Using Scraps Batch #7

Bring on Mickey and Friends :o) Here are some cuts I made from scraps for Caleb to use on some cards and stuff. These were all cut at 4 inches so they will fit on a standard 4 1/4x5 1/2 inch card.

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Tracy's Challenge

I am officially joining Tracy with her new challenge. No shopping of scrap related items, minus adhesive, until July! She says in her post, link above, that she would start off with a month to see but, I am going to go full force. Cold turkey is the only way it will work for me. I picked up a few things at Michael's today and starting tomorrow morning - March 26th - No Shopping For Me! I have enough to last a while so I am with her on using what we have to make room for new :o) This will definitely be a challenge but, mind over matter and we can do it! Anyone willing to join us is more than welcome.

Wish us Luck!

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Home Decor

In my kitchen I have a theme of coffee and cappuccino going on. It is hard to find things to hang on the walls sometimes so I got the Love you a Latte cartridge to make some of my own. The papers I used are from the K&CO line Life's Journey and the cardstock is from my stash. The images were cut at 5" and the words were cut at 1". The "Latte" word was cut from the Teardrop font cartridge and welded together with my Gypsy. The burgundy cardstock measures 8x8 and the patterned paper is 7x7. Just need to frame them and they are ready to go :o)

 My boys are on Spring Break this coming week so YAY!

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Easter Cards 2012

These are my Easter cards for this year :o) All of the cardstock is textured Colorbok, the bases are white recollections from Michael's and the pattern paper is from various mat stacks in my stash. The twine is homemade and the stamped images are from Michael's $ bin.

Here they are...

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Wobble Wednesday Challenge

Here is my entry for todays Wobble Wednesday's Challenge. This challenge is hosted by The Scrapbooking Queen. This weeks theme was to do a boy or masculine card. I used one of my favorite Paper Studio stacks called Cheeky Monkey :o) I also used some of the cardstock stickers that match and just backed them with some yellow cardstock. I used some of my homemade bakers twine again, harvest orange. The brads are from my stash :o) I took my scissors and roughed up the edges to look more "boyish".

My card...

 The inside...

In action...

Happy Wednesday :o)

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Thank You card

This is just a quick little 4x4 thank you card I made last week and never got around to posting :o) The paper is from a DCWV spring stack, the twine is homemade, the sentiment is from a Heidi Grace set, the buttons are from my stash jar and the cardstock is recollections from Michael's. Quick and simple :o)

Hope you all have had a great start to your week :o)

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, being part Irish and loving the color green (certain shades anyway :o)) I made this card. The paper is from a Paper Studio Seasons Pack from Hobby Lobby, the cardstock is from the same company in a variety pack, the ribbon is from Michael's and the centiment is from my computer. The green rhinestones are also from Michael's that I received in a RAK, Thanks Pea! I cut the shamrocks out at 1 1/2 inches from the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge. I hope you all enjoy your weekend and get to go outside, it is so nice here so I know we are :o)

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Jinger Adam's Design Team Entry

Hi all! This is my entry for Jinger Adam's Design Team call. I have had so much fun making these boxes and note cards that I thought it would be perfect. I made this one with some paper I got at Target before Valentine's Day. The cardstock is Recollections from Michael's. I cut the "Love Notes" using my cricut for the oval and my nestabilities lacey ovals die for the mat behind it. My intention is to set this out for my family to grab a not card whenever they want to write on and give away. I write notes for my boys all the time and instead of a plain old post it note, this is much cuter :o) The best part is, it's refillable! I can make more as needed :o) Here are the photos...

The Box

 The Cards

 The inside of the cards

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Easter Wobble Card

This is an Easter card I made using one of the Action Wobbles, thanks Tracy!!!! The paper is from a Paper Studio Seasons Pad I got from Hobby Lobby. The rabbit I cut at 3 3/4 inches from the Create a Critter cartridge. I printed the sentiment off my computer :o)

Here it is...

The inside :o)

And in action :o)

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Notecards and box

Hello everyone! I was wanting to make some 3x3 note cards for my mom and then I thought I wanted a little box to put them in also. I found a video tutorial on the box from Sarah at  liveloveandscrap on YT. I have made two boxes and cards so far :o) These are so much fun and so easy to make! I have another set of cards completed to do a tutorial on how I did my boxes so I will have that up on my YT channel soon.
Here is the one for my mom...

And because I love Disney so much...

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Talented Ty :o)

Here is a short video of Ty playing the recorder. He has been learning how to play the recorder in music class since last year. The song is Yankee Doodle and they have been working on it for about a week, I think :o)

Have a super great weekend every one!

