Stripes!

I love to scrap but one of my other hobbies is crocheting. I am not the best crocheter and I usually pick easy things to do but I really enjoy it. Our blankets in our living room were starting to look a little shabby so I decided to make a new blanket! I found a really cute blanket to make on the Lion Brand website. The pattern was really easy but it was just so fun and colorful. I have been working on it off and on for the past few weeks and finally finished it today! Let me know what you think. Here it is:

February Design Team Challenge

Here is the design team challenge for this month. Our challenge this month was to use a black and white picture on our layout. I also tried a few new things along with this layout. I have never embraced chipboard much but I finally found some swirly chipboard shapes that I loved so I painted that with acrylic paint. I also was watching a scrapbook show on HGTV and saw these awesome ribbon flowers and thought I should try that out on my layout. Here is the link to the episode http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/cr_scrapbooking/article/0,2025,DIY_13776_4453391,00.html I practiced a few times and couldn't get one of the flowers to work quite right. I don't know if my paper was not the best for this or if I had the wrong ribbon or what it was but I was bound and determined to get some ribbon flowers. I ended up Googling scrapbook ribbon flowers and found a youtube clip. This lady used a little different technique so I tried it and it worked much better for me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9P4bfuAHPQ. I ended up using 1 flower from the scrapbook show on HGTV and the flower from the youtube video to finish my layout. I thought they turned out pretty good for my first ribbon flowers! Hope you like it! Here it is:

Happy belated V-Day!

Hope everyone had a good Valentines weekend! We didn't do much at our house. We have had the stomach bug in our house for the past week so we were not quite sure how everyone was going to feel on Saturday. Luckily we were all OK on Saturday so we just ran some errands. Nothing to exciting for us this year.
Well, I have still been a huge slacker on keeping up with my blog so I am going to bombard you with new stuff! LOL I finally learned how to change my background to a fun background but then it messed up all my gadgets for some reason. I finally got it all figured out (I hope).
First off, here are some pages that I did when a friend and I went to a crop (this was actually back in like November! I guess I forgot to put them on the blog).
The first 2 are from last year's 4th of July (as if you couldn't guess that youselves! LOL)


This one is from when we went apple picking last September! We had never been apple picking before and it was a lot of fun!

This next one is an old picture. It was just sitting in a frame behind the one that we were currently looking. I thought it was silly to hide them in the frame so I am hoping to scrap several more like this one. Time to get the pictures out of hiding! LOL

Here is another birthday layout from Mason's b-day party last September:

In January the design team I am on had an altered item challenge. I was racking my brain for what I could alter. Finally I went down into the basement and started looking through all the stuff we had in our garage sale pile. I ended up finding this mail organizer thing and thought it would be great for holding pictures that I want to scrap! Here is the before and after.

Are you starting to feel bombarded yet???? LOL
Here is one of Mason from when we went to this fun place in town called Paradise Park. The kids really love playing there and Mason's favorite part is the ball pit. And then I finally got Mason's first day of preschool page done also!

Here are a couple of layouts from sketch challenges and our crop from over at my Let's Scrap group on Ning.

Happy New Year!

Hope everyone's holidays were fun and safe. We spent the holidays in Omaha for the most part with both sides of our families. Now that the new year has started it is time for those dreaded resolutions! I try not to make any hard core or unattainable resolutions but I did make a couple. I, like most other people, want to lose some weight! Seems like this past holiday season I ate WAY to many sweets. I also want to get exercising more!!!! My only other resolution it to get back into scrapping more! I have been slacking so much lately and I miss it so hopefully I can get myself back into gear!
I have a couple of layouts to share that I made in the past couple of days. They were from sketch challenges on my scrapbook group letsscrapdivas.ning.com. Here they are:

Oh man! I have been a huge slacker lately with my blog! I am going to try to get back on the bandwagon!
I was choosen by a friend to be on her design team (click to see the blog) a few months ago. The group is called Let's Scrap (click to go to the site) and it is a great bunch of ladies who love to scrap! So every month we are given a challenge on the design team and we all create our take on a layout of a card or scrapbook page.
Here are a couple of my entries!
October:


November:


December:

Being on the Let's Scrap Design Team has been a great honor. I feel very lucky to be a part of the group and it is so awesome to be associated with such great talent!

Happy Birthday scrapping

I finally got around to scrapping a page from the kids' b-day party. I have a lot more to do but this is a start right? LOL I got this stitching template a few months ago and used it for the first time on the cupcake! I really like the way it turned out. The stitching adds a fun embellishment to the page! The cake is inspired by Minnie Mouse and the book Pinkalicious (which Lili loves). So, I wanted to make sure I spelled Pinkalicious right so I looked it up real quick on the net. Well I found a whole website for the book! It had a lot of party planning ideas to throw your own Pinkalicious party. I wish I had know about that site before the party! LOL Let me know what you think of the scrapbook page!

Birthday parties!!!

We had both Mason and Lili's b-day parties this past weekend! It was a lot of fun! I think the kids both had a great time. The theme for their party was Mickey and Minnie Mouse. They both really love Mickey Mouse Clubhouse so I thought it would be a great idea. We just had the party at our house and had some friends and family over. I think Mason's favorite gift was...... all of them! LOL He really loves his new scooter and the cars things he got. It was so funny watching Mason open his presents because he just tore through ALL of them! LOL He looked like he could cry when we told him that he didn't have anymore to open! Lili was kind of tired by the time we got to opening presents. She opened hers slow but she loved everything she got also. She especially loves this little dog stuffed animal. She carries it around with her everywhere! We really had a great time and want to thank everyone who came! Here are some pictures from the party:

Lili's new fluffy dog!

Here are their cakes. Mason's is Mickey. I did a frozen buttercream transfer with his cake. It was fun to try out and actually pretty easy. Lili's cake is a Minnie inspired giant cupcake! It is also inspired by the book Pinkalicious (cute book, and one of Lili's favorite books).