Time Flies...

If you catch it, could you send me some please??

Back to work tomorrow, so I won't be able to join in on the Hip Hop Hoopla, but if you have time head on over to the Unity forum at Splitcoast it's always so much fun!

For our Wednesday Challenge this week Lisa gave us an inspiration piece...I love this kind of stuff...it totally gets me going. So here is the piece..

Aren't these plates just beautiful... I made a few things using this as inspiration

First a Christmas Gift for my sister

This started out naked wood, the really cool thing about it is that it's on a spinner!

She has a desk in her kitchen and this matches it perfectly. This is made with K&Co pattern paper.

Then I made a card, I think maybe it's because of the shine on the paper, but I couldn't seem to get a perfectly clear picture.

and I'm also really not sure how much I like it anyway...LOL... It's pretty simple...

I used Bazzil Bling, my cuttlebug and Unity Stamp Co. Bitty Holiday Cheer

and last I made a little ornament using the same stamp set from Unity, some buttons, ok a lot of buttons and floral wire.

Just a Reminder- Starting Saturday to celebrate my new blog design I will be giving stuff away, something everyday for 7 days!! Including Unity Stamps! There will be fun challenges and games to play...hope you come by!!

Gratitude:

1. Rob is getting a little better

2. Another Christmas present knocked out

3. this incredible weather we've been enjoying

4. A very sweet card I got in the mail..Thanks Kelly

5. this is going to be a great movie month...9 days until the new James Bond Movie (um I'll take a Daniel Craig on a stick please.. thank you) and 16 until Twilight!!!

Blue Dog and The Unity Wednesday Challenge

The other night I get home from work to find my family room carpet looking like this




This is just a small sampling- there is blue everywhere and little blue pawprints all over the house. I can't imagine who could have done such a thing....





Can you?

At least it was a crayola marker so it's water soluble. I have not found any pieces of it though so she must have eaten the whole thing. That's what Cocoa does. She eats things. Nothing is safe. She's eaten holes in our comforters, all of my flip flops (my fault I know), see that couch she's sitting on? She's even been eating the frame underneath- and before you tell me to buy her a toy, trust me we have, they work for about a day or two until she eats them.








Here is my card for the Unity Wednesday Challenge at Splitcoast. The challenge today was to create a masculine card. I have trouble with boy cards so this WAS a challenge.






Supplies Used: Pattern Paper; Memory Box

Stamps: Unity Stamp Company; Tiny Trinity, Simply Said

Hemp, eyelets




I also did this layout inspired by the new sketch site Inspired Blueprints.

Supplies Used:

Pattern Paper: Basic Grey

Bazzill cardstock with an Edge

Unity Stamp Company: Oh what a beautiful morning, Sept KOM, Oct KOM, Owl always love you, Simply Said

That's me and my Sister in Spirit, Stephanie at her going away party in the summer of 2007. She moved to Japan, and I miss her so much. She was here this past June and stayed with us for a week and we had so much fun. She's my person. Meredith has Christina (Grey's anatomy reference here) and I have Steph. If you get a chance stop by her blog and tell her I said to get her non-bloggy butt blogging again. She has some pretty cool pictures there too.

That's it for today! Thanks for stopping by!

Gratitude:

1. Rain (hopefully it will cool down)

2. Jimmy John's subs (have you had these they are yummy)

3. Landon's bday is tomorrow

4. Yesterday was our 14th anniversary...(that's another post)

5. Goofy assed dogs

It's Wednesday!

I really enjoyed creating these cards today for the Wednesday Challenge at Unity. Today's challenge was to make a non-A2 card...so any size but the standard...

Well that's okay I never do anything the standard way anyway...

so first I made a 4 1/2 x 8

For this one I used Bazzil cardstock

Pattern paper by Cosmo Cricket

and The Unity Set Flirty Flowers

The next 2 are 5 1/2 x 8 1/2

For this one I used K and Company pattern paper and tag

Bazzil Cardstock

and the Wish Sticks stamp by Unity

and last..

