Cosmo Cricket blackboard mini album pages

Woohoooo! Finished two more pages in my blackboard mini album..now we are moving right along, hee hee...may have it finished before the months up. Just in time for the pics from our beach trip at the end of the month...ahhh! I am so ready for the beach!

Fall Card fronts

Well, I've been playing catch up a little...organizing my room..cleaning..organizing some more..seems that part is never ending! But I did get something crafty done~ I stamped up these little bears playing in the leaves and made some fall card fronts for a swap coming up. The object of the card front swap is to design just the front on a piece of cardstock. I keep mine in a little deco box and when I need, say a bday card..I pull out a bday card front and adhere it to the front of a card base...easy peasy! Allie gave me this idea awhile back, I think its great! Cheaper shipping when doing swaps and takes up less room in your card storage.

more Blackboard mini book pages

One of these days I'm going to be finished with this baby..but for now I'm satisfied with doing 2 pages at a time, hee hee! Here are my 2 newest additions. Embellished with more Grafton with a Bazzill paper edge and some primas thrown in. Also used this cutey Basic Grey frame that I've been hanging on to.

Christmas in May, ROFL!!

Well, its no wonder I can't get my scraproom organized...everytime I start on one end and before I get halfway across the counter, I find something that needs immediate attention. Well, tonight I found this cute pic of Jacob at his little polar express party at school. It was stuck in with some Christmas embellishments that I was going through awhile back. Yes..its that messy! haha! So, I had this partially done page with this awesome Rhonna Christmas paper (she makes the best swirly flourishes!!) So, I finished it up tonight..better late than never I guess. hee hee! Have a wonderful holiday weekend wherever you are~ I'll be heading to my SIL's family lake house to spend with Hubby and his family tomorrow night. Can't wait for a nice relaxing time. hugs,T

EK success corner rounder

Woohooo...I'm finally getting to play with my new EK success corner rounder, I love this little thing! I saw a tutorial a while back on doing your own scallop edges. You use this little darling. All you need to do is remove the edge attachment, turn it upside down and start punching. I couldn't wait to play with it so I practiced on this card for my nephew Josh who just turned 16. Notice how nice and crisp the scallop cuts are. I'm going give it a whirl with a circle next. I know my cricut cuts scallop circles but I love the large deep scallops.

Blackboard mini album pages..

Hooray, I finally finished up two more pages in my Summer mini album. I'm going for the beach theme. I'm using papers and embellishments from the Grafton line of Scenic Route..love it!

Another easy blog challenge...

www.croppinsville.blogspot.com is hosting another easy blog challenge. Go here http://tinyurl.com/3gg3nb and post your comments about what you are looking for in a good scrapbook store. You may win a cool prize pack!

A new Cosmo Cricket project

Ok, I have in my hands a new blackboard mini book...I love it! I love scallops, I love the black, I love the size..its just perfect! So, I started on the front page today and I've decided to use this one for a mini summer album. The large flourish stamps by Fancy Pants works great on these with a little white embossing powder.

Clock revamped..

Ok..I added a little something something to my altered clock. A shout out to all the girls on the Croppinsville Creative Crew for all their suggestions toot toot..here is my finished product. Hope you like it!

Overlays...

I was looking through my pics and found this layout using an overlay..ya gotta love these things! I think this one is from Autumn leaves because I recognize those Rhonna flourishes..she does the best flourishes! All you do is add a couple pics..a few embellishments and you have an instant layout...perfect!

Cosmo Cricket altered clock....

Isn't it amazing how when you go to the store you start visualizing how certain things will look altered, haha! I found this round wooden clock that originally had a rooster on it..it was begging to be transformed.

Step 1: sand off rooster

Step 2: paint entire surface with sage green paint

Step 3: grunge it a little with a brown paint leaving just a little bit of the numbers showing

Step 4: use your pattern papers, die cuts, and rhinestones to add a little spunk to the background.

I used Cosmo Cricket "Fleuriste" papers and die cuts.

This little creation is going to Croppinsville USA ~ Allie needs a clock don'tcha think?!

