Scraps of Me

If I'm dreaming please don't wake me !!

2011-03-11T09:02:00.003-06:00

I have soooo much exciting to news to share today. First up check out this post over at The Scrapbook Store blog. Yep that's right I am a guest designer for the next six months !! Please ignore the dorky picture though, I just couldn't seem to take a good one that day. I can't wait to get started over there, and can't thank the ladies there enough for giving me this awesome opportunity. Here's some pics of two of the projects I submitted.

On a not scrappy note, I'm moving !! Been finalizing the details and I'm going to be closing on a condo on April 5th. I can't wait to get over there, I've already planned out where my scrapbook area will be and I'm going to have so much more room to create a mess. Haha

That's all for now, I hope you all are having as much good luck as I've been having lately !

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A few more layouts to share

2011-02-21T15:02:00.007-06:00

I hope everyone had a great weekend, I know I did. I even had a mini crop with my sister in law on Saturday and got quite a bit done.

This first layout is based off of a sketch I got with one of my Scrap-Room kits, and the paper and most of the embellies are Jillibean Soup. I just love these pictures, if you watch baseball at all you know Milwaukee is known for it's racing sausages at home games. Well at our local hockey games we have racing cheese, like the title says, only in Wisconsin :)

For this one, I was really glad to have found pictures to match the papers. I'm not much of a vintage girl, while I love the look of it, my pics just never seem to match it. I received the Crate Paper Restoration line in another Scrap-Room kit and just didn't know what to do with it. I then found these pics of the first snowmobile I ever drove, printed them in black and white, and they were a perfect fit. It also gave me an excuse to use my Heidi Swapp edge distresser too.

Lastly just a fairly simple layout of a friend and I up north. I really like the background paper by October Afternoon and wanted a lot of it to show, so I didn't add too much else.

That's all for now, thanks for stopping !!

2 Page Layouts

2011-02-16T10:43:00.010-06:00

When I first started scrapping, all I did were 2 page layouts and a little over a year ago I started doing mostly one page layouts. Looking through my pictures, I realized I needed to do some more two pagers, because I was eliminating too many pictures. I came across this great site, sketch support that has 2 page sketches and it was just what I needed to get back into the swing of 2 pagers. The first 2 I used sketches from the site, the last one is not based off of a sketch but I used the general idea of their sketches to create it.

That's all I have for today, I'm getting a much needed haircut tonight and can't wait. Maybe I'll post some pics of my new 'do.

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Sketch Challenge

2011-02-15T12:32:00.002-06:00

Just a quick post today. Scrapbook Sussies is a monthly kit club that I subscribe to and they had another sketch challenge this month. Here is my take on it.

I used Bella Blvd's Sunny Happy Skies line that came in February's sussies kit. That's all for today.

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Happy Valentine's Day !

2011-02-14T13:38:00.005-06:00

I hope everyone has a great day celebrating with their significant other, or if you're single like me, celebrating with yourself !!

I had a great time this past weekend. We had a Bowl for a Cure breast cancer fundraiser on Friday. Here's a pic of the team.

I also did some scrapping this weekend. This first layout is some pics from the local tree lighting in town. My Dad is on the board of directors for the community center hosting the event so every year we go and help hand out glo-sticks to the kids. The patterned paper is Jillibean Soup, the background is Bazzil cardstock with chalk on it to bring out the pattern a little more, and I used my favorite new toy(my sewing machine) on the edges.

This next one is some pics from a radar run I went to last year, and everyone came home with trophies. Everything with the exception of the snowflake is Crate paper (and did you notice, I used my sewing machine on this one too !).

The next two change up the seasons a little bit, it was soooo cold here last week I needed to remind myself it does warm up eventually. These are pics from last summer. First up is my brother and I playing on a slip n slide. Everything but the cardstock is Bella Blvd.

And this one seems like a good one to end today's post with. My sister in law and I just relaxing at the lake. Thankfully only a few more months of cold until we're here again !! I used WRMK 72 & Sunny line for this one.

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Snowpocalypse !

2011-02-03T19:52:00.006-06:00

I've lived in Wisconsin my whole life, and can't remember a time when we got this much snow all at once. It was nice to not have to go to work on Wednesday, but I couldn't have gone even if I wanted to. Our street wasn't plowed until after 3 in the afternoon. Unfortunately I wasn't feeling the greatest, so I had planned on a whole day of scrapping but didn't get much accomplished. I did venture out for a little bit to take some pics though !

That's me standing next to the huge pile in our driveway, and that's the road behind me still covered in a little more than 2 feet of snow.

