Rusty Pickle - All Boy LO

I took this class from Rusty Pickle called "All Boy". I always try to take at least one class from Rusty Pickle because they have such cool instructors and great projects.



I haven't glued down the sayings yet in case I use this for a picture of both Kaitlyn and Austin. I also have not glued down the stars yet that way if I want to adhere them to the corner of the pictures, I can. No check out the "ribbon" we used. It's actually muslin fabric cut into strips. That was a fun trick/technique they told us. She said when you are at the fabric store, go to the clearance area and find cool material that is cheap and just cut it into strips. The strip of muslin on the right side is just weaved through holes that were already cut in the page. It looks like they might have used the Zutter Bind It All to make the holes.

This was a fun and very easy LO to make.

Creating Keepsake Convention - Woo Hoo!!

Oh my mind is still spinning from everything I saw, did and bought at the convention. I plan on sharing projects that I completed in the classes as I get them finished - didn't get them all finished in class. Oh and the $$$ I spent!!! YIKES! I really felt as if I needed to go into a program for over spenders! I could hardly say no to anything. There were several booths there though that had AWESOME deals! I took all my stash out and sorted it a little. Here are a few pics of my goodies.

This first one is mainly the stack of projects from all the classes I took. I think I took 10 or 11 classes.

Stack of clear stamps that I bought.

This is how much paper I bought! I know I'm crazy! But I did get quite a bit for only $.10 a piece! On top of the stack is some stencils which I used the circle one in a class. It was so cool. Can't wait to show you all what you can do with these.

Just some of the embellishments I got. Queen & Co. had a booth there and sold almost everything for $1 - so I couldn't resist!

Here are a few of the mini albums and chipboard albums I got. Do you see the cute little match boxes. I have no idea what I'm going to do with those yet but they were so cute and only a $1.

Not pictured is all the flowers I bought! Just another of my weaknesses! : O

Flocking

I know Easter is quite a ways away but I wanted to try flocking on this cute little chickie stamp I had. I just got the Doodlebug Design - Crushed Velvet Flock - Flock Assortment from scrap store that I teach at "A Memory to Scrap". The cool thing is, Ashley (the owner) said if we buy the assortment from her she will refill any of our bottles when needed for only $.50 each. Isn't that an awesome deal! I hope you can see the flocking on the close up picture.

Something really cool that Ashly told me was that you can use the Quickie Glue Pen to write or draw then cover with flock. So easy! I practiced by writing my name. How fun to make swirls or trace a fun template design then flock.

Masculine Birthday Card

Very simple masculine bday card using the SU set - I think it was a freebie from the Sale-a-bration. I made this because I was FINALLY finished my ribbon sorting project. I had this one small piece of striped ribbon. Didn't want to hang it up but didn't want to throw it away either. So I thought I'll just make a quick card. And it was pretty quick too. Which is really good for me!

New storage I found

I love going to Tuesday Morning and checking out any scrap stuff they have for a good deal. I went a couple of months ago and found these really cool small storage boxes. I didn't get them because they were $4.99 each and I just didn't know if I could use them. I went back yesterday and they were still there well if that's not fate - what is? hehe This time I knew exactly what I could use them for so I bought both of them. It even had a sticker on them that said they were acid free and ??? hmmm something else like biodegradable or something. Anyway, I LOVE them!!! I used them to put my 3x3 cards in, which I have quite a few from swaps I have done on CafeMom.

The other one I used to put all my little StudioG stamps in, you know the $1 stamps from Michael's and Joann's. Yeah, I know, I have a bunch! If they are still in the package it means I haven't even used them yet. : ( I will eventually, oh and I got a few extra so that I can give them away as blog candy at some point. Yeah, you read that right BLOG CANDY!! I have sooooo much stuff and I really enjoy sharing the wealth that I will do blog candy probably, quite frenquently. Like I said ..... I will buy, bride whatever you want to call, to get blog friends!! muahahahahaha I plan on doing my first blog candy at 1,000 hits. Not too far from now. So tell your friends to come check me out and it will come faster! : )

"YeeHaw"

Another LO I did on my scrap retreat. Austin dressed up like a cowboy for Land Run day at school. We are so not cowboy/country people but he looked awful cute dressed up like one. These boots were given to us by a very good friend of mine once her son grew out of them. Otherwise, we would never have had boots for him to wear. I cut the YeeHaw out using a Cricut cartridge but I don't remember the name
of it. The wanted poster and logs on the opposite page were a die cut that I inked and backed with some dark paper so the notches and words would stand out. This is another LO that I actually wrote a little on also. Yeah me!!

Bling Bling!!

This was from May of 2007 but I just scrapped it this past weekend. I used the Home Accents Cricut cartridge for the swirls. I love swirls and bling!! I went over all the swirls with the Gelly Roll Stardust pen. Love that too! I also used a new border punch that I got at Wal-Mart from their new Martha Stewart line. Instead of flowers at the end of the performance I gave her an Angelina ballerina. That's my sister in the bottom pic with Kaitlyn.

Lights behind the stamped image? New technique? hmmmm...

Here is a card I made this weekend with some stamps I just got from SU. These were retiring and I really wanted them because I thought they were so cute. And yeah, I added bling to the mushroom and the tip of the crown! : ) I just love bling! I took a pic to show that I added pop dots behind the stamped images. Also to show the grass. This is the first time I've made grass like this and I think it looks pretty good. While I was trying to get this picture up close one of them looks as if there are lights behind the stamped image. Sorry - it's not a new technique. But hey, I wouldn't be surprised if someone ends up doing something like it. It was just the light overhead shining off the white pop dots. Looks kinda of cool though.

An award? For me? Awwww shucks!

