My new Iphone Case!!

Hello Everyone!!  I hope you are all having a good Saturday!  We have been just hanging around the house today resting.  Our new little puppy was spayed yesterday so we are trying to keep her calm.  So I have been crafting today and she been on my lap most of the day.  

I was completely surprised to get my New Iphone case in the mail today!!  I was not expecting till next week but it's here and I'm so happy with it.  I made it using Storybook Creator 4.0 from Creative Memories or you can also make them by using the Creative Memories Digital Center.  Click here and it will take you to the link on my website for more information on how to make the cases!!

If you have any questions or would like to make a case of your own just let me know and I can help you out!! 

Thanks

This week our school is celebrating our staff so the PTSA is having a lunch for everyone on Wednesday.  I signed up to make brownies and a thank you sign to go up in the staff lounge.  I was going to make a sign to match the theme of our lunch but changed my mind and went with this paper pack I bought last year at Michael's. 

I cut out the banner on the Silhouette and the letter where cut out on my Cricut with the Creative Memories Travlers cartridge.   I made a few rossettes with the Tim Holtz die and stamp few images from a CTHM stamp set I got a few years back.  

I'm very happy with the way it turned out and can't wait to hang it up this week!

Iphone case

Good Morning!  

I'm so excited for Monday to get here!!   Starting on Monday you will be able to use Storybook Creator 4.0 to design an Iphone case!!  It's just one more reason to love Storybook Creator 4.0!!  There are just so many great thing you can make with this program!!

 I'm still trying to decide on which picture of the kids I want to use.  I have so many of the kids that are my favorite so this weekend I need to narrow it down and pick one.  

If you have any questions about the cases or this great program just let me know!

 

HIMCR #79 Color Challenge

I hope everyone is having a good year so far!  Ours has been good so far.  It has been so nice being home the last 2 weeks.  I have gotten so much done that I have had on my To Do List. 

This weeks challenge at HIMCR is Color Challenge.  This week colors are Black and White and 1 color.  I decide to go with turquoise we have a neighbor who is getting married in the spring so I made a card for them.  I love how the colors look together. 

I used the Creative Memories Divine Wedding Cricut Cartridge to cut the cake out at 3.5" and the black and white paper was in my scrapbox.  I distressed the edges of the card, papers, cake and tag.  I also embossed with the Divine swirls folder.  That is one of my favorite folders!!

Now it's time to check out what the rest of the DT has created and check out the challenge at HIMCR.

Have a great day!!

HIMCR #78 Freestyle

Hello Everyone!  

Hope you all had a nice Christmas!  We just stayed home this year for Christmas and 2 nice quiet days!  I started feeling better last week and then Sunday night and Monday it all starting coming back and my little man was sick too.  So we haven't really did much this week except for staying home, rested, and finished my Storybook that I shared the cover with you last week!  I order it yesterday morning before the kids got up.  I'm so excited for the UPS man to deliver them!!  The kids have played with all their new Legos in between resting.  Hopefully this upcoming week will be able to get out enjoy our last week off before they head back to school.   

I have some exciting to news to share Tuesday on my blog so 

be sure to stop back over and check it out :)

This week challenge at HIMCR is Freestyle!  I had a few ideas that I wanted to do but decided on my favorite layout that I made in my Storybook this week!!  As I said last December the kids and I went to Illinois to visit.  We went to visit Grandma at work and my Aunt was in so she took the kids on a tour of her Police car and the department.  The kids had a blast!!  It's not everyday at 8 and 6 you get arrested and mugshots taken!!  When I was making the layout I remember see a Police kit back a few weeks ago when we did the Template Dreams as our sponsor.  On there website on of the designer Sanko Studio had this kit and I fell in love with it and knew it would be perfect for this layout!  I hope you enjoy it as much I do!!  If you would like to see the rest of the pages from the album click here.  If you would like to see the cover an the first page of the album click here.

If you are every interested in giving Digital Scrapbooking a try let me know I would love to share Storybook Creator with you!  It is so easy to use and I promise you will love it!!

Don't forgot to check out what the rest of the Design Team has to share this week with you!!

Then stop back at  HIMCR to enter the challenge!

Challenges:

Craftin Desert Diva's-Pause Dream Enjoy Challenge: Anything Goes!!

HIMCR #77 Mix It Up!

Good Morning!