This one is Bazill cardstock

Pattern paper by Memory box

Stamps are all Unity the tree is from the Sept KOM

The "Thanks" is from flirty flowers and the flourished

circle was a single

I really enjoyed this today so Thanks for the challenge!

In other news...I made another jolting discovery today...

Britain, my just turned 13 year old

has "guys"

you know what I mean...

"mom, I'm going to go hang out and play football with the guys" , guys

As soon as he got into the car from school today it started...

and then as I dropped him off it hit me right in the chest

I have a teenager

he has "guys"

Thanks for stopping by!

Gratitudes:

1. Wednesday Challenge

2. Got my ATG gun today in the mail

3. Got a Unity order today in the mail also...

4. I had a Dr. apt today (this is a story for another day) and the Dr. I saw was incredibly nice and actually took the time to listen to me (a total rarity)

5. The kids have a five day weekend and I'm off for most of it!

Wishful Scrapping

I've been trying to "wishful scrap" warm weather into existence....

.I did this project and tried submitting it for publication at the beginning of March...but it didn't get picked up...which means I get to share it with you all....

This clear box started out as a container for a rubber stamp set I bought at that craft store with a man's name on clearance for like $3...they had bunches of them...anyway after I took the stamps out I thought...I could so do something fun with this box...and I found some acetate sheets I had in my stash to use for the pages...some very fun summery Doodlebug Color Coordinates, and some fun ribbon...oh and some bazzill cardstock...

kind of hard to see "clear" in pictures but the pages of the minialbum are acetate with Doodlebug pattern paper and Bazzill cardstock mounted on it...

Once I got the idea out of my head, this project went together really fast as the acetate was already cut to a standard card size and fit inside the box perfectly, the Doodlebug collection was already coordinated so all I had to do was pick out matching cardstock and ribbon.

I'm off to work...if you have bored boys, of the large or small variety.. Spike TV has been doing this Star Wars marathon since last weekend playing all the movies, the makings of etc...mine have been glued to it...which makes little sense since we own all of these movies and various acouterments....

but who can solve the mystery of boys...? But all of this Star Wars marathoning has sparked a certain amount of controversy and conversation in our house and it is a question that I'm sure has been asked before....

Who was "the chosen one" the one to bring balance to "the force" told by the prophecy...was it Darth Vader/Annakin or was it Luke Skywalker?....

Our house is in a split decision on this subject...what do you think?

That's it for now, Thanks for stopping by and have a great night..I'll be stopping by to "read" everyone later..

On the "bad girl" list...

I have been such a bad blogger.....I have just had a time getting rid of this crap and it's still lingering....and it's left me so...well ...depleted...I guess is the best word for it... I start to feel better, go about doing regular "stuff" then need to take a nap because I'm exhausted...but enough of that....I try to keep this a happy place...:-)

I actually got a little creating going today and it make me feel good...it feels like it's been forever since I made anything...

I did these cards for a class I'm going to teach in May.. I wanted them to be nice, but also kind of simple so they would work for the class...

These are made with Heidi Grace patterned paper, Worldwinn Cardstock, and Hero Arts stamps...

A 2 page layout...haven't actually done a layout in forever I've been so busy with swaps and class stuff..

I used Bazzill Cardstock, Pattern Paper by CTMH, and Dreamstreet and Lace Cardstock by KI Memories...Title is "Starstruck"

and I got my cards done for the Deck of Me challenge..so I am all caught up!

week 13 was "what makes you laugh everyday?"

week 14 is "is your glass half empty or half full?"

This weekend is CKC St Louis, and I've really been looking forward to it. I'll be helping out at the SBF's booth, but I also have an entire day of cropping on Saturday with friends which I booked back in January. So, needless to say, things have been pretty busy at the store..but I LOVE IT...it's like Christmas everyday...all these boxes of wonderful things coming in to play with...unfortunately with the loss of my primary income though, it's also torture because I can't afford to buy it all...LOL...but I've got some prospects out there so keep your fingers crossed for me and we'll see.

