I'm an addict!

I just couldn't stay out of the glitter!  As you know, if you read this blog occasionally, I'm trying to catch up on my youngest son's 1st year album (he turns 1 in 5 days!).  I decided it would be fun to take the Scor-tape/glitter challenge onto a scrapbooking page.  I must say...I LOVE it!

Products used:

Cardstock/Patterned paper:  DCWV and Scenic Route Garden Grove
Dies:  Papertrey Ink, Beautiful Blooms II #1 Set  (I just got these yesterday!)
Felt:  Papertrey Ink, Pure Poppy and Hawaiian Shores  (Yesterday also!)
Letters:  American Crafts Thickers
Accents:  Scenic Route Garden Grove, leaf pins are from Little Yellow Bicycle, Scor-tape, and glitter from Martha Stewart

Thanks for looking!  Back to work, I only have 5 days to finish this album!  AHHHH!

Glitter it up!!!!

I love glitter when other people use it but I hate HATE to use it myself.  It gets EVERYWHERE!!  I was dubious about trying the challenge over on Nichole's blog for Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday.  I love Papertrey Ink and the amazing designers but, seriously, glitter?  I just happened to have two sizes of Scor-tape and a whole slew of Martha Stewart glitter that I love to look at but not use on hand. 

Without further ado, here's my card:

I had a tough time getting this one to photograph.  The cardstock is PI's Dark Chocolate and inside I put a layer of some random tealy color I had on hand.  I used Martha Stewart's glitter in turquoise and smoky quartz to make the stripes.  Finally, I punched a circle with my Fiskar's circle cutter (I can't wait to get my PI circles dies so I can put my circles anywhere on a card!) so you could view the stamped image through it.  I stamped my saying and, voila, it was done! 

I must say, it wasn't as torturous as I thought it would be and Dawn is really on to something with this technique.  I love the crispness of the lines you get and NO GLUE!!!!  I may just be a glitter convert. 

Wanna see what else I have been up to?  Well I watched a video on Kristina's blog and I was lured into the world of Konad nail art.  So, I bought all the stuff and went to town.  The results:

 
I think they turned out really awesome for my first try!  It was actually pretty easy and it has already lasted longer than most of my nail polish jobs. 

Thanks for checking my out today and I hope you enjoyed my projects!

Liebster Award

Lisa over at Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons decided to honor me with the Liebster Love Blog Award.  I'm honored and would like to thank her! 

The Liebster Love Blog award is designed to recognize bloggers who have fewer than 300 followers but whose work deserves gigantic praise.  To accept the award, I am to spread the love by recognizing up to five blogs whose work I follow and admire -- sort of a chain letter of love!  I'm pleased to pass this honor on to the following:

http://christybladehandmade.blogspot.com/ 

http://www.hobbymommycreations.com/

http://livsoembellished.blogspot.com/

http://livelaughlove2scrap.blogspot.com/ 

http://lilbamaboysmama.blogspot.com/ 

I enjoy checking out all of these blogs and I hope you'll do the same!

Now on to another project.  My baby's 1st birthday approaching WAY too fast.  I knew I wanted to do a Dr. Seuss theme but I have been delaying the inevitable by trying not to make invitations.  I finally caved and found the cutest design ever.  Thanks Annie for the inspiration!  We only do family for birthdays so I don't have to make too many.  Here's the design:

The paper is printed on my Imagine with the Imagine More cartridge.  I used clipart I found on google for the Cat In The Hat and a Fiskars border punch to make the red border.  Thanks for looking!

Happy birthday, Eli!

We celebrated my nephew's 8th birthday this weekend and it was a blast!  He is really REALLY into dirt bikes and all things EXTREME!  I figured it would be the perfect time to us this technique that I found on splitcoaststampers.com. 

I embossed the background with my Cuttlebug and the swiss dots embossing folder.  The dirt biker is some clipart I modified using Photoshop Elements.  It turned out really well and now I need to use this design for other things since is it SO much fun!

Thanks for looking!

Button, button, who's got the button?

