Fall Layout and Card

Here's a fall layout and a card that I made recently. I love Fall! ♥ I used some Making Memories items that I bought on clearance at Michael's a couple of years ago. I really miss the Making Memories collections. They haven't come out with anything that I truly love in quite some time. I only have a couple of those silk fall leaves left. I need to get some more for my stash.

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

Layouts!

These two layouts are based on a couple of sketches that are posted at Memorable Seasons. I can't believe I'm already scrapping vacation photos! That makes me happy!


This first layout uses Basic Grey Lauderdale that I won from The Scrap Review. LOVE these bright colors with my fun photos!! I did some detail cutting with the papers. I love the way this layout turned out! It just screams vacation to me! :)


This next layout uses Crate Paper Emma's Shoppe. Love the Emma's Shoppe buttons! I used quite a few of them on my flower border! I love this photo that I took of the girls and I in Arizona!

I hope you're having a GREAT day! As always, thanks for stopping by!

Love These 3!

I created this fun layout featuring a photo that I LOVE!! I used a kit that I got at Memorable Seasons. I love it! So many FUN manufacturers . . . American Crafts, Cosmo Cricket, Crate Paper, Pink Paislee . . . and more! I did a lot of sewing and distressing on this page! It was really fun to incorporate the number 3 so many times in my layout!

I hope you're having a great day! Thank goodness it's Friday! As always, 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!

Jumping For Joy

I created this layout for a challenge at Memorable Seasons to use a cardstock base and a household item to create a pattern. I used paint on bubble wrap as a big stamp, and then I also used corrugated cardboard to stamp some journaling lines. I liked the way the cardboard looked, so I added it to my layout. I stamped a Studio Calico stamp, and I also stamped two Unity stamps from the July stampin' store kit that I got from Crafty Steals! I love the butterfly! I didn't have a white corrugated Jillibean Soup "y" for my title, so I traced the negative, and I drew in lines so that it would fit in with the rest of the title. I love using paint on my layouts, and I really like the way this turned out!

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

How Can It Be?

This is for the Last Scrapper Standing challenge over at Memorable Seasons. I got kicked to the curb and didn't advance, but I love the next challenge, so I'm still playing along! LOL! I came across this photo of Emily and Jessica when I was sorting pictures. So, I journaled it with today's perspective. The title is: How Can It Be?, and the hand-written journaling reads: "That ten years go by in the blink of an eye? These girls amaze me on a daily basis! Being their mom is an honor and a privilege! Wow, I love these two!" Photo-11/4/99, Journaling-7/2/2010.

I really love the way this turned out! These two amazing girls are all grown up now! How can it be? I used distress ink, Making Memories papers, a Maya Road journaling sheer, I did some sewing, and added lace and ribbon. The crocheted flower was made by my Emily! Isn't it gorgeous?

I hope you have a wonderful 4th of July weekend! Thanks for stopping by!

Some cards!

I haven't made cards for a while now! I created these for a challenge over at Memorable Seasons. We were challenged to use two certain items (ribbon, circles, sparkle, etc.) on our cards, and the sentiment had to be food related.


For this first one, I used the wonderful Mr. Campy by Cosmo Cricket. I love this little marshmallow guy!! I hand cut the heart, and I created the "I love you s'more!!" sentiment on the computer. I love Mr. Campy!!


This second one features a fun Unity stamp set that I purchased. I did a little bit of coloring, added beautiful lime green lace, and a very cool felt flower. I love this!


This card features a $1 acrylic stamp that Dave and the girls got for me. The grill is so cute! I colored it, cut it out with my Coluzzle, and then threaded it on the gingham ribbon. I created the sentiment on the computer. I love the picnic feel to this card!


I used my Coluzzle to create a circle card. I added a Pink Paislee journaling piece to the front, and I added some Stickles to the cherry to give it some sparkle. I also added a Prima. I think it's cute!

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

25 Days Until Christmas - Days 23 - 25

I finished and finally had a chance to photograph the rest of the pages in my 25 Days Until Christmas book! I really love the way my book turned out, and once again, I'm so glad I created it!


The first page for Day 23 features my aproned girls working in the kitchen! We did so much baking and cooking, and it was a lot of fun!


Over the second page for Day 23 I put in an envelope that is holding our Secret Santa slips of paper that Jessica created for when we picked who we would be buying for, and it also contains all of the receipts for the Secret Santa gifts!


The second Day 23 page has a photo of all of the Secret Santa gifts. This is our second year doing the Secret Santa, and it was as much fun this year as it was last year! We all got awesome gifts!


Day 24 features our family portrait in front of the fireplace. This photo turned out GREAT, and it was our first take! The camera was on a timer, and I was so impressed with the sound of the camera catching Princess' attention! Awesome photo!


Day 25 shows my wonderful girls all decked out in their Old Navy gifts! I picked out jackets, gloves, and hats for them both. They LOVE them, and they sure are cute in them!!


