And the Winner Is.....

Congratulations to Amie! She is the winner of the Blog Candy drawing! Her ADORABLE 'Boys will be Boys' layout was the one I drew from my 'oh so technical' bowl full of names with projects on it!

Amie! Email me at amulcock@comcast.net so I can get your candy in the mail to you! (Great name btw) Also, if you wouldn't mind I would like to post a picture of your winning layout on here, so everyone can see how very cute it is!

Congratulations!! And once again... YAY for FREE STUFF!

Today is the day!

Today is the day of the drawing for my Blog Candy! I will post the winner in a couple of hours! (Have to get the kids to school).

YAY for free stuff!

Thanks to my Father in Law

I am so lucky! I have the most generous and amazing in laws, and today my Father in Law did something very kind for our family. So... I made him this thank you card. It's a pretty simple card. Used some paper from My Minds Eye, and a piece of cardstock I picked up last year at costco. I cut the cardstock with my Cricut, and embossed it with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. Added a little ink, a little sanding, some ribbon and stitching and I had a nice card to send to my Father in Law.

Wow...

This week has been insane. INSANE. 4 Birthdays, I finished the school DVD (again...), and just general insanity. I did make some things, I just haven't had time to pull the pictures off of my camera yet. I will try to get it done today.

If you haven't entered for the blog candy drawing, there's still time!

PHEW, I finished my order.

The last of the stuff for Tina and her Lia Sophia business.

I had to modify the tags I had made the day before because I hadn't put the incentive information on it. Here it a completed tag.Then I made her 6 OCD boxes with insert gift cards for hostesses. When they book a class they get to open the box and then select an incentive from the list. I love to make these boxes and think they turned out really cute.
The last thing I had to make was a face to put on a gift bag for her 'Chocolate Game' she plays with the party guests. I have a few unused paint cans from when I taught my altered paint can class last November, so I thought I would just make her a can quickly instead of the face for the Bag. The can will last better anyway. :D

Happy Mother's Day

Here is my other Mother's day card that I made. This one was for my sweet mom. Again I used my fabulous Cricut and added a flower from Petaloo. (Yes, these are the flowers I am giving away in my blog candy).

Wow, what a week.

I have been super busy! Last night was 'Scrapbook Night' at my house and I made such a yummy dinner, and I wish I had taken a picture of it. It was photo-worthy. Oh well.

I also am making a DVD for my son's school. It's the end of year DVD of all the kids throughout the year. It's a lot of fun but has kept me fairly busy.

Lastly, I have an order to fill for Tina. She is a rep for Lia Sophia Jewelry. These are the tags I have made for her to put on her incentive rewards for booking a party. It's a little hard to tell but they are both about 5.5" tall. I cut them with my cricut and then had a ball decorating them up. I hope she likes them.

Mother's Day Card #1

I didn't post my Mother's Day cards, because I didn't want my moms to see them before Mothers Day.

Here's card #1 - I used my Cricut to cut out the bracket and letters using the Stamped Cartridge, but I modified the 'M's with good old scissors. The paper is DCVW Old World stack, and the flower is petiloo (Who ever wins my blog candy gets some of these cute flowers). I made the tag with my sizzix.

I want candy!

YAY for candy! Here is the blog candy I am giving away. It has a Rob and Bob Studio Super Slab, two cuttlebug embossing folders, ribbon, 3d zots, gel stickers from Making Memories, 2 packages of Chipboard stickers, 2 American Crafts gel pens, Making Memories Rub Ons, and Bazzill flowers along with 3 packs of darling flowers from Petaloo! I will also throw in the pattern and instructions for my OCD box. Here's how it will work. Make something! Make anything with paper! A card, a scrapbook page, something altered, anything you want! Then post a link to it here and I will add you to my raffle. Anytime you post something you get an entry, up to 5 entries. I will randomly select a winner on May 30th! Good luck everyone!

1000 hits!

So it looks like tomorrow I will reach 1000 hits! So watch for blog candy tomorrow. I will post a picture of what I am going to give away and how to win it!

YAY for free stuff!

Blog Candy Anyone?

It looks like I will hit 1000 hits soon (I would have already hit it but I didn't count repeat visitors, darn me!). So would anyone be interested in a blog candy giveaway? If you think I should, leave me a comment and let me know! The candy would be card making or scrapbook related and would include the pattern and instructions for my OCD box.

