Busy Day

I have a busy day ahead of me and probably won't find any time to create anything except for maybe a headache. I thought I would share a scrapbook page I made a couple months ago. Some of you have already seen this as it is in my ASB gallery, but I thought I would share it here too. I was doing one of the sb layout challenges from ASB and came up with this page. The picture is Annabelle's school picture from last year. The page is nothing too fancy but I really liked how it turned out with the exception of the fact that I cropped the picture a little shorter than I wanted.
I hope you all have a terrific day!

Scrap Mania Project

Blogger has finally decided to cooperate this morning. Here are some pictures of the project I made at scrap mania last week...I finally got around to finishing it this weekend. I saw a project made with the Bo Bunny chipboard book on Jody Morrow's blog a few weeks ago and it reminded me that I had one of these bare chipboard books stashed somewhere in my stamp room. After a lot of searching and re-organizing I finally found it just in time to take to scrap mania to work on. The chipboard letters are covered in Basic Gray paper and then embellished with rub-ons and Primas. I used the SU! SAB rub-ons and I have to say that they TOTALLY ROCK! I put a friendship themed quote on each page of the book.
I'm not exactly great with covering chipboard with paper so there are definitely a few areas that could have been better, but overall I think it turned out ok.

Hope everyone had a great weekend! I wanted to add some pics of a project I finished this weekend but Blogger is not cooperating with me tonight. I will try again tomorrow!

Blog Candy for a GREAT cause

If you haven't already heard about or checked out Wendi's blog Kaput Krafts, I definitely recommend heading over there. She has some awesome blog candy that she is giving away for a great cause!

Enabler alert: 10% off at Queen Kat Designs

All this month you can save 10% at Queen Kat Designs. Just use the code found in the blinky banner. Queen Kat just happens to be one of my SBS-13 sisters!

You Make My Day award

I totally forgot that I received a message a few days ago from Nessy (Nessy's Notes) that she was giving me a "you make my day" award. Thanks so much Nessy, YOU totally made my day!!!

I haven't even stepped foot in my stamp room all week :(
Hopefully tomorrow I will get lots of time to play while Tom watches the kids for a bit.

I did however finally make a list of all the stamp sets I am trying to sell (unfortunately, I need to pay bills so I can't even buy new fun stuff with any funds I make). If you are interested in any of these please feel free to send me an email or comment on this post.

Here is what I have available:
Stampin Up! FOR SALE:
A is for Adorable $8
Watercolor Minis $6
Pretty Princess $18
Baby Annoucements $8
Sweet Spot $10
Cute Converse $8
Cuddles and Tickles $8
All Natural $14
Cheesecloth $16
Island Blossoms (new/unmounted) $18
Retro Alphabet lower $26
Noteworthy $6
Too Terrific Tags $6
Festive Four $5
Around and About $5
Alphabet Soup $6
Tagger's Dozen $14
Dot Invitation $8
Everyday Celebrations (flower, sundae, Happiness is not perfect until it is shared, your baby is a dream come true Happiness to all of you) $8
Monkey Business (this set is on EZ mount - stored in a CD case) $18
Perfect Ending $12
Hearts and Clovers $14
Greatest Gift $24
DD set (don't know the name) has a large watering can and a bunch of flowery /leafy type stamps to go with $12
Headline Alphabet $30
Jumbo Wheel Everyday Blossoms $5
standard wheel Candycane Christmas $4
standard wheel Gifts Galore $4
standard wheel Love Swirls $4
standard wheel Butterfly $4 (I have 2 of these, don't ask me why)
standard wheel Blossoms and Bugs $4
standard wheel Busy Bees $4


Gina K FOR SALE:
Punchy Words (new/unopened) $15
Simple Pleasures (new/unopened) $15

Misc. FOR SALE:
Marvy GIGA scalloped Circle, MEGA scalloped circle & MEGA non-scalloped circle $28 for the set
Marvy GIGA scalloped square & MEGA non-scalloped square $20 for the set
Marvy GIGA scalloped oval & MEGA non-scalloped oval $20 for the set

I've been tagged!

I've been tagged by one of my SBS-13 sisters, Nessy from Nessy's Notes. It is a great day for it since I don't have anything new to post today.
Here goes...

