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!!

DINNER ANYONE?

Here is a take out menu holder I made this weekend. I was cleaning up my kitchen and I had scads of menus EVERYWHERE.. In drawers, on top of shelves, hanging on the fridge. Sooo I happen to be in a store and saw these boxes that said "take out menu's" I thought they were cute so I ran home to copy the idea.. LOL. I took a Special K box, I cut it, covered it in paper and decorated it with paper and cuts from the Kitchen Cricut Cart. and Boom!, there it is. I used fabric strips to cover the edges to make them smooth sort of how the box was that I saw in the store. This works great because the fabric just wraps around the edges.

HAPPY SUPER BOWL DAY!!!!

All of us here in Boston are serious about out Patriots. GOOOOO TEAM!

LITTLE GUY... AWWWW

Here is a page I did at the recent crop I went to. It's of my little guy when he was at Prek. The dud is 19.. I guess I need to catch up on the scrapbooking.. LOL. I had fun with this page with the polka dot paper and the T.H. tape measure. The sparkly apples came from my stash and the apple was cut with the This and That CM cricut cartridge. Tthe letters are from CM too.

AWESOME CARD!

This card was a nice surprise from laurie! I just got a new job and she made this card for me to congrat me. I LOVE it. I absolutely love these colors scrapped together. The floral paper is flocked and that cute flower is felt. She used a cuttlebug plate to cut out the Congrats cut. I love the little pearls too! This was just so sweet. Thanks LAURIE!

PSSST.. by the way. It's Dawns bday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAWN!

Still going strong with the 12x12 baby boy album

Happy Wednesday. I can see Friday in the horizon!!  Here is yet another page out of the baby boy kit.  I love this idea, the mom can write 10 things she adores about her baby!!  So awesome to have the Mom's handwriting and her words written down forever. This page when together super quick too!!

More Baby pages

As promised more baby boy 12x12 pages!!  This is the kit I wasn't going to buy at Hobby Lobby and my friend Susan talked me into it, THANK YOU SUSAN!!  This kit is so adorable and soooo easy to whip up pages with.  Of course the crinkly ribbon is from over at Kimberly's blog and I love how versatile it is, boy, girl, it doesn't matter.

The page with the banner is my favorite page in the entire book, just a fun clean page and it it all from the kit, except the ribbon!.

Baby Boy Book 12x12

Happy Monday everyone.  A big shout out to our new followers!! Thanks for becoming members of our family we hope you hang around for a bit.  If you have a blog, please let us know, we would love to check it out!!!

I have finished my 3rd baby album!  This one is a 12x12.  Let me tell you this came together so quickly, more so than the 8x8. So weird.

For these two pages, my base is of course StampinUP! as well as the ribbon.  The letter paper is from my stash and Sweet Boy and the diaper pin are cut from the Creative Memories Stork Cartridge.  I have small little envelopes and I used one behind the photo frame and rubbed on a gift!  I am so happy how t his album came out. I will show you more pages during the week.

I hope everyone has a great Monday!

Another Birthday card

Here is another birthday card I did. This one is for my Sister. Her birthday is in February, like my cousins, as is Dawn's.  I can't show you Dawn's card until after her birthday.  My sister love's pocketbooks, so again, my pre loaded cartridge came in handy!    Again with the crinkly ribbon (ok so I have a problem) over at http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.com/.  This ribbon was white, so I ran it through my purple stamp pad so it would match. I used Happy Birthday folder and ran it through the cuttlebug and just inked over Happy Birthday, some perfect pearls and I was done. I am really kicking butt on February's cards!!!

Fun Birthday Card

Good morning Scrap ladies!!  I feel like I haven't posted in forever! I hope everyone is doing well!  While Kel was off on her awesome scrap weekend, I was down in the scrapcave creating!  I made this card for my cousin who loves, loves shoes!!  The shoe is cut from a preloaded cartridge for the Expression 2 called Alphabet,so figure they would call it that!  Of course I had to add some crinkly ribbon that I bought over at  http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.com/.  Her products are amazing and her prices are fantastic as well as customer service.  I always get the products very quickly.  You have to check out her blog, her work is amazing!!  

The paper I used was from an old DCWV stack, if you look closely it talks about corsets and skirts, I thought how appropriate for the beautiful shoe.  The inside stamp I absolutely love (how true) I have been dying to use this stamp for ever.  I got this from Dawn's mother-in-law, Noni as everyone knew her as.  She was an avid crafter and we are blessed enough to have inherited a lot of crafting items and get to put them to good use.  I am sure she is smiling down on us.

I hope everyone has a great day!!  Thanks so much for stopping by!!!

