Tamaroo's Funky Scrapbook Blog

Card Patterns #138 - 50th Birthday card!

2011-10-23T12:33:00.000-07:00

I've been making cards but not posting them! This was a great sketch and I was going to party last night anyway! I just used paper in my stash and cut the words out of the cricut forever young cartridge!

Card Patterns #98 - Birthday and Christmas

2011-01-17T18:37:00.000-08:00

Thanks card patterns for the great sketch. I needed a couple masculine b-day cards (a guy at work and my dad) so I used the sketch. I also had all these cool small bingo cards cut out for x-mas (from the cutting cafe) so I made a Christmas card too!

Warm Winter Wishes - Card Patterns #92

2010-11-28T20:42:00.001-08:00

I have a friend at work whose daughter teaches 5th grade. She wanted a winter door hanger for her classroom so I made this for her. This was a fun one!

X-Mas Cards (2 Sketches 4 You) + Give Thanks!

2010-11-25T10:47:00.001-08:00

Yesterday, I finally sat down and figured out how many cards I need that are extra special for close family and friends(haven't done those yet) and how many I need for those that aren't as close. I'm making several of these for friends and people at work! I used the Cutting Cafe (see link to the right of the blog) Bingo Cards. I used paper that I got last year and ribbon that I had gotten on sale at Michael's or had in my stash. I embellished with penguins or the metal holiday wishes. Both were in my stash. The penguins I got in the summer at Michael's for 49 cents on clearance! Glad I'm using them and didn't just lose them in my stuff! Thanks Laura for a great sketch!

I'm also including a Thanksgiving door hanger I made for a friend of mine to give to her daughter who teaches school! I used a card patterns sketch but it is way past the week when it was posted! I used both quickutz and the cricut on this one!

Have a great turkey day!

Gobble Card - 2 Sketches 4 You

2010-11-06T17:50:00.000-07:00

I got some new printable stamps from the Cutting Cafe (see my blog list on the right for a link to the site - very cool stuff!) and I used the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch and some paper I've had around here for awhile. Not totally happy with it but it was a quick card!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Card Patterns #89 - Kayla's Birthday Card

2010-11-06T14:25:00.000-07:00

Shaina needed a birthday card for a party she is going to today. We had bought this cute felt bag to put the gift card in and she wanted something to match. I used scraps of paper and quickutz for the 13 and sizzlets for the cupcake and gift! The circles were cut with the cricut!

Have a great week!

Card Patterns #88 - Thank You

2010-11-03T17:57:00.000-07:00

The people who work for me gave me an awesome gift card to Craft Warehouse for Bosses Day! I made a couple different thank you's for them! Thanks for looking!

WELCOME - 2 Sketches 4 You

2010-09-17T18:42:00.000-07:00

I used this week's sketch from 2 Sketches 4 You (rotated) to make a little Welcome door hanger. I had quite some fun last weekend making some "designer" owls with my sizzix (they are on chipboard) and so they came in handy to make this! All the paper is Basic Grey! Thanks for looking and have a great weekend!

Baby Card using card patterns #81

2010-09-17T14:39:00.000-07:00

I was asked to make a card for a guy at the office who is having a baby girl. The colors of the baby's room are pink and yellow so I tried to coordinate the card with the room! I had all this great baby paper that I had gotten in DCWV paper stacks so it was fun to finally use it!

Card Patterns Sketch #80

2010-09-06T08:42:00.000-07:00

My neighbor across the street, Allie, is going to be going to Oregon State University later this month! She watered my plants when we went on vacation to Texas so when I paid her and gave her a handmade card to thank her she loved it. I told her if she told me all the names of her roomates in her dorm I would make her a door hanger! She brought me over the list just as I was looking at card patterns #80 so here it is!!! I got this bohemian paper at Michaels and then embellished with what I had! I haven't given it to her yet so don't know what she will think!

Thanks for Looking!

2S4Y - Laura's Sketch week of 8/23/10

2010-08-26T06:36:00.000-07:00

I made 2 items with Laura's sketch - both "decor" sort of things, not cards. The first is a door hanger that I will put on my office door and the other a 12 X 12 canvas that I have in my entry way to my house. I've had the blank canvas sitting there for months just waiting for inspiration and here it was with Laura's sketch. Thanks Laura!

Guy Cards, Thank You's, and starting Texas Scrapbooks!!!

2010-07-25T11:20:00.000-07:00

I've been home from vacation about a week ~ getting caught up at work and home so this weekend had some time to be creative (and I needed it!!!). The first 2 cards are done using Card Patterns Sketch #74. Both use Graphic 45 paper. The first one (the golf one) is for a guy at work. I don't usually just use white cards with nothing behind them, but the dark greens were hard to figure out what I would do. This graphic 45 paper is pretty cool because it has different "guy" like scense on it ~ golf, pool, cars, tennis, etc!

I made the wine bottle card using Basic Grey paper and the shadow for the wine bottle and glass from the summer in paris cricut cart. A guy in my office is quite the wine enthusiast and I thought it would be fun to make a wine card. Hope the flowers aren't too feminine!! He does really enjoy the cards I make so I'm sure he won't mind.

I started my Texas scrapbooks (see below) and suddenly was inspired to make a birthday card for another man in my office who is from Texas ~ his birthday isn't till next March or April but for once I'm ahead of the game!!!

I also needed a bunch of thank you cards for work for a project that a group finished. I used 2 Sketches 4 you sketch from last week (but didn't post these cards) as a guide and used up many of my scraps. I actually made 17 of them and this is just an assortment of a few of them!

Last but not least, I started getting the Texas scrapbooks ready ~ For once in my life I'm pretty organized on this. I've got the pages sketched out on a piece of paper and knew I would need 2 scrapbooks for the trip (and I'm making 3 sets, one for me and one for each of my kids!). I had these tapestry albums in my stash (enough to do all 6 books!) so the first thing I worked on was the little window thing. Usually I wait till I'm all done but this time I decided to tackle it first thing! More to come on these books!

Thanks for looking and have a great week!

Class Door Hanger - Card Patterns #73

2010-07-22T20:49:00.001-07:00

A gal in my office has a daughter who is a 5th grade teacher. She loves all my little door hangers I hang on my office door, so she asked me to make one for her daughter's class. I saw the sketch for card patterns #73 and thought it would work great! All the school die cuts are quickutz and the "Mrs. Elliot's Class" is cricut don juan! Thanks for looking!

Retirement Card (2S4Y - Laura's Sketch #55)

2010-06-30T06:16:00.000-07:00

I know at least 3 people retiring in the next 2 months so Laura's Sketch #55 allowed me to use some scraps and make a cute card that could be used for retirement or another happy event where congratulations are in order. The happy for you is from the cricut cartridge "just because cards" and also used fabulous and enjoy from the Wild Card Cartridge for some of the others I made. Now I will have a little stash so I'm ready! Thanks for the great sketch Laura!

Card Patterns #69 - Birthday cards

2010-06-25T06:57:00.000-07:00

I used card patterns #69 to make some birthday cards. I made them a little different (and used up some of my scraps!). I've got bigger pictures of each one below!

The cake is from the Summer in Paris cricut cartridge and cut at about 4.5 inches. I tried doing it smaller but it is very intricate!

Thanks for looking and have a great weekend!

60th Birthday Card (2 Sketches 4 You)

2010-06-19T10:35:00.000-07:00

I used Laura's Sketch #54 to make a 60th birthday card for a party I'm going to next week. I wanted to make something that wasn't traditional so I used the "so last year" from the Cricut Forever Young cartridge. I had paper in my stash that I used (it is for a man so I didn't want to to be too cutesy!).

Happy Father's Day (Card Patterns #68)

2010-06-16T17:28:00.000-07:00

I used card patterns sketch #68 to make a card for my dad! I put a little bling on it (hopefully that will be okay).

I also wanted to share a card I used Card Patterns Sketch #67 on for graduation! Even though I never make the super 6, the sketches give me inspiration!

Card Patterns #67 - Bee Happy!

2010-06-06T18:13:00.000-07:00

This is a door hanger ~ not a card! I found the the bees and the bee happy on one of the new cricut cartridges and just had to use it. I've had the buzzz paper for years as it came in a DCWV summer stack years ago. A perfect match! And card patterns sketch #67 was the perfect template to use! Thanks for looking!

Card Patterns Sketch 61 - Birthday Party Invitations

2010-04-27T19:58:00.000-07:00

I used the card patterns sketch #61 to make my son's 13th b-day party. We are going to the paintball place! I decided to make them look very colorful!

Thanks for looking!

2 Sketches 4 You - Administrative Professionals Day!

2010-04-20T06:28:00.001-07:00

I used Laura's Sketch #50 to make Sue, my administrative professional a card! I had gotten these cute doves with hearts at Michaels on clearance and they just seemed like her - so calm and sweet. I used the color scheme from them to dictate the colors of the card. We are getting her flowers and a gift card and taking her to lunch tomorrow!

Thanks for taking a look!

Card Patterns #58 - Patriotic Door Hanger

2010-04-09T06:23:00.000-07:00

I made a 7 X 9 door hanger using card patterns #58. The patriotic banner on the top is from cricut Stand and Salute cartridge, God Bless is from the Beyond birthdays cartridge and the america is from the mini monograms cartridge. I have a lot of patriotic paper in my stash! The little owl is made with quickutz dies! (I love owls so sometimes I stick one in and since america is 7 letters and I needed one more thing to make 8, he was perfect!).

Have a great weekend!

Card Patterns #57

2010-03-28T19:41:00.000-07:00

I decided to work on more Christmas cards and this sketch was perfect!

Thanks for looking!

2 Sketches 4 You and Pink Elephant

2010-03-20T07:59:00.000-07:00

I turned Kazan's sketch #48 to make some Christmas cards! I know it is early but my new year's resolution was not to be stressed out about x-mas cards in December! The paper is all a me and my big ideas x-mas paper pack. Die cuts are all cricut!

I used the 2 Sketches 4 You bonus sketch this week to create a spring door hanger (spring was the Pink Elephant Challenge this week). I had so much fun with it. I got the new spring glitter stack from DCWV and used coordinating paper from it. The bird house and the S are cut using the cricut songbird cartridge (lovin' it!). pring! are from Don Juan. I made the flowers using a technique I discovered in the recent issue of creating keepsakes. It was very fun. The butterfly is from the floral department at Michael's (a clearance item).

Thanks for taking a peak!

Christmas and St. Patrick's Day!

2010-03-14T08:45:00.000-07:00

I know! Christmas and St. Patrick's day - what do they have in common! Nothing except I finished 2 things yesterday! One was my goal to do 10-15 Christmas cards each month so when I get to December I'm not stressed out!

I used Card Patterns #55, Bo Bunny paper (the santa), and Basic Grey Fruit Cake paper along with some buttons and ribbon I've had in my stash for quite some time to make some cards. These cards satisfied my committment to myself for February (I didn't do any in February) and little for March!

