Today

In case you didn't realize, I took a long break from scrapping.   The only pictures that I have really kept up with, are back to school and birthdays.  I bought several Project Life cards, thinking that it would be easier to do, but I didn't really like it.  I use the sheets to add extra pictures to my scrapbooks, but I didn't really use the cards.  But I bought all these cards, that I need to use.  And this is what I came up with this week.  I like that they all co-ordinate, and I can just pull them out and use them on my traditional layouts.  I got this put together and finished in just under an hour.

These are not PL brand cards.

These pictures are of an after school trip to the ice cream shop.  Just an every day kinda thing for us.  I snapped these pictures with my phone.  Something else that I am not used to!

Stamps are Amy Tangerine, Thickers, and Recollections wood veneers and washi tape.  The enamel dots are Queen & Co.

Happy crafting!


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Counterfeit Kit Challenge-1

I have been lurking around the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog for the last couple of months. I wanted to play along, but just never did. When I saw the inspiration kit from Front Porch Kits, I knew that I wanted to play along this month !! Take a look at these wonderful colors and embellies!!



You can check out the website atFrontporchkits.com

TheCounterfeit Kit Challenge Blog , challenges you to put a kit together from your stash and see what you can come up with! Here is my first Counterfeit Kit:







Here are a few of the things that made it into my kit:

Heidi Swapp, DCWV, BoBunny paper
American Crafts and Ribbon Trends ribbon, pom-pom and lace trims, flower trim
Acrylic birds
Prima and PaperStudio flowers
Black, teal, and yellow yarn
fabric swatches
Pink Paislee and Maya Road rubons
chipboard alphas, flowers, and tree
Maya Road mega bottlecaps, and a PaperStudio black bottlecap
Buttons by BoBunny, American Crafts,
Brads by PaperStudio
Flower center brads by PaperStudio
Black, cream, white, yellow, teal, and kraft cardstock

I also plan to use my Cricut, Glimmer Mist, Stickles, and glitter.

So now that I have this massive kit all pulled together, I better get started doing something with it! The challenge runs all month and the goal is to make as many projects as you can with your kit! I can't wait! Happy crafting!

Build-Play-Dream

A couple of my goals for 2011 (I'm not going to call it a resolution!) is to scrap more layouts, get my craft room organized, and spend less money. I have decided to combine them and make my goal to scrap ten layouts before buying more supplies! This way I will use up my supplies on hand, save a little money, (maybe) and make me get some layouts done so I can buy new stuff!!

So since I had a little while to myself today, I decided to get to work! These pictures had been on my desk for a while. I loved that my little guy spen the afternoon building this Lego ship and then playing with it all day. He didn't want to put it down and ended up falling asleep with it in his hands!

I took the colors of the Lego ship as the basis for my paper selection. And this was not a color combo that I usually work with! But it was fun to get it put together! I used some paper from Paper Studio and K & I Memories that I have had for-ev-ah! The oldest brads I have in my stash also made a comeback. Thickers, my Uniball pen, and my new Cricut cartridge, Basic Font, finished up the page. Of course the Lego logo is from the box!

Coming up on New Year's Day, we have a blog hop! I can't wait to show you my project with a little tutorial on making a flower and paper ribbon! Hope to see you here! Happy crafting!

Trick or Treat Candy Jar-Altered Frappachino Bottle

I saw on the Cricut message board that someone had used vinyl to alter a jar, filled it with candy corn, and had a very cute, easy gift! I decided to use some of my vinyl scraps and alter some frappachino bottles. These are just too fun and easy to make! I did decorated the top with an epoxy sticker, added some American Crafts Ribbon, and surprisingly a whole bag of candy corn! Trick or treat is cut from the Happy Hauntings cartridge cut at 1 1/4 inches. Hope you enjoy! Happy crafting!

School is in Session

Here is a layout that I finished for Mason's first day of kindergarten. This was one of the easiest layouts that I have finished. It came together in about 30 minutes! The paper is part of the new line from KI Memories. The strips of patterned paper behind Mason's photo is all from one sheet. There were several different strips of patterns and I cut it into strips to use as accents. I also did the cheater "notebook" paper. The title and star was cut from Plantin' Schoolbook (Appropriate, huh?)



I liked the layout so much that I also used it for Dylan and Corbin's First Day pages too. They are a little different, but I did use the scraps from Mason's page. (More points in the Addicted Scrappers Use Your Stash Contest!!) There is also three different fonts on Dylans. Another challenge at Addicted Scrappers, thank you Dawn!! I really had to make myself use that third font. I still look at it and think that it looks out of place!! Can you tell that it is out of my comfort zone?!!

I still have to finish up Corbin's page, but I will use the same layout and paper. Thanks for looking!

Addicted Scrappers-Use Your Stash!!

I have been hanging out alot over at Addicted Scrappers. The girls there are just wonderful and have alot of fun with challenges and contests. I submitted my Halloween layout for the shaped paper challenge last month. This month they are having a Use Your Stash Contest!! Just what I need to use up my overflowing scrap supplies!! I bought this clipboard when I bought my son's school supplies. I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it, but when AS posted bonus points for really old paper, I dug through my "old" stash and found this. I like how it turned out. The tag is cut from the pattern paper on the bottom. I colored in some of the spots with a glitter pen. It doesn't show up well, but it gives it just a little sparkle. Hope you like it!

PP-Junkitz, REALLY OLD!!
Ribbon-Most of it's American Crafts, some is Dashes, Dots and Checks from Michaels.
Punch-Threading Water Punch, Fiskars
Die Cuts-Quickutz, Vixen
Flowers-Primas
Felt embellie-Queen & Co.
Buttons-American Crafts, Other
Cardstock is from Hobby Lobby
Pens-Uni-Ball from Sanford