busy busy busy!

I have been busy with the March Kit from 2 Scrappy Chix Designs. This kit is FULL of great stuff, I am loving it.

here are a couple of cards I made yesterday:







I love the top one. That girl with the pink heart makes me smile!

RA Retreat LO

This is another LO that I made using the March kit from 2 Scrappy Chix Designs. The pp is from Mark's Paper Company, the green paper is the backside of that paper. The brown alphas (for the title) are Basic Grey. The flowers are cut from the left over pp. The subtitle (RA) is covered in the distressed stickles. This is perfect bc it almost looks like sand and this picture was taken at our RA (Resident Advisor) Retreat on the Oregon coast in 2000! The things not from the kit: the red RA alphas and } are thickers and I used embroidery floss for the hand sewn rectangle.

The LO was inspired by a challenge over at Tally.



The subtitle that shows the distress stickles and hand stitching:


The flower, leaves and swooshie thing is cut from the left over patterned paper:

LO using 2SCD March Kit

I stayed up WAY too late tonight and made a LO using the March kit from 2 Scrappy Chix Designs (see post below). Every single thing on this LO is from that kit (except the journaling pen). I used the Maya Mist to create a background on the burgundy cardstock. You can also see it splattering the other elements including the flowers. I also used it to color the chipboard letters that spell "adore". My favorite part is the arc that is cut from a piece of the patterned paper from Marks Paper Company. I especially love the journaling that I wrote along that arc. Here it is!



look at all of the great flowers, tags, ribbon and distress stickles:


a nice shot of the journaling along the "arc"


and a shot of my handsome husband, Jared. I took this pic the summer we got engaged. Isn't he hot?? LOL This also shows the chipboard letters and splatter from the Maya Mist:

The Big Reveal

The March kit for 2 Scrappy Chix Designs is assembled and will be up for sale in 3 short days! Mine arrived in the mail today and it is GORGEOUS! I love that not only are there rockin' papers but there are flowers, brads, journaling tags, chipboard flourish die cuts, an ink pad, distress stickles, chipboard alphas, sticker alphas, a bottle of red Maya Mist, cardstock AND 3 different ribbons. This kit is fabulous! Here are the pics:

Here is the description from 2SCD:

$30.00Available to ship 3/16! (with 3 month subscription)

Kit also available for slightly more as a one month only option ($35).
This awesome kit is overflowing with great items and will also include a print newsletter with ideas, instructions and more! This autoship purchase will also include the next 2 kits at the same reduced price ($40 retail!) Be sure to comment about whether you want your future invoicing through paypal or if you would prefer to provide a credit card. You may also place go along orders with your kit to ship together. Standard shipping charges apply.

sneaky peak...

I completed a LO for the "pre-challenge" at Punk Rock Scrappers. Usually I am too lame to do such challenges but seeing as Adrienne is on their DT (they obviously have good taste), I wanted to give it a go. So, because I can't get a decent pic until morning, here's a sneak peak:

Love it so far? ME TOO! Check back tomorrow and I'll get the whole thing up. :)

Thank You Audrey!

Audrey at 2 Scrappy Chix Designs sent me this amazing RAK as part of last month's cyber crop. I started drooling from the second I opened the envelope. This is the perfect RAK for me, too. I have two little girls so the butterfly album will be put to good (and quick) use and I am totally in love with the pp! THANK YOU SO MUCH AUDREY!! :o)

Like this RAK? there's plenty more fun stuff being dished out during the March event (see post below for info and link). See you there!

March Stash at 2SCD - week 2 LO

There's still plenty of time to join the March "make the most of your stash" challenge at 2 Scrappy Chix Designs. This week's challenge is to creat a LO using a Spring Poem as part of your journaling. As two extra "bonus" entries, you can add ribbon and stickles. Remember, the grand prize for this month's challenge is the AMAZING February Kit... FREE! Yep, all that goodness (sells for $30).... for free! Check it out and post a few new Layouts for your chance to win!

Here's my LO and some detail for this week's challenge:


I made the two flowers (the "lollipop flower" and the "ruffle flower" out of the pp)


The sweet little poem I chose (no author was named on the internet site, just that a child wrote it):


All paper is from a Making Memories "kit" that my SIL got me for Christmas. TFL!

Adrienne's Blog-a-versary RAK

Adrienne is having her one-year blog-a-versary this month and she's put 2 RAKS up for random drawing! Yep, TWO. Cuz she rocks like that! Check out her blog, leave a comment and tell her I sent you. Then maybe you could win one and I could win the other?? :o) Sounds like a plan! But you only have until midnight on March 14th (Sat) so.... SCOOT!

Family Picture

My SIL got married in December and as part of her photos, we took a family picture. Emily and Kayla were flower girls (complete with their "pageant hair") and Jared was an usher. I was busy making the wedding cake when the girls came in to show me their completed ensamble.... holy macaroni that was some big ol' hair! But they felt like princesses so I was happy for them. It's a nice pic so I thought I'd share...

My first Digi Layout!

One Smart Chick

This LO is about my grades last semester. On the left is a printout of my "unofficial transcript" showing all A's and a 4.0 gpa. The thing in the middle is a copy of my certificate for The Dean's list and the journaling card (library card) pulls out to show tons of writing.