Elvis loved busting through the snow piles, Toby not so much. I'll be back later with some scrappy stuff to share. Hopefully the weather is good wherever you are !

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New Year, New Me !

2011-01-31T09:18:00.003-06:00

I'm back ! I know it has been forever since my last post, but I had somethings happen personally that I had to handle, and while I know some people like to blog about their personal lives, I needed to do this on my own. That's not to say that I haven't had any good times the last 6 months, because I have, and I was always scrapping when I had the chance. I have one layout to share today based off a sketch by Kristine Davidson for Scrapbook Sussies.

I still can't believe that I'm 29 and this was my first ever gingerbread house ! I had so much fun with these little houses that this will definitely be a tradition I do every year from now on. I used Crate Paper's Snow Day collection from the December Sussies kit. The note card in the upper left is in a pocket for journaling, I just haven't added it yet.

That's all I have today, but I have much more to share later.

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Woo Hoo !!

2010-07-15T09:27:00.003-05:00

Check out what I just won over on the My Mind's Eye blog. Aren't these collections great !!

A Summer Mini

2010-07-13T23:20:00.006-05:00

So during the 4th of July weekend, my brother, sister in law and I all went swimming, and had a blast playing around with my underwater camera. Now I know I'm supposed to be scrapping 2009 pictures so I can get caught up, but I couldn't resist. These pictures were perfect for Bella Blvd's All Inclusive line, so instead of layouts I decided to make a mini album. I used acrylic paint on the pages to add just a little background, and all of the buttons and most of the stickers have glossy accents on them to give it a kind of watery (not sure if that's a word) feel. I was really happy with how it came out, and decided glossy accents is my new hot item. I'm trying to find more ways to use it on my layouts.
Right about now, I wish I was back in the pool where these pics were taken. It is hot and humid here today, and tomorrow's supposed to be worse. Add that on top of volleyball tonight and softball tomorrow will make for a sweaty couple of days. Yuck !!

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More layouts !

2010-07-10T10:10:00.010-05:00

I hope everyone had a great weekend. I know I did, we just kind of relaxed and caught up on stuff around the house. Oh and I almost forgot, Jeff won his race on Friday !! Woo Hoo !!

I have a few more layouts to share today. This first one I just found out is the creation of the week over at the scrapbook express forum ! I used Basic Grey's Max & Whiskers line, I love the color combo on this line.

This is some pics from the Chicagoland Bike Show. The top left is me sitting on my dream bike. Pretty sure it will stay a dream as I can't see ever spending that much money on a motorcycle.

This is Jeff and I at state fair last year, which is coming up again soon, I can't wait !!

Last one is my SIL Jamie and I at my Mom's 50th B-day party. We did a martini cruise on the Milwaukee River, which was so much fun, we are going this friday on a margarita cruise !

One more quick scrappy note, I am going to be the guest designer for the month of August at Scrapbook Sussies. I can't wait to get my hands on this months kit, check out these sneak peeks to see why ! Be sure to check out their website and sign up if you're looking for a great monthly kit club to join !

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I'm Back !!

2010-07-09T09:27:00.010-05:00

Well this time the long delay in posts wasn't all my fault. A few weeks ago our computer gave us the "blue screen of death", as I call it and we were so busy it took awhile to get it back up and running. Thankfully nothing was lost ( I think I would have cried if I lost my pictures), but I have to get better at transferring stuff to the external hard drive in case this happens again.

We have still been busy, busy, busy. Our fourth of July was great as I hope all of yours were. We saw the local fireworks and parade, then finished out the night at the Carrie Underwwod concert !! This was my second time seeing her and she was just as great as the last time. It really got me in the mood for country thunder, which is only two weeks away ! I can't wait, 4 days of almost non-stop country music, camping, and a great group of friends to share it all with.

I have managed to get a little scrappy stuff done lately, but I'm still waiting for my rainy day to get more done. Here's a few layouts I recently did. Another snowmobile layout, this time using Crate Papers Brook collection.

These pics I love, when Powder was a puppy she would chew the toilet paper right off the roll, and I happened to catch her in the act once.

Me & Kara up north by Larry the Logroller, he is somewhat of a northwoods legend, kind of like Paul Bunyan. I used BoBunny's Roughin It line for this one.

And me & Mom at my brothers rehearsal dinner last year. This is BoBunny's Kitchen Spice line.

Off to another race tonight, let's hope we come home with a win !

