Thursday, May 7, 2009

Twilight with Cheeseburgers??

I have become a HUGE fan of the Twilight series. I could go on and on about it but I just had to share this video. I laughed all the way through it.

Monday, May 4, 2009

Teacher Appreciation Gifts

A couple of weeks ago we had teacher appreciation day and I'm the homeroom mom for the special ed class that has one teacher and an aid. Here are the snack baskets that I put together for them from the class. I had fun putting these together because I got to use my new Scor Pal. The little box with the truffles I made and HERE is the pattern I used for it. I had a little trouble with the cellophane but just ended up wrapping it like a present and taped the sides. I was in a hurry and didn't get a chance to look around for much for the cellophane. I just bought a roll of it at Target in the gift wrap section. I barely used any of it for these. Now I'm going to have to find some more projects to use this stuff for because I have a lot of it.

Below is a water bottle with Crystal Light packets. I put a whole box of the mixes in this pouch and HERE is the template I used. The only thing is that this template uses a scalloped card from SU for the front and I didn't have any of those. I ended up just making the front on my own. I used my Friskars punch to cut the scallops and then folded it down then just copied the measurements from the other piece to make it work. After I made these I found another tutorial to make these and this one is a little simpler and holds just one packet very nicely. HERE is the link for that one.
I also included 3 packages of microwave popcorn. There isn't a template for this. I just stacked the popcorn up and folded the paper around it. I did attach the popcorn together with repostionable tape so the stack wouldn't fall over. Once I figured out where the folds would be I used my new favorite tool the Scor Pal to make the creased. I also used a coordinating band of paper around the middle about 2" wide then wrapped it with tulle and then tied a small piece of ribbon in the middle of it to give it just a little more color.

This last box holds 2 boxes of gum. You could put all sorts of stuff in this. HERE is the template for this box. I really hope to get to do more of the stuff. It was fun. Maybe this will inspire you to go and make something for someone you'd like to show your appreciation.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Messy Scrap Room

Over on Cafemom in the scrap group that I help admin. we are doing an organizing challenge for our scrap spaces. Whether it be a room, closet, corner or just totes. To start we were to take pics of our area "as is" and post them. I went one better and video taped it. I actually did it using my camera. This is my very 1st video that I have posted on YouTube and of all things it's my messy scrap room! Oh well! A Memory to Scrap is having a garage sale on May 16th and I have bought a table to sell all the stuff I'm ready to get rid of. So far, I've gone through all my 12x12 paper and this is what I weeded out to sell. Crazy isn't it! But this is several years of collecting this paper.



So during my reorganizing of the paper I came up with an idea for organizing my scrap paper that I want to use for cards. Soooooo I made another video. I used the Small Wonder RCA video camera that we have and was able to shoot this one to show my idea. You know this is kind of fun. A lot of work, but fun. I'm thinking about maybe doing tutorial or project videos. Hmmmmm..... I'll be thinking over that one. I know I love watching scrap videos and there are a TON out there so I'm not sure if I have anything new to offer so we'll see. Anywho, I hope this organizing tip helps out. If you do have any organzing questions please feel free to ask me. I really enjoy organizing and also enjoy helping others. I mean I enjoy organzing so much that I WILL go and actually help you organize if you are close enough. I've helped friends and family organize closets, pantries and rooms.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Finished - Thanks ladies!

Does anyone else want to participate on this? I thought this was a fun idea and thought others would too. Oh well. I'll give this another week and see what happens. Hey can someone please tell me how you leave a post on top, even with new posts? I'm sure it's something easy but I haven't figured it out.
Blog Candy RAK
This is a RAK that I found on kristi's blog. The first 5 people to respond to this post will get something made by me! Could be a card, an altered object or something else altogether!Now for the RULES:1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make but I hope you will!2. What I create will be made with you in mind, I will look to your blog to find out more about you! I'll take hints if you want to leave them. ; )3. I will create your item as my schedule allows...in a timely manner but not tomorrow..lol..So only sign up if you are willing to wait a bit. : o)4. There is a catch - you must offer this same blog candy on your blog! Let me know you're in, email me your address to diane.davies@yahoo.com, then re-post this on your blog (you can change the wording) and offer something you make - your choice - to the first 5 people who respond to your post. Add my name to the #1 slot on your list - I am your first participant. When you create your giveaway, you will become the first participant on the lists for the people who participate with you. Got it? :-)
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Kristi @ Our Scrapbook Memories
4. ERICA

