire dresser bottom but it's all I had to work with.. LOL. The lil piece of red on the bottom left under the key is a mistake. I had something else for there but it was better in theory, but when I pulled it off.. DANG the paper started to rip, so on went the key.. LOL . I may try again with a different theme, we'll see

SPRING FEVER IN BOSTON

Here is a Center Step Card I did. I got the die cut from a swap that we did last year . The papers, butterfly border strip and flowes are from my stash. I was inspired to do a bright and cheerful springy card because of the beautiful weather here in Boston today.

Two Sweet

Here is a two page layout I did at a recent crop. It's just filled with some pics of my kids when they were young. I have BOXES of picutres! I got the layout idea from the Creative Memories Nancy O'Dell page planner set. Because I have so many older pictures, and it would take me a lifetime to sort and put in order, I figured that I just want to do simple collages with them and fill up a couple of scrapbooks. This page planner set is a MUST. I used pre-decorated paper from a kit I had, but I do like the scalloped edge look with the faux stitching, so I may use that idea for future pages.

SPRING THINKING!

These are some incredible step cards that my sister in law Maureen did. She is from Illinois and was here for a visit. She brought these to show me and they are so so nice. Unlike the one that I did, she put paper on both sides of the step folds. the flowers are pre-made strips called LA PETITES by THE PAPER STUDIO. They are amazing. She bought me the yellow one. I can't wait to use it!