Merry Christmas!

One of our favorite pictures of Garrett. I went outside to take pictures of the decorations for my mother in law and Garrett peaked out just as I snapped the picture. So Cute! Hope everyone has a magical Christmas and a wonderful New Year!

You're Getting Muffin For Christmas

I made these gifts for teachers at school, neighbors, and a few friends for Christmas. It is a microfiber dish towel, a package of muffin mix, and a plastic spoon. Everyone seemed to like them and they were cost effective on my end. I wrapped the paper around the bundle with bakers twine and just glue dotted the rest on. Yummy!!

Vintage Bird Card

I love everything vintage and I wish I had more vintage scrap materials. These papers and embellishments are from Making Memories Vintage Findings. The pink velvet flower is Maya Road.

Easel Card

I scraplifted this from a fellow CTMH'er (Shannon Murdock). The leaves are inked and then embossed. If you do not have colored embossing powder, you can ink your image in whatever color you want. Then, stamp it again with Versamark over the top of your image. Then you can emboss with clear embossing powder. Oh the benefits of clear stamps! The set used is Flourished Blessings from CTMH. The card ended up being 6" x 6". A biggie! I loved this folding technique (easel style) and will definitely be using it again.

Christmas Tags

Here are 4 tags that I made for Christmas presents. Two of them have found a present and the other two are still lonely. I picked up these clear tags because I have been eyeing them for a while. I didn't really know what to do with them but they have been really fun to play with. They are Maya Road Office Sheers. I think the sugarplum one is my fav.

Christmas Tags

Christmas Tags

Christmas Tags

Christmas Card

Love my Unity stamps!! This one is perfect for Christmas cards I think. I also did a handmade flower on it and random stamped the background.

First Day of School Layout

Okay, April, this one is for you. I promise to do better at posting...Layout is of Garrett putting his backpack up on the first day of school. The paper is Pink Paislee's Amber Road. The white flower is from Prima. They are my new favorite and I wish I could buy them in bulk. With this one I rubbed orange ink on it and stuck on some black rhinestons.

On another note, photobucket will not let me copy and paste the html link for my picture anymore. I can't figure it out. I need help!

Jingle Layout

I am so excited for Christmas! I wanted to try out my new spray mist from Smooch and my Jingle paper from CTMH. Who cares if I don't have a photo for the layout yet, right? The fabulous felt pieces are also from CTMH. One a side note...I can no longer copy and paste my photos from photobucket onto a new post. I don't know what is going on. That is why my text and photo are in two different posts. Who knows??

Christmas Card with New Technique

I learned a new technique from CTMH. You stamp your image in Bamboo ink and color it in with watercolor pencils and the blending pen. It is really easy and fun. This is my first attempt, so hopefully I should get better and better. It really makes your stamps even more diverse. The stamp set is a retired one from CTMH called Winter Snapshots.

Library Pocket Card

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I have been busy with Christmas gifts that I can't post because they are going to family and friends. I want them to be surprised!
I made this card for Yancey's grandma for her Birthday. I pulled out my CTMH tickled pink collection I have been holding onto. The shiny stuff under the buttons is not glue gone crazy, it is an embossed flower. I am loving ruffled ribbon on stuff..enjoy and Happy November!

Halloween Candy Buckets

These are my teacher gifts for Halloween. Buckets are from the dollar spot at Target. I used floral foam inside of the buckets. The black thing in front is a rubber mouse. It didn't show up well in the pics.

Monster Manners

I made this little book out of the coffee cozy's from Starbucks. They work great for a mini album!

Another Halloween Card

I love my witch form Quickutz! That and Pink Paislee...how could you go wrong?

Beach Treasure Box

I made this treasure box to put our beach findings in. The box is from CTMH. We always have lots of shells and rocks from the beach and the kids always have to bring them home. We run out of places to put them all!

Happy Monster Day!

A fun card that was inspired by Jen over at Pink Paislee. I heart her creativity! Color inspiration is from Jeanette of CTMH. My son and I got some chipboard together and just had fun! Most of the chipboard is CTMH, but some is from Fancy Pant(the horns). Black glitter letters are Pink Paislee. I also sprayed the card with Maya Mist (Irridescent Pearl). Stamps are CTMH. He was so fun to make! I hope you find some time to make your own little monster or you can just hug the ones you already have. ;)

Those Blue Eyes!

This is another 4th of July layout. I know it's a boy page but I just can't resist flowers! Hope you enjoy it!

Cards that are off to Awestruck!

Here are some cards I have been working on. They are in their packaging...too lazy to take them back out to photograph. :) Enjoy!



Inside of Card:

Layout of Alex at Wedding

All the kids are at school and husband it sleeping...should I clean the house or srapbook? Decisions, decisions...What do you think I chose? I think the laundry can wait a few hours.

This photo of Alex was taken at Candi's wedding. All the little girls looked so beautiful. Supplies are a hodge podge of all different brands. My Mind's Eye (paper), Pink Paislee (glitter letters), Prima (flowers and rhinestones), Maya Road (stick pins), and Fancy Pants (brown flowers). Thanks for looking!

Summer Fun Layout

This is a layout of Alex in our little kiddie pool. I did a scrap lift from the October issue of Creating Keepsakes and the paper is from CTMH.