Real quick card...

I made this card Saturday for my son's friend's birthday party. She is a little cheerleader for the pee wee wrestlers.  I forgot to take a picture of it b/c I thought it was a quicky, too easy card. Her mom posted it on Facebook b/c they loved it so much!  So I thought I would share. Makes me feel good that the little girl loved it so much.

EVPD cart cut at 4 in.  I used a white gel pen to do some doodling.  A colored pencil for the cheeks and the whites of the eyes that you can't really see.  I always use pre folded cards from where ever is having a sale. I got these at Hobby Lobby, DCWV. I can't fold or cut straight, even if using a bone folder, a cutting tool, or a scoring tool. The face stamp is from Peachy Keen Stamps. 

Happy 6th Birthday

No school today. The good news is that I got to sleep in.  I escaped having to take my middle school kiddo to the bus at the crack of dawn.  I made the kids breakfast, cleaned up and was finally able to sit down and scrapbook, yay!!  I knew I wanted to do my son's 6th birthday pictures, I had a few out for the page but knew I had more. Searching, searching....can't find them.  Hmmm....where do these pictures go?  Does the picture fairy come down and take them? So I used what I had.  It was just a small little get together, Georgie and a few of his favorite girls, his sister and his best bud Nora and her sisters.  We had gone out for pizza before this, have to reprint those pictures.

My sweet little boy George! The paper is from Die Cuts With a View stack.

I used the pennant punch from Stampin Up and the coordinating stamp set.  Stampin Up stamp pads to color the pennants. The little circle were cut with the Cuttlebug using die cuts from My Creative Time. The letter stamps are from Creative Memories. Twinery twine.

The cupcakes were cut using the Sweet Treats cart at 4 1/2 in.  The paper used were all scraps from the scrap box.  The presents on the bottom were from Jolee I think, I got them from AC Moore when they had a sale.  It's a basic birthday design but I'm all about basic, quick and easy!

Scrappin frustration

I love my kids, I love my kids, I love my kids.  But they drive me crazy.  My house and kids are clean, homework done, even tomorrow nights dinner is finished (chicken soup). I think it's safe to sit down and scrapbook.  My daughter can read minds because she beats me to my desk.  She does get up though but stand next to me so close I can feel her breathing down my neck.  I will just make her clean my stamps and make cards using my scraps, I can share my personal space I guess. But then the yelling and screaming from the other room begins.  "He's playing with my Legos!" "Am not!" " He lost my Legos!" "Did not!". The Legos? They belong to the 6 year old. The accused? That is the 14 year old.  Why oh why is the teenage antoganizing the 6 year old?  So I can't finish my layout because I need to sit in the living room and police the boys.  And then I hear there is ice in the forcast for tomorrow morning.  The kids have a half day so a delay would be useless.  Cancellation is on the horizon. What am I going to do with them home?  I don't think there is enough food for them in the house to last. Because, as I am sure you are well aware, they kids eat triple the amount of food when they have a day off.  I am going to savor my clean house, it will not be like this tomorrow.

Snow!!

Well my my, I never thought I would see it again! It snowed today!  The kids love it, the dog LOVES it, everyone is happy!!!  And what's even better is that it will  be in the 40's this coming week and it will be all gone! What you say? How can I be happy about snow going away?  Well, it's pretty for the day but after a few days, weeks of it getting dirty and black and full of gravel, it's gross.  So with it not being around very long, I can appreciate it, stare lovingly at it and then it can go.  If I had it my way I would live in a warmer climate.  South Carolina would be nice but my husband likes it here in PA, we both grew up here, so I am stuck. I told him maybe when we are retired we can be snow birds.  He didn't really answer me so I will take that as he is thinking about it :o) So if you got snow, enjoy it, play in it and be safe while driving in it!

In honor of Valentine's Day......

Since the next big holiday coming up is Valentine's Day, I thought I would share with you the kids photo from 2009.  That was really the last time I could get my oldest son to pose for a picture like this. He is now a teenager and way to cool for these types of photos.  When we rescued our beautiful princess Grace the Black Lab we noticed that she was a big different from our princess Page who crossed the rainbow bridge a few years before.  Grace will sit and wear hats, capes, shirts, very different from her departed sister. Page would never wear things like that, she was too sexy for it :o) .  I miss my Page everyday and I love my princess Grace.  Since Grace would sit with things on, like a letter on her collar, I thought of this cute idea for her and the kids.  This is what I got.  The out takes were very cute but they are sitting on my old computer that crashed and is waiting for someone at my husbands work to look at it, might be awhile.  I also am posting this years Valentine's layout but still have not thought of a photo for Grace and the kids.  I think it may involve some wings or a headband with spring hearts.

These papers came with a kit from a club I used to beling to, Scrapbook Sussies. I really enjoyed getting stuff every month.  that club went out of business, any good kit clubs you suggest?

How funny is this dog?  Let me tell you, she was the only one who sat still and listened.

I used some scrap papers that coordinated, cut them into strips and folded them. Easy, cute and fast technique to add some fun.  Plus, I love getting rid of those scraps!

This is the layout I made for this year.  Most of the papers used are from the kit club. I have so much patterned paper I don't know what to do with yet I still buy it whenever I get the chance.  My New Years resolution should have been stop buying and start using. But they were made to be broken right?

All of these pieces were just stickers or extra things laying around.  The heart was cut from the Plantin School Book cart at 8 or 9 in.  I inked the edges with some red ink too. 

New Look

How do you like my the new look?  Takes me a while to get the hang of things so it's basic, with nothing flashy, but hopefully if I get followers I can add more fun stuff.  Tomorrow it is supposed to snow so I plan to have a great day of scrapbooking and cardmaking!  I have about 500 vacation photo's I need to do, plus 1000 day to day pictures.  One day it will get done!  I need to make a goal of doing a page a day. Or take less photos. I am a photography junkie. I love to take pictures of my kids, my pets, anything.  tomorrow I will post some of my creations!!

Dreary day here in the Poconos

Today is one of those days you want to scrapbook,  have a nice cup of tea and stay in your jammies.  So that is what I did. My dad called me, who lives in Florida, bragging about his 70 degree weather ( which I love to hear, makes me happy he is happy :o) As he was talking I was looking out my window to the gray sky. What I wouldn't give to be in Florida right now, to be at Disney World. Oh, I forgot to mention, I am obsessed with Disney World. Have been since I was 5. Anyay, I still had a few cards to finish up since it is baby season around here for my friends and family.  This is what I made. Simple and cute!  I also watched a few episodes of Dance Moms for good measure. 

I think they came out so cute!!  I took the pictures on my daughter's Ipod b/c my husband took my camera to work and hasn't brought it back.  A tad bit paranoid b/c my camera is like my child but I trust him. The girl card was used making the same materials and carts as the last card. The boy card was used making basic cardstock from who knows where and paper that my mom bought me years and years ago off of QVC.  Came in handy!  Obviously the girl cards were made for Ava and Emma, my new cousins and the boy card was made for my friend who's baby breakfast is next week. Simple, made fast and from the heart, just how I like it.