Croppinsville,USA

We are all super duper excited about Allie's new store... Croppinsville,USA... The grand opening is
fast approaching with the online store a few steps ahead of the brick n mortar. To celebrate the upcoming event
Allie will be giving away some great scrapbookey prizes to the first orders going in during grand opening. So come over and
join us in the countdown to opening day! www.croppinsville.blogspot.com While you are there, check out the awesome 'go green' blog challenge. See how Croppinsville USA is doing their part to better the world for our children, and see what things you can do to make a difference as well. You might even win a box of 'go green' blog candy for your efforts!

Stay tuned for more great happenings and creations as I 'dust off' this blog and get busy!

Its Springtime....go play!

New blog topper

I have made a new blog topper using a freebie digi kit from www.shabbyprincess.com I just love their site. Go check them out and try making your own blog topper, its super fun!

Little matchbox treasures..

Laura got me hooked on these little cuties...All you do is alter and fill a little matchbox. Too cute! Here are 3 that I did.

sketch

My friend Heidi over at luckybugcreations has a blog sketch challenge going on..so I thought I would use some of these cutesy pics of Pierson using the challenge sketch.

Spring pages

Spring pages

I finished up some spring pages for a swap...I love this tulip die! I couldn't bring myself to punch them out of plain cardstock though, I used Basic Grey instead and I think it gave them more character. Hope you Enjoy! hugs,T

Deanna

My Best Friend Deanna... She is just the sweetest most caring person you'll ever come across! After mentioning her in my tagged info..I wanted to share a pic. She's the red head and this is when we were in highschool..seems like eons ago! I guess it was, lol.. Man we are getting OLD!

I've been tagged

I've been tagged by my great friend Heidi over at http://luckybugcreations.blogspot.com/ Go check out Heidi's blog for some beautiful paper art pieces! OK I am supposed to come up with 7 things about me.
1. I use to be somewhat of a Tom Boy, always in the woods playing when I was young. I hated Barbie dolls!! I am so happy that I have boys so I can climb trees and play hide and go seek with them! However, I would love a little girl to doll up!
2. I have been in 7 wrecks since 17..Wow..that's ALOT!
3. I use to be very shy, HAHA..not that IS a shocker!!
4. My sign is Scorpio and it says that I am sometimes to nice for my own good and I sometimes agree with that. I tend to get myself in to some major messes by trying to be nice.
5. My secret dream is to have a photo studio..I would take baby pictures all day long!! LOVE IT!
6. I have had the same best friend since the 5th grade...thats like 22 years! Her name is Deanna and she is a Godsend! She lives a couple hours away from me now and I miss her like crazy!
7. OK..now this one is a kicker..I had a close encounter with some strange ball of light when I was younger. Thank goodness my cousin was with me because noone else on earth has really believed us, lol!

I'm not going to tag anyone because everyone that I would tag has been tagged already but here are some really great blogs to go check out:
http://scrapncook.blogspot.com
http://boscraps.blogspot.com/
http://thepayneofscrapping.blogspot.com/
http://shannonleffew.blogspot.com/
http://abeanabugandabird.blogspot.com/
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Z_vFeWgherIUxwRFbRJZEvWfuDs-?cq=1

More little Pierson pics...

I love this idea Laura had to make a heart out of his little feeties. So precious!!

Little Jonah

Who could resist taking a pic of this little smiley guy..Jonah is my friend Dawn's son and he is a little doll~ So fun to take pictures of, he had no problem posing

Lil Pierson

More pics of little Pierson..

Wow..its been awhile!

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy Valentines day everyone, lol! I hope everyone has been busy scrapping their heart out. I wanted to share some pics I took of my friend Laura's new baby. His name is Pierson and he'll be a month old tomorrow. We had our own little photo shoot and he was such a little ham! So I helped Laura make birth announcements using some kits from www.shabbyshoppe.com and www.shabbyprincess.com I just love their digi kits! Didn't they turn out just darling! We think so.. hugs,T

More card candy

More yummy morsels of card candy...

Woohooo..my new love...Card Candy..

I am loving this stuff!! I've made up several different fall/winter themes to use for cards and pages. I thought it would be really neat to store these by theme in a photo box.

Sing a Song challenge..

OK for this challenge I did some Christmas pages in the theme of "Joy to the World"

and a few more...

Fashion inspired pages...