The second page for Day 25 features a cute photo of Jessica, Emily, and Princess in front of the fireplace. They are wearing their Old Navy pajamas and fuzzy socks (well, you can't see the fuzzy socks!) They really love all of their Old Navy clothes which makes me very happy! Princess also has a couple of her gifts in front of her! I love these three so much!

So, that's my book for this year! I really love the way it turned out, and I feel a huge sense of accomplishment for getting it done! HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Thanks for stopping by!

25 Days Until Christmas - Days 12 - 14

Here are some more pages from my 25 Days Until Christmas book. I love putting these pages together!


Day 12 has two pages. On the first, I snapped a photo of Jessica when she was on her way down to the basement. It's cold in the basement, and she has on thick socks, a sweatshirt, and her winter hat! She cracks me up! I love the lace that I added to the edge of the page.


Instead of putting up the BIG tree this year, we decided to put up the small tabletop tree. We love this crazy little tree. I snapped a photo of the girls decorating it, and I snapped a photo of it all lit up. Colorful Christmas lights are so pretty!


On Day 13, the girls and I FINALLY went to see New Moon. I even clipped the ticket stubs to the page. The movie was VERY good! We'll be anxiously awaiting the release of Eclipse in June!


Day 14 is also two pages. On the first, Emily is lounging in the living room with her afghan. She is reading a book, and she has a furry friend close by!

On the second page for Day 14, Jessica is playing the Wii, and it makes me laugh that she has a Santa hat on!

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

25 Days Until Christmas - Days 6 & 7

Here are a couple more pages in my 25 Days Until Christmas book!


On Day 6, the girls put out our Nativity Set. I sewed some lace to the border. I used another tag from Chris. I love those tags!


On Day 7, we got our first dusting of snow. The top photo shows our snow puppy! Look at that face! The bottom photo is the view out our front door. The snowflakes were bright white foam, so I used some distress ink on them to tone them down. Worked great!

I really enjoy working on this book! It's fun to record a whole month leading up to Christmas! I hope you're having a great day. Thanks for stopping by!

JOY

I created this card for the Moxie Fab Stretch Your Holiday Style Challenge! This is my shabby chic holiday card. Ball trim, glitter, and lace . . . oh my! I used Basic Grey papers, Brenda Walton glitter chipboard letters, lace, a foam snowflake that I painted with Shimmerz Blingz, and ball trim. I also did a lot of edge and ink distressing. I sewed on a button and a jingle bell. I love this card! Shabby chic!

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

You're Sweet

I made this card over the weekend using a printable image from Paper Popsicles. It's based on the current sketch for the week four challenge over at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays. I used colored pencils. The gorgeous paper is Making Memories Chloe's Closet. The sentiment is from a $1 acrylic set from Michael's. The lace and button are just from my stash. I also added a Prima and a rhinestone.

Did you have a great weekend? We sure did! Happy Monday, and thanks for stopping by!

Thank You

My wonderful and amazing blogging friend Chris recently sent me an envelope full of FUN! She sent me cardstock that she cut with the top note die, wonderful PaperTrey Ink patterned paper, fun twine, and gorgeous flowers!! Well, I used it ALL on this card! Plus, I used my NEW Nestabilities to cut out the "thank you" sentiment (which is a Stampin' Up stamp). I added some Making Memories Chelsea's Place lace, a Kaiser pearl trio, and the button. Isn't this rustic and fun? I'm loving the way this turned out!! You can click on the card to see it larger. So, thank you, Chris!! You are the BEST!!

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

Enjoy the Journey!

This card features a NEW printable image from a set called All Occasion Circle Word Set 2 from The Cutting Cafe'. "Remember to live in the moment and Enjoy the Journey!" Good advice!


I used Making Memories Chelsea's Place papers and lace trim. I added a velvet Maya Road flower with a Making Memories glitter brad. I also added a button trio. I did a lot of ink distressing. So, what do you think? How would you like to get this set for FREE? Leave me a comment, and I will do a random draw for a winner. The drawing ends on Saturday. Good Luck!

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

love

This is my very first layout using Webster's Pages, and it certainly will not be my last!


I got a wonderful kit at Paper Popsicles that featured papers from Webster's Pages A Sweet Life collection. There is also a very cool site called inspireME where you can share you Webster's Pages layouts. This is my first one, and I'm entering it into a "use your backsides" challenge. Instead of using the front of the double-sided papers, they challenged you to use the backside. The backsides worked really well for this photo of my girls! I love the way this turned out! I did a lot of detail cutting. I added some gorgeous Kaiser pearls to the tree portion of the layout, and I added a rhinestone eye to the detail cut bird. I also used some of the words that were on the cutaway strip at the bottom of the papers. I used "beautiful", "best life", and "a sweet life". You can click on the layout to see it larger.

I hope you're having a wonderful day! Enjoy your weekend, and thanks for stopping by!

Thank You Card

My wonderful blogging friend, Chris, sent me a gorgeous birthday card and wonderful American Crafts felt flowers! So, I sent her a thank you card for the felt flowers, and I even used one on the thank you card!


