Spring Is Here

I am hoping Spring has come to stay. I love the warmer weather and not having to bundle up with layers of clothes. I would move to a warmer climate for year round but I have family here and would not want to leave them.

I have some Spring like pictures to share of my daughter's baby shower that took place this past weekend. I made most of the decorations with either my Cricut or my friend's Vagabond. I really like how the banners turned out since I just love pastel and spring like colors.

Here is the diaper wreath. I stamped each diaper with either some kind of baby shape like little feet or spring type of design like flowers. I did stamp the date of the baby shower and when the baby is due also. I wrapped each diaper around the styrofoam circle and tied it with ribbon to hold them on there. The banner is hung with twine. Each pennant has scalloped edging with holes so I looped the twine through those and tied them to the wreath.

This is the gift table all decorated with a banner and the streamers and balloons with the diaper wreath. The banner on the table also has the same pennants but I made a rosette flower for each one of the letters to sit on.

I also stamped little feet and the name on this frame. It was not easy since the frame doesnt lay flat. You can also see a sign on the side of the picture. I painted a piece of wood with Prima's Chalkboard Paint.

I made labels and the letters on the Vagabond for to put on the dishes for the Nuts and No Nuts.

This was a Gender Reveal Baby Shower so this is how everyone found out if it was a boy or a girl.

Now is the waiting game. Little Ramiro is due on May 29th. Cant wait to hold the little bundle of joy!

Happy Scrappin!

March Madness

March Madness is what came to mind when thinking of a title for this post. It has nothing to do with Basketball. I do not like Basketball.

 This month is my Birthday month and my birthday is on a Saturday! I even took off work the day before to make it an extra long weekend. Usually I will take off anyway if it lands on a work day. My cousin always comes to town for the weekend sometime around my birthday. He will arrive on Friday and we always go to lunch with my mom and boyfriend this time since he will take off work too.

On Saturday, we have to do our taxes. After that the whole family will go for a late lunch to celebrate. Later after dinner time, my boyfriend, my friends and I are going out of town to see Lita Ford. This is the same bar we went to see Brett Michaels Band. I am sure it will be a good time. Cant wait!

Another event that is making this March Madness is my daughter's baby shower. It is at the end of the month and I am trying to make most of the decorations. I spent Saturday and Sunday afternoon at my friends house so I could use her Vagabond. I  finished making the invites but also made some of the banners and little odds and ends for the shower. The invites I made with my Cricut. I had bought a new Cricut cartridge called New Arrival online when they were on sale.

This is such a cute cartridge and I am sure I will get a lot of use out of it when I start the album for the grand baby. Here is a photo of the baby shower invite.

The baby is due at the end of May so I wanted to use Spring colors. Plus the baby shower is the weekend before Easter. I used my gelatos for the background. I just rubbed the color on my craft mat and used a wet paintbrush to apply the color. After it was dry, I then embossed it with my Texture Boutique. I used a 2" scallop punch on the mat for the feet and inked them with distress ink. The rest was cut out on my Cricut and painted with gelatos. I used a pop dot for the scallop and ran the embellies through the Xyron for effective stickiness.

Supplies
Paper Studio white cardstock
Faber-Castell Gelatos-Pink, yellow, purple and blue
Tim Holtz Distress Ink- Pine Needles, Tattered Rose
Teresa Collins Xyron Sticker Maker

I will post photos of the baby shower decorations after the baby shower. One of these days I will get back to scrappin layouts. LOL.

Happy Scrappin!

Happy Valentines Day

I know its a week early for Valentine's Day but I will be at the Onalaska, WI Hobby Lobby on Saturday, February 7th from 11am-2pm making Valentine's Day cards. As always, we will be using Prima products and also some of Hobby Lobby's products. I would like to share my sample card that I will be showing. It is not so much of a card that says Happy Valentine's Day but has to do with love.

Of course, this is just a sample and anyone that comes to do the demo can come up with their own kind of card. There are different stamps, papers, ink and flowers to use.

I used the Stationer's Desk 6x6 paper pad for the background and punched the border with Paper Studio(HL) heart border punch. I inked a white flower from a Prima Pillar Pack with Rose Bud chalk edger. I took one of Prima's small flower metal mechanicals and covered it with gesso. I then inked the edges with the same chalk edger and cut off the loop hole that each mechanical has. I cut out and glued a rose from Prima's Say It In Pearls(SIIP) Swirls Fimo Gray into the middle of the mechanical. I used Prima's cling mounted stamps for the sentiment. These are 2 separate stamps and the sentiment, a love story, fit just perfect in the frame stamp. I then cut around the stamped image with a decorative scissors and inked the edges with the same chalk edger once again. I added more of the SIIP coming from the flower to give a little bit of elegance.