HERE KITTY...KITTY....

Here is one of the LO's I did at my weekend crop. This is my cat Ocho. My son named him. I have no idea why he named her after the Spanish name for the number 8, LOL, but he did. We adopted him from a friend who does foster care for cats. This little guy was born of an unhealthy, beat up looking stray in her neighborhood and we just fell in love. He is healthy and happy now and runs and jumps in and out of anything and everywhere.. LOL. His favorite food is Peppers! Go figure! The crop I attended was sponsored by Creative Memories and I got this very easy layout idea from the CM Idea book. It's a must have, it's filled with. OOOODles of great ideas!! The letters and the paw print are cut from the CM THIS and THAT cartridge. I LOVE this cartridge!

OLD SCHOOL? LOL

Here is a page I did of my kids on their first day of school. Which year it is, I have no frikken idea.. LOL. I started scrapping when these guys were like 15 and 17, So, anything prior to 2009 is a blurr.. LOL. I did leave some space to journal in their ages and year, so I will do it. My daughter will know exactly when and where just by looking at her particular outfit and backpack. I at least journaled about how I love to take their picture under that particular tree and how they always looked so happy, etc.
I used the Creative Memories Page Planner book and found this layout. The book tells you exactly what papers , embellies and tools to use to duplicate it. Because I was at a CM crop, I was able to get up from my seat, turn around to the table and buy and use what I needed right there and then. It was awesome! I even have supply leftovers.. LOL
The little SEPT. ticket is 7 Gypsies

A CROPalicious Time!

Here is a view from the hotel I stayed at in York, Maine for my weekend crop. It was a bit bizarre early in the morning. It looked as thought these thick heavy clouds were touching the ocean. That is Nubble Light Lighthouse in the distance. It was FREEZING out!
You can't have a crop without homemade woopie pies.. LOL. This entire pan was filled to the rim Friday night.. LOL This was taken Sunday a.m. Notice the healthy, untouched fruit to the side.. LOL.
SCRAPtini's anyone!!!!
Here is a shot of my messy scrap area! 5 feet of paper heaven!! LOL
Here is a photo of the room from one end to the other. I was the first one in at 6 a.m. this morning.. Overachiever! LOL

cropping away!

GETTING READY...

Well I started packing some of my things for a weekend crop I am going to. 3 or 4 more bagfuls ought to do me! LOL. I can't wait to get crafting. I hope everybody has a fun weekend and I'll be posting some of my creations next week!

Pocket Pages

I was trying to decide what to do with all the school work and birthday cards that I have saved over the last few years, as they are really starting to just be clutter sitting in the 12x12 box of "stuff" to be scrapped. Then, I came across an adorable pocket page that someone on the Silhouette Flickr group had posted.

I cut the front shapes out with the Cameo, attached those to 6”x12” cardstock and then sewed the whole thing by machine to the base. I will embellish them more as I decide what is going in the pockets (school papers, bday cards, etc.). Quick, fun, easy and it will clean up my clutter. Yay!

ANOTHER BABY BOOK LAYOUT

The shower's have come and gone but I wanted to show one more layout that I didnt' get to post last week. The stamp was from Laurie's Fiskar's baby stamp, the paper was from my stash and the buttons from Lauries stash. I also used some of Laurie's scrunchie ribbon, that stuff is awesome! Hmm, so pretty much this is Laurie's layout.. LOL. On the right you can see half of a page. I used a MS border punch on some polka dot paper, added a ribbon and called it a day.. LOL. This week I'll be preparing for a weekend crop that I'm off to Saturday! So, I'll be sharing and looking for some packing tips for sure!!

GET WELL CARD

We interupt baby week to bring you this absolutely adorable card that Dawn made, unfortunately, for my son who broke his clavicle. The little bow that she put on is where he broke it. The bow is made, I think, from bandage material. He thought this card was awesome! He is normally a snowboarder that thought he'd try skiing..YIKES, it didn't go well.. LOL.but this card definately cheered us all up! Love it Dawn!!!

BABY WEEK Continues.....

Baby Week Day 4! Here is a page from my boy book. I was getting a bit tired off all blue so I went with the yellow and mint green. I saw this weaving idea from some ideas Laurie had printed off. I really thought it was different so I tried it and liked it. The cute little stamps on the side are part of the set Laurie got, I believe its by Fiskars.

Baby Week - Day Three

Good morning, welcome back to baby week.  Here is a page I did for my album and I thought they could use this page for when the baby comes home.  I cut out Welcome Home from the Creative Memories Stork Cartridge, I just love this cartridge.  The rest is from the kit! So fun!!  I can't wait to give them the book!!