It has been a different week around here.  We got a little bit of snow Tuesday morning it didn't really stay around much.  I worked all night on trying to get the teachers gifts all ready to take to school the next day.  Then early Wednesday it started coming down and school was canceled and I got sick.  The kids had school on Thursday and it was my last day of work till next year.  I felt a little better so I went to work and passed out presents to the kid's teachers and my co workers.  After I got off work came home and felt horrible again so I spent the rest of Thursday and all day Friday on the couch.  The kids last day of school was supposed to be Friday and well because of all of the melting snow had turned to ice over night kids started Christmas break a day early.  

Today is time to get busy and get my list done.  Oh is it so long after spending time rest the last few days.  Soccer game first thing and then the kids have a birthday party to go to. While they are at  the party I will start wrapping presents.  Then it will either be the house cleaning or grocery shopping.  Either one sound like much fun :(  

Now it's time for HIMCR challenge this week it's Mix it Up Anything but Christmas!!  For my project this week I did the cover of my Stoybook that I'm starting for the kids of our trip last December to Illinois to visit my Grandma.  I used Storybook Creator 4.0 to create my cover.  I love how you can write on the spine of the cover too.  The kids are so excited for me to get them done so we can wait for the UPS man to deliver them to us.  

Here is my cover for this week!

I'm using the Cheeful Digital Power Palette for my album.  I also add my first page for you to see!  Now I have to get busy and get it all done before the 30th since my Storybook credit

 expires on the 31st. 

Now it's time to check out what the rest of the Design Team projects and enter the challenge at HIMCR!

Hope you all have a Merry Christmas!!

 

HIMCR #76 Go Digital

Good Morning!  I have been busy this week working on Christmas gifts and getting my Christmas cards ready to mail.  By now I usually have them out in the mail but it's been a very busy lately.  I also did a fun art project this week in my son's classroom.  I teach an art project once a month for his teacher.  This month we made salt dough ornaments.  I made the ornaments up ahead of time and they painted them.  It was alot of fun and the kids are excited for me to bring back snowmen on Monday.  

This week challenge at HIMCR is Go Digital and our

 sponsor is  Template Dreams.

They will be giving away a $5 gift certificate to their store.  

 I used Fall is in the Air and made a 2 page layout of our trip to Seattle last month when Grandma and PawPaw came to visit.  I used Creative Memories Click in Fill pages to create the layout and just added the digital paper and embellishments from the Fall is in the Air kit.  

 Now it's time to head over to  HIMCR and check out what the rest of the Design Team has for you and enter the challenge!

Have a good weekend!!

 

HIMCR #75 Super Scraps Saturday!

It has been a very crazy last few weeks for me.  I was able to get a couple of Christmas gifts and a few things for the kids stockings last night.  Faith has a soccer game this morning and then we coming home to finally decorate the tree and I'm going to scrapbook and make some Christmas gifts and some cards.  I would love to do a few pages in the kids albums.  It seems like I have been so busy doing everything else me that I haven't had time to work on their books.  

This week challenge at HIMCR is Super Scraps Saturday!  I made a simple cute little tag. 

 I used my CM Tag Maker and used the CM Zigzag Diamod Border Maker. The stamps I used on my tag are from CM Nordic Christmas Stamp Set.  

Now it's time to check out what the rest of the Design Team made and enter the challenge at HIMCR.

Merry Banner

Hello Everyone!

I just wanted to share my newest banner I made a few weeks ago with the  New Creative Memories Holiday Frames and Tag Cartridge and the New Zigzag Diamond Border Cartridge

and New Diamond Chain Border Marker Border Cartridge.   I'm so happy that I decide to wait and make my banner after my Holiday Frames and Tag Cartridge came in the mail!!

If you have any questions about my banner or the cartridges I used just let me know!!

HIMCR #73 Mix It Up

Good Morning Everyone!

I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving!  We had the best one ever!!   We were all so excited to have Grandma and PawPaw here to celebrate with us.  We stayed home and Grandma and me cooked dinner.  The kids helped make a pumpkin pie.  It has been a great week but sad for us today here cause we will be taking them back to the airport.  I so wish they lived closer to us.

This week at HIMCR the challenge is Mix It Up and it is Christmas theme.  I decide to go ahead and make my Christmas card for this year.  Last year was the first year in awhile that I didn't make a digital card with our family pictures on them.  I loved the cards I made but decide from now on it would be digital!  Here is the card I created with Storybook Creator 4.0

This is one of my favorite Christmas kits.  It was from last year and it is called Holidazzle!  

