Addicted to Scrapbooking

MPS Challenge 12

2010-05-02T13:49:00.000-05:00

Here is the last challenge I did over at the MPS blog. "Make a scrapbook page, card, or other project using an animal or critter." I used create a critter for the lamb.

MPS Challenge 10

2010-05-02T13:45:00.000-05:00

For this challenge we had to "Make a project using flowers or something Springy!!" I choose flowery paper, made a flower using George and also used my flower border punch.

MPS Challenge 9

2010-05-02T13:38:00.002-05:00

Yes, I know, I skipped a few in there... For this challenge we had to "Make a shaped card, shaped scrapbook page, or shaped project!" I used a few of my son's birthday pictures and put them in the shape of a 3.

MPS Challenge 5

2010-05-02T13:36:00.000-05:00

" Create something for Teacher Appreciation Week OR for someone you appreciate." I made a Thank You card for my Son's teacher.

MPS challenge 4

2010-05-02T13:33:00.000-05:00

Challenge 4 was "Make a project using your least favorite or least used cartridge" I used Fablous Findes, I can't remember the last time I used this cart! It's still not my favorite and I had a hard time even picking out something to use on it, but I made it work.

MPS Challenge 3

2010-05-02T13:31:00.000-05:00

For this one we had to "Think Outside the Box. Do something on your scrapbook page, card, or other item that you wouldn't normally do. Add something fun or crazy!!" For mine, I used my Cricut Marker which I actually sold these because I never used them, but couldn't find the red one at the time of the sale, so I will be giving this one to the buyer next time I see her :) Also I hand written something, I hardly ever journal on my pages so this was a challenge for me!

2nd MPS Challenge

2010-05-02T13:27:00.000-05:00

For our second challenge we had to "Make a project incorporating your scraps!" This one was super simple for me because I have so many scraps of everything! Even the ribbon used was scraps!

MPS Challenge 1 on NSD

2010-05-02T13:21:00.002-05:00

Our first challenge was to Make a scrapbook layout, card or other item with your mother or someone dear to you in mind. Here is what I came up with. The inside says "Happy Mother's Day" I made one for my mom and one for my MIL. I used George for the flower and curled the peddles and glimmer misted them as well. Sorry the picture is kind of blurry, I took several and this one was the one that came out the best on this dark gloomy day.

Change in hobby for a while...

2010-01-03T21:39:00.005-06:00

Well, I really haven't been in the mood for scrapping lately. I'm not sure why, one of my friends had mentioned that she heard that the average length for a hobby is 7 years, well guess what.. my 7 years is up for scrapping. I don't think I'm done, I just think I need a little bit of a break from it. I found myself just throwing pages together and not even being proud of them. I'm sure I'll still continue developing my pictures as they are on sale, and buying the newest product (I got the G for Christmas)

In the mean time, I have found a new hobby. Crocheting :) I find it so relaxing. So far I have made several wash/dish cloths for practice, then matching Hat, Scarf and fingerless mittens! I'm looking forward to making some sun dresses for my daughter, a new scarf for my oldest son, and something neat (not sure what yet?) for my middle son.

Busy Busy Busy!

2009-10-10T20:12:00.002-05:00

Wow, I have been so busy this last 2 weeks! I have so many new layouts to post, but need to take the time to get pictures of them all! Today I spent the entire day scrapping with an old friend of mine, so nice to reconnect with her! That's it for now, hope everyone is getting lots of scrapping in!

Transparency Challenges

2009-09-28T12:30:00.002-05:00

I came across 2 different blogs with a Transparency challenge, so I'm going to use this lo for both :) The first blog is Glue, Scissors, Paper and the other blog is Practical Scrappers.

The Transparency, paper and rub-ons are all by Fancy Pants. The pictures are from Devin's 2 year photo shoot at Sears. Enjoy!

Blog Hop Challenge-Scrapbooks & Stuff

2009-09-27T17:22:00.003-05:00

Well, here I am at the last place to stop for the blog hop challenges, I had so much fun the last 2 days being creative and challenged! I really hope you can take the time to participate as well!

Over at Scrapbooks & Stuff our challenge was to use the below LO and use the color pink. I used Pink Cardstock and destressed it by sanding it to make the white core show through. The title is made from American Crafts "Thickers" and patterned paper is from My Mind's Eye-Totally Girl. Enjoy!

Here is the LO

Here is my take

Blog Hop Challenge-The Crafting Pot

2009-09-27T15:51:00.002-05:00

Over at The Crafting Pot they wanted us to "kick it old school scrapbook style" pull out those stickers and fiskars scissors! Well, I pulled out the stickers but not the scissors :) Since I couldn't use my cricut to cut a circle, I found a plate and put it flat against the paper and tore around it, then I rounded the corners of the picture and used some old stickers I had for Devin(it takes two) so big/so fast (ek success) and thickers (american crafts) for 18 months. Paper is from my mind's eye-complete boy. Enjoy!

Blog Hop Challenge-Creative Twist

2009-09-27T14:54:00.003-05:00

Over at Creative Twist our challenge was to use the title "Lets get down and dirty" I altered it a bit, but not too far off. I had this noodle paper for ever, finally got some good pictures of Alyssa making a mess eating spaghetti and it worked out perfect for this challenge! I used Zoobaloo for the title and some misc ric rac. Enjoy!

