Princess - Color Groove Challenge

I heard about another great site, 4 Scrappy Sisters, and I participated in a challenge yesterday. They're having a week long cyber crop up until March 15th, and I completed this page for one of yesterday's Sunday challenges. My page was randomly selected as the winner! Woohoo!


The challenge was a color groove challenge, and we were to use black, lime green, and turquoise on our layout. Fun challenge. I used My Mind's Eye papers, chip chatter chipboard letters, and a Prima stack held on with a paw print brad. I love lime green and turquoise, so I'm thrilled with this page!

Thanks for stopping by!

Silly Girls

I have one more layout to show you that I completed during the virtual crop last weekend at ScrapCity. This layout was for another challenge called "playing with a full deck?" and this time, we were challenged to use playing cards on our layout. I thought it was a fun challenge, and this is what I came up with.


I used Basic Grey paper. The "silly" are Bazzill alphabet playing cards that I've had for such a long time. They're perfect on this layout. The actual playing cards I used were really yellowed with age, and the Bazzill playing cards were such a crisp white, so I needed to distress them both with brown ink so that they would work together on the layout. The "girls" are Basic Grey alphabet cardstock stickers. I journaled on the computer, added some Primas, and I was done. I love this layout. It's cute, simple, and very appealing to me!

Well, I had my monster headache yesterday for pretty much the whole day, so I need to work on the scrapbook today. I would like to get at least another 10 pages done. I realized that I'm not going to be able to post any of it, because I wouldn't feel comfortable posting someone else's photos on my blog. I hope you all remembered to "spring ahead" on your clocks last night / this morning (if you have to deal with the time change). Losing that hour is always so strange to me! Have a great Sunday everyone. Thanks for stopping by!

Pumpkin Carving

There is another two-page layout that I created during the virtual crop last weekend at ScrapCity. This was another challenge where we were challenged to use five patterned papers and NO cardstock. I always use cardstock, so this one was tough for me!

Luckily, I had some great Halloween papers I hadn't used yet. Most of them are American Traditional Designs. The two silly pumpkins on each page were also cut from a sheet of patterned paper. I love how the one on the left side looks like he's looking at my girls!! Too funny.


Nothing like digging right in and getting pumpkins guts all over you! So gooey!


Just one jack-o-lantern, but he turned out pretty good! He looked even better with the candle burning inside him.

Well, I'm off to take some Advil, because I have a monster headache. When my headache goes away a little, I'm going to work again on the scrapbook I was hired to make. I got 10 pages done yesterday. Most of them are pretty simple pages, but with the amount of photos I'm going to be scrapping, I'm going to need to keep it simple, or else I'll never get done!

Have a GREAT weekend everyone! Thanks for stopping by!

Daddy's Garage Buddy

First off, I want to mention that two very good blogging friends awarded me with the "you make my day" awards, and I want to thank them! Thank you Becky and Sharon! You are both so talented, and you both make my day too! I'm honored that you awarded these to me!

Next, here's a scrapbook page. This is another page that I did for a challenge during the virtual crop at ScrapCity over the weekend. This one was called "think outside the box", and we were challenged to use some cardboard from an actual box on our page.

I came across this picture of my youngest, Jessica. Once in a while, we all find ourselves hanging out in Daddy's garage! Why wouldn't we? There's a big T.V., it's heated, there's a dart board, a refrigerator, etc. It's a FUN place to hang out! I snapped this photo of Jessica one evening back in 2005 when she was just hanging out with her Dad! She is just too cute! Since the photo was taken in the garage, I thought the cardboard frame I constructed worked really well with it! If you look closely at the four large brads at the corners of the frame, you'll see that they look like Phillip's screw heads. Very cool! I actually broke out a set of my Stampin' Up alphabets! I forget how much I love my alphabet stamps! I need to use them more often! Jessica actually chose the letters for me, and she mixed up the upper and lower case . . . a very cool look! Of course, I had to add some Primas to the layout! As you might notice, I was still digging the blank space challenge, and this one also leaves a lot of blank space. I'm loving that look right now! I'm very pleased with this page.

Here's what else is going on with me. The children's librarian at our community library knows me really well. We've been going to the kid library programs the entire time we've lived in this town (7 years now). She knows I scrapbook a lot. In fact, I've actually done scrapping classes for the kids over the summertime (and gotten paid for it! What fun!)

