Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

I created this page for a Music Challenge over at Scrap-Friendzy! I coffee stained and then glimmer misted some music paper, and I created three flowers and one butterfly with the paper. I love it! I used my Nestabilities circle scallops to cut the flowers. The rest of the page is ALL Pink Paislee! I used awesome stuff that I got from my warehouse box! Oh my, I love that warehouse box! What a value for the money!! I just love how this page turned out!

I hope you enjoy your long weekend, and thanks for stopping by!

Welcome Home Banner & Clip It Up Posts!!

First off . . . my first Clip It Up post is up on the blog!! There is also a post introducing me! I would love it if you would comment on both posts! I want Renee and the girls to know that I have amazing scrappy friends! I love, love, love my Clip It Up Jumbo! It's totally COOL!

Next, I am missing Emily so much!! I wanted to make her a welcome home banner. What started off as a small banner ended up as a HUGE banner! It took on a life of its own! I love it though, and I hope Emily does too! I can't wait for her to see it!

I hope she likes it!! I hope you have a GREAT weekend! Thanks for stopping by!

{Cuteness}

I'm participating in the Last Scrapper Standing at Memorable Seasons. I made it through the first round, and this is my entry for round two. We needed to use a black cardstock base and make at least two flowers. Love the challenge, and I love the way my layout turned out! I used Shimmerz Spritz for the title. I used a Tim Holtz alphabet mask for it. How fun! I used the same spritz on the white cardstock, and I cut nine layers for each flower with my Nestabilities. I love the way these flowers turned out!! I also did a lot of sewing on my page! Some close up views are below.

I like doing challenges, but only if I'll end up creating a page that I'll love! I definitely love the way this layout turned out!!

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

My Girls

I created this layout based on the challenge posted by Chris over at Inspired Crafters. She posted an awesome Studio Calico sketch. I used Basic Grey papers that I won from Scrap and Stamp a long time ago! I used some of the AWESOME Jillibean Soup corrugated letters for part of my title. Anyway, I just snapped this pic of my girls, and I love it! So, I decided to create a page about what my girls mean to me. I love the way this turned out!

I hope you're having a great day! As always, 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!

25 Days Until Christmas - Days 1 & 2

I wanted to show you the first two pages that I did for my 25 Days Until Christmas book.


On December 1st, we decorated the fireplace a little bit. I always love hanging our stockings! (If you look in the lower right corner of the photo, you can see Princess! And yes, she has a stocking too!) I used the decorative element that I created and showed you in this post. It's one of the many sentiments from the huge Christmas Daily printable set at The Cutting Cafe'. You can click on the pages to see them larger. Most of both of these pages is Cosmo Cricket. Pretty simple pages, and that's just the way I like them!


On December 2nd, Emily and I ran to Target for some cold pills for me, and she got a much-needed new hat and gloves, so I took a pic of her once we got home. Isn't she cute!?! I also decorated a couple of shelves in the kitchen with my favorite miniatures. I love these shelves. I used awesome tags that my blogging friend Chris sent to me. She stained them and baked them. They're totally cool! I also added a gorgeous crocheted flower that Emily made for me. I thought it was appropriate to put it on a page that features Emily!

Well, I've been sick with a bad cough, and now I have an aching side from coughing all of the time. Hopefully this cough will go away already! I hope you had a very nice Thanksgiving and that you're doing well with Christmas preparations! Have a great day, and as always, thanks for stopping by!

Polar Express Card Kit

I was THRILLED to create projects with the AMAZING Polar Express Card Kit from Paper Popsicles. It's the November card kit, it's in the online store right now, and it's fantastic! The papers and chipboard by Imaginisce are truly wonderful! I am still blown away by the fact that Imaginisce featured ME and this kit on their blog! Here's just the cards that I created. I'll show you some other projects tomorrow!

The stocking, hat, and mitten shaped card templates are all from the Paper Popsicles online store! I love working with the shaped card templates. They're so fun!

I hope you had a very Happy Halloween!! Have a great day, and thanks for stopping by!

Merry & Bright

This is a card that features an ornament and a sentiment from the fantastic NEW Bulbs For The Tree Printable Stamp Set from The Cutting Cafe'. I did some paper piecing with Basic Grey paper, and I used my Martha Stewart loopy punch. I added some sheer ribbon and a trio of red Kaiser Pearls. It's VERY gloomy here today, so the photo is not the best. I really love the way this turned out though! You can click on the photo to see it larger.

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

What's Cookin' Good Lookin'

Is this cute or what!?! This is an apron shape and sentiment from The Cutting Cafe'. The apron is from the Apron Shaped Card Set. You get TWO aprons in the set! The sentiment is from the What's Cooking Huge Circle Word Printable Stamp Set. I cut the sentiment out with my Coluzzle and added a Kaiser pearl trio to it. My papers and chipboard are all Sassafrass. I added some CUTE Making Memories button brads to the apron. The ribbon is from my stash. I think this is really cute, and on the inside, I'll be adding "How's about cookin' something up with me?" I think my husband will LOVE this card!!

I hope you're having a great day, 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!

So Sorry

I needed a sympathy card for a blogging friend, and this is what I came up with.


I used Websters Pages papers and ruffled ribbon trim. I detail cut leaves to put under the sentiment that I stamped with my Karen Foster snap stamps. I added a Kaiser red pearl trio. I also added a Petaloo flower with a hand sewn button.

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!