Kids Can Scrap - Challenge #7 - Take TWO!

A couple of days ago, I posted the layout that Emily created for Challenge #7 over at Kids Can Scrap. Today, I'm proud to show you the layout that Jessica created for this challenge! The girls worked SO HARD on their layouts, and I think you will agree that Jessica also did a FANTASTIC job on her layout!


For her monochromatic layout, Jessica set up a photo shoot of LOTS of her favorite GREEN items, including her green nanochromatic iPod! I stood on a chair above her to snap this photo! She used a lot of fun embellishments on her layout, including buttons, Prima Sprites, awesome Making Memories brads, American Crafts ribbons, the Fastenator, and foam stamps. I am amazed at how creative and talented the girls are when they create! Just wonderful!

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Kids Can Scrap - Challenge #7

The latest challenge over at Kids Can Scrap is to create a monochromatic layout. This is the layout that Emily created!! It's WONDERFUL!


I am so impressed with how creative my girls can be! Emily instructed me on her iPod photos. We were trying to get her hair in the air!! They didn't quite turn out, but we liked them anyway! So, her iPod is blue, blue is her favorite color, so obviously, her layout is very blue! I didn't help with anything. It's wonderful, and I love it! The best part is the blue crocheted flower. She makes those flowers!! Emily, you are quite a scrapbooker!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Birthday Goodness!

I had a wonderful birthday! Wednesday is our CRAZY busy night. We don't have time to be together until around 8:30 p.m. So, we did just a few things last night, and there is more to come in the next day or two! I am one lucky lady! I really am! I live a wonderful life, and I am surrounded by amazing people!

I got this card from my wonderful friend, Missy! I love that she picked out a card for me with lots of texture! There is ribbon on the flower pot, popped up pieces, and felt flowers! This card put a huge smile on my face when I opened it! Thank you Missy!

This card was made by Jessica! Seriously knocked my socks off! Jessica is 11. This card shows what a talented crafter she is! It's just amazing! I told her that I know she really, really loves me, because she used up a lot of the epoxy alphabet that she has!! That's love! Can you believe that she put a pin through the ribbon knot?! I just love this card!

This is by Emily! WOW! I love her color combination and the mix of patterned papers! I love that she stamped and detail cut. She also used my threading water punch and distressed! Plus, there are TWO rhinestone trios! I love this card!!

Dave then "ordered" a card from one of the two talented young card makers in the house. Emily ended up filling his "order". She created this for Dave to give to me! What I love is that she designed a love theme instead of a birthday theme, and yet, the balloons ARE for a birthday! This is cute, and I'm flattered that she thinks of Dave and I as love birds!! Love this too!

This was #1 on my wish list, and I got this last night. I hope to watch it on Friday night. I really want Dave to watch it to see what he thinks. I'm curious if someone who is NOT female and who has NOT read the books will actually like this movie! I'll let you know!

Thanks for all of the birthday wishes yesterday! I appreciate every single one of them! Like I said, I am a lucky lady living a wonderful life! I know that, and I'm thankful for that! Thanks for stopping by!

Kids Can Scrap Layouts

I'm always happy to have guest designers on my blog!! I want to show you two layouts that the girls did! The girls love the Kids Can Scrap site! Challenge #6 consists of a sketch by Julie Bonner at 52 Sketches . . . 52 Weeks!

Here's Emily's layout! GREAT job Emily! I'm so proud of my girls when the create, because they are REALLY good at it!!


Here's Jessica layout! Isn't this awesome?! The colors are so fun! GREAT job Jessica!!

We really love the Kids Can Scrap site! What fun!! I hope you enjoyed my guest designers! Thanks for stopping by!!

LOVE YOU

I am very happy to have a guest designer on my blog today!! There is a great challenge at the Kids Can Scrap site, and this is Emily's page for that challenge. Challenge #5 at Kids Can Scrap is to do a layout and include your favorite song.


Dave loves country music. Emily is starting to really like country music. She loves a Jack Ingram song called "Love You". Well, the lyrics are completely sarcastic, and he means just the opposite of "love", but she wants the lyrics to really mean "Love You"!! Dave recently went to a country music concert, and Jack Ingram was the opening act. He just had to get Emily a t-shirt. As soon as Emily read about the next challenge at the Kids Can Scrap site, she knew she wanted a photo with Dave while she was wearing her shirt! This page is so cute, I love it, and more importantly? Emily LOVES it! (Sorry for the photo, the natural light is awful right now!!)

