It's Trolley Time

Don't you just love a trolley? When we were in Arkansas we got a great photo of one. Uncle Dave shot this one probably because I was too busy shopping and always missed it driving by, LOL! They also remind me of Mr Rogers and I watched that show 24/7

Little Rock was such a fun town..so glad we got to go there. I love how quaint and clean it was, too. There were some really cool restaurants and bars, too, that opened right onto the street. I used lots of Crate Paper goodies on here and some Kaisercraft Papers. I mounted the photo ( I noticed I do this a lot) on some Core'dinations Gemstone cardstock. I am not bling girl but this stuff is FAB! This is just a simple page with some clean lines...gotta let this fun patterned paper shine ;)


Hello Lovely little bloomer! I {heart} you. You get a whole strip of them in the kit!

I layered the alphas and Crate Paper Chipboard here and I colored in the rubon with some Prisma Pencil Crayons.

paintin' in the house!

phew...

what a crazy week. man o man. we are painting the kitchen {edging is done}, the  entry way by the garage {done}, master bedroom and foyer/stairs upstairs/hallway upstairs. AND we are having a garage sale in 3 weeks so our garage...is literally....FULL! but i could not be more excited to sell this stuff and hopefully pay for a cuttlebug {shhhhhhhhhhh, the scrubster doesn't know that yet! LOL}

i have a little something here to share...i made this the other week from some AWESOME pageframe butterflies! i loooooooooooooove these things and this is my SECOND pack. sharon over at HSS sells them and is the owner of Pageframes.

i love little acrylic shapes {almost} as much as i love acrylic albums :) for these, just take your heat gun and heat up the middle of the butterfly until it begins to get soft {PLEASE use your tweezers for this!}. Once it gets soft, turn off the gun and bend the butterfly. Hold it there until it cools --it doesn't take long-- and voile! you have bent acrylic shapes.

I added some of my Mimosa Glimmer Mist to this frame. This frame is actually from an old Scarlet Lime kit i got awhile ago. 

Don't forget to check out the Bean Talk blog, I have a card over there!

Cards & Stuff!

My mom came yesterday and she brought her issue of cards and I got to the graduation section and I found I got a two page spread! woot woot! This isn't the greatest photo but I have to send it to my sister ;)

Here is a thank you card i did with some MME I got at Happy Scrappin' Scrapbooking. Mark your calendars for National Scrapbooking Weekend! We will be having festivities there. I used my Kaisercraft Rubons across the chipboard.

AND DON'T FORGET! PAPER TRUNK BLOG CROP! They started the festivities yesterday and it goes through May 2nd. They kicked it off yesterday with an Earth Day challenge. I am sure you know how earth friendly their products are, which is very important today and in our houseold here. The first challenge was to do something round or rounded on a layout b/c the Earth is round. love that.

I also got my package from Emma's Paperie and it came wrapped all fabulously! another HUGE thank you for the give-a-way!

Altered Photo Frame

When Bonnie from Scrapadilly sent me this Kaisercraft Patterned Paper, I just had to run with these butterflies...and the only thing i kept seeing was them "flying away" so this is what i came up with...

HSS sells these cute little acrylic butterflies. All you need to do is use your heat gun on them and they bend a bit. Just keep them bent and let them cool and that is it!

slack city here i come!

blogging that is.....after my surgery, i had some computer issues and i couldn't use blogger b/c most of the buttons were disabled. but i am fixed now! all around :)


CMK had an AWESOME online crop this weekend and they just knock my socks off with their fun challenges and they had a bunch of altering ones and i loooooooooooove to alter! so here are a few things from there.

i scrapped my heart out. it felt so good to get dirty again ;)


This was for a challenge to make a hanging bouquet on a styrofoam ball. Springy colors don't look right in my house so I used these Kaisercraft Papers and my circle punch. Then i loaded on the glimmer mist {on the Kaisercraft wooden butterfly too ;) oh and the ribbon from the April SavvyNSassy kit that i designed!





This fun card was for a challenge to cut out a frame in the front of your card and have it peak through! And i am so glad i splurged on these chatterbox frames from A Kiss on the Chic. Her kits are GORG and she has ridiculous addons.



A Sign I made with some Webster's and one of those cool Prima flowers. LOTS of Glimmer mists and Color Washes on this.