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2010-06-09T09:31:00.016-05:00

So, I thought when Kara's wedding was done, I would be able to catch up om my scrapping and have time to relax, however I seemed to forget that with May comes the start of volleyball two nights a week, softball one night, and the racetrack. For example this past week we had gone up north for the holiday weekend, got home Monday, I chaperoned my sister-in-law's third grade class to the zoo (which was a blast, but exhausting) played in two v-ball leagues on Tuesday, back to work Wednesday and played v-ball, softball on Thursday, Jeff raced on Friday, and I had a bachelorette party in Lake Geneva on Saturday. Needless to say, Sunday was spent catching up on sleep. I did manage to do a couple of layouts throughout all of that, but haven't taken pics of them yet.

I did score a huge deal on stamps while I was up north. We have these shops called the liquidators, and they are kind of like a big rummage sale but everything is new. If you have the patients to sift through things you can find some good deals. I got both of these autumn leaves clear stamps sets for $1.29 each.

I also snagged a few picture frames and a sign to try and alter for around $2.00 each.

Now I have to share a few of my favorite photos from our weekend up north.

Sorry, that was a lot of photos but I couldn't decide which to leave out. I do have just one more pic from the field trip to the zoo. How cute are these kids :)

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Time to relax

2010-05-05T11:25:00.008-05:00

Kara and Jordan's wedding was this past weekend, yes it was on NSD, I tried to get her to change it but she wouldn't :) Everything went perfectly, she looked beautiful and they both were so happy. Here are a few random photo's I took, I can't wait to see the professional pics soon.

Needless to say I did not get any scrapping done with the rehearsal on Friday and the wedding on Saturday, but the wedding was such a blast. Now I'm on the hunt for the perfect paper to scrap these pictures. But I have to finish 2009 first, my goal was to have all the year scrapped by the end of June and then spend the rest of the year doing prior years, I'm running out of time and I'm just a little over half way done. Time to get cranking, hopefully I'll get a rainy weekend here where I won't feel guilty staying inside and scrapping :)

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Quick Post

2010-04-22T09:06:00.005-05:00

Just a couple of layouts to share today. The first is of Powder out in the yard and uses Jillibean Soup papers. The second is some pics of me from the waterpark, and the paper and embellishments are Kaisercraft.

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Christmas in April

2010-04-22T09:05:00.004-05:00

Just a couple of Christmas layouts to share today. Again everything used in these layouts is from the December kit from Scrapbook Sussies. The first one uses American Crafts Christmas line, and the second uses Crate Paper's Christmas line.

Sounds like it's going to be cold and rainy here this weekend, so it will be a good scrapping weekend !

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A Little Late

2010-04-22T08:51:00.005-05:00

I know Easter was a few weeks ago, so I'm a little late with this post, but I still wanted to share a couple of Easter cards I did. The March kit from Scrapbook Sussies had BoBunny's Flutter Butter line in it. The colors were perfect for Easter cards. The stickers are from their Abbey Road line that I just happen to stumble upon at HobbyLobby for 50 % off and they matched perfectly.

I also did a few layouts with this kit. The first is a pic of the girls at my brothers wedding, and the second is of the family of baby bunnies we had living in our front yard last spring. Poor Jeff happened to stumble on them last year when he went to trim the grass around the flower bed and they all shot out the hole at him, luckily he didn't hit any of them with the trimmer.

Back to watching the Brewer game now, they're a few innings away from sweeping the Pirates, and Prince finally hit his first homer of the year. I love baseball season !

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My Scraproom

2010-04-08T10:40:00.004-05:00

I said I would share some pics of my scraproom, so here they are. The quality of the photos is kind of low, it's a small room with a lot of stuff in it, so it was hard to get good shots. The first couple shots here are of my main workspace. I keep a lot of stuff that I use all the time right on the desktop for easy access. I also love having the window right in front of me, it provides great natural light and when I get stuck on a layout I can just stare outside and forget about it for a little while.

On the opposite side of the room is another desk, a smaller desk that I used to keep my tools(cuttlebug, slice, xyron machine, zutter) on. Underneath is all paper collections, when I get a monthly kit, or buy a collection, I try and keep everything together(paper, embellishments) and those ziploc bags work perfect for that. The bags are even big enough that I have certain 12x12 albums that I want to use with particular papers, and the album fits in the bag ! Above that desk is a lot of random storage.

More storage over on this wall, most of the paper in these is what I'm currently working with, or set aside for a particular project. And of course the all important tv, I love having movies on in the background while I scrap !