So if you want a candy giveaway, let me know!

I love this stamp...

I bought this stamp at Michaels and I just love it! So I thought I would make a card to add to my cards I am making for my boys' teachers. It's a great 'just because card'. Anyway, paper is from We R Memory Keepers, ribbon is from Michaels and the flowers are primas. I stitched around the edge and did quite a bit of distressing with ink and sandpaper. The scallopped heart was cut using my cricut, but instead of using the heart I cut out, I used the remaining paper that it was cut from.

Another Must Have Tool

I am addicted to distressing. I can't stop. It just seems like everything looks a little better after it has been distressed. I distress lots of different ways, but one of my favorite and quickest ways to distress something is to sand it. This little beauty comes from Home Depot or Lowes but I am sure you can find them at any hardware/ building store. It's a sanding sponge from 3M. LOVE IT!

Feel Better Soon!

My sister had to have surgery on her arm, basically they had to shorten her ulna to correct an injury from a car accident. So this is the card I made for her.

The tag is chipboard and was made with my sizzix. The scalloped circle was made with my cricut, as was the circle inside it, which is also chipboard. The 'u' is chipboard and was made with my sizzix also. The ribbons came from Michaels, and the brad is from Making Memories. Papers come from My Mind's Eye - Magnolia (I love these papers and they had them for sale in a lovely stack at Costco! Yipee!)

I did lots of distressing with ink and sandpaper also.

The sentiment was done by making my own rub on.

I hope it lifts her spirits a bit.

Happy National Scrapbook Day!

It's national scrapbook day, and I am away from my scrapbook room.

So I hope everyone else makes something with paper while I am away!

Tools I Love..

I have had a few people ask me about what tools I love to use and can't live without. Clearly, my Cricut is #1, but I decided to spotlight another favorite of mine.

The Crop-O-Dile. This little bad boy is amazing! It's a hole punch and eyelet setter. It will cut through chipboard, leather, just about anything (silently I might add). Plus you can set how deep into your paper you want the hole set so that if you are punching multiple holes they are all even. If you scrapbook or make cards, this tool is a must have. If you have one and you don't use it, get it out and try it! I bet you will like it.

RAK - Random Act of Kindness

Cambria's grandmother recently had heart surgery. This is the card I made for her.

I have had a bit of 'Scrappers Block' and this card just kind of happened. It's fairly simple, but I really liked how it turned out. Paper is from My Mind's Eye, ribbon I just had lying around and the charm I had picked up at Joanns a while ago. The sentiment is a stamp. I distressed the edges with 'Vintage Photo' ink, sanded a little bit, then stitched to add some more dimension. I hope she likes this card and that it lifts her spirits!

Another Teacher Appreciation Week Box

Wow, first of all this box looks much less plain when you see it for real. Wow.

Ok, this is another box to hold a gift card for my son's first grade teacher. (I just didn't have any idea what to get her!) So it is made with cardstock from My Mind's Eye, and a flower from Prima. The brad in the center is from Making Memories. I did the sentiment on my computer and cut it out with a large circle punch. I added some stitching around the circle and on the box to give it some texture and tied it with some ribbon. The back of the box has some more ribbon on it too.

Mother's Day is coming...

Here is the top and front of the exploding box I made for my Mother in Law for Mother's Day. I will post pictures of the inside as soon as I get it finished. The cardstock is Bazzill Basics, as is the flower. The brad is from Making Memories and I made the M with my cricut. The tag is from my sizzix. The jump rings are also from Making Memories. I picked up the paper and ribbon from a great local store named 'Paper Creations'. It's my favorite scrapbook store. I love the owner and they have an amazing selection. If you can check it out, you should!

Super Busy

I have been super busy lately. But my plans are tonight to make a couple cards and get them posted.

I did, however have a split second to pop into Michaels and look at Martha Stewart's line of scrapbooking and paper products... and let me just say. YUCK. I really had much higher hopes. Her paper is thin and cheap feeling not to mention I don't care at all for any of the patterns I saw. Then there is the whole issue of the 18x18" scrapbook. That's just INSANE. So, needless to say I was disappointed in what I saw. I really expected better.