Lily Bee Contest

i got these lily bee pp's and have always wanted to do a all about me album. it was fun, weird having lots of pix of me but i am learning to embrace that.

since i just turned 33 a few weeks ago, i thought it was fitting to have that in the title...anyone listen to ani difranco? love her, love her voice, her lyrics are aMaZiNg, and she can jam on the guitar like, well, aMaZiNgLy! LOL so she sings this song called 32 flavors and it starts out..."i am 32 flavors and then some..." so i tweaked it a bit to 33 flavors ...

here it is! and thanks for the fun contest...i cut out the front part of the album and made picture window in it. and lots of glimmer mists and color washes & other goodies, including the lily bee diecuts.

some close-ups...














when you flip over the tag it says "i love funky stuff" ;)


some journaling about the past year...


and i covered the back of the photo with some pp..see the next page...





the end!

watcha up too?

5 evals. 2.5 down, 2.5 to go {sigh}. i love them and hate them at the same time, lol!

BUT-- you know what got me through it? listening to this again...and again...and again. you have to listen to the entire thing. the end is the bEsT! 

so no scrapping time for me this week wich bums me out. it has been raining and i always hibernate down there in the rain. 

so how is everyone?

I woke up to seeing this over at the Core'dinations blog! It's my tag and bio... i am really excited about how great everyone is on the team and how much i have learned in such a short time. I love that i am rummaging through drawers finding things for my grubby little hands to sand. And i got my MM mag {last one = sad} and saw my LO in there! wen was so excited to see himself in a magazine. 

AND check this out! i think i {heart} this site. i love her energy and zest for life. i am thinking AWESOME kits here...whatcha think?

here is a layout i did with some Anna Griffin pp's from Serendipity and some Core'dinations . I had to get a close up of Henry's pigsters. Also, he screams when he is in the water and this was the only part that was shaking or cyring hysterically! LOL!

Vacation Rocked!

we had such a blast. we were on the boat 24/7 and swam all day long. owen even jumped off the cliffs, which i couldn't believe! amber would ask him everyday on a scale from 1-10 how great his day and he would say...2000 or 700 million, lol. oh and i can't wait to show you pix of big bertha :)

but first i wanted to show you my first DT project i did for Core'dinations. Here is a small tutorial for it, too.

I saw that the corner of my piece of core was splitting, so i just decided to pull it apart and see what happened...and viola! i made this...

see that edge? just start peeling...

like this....

and you will get a strip like this...it will be much thinner than the piece of cardstock itself

So I stamped on the back of it {i didn't want the stamped image to show} and then cut them out.

Now the edges will curl effortlessly. Add some sanding and stitching and voila! You have an easy card. I added a My Stamp Box stamp to the bottom right hand corner. 

And i love these framed cards i learned to how to make not to long ago at a crop.




Don't forget you can get all your Core'dinations cardstock at HappyScrappin' Scrapbooking!

I am off!

well, i am off for vacation tonight after baseball and work. we are heading to VA to see my sister and lounge on the boat for a few days. I would rub it in more but I do have to bring some work with me, lol!  so i will be lounging and doing treatment plans but it could be worse...hahaha.

i wanted to leave you with a card. i went downstairs to get some things for my sister and i was just on the GCD blog and saw this sketch so i made this card. i cannot go to my scraproom and not do anything! 

I used the Chianti Line from GCD studios. I know it is an older line but I love it! i knew when i saw that circle on the sketch, this pp would be perfect!

here is the sketch...

here is the card...

Basic Grey Preorder & Some Review Items

Kristen at Serendipity Scrapbooks is doing a preorder for Basic Grey. From what I hear, preorder may be the way to go b/c these are HOT times! Click here for preordering and don't forget she is doing the deal of the day right now so you have to click on the links to the right that says "sales and specials".

Here are a few review items I did this month for serendipity. Kristen sent me Anna Griffin Flora papers and that includes the flocked butterflies. I also got some Hambly goodies and K&Co Flocked alphas and a few other goodies. 

I just knew I wanted to alter something with this Anna Griffin Botanical paper. I just reminds you of flowers, garden and all that is summer!

I dont' know if you have ever been to Dani's blog but she totally inspires me with her pins and shabby sheek feel to things so I FINALLY used some of the pins I have in my stash! 

I made these seed packets with some Stampin' Up templates I had that I never use. when I went rummaging through my stash, I found them and thought they would be perfect for the packets I bought my mom for Mother's Day.

I added some of my SavvyNSassy ribbon from May's kit!

hi!

OH MAN. what a week! it has been crazy. a crazy week. getting ready for the yard sale, working, yard work, doctors appt. well, we have all been there, right?!

first i just want to say how BLESSED i was over NSD weekend. first juliana's RAK on her blog {we just found out we have the same birthday which happens to be sunday}, i won a prize package from Papertrunk AND i won a Cuttlebug from the Cuttlebug Challenge blog. I have to give back. SO! 