Blog Hop Challenge-Just Buggin'

2009-09-27T13:35:00.012-05:00

Over at Just Buggin' our challenge was to create something with a die cut AND distress it in some way. I used Hello Kitty font for the () and did not distress those, but then I pulled out Mini Monograms and cut out the cute flowers in a few different sizes and crumpled them up then smoothed them out around the corner of my table and used a brad to hold them together. "6 months" is from the Wild Card cart, one of mine that gets overlooked quite often for the font anyway. Paper is My Mind's eye-Totally Girl. Enjoy!

Blog Hop Challenge-Practical Scrappers

2009-09-27T11:21:00.002-05:00

Our challenge over at Practical Scrappers was to make something using a die cut- I used my Hello Kitty carts and made 2 butterflies and the title "Cutie Pie" I also used some rhinestones coming from the butterflies. The paper came from one of my new stacks by My Mind's Eye-Totally Girl. Enjoy!

Peachy Keen Stamps Blog Hop Entry

2009-09-26T17:12:00.003-05:00

Here is my entry for the Peachy Keen Stamps Blog hop! Our challenge over there was to create a card with the below LO and include Ribbon. Enjoy!

LO

My Take

3rd Challenge I did today :)

2009-09-26T16:21:00.004-05:00

Here is my take of the Chirper Challenge's blog, we had to use the theme "sweet" (I used my daughter) and also include glitter and a stamp (I stamped with glitter) the patterned paper is K&Company Double sided Girl, I folded over the bottom half and sewed it across. "I Adore You" is a rub-on I bought while I was at Scrap Fest last weekend at the Mall of America, along with the acrylic frame I put the one picture in. The stamp is by Autumn Leaves-Talking in circles (girl) and I stamped it in MS Glue and sprinkled MS glitter over it. Enjoy!

Another Blog Hop Item

2009-09-26T14:53:00.004-05:00

Well, I skipped numbers 2 and 3, they just did not appeal to me, so I went onto number 4. We had to make something using the colors in the picture, I don't own any Stampin Up! paper, so I just used what I had. I decided to use up some old rub-ons I had and my nesties which I hardly ever pull out to make a fall card. Enjoy!

Colors

Also over at ScrapFiT we were challenged to make a Happy Fall card. I figured since I already made one, I'd hit 2 birds with one stone!

My Take

First stop at the Blog Hop!

2009-09-26T13:21:00.004-05:00

Hi Everyone! I decided to do the Fall Blog Hop! Here is my first LO. I decided I was going to challenge myself to use stuff that I haven't used yet. I finally dug out my DCWV Spring Stack and used paper out of that, also used my new DonJuan cart! I love it!
If you would like to join in the blog hop, you can click >>HERE<<. Enjoy!

Here is the sketch

And here is my take

Family Pictures

2009-09-24T10:41:00.004-05:00

We went to Sears the other day to get some family pictures done, and Alyssa's 18 month pictures as well. I wanted to share, these are just the drafts that you get off the site, I can't pick them up until next month, I can't wait to scrap them though!

On another note, I entered Jade's picture in another contest. I posted it on my sidebar, I would really appreciate if you could click on the link and vote for him!

I hope everyone is having a great week!

Here are the Pictures, Enjoy!

Baby Face

2009-08-28T07:35:00.003-05:00

This is my little Devin at about 2 months old, just learning to smile :) Gosh I miss him this little!

On another note, I'm super excited, I was able to purchase 3 new carts last week and they should be here any day now. I got Stand & Salute, Simply Sweet and Jubilee! I'm scrapping all day on Sunday so I hope to have some new fresh stuff to post. Enjoy the weekend :)

Bath Time

2009-08-23T09:07:00.003-05:00

This was Alyssa's first bubble bath, she was so into the bubbles, she kept looking and looking at them, it was so cute!

And here is Devin's, he's just always happy in the bath weather there are bubbles or not! Enjoy :)

Son Shine

2009-08-20T08:19:00.004-05:00

I don't know why, but I just love this picture of Devin! Lately I've been calling him my Son shine because of how happy he's been. I used some stamps for "son" that I got on clearance at Wal-Mart, and Thickers for "shine". I got the idea for the buttons in the son from an ad I got from Archivers a long time ago. Enjoy :)

4 Months

2009-08-19T07:28:00.002-05:00

Here is my DD at 4 months, I had these pictures done at Sears. She is 17 months old now, I can't believe how much she has grown!

It's all about Eeyore!

2009-08-13T06:47:00.004-05:00

My sister in law gave me this outfit for Alyssa, it was so cute! It had a big eeyore on it and says "it's all about eeyore" so I had to make a lo with it!Alyssa is just about to turn 2 months here I used the pooh font cart for the eeyore and font. Enjoy!

Baby Love

2009-08-11T06:46:00.002-05:00

I did this one a while back, it was a challenge to sew on your layout. I didn't have a sewing machine yet so I hand stitched at the top. Alyssa was only 2 weeks old here. Enjoy :)

Mother's Day 09

2009-08-10T09:05:00.002-05:00

As you can see, I only have 2 of the 3 kids with me, I don't know why, but every year in Minnesota, they make fishing opener the same weekend as Mother's day.. NOT FAIR! So my oldest is with Dad fishing, I did get a video text though of him saying Happy Mother's day Mom, I love you! It was so sweet! I took the other 2 to DQ for some Ice cream treats. It was my daughter's first Star Kist! As you can see, she enjoyed it very much!

SK8

2009-08-09T19:12:00.002-05:00

Here is a fun one of Jade, he had been asking for a skateboard for so long, he finally ended up getting one for Christmas, but of course, he couldn't use it until summer. This was his first time out on it. I've fallen in love with Thickers, that's what the title is made out of. I just wish they were a little cheaper! Enjoy!

