Ithaca Layout

So here is the first official page for the puppies album.Yes the dogs have their own albums…… I am not weird, they are also my children and deserve their own albums just like the human children. Anyway here it is.. Da Ta  Da  Da!!!!!

Happy Scrapping Everyone!

All Done with gifts and a very special Christmas present!

I am finally done with the wall hangings for my parents and brother. They are as we speak in the mail off to their destinations. So I thought I would share with you what they look like. So Mom if you are reading this STOP! or you will ruin your Christmas gift…

So before I share the picture, I want to give the details. The pictures are old family pictures given to me by one of my Grandmothers and my mother. I have the only copies ( I am pretty sure, but not totally sure). So this is what I did. I first ripped up an vintage book that was lying around. I inked and distressed them all. Then I applied them to a piece of heavy cardstock with Modge Podge. When they dried I then dry brushed over the whole cardstock with vintage white paint. After that dried I inked it with distressing ink. I then took dimensional pearl paint and just went around the edges.  I then distressed the edges and inked them with an ink pad. I will after the holidays do a step by step tutorial on the paper roses. the letters and swirls where cut with Storybook cartridge and the leaves where cut with Plantin School Book Cartridge. OK, so after my long rambling here is the final project……

Ok, now for the very special present I received from my daughter Shelby. When you see what it is you will know why  I haven’t posted in a while. I will give you a hint….. It is furry and cute… Ooooppppps I think I gave it away :0  Ok, ok  I will show you! But I have to warn you these pictures are full of total cuteness, and will just melt your heart.

I warned you! This is Ithaca's Royal Beauty or Ithy for short. She is a weimeraner puppy. I have a 3year old male named Remmington. I have been wanting to have a female for a long time to breed, and my daughter knew this. So she was looking all over to find me a female pup. I was totally surprised when she and my Hubby told me last Friday that we were going to pick this cutie up. When I saw her for the first time my heart just melted and I was instantly in love! She is doing really good with the house training, and she already knows the command sit! She is just a fantastic puppy:)!

Well that is it for my news for now…

I want to wish everyone a Joyous Christmas and my God bless you and your Family!

Christmas LO for gifts

This is the LO I am making for family gifts. All I have to do is take a family picture. This may be tough with all our schedules, but I will manage.

Anyway here is how I made this:

I glued ripped pages in a random fashion from an old book I had on to cardstock. I then dry brushed while paint all over making sure some of the texted showed through. Then I embossed the corners with sparkly embossing powder. I then added some  blue Shimmers to the rest. Using the Plantin School book cartridge I cut the leaf out with cranberry colored paper to make the poinsettia flower.  4- 4inches, 4- 3 1/2 inches, 4- 2 inches, and 4- 1 inch. I then cut 2 leaves with green cs @ 4 inches. I then inked the flower leaves with a warm red ink pad and tattered rose distressing ink. When the leaves dry get out some warm white craft paint and lightly paint  the leaves being careful not to make it too dark and covering too much of the red. After drying time stickle the edges of the leaves. For the center of the poinsettia I just squeezed a blob of stickles. Now for the leaves of the poinsettia I inked them with a dark dreen ink pad and did the warm white paint. After everything is dry I then coated the flower leaves and the actual leaves with liquid glass. Now while the liquid glass is drying you are going to go back to your layout and distress the edges and the take tattered rose distressing ink to the edges and all over. A little bit here and a little bit there. Now with the Storybook cartridge cut the swirls with gold texture cardstock and sand them. Cut your title and stickle the letters. I used my sizzix machine to cut the tag and covered it with gold metallic rub. Now when all the leaves are dry start assembling the flower. For a more dimensional look fold the leaves slightly before gluing them together. For the leaves I slightly folded and crumpled the edges. Other items used are lace, ribbon, and a button. The lace is under the swirls and the poinsettia. Sorry you can’t see it, but I just couldn’t get a good picture the shows it. The button and ribbon I put on the journaling tag.

Christmas LO

Well, here it is! This is my think ahead LO. I had it done a few days ago, but had to wait for the stickles to dry. Then while the stickles were drying my darling son decided to put his school papers on it. Well, my LO was stuck to his school papers! Soooooo, I had to take a few things off and redo them. Anyway, I will add the year and journaling when I add the picture. So it is a little naked.