This was inspired by a challenge ("What I love about me") at Tally and a "Use your scraps" challenge at 2 Scrappy Chix Designs. (links to both are in my right side bar)









TFL!!

"Pot of Gold" card!

This is based on a sketch posted at Page Maps and a challenge (to use the sketch to make a St Patricks Day Card) at Tally. I think it is whimsical and makes me smile! Anyone for some green beer? yeah, me neither. LOL! :o)

A fun RAK!

Thanks to a very generous Tally Buddy I received a great RAK in the mail today. Let me tell you, I pretty much squealed when Jared brought the mail in and I saw that bubble envelope. The funnest part was that I had NO idea what was in the RAK so it was like opening a much anticipated Christmas present!! Here's what she sent:

Another Cricut creation...

Well, I got to play with my cricut expression again this morning. Yay! Here's the card I made:

Cricut - Lovin' The Bug!

I have already played with my Cricut!! I went to the Cricut website and was browsing through the message boards when I found an awesome post showing how to use the George cartridge (the one that comes with the machine) to make an adorable Cricut image (Here's the link to that post in case you want to make one of your own). So, I made one right away. And he needed a home so I made a LO for him to live on! I used a piece of pp from my Jan Tally kit (I used a piece of MM paper to trace that shape then cut it out by hand), one of my free tags I won from the Creative Cafe blog, and some random stuff from my stash.

I still have to add a photo (I'll take one later, when I can get it developed) to the white photo matt. The journaling (on the blue tag that slips behind the photo matt that I made into a pocket using foam adhesive sqauares) is the exact blog post I wrote earlier today. To create the actual layout I used a Becky Fleck Page Map (feb '09).

Without further ado, here he is!

Here's some detail:

The front of the journaling tag:

And the back of the tag:

Best husband EVER!

Today after church we were looking through some fliers and I saw that JoAnne's had a Cricut on sale (the little one) for $99!! I told Jared about it and he took me to check it out.... and bought it for me! I am so excited, I have wanted one for so long I can't even remember! I have just been too stingy to buy one. But now I finally do, all because of my generous, loving, handsome, wonderful, giving, enabler of a husband. Boy I love that guy! :o)

Our crazy morning...

Every morning I drive Emily to school somewhere around 7:50 am. The school is just a few minutes from our house but in the drive we pass through a Kansas State Highway (K15). At this time of morning K15 is pretty quite but it is the major road between Wichita and several smaller towns so there are lots of commercial trucks and semi's that use it regularly (including my husband who drives a delivery truck for a bread company).

After dropping Emily off at school this morning we were back at that intersection, waiting at the light to cross through K15. There was a white SUV in front of me. When the light turned green, she pulled into the intersection and was hit by a Semi going full speed!! I have no idea why he didn't stop at the red light (not paying attention? the sun was bright so maybe it was blocking his view??) but he hit that poor lady SO hard. He hit the front left corner of her car which made him swerve into the oncoming lane of K15. She spun around and was almost sideways when her car stopped. The whole front of her SUV was ripped off and laying everywhere. Her air bags went off and she wasn't bleeding and nothing was broken. Praise God! Literally, because it could have been so much worse. And thankfully, she didn't have any other children in the car (she was coming from dropping her kids off at the elementary school, too).

After we (all of the drivers who saw this happen) called 911, made sure she was basically ok, made sure she was away from her car in case it caught fire (there were lots of fluids running from under it) and helped her call her husband I went back and sat in my car. Kayla was in the backseat so I was trying to explain what happened and why I was getting in and out of my car in the middle of the road.

Then I sat behind my steering wheel and prayed. I thanked God for protecting this woman as much as He had. I thanked Him that no other cars were involved. And I thanked Him that it wasn't Kayla and I. We were next and so it sunk in that it could have easily been us.

We stayed there for about 35 minutes after it happened, making sure she was on her way to the hospital (ironically, the one her husband works at) and filling out forms. Then Kayla and I SLOWLY drove home. So thankful for God's loving hand and protection.

Blog Candy... all the fun without the calories!

Adrienne is dishing out some awesome blog candy in honor of her 5,000th hit!! Head on over (tell her I sent ya) and get in on the fun before March 1st. Congrats Adrienne!

Hola, Lola

Card for a "secret pal". She only speaks Spanish and I think it is super fun to say "hola, lola!". I hope she likes it!



The flash washed out the color, the background is a very crisp black/cream with bright ribbons and flowers. Mmmm... It makes me smile!

HOLY CUCUMBER I LOVE THIS!

This is SO cool. And I made it. I feel like a proud mommy all over again. LOL.

This is also for the crop at 2 Scrappy Chix Designs. The challenge was to take tags/bags to make a mini album. I didn't have those but I had some library cards/sleeves and some Basic Grey paper (Wassail line) that I have been wanting to put together to make something. So, here it is!!!

Here's the library cards "before":


Front Cover:


Inside Pages:






Isn't it fab? Mmmm.... i may become a fan of Basic grey afterall! I can't wait to get my Christmas pics developed (yeah, I'm behind... sad) and get them in here with some journaling. Woo hoo!