Super Saturday

Here are the projects that I taught on Saturday...card organizers made from the Acrylix Organizer OR fun little lunch box tins...

We also made some cards...

Inspired by Pat Pobst (sp?)

The next three were inspired by Lisa Stenz

Idea from last year's (?) Autumn/Winter Idea Book or maybe 2006?

Inspired by Diane Bowman (?)

Cherish Friends

This is a card that I made earlier this year, but I finally used it this week. I had a good friend go into the hospital on Tuesday in pre-term labor, so I gave her this card along with some yummy banana muffins when she finally came home. The scary thing is, I'm only about 6 weeks behind her, and she also has 3 girls about the same ages as mine, so it's hard to see her going through this. And just on Sunday, I had told her we needed to get pics together of our bellies - I thought we had plenty of time! Hopefully that baby will stay in at least a few weeks longer - she is in our prayers and thoughts.

PageMaps Blog Think Pink Sketch Contest

Update - Thanks to Marjorie for giving a blogger photo fix tip - it's a little more work, but hopefully the real problem will get fixed soon.

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I haven't done a layout for a while and it felt so good to get back to the pictures! This one was done for the latest PageMaps Sketch Contest - we were to use the sketch provided and scrap about something meaningful to you. My girls are my world, so I figured that would work ;-) Anyway, I just love these pictures of Brailee - she was barely 2 months old and had such a fun, crooked smile, isn't she cute! I have always wanted to use this quote and it was just perfect for these pictures. I used these fun Fancy Kewl papers, and these fun bright flowers and gems that Kari sent me for my birthday - they coordinated perfectly - thanks again, Kari! Once again, I used the Friendship Alphabet stamp sets - I just cannot stop using them! I clear embossed the title on the patterned paper and cut out. I used a Window Charm over the letter 'A' for the center of the green flower. Thanks for looking!

Teacher inspired cards

I had a gathering last week with a bunch of teachers, so this was the card I created for their Make & Take.

I also made this one about 5 minutes before the party just to show them another teacher inspired project, using a transparency. This was inspired by Michelle Zindorf, but I didn't use a brayer like she does, since I used the transparency to get the look she creates. I just used Black and Sunflower paper and White Daisy pigment ink. I LOVE this Creepy Cobwebs stamp set!

Pumpkin Patch

We finally got to go to the Pumpkin Patch last weekend - it was a perfect day and we went just in time because it started to get cold and snowy again on Tuesday! Things were looking really sad at the patch after the snow and frosts we had earlier this month, but we still found a couple of good pumpkins. We didn't have time to go through the corn maze, though :-( but maybe later! We are going to carve our pumpkins on Monday for FHE. Here are some pics from Saturday...

I absolutely could NOT get a decent pic of all three girls together, they didn't want to cooperate that day ;-P Sadly this is the best one! I did get a few good individual shots, though.

This is my favorite pic from that day - and Brianna had said she wasn't going to smile that day because she was mad that I had changed her hair ;-P She had about 20 hairclips in her hair and two half pony tails - it looked rather funky, especially since she doesn't have much hair to play with in the first place!

Happy Fall!

Just Because

I just had so much fun with Hannah's star card, that I had to make another one. I created this one for CTMH's Make It From Your Heart Rub-Ons contest and wasn't going to post it yet, but it fit Laurel's Blog Candy Challenge perfectly, so here it is! Her challenge was to make a Just Because card using pink and ribbon. I used Baby Pink textured CS, Chocolate CS, Shining Star stamp set (dry embossed instead of heat embossed this time), Say It In Style stamp set, and Chocolate rub-ons to create this card. It was really hard to get a good picture of this one since it's such a light pink and I did some dry embossing, but I hope you can see the detail - I may post more pics later! I used the light side of the textured CS for the inside of the card. You have until tomorrow to enter Laurel's Blog Candy Challenge, so good luck!

Oops...Blog Candy Winner!

Sorry, I had this post started and a winner picked last week, I just forgot to move it past the draft mode ;-P I had Brianna draw out a winner for my blog candy - congrats to...Yvonne! I love her fun costume she told about in her comment...

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"One year I made two heads out of nylons (using buttons for eyes and I put winter hats on the heads). I put my son in a sweet top and sewed a head on each sholder of the sweet top. He was the 3-headed monster! It was cute!"

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Here is what she won...

...some fun accessories - Hugz and Big Eyelets and a seasonal coaster frame that I made - this one just includes Fall and Winter, maybe by my 200th post for another blog candy I'll do Spring and Summer that time ;-)

I was only planning on doing a Fall side, but couldn't stop - if I would have known I was going to keep going, I wouldn't have used the Joy rub-on for the fall side - I guess I was in a joyful mood!

Thanks for stopping by!

Altered VHS Cases

Here are some projects that I have been working on for the last few weeks - I didn't want to post any until I got them ALL done and in the mail. The project got delayed by our house rearrangement, but I finally got them all sent out early last week, so hopefully they have all received them so I'm not spoiling anything ;-) These are some altered VHS cases that I made for some of my blogging/stamping friends - these are gals who have sent me fun cards and stamped images or have just been a huge support to me since I started my blog. I made my first maybe a couple years ago and still had a stash of cases to use, and since I don't have any fun images to stamp and return the favor, I decided these would be fun. I use mine as a tool box for my scrapping supplies - just a fun way to hold scissors, tape runners, etc. These were inspired by Yvette West (? - correct me if I got the last name wrong) she is a fellow CTMH Consultant who shared her fun idea on the CTMH boards.

