The Girls are Back in Town and Shoes for All Times....

I got a kit from Citrus Tree Studio this month because I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Bella Blvd Man of the House line.  I wanted to show that you could use it to make girly things, too!

This line fit perfect with the color combo this week at The Color Room: Sand, sky blue, a mustard-y yellow, and a red-orange.

I also used a sketch by Liz at the Scrappiest.

And here is my LO:

I had intended to breast feed for at least 6 weeks to see how it went.  I ended up doing it for a whole year!  I realyl surpirsed myself by doing this, but it was so much easier since I was staying home with her.  But by the time 10-11-12 months rolled around, I was SOOOOO ready to be done!  I was pumping 1-2 times a day and nursing her in the am.  How I longed to sleep without a nursing bra!

It felt SOOOOO good to be done and have the girls be free again!  Although, they aren't as "perky" (or as big) as they used to be!  :)

This next LO is for a challenge at one of my new favorites blogs: "These Are a Few of My Favorite Things".  I plan on putting all LO's directly related ot my in my own album.  This challenge was to do your favorite shoes.  It was hard for me to decide because it is different at different times of the year and for different occasions.

I really don't know where this LO came from, creatively.  I knew that I wanted to use the black BoBunny background paper from the Mamma Razzi line, but all the other tidbits came from my scrap pile.  Except for the circle border strip, which is K& Co. Handmade that I got on clearance at Michaels.

 I also have been loving me some crackle paint and crackle accents, which I put on the photo frame.  I cut the photo frame myself from some chipboard after some carefully measuring, misted it, then crackled it.

I have a few more challenges that I am working on that I hope to get done in time!!!  TFL!

Happy Birthday Charlotte!

Well Charlotte's first birthday was almost a month ago already!!!!  My gosh how time FLIES!

This was my favorite photo of the day of her!  I got so emotional as I brought her that cupcake...I couldn't believe she was one already.  I'm sure it is going to be like that every year!

This big chipboard #1 I have had in my stash for a LONG time, and I always knew I was going to use it for ny child's first birthday!

I covered it with some Bella Blvd paper and wrapped some ribbon and some beaded wire around it.

I was inspired to make the cupcake by this weeks Candy Shoppe Designs challenge (see previous post).  I cut a cupcake shape out of chipboard, pleated some paper for the liner, and then twisted some tulle for the frosting.  I added some tiny beads for sprinkles and a button for a cherry!

For the banner, I used some scraps of fabric, cut into pennant shapes, and glued some ric rac to the top to hold them together.

I was inspired by the color combo at The Color Room and the sketch that goes with it!

I also did this for the challenge this week at Snobby Walrus to use:

-buttons (on the cupcake)

-a handmade embellishment (the cupcake)
-polka dot patterned paper (pleated under the #1)
-journaling (strips under the photo)
-color photo(s) (obvious)
 
I have a lot more birthday photos to scrap, so be on the look out!  :)

Hey Cupcake!!!

This week's challenge at Candy Shoppe Designs is all about cupcakes!

Today is Cherry Lolita's (Lynettes) birthday!  So in her honor, this challenge is to make a paper cupcake!  Check out the Candy Shoppe Designs blog to watch this cute video by Yatie Tajudin on how to make these adorable treats!

You could be in the running to win this awesome kit by Color Me Miki!

Here is my cute cupcake!  I used a styrofoam ball and a plastic solo cup.  I cut the cup down and glued the ball into it.  Then I twisted and glued white tulle on top for the frosting.  I pleated a paper circle for the liner, added some red pins for "sprinkles" and some beaded wire for deco!  These make cute decorations for a birthday party!

So hop on over to check out the video and the other challenges this month!!

More Magpie!

Well I have used just about every bit of the June Magpie Club kit, where I am the guest designer this month.  I had so so much fun with this kit! 

I am a bit behind on my Project 12 pages, but I am trying to catch up.  Here is the LO for March.  I used the sketch for Project 12 by Becky Fleck.

I was also inspired by the color combo challenge for the first week in June at ScrapDango.  When I first thought of red and green together, I thought Christmas, but I just love how the colors on this page turned out.  I hadn't intended for this to happen, but so far my months are following the color theme for the month: Jan has blues, Feb. had pinks and reds, and now March has green!  I guesss I will have to keep going with that theme.

This next LO I did using a sketch by Julie Bonner for Magpie Club, which should be up on the blog, soon! 

I actually glued the twine to the banner and then zig zag stitched over the twine!  I love how it came out.

I have a lot more journaling to add to this story, so I think I am just going to tuck a pocket on the back or something.  As I started to write the story, I decided that I wanted a lot more details, and it didn't all fit on the tag!  Oh well!

Well I have no more left of the kit!  So I am off to browse through my stash!

A Snobby Walrus and some Sketch Inspirations

A few LO's to share.  The first is kind of a combo of two challenges.  I was inspired by the color combo challenge posted at The Snobby Walrus.

I loved the grey with the yellow and blush colors.  I had this photo from Mother's Day already printed out when I saw this color combo, and all these colors are in the photo, so I decided to use it!

Inside the pocket at the top is the card that was on my flowers from Keith and Charlotte.

I also used a sketch by Julie Bonner at Citrus Tree Studios this month for their June sketch contest.

Next up is my interpretaion of a sketch at Sketch Inspiration this week. 

I took this photo of my dad when he and mom were down visiting in early May.  I love it.  I was also inspired by a challenge at Scrapdango to use up some buttons on your LO, so I did!

I took the colors from the papers to choose the colors of my buttons.  I misted the background slightly with red mist, and masked some areas with some circle.