I painted my Cuddlebug!

2009-08-08T20:22:00.005-05:00

I decided since I painted my ATG, my E and a craft storage thing, I may as well paint my cuddlebug too! What's going to be next? I had to buy a new can of paint so I have plenty left!

All taped up and ready to be painted!

All done being painted, I just need to take the tape off now!

Here it is all done! I there is still a little green on the inside, that's because I taped over that metal roller because I wanted to make sure I didn't get any paint in there. I'm OK with that though, I love how it turned out! I still need to buy some bling for it and my E.

Ripley's Believe it or Not!

2009-08-08T08:59:00.003-05:00

Summer of 2007, Ripley's came to town! It was so hot out that day and we were debating even going to watch, but we though it was probably a once in a lifetime thing so we packed the kids up and went anyway. Chad Netherland was there, he was attempting to hold 2 airplanes from taking off! He did it! Enjoy!

So excited with my M's find!

2009-08-07T21:31:00.003-05:00

Thomas: A circus comes to town!

2009-08-07T09:46:00.004-05:00

I was fortunate enough to win tickets to see Thomas Live on stage this summer threw the local radio station. I didn't know what to expect, but when we got there and seen the stage, I knew the kids were going to have a great time! Here are all 3 of the kid's layouts I made. Enjoy!

She's Painted!!!

2009-08-06T13:14:00.003-05:00

Well, I got my E painted yesterday, I just need to get up to M's to get some pretties for it. I got my instructions HERE Here are my pictues, it's really a darker purple than the camera shows.. for some reason, my camera doesn't take a very good picture on purples... Enjoy!

Yummy!

2009-08-06T06:21:00.002-05:00

On this one, I tried something new, Martha Stewart came out with a glue stamp pad, you add glue to it, then you just simply put your stamp in it and stamp a glue image on your project, then you can glitter it. I tried it here, it was a huge mess and I really didn't like how it turned out, but oh well.... I still like the pictures of my DD while eating spaghetti! Enjoy!

4th of July

2009-08-05T08:52:00.002-05:00

I got most of my 4th of July pictures done, I thought I had them all, but I can't seem to find the firework ones? Hmmm, Maybe I'll look into that later today :)

Enjoy!

SOCCER SOCCER SOCCER!!!

2009-08-04T14:22:00.008-05:00

So, I finally took pictures of all my layouts I've been working on so instead of posting them individually, I will be posting them by catigory, that way I can share all of them and it won't take so long!

So today, I will be sharing my son's soccer layouts from this spring :)

Awesome blog Candy on Leanne's blog!

2009-08-03T07:44:00.002-05:00

Leanne has some awesome blog candy over at Created By Leanne for reaching 100 blog followers! Check it out! Also if she gets 200 followers by next Saturday, she will sweeten the prize!

Hit up some Garage Sales yesterday!

2009-08-02T18:33:00.004-05:00

So DH and I decided to go to some Garage Sales yesterday, boy am I happy with my finds! I got a storage thingie for $1, a CTMH set for $5, some random block stamps (not picutred) for .50 each, then we stopped at my LSS who was having a sidewalk sale and I picked up another stamp set by Cosmo Crickit for $2.99, and they had the Drippy Goo punch in! I was able to use my %40 coupon! Yippee! I'm happy! Now to find some time to scrap again!

My storage thingie, it was gray, but I painted it right when I got home :)

As Promised....

2009-08-02T18:02:00.022-05:00

Here is my friend's wedding album I made for her! I'm so happy with the way it turned out! I think since I forgot to bring it up north last weekend, I may try to find a picture of her and I and make just 1 more page for the end of the book, but we'll see. I didn't use the traditional wedding paper and embilishments because I want her to be able to do that when she decides to make her own. All paper is from the DCVW Latte Stack, all embilishments came from a pack I bought from Sam's some time back (you can read more about HERE) and I'm pretty sure all the layouts came from my friend's site scrapsketch Thanks Steph for all the awesome layout ideas you give us every week!

Larry & Sarah Morin

Page 1 of Shower Gifts

Page 2 of Shower Gifts

Shower Games

Bachelorette Party

Bridesmaids

Wedding Party

Friendship (Maid of Honor and Best Man)

Decorate

I Do

To Have & To Hold

Page 1 of Cake

Page 2 of Cake

Nothings more important than Family

This Kiss

The Gang

Just Dance

Just a quick update

2009-07-31T08:51:00.004-05:00

Hi everyone! I hope everyone is having a great summer! We sure are, even though the weather hasn't been the best. We've been having date nights and going to lots of plays and also bringing the oldest to the stock car races every week, tonight is the bus and trailor races, we can't wait! I have quite a few new layouts done, just need to take pictures of them and get them posted one of these days!

I took a trip up north last weekend and was going to bring my friend her wedding album for her anniversary, but got so flustered and in a rush to leave, forgot it, uggg... So, not sure the next time I will be heading up. I might just take some good pictures and e-mail them to her and tell her I will give it to her next time I'm up.

It's Finished!

2009-07-19T11:41:00.002-05:00

Sorry I have been MIA for some time now! It's been a busy summer with not too much time to scrap. I did get a chance to scrap almost all day yesterday though and was able to finish up my friend's wedding album! YAY! I'm really happy with how it turned out. I will be heading up north next weekend and will give it to her then. I haven't gotten a chance to take the pics of the rest of the pages, but will do that soon. I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer!

Happy 4th of July!

