Happy Weekend!

Posted on | November 22, 2008 | 7 Comments

First of all thank you so much for the congrats!! We are very very excited and cannot wait to meet the little person. A few have asked me if we’re going to find out about the gender. Well, we’re thinking about it. This is our plan for now… since our insurance doesn’t pay for ultrasounds (the military’s funny, they pay 100% but no ultrasound unless it’s medically needed), we’re going to do the 3D one at 20 weeks-ish and just take a peak and have the person put the info in an envelope. Then, we’re either going to make it to the end and it’ll be a surprise or we’re going to be too crazy not knowing and we’ll rip the envelope open before the child is born. My guess is that the later will happen. My wonderful husband cannot stand waiting for Christmas. It’ll be amazing if he can wait 20 weeks, or less, to find out when the answer is right under his nose.

Both kids, the M and the (big kid) husband, wants a boy. I wouldn’t mind another girl. So, when I blog I’ll be calling it she and at home, it’ll be a he. Either way will be great, I just have a little thing for girls.

Ok, so here’s a page that I did using my Studio Calico stash. Not sure what month this kit was from. The title I did with my KnK. I love wallet size photos when I scrapbook. I think you’ll see more of them. I’ll be printing out more in a bit here.

Have a great weekend! I plan on crafting sometimes this weekend!! Hopefully the little person left me some creativity juice. She really is sucking the life of of me… I am getting Alzheimer too. I keep repeating myself, urgh!

Self Checkout

Posted on | October 29, 2008 | 5 Comments

First of all, sorry for being such a bad blogger. I haven’t been blog hoppin’ much and my Google Reader is probably uber full. I’ve only posted here and there and that’s pretty much it. I have just been too occupied with my visiting family. So until after this weekend, I’ll be sporadic. I can’t wait to see what’s out there though. I tried doing a card last night and I felt so rusty.

Anyhow, this is another page that I did a few weeks back. I got this orange card stock at my lss and even though it was bright, I was determined to use it. So here it is, I combined it with some black and whites, light colors, and red and here’s what I came up with. I think everything came from one of my Scarlet Lime kit. The alphas came out of my Klic-n-Kut and so did that paw. The paw I did myself, my second creation after my tree. I used a lot of dimensionals, so this page is not super flat, just my kind of page! Oh, notice the sewing too? {::SMILES}.

The story… Shady is such a daddy’s girl. She’s so into him that she knows when he’s going to leave the house and she’ll either follow him around, won’t get off his lap, or be dangling somehow on him.

Another story… I took my parents to the city. They thought the KC Plaza was so nice… quite unique and the buildings were fancy. But, I think what got their attention the most was the self checkout at the grocery store. We went to Price Chopper because they wanted some fruits. I saw the self checkout and thought that they’d get a kick out of it. Sure enough they had to go twice ha ha. The last one was just for a bag of chips. My mom thought the voice was cute… I have to say the one at Price Chopper sounds better than the other ones I’ve heard. So that was the highlight of yesterday…. the self checkout.

Ok, ta ta for now. Hope to share more soon!!

Signing Gal

Posted on | August 31, 2008 | 4 Comments

Happy Sunday!!! If you’re like me, there’s one more day of staying at home, YES!!! I am taking a grading break. I have more students this semester and I do read each word and every period. I love using Acrobat Pro to delete, highlight, insert, and more on their paper. It’s my high tech red marker {::SMILES}.

This was a page I did last weekend. The Making Memories Travel paper is already busy and so to not cover up what’s already there, I only used a little bit of elements and a lot of Type. That little bird… I trimmed out a coupon from Studio Calico. They always use the prettiest paper and element for their ads/promo and I always save them for a project. Love the birdie!! The bottom right are Amy Butler’s embellishments and the left is scrap MM paper and KI button with more Amy Butler in between.

Under the title it said: You Signed.

The picture was Emma signing “all done.” She loved and still loves bath time. Every she’s done, she always say that she’s all done. The title came from Scrapping to Music. I thought it was just perfect for this picture that I’ve been wanting to scrap.

Ok, ta ta for now. Going to watch disc 3 of season 1 Heroes. I’ve watched the first two shows online and have always wanted to see the rest. When M and I picked hubby up at his friend’s (he walked home to his friend’s apartment — I was not motivated to pick him up at 2 a.m., ha!) I saw the series and he said we could borrow them. YEAH! This is the first time that hubby’s seen it and he’s getting addicted to it he he…

Oh So Big

Posted on | August 27, 2008 | 5 Comments

Ok, this Etsy thing that I mentioned earlier. Anybody sell on that thing? Does it work? Seems like there are A LOT of people selling there. How the heck do people find you? I really do have a lot of cards. I only send out a few. I just love making them. I do get attached to the cards that I make but it is getting a bit ridiculous and it’s only been nine months. I don’t want to temporarily quit making cards. Suggestions?

If you’re in the area, I’ll be teaching a card and a mini book class in Sept. Call the scrapbook store for the dates (I forgot). One’s a Wednesday and the other is a Thursday, both at 5:30 p.m. Yeah, MINI!!! I’ll be bringing in a few toys to create with. I think it’ll be fun.

Back to the layout… Here’s a funny picture that I love. Emma was just a little over a year old when this happened. Hubby’s so sweet, once in a blue moon, he’d buy us girls flowers. This was one of those days and this was also the first in M’s little life that she’s every seen such an arrangement. You can see from her expression that she was in awe. She signed “so big” after. It was just cute.

I didn’t use a lot of material for this. I used my goodies from Studio Calico: some SEI and Tinkering Ink stuff plus rub-ons (the golden itty bitty border) and a tag. The swirls and alphas came from my K-n-K. Love that machine! There is a downside. Instead of taking a few minutes to cut on a Cricut, it’ll take you 15 minutes because you can’t decide which font to use. Or, instead of using what’s in the CD, you just got to go make one of your own.

Ok, going to bed (1:30 a.m. almost)… have a great Wednesday!!!

My Green Page

Posted on | August 23, 2008 | 6 Comments

And I’m not talking about the stinkin’ color! {::SMILES}

This was what we did yesterday, every bit of it. Everybody’s pages looked oh so different (next time I’m taking my camera with me!) but they all did the same thing, we distressed, grunged, made paper flowers and leaves, stamped, stitched, and painted. From what they told me, they had a blast. One lady made her flower from the red fabric (I had plenty), it was awesome. It’s those yo-yo flower. Not the complicated one… similar to the one I did for my mini album. I just used ribbons then.

I think I’ll make a video tut. for this project. That way you all can try it at home.

For this project, there was nothing new that was used. I did this sample at home and I just used my leftover stash. The cardboard came from my Stampin’ Up! box, the top cover.

Material:

Cardboard box, leftover pattern paper (I used my stash from Sassafrass and Cosmo Cricket). The fabric came from a project gone wrong (I tried making Emma a dress – it ended my sewing career basically), the card stock were just left from various card projects, and the other day, when I created the Dreams card, I had an extra piece so I thought I’d use it. The buttons… they’re just all over the place. Oh, I used packing poppers too and acrylic paint. The stamps, I used SU’s black and chocolate chip. The Dreams stamp was colors using SU Watercolor and blending pen.

That little bird, that’s from my Klic-n-Kut. I love that machine. I’m just getting use to all the pressure settings and blades (I have three) and understanding why some images that I created in Illustrator won’t cut and how certain things cut. I probably won’t have anything too great to show you until later down the road, I want to really learn this thing but my time is a bit scarce right now too.