The "girls" at the SBF have all been so nice and wonderful to me, and I'm enjoying working with them so much, you can really tell everyone there really loves this hobby and wants to be there...it's pretty refreshing....and I'll be there tomorrow working and helping to load up for the show...so if I can I'll get some pics posted tomorrow.

Anyway, thanks everyone so much for the well wishes and for checking in on me....fingers crossed, I'll be here tomorrow with a new Ricetta...

Gratitudes:

1. I think I actually saw the sun for a minute or two today

2. Our grass is starting to grow

3. Britain has taken this interest in plants lately, I'll have to show some pics of his mini greenhouse

4. Landon snuggles

5. sleep

Monkey Business and a Ricetta...

I made this mini clipboard today for The Scrapbook Factory...but thought I would also share it with you here...I am so in love with all this monkey stuff everywhere. I'm thinking this will be kitted and offered for sale at the store with the instructions if you're interested...If I bought some of these to kits to offer to you would any of you be interested? Just leave me a comment and let me know. The price I'm thinking would be $15 plus shipping (probably about 5$). The clipboard can either hang or is able to stand alone on any flat surface (there's a peg that attaches to the back). Finished it is 6x9 inches. Supplies Used: Daisy D's pattern paper Sock Monkey, Funky Monkey, Clipboard NicoleCrafts, Daisy D's Die Cuts, Color Box Ink.

Here is today's Ricetta I think we're on #6

and here is my layout based on the Ricetta...

This one is bazzill cardstock, Cosmo Cricket Halfway Cafe pattern paper, making memories letter stickers...

and now a little story for your reading pleasure...

On Monday I cooked dinner ( I know... but there's more) I made pork chops in mushroom gravy and they were really good but that's not really the story here. ..the story is that in the process of cooking (in true Amy fashion I used a pan that wasn't deep enough) the mushroom gravy spilled over which started a small fire in the bottom of the oven...ok for real...flames and everything...but you know...I do this once in a while, so I figured no big deal it will burn off...well it ended up making a huge mess (of course) so this morning I put the oven in it's self cleaning mode for about a minute and half before I thought better of my decision to try to take matters into my own hands and stopped the process calling Rob to "fix it"...he said he'd get to it later....ok..so meanwhile I had to make breakfast...popping in Landon't usual (tater tots) several minutes later the kitchen was filled with greyish black smoke, the smoke alarm is going off, and I pulled the tater tots out to find they were this greyish green color...huh?...so I have once again been banned from my kitchen, Mary Poppins ( my oven) has betrayed me...and a later conversation with my husband revealed that he apparently thinks I'm "like a superhero...gone very wrong..."ok thanks...

that's all for today...hope everyone had a nice night...looks like we're having takeout...

Everything's Coming up Roses!!

So several people asked me whether or not I was going to accept the job in Heaven (aka The Scrapbook Factory) and I have to say at this point how could I not...? right? but I'm going to go by there after work tomorrow and talk with Anne and see what's next....I'm so excited I could pee my pants!!

In other news...another super cool thing happened to me today...I am joining the team at OhScrap, on online magazine and blog soon to publish it's first issue...I don't know all the details of what you're going to be seeing in there yet and some stuff is still super secret..but I can promise it's going to be a lot of fun... I am going to be the Sketch Coordinator!! I am so excited that I already completed my first assignment! You can go subscribe here now....that would be now....and then come back and read about the rest of what's going on around here....

I actually started to blog last night, but blogger kept giving me error messages so I gave up...

While I've been missing the past couple days, I've actually gotten quite a bit done...

This is Landon helping me with my suitcase...I'm having a lot of fun with this medium or I should say we are...but I'm not showing you anymore of it until it's done...