2009-07-04T08:40:00.002-05:00

I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful day with friends and family!

We are getting ready to take the kids to the parade, then after that there is a car show, then we will come home and bbq and let the kids play in the pool and sprinkler, then off to the fireworks!

Shower Games

2009-06-24T17:27:00.002-05:00

I didn't have many pictures of the Wedding shower, so I made 1 lo of the games and 1 of the gifts. Here is the one of the Games. We had to make a wedding dress out of TP! It was a blast! Enjoy :)

Larry and Sarah

2009-06-17T10:09:00.002-05:00

Here is another LO I did for my friend's album. These pictures were taken at the reception.

Wedding Album

2009-06-16T21:04:00.004-05:00

So a few weeks ago, I posted a poll about making a scrapbook album for my friend's 5th wedding anniversary. Well, I got lots of responses and decided to go for it! I'm going to use the Latte stack for all the paper and the scrapbooking kit I bought at Sam's some time ago. I am also leaving a spot for her to journal on every page. This is not going to be the typical wedding album as I wanted her to be able to do that with the album she is going to make. I've been having a blast making these pages! Here is my first LO that I'm going to share. It's the night before the wedding and we are decorating the Hall for the reception. I will post another one hopefully tomorrow!

New Layout

2009-06-03T12:32:00.004-05:00

Here is a new layout I whipped up quick today, just really simple no title yet, but wanted to post it anyway. This is Alyssa on her 1st birthday. I had just gotten a new camera and was playing with the color splash feature.

Went Shopping!

2009-05-31T16:58:00.003-05:00

I got a chance to go out of town yesterday to get some scrapping shopping in, wow, did I ever have a great time! My friend Steph brought me to Crafts Direct holy cow, that place is huge! I found a lot of stuff there including the new swiss dots border punch! I got to use a M's 40% coupon on it and I had another coupon 20% off your entire order so I got to use that on all my stuff too!

There was a Big Lots a few blocks away so we stopped there too and I found a really cute sesame street border punch for only $2 and some Thickers for $2 a pack. I have just started to get into those.

Next was J's, my mission there was to get soccer felt for Jade's blanket which I found the cutest print, I was so excited! And also I wanted the DCWV Summer stacks so I got the regular one and the patterned card stock one. They also had there paper 6 for 96 cents! That was a shocker, it wasn't in the ad so I stocked up on card stock there too.

Then we drove another hour to Archivers I found a few things there. Didn't really go there looking for anything specific though.

We headed to a really good Mexican place for dinner, I had a steak burrito and holy cow that thing was big! I couldn't even eat it all, but it was sooo good!

Next we started heading home, we got almost half way and she told me about this store where she had gone to a retreat at and it was only like 5 minutes out of our way so we decided to go, it was already 8pm, but figured what the hey, I ended up finding more thickers and a few other things, they were having a "Happy Birthday" retreat in the back because it was the stores 1 year anniversary the ladies there were so nice and they showed us lots of new things. I got to finally see a slice in action. Still not quite too sure about it, it's so tiny and can't cut things very big. The fonts and such are really cute, but I think I'm going to stick with my Cricut for now :)

We finally pulled in the driveway at 11pm. Overall I had a wonderful day and found everything that I had on my list!

Happy Memorial Day!

2009-05-25T14:06:00.004-05:00

Hi everyone, I hope you are all having a great Memorial Day weekend! We were going to go camping this year, the entire family, but then noticed that it was supposed to drop down into the 40's at night and that's just too cold for the 2 babies so we decided to just stay home. Yesterday I spent the entire day scrapping. I got a few layouts done, nothing fancy, I just haven't been very creative lately.Today we took the kids to the parade, it was nice and short, only about 45 minutes long, thankfully because the rain clouds are coming in and the temp is dropping.

I wanted to share this layout I did a while ago titled "Kids at Play" My Best friend who lives 3 hours away from me met us half way at Mc Donalds so the kids could play and we could catch up.

Well, that's all for now, I'm going to head to my scrapping table and see if I can get a few pages done between doing laundry!

Valentine Layouts

2009-05-05T10:21:00.002-05:00

Jade's

Devin's

Alyssa's

Happy Natonal Scrapbook Day

2009-05-02T09:02:00.003-05:00

I will not be doing any scrapping today, we are taking the kids to the twin cities to go watch Thomas and Friends and Chuckie Cheese! I'm really looking forward to it! Of course I'll be hitting a Joann's while we are down there for some shopping! I hope everyone has a great day today and gets lots of scrapping done!

Changed my mind!

2009-04-26T10:58:00.002-05:00

Well, in my last post, I said I wouldn't get much scrapping done durring the summer. I got to thinking about it, and it's my stress reliever. I can't give it up for the summer. I decided to sit and scrap all day yesterday by myself (I normally don't do that, usually I need someone to scrap with in order to get anything done) Well, I finished up close to 10 layouts yesterday! Yahoo! And I'm still kind of in the mood so might do some more today. I haven't gotten a chance to take any pictures yet, but I will so I can start to get them posted.

I also created a poll on my blog, I will take into concideration all feedback because if I decide to do this, it will end up being a huge project. I bought a kit thing from Sam's some time ago that all matches and it's Purple, that was her main color in the wedding, so I won't have to buy too much stuff, just finding the time to get it all done is going to be the tricky part!