Have a great day everyone, and thanks for stopping by!!

Kids Can Scrap - Guest Designers!

The girls LOVE the Kids Can Scrap site! It's so much fun for them to work on Challenges! These are layouts for Challenge #4. This challenge stated: Challenge #4 is to have your mom begin a layout and then you get to finish it. You can work together to pick out the pictures and papers if you wish. Then let mom get it started. Don't let her do it all. When she stops, take a picture of what it looks like at that stage. Then it's your turn! You get to dress it up, add all the finishing touches and do whatever you wish. Moms, you have to step back and let them do what they want. Then take another picture of the finished product! Send them both to us.

We LOVED this challenge! Here's what I created for Jessica. The border strip was adhered down. The photo was matted, and the photo corner was attached. Everything else was loose on the page, but she had to use it on her layout. I didn't want to adhere too much, because I wanted her to feel that she was designing the page.


Here is what the page looked like when Jessica was done with it! Isn't it fantastic? I didn't help with anything that she did to her page.


To make this challenge even more fun, I decided that the girls were going to use the same photo! Here's what Emily started off with. Once again, the border was adhered to the page. The photo was matted, and the photo corner was attached. Everything else was loose.


Here's the page when Emily was finished with it. Once again, I just love it! I think both of my girls are EXCELLENT scrapbookers!

If you have kids that love to create, you really have to visit the Kids Can Scrap site. It is so much fun! Telah and her daughter Nessa are doing an amazing job! We love it!!

I hope you have a GREAT Sunday, and thanks for stopping by!!

What A Night, I WON, and Guest Designer!!

What a night for the U.S. I voted yesterday, and I watched a lot of the election coverage. I heard a little excerpt this morning of a part of Barack Obama's speech, and it really made me smile. He was thanking his daughters, and he told them "I love you both so much, and you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the White House." Now, isn't that the cutest thing ever? No matter what, no matter who, I really hope that the economy will be on an upswing. John McCain's concession speech was very gracious. I was very impressed with it. The United States is an amazing country, and I'm honored and privileged to be an American!

Next, I want to tell you all that I am so excited! I WON the Paper Crafts Magazine "Name The Editor" contest! Thank you if you voted for MY entry. Kelly will now be known as "Online Editor Extraordinaire", and I truly think it's a great title for her! You can check out the post announcing ME as the winner. I am just thrilled! I am one of the luckiet bloggers around! I know that, and I'm overwhelmed about that! I truly hope that Kelly likes her new title!!

Last for today, but certainly not least, I am happy to have a guest designer! Emily created this page for a challenge at a NEW site called Kids Can Scrap! Yes, they can!

The first challenge at the site was to create a "You" page. Emily worked on this yesterday. She did an amazing job! Emily LOVES to type, and she did her journaling on the computer. She included her signature, which I thought was a GREAT touch! I just love this, and I'm so proud of how much time and detail she put into it! LOVE IT!

I also want to tell you about some blog candy at Becky's site. Check it out! Becky is so sweet, and she has two of the cutest boys you'll ever see! Well, I'm taking Princess for a bath today. She's a stinky dog! Just kidding, but she does need a bath! It's always a struggle, because she does NOT like baths! I hope you all have a great day, and thanks for stopping by!

Guest Designer at ScrapCity

I had the opportunity to be the card guest designer at ScrapCity for June, and I just realized that I never posted the cards I made with the awesome kit that Jen sent me! It was all We R Memory Keepers "Frenzy". Just gorgeous double-sided papers, and fun embellishments! It was so much fun to make these cards to feature over at ScrapCity.

The first three cards are all 4.25" x 5.5". It's the size I create the most.




The next three are made from 6" x 6" pieces of cardstock folded in half. I love this size, because it fits in those really inexpensive envelopes you can buy at WalMart . . . you know the ones, they are No. 6 3/4 envelopes.

The last two are 3" x 3" cards . . . perfect for gift enclosures.

So, those are my Frenzy cards. Isn't the paper gorgeous? Such amazing double-sided patterned paper!