My next project is one I've worked on for a couple weeks now. I had had St. Pat day pictures taken (or I took them) every year for quite some time to make cards. I found this really cool board book and paper kit from Little Yellow Bicycle and decided to go through all those pictures and create sort of keepsake of st. pat pictures. I made 3 of these books ~ one for me, one for my daughter, and one for my son!

The little kit of paper is so cool because it is cut to the shape of the board book (each page is a little different shape). There are also extra pieces of paper so you can back your pictures and some little stickers to embellish with (like the Lucky Me on the cover). I added a few other things and it was done! I had most of it done a couple weeks ago but I needed some pictures from this year to complete it.

I'm looking forward to seeing if Little Yellow Bicycle will come out with some other really fun books like this!

I love these pics on the back cover ~ Shaina is so serious and Carl is clowing around!

Easter Door Hanger (Card Patterns)

2010-03-11T19:31:00.000-08:00

I used this week's card patterns sketch to make an easter door hanger. Happy Easter, the grass, daffodil, and egg were cut using the cricut easter 2010 cartridge. The bunny is one of my favorite quickutz die cuts!

Have a great day!

card patterns #52 - Retirement Card

2010-02-26T06:45:00.000-08:00

A woman at work is retiring and she loves purses so I decided to do a non-traditional retirement card. I used paper from the DCWV Whimsy stack. Enjoy is cricut graphically speaking and the purse is from cricut paisley (it actually has more layers but I decided to "bling it out" a bit.

The pearls I got from Yvonne Yam in a RAC. Thanks Yvonne. This is the 2nd time I've used them. I made a really cool wedding card with them back at the first of February (with this same paper). Loving them!

Great News!!! I made the top 15 at Pink Elephant (TWICE!!!)!!!

2010-02-21T18:59:00.000-08:00

I got it for Challenge #50 (Sketch) with the Get Well card for Lisa and Challenge #51 (Ribbon, Bow, Pink) for a Valentine Card. Very cool! I was just getting discouraged about never getting recognized for my work and now twice!!

2 Sketches 4 You ~ St. Pat's Day Door Hanger

2010-02-20T18:33:00.000-08:00

I decided to make Kazan's sketch #46 into a St. Patty's Day door hanger. I got this really cool green sparkly paper at Michaels (My Mind's Eye, Home) and used that for all my pieces of patterned paper. The clover is from the cricut cartridge "indy art." I believe st. patrick's day is from the designer calendar cricut cartridge. The little leprechaun is a quickutz original (I'd actually cut a bunch of them out years ago and hadn't used them all ~ there are so many pieces I bet I wouldn't have had the patience today to do it anyway!).

Hope you are all having an enjoyable weekend! It is beautiful and sunny in Oregon!

Spring Door Hanger - Card Patterns #51

2010-02-19T18:25:00.001-08:00

I used the Card Patterns sketch #51 to make a spring door hanger. The paper is all K and Company. Welcome, Spring, and the flower were cut with the cricut. The butterfly is a revolution 3-D die.

2 Cards/3 Challenges

2010-02-12T06:54:00.001-08:00

Pink Elephant 53 is to do a mushy gushy valentine and I've got 2 here that will qualify!

The first is for Card Patterns #50 sketch.

The second is Laura's sketch 45 at 2 Sketches 4 You!

Have a great weekend everyone!

2 Sketches 4 You (Wedding Card) and some more Disney layouts

2010-02-05T12:54:00.000-08:00

I used Kazan's sketch 45 from 2 Sketches 4 You to create a card for my friend Lisa to give her dear friends for their wedding. I was so flattered when Lisa asked me to make one of my "fancy cards" for Lauren and Glenn's wedding. Their colors are greens, blues, corals, seafoam, pastel oceany colors. I used DCWV Whimsey Stack for the papers because they were just this color. The heart is from the cricut gypsy font (digital) cartridge. I used these cool pearls I got from Yvonne Yam as a RAC (thanks Yvonne!). Lauren and Glenn are cut using the cricut songbird cartridge (I'm loving that cartridge). The photo corners are Quickutz (my old standbys!). The rest of the stuff is random things I had. It is very "collagy". I hope Lisa likes it!

Here are some more Disney layouts I've finished.

The first is Pluto (Pluto and the GRRR are cut using the cricut Mickey Font cartridge). The paper is basic gray.

I used the new cricut sentimentals cartridge to cut the crown and card. The Queen is cut using cricut blackletter. She was so funny!

We saw the white rabbit at Minnie's breakfast at the Plaza Inn. I used graphically speaking to do the "most important", base camp for A and I can't remember which cartridge I used for date (but it is cute and had a heart like the white rabbit). The clock was cut using the old west cricut cartridge.

It is always great to see Mickey and I used the Mickey font cricut cartridge to cut Mickey's head and Oh Boy! I had a lot of fun using black, white, red and yellow!

Hope everyone has a great weekend! I need to make a b-day card for my dad so need some inspiration!

2 Sketches 4 You and Pink Elephant #51

2010-01-30T11:28:00.000-08:00

I loved Laura's sketch #44 at 2 Sketches 4 You this week! I actually used it twice today! Both cards are here!

The first one is a birthday card for someone in my office that has birds. I love this little birdcage from the cricut songbird cartridge!

The next card is a valentine card that also uses the elements from the Pink Elephant challenge #51 (pink, polka dots, and bow).

I'm scrapping with my friends today so I'll be back working on Disneyland layouts in just a few minutes!

PIrate Birthday Card ~ Card Patterns #48

2010-01-25T20:53:00.000-08:00

I found these cute pirate buttons at Michaels on sale and then used the card patterns sketch #48 to make a pirate birthday card for someone at work (their birthday isn't until Sept but it all worked out so good that I just did it now).

The pirate map and happy birthday are quickutz revolution dies.

I had the mesh and the little swords and skull from my disney book projects.

Hope everyone has a great week!

2 Sketches 4 You - Kazan's Sketch #44

2010-01-23T19:02:00.000-08:00

I made a couple cards using Kazan's sketch!

The first one is a thank you card for a gal who made our executive team a great lunch! I used my new "From My Kitchen" cricut cartridge to do it!

The 2nd one is a thank you card (I'm actually making 22 of them) for a project team. I used the cricut gypsy font and shapes to do it. I really liked the way Kazan did the button on her card and I tried to do it similar to that.

Thanks for looking!

Pink Elephant Challenge #50 - 2 cards!!!

2010-01-18T20:41:00.001-08:00

This was really a fun challenge for me and I needed to make some cards so it was perfect! I made 2 using the sketch!

A friend of mine is having surgery tomorrow so I made this get well card. The patterned paper is from Making Memories Chloe's closet (I've been hoarding that paper and decided I better start using it!). The bird cage and get well are from my new cricut cartridge "songbird." Very cute and perfect for a get well card!

The 2nd one is the one I made 4 of for my birthday gift thank yous. My birthday was last week! The paper is Basic Grey Sultry. I used my new cricut cartridge "sentimentals" for this one. Very fun, very "blingy."

I'm working on a bunch of thank you's using the word "merci" and the 2 sketches 4 you sketch so I hope to post more later this week!

Card Patterns #47 - Yee Haw!

2010-01-17T19:30:00.000-08:00

I worked on a bunch of Woody and Jessie from Toy Story layouts this weekend and had a bunch of "western" products left as scraps! There is a guy in my office who is a cowboy off the job so I made him a birthday card (his birthday isn't until March or April but at least that is one I don't have to worry about!).

I used the Card Patterns sketch #47, creative imaginations paper, the cricut old west cartridge, and some quickutz dies that I've had for awhile!

My sister in Texas sent me this cool ribbon that I used similarly to one of the Card Patterns design team members! I don't know how long I've had those gold star brads but it is nice to use them!

Papertake Weekly #32 and some Disney Layouts

2010-01-17T13:38:00.000-08:00

I've been having a great start to my 3-day weekend.

I have never done the papertake weekly challenge so I tried it this week. I did not make a card but instead a door hanger. It measures 8.5 X 8.5 inches. I used a combination of Design Orignals Love and Romance paper I've had in my stash with Basic Gray Sultry paper. I cut out the love birds and Love from the cricut gypsy font cartridge.

One of my layouts below was also based on this sketch!

I also worked some more on our Disney 8 X 8 books ~ I gave one book to each of my kids for Christmas that had the princesses and some other coordinating characters/rides and now I'm trying to finish up the other book. We were there for 5 days in the summer and there were just too many pictures for one book! And I love to do the 8 X 8 books because they get done faster (although this is taking awhile). I used creative imaginations paper on all of these layouts that I got at Michaels.

The Jessie and Woody stickers I bought at Scrapbook.com. All the die cuts on this layouts are from the cricut Old West cartridge.

The layout of Jessie with Carl is also based on the Papertake Weekly Sketch #32.

The two layouts with the round circles and ric rac were inspired by a "Woody" layout on scrapbook.com!

On the last 2 I used some gold "stickles" to bling them up!

It was kind of cool to get out all my star brads and stickles I've been hoarding and actually use them!

Thanks for stopping by! I'm off to do more creating!

Card Patterns, 2 Sketches 4 You, and a little Home Decor

2010-01-14T20:36:00.000-08:00

I have been having a lot of fun with brown and pink! My last post had brown and pink projects and this one has 2!

The first one is a valentine card using card patterns sketch #46. I have had this paper in my stash for quite awhile and it just seemed to go with the sketch so good (the sealed with a kiss is a block cut from paper that coordinates with the background paper).

The next card I made for a woman in my office who had a retirement party today. I used Laura's sketch 43 from 2 Sketches 4 You to create it. The congrats is from the gypsy font on the cricut gypsy! It is simple but it conveys the message!

This last project is one I'd been meaning to do for awhile. Our scrapbook store (which recently went out of business) was going to have a class to make a "welcome" wall hanging. They decided not to have it (now we know why, because they were closing) so they had a couple pieces of paper (the background - graphic 45) which I bought and I took a picture of it on my cell phone. I had to make a few changes but it was very close to this ~ I think they had printed their letters on white cardstock and I actually cut letters with the cricut (I put them all in one file on the gypsy and saved it so I can do it again!). I was so excited to get this done and when my dad was visiting last weekend we got it hung up in the entry way!

Have a great weekend!

Pink Elephant Challenge #47

2010-01-04T06:25:00.000-08:00

I've never done this challenge (and I may too late because I don't know when their weeks run) but they had a very sweet sketch! I loved it and I used the quickutz cake again! Thanks for looking and happy monday!

Happy New Year and My New Toy!

2010-01-01T17:14:00.001-08:00

Happy 2010!

I had to make some door hangers to celebrate! I actually made 5 (one for each of my sisters, one for my mom, and one for my house and one for my office). Each one was a little different. The red one I kept for my house and the blue one I took to work!

These were really fun and it was different to just work with black and white paper!

I have quite a stash of "shiny" paper so it was fun to actually use some of it.

I used the cricut Gypsy Font for the words and the stars all came from the cricut Hannah Montana cartridge.