My favorite part of my room is the rug, it's hard to tell from pictures but it's really soft and plush. Powder lays there all the time while I work, and she didn't want to move while I was taking pictures (she's also in the picture above, she just doesn't like to be far from where I am)

That's my scraproom, I must say that I have been far more productive since it's been clean. I can only hope that it stays that way.

Busy weekend coming up again, Kara's bachelorette party is Saturday, and I struck gold in the dollar section at Target yesterday with all kinds of goodies for the girls, so I can't wait !!

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Happy Easter !!

2010-04-04T12:53:00.002-05:00

A Little Bella

2010-04-01T09:59:00.006-05:00

I recently joined a new monthly scrapbooking club called The Scrap Room, and was super excited that in my first's months kit was some of Bella Blvd's new collection Man of the House. I love the new products Bella has added in their collections, and that the papers are now double sided. Everything in this album is Bella except for the brads, and I still have a ton of it leftover for some layouts and cards. It was a fun album to make since I went back through all of the pictures I had since Jeff and I had started dating to choose which one's I wanted to use, so I got to reminisce a little. The album came together so easily once I chose the pictues, and I decided to try distressing for the first time and really like the way it looks with the chipboard, gives it more of a guy feel.

Well I am off to our first Brewers game tonight. It's an exhibition game, but I am still excited.

Go Brewers !!

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Wedding Gifts

2010-04-01T09:30:00.004-05:00

So as I've mentioned a few times now, Jeff and I are in the wedding of our good friends Kara and Jordan, and a few weekends ago was Kara's bridal shower. I knew right away what part of her gift was going to be. As soon as I saw this line introduced by My Mind's Eye, I knew it was perfect as the damask pattern on the album and paper is the pattern for her wedding. These little photo cubes were actually a decoration for the shower, and super easy to make. The paper is flocked, so it has a little fancier feel, and I added just a little pink paint and ribbon.

For the album, I know one of the first things people always ask is to see the pictures, and since it usually takes a while to get your pictures back, I wanted her to have a little brag album where she could take the proofs and show them off to people right away. I wanted to keep the album simple with the main focus being in the pictures. All the black and white paper is My Mind's Eye, all of the pink paper is DCWV.

On a side note, I finally got my scraproom clean. It was so bad for a while that I had started scrapping out in the living room, which is ridiculous since I have 12 feet of table in my scraproom, I just couldn't find it buried under all the mess. Later this week I will share some pics of my space, since I am actually proud of how it looks again !

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Clear Scraps

2010-03-03T16:07:00.005-06:00

So it has been a super busy February and March, and today is only the ninth !! We were gone snowmobiling the last three weekends in Feb, and Jeff went again this past weekend. Thankfully I think the snow is gone through most of the state, so the season is coming to an end. Unfortunately we aren't slowing down any, we are both in a wedding on May first, so now we have showers, bachelor/bachelorette parties, and rehearsals. Lots of great opportunities to take pictures, not a whole lot of time to get scrappy stuff done, but I have done a few small projects and actually got a few layouts done this weekend which I will share later in the week.

Clear scraps was having a design team call a few weeks ago, so I did a few projects and tried out. I love working with acrylic, but boy is it hard to photograph, so I apologize for the picture quality, I just couldn't get the lighting right.

Both projects use their coasters, which come in a three pack. The top project is a pretty simple mini album with papers from KI Company, and a couple of more recent pics of Jeff and I. The second project was the most difficult to photograph. I stamped two different images on the acrylic with staz on, in two different colors, then put in through my Zutter machine and laced the pieces together using ribbon, the letters are K & Company, and the heart I cut out of chipboard, sprayed with glimmer mist and dotted with stickles. It too is pretty simple, but the pictures just don't do it justice.

I didn't get selected for the Clear Scraps design team, which is alright, because I just found out that I am going to be August's guest designer for Scrapbook Sussies !! I am sooo excited and thankful for this opportunity. Scrapbook Sussies is a non-commitment monthly scrapbook club that I have been getting for about two years now, and love it. If you are looking to join a club, this is one to definitely check out !

I will post some layouts soon, just waiting for the sun to break so I can get some good pictures !

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Great Weekend & My 1st Digi !

2010-02-16T15:33:00.004-06:00

I hope everyone had a great weekend and a great Valentine's Day. There were no complaints on our weekend. The weather was perfect on Saturday for snowmobiling, and we did lots of it. Had such a good time, and the trails were in great shape that we are going back again this weekend.

Since we were gone all weekend, I didn't get much paper scrapping done, but I did try my first digital layout. I got all the elements from the Scrap n' Art Blog, and had so much fun playing with them that I signed up to be a subscriber. They offer several kits to subscribers throughout the year, plus you get their e-zine. It was just too good of a deal for me to pass up. So here is my layout.

