Ballet Layout

I took these pics on Saturday after my Kendall's professional pictures for her ballet class. Her concert is next weekend. It was such a beautiful day out with lots of sun and flowered trees, so I took advantage. She was actually standing on a bench so I could get her face in front of the trees.

This is a monthly kit (April) from Scrapbook Bakery. I wanted to use this kit right away but was unsure how the bright colors of the pics would work out with the shabby chic colors here. Did a two page LO so I could include all the pics without looking too crowded.

I'm pretty happy with this...added rub ons to the white brads to tone them down and to coordinate with the rest of the theme. I used the Stampin Up spritzer on the flowers as well with chocolate chip ink.

I had these pics printed at Target through Sutterfly, which I've been doing lately cause my printer doesn't seem to coordinate with my photoshop program. I'm pretty happy with the quality, though.

Supplies Used

Scrapbook Bakery Monthly Kit

Additional Supplies Used

Rub Ons: Basic Grey

Photo Corners: Heidi Swapp

Paper Piercing Guide (for holes around pics): Stampin Up Matte Pack

Spritzer and Marker: Stampin Up

Index Letter Sticker: Autumn Leaves (they had these in the 1.99 spot last week)

Doiley Border Punch: Martha Stewart

Scalloped Border Punch: Fiskar's

Mini Alpha Stickers: Making Memories

Thanks for looking!

great week of gifts for me!

Yep...I don't get gifts that much, nor do I win much of anything but this week I feel like I've won the lottery. So it started on Wednesday, I was at Cosco getting new tires for my car and I decided to look around in the electronics department (cause I didn't need anything to buy, believe it or not) and I finally decided to get myself one of these...they have great prices on them. And they only have this color for this style but its the color I wanted...

Then I came home to find these in the mailbox from Nichol...won a RAK off her blog. Thanks Nichol!


And then this lovely April monthly kit from Scrapbook Bakery was sitting at my doorstep...on the same day...

Went to Archiver's today and got the long awaited Recipe Box from Elsie Flannigan. Well, for those of you who don't scrapbook, they are scrapping recipes. You open it up and they are vertical index cards. The recipe is on the back and the pic is on the front. You can see more pics on her blog.


And that's not all, I went back to Scrapbook Barkery's Blog and found out I won a RAK last weekend. Yeah!! Lucky week, maybe I should play the lottery... oops too late. Its worth 150 million!
Have a great weekend...

card inspiration 8

Did a card for Kristina's challenge here:

The inspiration is from Pier One and the colors are brilliant blue, pumpkin pie, whisper white, and bashful blue.

I don't have all these colors, so I used similar colors...got the chance to use my new cut and emboss butterfly from Cuttlebug. The small butterfly is Martha Stewart. Define Your Life Stamp from Stampin Up with their white craft ink.

thanks for looking.

Fastest card ever!!!

cool trick/another card

see the cool catalogue card at the right below the banner? you can make yours here.

And can you handle another card? This was the third design I did for Teacher's Appreciation Week. Once again, used my tree stamps from Hero Arts, my new Martha Stewart doily border punch, Making Memory buttons...these are OLD school, Staz On timber brown...perfect for this stamp. Everything else is Stampin Up: Soft Sky, Choc Chip, and Very Vanilla CS (into vanilla instead of white these days); chocolate chip ink pad and marker; Craft White ink pad; ticket corner and horizontal slot punches; Polka Dot background and Wonderful Words stamps; used the SU spritzer with the choc chip marker to make the spritzed look on the blue paper.
I don't want to stop using this tree stamp, this would work perfect for men's cards as well...TFL.

Teacher's Appreciation Week

This week is Teacher's Appreciation Week. Between both of my kids and all their teachers, etc. I have about 10 cards to pass out. I made a few of these last night. I'm doing about 3 designs...

The cardstock, punches (ticket corner and word window), thank you, and shapes stamps (except the turquiose blue one) are Stampin Up; tree and square stamp are Hero Arts. The ink is Tsukineko Versa Magic Chalk Ink. Bakers twine is Martha Stewart (blue) and red cord is SEI. These inks are beautiful and went on so nice. I love these tree stamps and I feel stumped(oh, a nice pun here...lol!) when I use them. I split the colors just to add something extra to them.

And today Kendall and I made this...

I saw an ad in Michaels today for this Wilton cake pan. Makes a cake that is shaped like a cupcake, but its like 10" tall. Its two molds that you bake seperately and then you paste them together with frosting (top and bottom). I'm not a good froster, but it was fun anyway!

preschool pics

We went to Aydan's preschool today for a scheduled conference...they gave me a CD of some cute pics of him taken at school. I had to share my favs...
Cute pic in the snow...think this hat is WAY to small.


they have these great tricyles and a paved walkway to go around in their fenced in area...I love this look on his face,totally Aydan. Always smiling! Gosh he is really getting tall.


omg, how cute is he in this hat??? I see a scrap page in my future...

Mother's Day LO

So Mother's Day is here in almost 2 weeks...are you all ready? It made me remember that I have never made a LO of my first Mother's Day. I worked on this page on and off for the past week. I look kinda funny here but I think it was because I was a new mother with a 3 month old and I was back at work full-time and this little chickie was up every 2 hours to eat!