All of these products are available at Hobby Lobby and if you cant find them at your local store dont forget to check online. Also, dont forget about your 40% off coupon you can get in their emails.

Have a Happy Valentine's Day
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Happy Scrappin!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I know Christmas is done with but I did not get a chance to blog before it was here. I thought I would mix the two together in one post. I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays with family and friends. I always enjoy getting together during the holidays and visit with people we dont see very often during the year because everyone is so busy or they live out of town.

I kept forgetting to take pictures of my Christmas cards that I made but I did remember to take one of my favorite that I did. I just bought some embossing folders online during the 12 days of Christmas sales and they came the Friday before Christmas. This one I gave to my good scrappin friend. I knew she would like it.

I embossed this design on glittered cardstock with a Darice embossing folder. I colored the ornaments, stars and snowflakes with stickles. I added the clear Christmas Wishes stickers and chipboard silver star in the middle.

Here are some family Christmas photos that I took.

 My daughter, son in law & son at the table. The next photo is of me and my grandma.

I took a photo of my daughter by her stocking to show off her baby bump for Christmas. She is due in May . The next photo is of my son, daughter, my dad & me.

These are the Christmas stockings that my step mom made for everyone. She had made some when my son was a baby but needed to update and she is keeping these for at their house.

Now I want to share some of my special projects from throughout the year.

                                               Valentine's Day Card

                                                 Springtime Canvas

                                    My Prima cards for the Hobby Lobby Manager

                             Stickers that I made with my cricut, stickles & Xyron

                               The first Prima project at the Hobby Lobby demos

I cant wait to see what the New Year brings with more of the Prima Demos at Hobby Lobby, baby shower coming in March and the grand baby in May. It should be an eventful year! I hope you have a Great & Happy New Year as well.

Happy Scrappin!

The Final Challenge

I am sorry to inform everyone but Child's Play Challenges will be hosting its last challenge not only for the year but for good. Peoples lives just get too hectic sometimes and it is a lot of work to keep a challenge blog going. I am grateful to Devra for giving me the opportunity to create for Child's Play Challenges. I had a lot of fun doing it!

For the last challenge at Child's Play is inspired by the toy Lite-Brite. I used to have one when I was a kid and remember how much fun it was to play with. Unfortunately I did not have any pictures with it so the best thing I could come up with was a photo of my outside Christmas decorations. This layout was also done in my December Daily album.

I used Teresa Collins Christmas kit along with some of Margie Romney-Aslett's elements from her Christmas kit as well. I used stickles on the chipboard stars, added the green border sticker on the journaling card that is used as a mat and cut out the title and definition of Christmas Tree from Teresa's paper pad.

Supplies

Teresa Collins Noel 6x6 paper pad and Christmas Home chipboard tree
Bazzill Journaling Card and chipboard stars
Champagne, Holly, Diamond and Cranberry Stickles

I hope you can join us for our last challenge and get some great inspiration from Lite-Brite.

Happy Scrappin!

Christmas Prima Demo

On Saturday, December 6th I will be doing Prima make n takes at the Hobby Lobby in Rochester, MN from 11am-2pm. This time round we are making Christmas ornaments but with the same Mechanicals that we used last month for the Purse Fob. Here is the sample ornament that I made.

I made this with the biggest mechanical piece that you get in the package. There are 4 different sizes and you can use them on any project that you like or can think of. The smaller pieces you can use on a card or tag. I also used paper on the inside of the ornament from The Stationer's Desk 6x6 paper pad which I cut with my 2"scallop punch, trimmed it to size and glued it down. The flowers are from the Wild Flower Pillar Pack and the bling are the Branch Brown Say It In Crystals. I cut out the holly leaves on my cricut and inked them with the Moss Lawn Chalk Edger ink.

Other projects you can use the Mechanicals on are things like a lapel pin, a card or tag, a canvas project or layout. You can even paint some kind of medium like gesso on it and color it with an ink or any kind.

I hope I have given you some ideas for a project or christmas gift.

Happy Scrappin!

Winter Inspiration

Just getting over with Thanksgiving and the biggest shopping day of the year, everyone is in the holiday spirit. For the 1st challenge of December at Child's Play Challenges comes from the movie The Polar Express. I have not seen the movie myself but the train is inspiration enough.

During the month of December there is a Holiday Train that travels all over the place. Our town is one of its stops. We have a canned goods donation drive at our small train depot and they offer free hot chocolate while we listen to the band play that travels with the train. I have only gone 1 time so I could get some pictures of the train all lit up. I decided to do a December Daily mini album and I put the photos in there.

This mini album was a kit from Teresa Collins that I got at Scrapfest a couple years back.

I hope this challenge can get everyone in the Holiday spirit to scrap some special memories.

Happy Scrappin!