Watermelon Thanks!

I forget how much I love my Moxie QK font! I stitched on each letter and popdotted them up. The watermelon is from the qk Enjoy gift set.

Scrapbook Garage Sale Motherload!

So today seemed pretty hectic and was not off to a good start. I was running errands with my husband and friend....nothing really fun just the man mall, working on home projects, and picking up equipment. UNTIL I spotted a sign saying "Garage Sale-Scrapbook Supplies, half off on Saturday." My husband instantly dropped me off while the garage sale was just closing up. It was fate. I went there and this guy had bought BOXES of overstock supplies from Fiskars. Everything was new and in the package and he had piles of each embellishments. EVERY SINGLE sticker sheet, chipboard packages, rubons, border stickers, flocked accents, felt button packages, etc was 30 CENTS EACH!!!! I started going crazy, they gave me a bag and I loaded up 97 different embellishment packages and it only cost me $29.10!!!!! Seriously made my day, probably my month!!! Just had to share. :)

Hootie

My husband and I saw "hootie" in our backyard! A big thanks to Shar for sending me this beautiful quickutz owl cut from her collection of owl dies! I love the oak leaves from the exclusive bear quickutz die. They are so cute! I had fun creating the little ribbon pleats using my tombo adhesive and a patient eye! I stitched the two photos together using my embroidering thread and border template. I used the quickutz notebook die for journaling. I used rainbow quickutz font and doodled on the letters for an example of the Scrapbuggy July Challenge which is to get creative with your quickutz fonts on your projects! Come and participate! Just create a project using your creativity with your quickutz fonts and post your project in the message boards under "challenges and contests" and you will be automatically entered in a drawing for the month of July! Here is the link http://scrapbuggy.com/messageboard/

Picnic

Just a quick card. I made it using moxie mini quickutz font and the ketchup and mustard from the Enjoy gift set.

Monster Party!

Yay! The Scrapbuggy Quickutz Exclusives are in!!! Here I made a little monster invitation with my monsters exclusives! I decorated this little guy with googly eyes and flowersoft moss to give the furry effect. I used moonlight quickutz font. Super fun to play with!

Scrapbook Retreat

These are the pink champagne cupcakes I made for the retreat for Sue's birthday (Tracey-if you are reading this...thanks for the recipe!)! I was able to finish my entire honeymoon album. I borrowed Sue's Relax quickutz set and Spicy Chicken font. Love! I also used my Archiver's exclusive coconut (cut from wood paper) and tropical leaves.

My impression of "Edward Scissor Hands" with dried coral reef! :)

3-d Flowers

I got a new 3-d flower die from sizzix and it was so fun to make and decorate them! I used the leaf border qk die for accents. This is a gift for my best friend for her new apartment.

Mystery Rocks

I was playing with my new grid mosaic paper today! I used Chemistry font and crumpled up the letters to chalk them up to give the effect of rocks.

Fun Finds

My new t-shirt from a local scrapbook store in MN.

This little guy I bought for 2 dollars at Marshalls. It's a mini vacuum! It picks up those little paper snippets when you don't want to break out the big vacuum!

"What Style, What Grace, What a Silly Face!" Thought of my friend Shar and her Grandaughter Gracie when I saw this. And of course I had to buy it because it has vintage pictures of kittens!

Now this is really cool! Apparently a little company makes these paper grided sheets and "how to" books along with it. This is to line up your mosaic pictures! Really cool...just cut your picture into 1 inch squares and the paper has faint lines so you can put them on perfectly straight..instead of eyeballing it. You can fill up the whole sheet with more than one photo..and you don't have to stick with all 1 inch squares..you can throw in some bigger size ones and surround it with little squared pictures. I will be creating a layout to show an example soon! The company is "Mosaic Moments" by Tami Potter at www.tamipotter.com Check it out! Here is the creator's "how to" video from her blog. http://tamipotter.typepad.com/how_do_i/

Giant Layout/Bulletin Board

Even though I am not a teacher, I still get to decorate bulletin boards! Talk about a large layout here! The school had their prom so I took pictures and made this using my polaroid qk diecut, damask border (halved), and Moxie Classic Font. I plan to hang this up at our health center where I work as a school nurse.