I am also so excited. I finally got an Epic thanks to scrapbook.com. I had ordered something from their 12 days of Christmas sale and got a "golden ticket." It was worth $100 and it was so cool! Thank You Scrapbook.com!

Birthday Cards and Cake Balls!

2010-01-01T16:46:00.000-08:00

I've been in the mood to make birthday cards! Partly because there are alot of people having birthdays and partly because I'm trying to get organized for the year!

This first card uses the Laura's Sketch 42 from 2S4Y. My sister, Teresa, gave me this quickutz cake die that I've been wanting for a long time for Christmas and I just had to use it! The paper is DCWV and the lace is Fancy Pants. The tag is also a quickutz and I used one of the dollar stamps on it!

I'm going to save this for my mom's birthday in June!

A guy at work had a birthday on the first and I tried my new cricut "Sweet Treats" cartridge to make this birthday cake card. The paper on this is Basic Gray "Cupcake."

I used some stickles to make it "sparklier!"

I had so much fun with this cricut cartridge that I made several different versions using the Basic Gray paper....

And then I used some other paper I had that said Happy Birthday so I didn't cut out the sentiment for the front!

My friend Bonnie's birthday was this last week (although she was in Arizona and won't be back till Sunday) so I found this cool tutorial on Split Coast Stampers for a "flower pot" card. I used birthday paper for the "pot" and then cut out flowers and leaves with my sizzix. These were so fun......

That I made 24! I used the non-birthday ones for thank you's for x-mas presents and little things people gave me at work! Here they all are (picture isn't that great but you can see I was busy!).

I also made these yummy cake balls to take to work this week. They are super easy and look cool! Here is the recipe:

Make a cake (any flavor) from a cake mix in any sort of pan (I used 9 X 13 because it was the easiest).
When the cake is done, crumble it into a large bowl while it is still warm. Stir in a can of frosting mix (any flavor) until well blended.
I then let it set an hour or so to cool down.
Form small balls with the cake mixture (the recipe I found on the internet said to use a melon baller but I found it just as easy to roll in my hands). I then put them on a plate in the freezer for a 1/2 hour or so.
Dip the balls into melted chocolate and place on wax paper to set.

Everyone at work loved them!

Christmas Door Hangers!

2009-12-22T21:24:00.001-08:00

Just in the Nick of time! I made a couple Christmas door hangers ~ one for work and one for our front door! All the letters are from the cricut! "have a" and the "J" in Jolly are Gypsy font. The M in Merry is from Hannah Montana (it is a really cool font and you don't have to like the show to like the cartridge!), H is from story book and the rest of the letters in jolly, merry, happy are from Base Camp. Holiday is from Alphalicious.

I used a potpourri of paper that I had lying around ~ I got out a bunch of Christmas paper when I made cards (which I think totalled somewhere just under 100!). I'm going to start early next year (I've got 4 left over from this year so that is a good start)!

Merry Christmas!!

2S4Y - Laura Sketch 41 - Another Christmas Card

2009-12-19T17:43:00.000-08:00

I'm still working on Christmas stuff!!! I feel so unorganized this year!

Here is my take on Laura's Sketch 41. I made 12 of these and have more stuff cut out to make some more! I really like the pink for Christmas!

I did manage to finally get my packages mailed today so I just need to get some more cards mailed and ready to take to work!

Take care and have a great weekend!

Card Patterns #44 and Count Down to Christmas Calendars

2009-12-06T21:46:00.000-08:00

I hope everyone had a great weekend! I worked on Disney scrapbooks and Christmas cards and cleaned house!!! I'm sure you can guess what was my least favorite thing!

Here is my card for Card Patterns Sketch 44. I used Basic Gray fruitcake paper for the background and the "Christmas Stamp" paper is Graphic 45 (I'm so loving Graphic 45 right now and the nostalgic look). The snow flake was cut out of sparkly paper with the cricut solutions cartridge, When it is Cold Outside (I just got it in the mail yesterday!). I added a green button with red skinny ribbon and a making memories stick pin. The top ribbon I just got at Michaels (1/2 price with 15% off tonight!!).

I finished these 2 Countdown to Christmas calendars today also. Michaels had a demo of countdown calendars but they did not have any of the round favor containers or the smaller wooden wreath so I had to improvise with hearts and a bigger wreath.

The first one is for my daughter so I used pastel reindeer paper and used all pastels. I cut the numbers with cricut Don Juan.

For my son's, I used more traditional colors.

They both have yummy candy in them: cookies and creme, peppermint patties, rolos, and reeses peanut butter bells.

Hopefully they won't get into them before the 12 days of Christmas!!!

Hope everyone has a great week!

2S4Y - Christmas "card" Booklet for Family!

2009-12-04T20:31:00.000-08:00

This week I used Laura's sketch 40 combined with a little idea from JoAnn.com to come up with my x-mas cards for my close family. I only plan to make 20 of these because they are a little bit of work!

The "wishlist" tag is something that I had in my stash. The patterned paper is all from Basic Grey Fruitcake (I've been hoarding it for awhile!) and the little santa is from Graphic 45. I used a border punch, regular ric rac, and a cool brad from K and Company that I picked up packages on clearance after Christmas last year at Michaels.

The first picture is the cover.

Here it is with all 4 panels. The booklet pages are 4 X 4 so I printed the pictures as "index prints."

The 2009 is from the cricut Graphically Speaking cartridge.

This last picture shows how the ribbon can be tied around the booklet to keep it together.

It was a very fun project (hope it is as fun for the next 19).

I'm looking forward to the next sketch because I have lots more cards to design and make!!! Nothing like waiting till the last minute!

Card Patterns #43 - Another Try!

2009-11-30T20:49:00.000-08:00

I was not happy with the original card I made for Card Patterns #43 so here is another try!

I'm going to need a lot more Christmas cards this year than in the past because of the job I have this year.

I used patterned paper from the Basic Grey fruitcake collection (I've been holding on to it for awhile!) and the little santa image is from Graphic 45. There are little stickle dots around the santa image if you look close. The fancy brad is a K and Company brad that I got a bunch of after Christmas last year (now I wish I had more!).

I think this card turned out way better than the other one I did! I think I will make several patterns of Christmas cards and give them to different groups of people!

Kazan's Sketch #40 (2S4Y), Card Patterns 42 and 43

2009-11-28T18:19:00.000-08:00

I'm very last minute, but here is my take on Kazan's Sketch #40 over at 2 Sketches 4 You. I used scraps to do this so it was very fun! The Thanks is from Cricut Beyond Birthdays and So Much is from Cricut Don Juan. The parens are from Cricut George. The little medallion is a Wilton Favor I found in the wedding aisle at Michaels!

I'm always in need of Thank You's so I also made a thank you for Card Patterns Sketch #43 (I'm ahead on this one!). I also used scraps. It feels so good to use some up!

And last but not least is a card that I started for Card Patterns #42 before the deadline but didn't finish until after. I thought it turned out cute so I still wanted to post it!

I hope everyone had a happy turkey day! I've got turkey enchiladas in the oven as I write this!

Take care and have a nice rest of the weekend!

Card Patterns #41/Bitten By the Bug Contest!

2009-11-15T18:57:00.000-08:00

I made this Turkey Day door hanger using card patterns sketch #41. The contest at Bitten By the Bug was to create something using a turkey, thankful, thanksgiving, etc. I used several cricut cartridges to do this one. Gobble, Gobble is from "blackletter." Happy Day is the gypsy font welded together with the gypsy. The pumpkin border is from gypsy wanderings. The flourishes are from Ashlynn's Alphabet (I used the gypsy to turn one around!!). And the turkey is from Beyond Birthdays. I cut several turkeys out and then pieced the different color feathers together. This was really fun!

Cross Country Word Book ~ A VERY SPECIAL PROJECT!

2009-11-09T06:42:00.000-08:00

This book is special for many reasons:

My daughter ran Cross Country for the first time this fall. She just started middle school and most 6th graders run the 2000. She ran it twice and then started running the 3000 (the only 6th grader in the school to do it). She really improved her time with the last time the best! That is SPECIAL!

Another reason it is special is because my sister told me that she had made a "BABY" word book and she sent me pictures of it. It was totally cool and I loved it so I got thinking about word books.

My sister flew (and drove) from Texas to Idaho to visit my parents. I went to visit her there (I'm from Oregon). She had just purchased a Gypsy and she brought her Gypsy loaded with all her cartridges. I brought my cricut and paper and chipboard! We made 2 of these books in about 3 hours with her Gypsy and my cricut (it is George shape welded to Base Camp font). This was so much fun and I brought my Bind It All (still in the box) and she showed me how to use it! Another SPECIAL thing to make it with your sister!

When I got home, I just had to have a Gypsy! You see if it wasn't for Teresa, I wouldn't even have a cricut. I see her, she shows me what to do, and then I buy it! It is the coolest thing because she shows me what to do! That is SPECIAL too because I don't have to read a lot of instructions!

When I got home, I put pictures, dates, times, etc. in and this is the finished product! I absolutely love how it turned out! The patterned papers and ribbon are American Crafts.

Thank you Teresa for all your help with this!

Card Patterns #38 and Please Vote for me in the Gypsy 24 Hour Challenge!

2009-10-26T06:54:00.000-07:00

Here is a quick card for Card Patterns Sketch #38. I need lots of Thank You cards so the sketch was very helpful! It was quick and easy and fun!

I did a project for the Gypsy 24 Hour Challenge ~ to win a trip to NY you need the most votes. Here is the link to my project:

http://www.cricut.com/gypsy/designchallenge/entries.aspx?did=177

It is ver similar to the door hanger below! I would love to win a trip to NY and take my sister!

Please Vote for My Project in the 24 Hour Gypsy Design Challenge!!

2009-10-25T20:13:00.000-07:00

Last weekend I went to Idaho to see my sister at my parents house! She is from Texas, I'm from Oregon and we saw how powerful the Cricut Gypsy really is! She brought the Gypsy from Texas and I brought the Cricut from Oregon and in 3 hours Saturday night we made a cool project ~ a word book for my daughter's cross country season (which I will share when it is completed finished with pictures ~ there is one more meet tomorrow!).

Well, to make a long story short, I was completely, incredibly hooked on the Gypsy and went to Michaels during the week to buy one (I had a $70 gift card for bosses day which helped a lot!). Saturday, I loaded all my cartridges and today I did a project for the 24 hour Gypsy Challenge! Starting tomorrow, you can vote for that project (just for a couple days). The winner of the 24 hour challenge wins a trip for 2 to NY to a grand opening of a new Michaels + broadway tickets and spending money! Ooooh! Aaaaah! I would take my sister because she and I would have sooooo much fun! Thanks for voting! Here is the link to my project:

http://www.cricut.com/gypsy/designchallenge/entries.aspx?did=177

Card patterns #35 - A couple "purple" cards

2009-10-06T06:15:00.000-07:00

I had 2 cards to make for work this week so I used Card Patterns #35 to do it. Both of the gals love purple so here they are!