If you haven't ever tried digital scrapbooking and have any questions let me know.  The Creative Memories program is so easy to use!

 

2013 Storybook Creator 4.0 Calendar

I'm so happy that I made a Christmas Gift yesterday!!  This is the fourth year that I have been making a calendar for the kids to give to Oma and Opa for Christmas.  They are so easy and so much

 fun to make.  The kids loving looking at it on Christmas Eve with Oma and Opa.  

 I used Storybook Creator 4.0  to create the calendars.  They come in 12x18 and 8x12 and after the month is you have a 12x12 or 8x8 page layout to slide into your scrapbook.  What a great gift!

If you have more questions about the calendars let me know and I can help you out.

I almost forgot there are Desk Calendars now!  Be sure to check them out!  

I will be making my new desk calendar soon and posting it for you all to see.

Halloween Decorations for School

This is my second year making the Halloween Decorations for the office at my kid's school.  The office staff comes up with the theme and I do my best to make the decorations match.  This year they decided on Winnie the Pooh.  I used my Cricut cartridge book and my son's teacher document camera to make the characters bigger and traced them on butcher paper.  Everyone loved how the office turned out.  Now I have all of the characters laminated so I can use them again  in the future on the bulletin board I do in front of the office.

 This is the bulletin board in front of the office that I did a few weeks ago.  This was from the Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons Cartridge.

Halloween Treats for the teachers

 I wanted to make a little treat for the kid's teachers, office staff and my co-workers but I was short on time so I found this cute little ghost to cut out on the Silhouette and added some yummy Candy Corn Taffy.  I can't wait to get some more of it next year.

 I also work 3 days a week in the afternoon Kindergarten class helping them with their math and writing workshop.  So when I was getting ready to leave on Tuesday a few of them ask if I would be there to see them dressed up on Halloween.  So I decide to make them a little treat when I went in to see all my little friends.  I punched out tags with the Creative Memories Tag punch and stamp it with a cute little pumpkin and tied it to Fruity Peebles snack. 

Happy Holidays

Good Morning!

  I have had this on my to do list for weeks but keeping running out of time to color my digi.  I got it finished Saturday night!!  I wanted to take my picture outside but every time I got ready to go outside to take it yesterday it would start to rain.  So I gave up and went for the light box this morning.  I love coloring Heather's Digi from Fresh Brewed!!  This is her newest Christmas house.  I hope you like it as much as I do!

I used my Creative Memories Cutting System to cut the digi and background paper out in circles.  Added some clear glitter on the roof and ground.  

Challenge: 

Fresh Brewed Designs   Pre-Blog Hop Challenge October

Dlart  Thankful Thursday Challenge Linky Party

HIMCR #67 Super Scraps Saturday

Hello!  I was able to get a little crafting this week even though my craft room is still not set up.  I just have a few more boxes to unpack and then I will finish up the organizing.  Once I'm done with all of that I will be posting some pictures of my new room!!  I'm loving it so far.  My new table/desk is great!!  I have so much room on it.  

This week at HIMCR the challenge is Super Scraps Saturday!  I made this cute little Autumn card.  My DT Sister AJ got me this cute little stamp set called Charlie Autumn.  I thought he was so cute!!  All of the paper I used was from my scraps!!  I love super scraps week!!  

Here is my cute card!

Stamp set is Charlie Autumn from Clear Dollars Stamps

The fence is made with the new Rustic Fence Cartridge  for the Creative Memories Border Maker System.

I used some left over baker twine I had from another project

I colored the image in with my water color pencils.  

Now it's time to head over to HIMCR to check out the rest of the Design Team Creations for the week and enter the challenge!

Have a good weekend!!

Birthday Gift

Good Morning! 

 I wanted to share with you the gift that I made for my friend's birthday yesterday.  She is such a great friend!!  We meet when my daughter and her son went to preschool together.  

I can't believe they are now in 4th grade!  