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TGF Digital stamp card

For this card I used one of The Greeting Farm digital stamps Dressy Ebony. I used good old Crayola colored pencils to color her in. I put some red stickles on her pendent for her necklace and also some Michael's glitter glue in the center of her flower. Once again I used my favorite spellbinders die to cut out the mat behind the image and finished it off with some recollections pearls. No sentiment so this one can be used for anything :o)

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Scraps for Caleb

So... since Caleb is making cards now I decided to pull out the scrap box and cut some more paper down. The cardstock is cut at 3 7/8" squares and the pattern paper is 3 3/4" squares to work for his 4x4 cards. I think he is going to be very excited when he gets home today :0)

Happy Tuesday Everyone!

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Bunny card

This is a very simple 4x4 size card. The bunny is cut from the Doodlecharms cartridge at 3 inches, I think :0) It was made as part of a challenge for Caleb to use his new learned faux stitching. He wanted me to do one along side of him :0)

Here is mine...

 You can find Caleb's here

This is a side by side of our faux stitch patterns :0)

Hope you have all had a wonderful weekend!

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Caleb's Blog!

I am proud to announce the launch of Caleb's new blog! I wanted him to have a space of his own to show his work since he has showed such an interest in card making all of a sudden. His cards are wonderful for a 7 year old (I could be a little bias) and we want to show them off. Please go on over and check him out Kids for Cards
He has a lot of posts coming up so be on the look out :0)

Thank you!

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Using Scraps Batch #6

Here is what I created with scraps last night. I used Create A Critter for these ones :0)

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Bakers Twine Storage

Here is a look at my twine all wound up and then in their new storage container :0) I wrote the color of each marker on the bottom of the tag. These are used for embroidery floss and I have a ton of extras that my mom had given me a long time ago. Now they have a new use :0)

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Bakers Twine :0)

Here is what I did last night and today... I have a video up on my YT channel showing how I make this here. I've used up the twine I made previously so I thought it was time to make more. Well, why not make every color I can :0) I used my Bic Mark It markers for this, so many uses for these! I only ended up with 34 out of the 36 because my black is drying out (from child use, hee hee) and when I got my set of the fine the Desert Rose color was completely dried out but, since I had gotten them online I did not want to deal with a return. I made about 3 yards of each color. Now I just have to figure out how to store it :0)

Take a look at this selection...

 Here are some closer shots...

Here are the supplies I used...

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Caleb's First Card

This is Caleb's first card ever made completely solo :0) He did this before going to school this morning and I think it's adorable. He did a great job! He also gave me permission to show it to all of you so here it is...

On the inside he just put a lined index card :0) and the critters are on foam squares for dimension.

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Hello Kitty Cards

Do you all remember when I cut out a bunch of Hello Kitty shapes with my scraps? You can go to the post Using scraps and Using scraps Batch #4 to take a look :0) Well... I finally did something with them! I haven't used up all of them yet but now I only have a few left. Boy was I on a roll today :0)

Here are all of the cards I made today...

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Some organizing and a cold :0(

So Saturday morning I woke wanting to re-organize some of my stuff. I actually started Friday night knowing what I wanted to do. I have been wanting to get some small bookcases for my closet to better suit my storage needs. Target has some bookcases you can put together for $19.99 in store, awesome! Click here to see, they come in different colors. I went and got one and I love it! It only took me 20-25 minutes to put together and it now has a new home inside my closet :0) My plan is to get a couple more and eventually have the closet looking the way I want :0) I also redid my 9 cube storage units. These used to be in the closet but, for me it was not that convenient so I took them out and stacked them. The drawers you can buy for these will also fit on the bookcase :0) One day last week, knowing what I was going to do, I made some tags for the drawers using my lacey ovals die. I think this looks really good. What do you think Tracy? :0)

Here are the photos...

After getting my room finished I thought I felt like I was getting a cold. The boys have been sick on and off and the little guy I watch was sick for a few weeks prior to that so I'm not surprised it finally caught up with me. When I woke up this morning it was in full effect. I definitely have a major head cold :0( Not being a big fan of taking any medicine I will suffer through and hope it goes away quickly!

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Life is Sweet card

This is a card I made today when I actually got to sit down for a few minutes :0) My day hasn't gone exactly as planned but, hey, such is life :0) This little bird is from the same set as my previous post over at Scrappin Doodles. The paper is from Target and the sentiment and heart stamps are from a Hampton Art set called cupcakes. I put glitter glue on the beak again to add more sparkles :0) Here it is...

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Friend card

Here is a card I made last night for a friend :0) I used paper from a mega DCWV spring pack and the digital stamp is from a set at Scrappin Doodles. Again I used colored pencils, these are my favorite way of coloring :0) I put some yellow glitter glue from Michael's on the beak of the bird to add some sparkle :0) The sentiment stamp is from Heidi Grace and fit just perfectly on the sign. Here it is...

Enjoy your Thursday everyone! We have quite a bit of snow coming down so it's a perfect day to sit around in my cozy pants with my cappuccino and color :0)

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Hi card

Here is a simple card to say Hi! The image used for this card I got from Colorful Clipart. Adorable critters! The paper I used is from a Paper Studio pack called Cheeky Monkey :0) I just love the name of this paper! Here it is...

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