Journal Your Christmas

So I did this kit that my friend Laura offered for us just before the holidays. It was the longest project that I have ever done but all the paper was cut, photo album provided, journaling printed out, and there were some other goodies in there as well. I did finish in early january but I totally forgot about posting it. Good thing Sara reminded me. And I do have a few pages where I don't have pics yet...those will be added this Christmas season. But the stamping and paper assembly is all done. Didn't do too many edits on the photos...took these outside after work on my front porch. Funny because my neighbor was driving by and she rolled down the window and asked me what I was doing. LOL! She knows about my crazyness for scrapping! I also took some shots up close so you can see the embossing and some of the digital photo frames i put on the pics. Most of the stamps are Stampin Up and Making Memories; patterned paper is Scenic Route and Making Memories;ribbon is AC...which I have a TON of...that was perfect so I could kinda use some of it up;border Punch is also Stampin Up;Rhonna Ferrer digital frames. Also added a Cuttlebug embossing folder to part of the tag for a different touch. The embossing...both wet and dry were my favorite parts about this journal.

Week 8: Project 365/

OK, boring week...kinda hard when its almost dark after you and the kids get home from work. I love this project but I'm getting a bit bored with it. I think when I get them all in an album, it'll give me more drive. When the warm weather hits us...someday...it will be a bit more fun too! I even took extra pics around the house today because I didn't think I had enough, but I actually did!

Sun, Feb 15: Omitted. Took an adorable pics of my kids' tooshies waiting for their bath to fill. Sorry, but I won't post pics like that on the internet...but it IS an adorable pic!

Mon, Feb 16: I took the day off of work since my kids didn't have school. I had to take Aydan to an appointment, which was so conveniently next door to my favorite store, Archivers.

Tues, Feb 17: Had to stop at the store after work and staring right at me when I walked in was a half dozen box of Paczkies! Yum! They are polish donuts that are around just before lent. Pronounced "Punch-keys".

Wed, Feb 19: Kendall had this balloon arrangement for her birthday party. Well Aydan somehow took the weight off of it and they got to our ceiling...the problem, our ceiling is 20 feet in the family room and we were afraid of it getting tangled around the fan. Ozan had to reach over the loft railing to get her down. And he's like why are you taking pics of me doing this? I think its funny because Tinkerbell is really flying now.

Thurs, Feb 19: This is typical Aydan after school...running right for the pantry or fridge for a snack. I swear if it was up to my kids, they would just have snacks all day without meals! And when he's hungry, he's fussy. And he only wants junk stuff...which I have to hide sometimes!

Fri, Feb 20: This is also typical Kendall stuff...hanging her art stuff from school on her walls. She helps herself to tape and hangs them up. I really want to get her a big corkboard for her room...just haven't found one yet. That butterfly has googly eyes with eyelashes on them. I love her art!

Sat, Feb 21: I just bought the kids new sneakers this fall and they are already worn out! So Ozan wanted to order some new ones from Zappos. We printed out a measuring chart, measured their feet and realized that they wear the same size! Both wear 10.5 in toddler. Mind you, Kendall is 6 and Aydan is 3. She (on the left) has tiny, tiny little feet. And his (on the right) are huge! LOL! Notice the black and white pic? I'm going to make one pic a week black and white. Saw this idea on another blog and I loved it...adds a bit of change to it.

Oh and I made a bunch of cards this week...this is a complete lift from Betsy Valdman. Her cards are so detailed, unique, and fun! I couldn't help but make a set of these cards. I made matching vellum envelopes as well. Took out my embossing gun...which is always fun...for the damask stamp and the sentiments as well. I used some white craft ink from Stampin Up to make the white embossing powder a bit stronger. These were fun...not even close to the standards of Betsy. And my damask stamp is smaller than hers but I didn't have one like that.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: Hobby Lobby