I should have known when I almost set the kitchen on fire yesterday boiling water for tea that it probably wasn't the best day to start this project..(I sort of forgot about putting the water on and got in the shower)...I got one side done and all impressed with my cute self, turned it over to do the other side and proceeded to put the focal point of the project..the vintage "Once in Love with Amy" ad from a 1950's Life....UPSIDE DOWN...Mod Podge is not a very forgiving sealer so it's stuck that way...it's cute still...just upside down...so I'm not sure if I'm going to just cover over it or say the heck with it and leave it...probably the latter...

Here is my Deck of Me card for week 10..prompt was describe you Happy Place

The paper is Making Memories and the Dye Cuts are from Luxe Designs Color Me Cozy...I so love this line of paper...then I inked them with my CTMH inks

and here is a layout based on one of Christi's Creative Prompts...36 I think...

I used CTMH Cardstock, Making Memories letter stickers, Bazzill cardsock for the Photo matts, Scenic Route Charlotte pattern paper and Daisy D's Beacon Hill patter paper, the butterfly and journal tag are Fancy Pants....

I also did this one of Landon..

For this one I used Bazzill cardstock, Karen Foster pattern paper, We R memory Keepers patter paper and letter stickers, Making Memories pattern paper and journaling page, Fancy Pants ribbon and ribbon holder thingie.

I had Landon home with me today, he's had a really awful cold and has been pretty miserable...but of course with the amazing power of Tylenol Cold by 11 he was feeling fine and dandy and bouncing off the walls so we...well mostly he...I supervised made some chocolate chip cookies...

they turned out really good- so his new aspiration is to become a chef...let's hope he has a lot better luck in the kitchen than I do....I'm way too easily distracted...

That's all I've got for today...thanks so much for stopping by...

Gratitude:

1. Day off with Landon

2. Baking cookies with kid mentioned above

3. Not losing my patience with same earlier mentioned kid

4. getting some scrappy stuff done...

5. staying in my pj's until (blush) about 11...

oh my gosh, I almost forgot to mention...there's this new show on Fox called New Amsterdam...it's on tonight at 8 central...or it might be 9...anyway it's really good you've got to see it and if you missed the first two episodes you can watch them on Fox.com...I watch almost all my shows on the internet anymore...I can never seem to be in front of the tv at a specific time...ok well this post has probably broken records for longest ever..so I'm outta here..

love and kisses...

MWAH!

Ricetta # I can't remember....and meet Rachzel!!

ok I'm getting a little better (at least I think so) with my Bamboo Fun Pad....and here is my take on it
I used WorldWinn Cardstock, Bazzill Cardstock, This Boy Rub-ons by Daisy D's (LOVE these), Autumn Leaves Clear Stamps (talking in circles (boy)) by Sande Krieger (totally love these) and I cut the butterfly from pattern paper by Starfish Dreams...

If you decide to play link me up in the comments section of this post...

ok on to more important things...like my fun neighbor...Pat... and her daughter Rachel...who probably both at this point probably think I'm some kind of neighborhood stalker...I went to Pat's this am and God bless this woman...she had a case all ready for me to decoupage even some old magazines

and this

to use on it...how can you not love this...my Dad used to sing me this song when I was a little girl...

ok and I promised you last night that I would introduce you to her daughter, Rachel

AKA Rachzel..AKA totally hip clothes designer

she designs clothes for kids

she sews

She find vintage fabrics, appliques, tshirts anything and turns them into one of a kind works of art to make your kids friends jealous...

The name of her clothing line is EVERSO...everso cute, everso clever...everso AWESOME!!

There is so much more to see...so many adorable clothes it makes me wish I had a little girl to put in them...

she doesn't have a blog yet but you can find her at flickr here and at ETSY here

So Go Look!! You are going to be so in love!

I have a couple of tags to catch up with and hope to get to those tomorrow...didn't wantcha to think I forgot ...