Bird Perches/Collar Buttons/Hitches

So I stopped by the local antique store to pick up more perches for my bird houses. I've been having a hard time finding the Tim Holtz hitches so I used my version. Apparently these were used as collar buttons. I found metal, shell, and wood ones! I guess that means more birdhouses! :) I also found old eyelets too!

Updated Scraproom Pics

These little buggers are from IKEA. They are pink LED lamps that clamp onto my desk. They are super bright and are bendable so I can shape them how I want!

Bryan picked up these corner round pieces, they were on super sale, just 3.99 each! I think they finish the room nicely. There are 3 on this end and 3 on the end of the other cubes.

Can you see my little helper in all of this craziness? It is still not quite finished yet. I have to pick up some more making memory jars. We called the manufacturer of these cubes to order some label metal plates to attach to my desk so everything matches. They are sending us 6 for free! Yay!! Now I need to label all of this!

Cupcakes anyone? The topper on the cube is a charging station...holding my cameras and cell phone.

Tweet Tweet!

More bird houses! This time I made the shingles out of scalloped circles ( fourthed) and staggered. More on the way!

Bird House

Thanks to Rhonda from http://snapwhiz.blogspot.com! I saw her birdhouse and wanted to make one too! The template was created by Nichole Heady at www.papertreyink.com. I used my quickutz cartoon house for shingles and rolled up a piece of brown paper for the pirch. All paper is Basic Grey. I am thinking about making ornaments out of these and putting pictures inside!

Graduation Card

I scraplifted this from a magazine. This is a graduation card shaped as a hat. I cut a square black card with a black fabric brad with an old tassel attached. I attached a round strip of black paper on the bottom for the full effect. This is going to be a graduation card for my baby brother Pat who is graduating college in May!! Woo hoo!

Mother's Day trinket box!

I love decorating tins!! This was super easy to make. I cut circles and distressed them and topped it off with a handmade fanned center piece and an antique button. I plan to give this to my mom for mother's day!

blog tagged!

Shar tagged me! So 10 things I like and 5 random things about me. So here it goes:
1. I like hot chocolate..piled high with whipped cream or mallows..usually have at least one a day.
2. I like antiques! I am fascinated by antiques an their stories behind them!
3. I like the color pink! All of our kitchen acessories are pink!
4. I like miniature things...anything small. Purses, bottles, anything mini!
5. I like high heeled shoes...so shiny, tall, and completely unfunctionable..but cute! ;)
6. I like shopping with my mom.. we always go to the mall of america!
7. I like farmers markets! The smells are intoxicating! Madison's farmers market is the best!
8. I like tanning by the pool.
9. I like cupcakes...making them..eating them...collecting cupcake ceramics..
10. I like chocolate... A LOT. I eat it every day!

5 Random things...
1. I took belly dancing classes in college
2. I was hypnotized once..they made me think i was a backstreet boy.
3. I took dance lessons for 10 years.
4. I can't cook, i burn grilled cheeses.
5. I grew up in a house with no showers..only bathtubs..hence I only take baths. I hate showers!

I'd tag 5 people..but I don't know anyone! hhahah

3 Little Houses..

I used my new little quickutz house dies. journaling tag, and zig zag edges. I used the left over vintage book pages and I chalked the edges to also give a vintage feel. I added ribbon on the side as well as on the tag.

Vintage "Hi" Card

This card was made using my new wavy edge qk dies! I layered waves on the bottom of the card as well as added a corner wavy piece. I cut a qk button out of my left over vintage book pages and added ribbon. I used my chestnut roan cat eye chalk to antique the edges. I added antique buttons and ribbon. I created the "Hi" from my foam stamps and brown paint.