Premade Scalloped Matchbook Card and Vellum Envelopes: DCWV

Patterned Paper: Basic Grey

Stamps: Stampin Up and Inkadinkakoo

Ink: Stampin Up

Embossing Powder: Ranger

Buttons: Autumn Leaves

Twill and Punches

scrap-a-thon

Whew...been scrapping a whole lot this weekend. Just have a quick share. This is a lift from Robyn Werlich...you can see it here. Did a whole lotta die-cutting with my Slice, some stamping, and embossing. It was fun but very time consuming...like 4 hours. I love to scrap but now I think I need a break for a few days. LOL!!! Thanks for looking...and once again pardon the wonky scan.
Supplies Used:
Patterned Paper, Border Edges, Slice Die Cut Machine, Staples: Making Memories
Kraft Cardstock: Hobby Lobby
Stamps: Studio G, Stampin Up, and Heidi Grace
Butterfly Punch: Martha Stewart
Ink: Tsukineko and Stampin Up
Embossing Powder: Ranger
Ghost Shapes: Heidi Swapp

And I thought I'd repost the picture of my card that is in Simply Handmade Magazine this month.

And I completely forget to share this one. I made this for my friend Laura...she is the one who suggested that I send in that card for publication. She has been so good to me. I gave her this card around Christmas...kind of a Christmas/friendship card.

Week 7: Project 365/ A Challenge

Happy Valentines Day everyone. Here are my pics for the week and a project to share.

Sun, Feb 8: My scraptable in the middle of a project. I am a messy, messy scrapper. When I get an idea, I seriously can't stop to clean or I'll loose my train of thought. I do throw out scraps or garbage every few minutes...but I do clean up after the project.

Mon, Feb 9: Kendall writing out her valentine cards. Her teacher gave them a list of the students. I showed her where to write her name and her friends name, then showed her how to check off the name when the card was done. She did the whole list without my help. I'm so proud!

Tues, Feb 10: We were playing a game this evening. Aydan is crazy, crazy about numbers. He would roll the die and get excited and scream about his number no matter what number he got. Amazingly, he even can identify the die number without counting the dots. He's my little genus! And pardon the messy house...we had toys out everywhere!
Wed, Feb 11: I love how Aydan eats certain foods. For pizza he holds the piece against his face like this and just bites off the top layer. Then when that's gone, he eats the crust. Its so cute!

Thurs, Feb 12: I found the kids sitting in my laundry baskets sharing a blanket watching some Noggin. Yes, he's wearing the same shirt. This pic was taken the same day as the pizza. Impossible to take a pic everyday.

Fri, Feb 13: I found this in my scraproom after work. Kendall make this shopping list and I think its the cutest thing ever! Isn't it? I scanned it and made a 4x6 photo in photoshop and added the title on the left side. This girl loves OJ and donuts are an occasional treat around here. She is getting really good at spelling for a Kindergartner. The teachers encourage them to spell by sounds, rather than the actual spelling.

Sat, Feb 14: Valentines Day. Daddy came home with 2 flower bouquets for his 2 girls. Kendall got the dozen roses and I got the wild flowers. I can't tell you how much I love it when he buys Kendall flowers.

And finally...I did a challenge created by Mary and my two friends Laura and Sasha. The challenge was to use bright papers, arrows, Kraft paper, and letter stickers. These photos have been on my scrapbook to do list for months now. With a challenge like this, it makes it easier and faster to get your projects done. The pic is terrible. I don't know what's wrong with my LO pics lately...they are terrible.