1. WHAT WERE YOU DOING 10 YEARS AGO??? I was working in a dairy ingredient quality control lab...testing yogurt and buttermilk cultures to make sure they could make what they were supposed to.
2. WHAT WERE YOU DOING 1 YEAR AGO??? Pretty much the same thing I am doing today....taking kids to preschool and swimming lessons
3. NAME YOUR 5 FAVOURATE SNACKS
chips and salsa, rosemary/olive oil Triscuits, veggies and dip, Reese's peanut butter cups, Flavored chips
4. NAME 5 THINGS YOU WOULD DO IF YOU WERE A MILLIONAIRE: I would join a gym (and get a personal trainer), hire someone to make us delicious/healthy meals everyday, hire a maid, visit all of my out-of-state stamping friends (Mary, Kisa, Delia, Lisa...), donate to charity
5. NAME 5 THINGS YOU LIKE DOING Stamping, Reading, Sleeping, Camping, Biking
6. NAME 5 THINGS YOU WOULD NEVER WEAR AGAIN Leg warmers, Anything in Flourescent colors, Pants that you roll up tight at your ankles, a bikini, stirrup pants
7. NAME YOUR 5 FAVOURITE TOYS! Cuttlebug, Cropodile,iPod,...can't think of anything else right at the moment.

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. We had a busy weekend even though we didn't really do anything. I took advantage of the fact that Tom was home and got a lot of cleaning done on Saturday and then Saturday night my good friend Jen (glitterinmyhair.blogspot.com) and I got some quality stamping time in at the Archiver's scrap mania. It was nice to have 6 uninterrupted hours of stamping time. Hopefully I didn't annoy Jen too much with my non-stop chatter. It was nice to talk with her without having to yell over the kids screaming. Tom managed to handle the kids just fine except, when the kids went to bed, Beckett told him he could lay down next to them but only until mommy gets home and then you have to get out of her spot. I'm so glad to know someone here loves me.
I can't show you the project that I worked on at scrap mania because I didn't get it finished yet, but I do have a card that I made yesterday afternoon to share. This is just a simple wedding card. The couple image is Stampendous and the sentiment is from one of the clear Studio G $1 stamp sets. I colored the grooms tux with prismacolor pencils and gamsol. The rest is pretty simple...glitter, cuttlebug, ribbon, etc.
Thanks for stopping by!

Wedding Invites

One of my sister's coworkers asked me to put together a couple simple examples of wedding invites that she could make. She doesn't have a lot of time to get them done so she wanted them sweet and simple. Her colors are pink, black and white. Here are a few of the simple ideas I came up with this morning. For the 1st and 3rd examples I just printed and stamped on shimmery white cardstock. The 2nd example I printed the invite on vellum and layered it over cardstock that I had stamped one. Her flowers are tulips but I tried one using Roses in Winter also. Let me know what you think. Nothing too fancy but I think they are still quite elegant.

Sick again : (

Sorry I haven't posted anything new in a few days. I am sick again. This time just a nasty cold but nasty enough to keep me pretty much from doing anything. Hopefully there will be something new to post soon. Hope you all have a terrific Friday!

Got Ice Cream?

We have been eating WAY WAY too much ice cream at our house lately. Last week I even bought a big gallon instead of the half gallons. We ate the entire gallon in less than a week. When Tom threw the empty gallon bucket in the recycling bin a little light bulb came on in my head. I took it out of the recycle bin and put it in the dish washer. A few hours later I covered it in paper, ribbon, primas and left it sit in my stamp room for a couple days. Today I decided to take a spur of the moment trip to Archivers to buy the Cropodile Big Bite. I couldn't drive home fast enough. As soon as I got here I punched a bunch of holes in the bucket and filled it with ribbon. What do you think? (I know some of the punches are crooked but besides that, what do you think?)

Monday already?

I just can't believe how fast the weekend went. I didn't really getting any real stamping done, although I did start working on a project that I will hopefully be able to finish and show you later this week. I did take some time for myself and went to see a movie yesterday afternoon while Tom watched the kids. I saw "Juno". It was a really good movie-VERY funny in a lot of parts but kinda depressing for me too. I had very puffy eyes when I left the theatre...good thing I had sun glasses with me. This was the first real movie I have gone to see in a long long time; I ususally see movies with animated characters. I'm thinking I may need to do this "ME" time thing more often. Next time I think I will see something a little more chick-flicky (cheesy, unrealistic, with a Happily Ever After ending)...like Fool's Gold. I will try and post again sometime later today if I get a chance to create anything. Have a great Monday everyone!