Award Ceremony

2009-04-23T14:43:00.005-05:00

Here is the page I did for Jade's cub scout scrapbook, it's his first award ceremony they had. The pictures show him getting a few different things and him and his friend Cole being the silly boys they are! This is going to be my last scrapbook layout for a while. Summer is comming and I will be spending more time outside with the kids than I will be inside scrapping. I'm hoping to try to scrap at least one full day a month, but we'll see how that goes!

Heading off to School

2009-04-19T20:16:00.003-05:00

Here is Jade's first day of 1st grade, I used locker talk for the cricut cuts and the gradeschool stack for the paper.

I haven't been in the most creative mood lately. I'm planning a trip to the Twin Cities in about a month, hopefully by then I'll feel more in the mood. They have way more scrap stores down there than we have up here.

I hope everyone is enjoying spring! We had 77* and sunny weather here Friday and today was 33* and snowing!

Monster Truck Show

2009-04-18T11:40:00.008-05:00

I took Jade last night to see the Monster truck show, here is a picture I took of the both of us before the show started.

Here's a good shot of the "Ride and Glide" Team, they are BMX riders, and wow are they good! This guy jumped over another guy on his bike!

Jade watching the show. Doesn't he just look so excited to be there! ha ha

Here is the "Havoc" and the "Mechanical Mischife" in action!

And last but not least, Jade at the end of line from getting his checkered flag autographed from all the drivers and BMX riders from the show! I think that was his favorite out of the entire thing!

We had a great time and it was nice to have Mom and Jade time too!

A couple Christmas Layouts

2009-04-18T11:33:00.003-05:00

Here are a couple Christmas layouts of Alyssa, this first one was Christmas Eve, that's when we do Christmas at our house. This layout came from my "Idea Deck" I never did get to actually making a title for it, but it's pretty busy as it is (as with most layouts from that deck).

This next one was Christmas morning after Santa came. She had so much fun taking all of her stuff out of her stocking!

Little Angel

2009-04-17T14:11:00.000-05:00

Here is Alyss just a few days over 1 month old, gosh how time flies!

Babies 1st Halloween

2009-04-14T09:07:00.002-05:00

Here's my little girl's first Halloween! She was a little bumbe bee, she was so cute! I'm pretty sure I used Pooh font for the title and DCWV Halloween stack for all the paper. Thanks for looking!

Dream Sweet Baby Dream

2009-04-13T12:47:00.003-05:00

Here is my little Alyssa snoozing :) Simple LO, not much to say about it.

On another note, our Easter was great, we went to MIL's for lunch/dinner, it was excelant! After we got home, I was heading out to wal-greens to pick up some pictures and I stepped wrong on my foot, ended up going into Urgent care today and come home with a sprained anckle diagnosis, I have an ASO brace on for a few weeks and they sent me home with crutches just in case I need them. Apparently if you are limping in anyway at all, you should use them, but they are such a pain in the butt! I have to "take it easy" for a while, but with 3 kids, it's kind of hard to!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter with family and friends!

2009-04-12T09:39:00.001-05:00

Alyssa's Birthday Layouts

2009-04-10T09:36:00.004-05:00

This is my 100th post!!! It is also the 100th day of the year! Here are Alyssa's birthday layouts. I had so much fun with these ones!

Happy Good Friday everyone!

Grandma Visits

2009-04-09T20:54:00.002-05:00

Grandma came to visit for Alyssa's 1st birthday, here are some random pictures I had from when she was here.

2 more :)

2009-04-06T09:32:00.005-05:00

Another simple layout (I'm starting to like these ones they get done so fast!) This is My Alyssa playing with her new "princess" Hat.

Here is my "monke boy" Devin eating his favorite Fruit Banana. The paper and letters are from the DCWV Animal Cracker.

It's been a while AGAIN!

2009-04-04T12:54:00.003-05:00

Things have been pretty crazy around here, I've gotten quite a bit of scrapping done over the last few weeks, but just now got to taking pics of them all so over the next few days I'll be posting a little at a time :)

The one I'm going to do today is titled "winter fun" It's of my first son Jade and his first time sledding, I know I've scrapped these pics before, but that was before the cricut :) I used SYI to make the snowflake boarder.

The 2nd one here is nothing fancy, just put some pics down on some fancy paper. Not much room for anything on paper like this. DD Alyssa playing.

Canon Powershot

2009-03-08T13:27:00.002-05:00

I've been wanting to get a new camera for a while now. My mom was down for the weekend for Alyssa's birthday so I got to play with hers and decided that I really liked it so we headed up to Best Buy to see if they had any left. They did and I just bought it, I knew that if I himmed and hawed about it that I would talk myself out of it. It's the Canon Powershot SD790 IS. I LOVE it! My favorite feature is the color splash feature, it's so easy to do! I'm really looking forward to learning more about it and taking some great shots of my kids!

Alyssa's Birthday Party

2009-03-08T13:21:00.002-05:00

Yesterday we had Alyssa's 1st birthday party, it was a lot of fun and we had plenty of guests come and enjoy the day with us! She got lots of nice summer cloths and a few toys. She really enjoyed her "smash cake"

Alyssa is ALMOST 1!

2009-03-04T13:11:00.002-06:00

I got her 1 year old pics done this week, they turned out soooo adorable! Here are my favorites. Her Birthday is Friday, but we are having her party on Saturday, I will for sure post pics this hopefully this weekend!

New Toys!

2009-02-25T14:05:00.003-06:00

I got my order from Hallmark Scrapbook today! I got the Pink BIA and some rings! I can't wait to start using this one! I also got the pink wire cutters that matches, they are so cute! I bought Bags, tags, boxes and more, since it's become popular again LOL I scored that on the 29.99 sale they were having.