I tied some twine around these letter from Jillibean Soup.

And lastly, this LO is WAY overdue.  I never posted it!  It was for the sketch challenge last month at Challenge Masters.  The whole idea behind the sketch was to be simple, and sometimes that is hard for me!  Anyway, here it is!  TFL!

More American Crafts Scraplifts...

I have been a scrappin' fool this week.  I have done 2 more scraplifts of some AC designers for the AC blog challenge this week.

This first one is a lift of this LO by Moon Ko.

I loved the simple design of this LO with the patterned papers and the black and white photos.

Here is my take:

The AC prodcuts I used are some papers from the old Metropolitan line, and some foil Thickers. The cardstock is Bazzil, and the other embellies are from Pink Paislee, Making Memories, Martha Stewart, Me & My Big Ideas, and KI Memories.

Then I lifted this LO by Loredana Bucaria:

On this LO I loved the collage or scalloped squares.  I mostly scrap 12x12 though, so I had to adapt it to fit that size (as I did with the first LO, too).

My take:

Lots of Dear Lizzy papers here, including the fabric paper and some from Botanique as well.  Also there are a whole bunch of the Dear Lizzy chipboard shapes, some Dear Lizzy stickers, and crocheted flowers.  The title letters are basic grey, but the bracets are AC! 

Well I am done scraplifting for the week!  I loved looking through the AC blog, though! 

I am working on a few other LO's right now, too, so I will post them soon.  TFL!

Sketchy Thursdays 5/27 sketch

What I loved about the sketch this week at Sketchy Thursdays was the title and journaling around the outside of the page.

I had these two photos I have been wanting to scrap for a while and they have been sitting on my desk.  I used all scraps for this which I am very proud of! 

TFL!

Magpie Club Guest Designer for June!!!!!

I am SOOOOO thrilled to be the guest designer for Magpie Club for the month of June!

The story of how I came to be the GDT is so very cool...so I'm gonna share:

Back in February, I won the weekly draw at Sketchy Thursdays.  The prize happened to be the February kit from Magpie Club.  When I recieved the kit, there was a sweet note in it from Tara (the owner of Magpie Club) that said she had been a follower of my blog for a while.  I was so flattered. I had created some projects with the kit i won and shared them with her.  After a few exchanges of some emails, she had asked me to be a guest designer, and here I am!!!!  I can't believe that my projects are up on her site with the likes of her other designers: Piradee and Julie Bonner.

I just ADORE this june kit!  I have been DIEING to get my hands on some of that Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety, and some of the Jillibean Soup papers, too!

What I love about her kits is that she always uncludes some very unique items, like the milk lids and the piece of bandana fabric.

Anyway, here are 4 LO's that I did with the kit.


This first photo is of my sooooo classy husband, drinking a daiquiri...with his pinky up...
I loved how you could take the backs of some of the papers in the kit and make a more masculine LO.

She also had include these little slide frames.  I cut out the No. 1 from the Jillibean soup paper, glued it to the back of the slide, then covered it with Glossy Accents.

I think that Tara stamped the banner on the tag....isn't it cute???

I loved the bright colors and patterns on some of the papers.  The idea for this LO came from the pattern in Charlotte's shorts. Plus the orange-y colors on some of the papers looked like the color of cantaloupe!
The orange title is rubons that I used on the backsides of on of the papers, added glossy accents, then cut out. I also LOVE those green Thickers!

The kit contains a pack of these puffy, glossy flowers from American Crafts. There are a lot of different uses for them!


I haven't done a page about our pets in a long time, and I took this photo of the cat a few weeks ago. It was his turn to have a page...

I just love love love these milk lids!  Every cat likes milk, right??  I also used the fibers included and rolled them into this flower. It was fitting to use the Jillibean Soup birdhouse paper for this LO, too!  I used crackle accents on the birdhouse.
Lastly, my favorite LO.  I LOVE the Cosmo Cricket papers.  We went strawberry picking a few weeks ago, so obviously, this paper was perfect!
I used a Cosmo Cricket bumblee stamp that I had from my stash and stamped him on yello CS, cut him out, and glossied him.  Then I stitched his flying line.  The "memo" paper is the back of the 1,000,000 bill shown in the kit page.
I ran a basting stitch through the middle of the fabric and then pulled to create the ruffles.  The flousihes I cut with a die on my Big Shot and colored with Smooch pearlized ink.

I am actually working on a few more things with the kit!  Thanks for reading this long long post, and be sure to check out Magpie Club!!!

American Crafts Scraplift Challenge

Every week the Ameican Crafts blog has a challenge where you have to use AC products.  This week was very fun because it is Scraplift Week!  You have to choose a LO from of the AC designers and scraplift them using at least two AC products.

As I was going through the blog, I would copy and paste some of the layouts into a document so that I could print them off to use them for the lift.  Well, there were at least 10 layouts that I have saved to lift because there is some amazing work there.

I decided to lift this LO by Jen Jockish.  I loved the randomness of the papers...the sizes and the different edges.

Since I love the colors in the Abode line, I decide to use these for this photo that I snapped when my mom and dad were visiting.  My dad had arranged these shoes by the closet door, and I just love how cute Charlotte's little shoes look.  It made me realize how special she is to our whole family.

American Crafts:
Both red print flower papers (from an older AC Christmas line)
Title sticker (Abode)
Blue with white scallopped stripes paper (Abode)
crosshatch paper (cut into circles) (Abode)
Brown square papers (Abode)

My Little Shoebox:
All the yellow papers and die cut spot
Red striped scallopped paper

K& Co:
Aqua with white stars