I am 32% weirdo

But you all knew that anyway. You were all probably thinking it would be much higher than that, right.
Here are my results:

You Are 32% Weirdo

You're a little weird, but you'd be even weirder if you didn't have a few quirks. You are just strange enough to know it, but nobody else seems to notice your weirdness. That's because, deep down, everyone is a little freaky!

Are You A Weirdo?

It's FINALLY the weekend!

I had a house full of kids all week and I am SO THANKFUL that it is finally Saturday. Annabelle has a birthday party to go to this afternoon so I thought I would try and make a quick name frame for her friend Lauren. I totally cased this idea from Janette Olen (blessingsx3). Janette hosts a monthly swap that I used to be in and last summer one of the months we made gift items. Janette made everyone in the group AWESOME name frames. I just love mine. I cased the layout of the frame she made for me and change the colors and the name (of coarse). I think it turned out pretty cute. The whole project from start to finish only took about 45 minutes.
The only stamping on the entire project is the word "friend" from the SU set Noteworthy and I also used sponge daubers on the white cardstock. The letters are cut out using my Cricut and the rest is well...simple. Hope everyone has a terrific weekend!

Happy Wednesday

I have been so busy all week I haven't had a chance to even think about stamping. I did though, want to share with you a little something the kids and I made a few days ago. Because our weather has been so bad we have been confined to our house for more days than I would like to think about. We spend a lot of days in the basement playroom. We don't have any real furniture in there, just toys and a tv, and the kids have been complaining of no place to sit. So... we decided to create some furniture for them. Here is our first piece. We decided to start with something simple...a chair. Ok, so it wasn't oh so simple but we finished it. We covered a bunch of boxes with construction paper and stickers and then covered the entire thing with packaging tape. I filled the seat box with paper so it wouldn't collapse when you sat on it. I think it turned out pretty cute. You can't have a chair without a foot rest so we made one of those too. The kids love it and actually use it so it was worth the entire roll of packaging tape it took to cover it. Not sure if we will be making any additions to our playroom furniture collection, but it was still fun coming up with this one.

Trying to catch up on some scrappin

Here is another one of the scrapbook layouts I made on Sunday. I made the page without having the 5x7 photo in hand so I had to hope my measurements were ok...they weren't. I just went downstairs to put the 5x7 on and take a picture and I realized I had obviously made an error in measuring so there is a wide black strip to the right of the large photo. I may add something down that strip like brads or something, who knows. I'm a bit disappointed right now as I had really liked the page when I thought the 5x7 was going to fit perfectly. I didn't glue the large photo down just in case I want to change something there. Let me know what you think.
Have a great day!

My "E" blog award choices

It is now my turn to spread some "E" love...I picked 5 blogs of fellow stampers that I have met or swapped with at one time or another on SCS or ASB. I visit the blogs of these 5 ladies every day and am truly amazed at their AWESOME stamping abilities. They all inspire (and enable) on a daily basis!

In no particular order:
Linda (studbo) - The Stamper's Touch
Jackie (Babitoons) - Stamping Sister
Lynn (Lynn in St. Louis) - Stamperosity
Dawn (Dawnsing) - My Favoite Things
Tricia (T. Joy) - Simply Stamping

Here is the graphic for you to copy and display on your blog

Scrappin Sunday and an "E" award!!!!

Yesterday was a great day for scrappin at our house. We were snowed-in (more like iced-in actually) and Tom was home to help watch the kids! I got 3 (2-page) layouts done yesterday. WOW, I haven't scrapped that much in 2 years. Here is one of the layouts that I did (I'm way behind so you will notice that Annabelle is only 2 years old, instead of her current 4).
This is the first time ever that I have used the computer to print something out for a scrapbook, and I really like how it turned out.





And on another note.....


I also wanted to mention that last week while I was sick and not posting, I received an email from Jen (Glitter in My Hair) nominating me for an "E" for Excellence blog award. I am so sorry it took me this long to thank you and get this posted but it has been a crazy week or so. I feel really honored to be nominated especially since my blog has definitely not been all that excellent as of late. Hopefully now that my stamp room is back together and our housesold is a little healthier I will have more to post. Thank you so much for thinking of me! The cool thing is I get to pass on the love to other deserving bloggers, YAY! Check back later today for my list of Excellent bloggers!

Another Verve Visual sketch challenge card

Here is the third card I made the other night using the Verve Visual sketch challenge. I really liked the sketch, it works with any theme!
We got terrible freezing rain overnight and EVERYTHING in town is closed so it is a great day for stamping. Hopefully I will have a couple more projects to share later tonight. Hope you are all having a terrific weekend!