SUPER DUPER QUICK CARD

BIRTHDAY CARD

I have a quick card to share with you today and when I say quick I mean QUICK!!!! Put it this way I remembered about 15 minutes before the postman came that if I didn't get her a card in the mail that day it wouldn't make it in time.....so I whipped this card together super fast so I could throw it in the mail box for the post man to send her way!

I accidently threw away the half of the label that showed the collection, but it's from We R Memory Keepers. I tried to locate the collection on their site, but had no luck so it must be really old. Anyhow I had wanted to show you the original piece of paper that I used so you can see what I've done, but YOu'll just have to bear with me and use your imagination, lol. 

The alphabet strip that is in the center of the card was located at the bottom half of the paper and I cut it off to use here in the center. I just used some scrap pieces to do my punchwork and placed ribbon down the center of the punchwork and a bow over that. The title is just a generic chippie I found in the dollar bin at Wal Mart. I topped the card off by adding a button in the bows center. To give the card a more homespun look I used a rounded corner punch on all the corners. 

ALL DONE....less than 15 minutes folks!

Thanks for looking!

2011 IN REVIEW

2011 IN REVIEW

WOW what a year it's been!

All I can say is that I am a very lucky woman!

Let me take a minute to rewind

January

The kids started over at their new temporary school so their old one could be demolished and a new one built.

I got my excursion!

I made my first Design Team

I got published for the first time

I started teaching at my LSS

Febrauary

My oldest daughter got her first boyfriend
Kareoke became a family fav!

March

I was super sick with strep throat and had to get the first shot in my but that I've had in years....lol call me a baby but it still hurts today if I lean on it just right

Aril

My oldest daughter had a part in the school play

2011 MX season started for my kiddos

I set the alarm clock like so many other to watch the royal wedding (ok so I'm a dork, lol)

May

My oldest daughetr graduated from elememtry school, the ceremony was so bitter sweet

My middle daughter was in the talent show, which shoked me because she is so shy and reserved

My Grandma and her new husband came up for a visit
My oldest son had his first AWESOME race

June

July

My oldest son placed 2nd for the first time in his mx race

My husband had his first mx race

I was invited to do a Magazine featured artist spot

August

I lost 14 pounds

My oldest daughter started Jr. High

My youngest daughter started preschool

close friends from Las Vegas came up for a visit

We went Lee Brice concert

September

My oldest daughter made the volley ball team

My oldest daughter went to the principals office for the first time EVER
My inlaws had to put down our beloved Polly, she was my husbands childhood dog amd my children LOVED her

October

My middle daughter started her second season of volley ball

My youngest daughter started ballet

The warmest Halloween I've ever had in my life

My youngest daughter went on her first field trip

November

The warmest Thanksgiving I've ever had in my life

Our dear friend broke his back and became paralized

My youngest daughter had her first music program

December

My youngest son went to the principals office for the first time EVER (LOL deja vue)
I attended my oldest sons last Xmas party he'll have in Elementary school




LOL I wish I had written more day to day stuff, lol, when I was creating this post I totally drew a blank, lol....so I had to use what was on the top of my mind....
But never the less, it was an awesome year and we are looking forward to 2012 as we send off 2011 with many many memories to treasure.


HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE, I HOPE 2012 BRINGS YOU EVERYTHING YOU WANT AND MORE!

My Top 11 Projects In 2011

My Top 11 Projects In 2011

So I saw this on my friend Dana Tatar's blog and decided I wanted to do this too! We all have projects we create that just become our Fav's, it's important to love your own work. The more I scrap, the better I want my stuff to be, I strive constantly to do more, work harder and create even better!

I think towards the end of this year my crafting really started blossoming, I really started to focus on detail and technique much more. I learned it's about qaulity, not qauntity! So with that being said, here's my top 11 favorite projects I created in 2011!!

Thank you for all your love and support this year, it has really meant so much to me. All of your kind words have touched my heart in one way or another! So thanks again!

The Paper Variety's Guest DT

Tina Phillips

. Please take a moment to stop over at The Paper Variety to check out Tina's bio as well as her take on this week's challenge.

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Scrap Your Crap DT Call

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Another DT Call - Is it that time already????

Our current DT are still rocking the crap until the end of February but as you all know, we like to keep things cool and stress free. So we give you loads of time to get your application in if you fancy becoming part of our fabulous Design Team.

Are you a hoarder? Do you surround yourself with pretty papers, chipboard, embellishments and continue to add to your stash rather than use it?

Well then you are the prefect crafter to become part of our DT.

Scrap You Crap is looking for four to six team members and ideally we would love to have a good mixture of cardmakers and scrapbookers.

**What do we ask of our Designers?

Just one project per month – due on the 7th as our challenges will go live on the 15th.

Register for our DT forum, where we will be throwing ideas around for future challenges and communicate with each other. We do not ask for gazillions of posts, just a bi-monthly check in

Promote SYC wherever possible, for example on your personal blog, online communities.

