Seasons Greetings

Hi Scrappers :)

This layout is totally inspired and scrap lifted from Lauren with Lauren's Creative. She is such a talented scrapper. When I saw her Seasons Greetings layout I knew I had to add this simple yet beautiful layout to my dogs scrapbook. I didn't have any holiday pictures of him scraped yet because I couldn't come up with a layout I was happy with. So thank you Lauren from the bottom of my heart for creating this beautiful layout. I'll be getting the pictures for this layout developed this weekend. (HUGS)!

Materials:

(1) piece of 12x12 kraft cardstock
(1) piece of patterned paper (this was in my stash) cut to 11.5x11.5
(1) piece of red card stock cut to 8x10
Photo mates cut to: 4.5x4.5, 4.25x4.24 and 4.5x6.5 and 4.25x6.25
"Seasons Greetings" (shadow and image) sized at 1.75 from the Christmas solutions cartridge
"Santa and Sleigh" (shadow and image) sized at 5" from the Christmas solutions cartridge
Candy cane ribbon from Hobby Lobby
White jelly roll pen

Merry Christmas everyone and a Scrappy New Year

Oh Christmas Tree & Update

Hi Bloggers :) 

Sorry I haven't blogged in a while but some things have happened here. One of those being I was let go of my job the day before Thanksgiving. It's been tough talking to people about it. I feel like I have let myself down in so many ways. I was unhappy with my job for awhile now. I worked in a public accounting firm and that is what my degree is in. It just never seemed to click and the fact that I never received any training didn't help either. My girlfriend said this to me, " I am a firm believer that God puts us on a path for a reason, and that every hardship we encounter is just preparing us for something greater…I know it sound’s cheesey, but I believe it with all my heart". I have to agree with her 100%. I am considering pursuing a degree in nursing now. I've done a lot of reading about the associates program near where I live and it does seem like a lot of work but very rewarding work. I've asked a few of my friends if they thought I would make a good nurse and I haven't had one bad comment yet. So I need to pray about this and see where God leads me. 

Now on to the good stuff. I created these snowflake tags for our gifts under our Christmas tree and the other tags were created during my Stampin' Up club. (Please forgive the quality of the pictures. I used my cell phone.) 

This little tree was made by my father using the George & Basic Shapes Cricut cartridge. The three pieces for the tree are cut at 4", 3.5", and 3". Each circle is folded four times and then refolded using the mountain/valley technique. The star is from George as well and is cut at 1.5". A wooden stick is poked through the center of each folded circle and slid up the stick to create the tree. The star is attached using a glue dot.  

Thank you for listening to me vent a little and stopping by to see the projects that I have been working on. 

I'll be posting a scrapbook layout here in a few that was inspired by Lauren with Lauren's Creative. I just love all that she does!

Merry Christmas everyone and a Scrappy New Year 
  

Happy Thanksgiving

Hi Scrapers,

I just wanted to wish everyone a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving :)

Happy Scrapin!

Blessing Mix

Hi scrapers :) I bring you my version of the "Blessing Mix" that I saw Angie with Chic-n-Scratch do a few weeks ago, or you may of seen Tracy with Craft Junkie Too do something similar as well.  

Blessing Mix Poem:
The Bugles are a symbol of the Cornucopia, a horn of plenty.
The Pretzels represent arms folded in Thanks & Prayer.
The Candy Corn reminds us that during the first winter, the pilgrims were allowed only five kernels of corn per day because the food was scarce.
The Fruit is a reminder that Thanksgiving is the celebration of the harvest.
The Peanuts represent seeds, the potential of the bounteous harvest of the next season if they are planted & well-tended.

Materials:
Turkey is cut from Create-a-Critter at 2.5"
The paper rosette was made by using a 12x1.5" strip of paper and scoring at every .25". When that is finished fold on each score line using the mountain/valley fold. See this video for a better explanation. 
I used Diamond Stickles around the edges to give them a little glitter. 
The poem was printed for Angie's PDF file she has available here.

I filled cello bags with bugles (I couldn't find the original so I used chocolate/peanut butter), pretzels, candy corn (only 5), orange slices, and peanuts. 