The paper was all from my stash! The Happy Birthday was cut from the cricut Lyrical Letters cartridge and the thank you from Beyond Birthdays. Photo corners (on thank you) and the swirl are quickutz.

The buttons were reflections (from Michael's) ~ I really love patterned buttons as they add so much!

Well off to work I go soon!

Card Patterns #35 - Fall Door Hangers!

2009-10-04T19:39:00.001-07:00

I made a door hanger the other day using 2 Sketches 4 You but I needed another door hanger for work so this time I'm using Card Patterns! Don't you just love the sketch challenges!!

I actually made several of these ~ I'm going to give one to my mom and one to each of my sisters (I made 2 almost alike ~ and if you are my sister reading this blog then I guess the surprise will be ruined!).

The fall and fabulous were both cut from the Ashlyn's alphabet cricut cartridge. The paper is from the Making Memories fall 8 X 8 paper pack and one very old DCWV fall paper pack (don't know how long it has been hanging around).

I copied the ribbon folding idea from another person who submitted a card for this sketch (I'm sorry I can't remember who it was!). I was so intrigued on how it was done with a stapler that I had to try it! The turquoise colored ribbon I just got at Michaels (40% off) and the plaid had been hanging around for awhile!

The little photo corners are quickutz.

It was very fun to use the turquoise color with fall!

Thanks for taking a look! Hope everyone has a great week!

World Card Making Day ~ Halloween Cards Using 2 Sketches 4 You WCMD Sketch

2009-10-03T17:08:00.000-07:00

I actually had some time today to create some cards and it is World Card Making Day! I don't think I've ever had time before! Yeah! I used the 2 Sketches 4 You special WCMD Sketch for all 4 of these cards!

I was out running errands today and stopped by Paper Zone and Michaels and picked up some Halloween themed paper and embellishments (like had none in my stash!!!).

The first 2 cards use paper from the Recollections Paper Pack (Michaels). The paper had a border on it with all these cute characters so I used a CD as a pattern and cut some of them out. The other side of the paper was the green pattern. So I got 2 cards out of one piece of paper.
The ribbon, bling, and charm also came from Michaels. The stamp is an Inkado and I got that at Paper Zone.

For the other 2 cards (each a teeny bit different), I used Basic Grey Paper, a Teresa Collins stamp and the same ribbon, charms, and bling from Michaels.

I love the Halloween paper that combines orange, purple, green and black. It is so striking and you don't see it much of the rest of the year!

HAPPY

WORLD

CARD

MAKING

DAY!!

2 Sketches 4 You - Kazan Sketch #36 - A Door Hanger!

2009-10-03T09:56:00.001-07:00

In the summer, I had made a couple door hangers with sketches and Kazan's sketch just made me think of one for fall! I wanted to do one so it was perfect!

The size of this is 8 X 8 and the paper is from a Making Memories 8 X 8 fall pack that I got at Michaels. I got the ribbon at Michael's also. The tree and Fresh Air are from the Cricut Graphically Speaking Cart and Fall is from the Cricut Ashlyn's Alphabet Cart. The pumpkin is a sizzix original and the leaf on the pumpkin and the owl are quickutz (I managed to use all my die cut systems in one thing!). The sparkly leaves are little buttons I got at Walmart when I did my daughter's outdoor school book!

I really like how it turned out! Thanks Kazan for a great sketch!

Card Patterns #34 - Scrapbook Page instead of a Card!

2009-09-28T06:12:00.000-07:00

I have been working on my Disney Books ~ We went in July and I love to get the books done and give them to the kids for Christmas.....means a lot of work between then and now!

When I saw Card Patterns sketch #34 and then looked at this cool picture with Minnie Mouse, I immediately wanted to do a layout. This is an 8 X 8 page with a 5 X 7 picture so there wasn't much room for more embellishing! I love how this turned out! It is one of my favorite pages of the book so far!

Card Patterns #33 - It's Your Day

2009-09-22T19:57:00.001-07:00

I needed to make a birthday card for my friend Lisa. She and I moved from Idaho to Oregon and have known each other since junior high school. A mutual friend we work with is having a little party for her next Sunday. So I used card patterns #33 to make the card. I started out making the just black and white card and then tried one with a little more color. I had this pink and red ribbon so I just went from there! I am still in a pickle about which one to give her!

I just have to say this is one asesome sketch this week! I had a great time with it!

Thanks for stopping buy!

2 Sketches 4 You and some Disney Autograph Books

2009-09-02T06:32:00.000-07:00

In my other post today, I gave all my reasons why I've been busy and not doing cards but as we approach the time school starts (after labor day), I will be getting back in more of a routine!

This week Kazan did the sketch and she also asked us to used inspiration. She used furniture but I used a necklace that had blues and browns in it (I had also seen a bedspread in a Penney's add but I had already recycled it). It is a cool color combo! I used one of the cutting cafe's printable calendar stamps on this. This card is for a man in my office. It turned out very muted but someone said, he is an understated man and it was perfect. I hope he likes it!

Here is the necklace! I have a blue and brown blouse I wear it with but couldn't figure out how to get it all in the picture!

We went to Disneyland in July and I made each of the kids 2 autograph books - one for the princess type characters and one for the others. They were nearly filled up so I'm glad I did them ~ there are 12 pages in each! We did have BBQ with Woody and Jessie from Toy Story, Breakfast with Minnie, and then Dinner with the princesses so that helped to fill them up!

I felt so great because some of the princesses commented on what cool books they were! And my kids said their mom made them! It made me feel great!

Thanks for looking! Have a great rest of the week!

I'm Back! Card Patterns Sketch #30

2009-09-02T06:19:00.000-07:00

I can't believe it has been 2 months since I've posted something! I did make 22 cards and 4 disney autograph books between then and now (I will post the autograph books soon) but I've been super busy!

We went on 2 vacations! In July, we went to Disneyland for 5 days and also visited my sister in the San Jose area and went to Great America and to San Fransisco. Then in August we visited my parents in Lewiston, Idaho and went to Wallowa, Oregon; Spokane; Washington; and Dworshack Dam while we were there along with an acquatic center and mini-golfing in Clarkston, WA.

While we weren't out having fun, I was cleaning and reorganizing ~ I even done some real disgusting stuff like cleaning the gutters! I've still got more organizing to go but I'm feeling good about having things sort of in order before school starts (here it starts after labor day).

Enough with all the reasons I haven't been around! This week there were 2 gentlemen in my office with birthdays so I made cards! This one uses card patterns #30. I used a calendar printable stamp and circle sentiment printable stamp from the cutting cafe. I was worried about the flower and the bling for a man but he seemed to like it! Yeah!

Thanks for taking a look! I'll be back doing more cards when we get back in our regular routine!

Sweet Summer Door Hanger (BBTB Contest and Card Patterns Sketch #22)

2009-07-04T17:18:00.000-07:00

I have really been having a good time making Door Hangers instead of cards! They are a bit bigger than a card and you can incorporate a sketch into them so well!

For this one I used the Card Patterns Sketch #22. I love to try their sketches! I'm going on vacation next week so I'm trying to get my fill of scrapping and card making in now!!!

Bitten By the Bug has a contest going on right now where you need to have:

**a summer theme

**cuts from any cricut cartridge (I used Lyrical Letters for the bird, the bush (it is behind all the flowers), and sweet summer and George for the flowers)

**incorporate a yellow button somewhere in it (I've got a big one and several small ones along with a lot of other colors)

The paper is from the Basic Grey Lime Rickey 6 X 6 paper pack.

It is very eclectic and a little outside my normal style but I'm going to put it on my door at work! Just a way to have some art on my door! Maybe it will make someone smile!

I guess this also qualifies for the Pile It On Challenge because this weeks is to have 4 buttons ~ I'm new to that challenge ~ not sure how many times you can post something on it! But I'm on a roll with buttons and challenges this week!

Another Patriotic Door Hanging (4 challenges in One!)

2009-07-04T14:06:00.000-07:00

In my last post I made a 4th of July door hanging and one of the awesome comments (there were lots of them ~ thank you all) suggested I do one for the Cuttlebug Challenge. I don't have a lot of cuttlebug dies but I do have these cool nesting stars! The challenge was to use cuttlebug dies (of course), red white and blue, and buttons. I also used the word freedom from the cricut Graphically Speaking cartridge which is the Bitten By the Bug Challenge. I used the general layout of the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch this week again! It does look different then the first one! And last but not least the Pile It On Challenge was to use 4 buttons and as many challenges as possible. I've used round buttons, star buttons and little glittery buttons so there are a lot of buttons on here! I am a little worried it is too busy but it is pretty fun! Thanks for stopping by! I hope everyone is having a great 4th of July!

4 Challenges In One (2 Sketches 4 You, Use It, Bitten By the Bug, Pile It On) ~ Way to say Happy 4th of July!

2009-06-30T21:53:00.000-07:00

I found this new challenge called Pile It On and the purpose of it is to do it as a challenge + as many others as you can in the same project! Wow! Sounds hard but actually this project ended up easy to use them all! This is actually a door hanging. I got the idea from one of the design team members of Bitten By the Bug. Here are the challenges:

Bitten By the Bug - Use jumbled freedom words from Cricut Graphically Speaking (Independence is also from the same cartridge!)

2 Sketches 4 You, Laura Sketch #29 (used that for how I set it up!)

Use It #16 - Use Polka Dots, inspired by nature (the little owl!), favorite embellishments (I used the ribbon, flowers, button, and die cuts), and send to someone you care about. In this case I'm going to hang this on my door at work because it will cheer everyone up! So all those people are special! Hope that counts!

Pile It On #4 - Use 4 Buttons.

As I said in an earlier post for the same Use It challenge, I've been cleaning and reorganizing my scrap space and so I "found" the red polka dotty paper and didn't realize just how much fiber I had and this was a fun way to use it! I can't wait to take this to work tomorrow and hang it on my door!

2 Challenges In One ~ Thank You Card

2009-06-28T09:59:00.001-07:00

For this card, I combined the Use It #16 Challenge with the Card Patterns #21 Sketch!

The Use It #16 Challenge was brought to us by Kay Sibley and was to be:

**Polka Dots (check, check ~ got lots of polka dots going on here!)

**Something from Nature (check, check ~ turtles and flowers)

**Favorite Embellishment (check ~ I have lots of faves but I love stacking flowers right now and putting a button on them! I also love die cuts with the cricut so the thank you is from the Beyond Birthdays cartridge)

**Send it to someone special (this will go to my parents who had my kids visit for a little over a week ~ I think it is great for my kids to get to know their grandparents but it still is hard to be patient when you haven't had kids around for quite awhile!)

And, for extra points I actually "found" both of these cool papers as I've been going through and reorganizing my scrap area! You wouldn't believe all the cool things I've found! I shouldn't have to shop for a long time (but will I???? Maybe I should Use It more often!).