Gratitudes:

1. a fun morning with Ms. Pat

2. lunch with Rob

3. things are calming down for the kids at school a little

4. off for 4 days after tomorrow

5. ghiradelli brownie mix...for real...you have to try this stuff...

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great night!

It's Fun PROJECT FRIDAY!!! Edited**

Hello my friends!! Thank you so much for stopping by on this Friday night...do I have you dancing around your computer with your hair in a side ponytail?!?

Here we go

So CUTE it Makes you WANT to go BUY a book BOOKMARKS!!

I can't take full credit for this project....I've seen this idea in a bunch of places so I don't know who came up with it first, I just put my own twist to it... but it's cute and it's cheap, and it's super easy...

Gather:

1. Scallop punches and a circle punch that will nest (I used my Marvy Giga scallop circle and square punches and my Fiskars XL circle squeeze punch)

2. Cardstock (I used Bazzill Bling and Worldwin)If you have not tried WorldWin Cardstock, I suggest you do...they have an awesome color selection, and it just always seems to match, it also cuts nice and clean and loves adhesive...LOVE this stuff

3. stamps ( I used Studio G clear stamps from Michael's)

4. adhesive ( I used my Tombow adhesive runner and of course Beacon's 3 in 1 craft glue)oh my heaven...I just discovered at the Beacon's site they have a "glue guide" so you can match up glue to a specific project...

5. ink

6. Jumbo Paper Clips (I got mine from the Office section of Walmart 15 for .94)

Let's go

1. Punch out your scallop circles and squares your regular circles. Punch your scalloped shapes double because your going to sandwich your paperclip between the two.

2. Stamp images on your un-scalloped circles

3. Nest your stamped images on to your scalloped punches with adhesive

4. Apply glue to the back of one of your scalloped shapes, lay it down on a flat surface, place your paperclip on the glue, (this is where I add more glue) then apply the other scallop punch (the one with the stamped image) on top they should line right up for you...

With everything going on I've gotten a little behind in my mailouts...please hang in there....

Deanna and Angela please send me your snail mails. Thanks for playing!

That's it! The boys actually did these too, so it's something you can make pretty easy with your kids. I'm bribing them. I told them if they helped me make a bunch of these and the pebble magnets for the craft fair that they could make some money....Being the little capitalists they are they went right to work.

I think, for the most part, that my technical difficulties are over...I hope...

I got a lot of stuff done today...

Here is my card for the Deck of Me Week 8 the prompt was "if you could be someone else for one day who would it be" I picked Sydney Bristow, from ALIAS (she was played by Jennifer Garner)This just made me want to go out and rent all 6 seasons...again

and I got caught up on Christi's Creative Prompts

#31

#30

#33


I really never do cards, but I had so much fun stamping and coloring this in that I got my Doodlebug stamps out and did 3 more...I think I finally "get" the stamping/coloring in thing....it's like being a little girl again hunched over a new coloring book, biting your lip, with your crayolas....it's so FUN!!

and I did use my crayola's!! well actually they were Britain's colored pencils...you can probably totally tell I used my, er, I mean Britain's Crayola's...but it doesn't matter!!! it was FUN!

I have a big apology to make about the walking thing...I STILL haven't started...but in my defense we've had one snow storm after another here...the kids have been off for snow days the past two days...so I am going to walk, I promise, as soon as I can walk out my front door without turning into a popsicle...

That's all I have for tonight...except for this picture of Rob pretending to be Caesar Milan with CoCoa...it looks like she's mad, but she's not she's smiling...

she likes to lay on her back and have her chin rubbed...

Oh and I'm getting a big kick out of this ...

no, it's not a flying saucer...it's the picture Britain took of the Lunar Eclipse...

Have a great night!

oh gosh

I've been bad about this lately

Gratitude

1. having the day off

2. a really creative day

3. being snowed in ( ok not so great but I'm making the best of it)

4. the hershey kisses are gone (ok thank you lord)

5. we're all going to watch a movie tonight...

MWAH!