I had a rough day yesterday. Maybe I'll explain what I mean by that statement in a few days. Nothing to do with family or anything like that, just something regarding me creating, etc. Long story. (In the grand scheme of things, it's minor, but it still made me have a bad day!) Anyway, it was horrible timing for a bad day, because yesterday was actually my one-year blogaversary! Can you believe that? I still haven't decided how I'm going to celebrate my blogaversary. I'll keep you posted. I hope you all have a great day. I want to thank all of you that visit me and leave me sweet comments! You make my day. In fact, you've made my year! Thanks for stopping by!

Guest Designer Featured Today!

I am happy to feature a gorgeous card that my oldest daughter Emily made for her pen pal. Hi Kendall!


I just love this stamp! This primitive man is just so cool to me! Emily found this stamp at a rubber stamp flea market. She created the "Hello!" panels using the Making Memories Rummage alphabet stamps. She added some Primas with a brad flower center. I love this color combination too! Well done, Emily!! I love it!

It's still so hot and humid! Ugh! Go away humidity! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and as always, thanks for stopping by!

Father's Day Cards

I never got around to posting the Father's Day cards that my girls and I made. They all turned out great. Masculine cards are always such a struggle!

This is the card that I made for my husband. I used Basic Grey Sublime papers. I love the man sheet with a bunch of masculine words on it. I cut them apart and put them down in a collage. This was such an easy card, but I really like the way it turned out.


My oldest made this card. It's a reference to a Sega game that Dave plays with the girls called Road Rash. They race, and they have chains on the bikes. She actually added a chain. Very clever!! The sentiment was done on the computer.


She even added a chain to the back of the card!


This is the card that my youngest made. So Harley-Davidson! I love it! The metal letters and the motorcycle brad are perfect! The motorcycle stamp is Stampin' Up.


This is inside on the left side of my youngest's card. Look at the "vroom, vroom" -- perfect!!

So, those are the Father's Day cards that we made for my husband. Of course, he loved them all!

Have a great day, and thanks for stopping by!!

Guest Designers!

I'm happy to feature my TWO favorite guest designers today! They made retirement gifts for Mr. Lamb, the retiring music director in our school district. He has taught in our school district for 36 years, so his retirement is well-deserved! Mr. Lamb loves to go fishing, so his gifts are themed for his favorite hobby!


My youngest, Jessica, made his this wonderful "Angler's Fund" jar. He can save all of his coins, and use them to purchase fun stuff for fishing! Jessica had help from me, because altering these jars can be a little tricky!


Here's one side.


This is the back of the jar.


This is the other side of the jar. The green and brown ribbon around the jar lid looks pretty good!

This is the lid. Just so there is NO confusion as to the purpose of this jar, Jessica added "place coins here" . . . very helpful! The circle was cut using my Coluzzle.


My oldest, Emily, made this fantastic card! She had absolutely no help at all from me! Isn't it wonderful! I'm VERY impressed!

Well, I'm off to chaperone the "end of the year" bowling party for all of the junior high band and choir students. This should be interesting!! It's really awful outside today. Very hot, humid, and there are thunderstorms. Yuck! I hope you all have a wonderful day, and thanks for stopping by!!

Teacher's Gift

My youngest's 5th grade award assembly was yesterday, and I am so proud of her! My daughter won the Presidential Award for Academic Excellence, an honor roll award (straight A's all year), a singing club award, and a perfect attendance award. She had a GREAT year this year! Go Jessica!


She had her 5th grade field day before the award's assembly, so she was a little disheveled at the assembly! Look at that smile! Well done sweetheart! I'm beaming with pride!


This is the teacher's gift that we put together for her 5th grade teacher. The 2nd card is for her social studies' teacher. The tin and the "don't forget" pink/green/yellow pad came from Target. We tied some pretty ribbon around the pad, and added a large altered paper clip. There's some candy too . . . YUM! We also included a Bind It All book.


Here are the gifts inside the tin. I used my big Cropadile, Mr. Big Bite, to punch through the tin and add the eyelet that is holding on the flower/ribbon stack. Jessica designed the cards to coordinate with the pad of paper. Aren't the cards FABULOUS? She used her set of "girly" ki Memories acrylic stamps on the cards.