I took a white stamp pas from Close to My Heart and wiped it on the blue cardstock. I had a small snowflake stamp that a friend made me years ago that I used for the snowflakes. I also added stickles to the snowflakes. The Christmas trees I just cut free hand with my deckled edge scissors. I then put drops of stickles on the trees to look like ornaments. The star was cut with the cricut and Plantin Schoolbook cartridge. The frame for the picture was cut using Storybook cartridge. The word Christmas I stamped on the blue cardstock with the white stamp pad. I think the stamp was from Autumn Leaves. Then I cut it out and stickled it all up…

Now I am off to a new project :)

Hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving!

A Black and Pink LO

Wow, have I had a busy 2 weeks! I have finally found time to do some creating:)

So this is a LO I did today of my youngest daughter. My oldest daughter took the picture for her photography class. So when she handed it to me last night I decided that the LO would be black and pink. My favorite color combo:)

So this is what I did:

Black cardstock with painted edges ( I used baby pink craft paint) The decorative edge paper is from Making Memories, pink floral is from Pressed Petals, pink striped paper I am not sure of…. I used the Storybook cartridge to cut the flowers. I layered cream cardstock and the pink pattern papers to make the flowers and inked the edges of each cut. All the rub-on’s are from American Crafts. The “BRE” is from American crafts also. I love these letters! They are velvet on chipboard.  I am not sure where I acquired the chipboard butterfly or the pattern ribbon.

 

Anywho, I went digging around and found the buttons and ribbon. I didn’t even know that I had that ribbon. I really need to do some inventory on my scrap stuff. I kept saying when I was digging around “ Wow, I didn’t know I had that” I know some of you can relate to this. So I have decided to somehow figure out a inventory system. When I come up with something I will do a post on it. If anyone has suggestions I would love to hear it!!! :)

I am working on another LO for up and coming Christmas pics so when I am done with it I will post it. I am trying to think ahead when I should be working on all the stuff I am behind on:0

Well I guess I am done rambling on and on…..

See you on my next post :)

A Layout, A Card, & A Sneak Peek!

Here is a layout that I managed to finish today. I really don’t know how I managed to finish this with my crazy day! This is a LO of my two youngest waiting for the bus on the first day of school. I am not really impressed with it, but guess what…. They all can’t be impressive now can they:) I am happy with it, I guess….

Now the card……….

This is a very simple card that I made from the scraps of a mini album I am working on. I will send it to my friend one of these days:) I just love it when I use my scraps right away instead of throwing them in my scrap drawer  :) It just makes me sooo happy!!!!

Ok…

Now for a sneak peek of my girls Senior pictures I picked up today. This is just one of each of the girls poses. The rest you will have to see later when I do a home decor project :) ok now the pictures….

This is Sydney-Elizabeth

and this is Shelby’s

 

Well I guess that is all for today.. I hope you have a productive week!

1st Day of School LO

This is Breauna. This year she is in 3rd grade and is at the big school this year. She was very scared about going up to the big school. That is why she didn’t smile for her 1st day of school pictures. All she could think about was getting lost at the big school. Her big brother Dale eased her mind and told her that he would walk her to her classroom every morning until she feels comfortable. Unfortunately that didn’t help. Then we were waiting for the bus and low and behold there was a flower just waiting to be picked! Breauna was sooo happy that she had a flower of her own. She then forgot about being scared and smiled. Just so you know Breauna is my little flower child. She is always picking flowers in the summer. Even mommy’s beautiful roses. No flower is off limits to her:) It is amazing to me that one little flower was able to ease her mind. She did very well on the 1st day of school with the help of her big brother and that little yellow flower.

Cool Dude LO

This is my son Dale and his first day of school this year. He has totally changed his style in clothing. He has decided to hang up the elastic pants and cute boy stuff for clothes that are more rock starish. I think his new style is cute on him, but I miss the polo shirts and khaki pants:( I know, I know he is growing up and getting his own style. It is hard sometimes to let go and let the child make some of his own decisions. This was one of those times for me. Next year he will be in middle school and then the attitude will start ( OH JOY, can’t wait:() So I will enjoy him while I can:)

This LO was made using the storybook cartridge ( big circle) The journal spot, and HARD CORE thing was cut with the Indie Cartridge. Paper is Cosmo Cricket and for the life of me I can’t remember the name of the collection the paper is from.. Anyway, I love this paper it makes really cool  boy pages. 

