Dart Guns!

I just love these three! They're so crazy! They picked up these dart guns at Menard's, and since then, you never know when they will be a sneak attack or a battle! They posed for a photo, and it cracks me up that it has a Charlie's Angels feel to it! This layout is pretty much Jillibean Soup with LOTS of sewing on it! I also added some Prima Sprites and a Jenni Bowlin ticket. That stamping in the upper left corner is with a Studio Calico stamp. The layout is based on a sketch that is posted for the sketch event at Scrap-Friendzy.

I hope you're having a great day! Thanks for stopping by!

Summer 2010

We're issuing some awesome assignmentz and challengez at Scrap-Friendzy's Scrap University!! This is my challenge for an extra credit assignment called "Dean's List!" Here's what our Scrap U studentz needed to do to make the Dean's List:

1. Journal as a list!
2. Since summer is ending . . . include photos from THIS summer!
3. Include FIVE OR MORE photos!

Not too difficult . . . right!?! My layout features twelve photos, and instead of it being a Summer Top 10, it's a Summer Top 11!! I totally think of Spinal Tap when I say that! Anyway, I love the way this turned out!

I hope you're having a GREAT day! Thanks for stopping by!

Goodbye Rainbow Playset!

Wow! I haven't updated my blog in a LONG time!! I created this layout for an after-school activity challenge over at Scrap-Friendzy! There are so many fun challenges going on right now, you should stop by and play along! I used Sassafras papers and letter stickers! I wasn't originally going to put on a HUGE title, but now I love it! It was sad to see the playset go, but my nephew and niece LOVE it, and they're giving it a good home!

Thanks for stopping by!

Home Economics Challenge!

Scrap-Friendzy just started our Scrap University! It's going to run the entire month of September! Come on by and play along! Today, I posted the 2nd challenge of the month, and it's a Home Economics Challenge! For my challenge you need to add fabric and sewing to your layout! Here are my examples.


This page features denim and machine sewing! I literally cut a pocket out of a pair of shorts that the girls wore when they were younger. I love the pocket design! I also die cut two denim flowers in my Cuttlebug using my Tim Holtz Tattered Floral die. This layout features Jillibean Soup papers, some Cosmo Cricket Lil' Man items, a Jenni Bowlin ticket, and Maya Road velvet flowers. I even added a clothing tag from one of the shirts to the page. Last, but not least, I am LOVING those varsity Thickers for this layout! I used my sewing machine too! Oh, how I love my sewing machine!!


This page features a fabric flower that I created (tutorial is on the Scrap-Friendzy site), and I also added fabric to the edge of my journaling block. All of the sewing on this page is hand stitching. I took some FUN photos of Jessica in June, so I decided to create a Jessica June 2010 page! I love these Bo Bunny papers!

I hope you have a wonderful long holiday weekend! Thanks for stopping by!

The Box

I created this page during a layout tag game! I love these silly pics of the girls! The Weber Grill box was on the front lawn, and when there is a box, there are kids who want to play in the box, no matter how old they are!! I used October Afternoon papers and journaling stickers, Jillibean Soup letters, and Scenic Route flowers. The little chipboard piece is by Love Elsie. I hand cut the little pennant banner! I love the way this turned out!

It's unbelievably hot and humid here. I'm tired of the excessively horrible summer weather! I'm ready for fall!! ♥ Have a great day, and thanks for stopping by!

Some Cards!

I created this card for a wonderful blogging friend! I used one of my NEW Tim Holtz texture fades embossing templates. I also used the Tattered Floral Tim Holtz Sizzix die. I love those flowers! I also did a lot of distressing and some sewing. Last, I used my typewriter! I ♥ my typewriter!! I love the way this turned out!


I needed to send a sympathy card last week. I struggle with sympathy cards! This is mostly Jenni Bowlin, and once again, I used my typewriter for the sentiment!


This last card is not the best, but I wanted to use ONLY what I received as a prize from the amazing Stephanie at Crafty Steals! She sent so much, and this card features: Cosmo Cricket Early Bird, American Crafts flowers and rhinestone brad, and some Jenni Bowlin crepe paper ribbon.

I hope you have plans for a very fun weekend! Happy Friday! Thanks for stopping by!

