2 Sketches/Card Patterns #8/More Silverwood Book!

So I'm really slow at getting the 2 Sketches card done this week! In fact I don't think I've done it for a couple weeks now! Everything has been incredibly busy at work and I've been trying to work on some altered books in all my spare time! It feels good to be scrapping again and getting something completed!

I used the 2 Sketches sketch this week to do some more "all occasion" cards that I could use as thank you type notes at work. On February 14, Oregon celebrated it's 150th birthday so I took this picture of the cake (it fed 3,000 people) and used it for the cards. I work for the State of Oregon so this works great!

The 2nd card I made is for the Card Patterns #8 sketch. I broke out my 2008 (or was it 2007???) DCWV paper pads and used some patterned paper from it. The cute bunny is a Scrapyland.com exclusive Quickutz Die. He is so cute! I was just waiting for a time to use him!

Here are 3 more sets of pages from my Silverwood altered books! I had a lot of fun with the Elephants page ~ this is my niece Sydney. I used the Indie Art Cricut Cartridge to do the wings (I got such a deal on this cartridge as it was the last one at my Michael's and they were clearancing it - I got it for $19.99!). The Elephant is an exclusive Quickutz die cut (I'm not which store was the one that offered it but I had to have it and this is the first time I used it!).

They have a great Merry Go Round at Silverwood also. The stamp that says Best of Times is a Teresa Collins.

On the 2nd Merry Go Round page, I had an opportunity to use another Quickutz Exclusive die -the horse (From Shop Remember When).

This has been such a fun book and I've been able to be so creative! I'm shooting for getting it completed by Easter but that could be a little aggressive as I have 6 sets of pages to get done (X 4)!

Take care and have a great weekend!

Card Patterns #7 and Use It #3 + a few more pages of the Silverwood Book!

I liked Card Patterns Sketch #7, that I used it again! I actually used the outside of the oval frame that I used in the card I posted yesterday! Can't let anything go to waste. I used the sizzix bunny and some little flowers that someone sent me in the card challenge on scrapbook.com a few months ago! I stamped "some bunny loves you" on cardstock and then used the cuttlebug embossing to see how it would look afterwards. There is a first time for everything! I'm not sure I like it a lot but I'm going to give it one of my kids for easter!





My second card if for the Use It #3 challenge. Use eyelets (yes, Heidi you are right, I do have tons of eyelets!!!), something more than one year old, and polka dots. When I saw the challenge I thought of the XO eyelets I bought many, many years ago. The red heart was actually from a package of die cut hearts that my sister, Darleen gave me (again, many, many years ago!) and the flowers were probably from one of the first bottles of primas I ever purchased. The red heart paper behind the hearts is also at least 2 years old! This was incredibly fun! Can't wait for next week!



I'm also posting 3 more sets of pages from my altered Silverwood books. I will try to post a couple pages each time so that the suspense (LOL) keeps building! I actually counted out and I only have 6 more sets of pages to go (then times by 4!!!). I'm hoping in a couple weeks I get it finished!

Silverwood is an amusement park in Northern Idaho. The first picture is outside the corkscrew which is an upside down roller coaster that they got from Knotts Berry Farm.




I had a ton of fun with this ice cream picture. The patterned paper was from the DCWV 2007 summer stack and I remember looking at that big ice cream cone on the paper thinking, I'll never use this! Well, I think this turned out great. I stickled the ice cream cone and then cut all the letters out with the cricut! I would have never been able to do this without it! Thanks to my sister, Teresa, I am now a cricut lover!!!! (PS - you can check out her blog - see my side bar - Tsscrappinblog!)






And the last pages this time are from the tilt a whirl - I had to put the little circle around my kids because it was really hard to get a picture!

Have a great week! I'm hoping to do some more this wee!

Card Patterns + Silverwood Book Part 1!

I saw the card patterns sketch today and I automatically thought "easter egg." Looking through my stash of easter paper, I found this patterned paper! I cut the "egg" out of chipboard with the sizzix oval frame! The chocolate rabbit is a new quickutz die. The flower is felt cut with a sizzix die. And the grass is also a sizzix!

It seems like a pretty simple card ~ sometimes simple is good!





I have really been scrapping lately! I started an altered book for myself, my daughter, my son, and my niece (yes 4!) in August. I had done the cover and the first 2 pages in August and hadn't touched it till about a month ago! I'm really putting a lot of effort into it and it is probably one of the most creative projects I've ever done. I got the books at Craft Warehouse - the pages are heavier than chipboard - it was meant to slip pictures in and has sayings and quotes in it. But at Craft Warehouse, they had one that they had started altering and it gave me an idea! I do have more pages done (by I'm not done with the book yet!) so I will share a few here and there!

Silverwood is an amusement park in Athol, Idaho just north of Coeur d' Alene. It had some awesome roller coasters and a lot of other cool rides. When we were visiting my parents last summer in Lewiston, Idaho we took my niece with us to spend the day there! (My friend Gail always points out that even if we spend a day doing something it takes many more days to scrap it!).



This is the map at the entrance of Silverwood! This is Shaina's book ~ each one uses a little different colors on this first page and has their name in the book (I just put "mom" in mine!).










I got their picture by the entrance to the log ride! Very fun!











The Corkscrew is a roller coaster that Silverwood bought from Knotts Berry Farm and it was the first upside down roller coaster!

Card Patterns and Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I had time this week to do the Card Patterns sketch! Yeah! I needed to do my St. Patrick's day cards and I was planning to do shakers on them. I had already cut out all the shaker stuff so when I saw the sketch I knew it would work great!

I used a lot of my stash of green paper so that felt great too! I usually make all my cards the same but this time I used a variety of green papers! Everyone will get a little different version! But that is fun!



















I had my kids pose for a quick "green day" picture so that I can put it inside the cards! They had some fun with it!

More Green! (2 Sketches 4 You week of 3/2/09 and Card Patterns 2/28/09 + a couple other projects!)

Last week I wasn't able to do any of the sketch patterns. It was such a busy week! Our dishwasher had totally quit 2 weeks ago and we got our new one installed last Saturday + we got a new refrigerator! What a difference it is making! Also, my daughter got sick and work was busy! This week everyone has been well and I actually took part of the day off today because I'd worked so much during the week and there was no school today! We had a great day ~ went to the outlet stores to Aeropostle and both kids got some new shirts. Lunch from Burger King and then watched a movie together on the Disney Channel. Nice and relaxing.


Then I had some time to work on some cards! The first 2 are using Kazan's sketch this week at 2 Sketches 4 You. I was really in a green mood again. I found these cool poems at the QuoteGarden.com that make great cards. If you are ever looking for quotes and poems, that is the place to go!









The 2nd 2 cards are for the CardPatterns sketch this week. I used some more of the poems! On all 4 of these cards I used Reminisce patterned paper ~ the darker version is from this year and the lighter version is from past years. They actually went together pretty well.























This week there was an auction at my daughter's school and her teacher asked me to "dress up" the lunch they were providing for the auction ~ here is the before version that she sent home from school and below is my "dressed up" version.























I also finished up 24 cards for another recognition event at work. I decided to make cards that celebrate Oregon's 150th birthday. I made my own patterned paper using the words from the state song "Oregon, My Oregon." We will have the Director and Deputy Director along with me sign them and then they will be tied on to bags with our agency logo.

My old boss used to tell me that we have agency stationary but I always think if I make them they are more special. I try to make different ones each time we have a recognition event! This one is similar to one of Laura's sketches at 2 Sketches 4 You a couple weeks ago!