Homecoming LO

Well I finally got around to do some scrapbooking today :) This LO is from my oldest DD’s Homecoming Dance. I used the Storybook cartridge for all the cuts. The title, photo corners, and date were all stickers I had lying around. My daughter just loves the page!! Thank goodness because she is not a pink girl. I actually thought she would be upset that I used pink on one of her LO’s. She has a strict NO Pink policy!What the heck is wrong with pink??? The color pink is not a bad color! Anyway,I am happy that she liked the LO with the pink. Maybe she has finally changed her mind about the color pink:)

Scrapbook page in a box (aka. Explosion box)

This cute box was made for my best friends birthday. I gave it too her today, but i had to wait to post this because she likes to come and visit here often.  I was finished with the box on Friday:) This took me from start to finish about 2 hours. If you would like to see the instructions on how to make this just go to Christmas with the Cricut blog. There are 2 videos on there for the box and then one for the paper bow. Really, really easy to make! They are so easy I am making them for my girls graduation pictures and giving them to close family.

All papers are Close to my Heart, and I used the storybook cartridge for the letters, corners and frames.

More Layouts

So here are a few more LO’s for my daughters Memories of Wheelock scrapbook.

The first LO is pictures of my daughter from the beginning, middle, and the end of the school year. I used the storybook cart. for the scalloped ovals. I stamped the title and numbers. The pattern paper is Karen Foster, yellow cs is DCWV, blue texture paper is My Minds Eye.

The second LO is of my daughters class having applesauce and pancakes for lunch. I also used the storybook cart for the journal spot and the title spot. I also used Plantin Schoolbook cart. for the title letters. The red pattern paper is from Sara Papers, yellow pattern paper is from DCWV, and the green paper is from Close to my Heart.

So I have 2 more LO’s to do and I will be done with 2nd grade:) ( imagine me patting myself on the back) I am hoping to do them between tonight and tomorrow. Friday a few of my friends will be over to make cards. I will post them probably this weekend. Speaking of the weekend, I am hoping to be able to scrap and other projects, but I will have to have some cooperation from the kids ( imagine me crossing my fingers and toes). Well we will see!

Hope you all have a great rest of the week!! :)

Some LO I have been working on

All of these LO’s are for my daughter. She has entered the big school this year, and she really misses Wheelock Primary School, so I decided to make her a scrapbook of her 3 years at Wheelock. Thank goodness she had some awesome teachers who took pictures of all the activities they did. All her teachers knew that I am a scrapbooker and made sure I received copies:) I was trying to make the LO’s fun for her to look at so I scrapped them a little different then I usually do ( more kiddie appeal). The first LO is of her 2nd grade class baking cookies, second is a field trip to pick apples, third is a field trip to pick pumpkins. I am working my way from 2nd grade backwards to Kindergarten. The apple trees, pumpkins, 2 titles, and the decorative edge paper was all cut with Cricut. Now that the kids finally went back to school you will be seeing more of me here:) I don’t know about you other mom’s, but I am happy the kids are back in school and I now have time to work on my projects:) This week I will be working on more LO’s and some cards if I get my house work done. Which I will just so I can scrap. Have a great week!

2 LO and printer troubles

This LO is of my wild boy Dale. So to play up his wildness I used some wild paper. All paper is Basic Grey. This is actually a picture I have already scrapped, but my printer is having some kind of a problem:( so I was desperate to scrap and found this picture. I am so upset with my printer right now! I just bought the darn thing in Oct. So while I figure out the problem I have also been making LO for the pictures I need to scrap. When I get the pics on the LO’s I will post them.

This LO was done before my printer decided to dislike me. This is of my daughter Breauna’s 7th Birthday. Everything was cut using the Cricut and Plaintin Schoolbook cart. and stretch your imagination cart. The stickers are some that I have had for a while. This LO can be used several different ways. This is just one way, but i am planning on doing different LO’s with the basic concept.

Well off to fuss with my printer….Wish me luck!

Patti

Family LO and a painted window

This is my latest creation in the scrapbooking world.