My plan is for my 222 scheduled post. this number has a few meanings for me so that is why i picked it. so in 10 posts stay tuned for a monster RAK. yes, bigger than Lisa Howard's! lmbo! {girl, you know i love you! bah}

I did this layout for the Triple the Sketch. Patter does just great sketches i totally got inspired by this one. I loved how the phtos were all funky all over the place and that big flower! pa-lease, i had to give it a go....

And don't forget my SavvyNSassy ribbon. Best Ribbon EVER! I got my May Kit, Ray of Sunshine and it is FULL of color!

The Shaker Box

In addition to working on NSD stuff this weekend, I worked with an awesome kit!!!  I was asked to be The Shaker Box Guest Designer this month and I got to work with some beautiful Webster's goodies! Just in time for their contest. click here if you haven't check it out yet.  here is a layout and a card that i did from the kit. it's gorgeous! 

i cut one of the primas and placed the petals on the layout like they were cascading down the page.

And here is a card i did  with this same kit for the My Stamp Box blog hop! thanks for the wonderful inspiration! i won a stamp set with it!!! 

some more NSD

I am so pumped, i got a super fun email from Juliana that i won her RAK on her blog. It is loaded with Magistical Memories goodies! AND the polaroid frames i have been eyeing up :) thanks juliana!

Here is another NSD inspired project. It came from a challenge at CMK to use journal spots and a Papertrunk challenge to use kitchen items. So after looking through photos and "stuff", i realized these purple rubber bands that come on asparagus would be perfect to recycle on a layout AND they are purple and that is owen's school colors -- i have limited purple stuff with two boys.  i love the graph pp's on the backside of the Collage Press Papers, along with a staple of mine, Luxe Rubons. 

wahoo!

in my best chandler bing voice.... "could i BE any more excited?"

so i got an awesome email from Core'dinations telling me I am on the DT! I have used their products for some time and get all of them at HSS so I couldn't be more excited. I actually used some this weekend for some NSD inspired layouts.  I used my self portrait photo for this one and {fianally} used my EK Success Swiss cheese punch right on that photo strip that I always feel I am cutting off. So in honor of Earth Day... I saved that strip, lol! 

Here is my crazy dog, Chase. He jumps so high! He can jump over my neighbor who is 6'3"! I used the CMK Friday Formula for some inspo here. 



and of course some Glimmer Mist!

OOPS! and more Glimmer Mist! I used the AC Subway shapes as a mask. 

self portrait challenge

TWO posts in one day?! well call me uncle...lol...we use to say that, i don't know why.

anywhoo ... took a couple of self portraits for emily pitts challenge over at SC. she really made me think outside the box on this one...

i wanted me and reflections and to capture what a gorgeous day it was outside so this is what i came up with...

i opened our sliding glass door to the back porch and i took the photo through the glass so you can see me and the reflections...i took a bunch but these two are my faves and i am smiling in one! ;)

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!

Marks Paper Co. Printable

Remember this post about Marks Paper Co. hybrid download? did anyone download the printable? well, i did! and this is what i made:

I just love that they were journal spots...they are my new obsession {for lack of a better word, hahaha} and I knew one of the contest requirements was to use a flower so this is where my brain went.

I love altering clothespins. Especially these since we got a bunch of them from Brian's pap's house before he died, along with his sewing machine. So I attached a magnet to the back and now i have a clothespin to hang on my fridge and remind myself things. I can keep these inspirational quotes in the pin or I can put a to do list, or a general reminder.

I got all this from one printable 8.5"x11" paper! I couldn't believe how my journal paper punch fit so perfectly with this.

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!

Darcie's Shadow Box = COOL!

This week I reviewed Jenni Bowlin Farmer's Wife collection, including the red diecut journaling spots, AND Darcie's Shadow box over at Serendipity Scrapbooks. I have a mini I made that I will post later this week.

These Darcie's Shadow Boxes are really cool! In this package, you will receive THREE different size shadow boxes. You do need to cut, score and glue them together but Darcie's provides you with wonderful, color, step-by-step instructions. And this box only took me a little over an hour to put together! that is not bad for this little treasure I have now to share with my husband. I would DEFINITELY recommend these. And did I mention you get THREE in a box?

The entire box comes in the package, you just need to cut it out, score it and then adhere it according to the directions. I used glimmer mists on part of it and covered the rest with pattern paper. You could the same or even use stamps on here since this is light weight chipboard.

I accented the our Anniversary Date on the calendar.

I chose to make a the 5.5" x 6.5" box and did a little something for our anniversary coming up in june. I used the Jenni Bowlin Farmer’s Wife collection and the red calendar journal spots.

This detail shot allows you to see the folding involved and where it needs to be covered with paper or something else. You could also leave parts of it white if it matched your project since these are great quality.