Commit to a four month term with the possibility of extending this for another term.

Leave comments on all challenge entries <- this is super important and will be monitored

**What do our Designers get in return?

The gratification of having used up all that stash which gathered dust. As the concept of the blog is to make use of the stash you already own, it would be kind of defeating the object to compensate with product, right? And also, this gives you the perfect excuse to go and buy more stash...seeing that you used the old one up for our challenges :)

Designers will have a permanent link to their blog (or homepage) on our site.

If you want to become part of this well-established challenge blog, send an email to: sycchallenges@gmail.com and don’t forget to put SYC DT Call in the subject line.

We would like you to submit three projects (layouts or cards) which you feel represent your style the best but they don’t have to be newly created. You can email us images of stuff you have already done before no need to recreate and keep it a secret. Please DO NOT embed images within your email we require them as attachments only. Please make sure that our pictures are not blurry and of a maximum size of 700 x 700 pixels.

Don’t forget to include a link to your personal blog (if you have one) as we are nosy like that and fancy checking you out...

Internationals are more than welcome and the deadline for this call is February 10th 2012. If accepted, your term runs from March 2012 through to June 2012. No prior DT experience is required.


We will contact the successful applicants no later than February 15th 2012.

If you have any questions, please shoot us an email to: sycchallenges@gmail.com and we will get back to you as soon as possible. We look forward to hear from you all!



ScrapFIT Reveal

It's reveal day again over at ScrapFIT

This week's workout challenge is to use Pat Benetar's "Love Is A Battlefield" as inspiration

I must admit, this challenge was quite hard for me, I'm not a big fan of the song, and honestly I sat and worried what I was gonna do for this challenge because it didn't speak to me....then it hit me like a ton of bricks.....

I used the title on a layout of my oldest daughter.....whay you ask?!?! Because any of you who are raising a pre teen or teen daughter know that at times loving her can feel like a battlefield with drawn out lines. I love my pre teen  daughter very very much, and I want the very best life has to offer her and insuring this sometimes the road can be rough. But never the less I'll love her forver and always, so therefore

"Love Is A Battlefield"

Here is my take on this week's challenge

My apologies, the photo is less than perfect, I had a hard time this past week photoing my projects as the weather and natural light have been less than desirable.

This is a layout as I said above of my oldest daughter whom happens to be a pre teen. I love her more than I can express and the funny thing is for all the times she gives me a run for my money just by being a pre teen....I can truely see myself in her, lol. So that old saying that karma will pay you back for all you put your parents through is definately true....she has that eye roll thing down pat!

I used Basic Grey's "Out Of Print" collection for this page, it's a little different from my usual style, but I had fun creating it! I used the scissor method to distress and some stitching around the edges to tie it all together.

You can see some of the stitching and distress work around the edges on this close up. I also wanted to show off the pretty doily and flowers cluster. The journal spot is from Jillibean Soup's Old Mcdonald Collection.

More flowers and Jillibean cut outs here in this close up. I just noticed that my button must have slid over as well...oops I must fix that, lol.  I tried to keep the flowers the same color scheme as the striped patterned paper.

Last but not least I wanted to show you a close up of the photo that I also scissor distressed and doodled around with a white pen. I love the look of the different sized doiles tucked around the photo and embellished with flower clusters.

THANK YOU FOR STOPPING BY MY BLOG, DON'T FORGET TO STOP BY SCRAPFIT AND CHECK OUT WHAT THE OTHER FITGIRLS CREATED TO INSPIRE YOU.

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The Paper Variety Challenge

Yay it's FINALLY here!!

The Paper Variety's very first challenge of 2012!!!!

Is this an AWESOME challenge or what?!?!

For more details and to play along with us for your chance to win

 October Afternoon's "The Farmhouse Collection"

Sponsored By: The Paper Variety

Here's my take on this week's challenge:

This is a layout of my youngest daughter!

I choose to use yellow as my pop of color on my black and white layout because I love the way it pops off the page! The papers are Basic Grey's Out Of Print Collection paired with an older DCWV collection. I used the scissor method to grunge up the paper and the photo to give it some depth and character.

All the flowers are handmade. I used a pearl in the center of the white one's, but I wanted them black to help them tie in with my color scheme so I used a sharoie to color them. The flourish surrounding the flowers is just a generic sticker I found at Target in the dollar section.

I added a black button over the center of a bow, I added a pearl over the top of the button to tie in with the

pearls surrounding the page.

Here's a close up of the doodling I did around the layout and the pearls I added over it to top it off. You can also see the distressing, punchwork and pearls more closely here.

I used the same scissor distressing that I did onthe paper on my photo as well. I also used a white pen to doodle around the photo.....I used it with a light hand so that it didn't become a focal point and to also give it a somewhat vinatge feel.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed my page and will join us for this weeks challenge over at

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