This project took me all day to paint. Sorry about the glare:( My hubby picked me up this window that his friend was going to throw out. So I decided to paint it Americana. My kitchen is done all in Americana decor. I used just regular craft paint and painted the side facing the wall. The stars were painted first. I let them dry and then painted the blue over top the white. I am working on a hutch that my hubby also picked up for me. It was kinda plain so I am spicing it up with some paint. When it is finished i will post it.

So today I was busy with 2 painting projects and one LO. I am on a roll :) I can’t believe I finished 2 out of the 3 projects today. Well I am off to paint more, and think about my next scrapbook page:)

Dirt bike LO

This LO is kinda plain, but they all can’t be perfect. I cut the circles out of some paper I had and then with a black marker I outlined it and made kinda bike spokes. The title I cut with the wonderful cricut machine and used watercolors for the shading. I still think the LO needs something though. So if any of you have a suggestion as to what it needs just make a comment and let me know. Well off I go to finish another page, hopefully I will post it tomorrow:)

Evening Of Theater LO

 

This LO is of my DD’s singing performance at her school. I used the cricut mat cover stamped transparency that I made, stickles on the title letters, metallic rubs around the photo’s, rub- on for the journal box, and of course some bling. Gotta have the bling:D. I am slowly but surely getting caught up on my scrapbooking, but now I just took 53 pictures:0. I guess I am then behind again. Oh well I have my life time to scrapbook all the pictures I take. I really don’t think that anybody can get caught up because we keep taking more and more pictures. DARN THE CURSE! Just kidding we all wouldn’t be scrapbookers if we didn’t take lots of pictures.

Well everyone keep taking pictures and scrapbook them when you can.

Take Care,

Patti

A New Scrap Page

This LO is of our dog Remmington and his stick dilemma. The kids collected all the sticks in the yard for him, and he had a problem deciding which stick he liked the best. He tried them all out, then he finally picked his favorite. This took him just about the whole day. 

I actually got brave and did some doodling on the page. I know it is very simple doodling with just lines and dots, but I had to start somewhere right! I cut the title out with the cricut machine, distressed them, then stamped them with a stick stamp. I think they turned out cool :) The clock was also a stamp that I had and never used until know. I am finally back on track now with my scrapbooking and projects, Yippee!!!! It feels good to be doing what i love again.

Well I am off to my scrapbook table again to work on a new creation.

2 Cuties LO

Well, I was in the creative mood today... so I made a LO Yippie! I have been having a creative juice block for awhile now, and decided to just jump into it and try to create something. Sometimes it is good to just do something even if it's not your best work just to get the creativity going again. This layout is of my daughter and our little kitten, Edward. My teenage daughter named him after a character in Twilight.. Anyway, we were waiting for the bus and I looked over at her and thought what a cute pic, so I grabbed my camera and snapped a pic. For this LO I grabbed some old paper, and embellies that i had hidden. I did use my cricut for the title though ( that is new). This LO took me just about all day to do because I had to fuss with it too much, but who doesn't fuss with their work. Somebody told me once that there is no mistakes in art. I wish i could remember that when I am creating a LO.Well maybe tomorrow will bring something creative, I can only hope!
Take Care,
Patti

Another Back to School LO

Hi,
Well i have just had a good creative week! I have been a busy little girl :) This LO is of my son's 1 day of school. As you can see he was not too happy about that. He likes his freedom of summer... every time I look at these pictures I have to laugh! He looks so sad, but Mom was happy that school started back up... I guess I should have taken a picture of myself, then I could have done another LO:) Ok, this page was made with all scraps except the main cardstock and i also used a recycled item. Can you guess what it is? yep, you guessed it! I used a piece of corrugated cardboard from a package. I painted it and inked it. This was a fun page to make, and now I have a few less scraps.. Yippie!

1st day of School LO

Well my Create Tuesday ran over into Wednesday! I guess I am on a roll, which is good because I need to catch up on my pictures. I am way behind again.... :( This LO is of my DD's 1st day of school. Notice the shorts she is wearing???? I really miss the warm weather!! We are right in the middle of a bad snow storm right now. So far we have a good foot of snow, and it just keeps coming down! I am glad I have indoor activities to do because you couldn't pay me enough to go outside right now. LOL Although the snow is very beautiful to look at! I love to look at fresh fallen snow it is so fluffy and sparklie. Maybe I will take a picture of it and share with you all later...
Hugs,
Patti