I also finished up Alyssa's 1 year birthday invites! I took pictures, but they all turned out so bad! I think I need to start saving for a new camera! I'll show it anyway, the inside has a picture of her and says "come celebrate with us"

Little Animal

2009-02-21T18:55:00.002-06:00

Here is a LO I did a couple weekends ago, I didn't get a chance to post it yet. It's pretty plain, but I used my new animal cracker chipboard set for the "little animal" and the flurish. I don't know if you can see it, but on his but there is a monkey so I thought it fit well.

I make Alyssa's 1st birthday invations today and got some pictures, but Devin got away with my camera and I have no clue where it is right now! I'll post pictures when I find it!

It's been a while

2009-02-19T08:16:00.005-06:00

Hi all, it's been a while since I've had time to post, I've had to switch my work shift for a few weeks because of a medical reason for the person that works the day shift. She's back now so hopefully I'll be updating more often!

We had a great valentine's date! We went to Applebees for dinner, we got right in, no waiting! I had Orange chicken and Shane had a steak, then off to our play, it was sooo funny! I love going there. The play was called "Wonder of the World"

The next day Jade had bowling with the cub scouts, we live right next to the bowling alley so we just walked over, it was his first time bowling ever and he had a blast! He got 53 on his first game and 78 on his second.

After bowling, we headed up to Grampa Jim's to meet DH, DS, and DD and the rest of the family for "Gift Day" the kids all played for a couple hours and we headed home.

Happy Valentine's Day!

2009-02-14T13:13:00.004-06:00

Just wanted to wish everyone a Very Happy Valentine's Day!

Update on the kids, Jade and Devin seem to be doing MUCH better, Alyssa had a fever all night even on Motrin, she started feeling a little better by morning but is still very tired and not quite herself yet. Hopefully by tomorrow she'll be feeling better.

3 sick kids And Alyssa's 11 Months old!

2009-02-13T11:48:00.005-06:00

Sorry I have not posted much in the last few days, all 3 of my kids are not feeling well, I kept Jade home from School on Monday, Tuesday was a snow day and Wednesday I ended up getting a call to come get him early, that night I brought him into Urgent Care to make sure he didn't have Strep since it has been going around in his school/class, that came back negative which was nice to know. Thursday Devin woke up with a fever and a caugh, I was able to get him into the clinic for a quick check up, I was worried he had an ear infection since earlier in the day I seen some yellow-greenish stuff come out of one of his ears, they looked good though. Today Friday, Alyssa woke up with a caugh and a fever. Yay, 3 sick kids, so needless to say, I haven't gotten too much done with all of them being crabby! Oh well, it was an excuse for me to go out and buy us all icecream!

I hope everyone else is feeling well!

Tomorrow night, Valentine/Date night with hubby, no matter what! Grampa is coming over to watch the kids!

Here is a pic of Jade I took at Urgent Care

Alyssa turned 11 Months old on the 6th, she's still my little peanut! I'm not sure how much she weighs right now, but she still fits in 6-9 month cloths! I'm hoping by summer months she'll be in 12 months because that's what size summer cloths I've been buying for her! She still mostly army crawls, but she's been finally starting to actually crawl, I don't even think she relizes she's doing it though! She started picking herself up on furnature, just the smaller things like her leap frog table and her excersauser, she's so short that the couch is too high for her to grab and pull up on! Oh and she still doesn't have any teeth either!

Some Jade LO's

2009-02-08T19:44:00.003-06:00

It's been a while since I've posted any layouts of Jade so here are a few that I did I think last week. One of them is pictures from a couple years ago at the Monster Truck show, the other one is a trip "home" and we always make time to meet some friends at Mc Donalds.

Another Alyssa LO and Order info!

2009-02-07T10:30:00.002-06:00

Here is another LO of my sweet baby girl Alyssa, I think these were her 8 month pictures. I didn't use any cricut on it yet, not sure if I want to leave it untitled or not, I got the chipboard flowers on clearance at Target. The LO design came from my Idea deck. Speaking of that, DH bought me the 2nd Idea deck for Valentine's Day! What a sweetie!

I just ordered a bunch of new DCWV stacks from Joan.com, I got The Green Stack, Green chipboard shapes, Animal Crackers, Animal cracker chipboard, Whimsy, Latte, Citrus, All About Boys, Safari-Chic, Garden Party, Nana's Kitchen, Blossom & Butterflies, Baby girl nursery, and baby boy nursery! I think I'm set for paper now for some time! I was planning on getting all of these in the twin cities in April, but J's has a free shipping code, and the stacks were all on sale so I couldn't wait!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Favorite Toy

2009-02-06T16:53:00.004-06:00

Here's my little guy Devin, he got this lion walker for his first birthday from Grandma Julie. He loves it! Now Alyssa has started to play with it too :) Thanks for looking!

Birthday Cake

2009-02-04T11:38:00.002-06:00

Well, I've finally got 1 page done for Devin's 2nd birthday that was back in November! I'm hoping to get started on the next ones this weekend. This was his birthday cake and us singing to him. He had a Mickey Mouse Birthday. I believe this sketch was one of Okie's sketch challenges too.

New Jammies

2009-01-30T20:54:00.003-06:00

Devin is asleep in my arms so I can't type much, but I wanted to post this LO I did, I love how it turned out! Jade is just 2 years old here, wow how time flies!

I won a RAK!