ANYWAY, she hired me to make a scrapbook for her nephew. He's getting married in June, and she wants to give him a scrapbook for their wedding shower. I met with her a couple of times, I sent her to buy some stuff (so she could get an album she likes, etc.), and she gave me photos and all the stuff yesterday. I told her to get 8x8 (easier to work with). She gave me A TON of photos. I'm going to get started today. I'm kinda nervous! I've done a ton of mini albums (mother's day albums, a book for my father in law, birthday books, a book for my husband, a book for one of my best girlfriends for her 40th, etc.), but this one will be hard, because I don't know him!

The other thing is that I don't know what to charge her for the completed album. I have no idea how many pages it's going to be. I don't know if I should charge by the page or by the hour. Hhhmmmm . . . should be interesting! I'm sure once I get started, it will all flow . . . at least I hope so! Wish me luck!! I need to have it done by April 6th! I need to get MOVING!!

Have a WONDERFUL weekend everyone! Thanks for stopping by!

Sketches {by Tamara} Card Sketch #34

It's Thursday, so that means Tamara has posted a new card sketch. This is my card for Card Sketch #34 for Sketches! {by Tamara}. If you create a card using Tamara's sketch as inspiration, let me know. I would love to take a look at it!


I used Basic Grey Lucky papers. I also used goodies that I received from Marlou! She sent me both the ribbon and the Jolee's yellow flowers that are used on the top and bottom panels of my card. The center panel has a flower cluster that I detail cut from one of the sheets of Lucky paper. I added some rhinestones to the flower centers. The alphabet stickers are also Basic Grey Lucky. I designed this card to fit in a business size envelope. This card is approximately 4" wide x 9" tall. I love the narrow and tall design.

Thanks for stopping by!

Miscellaneous & Crazy Hair Day

I wanted to let you know that Cosmo Cricket has posted ideas for the QVC TSV that was sold in February. I bought the kit, and unfortunately, I have not had a chance to dig in yet. They have a downloadable PDF file, and they set up a gallery! Cool! If you bought this kit, you'll definitely want to take a look at these links.

Next, let me show you a beautiful card that I received yesterday.


Andrea, from Crafts on a Whim, featured me on her site. She thanked me for wanting to be featured on her site! Andrea, THANK YOU! I've felt like a crafting rock star all week long! This card is just gorgeous! Bella has added sparkle, which is perfect, and I love the striped paper. The felt flower on top of the white flower is just fantastic! Love it!

Then, one of my newest blogging friends, Lesli at Dragonfly Time awarded me with the "You Make My Day" award. Awarded twice in two days . . . I'm thrilled! Thank you Lesli!


Finally, here's my scrapbook page for the day. Once again, I created this page over the weekend during the ScrapCity virtual crop. The virtual crop was so much FUN! This page is a "white space" challenge page. We were challenged to leave a lot of blank space on our page. I've never done this before, and I have to admit, I LOVE the result. The less is more approach to a page is great! The focus is completely on the photos, and I love these photos! This is my oldest on Crazy Hair Day at school. Doesn't she look GREAT? I used Bazzill die cut cardstock on top of navy cardstock. I added buttons, Primas, rhinestones, and I added a title with my snap stamps. I even wrote on the page. I need to add more of my own handwriting to pages. I love the way this page turned out!

I'm so sorry, but I'm still behind on blog hopping, but I'm hoping to catch up with you all later today! Thanks for stopping by!

Thank You and Scrapbook Page

I want to thank some wonderful blogging friends!


I want to give a long overdue THANK YOU to Nicola at My Paper World. My card was selected randomly from all of the participants that completed one of her wonderful sketches, and she sent me one of her gorgeous cards and some goodies! Thank you so much Nicola! Look at that sweet elephant image! The felt flowers are GORGEOUS, and I love how you sent ribbon that coordinates with the felt flowers! I love it all! Your card is just amazing in person. The details are perfection! Thank you!


Next, Fiona at Fe-Fe's World! presented me with the "you make my day award". Thank you so much Fiona! You make my day too! I really appreciate you thinking of me when you passed this award along!


Then, Dawn at Buggin' Around presented me with a different "you make my day" award! I've never seen this one before! Thank you Dawn, I'm honored that you presented this to me! You make my day too!

I also have a scrapbook page to show you. I created this during the virtual crop this weekend at ScrapCity.