2 Sketches 4 You ~ Kazan's Sketch 29

2009-06-27T12:27:00.000-07:00

I had some great fun with Kazan's Sketch #29 this week! I have several friends and family with late June and July birthdays! So I took my scraps and leftovers of Little Yellow Bicylce Zinnia collection (I made a cool frame for my mom for Mother's Day with it) and started cutting out elements for the cards! They all use a Technique Tuesday Birthday Stamp and the cake is from the Lyrical Letters Cartridge. The flourish ont he side and the circle and flower circle are both cut with a revolution cookie cutter die. I changed around the papers and the bling (there is lots of it!)
and changed the directions of the card! I came out with 4 similar but different cards so I had to share them all!

This was great fun!

Thanks Kazan for a great sketch this week!

Can't wait to see who moves forward in the Ultimate Card Contest!

Another Bitten By the Bug Contest Entry!

2009-06-22T21:07:00.000-07:00

I had so much fun with my other entry that I decided to do another one (you can do 2 and they are due tonight at midnight!).

This is for my sister Darleen's birthday (not till end of July so whoo hoo I'm ready early!).

I used patterned paper from Basic Grey Lime Rickey. It's Your Day and the silhouette flowers are from the George Cricut cartridge. The ribbon was a little piece of leftover from my silverwood books. The little bird is a quickutz revolution. On top of the flowers I put these little foam beads that I found at Michaels tonight. They looked very cool and worked out great with the flowers!

Thanks for having such a great contest! It was fun and it helped motivate me to get a couple projects done!

Primary Colors! Card Patterns #20 and a Birthday Card!

2009-06-21T10:30:00.001-07:00

I just bought this cool paper pack (6 X 6) of Basic Grey called Lime Rickey and I just love the bright colors.

I used that paper for the background of my card for Card Patterns #20 this week. I didn't have anything that would make a whole square of scallops so I used my revolution border scallop and bordered the "totally fab." My daughter needed some thank yous for her 5th grade graduation presents so I pulled out one of the cutting cafe's (see link to the right ~ they are so cool) printable stamps that I had gotten awhile back and used it. I added some flowers and buttons that I've had around for awhile. I love anything with black because it makes it pop so that is why I chose the black for the scallps and ribbon.

My son will be going to a friend's birthday party in July and I had some more of those cute penguins cut out (revolution die) so I framed him in another cool cutting cafe printable stamp ~ you've got to love these cool big circles stamps ~ I use them alot. HB2U is cut from the cricut Alpahlicious cartridge.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week!

Bitten By the Bug Contest Entry!

2009-06-21T10:18:00.000-07:00

I decided to make a card for my dear friend Bonnie who is retiring from the State of Oregon after 30 years! She will be retiring June 30th.

The Bitten by the Bug contest is to make a card using a sketch by Shortcuts and using at least one flower of any cricut cartridge.

I hope my flowers count ~ they are actually dandelions from the Storybook cartridge ~ can a weed be a flower?

All the patterned paper and glass baubles are from K and Company "greenhouse." The glass baubles really look good with the dandelions ~ they don't look like "weeds" after I put those on them! I found these at Michael's yesterday and really wanted to use them! Retirement is cut with the cricut Don Juan cartridge and Congrats is from the cricut Beyond Birthdays cartridge.

Thanks for looking and good luck to everyone who entered the contest!

2 Challenges in One Card (Card Patterns #19 and Use It #14)

2009-06-18T21:05:00.000-07:00

I have had this cute Revolution Penguin (Archiver's Exclusive) for quite some time. There are no Archiver's here so my sister Teresa who lives in Texas got it for me and mailed it to me! He/She is so cute.

The Use It #14 challenge this week was to:

**Use Pink

**Use Scallops

**Use a tag

The Card Patterns #19 sketch had a scallop on the top so this was just so natural to put them together! And I got to use my cute penguin. I even doodled on this card!

2 Sketches 4 You (Laura 28)/Father's Day

2009-06-18T06:14:00.001-07:00

I made my dad a father's day card weeks ago but at work we are still selling cards for the food drive and there were not many left from last year! So I worked on a few this week to replenish the ones we had. This first one is using up more of my scraps from making my daughter a 8.5 X 8.5 scrapbook for outdoor school (the scrap pile is really diminishing, yeah!). I used the cricut graphically speaking cartridge to cut out authentic and genuine, and the beyond birthdays cartridge for dad. The you're #1 is a dollar stamp (the circle was cut with the cricut george cartridge).

For the other one I used Laura's sketch #28 from 2 Sketches 4 You. I have the patterned paper (American Crafts) for quite some time and it just seemed to go with this sketch. I don't know what brand the black and white checkered paper is as I have had it for a long, long time! You're the Best is from the cricut Alphalicious cartridge and dad is from the beyond birthdays cartridge (I've cut a lot of these out lately but they are just such a nice font!). I used another $1 stamp for the happy father's day and put it on pop dots on a flower (using those up too as I got tons of red flowers for my Christmas cards last year!).

Thanks Laura for another great sketch!

Card Patterns #19/Graduation Altered CD's and Last 2 pages of Silverwood Book

2009-06-15T20:10:00.000-07:00

Here is a card for the card patterns sketch #19. My uncle's 80th birthday party is next weekend and my kids are going with my parents (I'm not!). I wanted the kids to have a cool card to give him! I used scraps from Bo Bunny paper (I used it for my daughter's outdoor school book which I will have to post pics of!). It's your day is from the George Cricut Cartridge and so is the circle. The branch is from the Storybook Cricut Cartridge. The scallop is a quickutz revolution 12" die. The 80 and owl are both quickutz 2 X 2 dies. The blingy leaves I got at walmart in the button section.

These next 2 pictures are of the altered CD's I made for each kid in my daughter's 5th grade class. I used a star theme for the boys and hearts for the girls (my daughter had 2 Morgan's in her class ~ one a boy and one a girl!)

I used the Cutting Cafe happy graduation big printable stamps on one side and Cutting Cafe calendar printable stamps on the other side. 5th grade is from the Locker Talk Cricut Cartridge, the names are from Don Juan Cricut Cartridge,

Congrats on the star one is from the Teardrop cricut cartridge and the stacked congrats is from Beyond Birthdays Cricut Cartridge.

These were such great fun to make. I also cut 12 of the stacked congrats out really big and hung them from the ceiling with fishing water with blue and white streamers and glittery grad caps.

Both my kids and my daughter's friend Stephenee helped us decorate for her room's breakfast. The kids said their room was the best decorated! Very fun!

And here are my last 2 pages from the Silverwood Book!

100% and Extreme are from the Graphically Speaking Cricut Cartridge ~ I love this cartridge!

This last page was kind of a fill in - I ran out of pictures. The black circles I used a doodling template my sister sent me ~ how cool is that! I got the bingo card from the frugal crafter blog fro free. Idaho is cut from the Cricut 50 states cartridge.

The green frame and "day" are from the Storybook Cricut cartridge. And last but not least, the July 2008 are from the revolution cookie cutter calendar dies!

I hope everyone is having a terrific Monday!

1st Annual 2 Sketches 4 You Ultimate Card

2009-06-04T21:24:00.000-07:00

There are so many talented card makers entering the 1st Annual 2 Sketches 4 You Ultimate Card Contest! The prizes are awesome and the talent is so inspiring!

Here is my entry and also a father's day card for my dad!

I recently made my daughter an outdoor school book and used all this cool bo bunny outdoor patterned paper ~ the book was 8.5 X 8.5 so I've got lots of scraps and they just remind me of a masculine card! I cut the scallop edge with a 12" revolution die. The marquee and "hoo" U? is from the cricut storybook cartridge. The heart is a sizzix die (on chipboard). Dad is from pink paisley chipboard letters (my sister Tsscrappinblog sent them to me). The owl ribbon is from Michael's. The button is also from the same bo bunny line. The hat pins are fancy pants and the flower is a prima. The twine is from the jewelry section at Michael's.

I wish everyone good luck on the contest and remember to have fun!

Card Patterns #17/More Silverwood Book!

2009-06-04T19:49:00.000-07:00

Here is my card for Card Patterns Sketch #17! My niece is graduating from 8th grade on friday 6/12. I found out the colors of her school are black and gold!

I used a sizzix frame for my shaker and put a cutting cafe printable big circle on top (see right side for a link to the cutting cafe). The congratulations paper is just white cardstock with different congratulations printed on it with a word processing software. I used it for the back ground of the shaker + the little strip underneath. The black patterned paper has been in my stash for a long time! I used 2 kinds of ribbon and then some gold and black rhinestones to give it some bling! The name plate is also a sizzix (with chipboard behind it) and the 8th grade is cricut Don Juan. I got the gold and black and confetti at Dollar Tree! I think the bling is great for a 14 year old girl!

So here are 3 more pages from my Silverwood Altered Book.

This first page is pictures after they got done riding Thunder Canyon (see my previous post). They had rode thunder canyon 8 times and were already soaked and then went on to the bumper boats where you could also put money into these water guns and shoot at the bumper boats. They were so wet! My daughter couldn't stand it so I had to go out and get her some dry clothes out of the car!

They have some really cool roller coasters at Silverwood and they are all in an area they call coaster alley. We took this picture as we were leaving so that is why it is a little dark!

My altered books had quite a number of pages so I copied the tremors thing from the outside of the packet where they put the pictures they take of you on the ride. I had accidently cut out way to many "scream"s when I was doing the ice cream pages (quite a few posts back) so I used them here! The roller coaster is a Jolee's sticker and the use only as directed is from cricut graphically speaking!

I only have 2 more pages to post from this altered book. Sorry it took so long to get them all in!

2 Sketches 4 You (Kazan's Sketch 27), Use It Challenge #11, and some more Silverwood Book!

2009-05-27T19:27:00.001-07:00

I know I haven't been around very much lately but I've completed all kinds of projects! Yeah! So here I am back! I've got 2 cards using Kazan's sketch 27 on 2 Sketches 4 You. The first one also incorporates most of the elements of Use It Challenge #11:

Square Card (got that)
Summer Theme (got that)
Ribbon (got that), Twine (couldn't figure out how to get that in!), and Flower (mine is hawaiin)
Punches (since I'm really into die cuts, I had to use my handy corner rounder because I don't have many punches any more!)

The die cuts are all from the cricut Life's a Beach cartridge ~ very fun!

I'm using this Aloha cards for my daughter's birthday thank you's as she had a hawaiin themed party!

My son's birthday was the day after my daughters so I needed thank you's for him also. I used the sketch again! I used the big circle words from the Cutting Cafe (see blogs I follow to the right to find out how you too can get these!), You're far out is a club scrap stamp, the world is a quickutz and the rocket is a sizzlet!

This card looks totally different than the other one!

Several weeks ago, I left off on my silverwood altered books! I've actually finished them and have more pages to post than these! It does feel good to have a completed project!

Silverwood is an Amusement Park in Northern Idaho. The pictures are all from July 2008.

Thunder Canyon is a really cool water ride! The words Thunder Canyon are from the cricut Stamped cartridge, wet and wild are from Cricut Don Juan, and the 2 water words are from cricut Graphically Speaking (loving this cartridge).

