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.

Thanksgiving blessings and a recipe

I would like to wish everyone and their families a a very Happy Thanksgiving with many blessings.

Now I would like to share a favorite family Thanksgiving recipe.

Pumpkin Crunch Cake

1 box of yellow cake mix

1 can (15oz) pumpkin

1 can (12oz) evaporated milk

3 eggs

1 1/2 C. sugar

1 tsp. cinnamon

1/2 tsp. salt

1/2 C. chopped pecans

1 C. butter ( or margarine)

1 container of whipped topping or ice cream

Grease bottom of a 9x 13 in. pan. combine pumpkin, evaporated milk, eggs, sugar, cinnamon, and salt in a large bowl. Pour into pan. Sprinkle dry cake mix evenly over pumpkin mixture. Top with pecans. Melt butter and drizzle over pecans. Bake for 50 – 55 minutes in a 350 degree oven. Cool. Serve chilled with whipped topping or ice cream.

Doesn’t it look yummy!!!!! This is a must make every Thanksgiving in my house…

Happy Thanksgiving!

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!

Need some designers!

Hi everyone! I am working on creating an online scrapbooking magazine. I need some creative peeps to submit their creations, write how to tutorials and  articles. This project is still a work in progress, and their is no payment for your time except for having your work and ideas published. I am hoping that in the future I will have sponsors and will be able to pay for your time. If you are interested or know someone that might be interested please contact me through e-mail at scrappinpattic@yahoo.com.
Here is a list of creations I am looking for.....
layouts
cards
altered art
creative home decor
recycled scrapbooking ideas
basically anything to do with crafting

I got an Over the Top Blog Award

I was given this award by my blogging friend Kristin G. 

1. Where is your cell phone? kitchen                        
2. Your hair? blonde
3. Your mother? loving                                           
4. Your father? strict                                              
5. Your favorite food? yogurt                                  
6. Your dream last night? weird
7. Your favorite drink? coffee
8. Your dream/goal? Get published                        
  9. What room are you in? bedroom                        
10. Your hobby? papercrafts
11. Your fear? spiders                                           
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? someplace warmer
13. Where were you last night? home                   
14. Something that you aren't? singer                   
15. Muffins? cranberry orange
16. Wish list item? Cuttlebug
17. Where did you grow up? Erie, PA                     
18. Last thing you did? read a book to my daughter
19. What are you wearing? sweatshirt, pants         
20. Your TV? annoying                                          
21. Your Pets? dog, 2 hamsters, 1 newt                 
22. Friends? yes
23. Your life? good
24. Your mood? happy                                          
25. Missing Someone? my Grandma
26. vehicle? yes
27. Something your not wearing? hat
28. Your favorite store? duh… all craft stores       
29. Your favorite color? red                                 
30. When was the last time you laughed? a few min. ago                                                                      
31. Last time you cried? not sure                         
32. Your best friend? Jani
33. One place that I go to over and over? my scrapbook space                                                  
34. Facebook? nope                                                
35. Favorite place to eat? Ruby Tuesdays

I am supposed to pass this on to 5 other bloggers, but I just can't decide which ones:( So I will eventually pick my 5 and post them at a later date 

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 :)

2 cards

This card was for a sketch challenge on FCTSC forum. This was my second attempt at the challenge. I went way off the sketch for the first card I made, but I love that card too!

This is the first card I made! Do you notice the big difference????

Way off!!!

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!

The Onions Do Work!!!

OK, I’m a believer!!! 4 out of 5 of my kids were home sick this week. So yesterday I decided to put the onions out in every room of my house, and guess what???? Today all my children went back to school!!!! They all said they woke up and felt fine. It was amazing!!!!! My youngest had a fever of 102 for 3 days and by the end of the day yesterday her fever had broke, and she was back to normal. My oldest started to loss her voice and had a cough, well she is feeling much better! My Hubby started to feel sick on Wednesday and by this morning he said he was fine. I felt like I was getting sick myself yesterday, but today I feel fine. Maybe, this is just all a coincidence, but I don’t think so…. If anyone else has tried this please post a comment on my blog telling me about your outcome. I am really curious:)

On another note, I promise next week I will post some new projects. With the kids being sick I was unable to do anything this week :(  I am hoping to work on something tomorrow or Sunday.

Have a Great weekend!

Happy Halloween

Prevent the Flu from attacking your family.

So I got an e-mail from my mom about how to prevent the flu. I know this may sound crazy, but I think it is worth passing on to everyone to try… So this is a copy of the mail I received.

 

Interesting. What could it hurt?
In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people there was
This Doctor that visited the many farmers to see if he
Could help them combat the flu.
Many of the farmers and their family had contracted it
And many died.
The doctor came upon this one farmer and to his surprise,
Everyone was very healthy. When the doctor asked what
The farmer was doing that was different the wife replied
That she had placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in the
Rooms of the home, (probably only two rooms back then).
The doctor couldn't believe it and asked if he could
Have one of the onions and place it under the
Microscope. She gave him one and when he did this, he
Did find the
Flu virus in the
onion. It obviously absorbed the
Bacteria, therefore, keeping the family healthy.