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Carving Pumpkins

Halloween was 6 months ago but hey that's not too bad for me. At least it didn't take me a year to scrap this. Believe me I have things from several years ago that I haven't even started on. This is sad to say but this was the first pumpkin my kids have ever carved. : O I know, bad mom! They got these pumpkins from their field trip from school so we ended up carving them the night before Halloween. They had a friend over (Isabel - the blonde girl) so she helped out with it. I just watched and took a ton of pics. It was my idea to have the pumpkin "throw up". hehe Austin loved it.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Blog Candy RAK

This is a RAK that I found on kristi's blog. The first 5 people to respond to this post will get something made by me! Could be a card, an altered object or something else altogether!

Now for the RULES:
1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make but I hope you will!

2. What I create will be made with you in mind, I will look to your blog to find out more about you! I'll take hints if you want to leave them. ; )

3. I will create your item as my schedule allows...in a timely manner but not tomorrow..lol..So only sign up if you are willing to wait a bit. : o)

4. There is a catch - you must offer this same blog candy on your blog! Let me know you're in, email me your address to diane.davies@yahoo.com, then re-post this on your blog (you can change the wording) and offer something you make - your choice - to the first 5 people who respond to your post. Add my name to the #1 slot on your list - I am your first participant. When you create your giveaway, you will become the first participant on the lists for the people who participate with you. Got it? :-)

Friday, April 10, 2009

Plant Kindness

I made this card for a challenge over at Simply Scrapping. I used orange, blue and green stickles on the flowers, leaves and the bird. Part of the challenge was to use a sticker. I don't use stickers much, especially on cards but I found this one and thought it went well with the image. In case you can't read it, it says "he who plants kindness gathers love". That's a pretty good motto to live by.











I want to wish everyone a happy and blessed Easter.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Altered Match Boxes

How stinkin' cute are these?!! I bought these little match boxes at the CK convention last year. They were plain white. Just last week, I rec'd a swap that had a box like this, all decorated and held some brads, buttons and stuff in it for a hostess gift. I loved it. So I knew now what I was going to do with the ones I had been holding on to. Oh yeah, btw the swap had been sent to me by mistake, I wasn't the hostess for that swap but I was participating in it. So I ended up having to mail it to the host. I sooooo wanted to keep the hostess gift because it was so adorable. But I didn't. : (

Friday, April 3, 2009

Zebra Box

I made this box using only two 12x12 sheets of paper. You want to be sure to use the thick paper to help you box be sturdy. I used paper from Glitz called Sparrow Zebra and Sparrow Stain Paper which is a thick double sided paper.



This box will hold a post it note block perfectly. Great gift idea!


Here are the instructions for the box and cover.
Origami Box Diagram SCS TLC203.pdf, 45 KB
Origami Box and cover Instructions.doc, 28 KB

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Hello! Sketch Challenge

Here is a sketch challenge that I did for Simply Scrapping. I really like how this one turned out. I used Copics and Bic markers to color the image. The paper is from The Paper Studio and it's called Pink Armadillo paper pack. I love this paper pack so much I had to decorate the inside of the card too.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Simply Scrapping Design Team

Not sure why it's taking me so long to post this because I'm super duper excited about it but I made the Design Team for Simply Scrapping. This is a fairly new online store but the owner, Judy, has been selling scrapbooking items on Ebay for over 7 years . Along with the store she also started an online community also called Simply Scrapping. You should come on over to the community and join in. It's still small so you won't be lost in a huge group. There are some talented ladies on there and we love to share our work and learn new things. If you join, be sure to tell them I sent you! Hope to see you there!

Friday, March 6, 2009

Spring Fever

Pink Persimmon is having a "Spring Fever" challenge on their blog. This card is what I was feeling yesterday because it got so warm, temp was up to 80 degrees. I was riding around with the windows down and the warm air blowing in my hair. Ok, so my hair isn't black or long nor do I have a convertible but you get the drift. : ) I used Copics to color the image. Now I'm ready for summer!!

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Scrappy Boy!







I have been wanting to make a mini album with toilet paper rolls. So I have been collecting a few empty tp rolls. Austin kept seeing them laying around and asking what I was keeping them for. He wanted one to play with and this is what he made. He had the idea to put the yellow on the bottom so the tag wouldn't fall out and also to punch a hole and put ribbon (he said string but of course I had ribbon) in the hole. I helped him cut the tag out but that is about it. He wrote "Army Army Army Austin!" on the tag. I asked him why he put Army on the tag and he said because he is Army Austin. I'm so proud of my scrappy boy!