I hope you have enjoyed my Thanksgiving Blessing Mix treats. I gave these to my co-workers, my mom, and a neighbor that helps me out with sewing projects. 


Happy Scraping!

My Pumpkin

Okay, this will be my last post for tonight. Shew, getting caught up is a lot of work. For this project I created a 1 page scrapbook layout of my boy Solomon with his pumpkins. It was quite a job cutting his pumpkin to look like him. Thankfully, I found a template to use on Better Homes and Garden.

Materials:

Imaginise Apple Cider collection used.

(1) 12x12 piece of the wood grain used as the base.
(1) 12x12 piece of the green used for the scalloped square cut at 10.75 x 10.75 from Mini Monograms
The words "My Pumpkin" are also cut from Mini Monograms and I used the hide contour feature to hide the stitching lines.
(2) photo mats both fit a 4x6" picture. The mat sizes are 6.50 x 4.50 and 6.25 x 4.25.
(3) pumpkins cut from Create a Critter. (1) pumpkin and all layers cut at 2.5" and the (2) smaller pumpkins cut at 1.75"
(1) wood stump and all layers cut at 1.75" from Create a Critter
(1) squirrel and all layers cut at 2" from Create a Critter
(1) acorn and all layers cut at 1"
I used my Jelly Roll white pen do doodle on the stump, squirrel and pumpkins.

Happy Scrapin

Happy Birthday

WOW, another blog post in the same day! I'm on a roll. So I created this cute cup cake card for my dad's birthday. I was trying to figure out a way to make something cute but be manly. So what better way than to use the color blue. Perfect! 

Materials:

Crumb Cake SU card stock cut to 5.5 x 4.25"

Cup Cake cut from Create A Critter at 3"

I used to hide contour feature to hide the face and I used a Peachy Keen face stamp.

The brown patterned paper is from the TPC Studio Homeroom stack and it's cut at 5.5 x 2"

Happy Birthday is from the My Pink Stamper Family & Friends stamp set (I cut the stamp in half to separate the two words). 

White pearls are from my stash.

I used a Jelly Roll black pen to doodle around the cupcake and a white Jelly Roll pen to doodle around the outer edges of the card.

Happy Scrapin :)

Christmas Cards

Hi Scrapers,

Well here I am again with another project. Here are the two Christmas cards that I will be sending out. I have about 12 done and I need to make about 50. I ran outta my Stampin Up paper so I've been on hold with them for awhile. I have another Stampin Up club meeting this Sunday, so I'll be putting in my order and get these cards wrapped up PDQ! 

So what I've done here is I've created the card front and will adhere the card front to blank white prescored cards I picked up from Joann's.

Materials: 

Card #1:

Crumb Cake SU paper cut to 5.5 x 4.25" 

Dotted paper cut to 4.25 x 3.75" and adhere to top of card

Punch green card stock (Old Olive SU) 4.25 x 1.5" wtih scallop edge punch. I used a Fiskers threading water punch and adhere to card.

Cut red card stock (Real Red SU) 4.25 x 1.75" and stamp sentiment on left side. I stamped in VersaMark and used white embossing powder then heat embossed.

Cut striped patterned paper 4.25 x 1.5" and adhere.

I used the Hero Arts "Joy to All" stamp set.

Card #2:

Crumb Cake SU paper cut to 5.5 x 4.25"

Cut green card stock (Old Olive SU) 5.5 x 2.5" and stamp the sentiment on the left side. I stamped in VersaMark and used white embossing powder then heat embossed. I used my Cricut and Gypsy and welded a circle cut at 1.75" to a 5.5 x 2.5" rectangle I got from George and Basic Shapes. You could use a 1.75" punch to get the same effect.

Adhere the image behind the circle window using dimensional adhesive (SU dimensionals)

Cut red card stock (Real Red SU) 5.5 x 1.5 and punch with a scalloped edge punch. I used a Fiskers threading water punch.

Cut patterned paper 5.5 x 1.5" and adhere to card front as shown.

Adhere green window card (Old Olive SU) piece to card using dimensional adhesive. 

I used the Hero Arts "Joy to All" stamp set.