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Friday !!

2010-02-12T11:30:00.003-06:00

Alright, so I know I missed a day, but I didn't get as much Valentine's Day stuff done as I wanted to since we decided to go up north this weekend. I have just a few cards to share. The first set uses Bo Bunny's adorable Love Bandit collection, and the second set uses SEI collections.

Well, I'm off to go snowmobiling. I hope everyone has a great weekend !!

Winter Wonderland

2010-02-10T15:00:00.013-06:00

So it finally stopped snowing here sometime early this morning. All said and done, we got about 14 inches. I only wish I could have gotten a snow day out of it, but the roads were all clear this morning. Hopefully it will still be light out when I get home and I can take some pics.

I have a few misc. layouts to share today, the first seems fitting as it is from last winter. It's Jeff racing at a local radar run. The papers and embellishments are reminisce, not sure what the line is called, it's kind of old, but I told myself no more new paper until I used up some of what I already have.

This next one has a very summer feel to it. The background paper is My Mind's Eye, with everything else being Bo Bunny.

And the last one is a two pager of pics of Milwaukee that I took on a river cruise last summer. These papers are also My Mind's Eye.

Tomorrow I will have some Valentine's Day project to share.

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Fall Inspiration

2010-02-09T14:58:00.016-06:00

Day 2 as promised is full of fall layouts. I just love the colors that change throughout the season and took so many pictures, that I ended up with quite a few layouts. These first two layouts were made with Club SEI's November kit. I really liked all the texture and foil and die cut pages that came with this kit, and the colors were just so rich.

The pics from the second layout are of a walking path near my house that I never knew existed, until the day I took these. I wanted to explore it a little further, but not by myself during hunting season, I didn't want to be mistaken for a deer ! Now I can't wait for spring to start exploring it. This next layout uses a Crate Paper line, I think it is called lemongrass. The embellishments are also from this line. These pictures are of the Root River, that runs not too far from my house.

Finally it wouldn't be complete without a couple of fall dog layouts, so I did one of each of my guys. First is Toby sitting so still , and then Powder, who never sits still, playing in the leaves. Toby's layout uses the Crate paper line again, and Powder's uses Bo Bunny's Delilah line.

Check back tomorrow for more!

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New Goals

2010-02-08T12:01:00.005-06:00

I have been a bad blogger lately, but I have set a new goal for myself of posting at least once a week. Since it's been sooo long since my last post, I will be posting everyday this week to catch up on everything. First I have to give a great big thank you to Julia Sandvoss, for the great prize I received for posting a comment to her blog. Julia designs for Bo Bunny and her projects are amazing, be sure to stop by her blog and check out her work, plus you could win a great prize:)
Next, a little bit of what has been going on in our household, it has been snowmobile, snowmobile, snowmobile. Jeff has been super busy getting not only our machines ready to go, but working on other people's machines as well. All his hard work is paying off, as we went to a race yesterday in IL, and he won both classes he entered. It turned out to be a beautiful day, not to cold with light snow falling in the morning. I did however, forget that just because it is February and snowing that you can still get sunburned. My face is a little red and sore this morning. Here's a few pics from the day.

And now on to some scrappy goodness. I have actually been pretty productive these last few weeks. Two weekends ago, the boys went snowmobiling, so us girls had a scrappy day at my house. Now I didn't actually get that much done while they were here, since we were too busy gabbing and watching girly movies, but it motivated me to get started and have done about one layout a day since (which is really good for me). The following layouts were made using the Scrapbook Sussies February kit. Their kits are two sided each month, and I've only used one side so far, it featured Crate Paper's Seasons line. This line is awesome, the bold colors are great and the pictures don't do it justice.

That's all for today, check back tomorrow for some fall layouts !!

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Back to Normal

2010-01-07T19:33:00.006-06:00

I am so glad the holidays are over. Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas and New Year's, but we have so much going on and running around to do that my two 4 day weekends just zipped right by. We did get some snow here just in time for Christmas Eve, and it was great packing snow, so before we had to be by my parents for dinner I reverted back to being a kid and made a snowman.

He came out pretty good, but he didn't last long. It rained Christmas Eve night and by the time we got home the top to layers had already fallen off.

I also got to go to my first Packer game in ten years, I was so excited. The energy at Lambeau Field is unbelievable, plus it was the last home game of the year and with a win it put them in the playoffs, so the crowd was extra amped up. It had snowed the morning of the game and I had to take a picture of what the city looked like from the stadium.

