PHEW!

I find less and less time to blog these days and that makes me sad!

We had some fun weekends just being at home the last few weeks after our whirlwind September. 

I wanted to share with you some cards I made over World Card Making Day. I went to town. It was my first time scrapping since AUGUST!

Most of them were for the Pink Paislee Challenges they had over at Live Pink forum.

For this first one, I embossed the blackboard sticker and then rubbed my white craft ink on it to show off the embossed images. OH and the card base is Kraft Core :):):)

I used a Spellbinders pennant die for  this card....

This was for a color challenge....

And this layering stamps...I used some Gel-a-tins stamps and the twine is kind of like the Compass Rose with the map paper.

Happy Mother's Day!

Shouldn't every day be mother's day??

It should!

When I saw this Get Picky challenge I almost fell over. I have these photos and

I saved this butterfly from the hanging plant brian and the boys

got for me for Mother's Day. They always get me a few of these and I

just love them! 

That and a case of beer. What more can a mom want???  :):):)

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Core Impressions Woodgrain CS, MME patterned papers,

Pink Paislee alphas and twine.

And a HUGE thanks to miss Andrea for her scraps ;)

and PTI cloud die cut. A MUST HAVE!

and a close up of the loopty loo's :)

Good Morning!

Wahoo! Blogging on Sunday ;) But I have had a hard time getting my posts done on Friday the past few weeks so technically it is still the weekend. I have to laugh. I am so tired, LOL! Owen has been getting some really good reports from school (he has had some "listening to the teacher" issues) well, since he started school. So his reward was having some friends over last night.

So, needless today it has been over 12 hours of them wrestling, playing wrestling with figurines, dancing to Ke$ha and Taio Cruze, and complaining that Henry is bothering them. We put them to bed at 11ish...so by the time 1 am rolled around and I checked on them for the 3rd time they were asleep. But...every single light was on downstairs and the basement, they got papers out and were drawing, more soda (good thing it was caffeine free) ALL in the last 1/2 hour! So funny. They were really good though.

Oh and guess what else the got into? Yeppers. An ENTIRE bowl of Hershey Miniatures. I had two (of these dark chocolate ones) and Brian said he had a few so they ate all of these last night! LOL, can't say I blame them.

So next up is a layout that I worked on while Joyce and I were scrapping on Friday. I busted out her brand new Martha punch. You know you are friends when you let someone use a brand new just out of the package Martha punch before you get to use it ;)

So I found the Get Picky Challenge blog through Tanya Tahir and I just love it! Inspiration for multi photo layouts and it has really helped me scrap more larger photos on one page. I can do lots of wallets no sweat but I really want to grow in this area and feel as if I have. Here is my layout for this week's challenge. I don't have a lot of romantic-"y" papers b/c that isn't really my style but since they all used Pink Paislee, I ran with that Since I have some Queen Bee that I hoarded from last year. I drew inspiration from their layouts by placing my photo horizontal and making that linear design. Just because you scrap on the simpler side doesn't mean you can use those "froo froo" papers! (that's the technical term, LOL). The cardstock base is Core'dinations Core Impression by Graphic 45.

Color inspiration is from The Color Room, as usual, I missed the cut off but loved this palette so I did I used it for inspo anyway.

Adhesives are from Glue Arts (Glider Pro and Adhesive squares)

Cuttlebug Be Inspired # 103

Happy WCMD!!! We are kicking off the weekend over at the Cuttlebug Be Inspired Blog today. ooooh and quick mention that Core'dinations is giving away some Stacy Julian Core Impression packs so check it out here.

This is also the card for our FIRST challenge over at FTLOA. Make sure you head over there today for the WCMD kick off there, too.

Supplies: Core'dinations Whitewash, Pink Paislee embellies, Swiss Dot embossing fold (just along the bottom), SRM Stickers. Seriously...all you need is some Core, embossing and some FAB embellies and viola! ;) ;) ;)

Have a fun week everyone!!! Hope to see everyone creating over WCMD this Saturday!

I got my circle journal done this weekend! Finally! I am excited, I labored over the subject and how to narrow it down...I am doing a scavenger hunt sorta thing. LOL. I made a list of five things but you only have to pick a few or all of them, whatever.

Anway...here it is...just in time for our Pink Paislee chat tonight over at Serendipity Scrapbooks. Oh and check out the store over there too for these awesome Glitz 12x6 rubons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That grid one on the front is one and they are just awesome.

TFL!

Front



And then the Inside has two flaps.




These are hybrid library cards from Maggie Lamarre's Calico Kit



I found these definitions on the internet and then printed them on one of the pages of the album.




And a few more





The "instructions"



The back