This challenge was to use your "stash". We were supposed to scrap a photo that was over 6 months old, and use supplies we've had for a long time. Well, I scrapped a photo from 2005, and I used Basic Grey Hang Ten papers that I've had for quite some time! I tied American Crafts ribbon around the photo, and through the tag. This is my father-in-law with my girls. We got him a big cookie for his birthday! A while back, I made my father-in-law a 6x6 album that he keeps with him, and it features my girls through the years. I'm behind on keeping it updated for him, but this is a step in the right direction. I have a new page for him!

I'm sorry, but I'm still very behind on blog hopping, and I need to get tons done today (laundry, dusting, vacuuming, errands, shopping, etc.), so I'll be catching up with all of you in the next day or two!! Thanks for stopping by!

Summer Vacation

I had a lot of fun participating in a virtual crop at ScrapCity this weekend. One of the design team members put all of the message board members in a list, and you were supposed to scraplift from the person above you on the list. The person above me had a layout in the gallery that featured two large flowers, a lot of pink and green, rhinestones, and swirls. This was my "take" on her layout.


I decided to finally scrap some photos from Summer 2005! My girls are so little in these photos! I used My Mind's Eye Kaleidoscope papers. I featured two large Prima flowers on top of stamped swirls. I added rhinestones to the Prima centers. I also added a swirl, a Prima, and a rhinestone in the lower left corner of the layout. On the photo frame in the upper left corner, I tied some American Crafts ribbon around one of the sides.


I love these photos of my girls running through the backyard sprinklers!


These photos show my girls with some crafts that they made at the library. Fun stuff! I used StazOn ink, and I stamped overlapping on one of the photos. I love the way it looks! I used some Autumn Leaves and ki Memories stamps on these pages.

Well, my girls are off today in honor of Casimir Pulaski, so we'll just be hanging out at home. They both have a couple of projects for school to work on, so I'll be seeing if they need any help with those. Other than that, what a cruddy day outside. It's dark, gloomy, and very rainy. Yuck! I'm still behind on blog hopping, and I probably won't catch up with that until tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by!

My first Criss Cross card

I was participating in the Lear Year Virtual Crop over at ScrapCity, and one of the challenges was to make a criss cross card. I've never made one before, so I decided to finally make one.


I used DCWV Pocket Full of Posies cardstock. For the insert, I punched two circles and mounted them back to back for a pull tab. I stamped "Be Happy!" so it can be see when the insert is in the card. I added some ribbon around the card band as well as a Prima and a rhinestone.


Here's a view of the card and the insert. What fun! There is a tutorial for the criss cross card on SplitCoast. Take a look!

I'm so far behind on blog hopping, but I hope to catch up in the next day or two. Have a great Sunday, and thanks for stopping by!

Congratulations Cards for my girls

First off, thank you so much for the congratulations to me on being featured crafter at Crafts on a Whim. If you haven't visited Andrea's site yet, please do so! She's such a nice lady, and I'm just thrilled that she featured me! If you do stop by to read my feature, please leave a comment on her site!

Next, I want to show you some cards that I made for my girls! Jessica was an actor in the 5th grade Talent Show, and she was amazing! She wasn't nervous, and she was just so natural on stage! Such great stage presence! I am so proud of her and incredibly impressed! Here's her card.


Now, to explain the color scheme. The Talent Show was about teams competing against each other in "The Amusing Race". Jessica was the head of the purple team! So, I pulled out all the stops to design an over-the-top purple card. I think I accomplished my goal! I used three stamps, I cut flowers from patterned paper, I added Stickles to one of them, I added a Prima, lots of brads, ribbon, etc. What a fun card to make, and best of all, Jessica loved it!

Then, I made a card for my 6th grader, Emily. Emily was inducted into the National Junior Honor Society. Only four 6th grade students were inducted. Many applied, and only four were chosen. What an honor!


For Emily's card, I actually used papers I've never used before! I used SEI Granny's Kitchen papers. I LOVE this color palette! I stamped Congratulations on patterned paper. It's the same paper that I used for the card base. The "dream" sticker is a cardstock sticker that was included in the paper pack. It's perfect! The gingham ribbon is even Granny's Kitchen ribbon. I added a couple of gorgeous Primas, and I added a button in the center of them. Emily loved it!

I'm just so proud of my girls! They're really the best, and when they do something, they really give it all they've got! What amazing young ladies. I'm thrilled, honored, and privileged to be their mom! Thanks for stopping by!