2009-01-29T11:02:00.003-06:00

I won a RAK over that the Cricut MB last week and recieved it today, It is an Obama journal, I'm pretty sure she used SCAL to cut it out, it's pretty neat! Thanks cardmkrLeslie!

Another Cousins LO

2009-01-29T07:49:00.002-06:00

Here is another Cousins one, this is Devin and his cousin Brooke, they were born only 3 months apart, when I showed DH this one, he couldn't believe how much they really looked alike! I used Nana's kids for the bug paper and I had these little bug brads that I thought would be perfect! TFL!

Cousins

2009-01-28T07:44:00.002-06:00

Every year we get all the cousins together for a picture for the grand parents, I posted just the pictures earlier. Well, I finally got a chance to scrap my 5x7 after it sat in the diaper bag for some time and got a little water on it. opps! I used Storybook for the title and flourish. The kids are in order from oldest 13 to youngest 10 months. Thanks for looking!

Paper Give Away!

2009-01-27T18:24:00.000-06:00

A poor worker at Paper Trunk was left behind while the others went to CHA! So she is being sneaky and doing a paper giveaway!! GO check it out! PAPER TRUNK PAPER GIVEAWAY!

Ribbon Storage

2009-01-27T07:42:00.006-06:00

I got this idea from the ribbon rings or something like that, I made it out on DS and cut it out of chipboard, then bought the rings at my LSS. I have them hanging on 3M hooks I bought at Wal Mart and they are inside my cabnet. I like it, but it seems like it's a little hard to get just the one that I want, maybe it's just the way I designed it, I don't know, I'm not sure how long I'll keep it like this, but I'll give it a shot anyway.

Close up

And last, I bought these round cloths pins from M's and wraped my ribbon around them, I kinda like this idea better than hanging them, it just seems like it's easier to get to them and they travel better! But I ran out of them so I'll have to leave the hanging ones that way until I can get more. I still have lots of ribbon on spools too that I just have in a mini crate for now.

Decorating Cookies with Grandma!

2009-01-25T21:19:00.005-06:00

This is my DS Devin, He's helping Grandma decorate her gingerbread men cookies, he had so much fun! Grandma took the pics and I was quite suprised on how well she did! LOL, she just got a new didgi camera, she used to use a film camera so she takes a lot more pics now so gets better shots which of course is a good thing! I got the sketch from my Idea deck. The paper is from a Christmas stack I have and the gingerbread men I believe are from SYI and decorated with stickles. Thanks for looking!

I've Been Tagged!

2009-01-24T09:16:00.003-06:00

I have been tagged by our talented and lovey Sandy from Ukiah, how fun, thank you Sandy. I have never been tagged before, but what I understand is I have to go to my pictures and look in the 6th folder and post the 6th picture and explain it. So here it is: This is my only DD durring our monthly photo shoot, she just turned 4 months old here. Not the best picture that I took that day :) I am to pick 6 friends that visit my blog that I would like to get to know better.

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99 Things

2009-01-23T16:46:00.002-06:00

I was browsing through some blogs and came across this fun list. I wanted to see how many of the 99 things I have done throughout my life. The ones in bold are the things that I have done. There are many things on this list that I would like to accomplish one day If you decide to highlight your own list, post here and let me know so I can visit your blog and see it. =)

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Gotten flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

Help! Title Needed!

2009-01-23T16:21:00.002-06:00

I made this LO last night of my oldest DS, these are really old pictures and I had forgotten I even had them! I can't think of a title though? He's sitting in a milk crate at the gas station that I worked at.

not sure about this one

2009-01-22T07:39:00.003-06:00

Here is yet another one of okie's challenges! ha ha, I'm almost done, just in time for her to post another one! LOL I wasn't too sure about this one when I seen the sketch, but I think it turned out OK. I can't remember if the paper came from the DCVW fall stack or summer stack, but I'm guessing the Fall stack. I know it still needs something, but I got sick of looking at it so I put it away for now.

Pure Joy

2009-01-21T11:25:00.002-06:00

Here is another one of Okie's challenges! I'm finally starting to get caught up, yay! This is my Devin, he was just a few months old here, I used my new Sesame Street font for the title. The embelishments are from Target, I found them in the card section and thought they were super cute! Thanks for looking!

Meeting Grampa

2009-01-20T16:56:00.005-06:00

I did this LO the other night, it was one of Okie's sketches she has posted on her blog, I used OA for the title and NA for the sailboat. This was the first time Devin met Grampa.

Sick!

2009-01-18T18:29:00.003-06:00

Well, I had planned on getting some scrapping done this weekend with all my new things I bought last weekend, but that didn't happen. Thursday night, my oldest DS came in our bedroom at about 3am saying he had gotten sick all over his bed. I got him cleaned up and a bed made on the couch for the night, Friday he was just fine. About half way threw the day on Saturday my middle kid was taking a nap in our bed and DH went in to check on him and he had gotten sick in his sleep, all over our bed! He was sick for a few hours and right when he was finally done puking, DH and I started in taking turns in the bathroom. ICK! We had gotten all settled in on the couch and lazyboy and about 11:30 ish I woke up to DD crying, I went to check on her, and she had gotten sick! I got her cleaned up and settled back in the lazyboy with her, she woke up a few times getting sick, but by about 2am she was finally done. We were all pretty lazy this morning heasitant to eat anything, but now that evening came we all were able to eat supper and are feeling much better! I'm off work tomorrow so maybe I'll be able to get a few things done. I do have 1 LO to show, but too tired to get up and take pictures!

Some yummy blog candy!