So while I was unpacking some of my scrapbooking supplies the other night I had an idea pop in my head.  I found some old CD's  and some cool paper that I forgot about having.    I used my Creative Memories Custom Cutting System to cut circles out of my pattern paper to glue to the CD's.  Then I cut out Family form the Country Life Cartridge and the flowers from CTMH Art Philosophy Cartridge to go on the front.  After I had put my cricut things away I decide I need some leaves for the flowers.   So I decide to see what it would look like to use my CM Paisley Punch to make leaves. Then I just cut out some little photo mats and embossed them for the inside and tag. These little albums are so fun to make and you are recycling too!! 

 

Then to go along with the album I found this big clothes pin at Michael's on Monday and didn't really like the print on it.  So I thought well I can cover this to match the album and make it nice.  I used the scraps from the front of the album to cover it.  Then I cut out 2 flowers from the CTMH Art Philosophy Cartridge and some more Paisley for leaves and some ribbon!   

I will be posting the card I made to go with her gift on Monday and teaching how I made it for my Guest Design Team project for Crafter's Companion.  I hope that you stop back by to see it!!

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my latest project!

My Friend

I'm so proud of myself 2 cards made today and posted the same day!!  I made this card to give to my friend AJ along with some yummy cake pops.  She going  away for awhile so I wanted her to know how much I will miss her.

I'm going to enter this in MFP Sketch with a Twist challenge.   I used My Creative Time die from Just Simply Live set.  The leaves stamps are from a set that I found today and rubbed new chalking inks from Creative memories over the leaves and the edges of the die and card.  It looks like I embossed them but it was how the paper is made.   

Now I'm off to do some more unpacking in my craftroom!  

Challenges:
MFP Speedy TV  Sketch With a Twist Challenge #15

Friends

I decided to take a break from unpacking my craft room today and make some cards.  I found this Friends stamp I got a few months ago and used my Tim Holtz Distress Stain.

I used the peeled paint distress stain right on the card and then stamp over it with Weather Backgrounds from CMTH.  I used my Creative Memories Paper Edger to go around the edge of my paper.  The top one was stamped with the friends stamp and rubbed vintage photo distress stain over it.  The other piece I rubbed both the peeled paint and vintage photo over the craft cardstock.  I used die from My Creative Time and stamp for the Best Friends.   I'm so happy with the way my card turned out.  I'm going to enter it over at MFP Speedy TV.  

Challenges:

MFP Speedy TV   Tutorial Time on Speedy TV Challenge 18

HIMCR #66 Color Challenge

Good Morning!

It has been a busy week around my house!  I packed up my craft room and painted it yesterday.  A couple small walls to paint today and some touch up work!  Then it's time to get my new tables/desk and shelf put together and I can start unpacking.  I will post some picture or maybe a video 

when it's all done :)

I also got ask to be the Guest Designer for this month at Crafter's Companion USA

Be sure to check out my card I made and come back on the 15th to see my post with a technique!

This week challenge at HIMCR is Color Challenge-Purple, Black, and Orange.  I made a Halloween layout with some of favorite pictures of the kids. 

I used Border Maker System from Creative Memories with the new Rustic Fence Cartridge and Pumpkin Chain Cartridge.  I decide to take my Storybook Creator 4.0

to make a photo both strip of my pictures of the kids. 

Now it's time to head over to HIMCR to check out the rest of the Design Team Creations for the week and enter the challenge!

Challenges:
My Crafting Channel  MMC Challenge#1
pause Dream Enjoy Challenges   Purple and Orange
Craftu Us Crazy Halloween

HIMCR #65 Freestyle

Happy Saturday Everyone!!

I went with a friend last night to scrapbook and had so much fun!!  I worked on my kids albums for a change.  It was so nice to get pages done for them.  I'm working on my goal for this year to stay caught up on their albums.  I hope to start packing up my craft room tonight and tomorrow.  It's going to take me some time but I want to get it done so we can start painting.  I bought my paint on Monday and have an idea for a desk that I want!  I can't wait to post pictures and share my craft room when it's all done!

This week challenge at HIMCR is Freestyle!  I made a Composition Notebook for my DT Sister AJ!  I used her favorite colors and used my new Crafty Girl stamp from Fresh Brewed Designs.

 Front

 Inside cover with a little envelope pocket

 Back inside cover with a 2 pocket folder with polka dots :)

 Folder open so you can see the pockets

Back cover
I used my Creative Memories Custom Cutting System to cut out the shapes.  The pocket and folder inside the notebook was cut on my silhouette.

Be sure to stop check out what the rest of the Design Team made for this week.

Be sure to enter at HIMCR for chance to win the monthly prize!