A while back, Chris also sent me PaperTrey Ink papers and cardstock just for me to try! Isn't she the coolest? So, I ALSO used some of the patterned paper and the cardstock on this card! I also used a Stampin' Up thank you stamp, and I cut the sentiment and a mat with my Nestabilities. Now, I wanted to try the Nestabilities as a stencil, but I'm not too sure I like that distressed brown look on the "thank you" image. I also used Making Memories Noteworthy ribbon, and I sewed on a Making Memories button. Last, I just added a brad trio to the lacy ribbon.

How's your Saturday so far? I'm actually helping the girls clean their rooms, and I'm trying to craft a little. Have a great weekend!!

The Littlest Pumpkins!

I mentioned that Cosmo Cricket had an online class on their blog. I made the fabric flowers and showed them to you yesterday. Well, this is what I did with my fabric flowers!


What I didn't tell you yesterday is that the fabric is from my daughters' Halloween costumes! It's the leftover fabric that my mother-in-law sent to me once she finished their costumes. Now, I'm not sure that I've ever mentioned this before, but my mother-in-law is wonderful, and she made the girls' Halloween costumes for years! I'm talking out-of-this-world, amazing costumes! They were clowns/jesters, Hershey's kisses (these were the BEST costumes EVER!), Princesses, Dorothy and Little Red Riding Hood, 50's girls (complete with felt poodle skirts!), etc. I mean, these costumes are knock-your-socks off costumes! So, every time the costumes were made, there was extra fabric. I have all of the girls costumes downstairs in Rubbermaid bins, folded nicely, with the extra fabric, and the original patterns. I seriously treasure these costumes! So, when the fabric flowers were shown, I knew I had fabric to use, and then it hit me that THIS is what I wanted to make! This is a little wall hanging! You can just see the ribbon at the top where it hangs from.

The photo is an extra wallet print, and the board is about an 8 1/2" square. I used all Cosmo Cricket Haunted scraps that I had left from some Halloween layouts that I worked on. To me, the fabric flowers and the lace (which is from the Dorothy costume) just MAKE this project! I love this!! So, what do you think? Please click on it to see it larger! I'm thrilled with the way this turned out. Very easy, and I'll treasure it always! I should probably make another one for my mother-in-law!

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

Scrapping Recipe Challenge #30

This is my layout that I created for Scrapping Recipe Challenge #30 at Sketches! {by Tamara}. This is also my very last page for my 25 Days Until Christmas book!


The three required elements in the recipe this week were:

• Kraft Cardstock
• Brads
• Lace

All three of the required elements are at the top of my layout. I love the way the lace looks on the kraft cardstock. The background paper and the page title are both Cosmo Cricket. The felt pieces are by Fancy Pants. You can click on the page to see it larger. This is a simple page, but I really love the way it turned out!

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

Scrapping Recipe Challenge #14

It's Recipe Challenge Day at Sketches! {by Tamara}, and I really loved the challenge this week. We needed to use the following three items on our project:

• lace
• buttons
• flowers

I love the three ingredients, so I was thrilled to create this layout using these items! So, here is my layout for Scrapping Recipe Challenge #14.


I used GORGEOUS Basic Grey Cupcake papers. I used my threading water punch on the blue patterned piece. I purchased the lace at a garage sale, the glitter chipboard label holder is by Scrapworks, the glitter brads are by Making Memories, the flowers are Primas, and the buttons are from my stash. I'm not sure if you can see it or not, but the lace and the blue paper really compliment each other. It's almost like the lace design is identical to the design in the paper. You can click on the layout to see it larger. I LOVE the way this layout turned out!

Tamara is having a layout design team call. If you're interested, be sure to check it out on the Sketches! site! I hope you have a GREAT day, and as always, thanks for stopping by!!

Friends Card

Well, this is the last of my four cards that I submitted for the Paper Crafts Gallery Idol.


The gorgeous papers, tag, and transparency swirl are all My Mind's Eye. The paper is double-sided, so after I created the card, I used my threading water punch on the front, so that the inside of the card showed through. I love the brown and green color combination. The tag is so pretty on it's own, so I just added a little bit of lace, a Prima, and a light green Making Memories rhinestone brad. The large flower stacks is also Primas, and I added the transparency swirl to the stack, and I added a larger light green Making Memories rhinestone brad.


Here's a close up of the large flower stack. I love that transparency swirl!


Here's a close up of the top of the tag. I love the addition of the lace.

Not too much going on here today. It's going to be hot and humid, and we will probably have thunderstorms later. The girls need to finish designing t-shirts that they're making for a library design contest, I am working on a design team entry for one of my favorite sites, and my husband wants to watch some Nascar racing! After I get my design team entry finished and emailed, I want to hang some stuff in the girls' rooms and photograph them to show all of you! I also want to blog hop! I'm so behind, but I hope to catch up with all of you to see what you've been up to!! Have a great day, and thanks for stopping by!!