Now, I heard this story from my hairdresser in AZ. She
Said that several years ago many of her employees were
Coming down with the flu and so were many of her
Customers. The next year she placed several bowls with
Onions around in her shop. To her surprise, none of her
Staff got sick. It must work.. (And no, she is not in
The onion business.)
The moral of the story is, buy some onions and place them
In bowls around your home. If you work at a desk, place
One or two in your office or under your desk or even on
Top somewhere. Try it and see what happens. We did
It last year and we never got the flu.
If this helps you and your loved ones from getting sick,
All the better. If you do get the flu, it just might be
a mild
case..
Whatever, what have you to lose? Just a
Few bucks on onions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now there is a P. S. To this for I sent it
To a friend in Oregon who regularly contributes material to
Me on health issues. She replied with this most
Interesting experience about onions:
Weldon,thanks for the reminder.. I don't know about> the farmers story..but, I do know that I contacted pneumonia
And needless to say I was very ill...I came across an
Article that said to cut both ends off an onion put one end
On a fork and then place the forked end into an empty
Jar...placing the jar next to the sick patient at night. It
Said the onion would be black in the morning from the
Germs...sure enough it happened just like that...the onion
Was a mess and I began to feel better.

Another thing I read in the article was that
onions and
Garlic placed around the room saved many from the black
Plague years ago. They have powerful antibacterial,
Antiseptic properties.

I am not sure if it would work for the H1N1 flu, but what the heck, I think it is worth a try…….

Hoping you and your families stay healthy!

Shelby’s latest performance

This is my daughter Shelby performing “ Your Daddy’s Son” from the musical Ragtime. She is a senior this year. This may be the last performance I capture on video:( I hope not, but it may be! She is going to college to study music, but it may be a while before she performs again. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do…

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.

Happy Birthday card

This is the card I made for my bff Jani’s birthday! Happy Birthday Girl:)! This was a card challenge from the CTSC forum. Pattern paper is My Minds Eye, stamps are an old set from Stampin Up.

Can you believe I didn’t use my cricut machine??!!!! I really have been spoiled by my cricut machine! Ok, so all you Cricut owners, what did you do before you got your cricut?? Inquiring minds want to know! I will tell you what I did. I used stamps a lot, and I bought packaged die cuts, used stencils, and did some freeform cutting with a lot of mess ups. So basically I did a lot of cutting and wasting of cardstock and paper! I love my Cricut! I love my Cricut!!!!

Have a great weekend!

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:)

FCTSC Color challenge

So the colors that we had to use are black, dark green, and rust. I know it is hard to tell the colors in the picture, but I did use them:) I also used a piece of corrugated cardboard that I inked up, and the leaves are a walmart find a few years back. I bought 3 packages of these leaves and I am not even through the first package. I think I did a little overkill on that purchase! Although they were a really good price at 99 cents a package, I think that 2 packages would have been enough.. Well off the the craft room:) Hope you all have a great rest of the week!

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.

Make your own metal accents with pop cans tutorial!

So are you tired of buying expensive metal accents for your cards and scrapbook pages??? Well I have a solution…. MAKE YOUR OWN:)
What you need:
1. pop cans ( use pepsi product cans because coke uses thicker aluminum)
2.  you will need 2 thick dish or hand towels
3. A pair of old sharp scissors ( DON’T use your good scrapbooking scissors it will ruin them)
4. iron
5. punches or die cut
6. an older paper cutter you don’t care to dull
OK now the directions……..
1. cut your pop cans open. You are going to cut the top and bottom off, then cut in half like this…
* Warning edges will be jagged and sharp be careful when handling)

and this

and this

Now your can should look like this

Step 2:
Now lay a towel down on a hard surface. You are going to want to fold the towel twice. Then open you can up with the cans design facing up like this..


now lay the other towel over top of the can like this..

Now you are ready to iron your can flat. This is how you are going to iron it…..
With one hand on the iron pressing firmly down and your other hand  under the bottom towel  on one side. now press up with the towel hand as you iron like this…

( excuse the no hand on the iron because someone had to take the picture:)
When you are done with the one side turn the towel around and do the other. What you are trying to do is make the can lay flat. like this….



ok let it cool a few minutes before you pick it up!
Step 3
Get out your punches and die cut machine ( do not use your cricut machine). I used my ancient sizzix machine and it cuts through the aluminum like butter.
 
or use your punches like this…



Now you can use a paper trimmer to make borders like this..


Now you can use your Alcohol inks and metallic rubs to alter the metal.
Well everyone, now you can go create your own metal accents and recycle at the same time:)
Have fun!

Fall Flower Arrangement

So I decided yesterday to bring a little fall into the house. I covered a paint can with some scrapbook paper, tied a ribbon around the can, then add the flowers. I think it took me from start to finish 20 minutes. I love Fall it is my favorite season hands down!
Now the other news…..
I would have posted the flower arrangement yesterday, but I had to attend my son Jordan’s football game. This is homecoming weekend, and their first home game! Anyway, they won 63 to 0! Of course I had my camera with me! So here is a picture of my son.
 
That darn # 8 won’t stay on!! The night before last I used Heat and Bond to reattach the 8. As you can see it didn’t work to well:( I guess I need something with a stronger hold. That 8 was fine until he started playing, I guess boys are just rough on clothes!
Well I guess I am off to find something to create, or maybe finish one of the projects I started last weekend. Have a great weekend!

FCTSC Wednesday card Challenge

So I finally did a card challenge! :) I just recently joined From C to Shining C Forum. If you would like to check out the sketch and the site click here. I did my card a little different then the sketch. I always have to be different I guess:0 I am not a by the book kind of girl. Anyway, this challenge was great because I used all scraps that I had taking us space. I am slowly pecking away at my scrap drawer:)  I guess to make room for more scraps. What a funny process that is. We all try to use our scraps, but then we just add more. Such the life of a paper crafter:) Have a productive rest of the week!
Patti