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Shabby Chic

I've done a little experimenting with the "shabby chic" look or at least trying it. I really like the look but it's just not me. Maybe it just doesn't come easy to me.
I bought these paper heart doilies at the dollar spot at Target. I thought I could use them to make Valentine's for my kids class. Yeah, that didn't happen. Still wanted to try and use them so this was just playing around with them. Oh and another reason I wanted to try the shabby thing was the book pages. My daughter tore a bunch of pages out of an old book I had as decoration. It was probably worth something, first edition but I don't even want to know!
This is a bookmark I made for a vintage bookmark swap. Not 100% sure I like it or not. You know how some things you just love how they turned out and some not so sure of. Well that is how it is with this style for me. But I was trying to stretch my creativy and try something new.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Happy Valentine's Day!

I want to wish you all a very Happy Valentine's day. This is a card I did for a swap over at CafeMom. The stamp is a very cute set from SU. I don't own the stamp set but a friend of mine does so I made a bunch of images the last time we were together. This is the first time I got to use them. I used Copics to color the image and did some highlighting with a white gel pen.



I am a guest card designer this month over at Let's Scrap. Here is the inside of a card I made. Go check out the front of it on their blog. I used the Joy Fold and fell in love with this card style. It's very easy to make and I think it makes a great card.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Aaack - It's February and where have I been???

January was a hard month for our family. We had the stomach bug works it's way through the entire family. Austin and I both had strep throat. Kids were out of school for 4 days due to the ice storm. Finally feel like I can breathe again.


Here are a couple of cards I made from a sketch challenge. First the sketch, I copied this off the post but don't know where they got the sketch from. I had one problem with it though. I couldn't do the 2 little circles at the top. In design you are suppose to use odd numbers and so for me I couldn't do two. I thought it just didn't look as good as one or if I had put 3 smaller flowers. That's probably just me being picky but oh well. I used paper from the Sassafras line. The images are from Stamping Bella.

Friday, January 23, 2009

Fun in the Sun

At the beginning of summer last year I purchased this blow up water slide for the kids. I got it off WalMart.com and it was only around $200 with free shipping to the local store and I just picked it up. I got it very early in the season and it's a good thing because they sold out when I went and checked again only a week or so after I ordered mine. This was a great investment and the kids used it a lot. This was the first day we put it up so
I had to take pictures of them playing. The paper I used is called Kaleidoscope and it's an old line of paper I had but I had the matching embellishments too so it made for a very easy LO. I only had to find a few more letters to spell out the title and that was it. This is kind of plain for me because I didn't use any ribbon, flowers, brads or bling. This summer I will be taking lots of pictures of them playing in our new pool. I'm so excited I can't wait for the warm weather! Have a great weekend everyone.







Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Chalk Full of Fun

These are not colors I would have normally put together but I like how it turned out. This was a challenge in one of my CafeMom groups to use these colors and listed some of the products that had to be used. That's when I like a challenge when well, it actually is a challenge for me and this was.
The kids were playing in the water outside then started playing with the chalk. They found out that if you add the water to the chalk on the sidewalk it spreads real easy. Then one of them and I'm guessing it was Kaitlyn started painting themselves. They all pitched in and helped cover each other. It did wash off but Kaitlyn had a slight pink color to her cheeks for a day or so but they had fun and I got some great pictures to scrap from it.



Monday, January 12, 2009

Brrrrrrr......Changito


Isn't Changito so cute all bundled up?!! I made these for a swap over on CafeMom. I found this stamp at Hobby Lobby and bought it with my 40% off coupon. I'm really starting to fall for this little guy. I colored the hat, scarf, gloves and boots with Copics. The silver on his hat, boots and the snow flakes is Stickles.



Friday, January 2, 2009

Thank you - Teachabella

I did this card in a sketch challenge in a group on CafeMom group. We were to follow the sketch to a T. That was a little harder to do than I thought it would be. I really like the look of buttons but don't seem to use them very often. I do like how it turned out though. The stamp is Teachabella from Stamping Bella. The paper is from My Minds Eye but I don't remember the name of the line. I used colored pencils to color the image. I will be giving this to one of the kids teachers when we have teacher appreciation day at school this spring.

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