Pretty cool looking, don't you think ?

Our New Years was pretty lo-key, I wasn't even awake at midnight, but I was ok with that. I did manage to get a few layouts done over the holidays. The first two use Bella Blvd's Super Star line, at first I thought this would only work for little boy pages, but once I started with it, it was very versatile.

The next two use October Afternoon's Night Light collection that I got in a Scrapbook Sussies monthly kit, which by the way I just won a prize pack from them just for being a member. If you're looking to join a monthly kit club, I highly recommend them.

I love this picture of Toby, I just happened to catch him as he was yawning.

This last one uses one of Bo Bunny's new line's Love Bandit. It is a very cute collection, and can be used with so many different types of pictures. This one is of me from last year standing out on the frozen lake with no one else around, it was very peaceful.

Well, that all I have for now, I hope everyone's Christmas and New Years were great !

Busy, Busy, Busy

2009-12-22T14:50:00.008-06:00

This time of year has just flown past, I can't believe Christmas is just 3 days away. A lot has happened since my last post, we managed to get our family picture taken. This was the best we could do, since it's almost impossible to get both dogs to sit still.

I also got all of my cards made and sent out before Christmas !! I'm only going to put a few picture on here, but I did make 30 cards and they were all different so I was quite proud !

We also celebrated my birthday which was last Thursday. We went to Stonefire Pizza, which is kind of like a Dave & Buster's, but we don't have any of those here yet. It was a blast and considering the food was buffet style I wasn't expecting it to be that good, but it was awesome !

Lastly, we just had our ugly sweater Christmas party which was a blast. Almost everyone really got into the ugly sweater part, which was great because I was a little worried people would think it was dumb.

Now off to finish a little Christmas shopping and hopefully have time to relax and catch up on a few layouts since I only have to work until noon tomorrow !!

Thanks Christine !!

2009-12-07T13:54:00.003-06:00

So I had an awesome surprise waiting for me when I got home from work on Friday, Christine from the BoBunny design team sent me some goodies for entering her card contest. Check out all the BoBunny goodies !!

This line is great, I've already used some of it to make a few cards. Be sure to check out Christine's blog, along with the rest of the design team as they have such amazing ideas and lots of chances to win great product !

Winter Wreath

2009-12-03T11:11:00.003-06:00

We got all of our X-mas decorations up finally, and our current wreath had kind of fallen apart while in storage, which gave me an excuse to make one. I had been wanting to do this for awhile now anyways, so it work out well. I started with a styrofoam wreath and a sizzix snowflake punch, all of the papers are from Bo Bunny's Winter Whisper line as well as the transparency. I used StazOn to ink the edges and some double dot ribbon to hang it with. The W is a chipboard letter that I found at Hobby Lobby.

I almost forgot, the mittens are another sizzix die ! Hopefully I will be able to get some layouts done this week, it seems like all I've been doing is cards and decorations. I can't complain too much though, since all these little projects do help me use up my huge paper stash !!

All for now

A little bit of Thanksgiving

2009-11-24T14:48:00.010-06:00

I almost passed right over Thanksgiving this year, it seems like it was just Halloween, and Christmas is just around the corner, but I did manage to get some cards out today ( I know they're a little late, but everyone will still get them before Thursday ), and I played around with making a small centerpiece for my table.

I was trying to use up a bunch of scraps that I had, so there's a little bit of Bo Bunny, Crate Paper, DCWV, and Carolee's Creations. The turkey is all Bo Bunny, and I haven't decided yet if I think he needs more feathers. I can't ever just say a project is finished ! Oh well.

On a side note, Jeff and I got all the invites out for our ugly sweater Christmas party, now I just hope people can make it. I can't wait for all the photo op's of everyone's ugly sweaters !!

Mini Album

2009-11-18T16:15:00.007-06:00

So I've been on a mini album kick lately. I just finished one of Jeff's racing. I knew the second I saw this album what I was going to do with it. It fits with the pictures and the papers so well. The album is Maya Road, and all the papers and embellishments are Bo Bunny, the glittery gears are cutouts from the front cover of the album covered in stickles. Oh and there are a few Tim Holtz gears in there too. I still have a little bit of journaling to finish but for whatever reason I always have to come back and do that later. I can't ever figure out what to say, so I think about it for awhile. Anyways, the title No Snow, No Problem is the name of Jeff's race team, better known as NSNP Racing.

That's all for now, hopefully I will have some of my X-mas decorations done soon so I can share those. Thanks for looking.

