Easter Door Hanger (Card Patterns)

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Take care and have a great weekend!

Card Patterns + Silverwood Book Part 1!

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

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





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

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



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










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











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