2009-01-15T08:33:00.003-06:00

Kerry over at Three Clovers Design is giving away some yummy blog candy, she's got some great stuff, go check it out!

Sam's Club find!

2009-01-14T18:28:00.004-06:00

Well, I've been wanting to post this for a few days now, but just haven't had time to get to it! Here is what I found at Sam's Club on Sunday! I'm in love with it! they had 2 colors and I choose the purple one. Here is what it came with:

1-Scrapbooking Tote
1-Post-bound scrapbook 12x12
6-baloon brads
8-bloomin' flowers
30-scrapbooking buttons
50-peices-chipboard alphabet
10-scrapbooking chipboard tags and corners
36-epoxy sticker pebbles
70-flocked alphabet stickers
90-scrapbooking flowering frenzy
4-framed in felt
4-memory plaques
4-scrapbooking metal tiles
10 feet round about ribbons
4-wooden stamps
20-writing paper journaling lables
2-scissors
2-stamp pads

All of this for $30! I thought it was a great deal! Now to get scrapping!

WOW!

2009-01-11T21:44:00.008-06:00

Boy oh boy did I spend a lot of money on scrapbooking stuff this weekend! I bought a new cabnet thing to hold it all, it's oak,$70. I went to my LSS $40, Micheals $60, J's online $37, e-bay 2 carts $85, sam's club $30, the tape depot $61. holy macro! I wanted to take a picture of a lot of it, but I had to get it put away before little fingers got a hold of it. I should be good for a while now though! I need to start saving for my trip to Archivers in April!

My blog candy

2009-01-09T21:58:00.003-06:00

well, since no one was able to do the layout I had posted, I've decided I'm going to donate the goodies I had up to my son's school. I picked up a ton more stuff today to throw in the box too, but oh well. "sigh" Maybe I'll try blog candy again in a few weeks, maybe I won't.

No Scrapping today

2009-01-09T21:42:00.004-06:00

Well, I didn't get any scrapping done today, I had to drive "home" for a funeral. One of my mom's best friends passed away on the 1st of January, they still don't know the cause. It was a very sad day today.

On another note, last night before I went to bed, I decided to check e-bay quick for the Sesame Street Font Cartridge and found one that was ending in 3 minutes going for only 46.00, so I checked out the seller quick and they had 100% feedback so I jumped on it. I put in a max bid of 49.00 and ended up winning it for 47.01 with free shipping! Then just about 5 minutes ago, I finally bit the bullet and buy an ATG!!!! YAHOO! I've been wanting one of these for so long! I went with the Tape depot one since it was cheaper and the reviews are good, and got 24 rolls of tape so I should be set for a while!

Tomorrow I'm planning on heading out to Sam's Club to see if they have anything new and interesting. I hope I find some good stuff!

10 Months!

2009-01-07T11:53:00.003-06:00

DD truned 10 months yesterday! here is her picture with raggidy ann and her blanket! (i've been doung the same thing every month since she was born)

Your Love is Priceless

2009-01-06T10:54:00.002-06:00

I made this card for DH for Valentine's day. I used the Hearts cuddlebug embossing folder and embossed the heart cut out of George. the "your love is" is from opposites attract and "priceless" is from graphically speaking. It was also a challenge from the cuttlebug spot. You can read more about that HERE . Thanks for looking!

Word Book: BABY

2009-01-05T10:52:00.006-06:00

One of my friends is having a baby boy so I decided I would finally give a word book a try. This is my first one, it took a little messing around with on DS, but I got it! I used a baby boy stack my mom had givin to me for the designed paper, I have no idea what the name of it is called though. I used Mickey Font for the letters. I don't have a BIA yet so I just used my CAD to punch holes and tied it all together with some baby boy ribbon. Now that I know how easy they are to make, I have a feeling I will be making many more! I will have to go buy some 12x24 mats so I can make bigger ones! Thanks for looking!

5 LO's done! Yay!

2009-01-04T09:42:00.000-06:00

I got a full day of scrapping in yesterday and mannaged to finish uo 5 pages! Thats pretty good for me since I have 3 kids bugging me all day too! Comments always welcome!

Aqua Kid. My mom took Jade for a week over summer break and her friend has a pool that he lived in that week! these are just a few shots my mom took of him playing. I believe font is Plantin Schoolbook.

Shine. This is Alyssa just days before Christmas, we had these lights hanging over our doorway in the livingroom and she was always playing with them so I set up a little photo session of my own to get some cute shots of her. I used my new storybook cart and the MS glitter I found at WM for $2.20 a bottle! Its a mess, but it looks so nice! I also used Christmas Cheer for the light bulbs.

Sweet Girl. Here is my baby girl Alyssa playing in the laundry basket! She loves it in there! I got to use my new Graphically speaking cart on this one. I am going to love that cart, there is so much on it! The journaling says "Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments"

Goof balls. Jade had some goofy things in his goodie bags for his birthday so we decieded to have some fun with them!

Self Portrait. Sometimes I let Jade take my camera, well this day he took some pictures of himself! They are so cute, I just had to scrap them! I used Going Places for the camera and the "smile".

Don't forget about my challenge with some Blog Candy!

2009-01-01T18:00:00.001-06:00

I have finally gotten a chance to take a picture of everything you can win! There is still some room in the box so I may add more throughout the week. I will have DS draw a random name on January 9th. All you have to do is complete the sketch and post it to your blog, if you don't have a blog that's OK too. Just comment and let me know where I can see your finished LO. You can also get your name in the drawing by linking this challenge to your blog! You can read more about it and see the Sketch HERE