My American Girls

I created this page for a challenge over at Memorable Seasons for their 2nd Annual Last Scrapper Standing contest! The first challenge was "An American Child", and we had to use stars and stripes on our layout. I love that this challenge could be interpreted in many ways, not just patriotic!! However, I had these awesome 4th of July photos of the girls with Princess, so I went all out Patriotic!! I used Pink Paislee Starlight, Cosmo Cricket Halfway Cafe, Rusty Pickle letters brads (thanks Chris!), Thickers, Maya Road acrylic sheer and kraft envelope, Jenni Bowlin journaling star, so many things from my stash (mostly Making Memories items), and I sewed! One of my favorite things that I added is the "made in the U.S.A." strip. It came from the bottom cutaway strip on the Pink Paislee paper!! It was fun to pull out a bunch of older items and put them on this layout!! I love the way this turned out!

I hope you're having a great day! Thanks for stopping by!

A couple of layouts!

Here are a couple of layouts that I worked on recently.


This first one features of photo of Emily in Palm Springs the day after we visited Disneyland in Anaheim where she enthusiastically met Minnie Mouse! Her reaction to meeting Minnie Mouse is one of those moments that is etched on my brain and is truly priceless! She's two years old in this photo, and I'm sure you'll agree that she is too cool! The red paper at the top is Cosmo Cricket, the red polka dot behind the photo is packaging from Jenni Bowlin journaling spots, and the black and white journaling sticker is American Crafts. I added a stamped Stampin' Up heart, a couple of Minnie Mouse close-ups that were cut from patterned paper, and some Primas with Making Memories brad centers.


I did a little masking and misting on the "Disney" in the title! It wasn't completely successful, but I went with it anyway! I used the backing from adhesive letters for my mask, and basically, it wasn't heavy enough on the paper, so the mist ran underneath. I was going to just trash it, but I figured that tracing the letters would work, and it did. These are three random photos that I shot over my shoulder while we were on the airplane on the way home after our Disney vacation. As you can see, Emily and Jessica were sitting behind Dave and I. I think these photos are hysterical! I did some sewing, added some Making Memories papers and travel stickers, and I even detail cut and lifted the "e" and the "y" in the title so that I could slip a photo underneath. I love the way that looks!

I hope you're having a great day. Thanks for stopping by!

Emily and Elmo

Sketchy Thursdays posted an awesome Second Chance Challenge Sketch for some amazing Lawn Fawn stamps, and I just had to create a layout based on the sketch! This is my Emily with her Elmo way back in March of 1997! Emily was ten months old on her first Christmas in 1996, and my mother in law got her a Tickle Me Elmo. This was the Christmas when you COULD NOT find the Tickle Me Elmo in stores. My mother in law bought it before all of the craziness set in, and she didn't become aware of how popular it was until someone offered to buy it off of her before Christmas! Anyway, she refused, she gave it to Emily on her first Christmas, and Tickle Me Elmo (with the tickle sound box removed!) quickly became Emily's stuffed toy that she always had with her! In fact, when I gave birth to Jessica in July of 1997, Emily and Elmo came to the hospital to see me! The doctor even put a small surgical gown on Elmo! Anyway, this photo is precious to me, and it brings back so many memories of my sweet girl and her Elmo! This sweet girl is now 14 years old, and YES, she still has her Elmo! ♥

So, I used a beautiful sheet of Prima paper for the background. How could I resist that red and orange color combination for this page!?! The orange dotted is by Making Memories. I added a little Elmo stamp on a My Mind's Eye journaling card. The other Elmo detail cut is from a sheet of paper from a pad that was in the dollar section of Target. It's perfect on this page! I used Thickers, Cosmo Cricket tiny type, and Jenni Bowlin alphas to create the title, and I sewed on a few buttons. I love the way this turned out, and I know Emily's going to love it too! Be sure to visit Sketchy Thursdays to see the fantastic sketch!

Happy Friday! I hope you have a GREAT weekend, and as always, thanks for stopping by!