First here is mine that I made quite a while ago...

And here are the gifts for my friends - it was fun to make these - each one became my favorite as I finished them ;-) I hope they like them!

This one is for Nicole

This one is for Ramsey

This one is for Laurel

This one is for Marjorie

This one is for Stacy

This one is for Nona

This one is for Kari

Birthday Cards & Gifts

Here are some birthday cards and gifts that I have made recently and haven't posted yet...
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For my SIL Liz - she likes orange - or at least I hope she still does ;-P Happy Birthday yesterday, Liz!

For my SIL Hannah - I really had fun with this card and I took a lot of pics of this one so you get how it looks. I took inspiration from Originals: Window Cutout, but instead of a 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 card, I turned it into a standard sized card (4 1/4 x 5 1/2). I embossed the star from Shining Star with Cranberry EP onto black CS and cut it out - then I mounted it on a piece of white CS and cut out again. then I cut out the center of the front of the card leaving a 3/4 inch border and attached the star. I also used the dot paper from Silhouette (I LOVE that pattern!), some Cranberry Ribbon, Black Waxy Flax, and some Black Bitty Brads.

I played a little more with it after my original pic, adding dashed lines around the star - did I add too much? Which do you like better, the first or second version?

For my nephew Damon who turned 6 last month - just a simple card using the most boyish stamps I own - when you have 3 girls there's just not too much boy stuff around ;-P Brianna picked the color since he is her bud. I stamped the Tool Time stamp sets using White Daisy pigment ink - and used Moonstruck B&T papers, Say It In Style stamp set for the sentiment, and some fun blue staples.

for my nephew Isaac who just turned 8 and was baptized this weekend! I used MCC #34 and Solos (G, R, 8, and the new Punctuation set). I was inspired by a sign at a local fast food place, advertising 'Join a GR8 team!' So I thought it would be perfect for an 8th birthday!

I also made him this journal/notebook - inside the front cover is a picture of Christ getting baptized. This was inspired by Originals: Tie Back Tag but created an 8 1/2 x 11 cover with it.

for my MIL - Happy Birthday today! She loves pink, can you tell? I took inspiration from Originals: Ribbon Envelope but turned it into a 6x6 card. I used Adorning Corners and For Every Occassion - I used some mini clear window circle stickers on the dark side of Blush textured CS to create the embellishment in the corner. I used the light side of the Blush textured CS for the front of the card, along with paper from the Paper Garden pack.

Here is another baby gift - that is LONG overdue! This is a fun puzzle (?) frame that I found - I don't know how else to describe it - each of the squares slides around like those puzzle games. I started this gift right after she was born, then the pics she e-mailed me, I couldn't get to print, so after I finally remembered to tell the mom I needed another picture, I was able to finish it up a few weeks ago when I finally got that picture. I just hadn't given it to the mom and baby yet (sadly she is almost 6 months old now) - I scheduled it to post here so I would finally remember. What a horrible friend I am ;-P

Conference Projects

I finished up these projects two weeks ago during General Conference - unfortunately I got sick on Sunday, so I only got to create during Saturday's sessions, but I'm happy with what I completed!

This was a gift for my cousin who just had a beautiful baby girl. She can just add the pictures! Love this kit from CTMH and I've had 4 sets for over a year now and this is the first I've finally played with it!

This is a long overdue b-day gift for my FIL - the pages are from our Unit Monthly Word Puzzle Swap, but it took me quite a while to pick out the perfect pictures from the last few years. Then I just stamped the year on each page.

I just realized...

...that I never posted this fun card that Laurel sent me at least a month ago - she also sent me some fun new stamped images. Thanks, Laurel, you are such an inspiration! Go check out her blog and her awesome artwork! I love all of the dimension on this card - Bella is pop dotted with an extra pop under the belly ;-) and I love the ribbon strip along the side. Oh, and the pants have fun flock for a fun texture!

Snow Much Fun!

So we passed up Fall pretty quick around here - we got dumped on with about a foot of snow this last weekend and it has been so cold! The girls had fun playing in the snow, and I got some fun pics and videos.

Ultrasound Pics!

We had our Ultrasound earlier this month - I took CTMH's new Voice Recorder and recorded the heartbeat to add to my page - how cool is that? I wish I'd had something like that for my other 3 kiddos. Anyway, Brailee was supposed to be with a babysitter, but she forgot - she's my pregnant friend, so I forgive her ;-) so Brailee got to come to the appointment with David and me. While I was recording the heartbeat, Brailee let out the happiest little squeal, so that recording was definitely a keeper! She loves listening to it over and over again. We got a fun DVD of the ultrasound, which I have never had before, so I thought that was really cool - plus Kaylee and Brianna got to see it, too. Things are looking good - the baby was actually measuring a week or two bigger than I supposedly am, but they didn't move my due date up again. It will be interesting to see when this baby decides to join us!

So yesterday I had a friend come over to scrap while the kids played since they were out of school and I got the following page done. I've had so much fun doing ultrasound pages - I just need more title ideas now so I can finish the rest of the pics I have for the other kids!

Products Used - All CTMH: Voice Recorder, Friendship Alphabet stamp sets, Shining Star stamp set, Star Struck stamp setbuttons, Colonial White Waxy Flax, vellum, Liquid Glass, Sweet Pea paper pack, Textured CS (Baby Pink, Heavenly Blue, Key Lime, and Sunny Yellow)