Bo Bunny Card Challenge

2009-11-10T08:40:00.005-06:00

So Bo Bunny posted a card challenge on thier blog, and since I am finally getting caught up and organized, I was able to finish the challenge before it was due ! Plus it gave me an excuse to start my x-mas cards ( 1 down, 29 to go ). Here is the original sketch.

And my version of it.

Everything is Bo Bunny except the bling, I might have to retake the picture, i didn't realize that it was so dark.

Thanks for stopping

Indian Summer !

2009-11-09T11:33:00.007-06:00

What a beautiful weekend we had here in Wisconsin. It was in the 60's both days here, so we decided to take advantage of it on Sunday and go to Cedarburg. It was a perfect day to walk through all the little shops, the winery, and of course the scrapbook store ! With the holidays fast approaching, I did have to control myself a little, and I think I did pretty well I only bought 1 paper line for myself, and a few mini albums to make as X-mas gifts.
I had a very productive scrapbook weekend as well. I was really looking forward to using Bella Blvd's Camped Out line. I received some of it in a Scrapbook Sussies kit, and purchased some from my LSS. I love the fact that the owner of Bella Blvd is local, and got her start and the store I shop at !

I still have to add the journaling to the top one, but I was rather pleased with how they came out. The papers matched our up north pictures perfectly !
I also finished a mini album of our Halloween pics. I used the MMY Boo to You line again, and a Cosmo Cricket album I had lying around.

All for now !

Too Long !!

2009-11-03T14:36:00.010-06:00

Yikes, it's been too long since my last post. I've just been so busy lately. I haven't done any layouts recently since I ran out of ink and couldn't print any pictures, but it just came in today so I can't wait to get home and start printing all my Halloween pictures. I've put a few of my favorites on here. They are from an awesome party at a friends house who goes nuts with the decorations.

The first room is the dungeon room, it looks much cooler in person because the camera flash ruins the mood lighting in each room.

This is the cabin from Camp Crystal Lake, complete with Jason peering through the window !

The cemetery

This thing gave me the creeps all night !

The bathroom, again the flash doesn't do it justice.

The whole living room is set up like a funeral home.

Finally just a pic of Jeff & I, he made a very cute Scooby-Doo !!

Now I did manage to get my Halloween cards done and mailed before Halloween. For the first time I made everyone a different card, and I have to say that I like doing it that way, it allows me to be much more creative. The first set I used the American Crafts Collection that I got in my Scrapbook Sussies kit.

The next set are all using the Boo to You collection by My Mind's Eye. I fell in love with this as soon as I saw it so I bought a ton of it. I actually managed to make all six cards using just the accessories sheet, 1 sheet of patterned paper and three sheets of card stock. They are fairly simple, but I like how they came out.

That's all for now, I'm hoping to get some layouts done tomorrow, I have all the papers ready I want to use, I just need the pictures. I also hope to get a team volleyball picture tonight since our whole team will finally all be there !!

Thanks for stopping by

2009-10-16T09:44:00.004-05:00

Where did this week go. I can't believe that it is Friday already, and I didn't get any scrapping done. I did get a ton of other stuff done though. Last weekend was Jeff's final race of the year, which ending up being cancelled halfway through do to the weather, but it didn't matter anyways as he already had the points all wrapped up and won his third straight MSDRS championship !!

I also got all of our Halloween decorations up this week, and I realized that I don't have as many as I thought I did. Time to make some more this weekend.

Jeff and I have also been on a cleaning spree, we have company staying with us this weekend for the snow show, and I was sick of what our house looked like. Jeff finally cleanesd out his closet and got rid of tons of stuff, we steam cleaned the carpets, gave both stinky dogs a bath, and got everything back into it's place. I still have some floors to scrub, but it looks so much nicer, now if we can only keep it that way (fingers crossed).

I should be able to get some scrapping done this weekend, it's supposed to be cold and rainy outside, and we have our first Halloween party on Saturday. I can't wait, the decorations that this couple puts up for Halloween are amazing and I will be taking tons of pictures !!

All for now

Bad Weather = Good Scrapping !

2009-10-06T13:32:00.022-05:00

The weather here was cold and wet this past weekend, making it the perfect time to cozy up in the house and get some scrapping done. The first layout I did was a two-pager of my parents dog Elvis from when we were at the cabin Labor Day weekend. All the papers and elements are from Bo Bunny's Mango Luau collection. I love this collection, and have a tin of it still, expect more layouts featuring this soon. The letters are Thickers. I couldn't decide which pics to use, so I used them all and made it a two-pager. I really like this one, the papers are a pefect fit to the pictures.