Cherry Slurpees

My most amazing, wonderful, and awesome blogging friend Chris is taking over the April challenges at Inspired Crafters. She posted a great Sketchy Thursdays sketch for this week. I love their sketches, so I just had to do a layout for it! I'm featuring a photo that I really love! It's Jessica, Emily, and I drinking our big 44 oz. cherry slurpees! A couple times a year, Dave takes the girls to get slurpees. He was out of town on business one week in the summer, and when the girls and I went to get gas in the van, Jessica noticed that slurpees were on special at Speedway! So, she convinced me that we had to get them, and when we got home, we snapped a pic of us drinking them, and we emailed the photo to Dave. He was very disappointed that we went to get slurpees without him! I blamed Jessica, because it truly was all her fault! Anyway, I used my new Cosmo Cricket kit that I got from HSN. I added a cherry brad (I got a package of these as blog candy a long time ago, and I was convinced that I would NEVER use them!), a Jenni Bowlin journaling spot, some Jenni Bowlin round alphas, a Making Memories felt flower, and a button and twine from Papertrey Ink. I also did a lot of ink distressing and sewing! I love the way this turned out! ♥

I hope you had a great week! Enjoy your weekend, and thanks for stopping by!

Yum!

I just love the way this layout turned out!! This photo is the BEST! We really enjoyed the Mickey Mouse ice cream bars that we got at Magic Kingdom! Delicious! The red paper is Cosmo Cricket. The fantastic corrugated letters, the red ric rac, and the red and white gingham ribbon are all by Jillibean Soup. The journaling spot is Jenni Bowlin. The very cool Mickey Mouse coaster came from a garage sale. I have a few of them, and I love them! I added some Primas, buttons, twine, and three rhinestones. Another Disney layout . . . DONE!!

I hope you're having a great day. Thanks for stopping by!

Scrap-Friendzy Monday Motivation

Jenny at Scrap-Friendzy posted a Monday Motivation with this photo as inspiration!

Here's what I came up with! In the photo, the walls appear to be tan, so that's how I selected my cardstock. I like the dotted accessories, so when I picked out my yellow and white paper, the dots worked for me! I love the red lines, so I put them around my photo, and since I love red, I used that for my title too. I love the white flowers in the photo, so I added just one to the corner of my photo, and I added a yellow and red center too. I wanted to keep the look very clean and simple, so I didn't do any ink distressing, which is something that I always do! Anyway, that's how the photo inspired me! Come on over to Scrap-Friendzy and play along. There's something inspiring posted every day!

I hope you're having a great day. Thanks for stopping by!

Creative Weekend!

I was playing with SBKC this weekend. They had a crop and some challenges posted. I created the above card using a challenge that was originally posted on their blog to create a heat embossed image on a large image cut from patterned paper. I cut the large flower from a Jenni Bowlini patterned paper. I then stamped a Stampin' Up background design on it with Versamark, sprinkled holographic embossing powder, and heat embossed it. I also used the same background stamp on the ledger paper for my card front. I then layered it all together, added sheer ribbon, a silk flower, a Jenni Bowlin chipboard button, and some twine. I love the way this came together!


Another challenge was to use the word "fantastic" in your page title, and put it together in a mixed up font. I think I accomplished that! I used a bunch of various Thickers! These photos are some of the cool things we saw in Downtown Disney! The huge loch ness monster lego creation was actually IN the water! Very cool! The Tinkertoys structure was very cool too! Downtown Disney was a fun place to be!!

I hope you had a great weekend. Thanks for stopping by!

Scrapping for Fun!

Scrapbook Kit Club is having a fun blog hop and crop. I'm playing along and having some fun!

I created this layout for one of two color challeges on the site. I love the way it turned out. I used some items I've had for a while. I'm really enjoying using my things up! I used: SEI, My Mind's Eye, PTI (thanks Chris!), Prima, Jenni Bowlin, and Making Memories!

I created this layout for a sketch challenge! This features two awesome photos of Emily and Jessica from Downtown Disney. I used October Afternoon, did a lot of sewing, and journaled on the computer.

I hope you're having a great weekend. Thanks for stopping by!

Layout Mania Continues!

The Sketch-A-Thon at Scrap-Friendzy was so much fun! I am happy to tell you that I did ALL of the sketches (33 of them)!! That's a lot of layouts for one month! I'm proud of my accomplishment! Here's the last of them!


I love this photo of my girls sitting on the cute Winnie the Pooh bench in Downtown Disney. I love the foam Thickers! I wish I had them in every color!


This is us right before we FINALLY got on the Toy Story Midway Mania ride. It was such a long line, but we really wanted to go on it! Anyway, we are so fashionable in the 3-D glasses, don't you agree? I know, I know, you want big yellow 3-D glasses to wear too! This is all Cosmo Cricket Get Happy!