Supplies Used:

Patterned Papers: Scenic route and Making Memories

Cardstock and Punch: Hobby Lobby

Big Notz Die Cut: Stampin Up

Arrows: Scenic Route

Letter Stickers: American Crafts and Making Memories

Border: Making Memories

Ink: Color Box Queue

Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug

Two Peas Class

So I was happy to see this class by Robyn Werlich on two peas...its really geared towards capture a month in pictures but I thought it would work perfectly to capture Kendall's birthday celebration this week.
Used my Slice a lot here...like tons! And I used all 3 of my cards.
Supplies Used:
Cardstock: Hobby Lobby
Flocked Paper: Doodlebug Designs
Patterned Paper: Pink Paisley, Making Memories
Die Cut Machine: Slice-Making Memories
Stamp, Punches: Stampin Up
Felt Stars and Staples: Making Memories
Gems: Hero Arts
Photo Corners: Heidi Swapp

Week 6: Project 365

I can't believe its week 6 already. I gotta admit, I'm worried about running out of ideas for this project. The first few weeks I planned the pics, knowing the kind of things I wanted to take. This week i didn't even think I had enough pics...I actually took pictures everyday and I didn't even think about it. This week was easy because it was kendall's 6th b-day and her party as well. And sometimes I'm not going to post certain pics...this week I'm omitting one.

Sun, Feb 1: Finally got to go sledding!

Tues, Feb 2: Omitted
Wed, Feb 3: Last day that Kendall is 5. I love to do LO's of them just before their birthdays. I really loved the age of 5...I was kinda sad for it to leave. This is total Kendall when she really gets tickled about something. Love her!


Wed, Feb 4: Kendall's 6th b-day. She had an all day celebration. I've already printed out pics for a LO, hopefully I'll do it tomorrow.

Thurs, Feb 5th: Aydan has had this Mr Potato Head for a while now but recently rediscovered him. He takes this guy everywhere. And he calls it "Mashed Potato Head", which I think is the funniest thing ever.

Fri, Feb 6th: My 4 senior radiology students during my class, which starts at 7AM. They have been with me for a 1.5 years now and they graduate this summer. I really adore them...such hard workers and we just have a lot of fun. Right now we are learning skull. They are positioning something we call a phantom and we xray it and evaluate our images. They go to their college everyother day and come to the hospital the opposite days. I teach a lot of the hands on stuff.

Sat, Feb 7th: Kendall's swimming birthday party. She's here with her cousins (2 middle boys) and our neighbors. There are 3 other tables with "her kindergarteners"...as Kendall refers to them.

finally am finishing some loose ends

So, I have been working on our vacation album to California since this past fall. You can see it HERE. So much to do for it...picking out pictures, making collages, making layouts...a LOT of time being put into this. I am so very close to finishing it up totally. This weekend I decided to get the title page and journaling page done. I thought I would be done after that but there is a layout in the album that has nothing behind it...kinda like a patient gown that's opened in the back...needs to be covered. Anyhow I had the little index pictures left over and I thought they would be perfect to cut into strips and glue to the title page. Well the problem is that some of them are horizontal and some are vertical so I cut them all out individually (took forever). Then I traced a circle on my white background paper and glued the pics inside, then ran them through my cuttlebug with a quickutz die (while crossing my fingers). I cut the circles up just so I could spread them throughout the page. I really didn't plan the whole thing, I just started and it resulted in this. And the "p" in "trip"...an "o" and an "l" put together...then I needed an "o" so I used a zero. I had purchased 2 packages of these American Crafts letters and I wasn't going to go out and buy a third. And I used up every piece of paper and scrap I bought for this project!!!

There is also a second page but its literally almost all journaling with two pictures on it and a bit of patterned paper on the sides. Nothing too crazy. Thanks for looking.

Just a few sledding photos

So we've been stuck in the house due to the super low temps this whole winter. But it was 35ish this weekend so we got outta da house! Anyway, just a few sledding pics here. The hill was so slick and supa dupa fast. I had to put my heels down all the way to slow down. LOL! But this handsome dude did take a nice long nap...

I was standing about halfway up the hill on this one for the pic below...

...with Daddy

like the change?

So I was reading heidi swapp's blog today and she was announcing a new project called, "House of 3". Her, Rhonna Ferrer, and Janet Hopkins started this new company...they have digital brushes, digital print out, blog banners and backgrounds. The whole change cost me 3 bucks! What a deal. Love it.