Anyway, I had fun with this one and did some techniques here. The green Bazzill CS has embossing on it that I made with my Scor-it. I made some harlequin lines (which i love) and then I also used some MM aluminum sheets, punched them out with my Stampin Up slit punch and then ran it thru my cuttlebug. I just got this new dotted folder and I love it.

The PP is Scenic Route and MM...Garden Party and Flower Ledger-limited edition from Archiver's. Used Making Memory tags, aluminum sheets, felt heart button, chipboard square letters (don't remember what these are called), new teal mini alphas (how cute are these?), noteworthy alphas, staples, and crystal brads. American crafts clear journaling sticker (date) and ribbon...Fancy Pants felt. Sky Blue textured CS from Stampin Up and Define Your Life Stamp Set (which I'm totally in love with). Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch and CI transperancy. Thanks for looking.

b-day pics. flowers, and cards

Lots of pics here, with minimal journaling!
Kendall had her first t-ball game Friday...lasted 45 minutes until the terrible t-storm hit us!

Tulips from my sister-in-law and brother-in-law...

Cute flowers delivered by my father-in-law to my door step at 8:00 this morning

Our tree in our yard...bloomed this week. These flowers only last a week or so!

Card inspired by laura vegas! Lots of new Stampin Up stuff here...love my new outlined jumbo alphabet, but I'm terrible with the craft knife! Large star is embossed cuttlebug and chipboard AC star.

Card inspired by Jennifer McGuire...love these tree stamps. Used Hero Art tree stamp, some pearls, AC ribbon, and prismacolor pencils...everything else here is Stampin Up. Love the new Soft Sky CS I got...these pics are not too good. Sorry.

attempted self portrait of ozan, aydan, and myself at dinner last night. Went to Maggianos with both families for a b-day celebration. i had shrimp, garlic, butter linguine, a mojito, and tiramisu. Yum!!! Lots of leftovers too!

My sister Chrissy and her boys: Tyler and Nathan.

ozan's sister Gulcin and Kendall (sorry for the blurry pic, it was dark in the restaurant)

My sister and I...

Ozan and Gulcin's husband, Claude...

My step-father Don and my mom...

We had a great dinner and a great celebration!

interesting week

So on Tuesday around 10:00, I'm at work and one of my co-workers tells me she needs me in the back. I walk in the lounge and my co-workers shout "surprise"...they threw me a surprise b-day party. I was so touched! Its not until Saturday, but my co-workers have been causally checking out my schedule for this week and I was really busy the rest of the week so they decided to do it early. I told them that they almost gave me a heart attack! Good thing the crash cart is nearby cause I almost needed it! They bought lunch and cake and our whole lounge was decorated with all those over the hill signs. Didn't bother me cause i don't feel over the hill. These days, I really don't care much about my b-day but since this one is a big one, I've decided to embrace it and have fun!

Today was bring your child to work day. Our HR department schedules chaperoned tours to certain departments and since I teach the xray students, I get to take on this task every year. I had my manager take some pics (not too good since the lights were dimmed and I don't care for this pic but it'll do) cause I don't have many pics of me at work, especially teaching. I did the same lecture to different groups of children 8 times today...yes 8 times. There were 99 children that came through. Yes, I said 99. I also have some really cool xrays of animals from our local zoo...lions, dolphins, turtles, etc. cause they bring the animals to us for CTs and MRIs. The kids really liked seeing all those animals and some of the kids even asked me if I could xray them. When I said no, they couldn't understand why. Kids are interesting little buggers...aren't they? Oh, and that's Jennifer, one of my students, helping me out. Nice to have a hand with all those kids.

and I took a photo shoot this morning of my first year students. I run a web newsletter for our department as well, so I like to put their pics up.

Right now is the perfect time to take some group shots outside! This was taken at 7:45 AM, perfect sun at that time and now that its spring, I can take some pics of them in front of all the flowered trees. So glad spring is really here!

Congrats Ewa

My friend, co-worker, and former student, Ewa, just had her second child...a baby boy named Jacob. He has long and stretchy toes. I went to see her in the hospital (where we both work) after she had him and I just grabbed her camera and started taking bunches of pics, especially those toes. I don't have a picture for you, but here is the card I made.

This is a lift from the recent issue of Cards Magazine. I really love this card for a baby. Supplies here: Stampin Up CS, Kraft and Choc Chip; My Minds Eye PP, Fiskars Scissors, Ranger Old Paper Ink, 7 Gypsies tag, Marcella K rub-ons, Heidi Grace hat pins, Heidi Swapp chipboard letters, Paper Studio Stamps, Hero Arts Pearl, and Making Memories Ribbon (love this ribbon...I wouldn't use this on a card for just anyone). I think the ribbon really adds to the card. I think I need to pick up some more! And I know the rub-ons are messed up, I used green 3 letters in a row. I cut them out correctly and when i was putting the card together, I was really tired and messed up.