I have been following all the Papertrey Ink goodness over at Nichole's blog for the past week. Today's sneak peek was just too much for me...I want it all! I especially want the button dies. They are super cute!!!! Well, Nichole issued an awesome button challenge and since I LOVED the button sets, I had to participate. Of course, the project had to include buttons! It just so happens that I was in need of two preschool teacher gifts for Valentine's day. I was going to do the same monkey theme as my son's other Valentines but this challenge inspired me this morning. Here's what I came up with:




I used Papertrey Ink cardstock for the entire project and cut the bag toppers the same way I did for my older son's puppy Valentine's. Then I used the Mat Stack 5 and coordinating Tiny Treats: Birthday stamp set stamped with Versamark. I topped that with a 2" circle punched and stamped using the heart ring stamp from 2010 Love Tags . The heart is also from that stamp set and is stamped with Berry Sorbet ink. I finished the whole thing off with some random buttons I had tied with Rustic Cream Button Twine.

I filled the bags with chocolate covered soybeans and put the whole project together. They turned out great and the picture just doesn't do it justice. I guess that's what I get for being in a hurry this morning! Abram had a great party and his friends and teachers loved their gifts. What fun!

Valentines mailboxes

We have been hard at work crafting my two older boys' Valentine mailboxes. My preschooler came home with an ice cream bucket to decorate for his mailbox. He was SO excited and had very specific ideas about how it was going to look. He wanted it to be pink and painted. I, of course, had no pink pain on hand so we went to Hobby Lobby for spray paint and stickers. After I sprayed the bucket and let it dry, Abram when to town on it with stickers and bling! He had a blast!!!



I designed the topper on my Gypsy and cut it out of two different pinks. Finally, I trimmed the edge of the lid with some ribbon and, viola, a perfect mommy and Abram craft!

Isaac (my oldest) wanted a robot box. So, yesterday we went about crafting it. We covered the box with some metallic silver cardstock I had and then set to work designing the robot. We used cuts from the Boys Will Be Boys cartridge to make our robot fact. With only the face attached, I knew he needed something to make him look more like a robot. I found two empty ribbon spools and covered the inside with pink cardstock. We adhered the "ears" to the sides of the robot's head and he looked perfect. Isaac added some heart stickers and we were done. He's super excited to take this to school for his party!


I hope you enjoyed our boxes! Have a great day!

Happy Birthday, Hubby!!

This weekend was my husband's 36th birthday. We had a great time celebrating and the boys helped me make a cake. There were very clear requirements of this cake: fudgy vs cakey, 3 layered, chocolate cake, chocolate icing, and covered in M&Ms. Think he got specific enough? Ha ha! The boys and I slaved over his cake and it ended up turning out great!


Here's a shot of Micah, my biggest "helper" in the kitchen:


Can't you tell he was a huge help? :) Well, Robyn has issued us all another fun challenge over at The Pink Stamper. I had just enough time to spare this weekend to make a quick card. I needed to make something springy and with the subzero temps we are having here, that sounded wonderful. I didn't break out the cricut for this card (GASP!) but here's what I came up with anyway:


The lighting is awful but you get the idea. This really could not have been simpler and I love how it turned out!

Hope you guys are staying warmer than I am! Brrr...

Playing catch up!

I'm slowly but surely realizing that in just 25 days, my baby will be turning 1. It doesn't seem possible but this realization led me to the fact that I need to get scrapbooking! I've been trying to do a few pages each day since I like to have a first year scrapbook out during the boys' birthdays. It is just fun to see how far they have come. Here are a few of the pages I've gotten done this week.

We've had a stomach bug in the house so I haven't gotten as much done as I'd like. They turned out cute anyway!





Thanks for looking!

Mr. Roboto...

My silly boys were all home this afternoon due to the weather and we had a blast! My two oldest decided that their younger brother (who is just learning to walk) looks like a robot when he's walking. So, everyone in the house had to be a robot for the rest of the afternoon. What silly boys! Here's a peek at the adorable boys I must endure:


Their craziness inspired me to make a cute little robot card! Luckily, I could justify using the Gypsy during our little robot game by saying it was my control pad! ;) I welded two robot shadows together to form a card and re-sized height and width independently so I could make it approx card sized...4.25" x 5.5". It was super simple and turned out super cute!


Not nearly as cute as my boys though...


Hope you are having an awesome day!