These are more pictures from Thunder Canyon! H2O is from cricut Graphically Speaking and Everywhere is from cricut Lyrical Letters!

The kids went on this ride something like 8 times! They had such a good time!

I love these pictures ~ if you look close you can see water just dripping off them!

"until we are" is cricut Alphalicious and Soaked is Revolution Blossom - the little waves in the letters are quickutz!

Besides finishing these books, I also finally finished painting our patio cover. It took weeks and 4 gallons of paint. At one point I tripped getting off the ladder and really hurt my elbow and arm (even went to the doctor and had it x-rayed but luckily it was not broken!!!!). My dad put up a cool drip system, I put up rope lights and some lanterns, planted some hanging pots and trying 2 topsy turvies for a green pepper and tomato. I also planted a bunch of plants in the yard and put together a little table and the bottom of a loveseat for a nice little sitting area on the patio! I even used plastic spray paint and redid a plastic bench! Loving it! Now that most of that is done, I'm back to scrapping and card making!

Have a great week and hopefully I will see you back here soon!

Card Patterns #13 and A Mother's Day Project!

2009-05-03T21:57:00.000-07:00

I hope everyone had a great National Scrapbook Day! I did! I met my 2 scrapping friends at Craft Warehouse at 10 yesterday and we shopped and did a cute little make and take book (it was bound with a bind it all ~ so cool ~ and I have one in the box that I've never used so I think I'll be using it now!). Then we scrapped all day and I finished my Silverwood book! I will post pictures soon!

But....here is my Card Patterns card for Sketch #13. Below you will see my mother's day project. I used some leftover paper to make my daughter her birthday card (her birthday is 5/6!). The patterned paper is all Little Yellow Bicycle Zinnia. I love this paper! The happy birthday is a Technique Tuesday Stamp. The brad in the flower and the bling on the candles is the same Little Yellow Bicycle collection. I even doodled on the white paper!

A week ago, I took a class at my local scrap store, Scrapbook Fever (see the last post). We made this cool Fancy Pants frame. I wanted to get the same frame and do it in purples because my mother likes purple for mother's day. They didn't have any more of that frame so I bought the 18 X 9 frame. I bought and collected a bunch of cool purple stuff and then went to work to create!

And here is the finished product. It really looks better in real life. When my mom gets here, we will put in some pictures. I can't believe I did this by myself! The flower in the left bottom corner is made of several different kinds of paper. All the floweres are layered and chalked and there are lots of little details! Hopefully she will like it!

This last picture is of the frame we did in class last week. The paper is BoBunny. The teacher had everything cut out and it still took us all day. The big flower is a little different pattern ~ she gave us 2 patterns! I like the one that I made for the purple one a little bit better!

Have a great week! I know mine will be busy as both my kiddos have their birthdays, mother's day, National Corrections Week so lots of activities at work!

Take care!

Card Patterns #12

2009-04-25T21:17:00.001-07:00

At first when I looked at the Card Patterns Sketch #12, I just couldn't see anything! But then I noticed another cool Cutting Cafe Printable Stamp ~ see the link to the right ~ from the All About Mom set. And then I found this cool Junkitz paper in my stash that I've had for a long time. It is absolutely beautiful and colorful and I have 4 sheets of several patters so why I've never used, I don't know why. I love this quickutz revolution 3D butterflies and they look great with the junkitz paper! The I love you in the middle is from the cricut cartridge Lyrical Letters.

I'm really loving the Cutting Cafe Stamps and the Card Patterns Sketches!

2 Sketches 4 You (Week of 4/20/09)

2009-04-25T19:36:00.001-07:00

I'm on the last day again to do 2 Sketches 4 You! But here is my card for Laura's Sketch 24! I got some really cool printable stamps from the Cutting Cafe (see the blogs I follow on the right for a link!) ~ Thank You Big Circle and All About Mom ~ and just thought this was a cool sketch to use them for! I added some bling and viola!

My second card is for Ewonne's Bonus Sketch at 2 Sketches 4 You. I used some printable stamps from the Cutting Cafe again! The Happy Graduation Big Circle and the calendar circle! My daughter gets "promoted" from 5th grade to middle school on June 10 so this is for her! She likes lots of bling and so this worked out really good. The owl and arrows are quickutz dies.

I spent most of the day taking a very cool class at my local scrapbook store (Scrapbook Fever) ~ it was to make a frame from the fancy pants 6 window frame. I need to put some pictures in it and then I will post pictures!

Thanks for taking a peek! And have a great rest of the weekend!

Use It ~ Challenge #7

2009-04-22T06:04:00.000-07:00

Wow! This was a tough one!

I don't know if I got everything in but it was a great way to get my daughter's birthday party invitations done! She is only inviting 2 girls because we are going to a small amusement park in Portland and then they are staying the night. So it wasn't one of those massive card making exercises!

I knew I wanted to make a shaker because I found this cool confetti that was tropical themed! We had bought a bunch of cool tropical party stuff last year thinking ahead for now! So, let's see how I did on the challenge:

**Use black or white cardstock as the base: I used both (sneaky, huh! maybe I'll get extra points when I don't have one of the other elements!)

**Use 4 different patterned paper: green on the tree is DCWV Christmas Glitter stack from years ago, Brown on the tree is Basic Grey, flip flops are WR Memory Keepers, and the yellow sun is making memories

**Non-scrap item: This is where I have some problems, unless you count the confetti which is technically not a scrap item but I bought it with the intention of making shakers!

**Doodling: Yeah - I did it!

**Use whatever is laying around: I had this tropical flower ribbon that I used in another project 2 years ago and was able to use it all up! Whoo Hoo!

Have a great rest of the week and Happy Scrapping!

Card Patterns #11, A Cutting Cafe Card, and a Card for Administrative Assistant's Day

2009-04-20T06:39:00.000-07:00

My first card is using the Card Patterns Sketch #11. I got this cool mother's day bingo card from thefrugalcrafter.wordpress.com (see her 3/16/09 post for a link to these cool spring bingo cards). My mother loves purple so I pulled out some very old Rob and Bob paper that I got at Michael's for the card (almost my own use it challenge!). I cut the bracket from the cricut storybook cartridge and the heart and I love you from the cricut lyrical letters cartridge. Then I added some bling! And there you go - I did the challenge and I've got my mother's day card done!

This second card is for Sue, my executive assistant ~ Wednesday 4/22 is administrative assistant's day. I'm glad I looked at the internet for the date! I might have missed it. The paper is all basic grey. I cut the hibiscus frame from the cricut storybook cartridge and the youre simply the best from the cricut wild card cartridge. I also added bling and you have to look close but I used that Ranger glass affects and went over the words, outlined the flowers, and also the pattern on the left ~ very blingy too!

This last card is made using some more rob and bob paper! Yeah! And the big printable stamps from the cutting cafe - see link on the right. Regina Easter has had some awesome sales lately and this one is very cool. I actually made 10 of these because they are for a thank you event at work for a project team. Each one will get one and they will be signed by the director, deputy director and myself. In these tough economic times it is the little things that we can do to make people feel valuable! The Thanks in the middle is from the cricut don juan cartridge.

2 Sketches 4 You week of 4/13/09 and Use It #6

2009-04-14T20:17:00.000-07:00

I used Kazan's sketch #24 from 2 Sketches 4 You and the Use It #6 challenge to create this card. The Use It Challenge was to:

~Make a masculine card. My son is going to be 12 on May 7 so this was the perfect challenge - I'm done with my card early!

~Use Heat Embossing. This is really cool because I just did a make and take at our local scrapbook store (Scrapbook Fever) and they did heat embossing. I had a bunch of stuff to do it but I'd never tried it. This was the perfect opportunity to do it again at home!

~Use some of your favorite things. Ever since I got those quickutz birthday candle numbers, I have used them a ton! I don't know how many Oregon 150 Birthday cards I've made with them ~ almost 60! I think these count as one of my favorite things.

~ Use something you have been hoarding. So there are several things in this I've been hoarding. The heat embossing tools and powder (heaven knows how long I've had it - can you believe I have one those heat embossing "hair dryers" that I'd never taken out of the box!!!). I also have been hoarding stamps. The magnifying glass and the "I detect" stamp are from club scrap ~ my sister (Tscrappingblog - see the link on the right) belongs to club scrap and they had a sale so she ordered these for me! You've got to love your sisters especially the ones that feed your scrap habit! These are just 2 of the stash of stamps that I haven't used yet. I actually bought the other stamp (it is from a Technique Tuesday birthday set) on monday at Scrapbook Fever (it was double punch day so it is all good!). I just knew this particular stamp in the set would go so good with the others.

I finished this up with some ribbon that I had from Michael's and cut out the happy b-day to look like ransom letters! The background pattern paper is from a DCWV stack that I've had around for awhile and the paper in the middle is from the Making Memories Chloe's Closet set.

I feel like I'm really on a roll this week, getting all these challenges done early! It is hard to believe! Have a great week!

Card Patterns #10/Bitten By the Bug 24/7 Challenge

2009-04-13T20:49:00.000-07:00

I combined the Card Patterns Sketch #10 with the Bitten by the Bug 24/7 (Graphically Speaking Cricut Cartridge) Challenge. Instead of 6 circles down the left side, I used the look of file folder labels and put some of the words that moms do 24/7! After all, moms work really hard! I know my handwriting isn't really neat but it was a fun thought! The paper is all making memories chloe's closet. The file folders were cut with the quickutz file folder die. The thank you and mom are from the Alphalicious Cricut Cartridge. It was a fun card to make.

The next 2 pictures are my "prototypes" for a project for my daughter's 5th grade class for mother's day. Her teacher likes it so I'm going to cut out all the paper and chipboard (from cereal boxes) - 5 X 5 Squares, some hearts, letters, flowers, and some other things. Then they will put them together. There is space on the back for them to do poems, pictures, etc. - whatever the teacher wants them to do. I've got so much patterned paper that it will use some up and goes for a good cause! It will be so fun to see what the kids do with just some of the items! The last 2 years, this teacher has had a mother's day tea and I've helped with the project and it was really cool to see what everyone did. I hope she has the tea again. Now I have a lot of cutting out to do!!!

Use #5 and 2 Sketches 4 You week of 4/6/09

2009-04-08T20:45:00.000-07:00

This was a really fun card to create! I used Laura's sketch 23 from 2 Sketches 4 You along with the Use It Challenge #5. The Use Challenge was to:

Use an old die cut. I didn't have many of these around since I have started buying die cut machines several years ago (quickutz, sizzix, cricut) but I found this cool 4th of July hat in my stash.

Use a technique you used to use. I used to piece my die cuts together and chalk them (not the little cats eyes everyone uses today but the old kind with a q-tip!). Luckily I had 3 different colored hats so cut them apart and then chalked some of the pieces!

Use a patterned paper over 2 years old. I don't know how old this paper was but I have a whole stash of 4th of July paper and I know I haven't purchased any for quite sometime!