We had a nice, 75 degree sunny day today...I felt a little overheated...go figure... so we made a last minute decision to go to the zoo. So we're there and a polar bear is doing something really cute. I got my camera out, shoot...nothing happens. Forgot my photo card. Darn. And then the male lion was out and awake, which rarely happens and I missed my photo opportunity!

new stamp storage

I'm sick and tired of my CD jewel cases to store my stamps so I wanted to put them in a binder. I had this old Crop and Style embellishment/sticker case that wasn't being used, so I was thinking that it would be perfect. So far I have 11, 12x12 sheets in there and there is room for more. I used the small square ones for the M's dollar stamps and the individual AL, etc. For the 5 long pockets, I put HS and long stamps. On those I used some white cs for some backing and strength to pull them out and topped it with some transperancy to store the stamps on.For the 12x12 sheets, I used Cropper Hopper pager index dividers and mounted multiple sets on each one. You can fit another set of stamps on the other side of the same "jacket" or mount more on the back. I taped the original transperancy package if I had it so I could see them easier. This took me 4 hours so if you wanna go for this system its a lot of work. But I'm happy that I can now flip through the book and look for what I want.

Michaels $ stamps tucked in pockets. You need to trim the sides.

Long pockets: held extra M's stamps, HS word stamps, and small fontwerks unmounted letter stamps.

12x12 pockets with cropper hopper page divider used as the base to hold the acrylic stamps.

Unmounted rubber fontwerks stamps.

The binder itself.

This may sound confusing, so if you have questions, please feel free to ask me! Pardon the quality of the pictures...they are taken in my scraproom, which is in the dark basement. Have a good weekend.

Product Challenge

I did this card today for a challenge at Nichol Magourik's blog. The challenge was to make a project with chipboard and white ink. I have the white Staz-On, but its too lucent for me so I prefer to use the Stampin Up White Craft Ink, perfect for stampin on anything pretty much. I made this card for a wedding that Ozan is going to next month in Orlando. Its his best friend Steve...he's the one who actually introduced us and stood up as our best man. I laughed when he told me he was engaged cause we never thought he'd never settle down....LOL!

I made this 3.75"x6"card using these supplies:

CS, slit punch, slot punch, white craft ink, envelope template, organza ribbon: Stampin Up. PP, eyelets, die cuts rub ons (had these forever!!): Making Memories. Stamp: Great Impressions. chipboard heart: Fancy Pants. Distress Ink (old paper): Ranger. Hat Pin.

Made a matching envelope as well with a liner (comes with the template)...you can also make a mini envelope that measures 1.5"x2.5".

I got this 5-in-1 envelope template from Stampin Up like 3 years ago and this is the first time I used it. You know, one of those things you GOT TO HAVE, but never use. It was pretty easy to use and plus the kraft PP is pretty thin, so it was easy to do. TFL and have a great week.

some new stuff

So now I can post some things I did last week. Finally did an album from our honeymoon to Maui and San Diego almost 10 years ago (where we saw the Cubs play!). How many new husbands get to go see their team play on their honeymoon? This is a mini chipboard album with lots of bright colors!! Love these colors! Pictures are scanned, so pardon the quality! Used lots of KI and Memories and tons of Heidi Swapp ghost butterflies!

I love this picture of us 10,000 ft altitude...watched the sunrise (they pick you at 2:00AM while your still jetlagged) from Mt Haleakala, which is one of two volcanos on the island. We biked down it after that...I'm so not adventurous, so I was proud of myself. The next pic is of us at the Cubs game...you will never see me that tan ever (or that young or skinnier...LOL!!) again...unless we go back!

Below at Mama's Fish House in Maui...want good seafood and fish? Go here! The best meal ever! I loved all the flowers in the restaurant.

Next ones are at the Luau...it was Ok, not the best thing we did. But how could you not go to a Luau when in Maui? And Big Beach and Little Beach...Little Beach, um, is an interesting place...LOL!

Here is a LO of Kendall...used lots of Making Memories Papers on here. The tag is Hero Arts and I painted the edges... added some Technique Tuesday CB flowers, painted those...some Making Memories ready to glitter stickers (stems). The CS is textured 12x12 from Stampin Up...just placed another order cause these are their limited 2007 colors and they are going away in July...also used my slit punch to make the scallops. Love that tool!! Had fun with this.

This one of Aydan was a quickie, took a half an hour. My favorite picture of my little guy. This kraft paper was a gift from laura. Thanks again!

diggin for worms...

Well I've been scrapping a lot but I can' t show any of my projects just yet. I just wanted to post a few quick pics. Kendall and Aydan spent last weekend playing in my empty garden digging for worms...my mom told me that i used to do the same thing. Yuck! We had nice weather but now its been raining and cold this week, bummer. Actually, in the last picture of Kendall, you can see her reading a note. A girl gave her a "note" in class during ballet and Kendall kept it in her pocket and kept taking it out to look at it.

And Aydan, such a crazy silly boy, eating playdough...he loves to eat dirt, playdough, even toothpaste. BUT he's a picky eater...doesn't look like one! He weighs in at 36 pounds at 2 years old...

so psyched its Friday tomorrow...I need a break!