Criss-Cross Card

This was a fun challenge at Frosted Designs!  Find it here:

http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.com/2012/05/card-challenge-using-your-scraps.html

Make a criss-cross card and add bling!

I made another birthday card - can never have too many of these. My bling is the candle flames, and also on her finger.

NSD - Another Creation

This card was made from another Frosted Design challenge - Heather's strips of paper challenge which you can find here:

http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.com/2012/05/using-strips-of-paper-challenge-heather.html

I used strips of paper from my stash, my Fiskars punch, and a cupcake die cut that I've had for soooooo long! The Happy Birthday sticker is from Mrs. Grossman's.

National Scrapbooking Day

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!  I'm hoping to post a lot of layouts on my blog today in honor of NSD.  Here's the first:

This layout is a challenge from Frosted Designs - you can find it here http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.com/2012/05/debbies-pattern-paper-challenge.html

I'm scrapping our trip to Hawaii last November.  I used Graphic 45's Tropical Travelogue Collection - Botanica, Seaside Holiday, and Exotic Destination.  I just love those papers!

The challenge called for just patterned paper, no cardstock.  I usually mat most all my photos with cardstock, so this was different for me.  I also used some lace from my grandmother's collection, some brads from Bo Bunny, my Marvy Uchida tag punch, 2 EK Success flower punches.  I also stitched on the layout.  My journaling tag is tucked underneath the flamingos.

Thanks for looking!

Happy, happy, happy . . . .

I was able to make a card and a layout today . . . the card is for the weekly card challenge at Club CK (make an encouragement card and send it to a friend), and the layout was for a challenge from Club CK also - a recipe challenge: use 3 pieces of patterned paper (1/3 of each), one photo, letter stickers for a title, 3 groups of clustered embellishments, and a baker's dozen of journaling strips or tags.  I really like doing recipe challenges - they are definitely my favorite.

Saturday, May 5th, is National Scrapbooking Day!  I'm hoping to spend at least half the day in my room scrapping . . . Glenn has to work part of the day, so that makes it a little easier :)


I've signed up for an online crop at BPC (Big Picture Classes).  I've never participated in an online crop so it will be interesting and fun.  A lot of peeps at Club CK have signed up as well.

Organization in the Scrap Room!

Oh joy!  I finally got the scrap room organized!  I'm very happy with the way it turned out.  Glenn painted the walls a light blue for me - Delicate Mist from Behr paint!  Very soothing, relaxing, peaceful - great atmosphere to create awesome projects!!

I just bought the baker's rack from a lady off of craigslist.  It seemed perfect to hold my scrapbooks, but now that I put them there, the rack seems so small, and no more room to add more scrapbooks!  Might have to rethink this.

Week One

We've been in our house one week - still have some unpacking and organizing to do, but we have done so much in a week.  We took this past Saturday "off" from housework and rode the motorcycle for the first time in so long!  We met Duane halfway between our house and his.  It was a beautiful day for a ride, and appreciated the nice, relaxing ride.

Duane!

Glenn at Work - Thankfully

AT&T contract was up for renewal this past Saturday; the Union and the company did not come to an agreement, but the union decided that the employees would continue to work (and get paid) until an agreement could be reached. Hopefully, they will work this out quickly. So Glenn doesn't have to walk the picket lines yet!

We had a wonderful Easter week-end! Glenn had Friday off, so Thursday night we drove to Panama City, FL to visit his mom. The drive was a little over 400 miles from Augusta to PC; we spent the night in Columbus, GA after a torrential rain hit us at 9:30pm.

We drove up to Warner Robins, GA and spent Easter morning at Duane and Peggy's - Elizabeth and Dakota hunted for eggs.

Then, we went over to Donna and Rick's for the afternoon. Summer and Hayden had an egg hunt and we had some delicious food!