These are the magnets that we made. We used one of my new Stampin' Up sets. CUTE! The magnets are so fun, because Jessica put them on the outside of the tin!


This is a binder clip that I altered along with the two cards. How fun! I hope her teacher likes it all.

Today is the last day of school, and they only go for one hour, and then summer vacation has officially begun! This school year went by FAST! Both of my girls will be at the junior high next year . . . I can't believe it! Have a wonderful day, and thanks for stopping by!

Another Autograph Book

I have another guest designer today. This time, I'm showing you Emily's autograph book that she made for her friends to sign at school. Once again, it's very cute and colorful!


Emily used Love, Elsie Riley papers, added a Prima Sprite stack, and a chipboard button to the center of the flower stack. The arrow is also a chipboard button.


She personalized and decorated the inside front cover and the first page.


She personalized the inside back cover.


This is the back cover. CUTE!

I have to cut the grass today. Have I mentioned that I hate cutting the grass? It takes way too long, and it's exhausting! Oh well! Maybe when I'm done, I can squeeze in some crafting time. I hope you all have a wonderful day, and thanks for stopping by!

Autograph Book

I have a guest designer today. My daughters both made autograph books for their friends at school to sign. This is Jessica's book. It turned out so CUTE! It's colorful and very FUN!!


She used Love, Elsie Lola papers and stickers. The flowers are Prima Sprites with a button in the center. This book is 4x4.


Here's the inside cover and the first page. FUN! She played the french horn all year . . . I love the addition of the little bit of sheet music!!


This is inside the back cover. 5th grade rocks!


And this is the back cover. I just love the Bind It All!

I'll post Emily's book tomorrow. I hope you are all having a wonderful Sunday. Thanks for stopping by!

Guest Designer, Book Sale, FANTASTIC Punch!

Edited to add: My very good blogging friend Misty Lynn is giving away NOT blog candy, but BLOG BOOTY! Isn't that funny? Blog Booty! Anyway, go take a look at the amazing booty that she's giving away, and if you leave her a comment, be sure to let her know that Carol/ScrapMomOf2 sent you!!

Thank you for all of your wonderful comments about Jessica's altered project that I featured yesterday! I am pleased to have another very talented guest designer today! I am happy to show you all a wonderful scrapbook page created by my oldest daughter. I told you all yesterday about our trip to a local Goodwill store. We were trying to find something to alter or use in a crafting project. My first idea was that we would purchase some accessories, but that proved to be a little difficult. So, after searching in the discount bin, Emily discovered these. Yes, my girls love dogs! It's another dog-themed article of clothing!


I would assume that these are some sort of pajama shorts. They seemed to be such a strange size . . . they were really large (wide), but super short. Anyway, Emily loved all of the dogs, and the colors really appealed to her. Me too! I love the block design!


This is what she created! She used my pinking shears to cut the dog squares from the shorts. She took a lot of time to make sure that she got all of the background colors coordinated into a pattern. If you'll notice, both borders have pink in the center, and then the colors are symmetrical on both sides. The pink square on the bottom right side of the photo said "I love Fido", and she created a very small "Princess" on the computer, printed it on pink cardstock, and adhered that over the "Fido". Please also notice the bottom left side of the page. Those three buttons came off the shorts! Pretty cute, huh? The fabric squares were attached to the page with Modge Podge. Because the background sheet was paper, and not cardstock, it did cause the paper to ripple a little. If we were to do something like this again, the Modge Podge would definitely need to go on heavyweight cardstock so that there would be less rippling from the glue. Love it!


I mentioned that we volunteered at the library's book sale over the weekend. This is everything that we purchased during the sale. We do love to read! The total price for all of this? Less than $20!! We even got a DVD game for a dollar! Gotta love that! What a bargain!


I also mentioned a Fiskars threading water punch that I purchased from a message board friend. Here it is. I'm in love with this punch! Doesn't it create a fantastic scallop border? Love it! I just need to figure out how to punch around a rectangle. I did not have much success with turning a corner. I couldn't get the corners to look right. I'll see if I can find some information about it. If not, it doesn't matter, because I love it just for border use!

Well, I'm off to the post office to get our taxes in the mail. Nothing like waiting until the last possible day, right? I then need to run some errands. Have a wonderful day, and thanks for stopping by!