Sharon's Celebration

My sweet mother-in-law turned 70 last month!! What a blessing she is in my life! She has a lil' weakness for chocolate, so I made this card set with a lil' to keep her stock up:) I loved this template. It is, of course, a Papertrey inc template. The stamps and paper are also Papertrey.

I'm back at it!

One of my first projects was to get my scrap room functional. It still isn't finished, but tables are up and all my "supplies" are out:) Yeah!! I am so happy. It is nice to get back to making pages for our books and cards for fam.\friends.



This was a fun card...one of the first ones in the new room. Oh, it was nice to have all my tools at my finger tips.






Oh, it is so fun to have ribbon and accents and stamps and...aaahh. What therapy!

Tape and glitter technique

I have been wanting to play with this technique for a while (since seeing it on Teresa Black's blog) I did two pages with this technique. I have decided, though, that it would look better on a smaller basis. When I cut out the big butterfly or the moon, the tape behind was all warped. If I had done smaller cut-outs, then it probably would have looked better. This first page was done with one of my favorite sets from CTMH. It was called Lazy Days of Summer. I love the cool greens and blues for my boys. I felt bad putting Dallin and glitter on the same page, but it goes in my book, not his...that's okay, right?? I needed a girl in this life, dadgumit! Anywho, the next page was inspired by a Technique Tuesdays catalog that I picked up at the scrap convention last fall. I cut the scrolly thingys out with my cricut cartridge Storybook. I like how the lil stars turned out. I just embossed them with clear embossing powder and then daubed ink over them with a sponge. Pretty fun. Now I have to go make my exchanges...with my updated info on the technique.

Wendy, this one's for you

This pages cracks me up. One morning, Tom came home and told us that there was something in the front yard. So, we went out to see...A TURTLE. Uh, okay. Not something that you would expect in our area. It was pretty large and had a very sharp "beak." Our dog, Sam, got a little too close and that thing hooked his nose in a split second. Poor Sam. He was beside himself. So, we put on some welding gloves because the thing had CLAWS like an aligator...and a long tail??!! Anyway, the turtle made its way around the neighborhood for the next few weeks. When I saw these pictures, I pulled out my CTMH "Lazy Days of Summer" paper because I knew it came with turtle stickers. I even got to use some Thickers...don't you just love saying that word:) HEE HEE.

I fell in love

I sure did! I went to the local scrap store (normally I can avoid it for months at a time). I was only picking up some puffy squares and I stumbled on this BEEEEAutiful paper. I LOVE this paper. Did I mention that I kinda like this paper. I was so excited to use it. But when? I have all boys. Then, it happened! I was flipping through my pile of pictures that needed scrappin' and I saw my birthday pictures from last year that Dallin took. We were having dinner in our red dining room...PERFECT!! Aaaah. I feel much better now:) Ooh, and I even sprayed the red flowers with some of my Tattered Angels glimmer mist. LOVE IT! Now I can continue on with my usual masculine pages.

First pages of '08

Well, I had my first official weekend off work. I spent some time scrappin' ... for therapy, of course! These are some pages that I have been making over the last few weeks. I sure had fun making these pages. This one was made with some paper I picked up in North Carolina. I love the colors. I had the border sticker for a few years and I was happy to finally unload it onto a page. The font for the title was cut with my newest, favoritest Cricut cartridge, "Old West." It has 4 different fonts and tons of western images. It is perfect for a family full of boys.

This layout was a ton of work. I love the hand stitches, but they took me an hour!! I was using waxy flax, so I couldn't use a needle. I just had to poke the holes big enough to slide it through. Then, after all that work, I ended up covering the majority of it! Ugh. Oh, well. It was a great page because I included Scott's favorite song for the title. Once again, I used my "Old West" to cut out "bad." I also had some double sided sticky letters that I rubbed copper glitter on. I think Scott is my only child to have pages made of his yowchers. He is always getting hurt.

fun boxes Papertrey Style

Papertrey Inc. is one of my most favoritest paper and stamp companies. They had been offering templates for download. I loved this one that was called "time for takeout." Once you download them, you just print the template right onto your paper. Then, you just cut and paste...voila! All cutie! Even my 4-year-old nephew made one of these for his primary teacher. easy shmeasy.