Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I am a slacker! I haven't even made my St. Patty's Day cards yet...don't know if I will get around to it this year. Oh well. But we did get a few in the mail this week...

Cute little 3x3 card for Brooke from my mom and dad. I just love it and so does Brooke. I had to wait until she was napping before getting a picture of it today! She loves a 3x3 card!

This one was made by my Mother-in-law and also signed by Brooke's granpda. I love it! She worked hard on this...there are so many elements!

Thanks for the cards ladies! Sorry you probably won't get one in your mailbox this year.

Make it with Crumb Cake Monday

Crumb Cake makes really good cards too! Check out this card that I created for my last card event. I love the Eat Chocolate stamp set that my mom let me borrow for this card class! The stamp I used says, "I would give up chocolate, but I'm no quitter!" Ha ha!

A few other of my favorite Stampin Up things are on this card too! The Decorative Label Punch and Melon Mambo Pompom Trim! Love them!

All of these items are currently available in the Occasions Mini Catalog!

19 Months

Here's another layout for you. The pictures aren't the best but that's ok! This layout was what we made at club in January!

We used the Brights Collection DSP and Brights Glimmer Brads...love those things! And a little bit of Melon Mambo pom pom trim!

I added a lot of writing to my layout because it was all about what my daughter was doing at 19 months. If you want to read the journaling better you can see it on my family blog here.

Thanks for stopping by...more tomorrow!

Make it with Crumb Cake Monday

Since Crumb Cake (also called Kraft) is my favorite color to use EVER...I decided to start a new Monday tradition...Make it with Crumb Cake Monday! Every Monday I will show you a fun project that I have made using the color and that should NOT be hard because I use this color ALL THE TIME!

My first Crumb Cake creation is a layout of my Hubby. I took this picture back in 2009 on a family vacation and I recently discovered it again and changed it to Sepia. Instant love and I had to scrapbook it!

This layout was actually very simple but I just love it!

My favorite part are the cute little tickets by Tim Holtz! You have also seen them here.

Pray that my Hubby has a great flight today. He's on his way to California for business. Hopefully he's only gone 8 days, but it may end up being 11...Boo!

Scrap That Baby

I have been following the Scrap that Baby blog for a while now, I just never got around to finally making a page! But at my crop last week, I made this page and then this week Scrap that Baby posted that the next prompt was BIRTHDAY! So I just had to enter the page that I made for my little one's 2nd birthday! Can you believe she's already 2?!!!

As I mentioned in my last post, I love anything Echo Park! And I got to use another new kit on this page...Echo Park's Little Girl line. It's so adorable!!!

Each Echo Park kit comes with alpha stickers and this kit has some cute ones!!!

I love to print Collage Prints at Walgreens so I can fit more pictures on my pages! (Click on the page to enlarge it and see the pictures better or read the journaling!)

Can you believe that this girl only had one baby doll until her 2nd birthday when she got 4 more! She was lovin (and still is) all her babies!

Hope you enjoy the page and I hope you come back tomorrow for more crafty creations! Can you tell that I just took a bunch of pictures of cards and scrapbook pages that have just been piling up?!!!

Back at the Challenges!

Well now that you all know I'm pregnant...I have to tell you that being in the 2nd trimester is AWESOME! I feel so much better. I feel like getting off the couch and enjoying my nap time creating cards and scrapbook pages again (between loads of laundry, of course)!

So here is a card that I used two challenges to complete! I love it so much and I hope you do too!

The first challenge was for Play Date Cafe. They have a color challenge every week and this week was to use black and white with only a splash of color.
The second challenge was for Get Sketchy. They have a sketch every week and I just love them!

Here is my card! My hubby has started to travel more with his new job and he leaves again on Monday to head to California for 8...maybe 11 days. So this is a little card that I will leave in his suitcase so while he's away he will find it from me!

I started this card with a black base. I then cut a white mat down to 5.25x4 inches. The white mat was spritzed with black ink and then sponged on the edges with Melon Mambo ink (I love that color)!

The ribbon came from a little online store that I discovered...The Ribbon Jar. The decorative papers came from the the Echo Park: Be Mine line. I love anything Echo Park! And the sentiment came from my FAVORITE Papertrey Ink stamp set: Signature Greetings.

Hope you enjoy my card and I will see you back here tomorrow for more crafty goodness!

Puddle Jumping!

If you read my other blog, you have probably already seen these pictures in this post. But here is the scrapbook page!

I love America Crafts papers! And that pom pom trim is new to Stampin Up in the Occasions Mini...SO Cute! And for Christmas I got the Fiskars cloud punch. I love that thing and it was perfect for this page!

I can't believe these pictures were from over 6 months ago! WOW...time flies!

Valentine's Day 2011

Each month I have a scrapbook club meet at my house. This month the hostess wanted to make a LOVE themed page using the Love Impressions DSP and the Red Glimmer Paper!

So we did just that! I used a lot of that Love Impressions paper! All of it is so cute! I could hardly leave one of the designs out!

This page just chronicals the events of our Valentine's Day while Daddy worked and had class that night. Brooke and I did some fun things at home, had lunch with Grandma and Grandpa, and then when Sam came home he brought me a Sonic Cream Slush...YUM! (Click on the pictures to read the journaling in more detail!)

Party Decor

First of all, let me just say that I have been a very bad blogger for the past few months. And that's because...

WE'RE HAVING A BABY!!!! We found out on Christmas that we were expecting Ryden Baby #2! We are due on September 1st. Up until this week (week 13) I have felt really tired and really sick! But if I can get over this cold I have, I will be back to 100%! Can't wait!

We had Brooke's 2nd birthday party over the weekend and I just wanted to show you a fun idea for decor!

I used my two 12x12 shadow box frames to showcase a fun little layout of my baby girl.

Here it is up close. I didn't take it out of the glass so there is some glare on the pages...just ignore it! Ha ha!

The pictures on this layout were taken when Brooke was 18 months old...hints the 18 on this little tag!

And here is the other side. Journaling reads, "I (heart) these pictures! We were part of Jessica Strom's "Summer of Love" series. She took Brooke's pictures in a cornfield. They turned out so CUTE!"

And here is a close up on this little tag cluster. I love this layout so much! Probably because I love these pictures SO MUCH! Brooke most recent pictures are currently on Jessica's blog in this post if you want to check them out!

Happy Valentine's Day!

My cute little girl with her Valentine's Day present from Mommy and Daddy...16 heart shaped bracelets! YAY! She loves them! Got them on Clearance last year after Valentine's Day at Target...they were only 50 cents! And her cute outfit...also a clearance find at Target last year...only $2.50 for the shirt and leggings!

Here is the card I woke up to this morning! My hubby usually makes me a valentine! This one says, "I Pick You!" on the inside! Isn't he clever?! :) Gotta love him!