This layout has photos from the Lights, Motors, Action! stunt show at Hollywood Studios. Very cool and action packed!

I hope you have a great day, and as always, thanks for stopping by!

Bang on the Drum

You're not surprised to see another Disney layout, right? I love this photo! The girls are soaked, because we went on the Kali River Rapids ride over and over again, AND we got caught in a quick rain shower at Animal Kingdom! The girls stopped to play these drums, and I think they look so cute! I went a little Todd Rundgren for my title, "they just want to bang on the drum all day". Love that song! The circular scallop paper came from my most wonderful blogging friend Chris. I believe it's a Making Memories paper that she got at Target. I love it! The papers, chipboard tags, and metal signage is all Making Memories Just Chillin'. I added Making Memories tiny alphas, Jenni Bowlin round tiny alphas, and Basic Grey lettering. I added a Prima, a wood button, and some twine. This is based on a sketch that is posted at Scrap-Friendzy. I really like the way this layout turned out.

I hope you're enjoying your Saturday. Thanks for stopping by!

Expedition Everest

I got another layout done today! Woohoo! I'm getting so much done for my Disney album, and I have so many more photos to go!! This page features my absolutely positively favorite ride from Disney! It's hard to pick a favorite! I had so many that I LOVED, but I have to say, Expedition Everest was my FAVORITE! I could have gone on it over and over again! Very cool roller coaster! Anyway, I printed the Expedition Everest piece at the bottom on my computer. I just found that on the Internet. I used Basic Grey paper that I've had for a very long time! The journaling star is Jenni Bowlin, and the buttons are Making Memories. I cut the circle and the two other stars in my Cricut Expression. Once again, this is based on a sketch at Scrap-Friendzy. I'm getting a lot done during this Sketch-A-Thon.

I hope you have fun plans for the weekend. I hope to scrap a lot! Thanks for stopping by!

Four More Disney Layouts!

Using sketches posted at the Sketch-A-Thon over at Scrap-Friendzy, I got FOUR more Disney layouts done this weekend! So cool!


This layout features us waiting in a VERY long line for Soarin'. The bottom photo cracks me up. Jessica is pointing to her pretend watch to emphasize that we've been waiting a long time! It didn't matter though, because Soarin' is worth the wait! We loved it!


This layout is for Test Track! This also was worth the wait! Such a fast ride, and we loved it! We went on this quite a few times! Awesome! I love the October Afternoon papers and die cuts that I used on this page!


This layout features Emily trying on some fun hats at Animal Kingdom! The girls loved trying on the cool hats! I used a cool Jenni Bowlin journaling heart! I love the way this layout turned out! So fun!


This is another page that features the photos I took during the Kilimanjaro Safari ride at Animal Kingdom. Very cool animals! Amazing attraction! I used Cosmo Cricket Earth Love! It will coordinate with the first page that I created featuring the Kilimanjaro Safari attraction.

I hope you had a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by!

Back To School

This is a 52 Sketches sketch from this year that was posted at Scrap-Friendzy for their Sketch-A-Thon. I didn't do the sketch when it was originally posted at 52 Sketches, so I was thrilled to complete it now. I used The Boyfriend by Cosmo Cricket. I love this paper collection! I sewed the circle, and I added brads and buttons around the circle. The tickets are by Jenni Bowlin. I love the way this turned out, and I am AMAZED at how much the girls have grown since this photo was taken!!

I hope you're having a great day! Thanks for stopping by!

Scrapping Recipe Challenge #36

This is my layout for Scrapping Recipe Challenge #36 at Sketches! {by Tamara}.


The recipe this week was to use these three items on our cards or layouts:

• Something we have been hoarding
• flowers
• bling

I hoard A LOT, so this challenge was easy for me! I had a lot to choose from! I finally decided on a sheet of Jenni Bowlin paper that I have been hoarding for a long time! I love the shape of this paper, and I had a tough time using it!! I only used half of it, so I still have another half to use on another project! The ledger paper is also by Jenni Bowlin. I added a chipboard title, some felt flowers, rhinestones, and an awesome velvet ric rac ribbon. You can click on my layout to see it larger.

I hope you have a great day, and thanks for stopping by!