I don't know what to say. I mean I didn't prepare a speech or anything! hehe

I was awarded this award from Nicole. She is a new blog and CafeMom friend. She's also loves Bella and has many great cards with her on them. She's been very encouraging to me and leave me great comments - gotta love her for that!! Go check out her blog and the fun things she's created.



Here are the rules for this award:

1. Post the logo on your blog.
2. Add a link to the person who awarded you.
3. Nominate 7 other worthy bloggers.
4. Add links to their blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs.

I'm awarding this to:

Kim
Kristi
Robyn
Kelly
Kristy
Marion
Melissa & David - These are some very dear friends of mine who are blogging about their journey with their son Elijah who has many medical problems. They probably don't care about this award so much but they deserve an award for being such awesome parents!!!

The funny thing you said . . .

I really like how this LO turned out. I used my drywall tape again. : ) I love the story behind these pictures. This was a time that I actually stopped and wrote down exactly what was said so I could scrap and journal it correctly. I enlarged the journal tag so you could read the story also. And to give myself a little pat on the back for WRITING it down. Oh I so don't like to write on my pages but I know that the kids will appreciate it later. So every now and again I'll write a litte bit. Well, that and I wanted to use this cute little journal card.







Oh yeah, as a side note - I did specify that this was his "back up" blankey. This is one he uses when we can't find his regular blankey. : }

The other thing I did on this LO that I wanted to point out was that I used an exacto knife and cut around the design so it would go on top of the picture. I cut around the circle with the star at top and the 3, 1 and 2 at the bottom. That way you use the paper as an embellishment.

Weekend Events

I had a fabulous weekend at the Scrappin Pad! I hope to go there again. It was really nice. I do have many LO's to share but I haven't taken any pictures yet. In fact, my bags are still in the garage. One thing that happened while I was gone is the start of our pool. I'm excited to get it started but I really did want to watch them dig. : ( I did tell my husband to take some pictures because you know I'm going to have to scrap the whole event.
I'm am sooooo excited about this pool. I LOVE being in the water and in the summer sun. This is really a dream come true for me. : )

A helpful tip and misc. stuff

First I have to tell you that I went and saw Mamma Mia! yesterday with a couple of my friends. I absolutely LOVED it!!!!! I loved the story, the music just everything!! The scenery was so beautiful. I can't say anything bad about it. I don't ever buy movies for myself but this one I want!! I will watch it over and over again!! It gets 2 thumbs up, 5 stars, a 10 well, you get the idea! : )

I've been packing up my scrap stuff the last couple of nights getting ready to go on a scrap retreat weekend. I'm soooo ready for a break. I'm going to The Scrappin Pad in Tahlequah, OK. So I will have lots of LO's to post next week.

Remember my waxed paper box well I've entered this century and bought a new one! Check out the updated design. The old box said "waxed" paper but this new does say just wax paper. So check back in 25 years and see if I'm still using this same box! hehe

Ok, now for my helpful tip. This has nothing to do with scrapbooking or cardmaking but everything to do with making your life easier as a mom. My daughter drinks ice water all day long and very little of anything else. Which is great, she sure didn't get that good habit from me! She has learned to take the lid off her cup and fill it up from the fridge door water and ice dispenser and put the lid back on. It's awesome!! No more, "MOOOOOMMMMM I need a drink!" Well, my son is an apple juice drinker - big time! He's five. I still do 1/2 water and 1/2 juice. But I REALLY don't want to clean up split juice, it's gets so sticky on the floor. Plus some of the juice container are big and heavy. So I was still getting the "Mooooommmm I need some juice!" I would make them say please and thank you but STILL I had to stop what I was doing and do it for him. Ok now for the solution and it is soooooooo awesome!!! I bought this at Wal-Mart for just under $6. I added a BIG thing of juice then filled the juice container with water and put that in the container also. Now Austin can go get his juice all by himself. Besides the fact I don't have to do it for him anymore it also makes him feel good. He almost looks proud when he's getting his own juice! You know sometimes it's the little things in life that just make me so happy!
I hope everyone enjoys their weekend and I'll be back next week!

"Howdy" Card - I'm loving this one!

I just did this sketch challeng over on Cafemom.

I ended up flipping the sketch around. I didn't use a

flower - which if you knew me very well you would understand that I will use a flower WHENEVER possible because I love them on cards and LO's. Anyway, I used some of my new CMTH stamps and some SU paper. I embossed the background - which is my first time doing that and I loved it. Then I also inked over the embossing. Well, I then tried wiping a little bit off with my finger that I had wet down (yes with my tongue - yuck right?) and it got darker so I did it all over the back ground. I think it looks pretty cool. The "Howdy" is from an alphabet rub-on set that I have. This is a card that I really, really like how it turned out and I can't say that a lot.

Ad from Scrapbook Etc.

I'm really excited about this one! I'm the type of person/scrapper that saves everything to possibly use to scrap or create with later. I keep ribbons and cool tags from just about everything. Sooooooo when I saw this ad in Scrapbook Etc. (Aug/Sept 2008) magazine I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

This ad is for a new line of paper Sassafras is coming out with called "happy place". There is a small piece of the paper in the ad with a scalloped edge. I thought oh how cute. So I tore it out.

Now check out the cool card I made with it. All I did was trim it down some width wise, added a ribbon down it, stamped "Be Happy" then added a little bling. The funny thing is I didn't know the line of the paper was called "happy place" when I chose the stamp "Be Happy" (CMTH stamp). Since I can't leave things well enough alone I also got out my Twinkling H2O paints and colored in the blue around the clouds, also colored some green areas and the brown area. I took a couple of close up pics so you can see the sparkle.

I don't even think this paper is out in the stores yet! I think I was so excited about this because it made me feel so creative you know, thinking outside the box. You may not think this is a big deal but please don't tell me. I don't want my bubble to burst! ; )