THINK OUTSIDE THE LAYOUT

I did these cute little die cut-outs for my class in school. I thought i had a picture of them up, but I can't find it. SHOCKING that I can't find anything.. LOL yaaaaa right! Anyway, I'll take a shot of them up on the bulletin board and post. It's really fun to be able to use Cricut for work and avoid having to pay through the nose for classroom decorations! Plus, everybody just loves the fact that they are homemade. And, we all know those non-scrappers that are just floored that this can even be possible.. LOL. So, get out there and use your scrap-talents and decorate something other than a layout or card and tell us about it. We would love to hear what your up to!

Well THIS certainly beats porridge!

Here is an incredibly awesome card by Dawn. She got the image from squigglefly and used her Copics to color it in. I just love all the great fall colors on the papers, and those lil bears are just TOO cute! From the look on their faces, I doubt Goldilocks will get a wing! LOL

TURKEY LURKEY!

Here is a fun card I did for Thanksgiving,, but used sort of non traditional colors staying away from oranges and yellows, but blue's and browns. I went for the Z fold style, I thought it came out fun. The turkey is from create a critter and the inside tag is a punch from Creative memories.

PRICELESS!

Quite a few pieces of DCWV paper.............. $4.00



Nearly a whole package of glue dots............... $3.00



Having my 19 year old son agree with me that playing with paper and glue is fun............. PRICELESS



LOL. Here is my son's halloween mask... a Rubix cube.! He really had fun making it, and was quite impressed at the quality of paper and adhesive.. he LOVED running the glue dots down the side of the box. His words were "hey mom, these things are pretty boss" LOL. It is probably the 1st and last time I'll ever see him near my scrap supplies.. LOL. but it was fun while it lasted!

SIMPLY SAID

I wanted to thank 2 great people that have been very helpful to me and my family over the last few months. It was sort of half business and half personal so I wanted to just do a simple card, and this is what I came up with. I used Martha Stuart's scoring board to make the envelopes and MS edger for the top of the card. The card is made with some stamping up papers and a stamping up stamp.

LIVE LOVE AND SMILE!

Here's a few pics that were taken at completly different times, but I liked them because they are of the 4 of us and everybody is actually smiling.. LOL I love to look back at my kids when they were just wee little ones. They used to JUMP in front of the camera with huge smiles. Now, yikes, you gotta pin em' down to get a shot.. LOL. Anyway, I saw this layout idea in a Page Map book and really liked it. I have so much twine and string and stuff and never use it, so here it is. I had gotten the paper clips from Staples. They have this little area in which they have buckets of all different kinds of paper clips. From cat shaped, to guitar shaped to dotted.. to colored.. All kinds. You fill a small clear bucket for like $3 bucks. It was fun to put them use!

YAY SENIOR YEAR!

These were pictures my daughter and I took of her going back to her senior year of high school and her new Senior shirt. She was nuts about it.. LOL. It's too cute how they made the R into 12! I went simple on this page. I had a few chipboard pieces that I think I picked up and put down 25 times and FINALLY decided to glue them to something.. LOL

THE BEST IS YET TO BE

Here is a great great layout that Dawn did for me a few years back. I love the colors.. I love how she cut out the circle prints and pop dotted them up.. Clever!

The picture was taken at Laurie's 4th of July party. I had no idea she took it. She suprised me with it ! I've displayed it in my house everyday since, I absolutely love it and I get compliments on it all the time . My husband is diabetic and has stage 4 kidney failure and struggles a lot with it and has to endure dialysis 4 days a week, and many times when he gets down, and we worry about the future, I'll look at that picture and read the quote. "Grow old with me, the best is yet to be" Thanks Dawn.

1st Day of School - The bus stop

Hello again!!! I did this page of my boys getting on the bus on the first day of school. Technically it was the second day, but for page purposes I am going with the 1st day.

The little pendants are again from Jenny B. She is my favorite lately.

The pencil paper and the other papers are all from my stash. I really need to start using more of my stash.

The arrow and the bus stop sign are from Locker Talk Cartridge.

My scrapbooking has been all over the place lately. I have just been scrapping pages I feel like doing!!

I hope everyone has a great weekend and gets some scrapping in!!

Are you ready for some Football??

My son is a Junior in High School and he plays for his school team. He loves, loves football. This was the first game of the season under the lights.

The grid above the picture is a rub-on from Jenny Bowlin. I love me so Jenny. The rest of the embellishments are from my football stash (let me tell you my football stash is two full draws of stuff!!).

When I printed out the pics, I printed them from Photoelf and I added a mask around each picture to give it a softer look.

I loved this picture of him as he looks so serious about his football business!!

Hope everyone has a funtastic day!!

Christmas Card

Good morning, as promised here is my card I made for the swap. The cards should be fairly easy as we have to make 12 in one night.

I started with Kraft Paper (the brown), inked that up. Added the red after I ran it through the snowflake cuttlebug folder. The green paper is Core'dinations, sanded down a bit to add texture.

