Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Toilet Paper is good for more than 1 thing...

Happy Hump Day ladies, hope you all had a wonderful weekend with your loved ones.
A few weeks ago the lovely BETH PERRY. sent out an email asking for stamping techniques, so I decided to make a little LOVE NOTES mini book for our daughters and of course Angejolie helped when it came time to spray the Glimmer Mist. I saw this idea as I was blog hopping once and I can not remember where I saw it so unfortunately I can not give credit to that person though I know that 1 day I will come accross it again and I will make sure I give her the props she deserves. So here it goes

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So I did these out of toilet paper, yep! You read right, toilet paper my friends and you can also do some pretty embelishments with it, check it out.

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You can read about how to do this HERE. Beth was kind enough to look around the net to fins a post about it.

As always, THANK YOU for your sweet comments and for being so positive. Have a wonderful week.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Hambly Love

Lately I have been somewhat obsessed with doing 6 X 12 layouts, Hambly and American Crafts papers. It is so much easier to do a one picture layout that way. I've noticed that I have a box FULL of 1 picture that were never scrapped because there was not enough place in my page or just did not look right with the other pictures. Now I can scrap that 1 picture and tell my story and use all my paper scraps.

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Tomorrow morning we are off to Lakeland to spend the weekend with my favorite cousin and her family, we are bringing my mom, my brother and nephew too so that means a weekend full of fun, scrapbooking, more fun and soar abs from laughing my @$$ off!
Have a wonderful weekend, be safe and as always THANK YOU for you wonderful messages.

Monday, May 18, 2009

Challenge 34 at Scrapmojo

OK, so on Cinco De Mayo I posted this layout

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and wished everyone a FELIZ CINCO DE MAYO and completely forgot to say that it was also for the challenge at SCRAPMOJO. You had to do a layout about a party, past present or future, since we are parents to a 5 and 2 year our party 'till the break of dawn days are over with but we did manage to go out 1 night with old friends to Tijuana Taxi and had a blast 'till maybe 1 am?
The back reads...my idea of the greatest party was the night that we went out with the Ballers and Trainors, we had adult conversations, laughed like we were teens and there were no children to interrupt the fun.

I know it sounds mean that I was happy the girls were not there to interrupt us every minute but in the ast 5 years I can count in 1 hand the amount of times we have gone out without our girls. So this was a fun night for us.

Have a creative week and as always...THANK YOU for the sweet comments because they make my day.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

A couple of layouts

Not much to say today since I have been sick all weekend but wanted to share a few layouts.

Studio Calico
This is one of my favorite pictures of the girls, look at how happy they are, who knew body painting could bring such joy?

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This was done with the scraps I had left from my April Studio Calico kit.

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Old paper found at the bottom of my tote, don't care much for the layout itself but it's ok, we don't always have to be super happy with eh end result : )

Studio Calico
My new FAVORITE layout evah evah evah!

Studio Calico
And last but not least, I have fallen in love with 6X12 layouts, I love how easy it is to scrap that 1 picture that was left behind to join the 500 other pictures in that famous box, that means I will scrapping a whole lotta 6X12 from now on.

Well ladies, I hope your weekend was much better than my weekend ;D but I am off with the family to either the beach or a park and for the first time ever I will be taking pictures without the automatic setting :O wish me luck.

As always, THANK YOU for your wonderful comments, they sure make my day.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Oh what a weeekend.

Read at your own risk, picture heavy post!!!!!

This past Friday was my birthday and boy was it a great one, first off I decided to put some make up on and wear a dress, I'm usually in jeans and a shirt, not the greates picture but it is what it is : )

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Then I went to my LSS THE PAPER NICHE. and when I walked in Bonita said that someone had left something for me, huh???? it was THIS FABULOUS CHICK. she had called the store and bought me a gift certificate, I almost got teary eyed, how sweet of her to remember my Bday, so needless to say I was ever happier.

That night my mom watched the girls and we got to hang out with these 2 wonderful ladies and their husbands.

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We ate, had a couple of drinks, played Rock Band and all that without the kids, woot woot.

On Saturday we got to spend the entire day at Brenda's house scrapbooking and just hanging out, this time with no husbands or kids, just us ladies.

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6 X 12 my new FAVE pages to do!
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And here are some of my goodies

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Hambly's my new FAVE to the addition of Sassafras & American Crafts.
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This bad boy is gonna have me making books galore!!!!!!!

Then on Sunday I got to spend the day with family minus my Mom because she had a cold and did not want to get the girls sick : (
All in all it was a wonderful weekend and I am even more grateful tobe surrounded by such wonderful, loving, loyal people. Have a wonderful week and as always, THANK YOU for all your sweet comments, you all know how they make my day. BIG hugs!

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Happy Birthday to me!

Yep ladies , today I am 1 year older and yet not that much wiser than I was 1 year ago LOL
and guess what!!!!!!!!!!!! One of my pages is being shown RIGHT HERE. Huh? What? For real?
How did that happen? Well...it all started with this page

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I got an email from the lovely and talented BETH. asking me if I would be interested in showing the ladies at VINTAGE PLUM how to create a layout with Ghesso, Glimmer Mist and Oil Pastels. Can you believe that I almost fell off my bed when I read that? I mean... I love my pages but never think that people will like them that much (it must be the insecure middle child syndrome in me) so when I was done pinching myself I said "HELL YEAH!" So please go check it out if you can and as always THANK YOU for your sweet commentsm they so make my day. Have a wonderful weekend and a Happy Mother's Day.


BIG HUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Feliz Cinco de Mayo!!!!!!!!!!!!

Feliz Cinco de Mayo ladies!

Here is a layout I thought would be appropriate for the occasion.

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This is a picture we took last month when my husband and I finally decided to cut the cord, had his parents watch the girls and went out to dinner with old time friends, MAN OH MAN did we have a great time at Tijuana Taxi. (BTW, I am one that loves to let my Princess scrap with me, so that heart was her idea and she cut out that triangle, you would be amazed at how just this little action makes her SO SO happy, so if you see that there is a triangle or a crazy looking drawing or something that would not normally be on a layout...that is my Princess' special touch)

I have not posted anything because my MOJO has left me, I have not seen that little sucker since last Tuesday and I am about to file a missing mojo report, should anyone see her please send her back to me because I miss her.

Hope you all have a productive and creative week and as always...THANK YOU for your kind words, they mean the world to me.