Well..I had high hopes of getting bunches done..but the robbers thought otherwise and came and ramsacked my car and took off in Shauns car with my purse and all my personal belongings in my car..so dang if they didn't take Shaun's brand new cell phone and both our XM radios..Jakes brandnew baseball equipment. Poor little guy started baseball last night and we had to run out right before practice and buy him another bat, ball, glove, pants..etc. etc... So needless to say it has been a terrible week! BUT..I did manage to get a few pages done before bad luck struck again..YIPPEE!

These are layouts done for the fashion inspired challenge..and you can see from the articles of clothing how they relate to the layouts. This was alot of fun...picking out cutesie clothes and mimicing the designs. I wish I had more time to research for more ideas.

Wish me luck in recovering my purse and vehicle! hugs,T

Man OH Man...

I'm having a really tough time with the reusable challenge..

Can't get in the groove to dig out my stamps that haven't seen the light of day in 2 years. Luckily I have a couple sets of acrylic I can use, but that really limits me in theme choices!!! So, I will not have a high page count this round for sure!

I did however manage to get my first set of

CD calendar pages done..well, only October..but I've at least got one month finished!! Yipppeee!

Swap layouts with a little bling..

More swap pieces, the top one is made by Donna and the bottom one are pieces from Rebecca both from Creative_SB_Creations.

Using my swap stuff..

I have accumulated a large stash of wonderful swap items,
and I desperately am trying to get them all scrapped. Here is some wonderful pieces made by Christine from Creative_SB_Creations. I just love the palm tree tag. I'm waiting on the perfect beach photos to finish these two out.

More Blingy layouts...

It's all about the BLING!

Bling Bling and more bling!~

sketch layouts

I really like this sketch, it can be used with a wide range of themes! Here are two examples..for Christmas and Autumn.

Odds and ends from a couple sketchs

Fall is my favorite time of the year and I LOVE doing Fall layouts,
I start really early!

Digging into my swap items..

I'm really trying to use up some of my swap pieces I've been hoarding all this time. Here are some more pieces from a monogram swap. Creative SB Creations~ I just love the R monogram!! Sorry, I cannot give credit to the designer because I can't find the name? Give yourself credit if you designed these pieces. I love them!!!

Another sketch..

This page was done with some swap items..aren't they wonderful pieces! These were created by Christine (I believe) from my advanced scrapbooking group.

Back to scrappin...

More Fall layouts for a fall page swap..these are for the

Pumpkin Patch pics...

FYI

For any of the layouts..you can double-click on the layout to view a close up. ~ hugs,T

One more...

The facing side to the mudd pics..

More sketch layouts....

I've been working on sketch layouts tonight while the boys were busy playing nicely. The bottom layout has pics from 2004. I have been waiting to find the perfect embellishments for it. Jake and Jeremy stripped and went mud sliding into Granney's creek. There is a little journaling block that pulls out from the "I can explain" sticker.

Beach layouts

Beach layouts from our June trip with Mom

Halloween cards

I did these for my friend Julie for a card swap she is hosting. I love Halloween, its my b~day, lol!

Halloween layouts

Halloween layouts I did for a swap using a sketch from www.pagemaps.com :

I have added little stamped bats to the blank spot on the left. It was a wonderful suggestion from Heidi!

I've been tagged by Lindsy (http://abeanabugandabird.blogspot.com)
The Rules:So this is how it works. I must post the rules, 7 random things about me and then tag others to do the same. Sound fair enough, right? These are the rules…. each player starts with 7 random facts about themselves on their Blog. People who are tagged need to blog 7 facts about themselves and post the rules as well. At the end of their blog list 7 people you are tagging. Let them know that they are tagged by leaving them a comment.
1. I have two very ACTIVE boys ages 4 and 6
2. I'm married to Shaun (8 years)
3. We spent our honeymoon in Costa Rica~ I LOVE rainforests!
4. I am a terrible scrapbook addict!
5. I've been a Respiratory Therapist for almost 10 years
6. I live in TN and work in NC
7. I drive a Honda Element (everyone laughs at me for it, because it looks like a shoebox!)

OK..I am tagging Beth Odom (http://www.boscraps.blogspot.com/) and Heidi (http://luckybugcreations.blogspot.com/)

3 more paint layouts..