So I was on a two-pager kick and decided to try another one. This one has pics from my sister-in-laws birthday back in January. I found the stickers recently at Joann's and knew they were perfect for these pics. The papers are all from the DCWV Butterflies & Blossoms stack, and the pink dots (that are kind of hard to see) are stickles. This one was pretty simple, but anything else I tried to add to it just seemed to take away from the pics.

This next one I'm not so sure about. It's a little to plain, I might try to revamp it a little this week. The patterned papers are fancy pants.

Another simple one, but I like this one better. The papers here are 3 bugs in a rug. The pic is from the lakefront, when I was actually convinced Jeff to go to Bender Park just to take some pictures. I had been wanted to try the tearing on top for a while now, and I think I might have to incorporate it into some more layouts.

This is a pic from Jaime's 1st bridal shower. It is of most of the wedding party. I really like the color scheme for this layout as it is very similar to the colors for the wedding. The patterned papers here are October Afternoon, who I have just started to discover and absolutely love them. The letters are thickers, the flowers I'm not sure whose they are, they came in one of my monthly kits. Oh, I almost forgot, I used a Crafter's Workshop template to cut out the background.

This is another pic from our mini photo shoot at Bender Park. Everything on this one is My Mind's Eye. This is their Breaking Free collection. I love how well everything coordinates, and there is so much variety when it comes to embellishments for this collection, and the die cut paper is awesome.

These are some of my favorite pics. It's from our trip to the cabin over Labor Day, and they just show how much fun we all have. All the papers are from DCWV Recycled stack. All of these papers have a little bit of texture you can't see in a picture, but they look really good in person.

Another two-pager, this is from Jeff's brother Bret's wedding in Idaho. His wife Lorie looked beautiful, and I have to say I'm kind of proud of the picture I got of her parents walking her down the aisle. It has that caught moment feel that makes a picture special. All the papers and embellishments are Bo Bunny's Flirty collection. I finally broke out my label maker on a layout too. The glittery letters are thickers. It is also hard to tell from a picture, but all the flowers are double stacked and pop dotted to make them 3-D.

I needed to figure out how to use a ton of pictures on a layout, or I would have a million layouts of scootering picture. I think this came out really well. Again, I couldn't decide what pics to use and which ones not to use since they all told a little different story, so I had to use them all. Because I used so many pics, I didn't want to clutter it up with too many other elements so the layout itself is pretty simple. All the elements are My Mind's Eye Abbey Road. I think the white edges on all of the pictures really helps to make them stand out, and gives the layout a real layered look.

This is another layout that I'm not sure I'm finished with. at first I didn't want a title, but looking at it now, it just looks too plain. I love the pics though, Powder likes to have her picture taken. The papers on this one are 3 Bugs in a Rug.

Powder again, this time she had decided to play in the mud, so before I let her in the house I had to get some pictures. Everything is Bo Bunny's U Bug Me line. This was the first time I tried stitching on a layout, not sure what I think of it.

Lastly this is a picture of Jeff and me at his brother's wedding. I was trying something different again that I never tried before with the strips of paper. I'm pretty happy with how it came out and it was fun to play around with. All the papers here are SEI.

Ok, I know this was a super long post, and I didn't even get all of them posted. I will try to keep them shorter next time !

2009-10-02T09:38:00.000-05:00

So, since Jeff was gone all weekend I thought it would be the perfect time to catch up on all my scrapbooking projects, a scrapapalooza as I like to call it, but my quiet crafty weekend turned into a trip downtown, to the museum, to the mall, and to the last Brewers home game of the year. Can't really complain because I love all those things and they were free for me, but it left my craft time to a minimum. I did manage to finish one project though, a Boo wall hanging. This was just a plain wood piece that I got from Joann's, painted it black and used my leftover scraps from last years Halloween album that I did. All items are We R Memory Keepers, except the little bats, and I'm not sure whose those are. Hopefully I will get more accomplished this weekend !

Arctic Cat Press Release

2009-10-01T08:52:00.001-05:00

This past weekend, Jeff was in Michigan racing at the AMSnow shootout, and he managed to make the press release for Arctic Cat ! Now if he only could have won too. Oh well, I am still really proud of him !http://thearcticspeedway.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/2010-arctic-cat-z1-turbo-sets-new-speed-record/

Finally !

2009-09-29T14:27:00.000-05:00

So, I finally got my blog up and running. I still have a lot to do, but it's up ! Hopefully I will have some pics to add later today.