Sunday, September 25, 2011

Spooky

 I have been loving the WOTG from Close To My Heart!! They are so quick and easy!! They have changed them up a bit in the new catalogue, now instead of always having cards as the extra project they are also including other fun things to do! This is the bonus project from the Mischief kit. I thought it was so cute, I had to try it!! Now the even bigger bonus was, I had just received my new Art Philosophy cricut cartridge (new to CTMH) and was able to use it to cut out the pennants and the letters!!! No tracing and cutting out required (: I just double checked the size of our chipboard banner to make sure I cut them the right size.
 I really like the way it turned out!!



 I got away to a day crop yesterday (: and managed to get one layout done in between helping people cut things with the Art Philosophy cartridge!! I will have to post another day though, time to get back to planning for my classes!!
I have to apologize to those of you I have been slacking on the comments for!! I don't get many free minutes on the computer these days ): I will try to play catch up soon!!!

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Follow You Dreams

 Well it's back to school time and I am back to working full time!! So that means the slacking on posts may continue here and there!! I am at a new school this year teaching math to grade 9 & 10 kids and so far so good!! The kids and the staff have been fabulous (:
 I got together with the girls Friday night and I finished up the You and Me kit from CTMH. This layout is of Kieran when we went to Science North over the March Break this past year. He was having a blast with the microscopes and goggles (:


 I also had a chance to play with the new Art Philosophy cricut cartridge from CTMH on Saturday, while visiting with my GF Deb (thanks Deb!!), and I must say it was worth every penny!!!! The things you can cut!!! I made 4 different types of rolled flowers, I made a Halloween Banner, I cut out a full page die cut for scrapbooking, along with many different types of card bases!!! For those of you going to the crop in Cutler in 2 weeks I will be bringing it with me for a demo.

 Anyway, I hope you all had a good start to the school year and hopefully I'll be back soon (:


51 of 52 pages complete (one more to go!!!!)

Thursday, August 25, 2011

I Didn't Forget You Birthday!!

I just extended the Celebration! is what it says inside. I didn't actually forget my niece's birthday but we weren't home for it. So, here she is getting her card 2 weeks later!! This card is actually a gift card holder (we learned to make them last year at Kraftin' Kimmie Day, thanks Andrea!!). Madeline is going away to University on Saturday and I know there are Tim Hortons on campus, so I am going to get a Timmies card to put in it. That way she'll be guaranteed to have her morning coffee for a bit (:
 The paper is MME Lime Twist-Happy Go Lucky (love the Lime Twist line!!), cs is CTMH, and I coloured this adorable little House Mouse stamp in with my copics, and cut it out with Spellbinders. Buttons are from my stash and the twine is Sew Easy.



On my way to CMT Countryfest!!! Have a great weekend!!

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Mouse Wedding Card

 OK, first off I have to apologize for being MIA for so long!!! Between being at camp and family weddings/get togethers it's been a busy summer!! My Mojo has been missing as well, so today I decided to finish my cousin's wedding card (the wedding was on the 5th!!) with an image I have had coloured for awhile.
 I absolutely love this little House Mouse stamp!! Aren't they adorable? I coloured them in with my copics (Thanks again Kirst!!)and cut them out with my Spellbinders. I used BG Kioshi paper so I can enter this card in BG's Anything Goes challenge. The flowers are Prima and Recollections, cs is CTMH.



 I am going away again this weekend (CMT Countryfest with my GF Stacey!!) but I am hoping to get caught up on everyone's blogs soon (:

Here is a "card" Azelyn was working on this afternoon (:


Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Berry Sweet

 This is the layout that goes with the one I posted a few weeks ago. It is the second layout I made using the Mayberry WOTG. I love the canvas buttons!! They are so easy to stamp on and add that little extra to a layout. I switched the colours up from what they were supposed to be and the half circle borders were done using B&T instead of stamped paper. The title was done with the Token Alphabet stamp.
  These pics are of my two youngest picking berries at camp last year. Can you tell I'm a scrapbooker?? I even remembered to take a close up of the berries (:


49/52 pages complete

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Parents - Scrap & Stamp Challenge

 Long time no see!!! I feel like I'm so out of touch with reality these days!!! I am enjoying camp though and have had a chance to do some reading (: I just finished The Book of Negros (amazing by the way) and have moved on to Room. I hope you are all having a chance to enjoy the warm weather without melting away!! It's so hot here I'm even breaking a sweat scrapbooking ):

 Anyway, this weeks challenge at Scrap & Stamp is to do a layout which involves Parents in some way. For my layout I used pics of my parents, some old some new. All of the materials I used were part of CTMHs You & Me kit. It was hard to get the newer picture the same tone as the old pics but I hope they work OK together. I thought I would leave the journaling for my Mom to do that is why it is still blank.
 So I hope you can join us this week and don't forget to use a stamp somewhere on your layout!!


 47/52 pages complete (: Look out goal here I come!!!

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Scrap & Stamp - Fishin'



 This week's challenge at Scrap & Stamp is a sketch by our very own, very talented Vickey (:

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Just remember if you are playing along you also need to use a stamp somewhere on your layout!!

Here is my take on Vickey's sketch:


 These pictures might be a bit familiar, I used some of Azelyn by herself on the last layout I did for S&S, but I wanted to scrap the rest so here they are (: You will notice one important member of the family is not in the pics, what else is new eh!?
 For this layout I dug out an old paper pad I bought a few years ago and it worked perfectly!! It's from American Traditions?? The cs is CTMH and I ran it through my Cuttlebug to emboss it. The little licence plate is Karen Foster and the twine is from Sew Easy. The ink, buttons and stamps (Poster Board Alpha and It's a Beautiful Day) are all CTMH.

 So I hope you will all play along and link yourself up over at the Scrap & Stamp blog!!! Have a great weekend!!

45/52 pages complete!!!