Use something on clearance. The trim on the hat was on clearance at my local scrapbook store a month or two ago. Seemed to work great with the theme.

I completed the card with the star and usa cut with a sizzlet (also an older set) and a me and my big ideas sticker and stickopatumus 4th of July letters (also been hanging around for quite some time) and the America ribbon was from Walmart (I purchased this in the last couple weeks!). The cool thing about this card was that I used a few more things than even the challenge called for! Loved it!

Have a great week and a very Happy Easter everyone!

Card Patterns #9 - Another 3 pages from the Silverwood Altered Book!

2009-04-05T16:11:00.001-07:00

The Card Patterns Sketch yesterday was so cute! I made this card for my daughter for easter. I love the peek-a-boo bunny from quickutz and I have used it every year for something! I used this Basic Grey paper that I had in 6 X 6 and had to cut it down the middle and finagle (is that a word) it so that it would fit the card but with all the stuff down the middle you don't even notice!

Here are some more pages from my Silverwood (Amusement Park in N. Idaho) Altered Book. these are all the driving pictures. I had so much fun using my cricut on these pages. The old car is from the My World Cartridge, the Driver's License is from Locker Talk. Both of these patterend papers were in my stash! Yeah, I used something I've had for years!

For this set of pictures I also used paper from my stash! I used the Going Places and Graphically Speaking cricut cartridges. I love how it turned out!

For this last one, I had purchased this paper at my local scrapbook store, Scrapbook Fever because it was just so cute! It is double sided and the strip where Driving is is from the back side! All the words on this one are from the Storybook Cartridge and again I used Going Places!

I'm sure the kids won't get the "Driving Miss...." from the Driving Miss Daisy movie but the old cars and my son driving his sister and cousin was just too cute. In the picture on the left, if you look close you can see he has his thumb up!

This book is a little hard to take pictures of because it is just crammed full and will hardly shut. If I did it again, I think I would do it differently but even though it is really stuffed, it will be a keepsake for all of them!

Have a super week!

2 Sketches 4 You week of March 30, 2009

2009-04-04T08:55:00.000-07:00

I finally had a few minutes this morning to do the Kazan's sketch 23! I just keep running out of time! I saw those circles as eggs right when I saw the sketch! This will be a fun easter card!

My friends will be here in a few minutes for a day of scrapping! Whoo Hoo!

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

2009-03-28T17:17:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-03-23T21:06:00.003-07:00

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!

2009-03-21T14:47:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-03-19T21:30:00.000-07:00

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!)

2009-03-06T18:07:00.000-08:00

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!

Thinkin' and Feelin' Green! St. Patrick's Day is the Next Holiday!

2009-02-16T21:05:00.000-08:00

Today was a Holiday so I didn't have to go to work today! We had some errands to run but I actually had time to work on sketches early this week! I was in the St. Patrick's day mood as I had just gotten out all of my St. Patrick's day paper. I usually make some cards for the food drive for every holiday so this is a fun one! It is fun to make things green! So here are some green cards! The first one is Kazan's Sketch 20 for the week of 2-16-09. I turned it upside down. The shamrock is made of the irish blessing printed on cardstock. I made the pattern after seeing a card a few years ago on scrapbook.com. The shamrock brads are from Oriental Trading. The little love charm is from Michael's (found it in the wedding section). The green patterned paper is imaginisce (I've had it for a couple years!). The little tag thing with lucky me on it is a quickutz die and Lucky Me is one of those cool $1 stamps!

The 2nd card is for Julie Campbell's bonus sketch. The patterned paper is from my stash. The stamps are also $1 stamps! The poem I found somewhere on the internet and typed in. The circle is a quickutz cookie cutter and the leprechaun is an original 2 X 2 quickutz ~ I'd cut out a bunch one year when I was making cards and they never fit quite right on what I was making so now I have a bunch ready to go!

I found another cool sketch web-site this morning called Card Patterns - see the blogs that I follow for a link! Kristin Swain who was on 2 Sketches 4 You design team before is now on their design team! This is only the 2nd week of their sketches so it is very cool to get in on it early! I used the same poem and some more paper and stamps from my stash!

The last 2 pictures are of some shakers that I did using the same poem and the cute leprechauns! Just having a good time with green today! And shakers are so fun!

I've still got more green paper in my stash and still a month to St. Patrick's day so you can bet there will be more green cards coming!

Recipes!

2009-02-15T10:43:00.000-08:00

It was totally cool that I got a mention at 2 Sketches 4 You about the food I posted about a week ago. The lava cake has a link to the recipe but the other 2 don't have the recipes posted! So here goes:

Breakfast Egg Bake
6-8 slices of bread with crusts removed
3 cups grated cheddar cheese
12 eggs (I've used "fake" eggs and it works just as well and is lower in fat)
1 1/2 cups milk
3/4 tsp dry mustard
1-2 lbs sausage, browned and well drained (I've used turkey sausage to cut the fat down)
1 small onion chopped and browned
salt and pepper to taste

Grease a 9 X 13 pan. Line pan with bread slices, covering the entire bottom of pan. Sprinkle with cheese and sausage/onion mixture. Beat eggs, milk, salt, pepper, mustard together. Pour over everything. Refrigerate covered overnight. Bake, uncovered, at 325 degrees for 45 minutes to 1 hour, until eggs are done.

Overnight Maple French Toast
2/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 syrup
1 TBSP margarine or butter
10 (1 inch thick) slices french bread
4 eggs (again you can use "fake" egg if you want)
1 1/2 cups skim milk
1 tsp vanilla
1/8 tsp salt
1 1/4 cups sliced strawberries
1 to 2 TBSP's powdered sugar

1. Spray 9 X 13 pan with nonstick cooking spray. In medium saucepan, combine brown sugar, syrup, and margarine. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Boil 1 minute.
2. Pour syrup mixture evenly in the bottom of the pan. Arrange bread slices in even layer over syrup mixture. Set aside.
3. In large bowl, combine eggs, milk, vanilla and salt, beat with wire whisk until smooth. Pour evenly over bread in pan. Cover; refrigerate at least 8 hours or overnight.
4. To bake, heat oven to 350 degrees. Uncover pan; bake 30-35 minutes or until lightly browned. (I usually use a temperature between the 2 recipes and just watch them - that way I can bake them together).
5. To serve, top each serving with 1/4 cup sliced strawberries; sprinkle with powdered sugar.

5 servings

Yogurt Pie
This pie is a weight watchers pie I've been making for years so I really just make it from my head!

Reduced fat graham cracker crust

boil 1/4 cup water and whisk in a small package of fat free/sugar free jello
After that is melted, whisk in 2 8 oz yogurts (fat free) of the flavor (as the jello)
Then fold in a small fat free cool whip

put all in the crust and put in the fridge for a few hours. It is such a tasty and low fat treat! You can try it with lots of different flavors!

150th Birthday Party for the State of Oregon

2009-02-14T21:45:00.001-08:00

Here are some pictures from the big birthday party at the Oregon State Capitol today! Alot of Oregon products made a presence. Milk, the beverage of the state of Oregon! There were Tillamook cheese samples (always yummy) and some butter called Rose Valley butter from McMinnville, Oregon. It was tasty too.

Umpqua ice cream had a special ice cream made just for the 150th birthday with hazelnuts and huckleberries. It was so delicious. I'm sure that my dad will love it, so when he comes to visit I will need to get some!

The first 500 kids got goody bags. Here is Shaina with a "farm bureau" fan!

This is a picture of the 3 of us with the live "Gold Man." On the top of our capitol is a gold statue and this represents the statue. My son said he smelled like spray paint! But it was cool!

Valentine's Day is Oregon's Birthday! This year it is 150! Here is a picture of the cake that serves 3,000. We actually go a piece of it and it was very tasty!

Happy Birthday Oregon, Happy Valentine's Day, and 2 Sketches 4 You!

2009-02-12T21:45:00.000-08:00

I had some fun with the sketch this week at 2 Sketches 4 You. My first card is another valentine to sell for the Governor's Food Drive. Patterned paper and journal page are Making Memories. The butterfly is one of those cool new 3-D dies from Quickutz (this one is for the revolution). I'm really liking these! "Kisses" is an imaginisce snag 'em stamp. I used stickles on top of it and to outline the heart.

I've been making so many valentines for the food drive that I have not had time to make any for my family and friends that I usually send them to so I was trying to figure out what to do at such a late time and then while I was looking at the sketch, it came to me!

Valentine's Day is not just Valentine's Day in Oregon! It is also Oregon's Birthday! In fact if you look closely at the state seal on the flag it is in the shape of a heart. And this year is Oregon's 150th birthday. Can you say, sesquicentennial? I'd never heard the word 'till recently. There is going to be a huge party on the Capitol mall on Saturday that is a huge family event and my kids are incredibly excited. Radio Disney is going to be there, a cake that feeds 3,000, and even a "live" gold man (the gold man is on top of our capitol building) among other things! So that is where my card idea comes in! I'm going to take some pictures of the kids at the birthday party and put them in these cards to send to family and friends ~ after all, next year they can get a valentine.

For this card I put the sketch on it's side. I made some back ground paper out of yellow-gold cardstock by typing in "oregon" words in a word processing software. The state shape and the word Oregon are cut using the Cricut 50 shapes. The number candles are 2 X 2 quickutz and happy birthday is a quickutz revolution.

I want to wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day! I'm also a very proud Oregonian (for 25 years!) and am excited to be celebrating such a big event!

And.....More Valentines!

2009-02-08T21:35:00.001-08:00

Here are some more valentines for the food drive! Several of them I'm using the little $1 stamps! These were very fun! All the paper was in my stash!

Sweet Valentines!

2009-02-08T15:50:00.000-08:00

Every year at work there is a food drive during February. One of the traditions that I and another gal have started is to sell cards with all the money going to the food drive. February is a great month to sell valentines. I had made several (and so had she) but last week people were really buying them! So this weekend, I'm busy cranking out some more for the rush next week! I scrapped with my friends yesterday and finally finished the 2009 calendar and accompanying album for my parents so I spent the rest of the evening doing some valentines. Here they are!

The first one uses Bo Bunny polka dot paper and the other patterned papers are Making Memories Sabrina. I used the quickutz revolution 3-D butterfly (I'm loving this guy!) and the quickutz ticket. The tickets are stamped with Autumn Leaves stamps. The flower is felt cut with a sizzix die.

The 2nd card also uses Making Memories Sabrina with a doily from target. The round stamp is a Teresa Collins and the tag is a quickutz tag, stamped with quickutz sophisticate stamps (I had made several of these tags last year so they will come in handy to make some quick cards this week).

The 3rd and 4th cards also use Making Memories Sabrina. The 3rd one also uses the Teresa Collins Stamp.

The 4th card combines a lot of the elements from the previous cards. Love is cut with a sizzlet and the round circles are quickutz cookie cutters.