The white strip of Xmas trees was from my stash. I cut out an xmas tree from Create a Critter and a little bakers twin e and done!! So easy!! I am dying to see what the other ladies make. We will be sure to show them to you when do them. We are going on November 10th.

Now we move on to Christmas

Hi Everyone! Hope everyone survived Halloween and didn't eat too much candy!!

Dawn, our friend Susan, and I are in a shoebox swap. There are 12 ladies involved. So what we have to do come up with a Christmas card and then make enough cards for 12 people. You bag up each card individually and with all the pieces. The the shoe-boxes are put on around the table in different spots. You sit down at a shoebox, pull out one baggie and make up your card. You walk out with 12 already made cards! So much fun and a great way to get a head start on Christmas cards. I decided to fancy up my shoebox. I used all chipboard cut outs from a cheap Xmas kit I bought a long time ago!
Here is the inside of the box, with all the baggies and card pieces.

And a side view. I will show you my card tomorrow!! Have a great day!!

Happy Halloween - Fun Halloween Page

Good morning Ladies!! So happy to be posting again! Happy Halloween!!! Here is a page I did of my now 11 year old son. He was 1.5 years old in this picture. I am sure when he is older he will kill me for putting him in this Winnie the Pooh costume. I just can't stand how cute he is!!

For this page, I used mostly paper!! Dawn and I bought a bunch of Halloween paper last year and I really haven't used much of it, so I thought I would pull it out and start using it!! The tag is from a tag swap we did last year!

I hope everyone has a happy and safe Halloween.

More SVG Fun

Happy Friday! I have found a new obsession: SVG cuts. They are so much fun to cut and put together and there are a ton of them out there; some free, some for purchase. And you don't necessarily need an electronic cutting machine to use them. Some can be printed and cut by hand. 

SVG Cuts has some amazing files. I can't wait to play with some of them. I plan on making the Family banner from their Thanksgiving Dinner Kit and will share with you when I do! Lettering Delights also has a ton of great files. Oh boy. This could definitely lead to needing a bigger hard drive! Google SVG files and you will find a ton of inspiration and will see what I mean!

This Gary file from Lady Wolf was easy and quick to put together. She gives you great detail pieces, so this:

becomes this:

I stuck him in each of the kids' lunch boxes this morning with a little "Meow ♥" written on the back. For those who watch Spongebob, you know that is snail for "I love you!" :)

Have a great weekend!!

Fabric Cutting

Here is a little fabric owl that I cut with my Silhouette and then sewed together. I used the fabric interfacing available at the Silhouette online store, but I have read on other blogs that people have used regular fabric interfacing and cut all sorts of fabric things with their Cricut. I am not a very good sewer, but he wasn't too hard and is oh-so-cute in real life. His eyes are buttons that I got at Joann Fabrics. We would love to hear about and see any fabric creations that you have made!

Life Is A Rollercoaster

One of my favorite movie quotes ever is from "Parenthood":

Grandma: You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster.
Gil: Oh?
Grandma: Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride!
Gil: What a great story.
Grandma: I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn't like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it.

So true, Grandma! I used this quote for a layout of our family on a flume ride at Canobie Lake Park. I love all the expressions on our faces, all of us thrilled. Not every day is as thrilling, but that's OK.  Life is a ride and I like the roller coaster. :)

One And A Half Men

Here is my son and his lil kitty "Ocho" They were just hanging out on the couch so I grabbed my camera. The papers I used for this is from the "LUCKY" workshops on the Go by CTMH. I added some Tim Holtz hardware and a chipboard strip down the right side and there ya have it!

Wordle

Here is a fun (free!) tool that we found! Wordle allows you to type in any text and the create a word cloud from it. You can play with the cloud and use different colors, fonts and layouts. You can then print your cloud out to use on a layout or card. They even have an online gallery for inspiration! Here is a quick layout that I did using a Wordle cloud that I created. Fun! The great cowboy cuts were from Laurie's dad, "Pa", for a swap that we did a while back here on SS.

Halloween Mini Album

Happy Friday!! I just had to show off this awesome mini album that my friend, Carol from Boston Area Scrap Fanatics made for me! The details that she put into it are amazing! She told me that the rat on the cover came from a pair of Halloween earrings that she had. How cool is that? The bat on the cover is made from feathers. The last page has an accordian pull out to fit 6 pictures. I can't wait to fill this up with images of my little goblins!

Happy Birthday!

Here is a birthday card that I made for our good friend Susan! It was so easy to make! I used this Silhouette file: http://www.silhouetteonlinestore.com/v2/viewShape.aspx?id=14858, Divine Swirls and Bloom Dots Cutltlebug folders, iRock bling, a little Quick Quotes chalk ink, glitter pen and a chipboard sticker from my stash. I love how it pulls out of the base to reveal the message inside. Fun!