My favorite card of this group is the last one. All the patterned paper is Basic Grey Bittersweet. I used that wonderful butterfly again! I told you I loved this butterfly! The oval is cut with a quickutz cookie cutter and the love is a 2 X 2 quickutz.

I made some cool food for my friends yesterday and decided to take some pictures as I still have a dream of making a family recipe book for my sisters and mom that combines our favorite recipes with some scrapbooking so it is a family heirloom! When that will be, I don't know but I am going to start taking pictures when I make something would go into it!

This wonderful creation is a S'Mores Lava Cake. My sister sent me the recipe (see perfect for the book) and it comes from Everday with Rachel Ray. Here is the link: http://www.rachaelraymag.com/recipes/dessert-recipes/smores-lava-cakes/article.html

I made a sausage egg bake and overnight french toast for breakfast. (I could do better on my picture taking!)

And this is one of my favorite lo-cal treats. It is a weight watchers yogurt pie. I made an orange one and it was yummy!

Well, I'm off to make more cards!

3 Challenges in One!!! (2 Sketches 4 You, CardALicious, and Non-Trad Valentine)

2009-02-07T07:11:00.000-08:00

I've been super busy this week (and next week will be worse!). I don't know if sub-consciously knowing I was busy, I came up with this card that combines 3 challenges:

>Kazan's sketch for this week (week of 2/2/09),

>Card*A*Licious Challenge (3 patterned papers + orange letter stickers),

>One of the February Card Challenges at Scrapbook.com is to make a Non-Traditional Valentine

The background paper is Creative Imaginations that I picked up at Craft Warehouse yesterday at lunch! The other patterned papers are Me and My Big Ideas. I actually used 4 patterned papers if you are really counting! The cute flower brads are Making Memories. The book plate is a sizzix and the butterfly is one of the new quickutz revolution 3-D Dies ~ so I actually through in using a new die in this card too! Kind of scary!

My 2 good friends will be here at 8 a.m. for a day of scrapping! Breakfast will be ready for them ~ a egg and sausage casserole and overnight french toast with strawberries! I've got a bunch of other yummy food ready and Gail is bringing pork tenderloin for dinner!

I'm going to try to finish the calendar I'm making my parents and then work on some more valentines. I make them to sell for the Governor's food drive in February and even though we had a lot when we started the week, the stash is dwindling! Which means money for the food bank!!! Yay! But more work for me!

Hope everyone is having an awesome weekend!

CardALicious 11!

2009-01-29T22:00:00.000-08:00

Card*A*Licious 11 this week was to use a journaling card, orange, and green. I had purchased this journaling spiral and Cloe's closet paper from Making Memories at Michael's last week and it was just perfect to use for this challenge!. I actually made 2. On the first one, I even tried an accordian flower. Here is the tutorial: http://destampincorner.blogspot.com/2009/01/accordion-flower-tutorial.html
All the rest of the die cuts on the card are from quickutz (love you is a cookie cutter).

On the 2nd one I used technique tuesday stamps for "beautiful day". The flowers are primas but even the brads are from the cloe's closet line!

Hope everyone is having a great week! Tomorrow is friday!

2 Sketches 4 You ~ Week of 1/26/09

2009-01-27T21:45:00.000-08:00

This is the last week for the current design team for 2 Sketches 4 You ~ soon there will be a new one. Rae got to do the bonus sketch and it was very cool! She consistently posted comments to everyone's cards all during her term on the design team. I'm going to miss her! I'll start off with showing you my card for her sketch!

I used the Making Memories Sabrina papers. I had seen someone else use them in a sketch and when I saw them at Michael's I had to have them (with a 50% off coupon they were even sweeter!). The stamp in the middle is a Teresa Collins stamp that I got at Scrapbook.com. The little cupid is a quickutz cookie cutter. The black rhinestones are Kaiser. There is a black mesh flower underneath the primas. Scrapperlicious.blogspot has some tips about mesh and I tried it on a card last weekend (see the post underneath this one) and it turned out very cool!

Here is Rae's Sketch!

It was Laura's turn to do the regular sketch and I chose to use Making Memories Sabrina again! I had gotten the cute little journaling cards that went with it and this one was shaped round so it worked very well for the sketch. The B and mine are technique tuesday stamps. The hat pin is also Making Memories but from the valentine paper. I've been wanting to try putting one in a card for awhile. Don't know if it is exactly how it is supposed to be! The heart is cut with the sizzix tipsy heart die and it is on pop dots so it stands out a bit. And here is Laura's Sketch 18:

Hopefully I will have more time to create this week, so stop by again!

2 Sketches 4 You Design Team Application Cards/Cardalicious 9/Some New Techniques!

2009-01-25T20:20:00.001-08:00

I had an awesome time yesterday with my friends, Bonnie and Gail. While I didn't get my calendar finished, it is close! We are talking about getting together in 2 weeks so I could for sure finish it then!

I've made a few cards in the last few days! The first one "I love you every day" was for the bonus of group of the January card challenge at Scrapbook.com. You were supposed to do some techniques from Scrapperlicious' blog under tips and tricks. This is the first time I've tried things like mesh with the flowers (it is underneath the flowers), extreme distressing (you punch holes in stuff), making that little notebook page look torn out. I was really freaking about punching holes in good stuff but now I am really pleased with how it turned out. I used cosmo cricket christmas paper (my sister, Teresa and I both got this free bunch of cosmo cricket on the day after thanksgiving when we went shopping!). The love stamp and the notebook are both Teresa Collins (I love how her stamps stamp well and clean up so nice!), the clock is a Maya Road stamp. I had those cool buttons that I put on the flowers and the fan in my stash (when I was buying tons of buttons and then never used any!). I really branched out on this one and I'm glad I did!

These next 2 cards are ones I did using Laura's design team application sketch at 2 Sketches 4 You. I submitted "my dear." As you can see from an earlier post, I worked on several for this sketch and it was a little hard to make my decision on which one but with the help of my sister, Teresa who does awesome work (Tsscrappinblog.blogspot.com) and her friend Donna, I picked the dear card. Donna, if you are out there, THANKS!!! Someday I hope to meet you! The sweetheart card uses doilies that I picked up at Target and Party City, Ribbon from Michael's, Bo Bunny paper from a previous year, and the candy hears are cut with quickutz.

"My Dear" uses October Afternoon patterned paper, the dear is a revolution (borrowed from my friend Jennifer), and the words are with letter stickers. This one also qualifies for Cardalicious 9 which was to use letter stickers, say "for you", and have green on it! I'm just a week late with it! The heart and grass are sizzix originals.

And here is the sketch, which as you can see I am absolutely in love with!

"Thank You Friend" is for Kazan's Design Team Sketch. I thought about this one quite awhile and finally landed on this card! The patterned paper is Me and My Big Ideas. Friend is cut with the cricut Mini-Monograms cartridge, the birds are quickutz revolution. I had gotten the foam/sparkly crowns from Michaels around halloween!

Here is Kazan's Sketch! Does it look like it?

Shaina cut her leg at her dad's today falling off the tree fort onto a chain link fence. She had to get 4 stitches but she is better now. I took pictures of the stitches with my camera phone so her brother could see them! Last weekend she lost her cell phone and some stole it so I had to cut off the service and order a new phone (thank goodness I bought the insurance!). And yesterday, while my parents were visiting my other sister in California, their car got broken into and my mom's purse got stolen! I hope the next week goes better for everyone!

A couple cards to share!

2009-01-23T21:34:00.000-08:00

I haven't done the Card-A-Licious Challenge for a few weeks so here is my card for it. The cardalicious challenge 10 was to use a circle (this paper has lots of circles - dots are circles, right? and there are circles in the square), a flower, and something sparkly (w of the flowers are sparkly!). Patterned paper is Me and My Big Ideas, the square is cut with the mini-monograms cricut cartridge, thanks is from the cricut stamped cartridge.

I've been toying with the idea of applying for the 2 Sketches 4 You design team (applications are due tomorrow night at midnight mountain time). Both Laura and Kazan do a sketch and to apply you need to do a card for each. I made several versions for Laura's sketch ~ here are 2. I e-mailed pictures of the some of them and she and her friend helped me decide which one to use (I will show it off later!). I love the internet ~ who would have thought that people in Houston can help me Oregon make that decision! Love it!

Thanks uses pattern paper from Me and My Big Ideas, Thanks cut from the cricut stamped cartridge. Flourish is a quickutz revolution.

The 2nd card is an 11 year old birthday card that either my daughter can use for a birthday party (she will be 11 and all her friends are turning 11). She loves it when the card says the age on it. The paper is from my stash. Happy Birthday is a quickutz revolution and the "1" candles are 2 X 2 Quickutz.The patterned paper is from my stash.

With the help of my friend Gertie from work, we finished the scrapbook for my boss. It turned out great and everyone was quite impressed. Now I'm ready to tackle getting the 2009 calendar and album done for my parents and then move on to finish something else!!!

2 Sketches 4 You Week of 1/19/09

2009-01-21T21:01:00.001-08:00

This week was Kazan's turn at 2 Sketches 4 You. I really enjoy seeing each week's sketch but I had a hard time figuring out what to do! I had originally thought that since Monday was a holiday I'd get it done Monday but nothing came to me! Then yesterday my Mini-Monograms cartridge was delivered and I cut out this cute square and then went from there!!

The patterned paper on this card is from the DCWV Glitter Stack - I love the bling! The "U" is also from the Mini-Monograms Cricut Cartridge! The hearts are a Sizzix Original - Heart Border. The cute little "love" charm I found in the wedding section at Michael's (I walked down that row because another row was busy and there they were!).

So, even though I was having trouble with Kazan's sketch, I thought of even more ideas for Laura's sketch from last week! I have been busy all weekend making a scrapbook for my boss (he is leaving after Friday for another job). While I was making it, I was using the revolution die for small album pages (I'm putting them on some of the pages for people to sign and write things to him). All of sudden it hit me how those little album pages could have been used on Laura's sketch so here are a couple new cards for the sketch! The teacher card uses DCWV paper from the Fall Stack from either 2006 or 2007 (I mixed up the paper!). All the die cuts on it are from the quickutz revolution!

I used the album page again on Love Notes. The heart is a sizzix original, the flower is a sizzix original cut out of felt. And the love is a sizzlet. The paper is Cloud 9 that I got a couple years ago.

This Saturday, I'm getting together with my 2 good friends Gail and Bonnie to scrap! I'm very excited because we haven't all 3 gotten together for almost a year! Gail has a quickutz exclusive die she ordered for me last February and I haven't gotten it yet! Bonnie is planning chili for lunch and something with chicken for dinner. I need to bring some snacks! I'm also taking my cricut to show them as they have not seen one in action. My goal is to finish the 2009 calendar for my parents that I started before Christmas as a Christmas present. I've been giving them one each year along with an album with extra pages - then I have them put the calendar pages in the album so they have a little album of my kids each year. They haven't been home much since the first of the year so they wouldn't even be enjoying it so not so bad that I'm late!

We will see if I get it done! Take care and have a great rest of the week!