Anniversary!!!

Couldn't let today pass without giving a shout out to my wonderful hubby! We just celebrated our 17th anniversary this weekend. We went to the mountains in GA and ziplined...yep, I conquered my fear of heights and flew threw the air 12 times. There were also multiple sky bridges with missing planks (on purpose) and even a tight rope (couldn't believe it!!!). We survived and had an awesome time!!! Here's to another 17+ with my great man!!!

Birthday card

I made this card using a template I purchased from the Silhouette library. Instead of using the flower they provided, I used the 3D magnolia. I dry embossed the blue layer to add texture. One of my favorite things about my Silhouette is that I can print on my home computer and cut with my Silhouette. It's so easy to use and works out great since I am not great at stamping. Hope you enjoy this sweet simple card.

Birthday Gift Card Holder

I made this gift card holder for sweet twins turning 2. Most kids have "too" many toys, so I thought it would be nice if they got a gift card instead. Who doesn't love ice cream (besides me?)!

This file was purchased from the Silhouette Library. I used my Cuttlebug to dry emboss all the pieces. Once the pieces were cut, I inked them with coordinating SU! ink pads.

It's been a while since I posted, hope you like this!

Updated Scrap Desk

My updated scrap space...

 and how it looked before...

Worked hard this weekend on painting this room, too tired to fill my "hutch"...reorganization in progress!

Leave a comment and let me know what you think, esp if you like the pic my husband took of the updated space, he would love to hear the feedback on his photography skills.  He was so much help this weekend.  There is no way I could have gotten as far as I did without his help.  He's a keeper!  Thanks for helping honey!!!  :-)

Flower Pot Card for Professional Admin Day

Professional Administrative Day was in April and this is a gift card I made for our Office Administrator (OA).  I purchased all the images from the Silhouette store and used pattern paper to pull it all together.  I like to decorate the front and back of these cards. 

Project Life - Space Week

I made this card for my Project Life album.  When  the kids are in  kindergarten they have week long units.  One unit is always Space.  I bought all the images from the Silhouette Store, including the Fabulous background.  (Please excuse the paw print as it hides the school acronym.)  I printed it as is and cut the edge. 

Project Life cards

Here are 2 journal cards I made using my Silhouette and pattern paper bought from the Silhouette Store.

To add the fall border on the top of the first one, I made a rectangle longer than the image I was cutting and set the option to no cut...that way, I didn't have to glue it on the card.  (See below for the cut line screen capture.)

Project Life

I was excited to find this soccer paper in the Silhouette Library.  Score!!!

I have started a couple of albums for my kids with the Beck Higgins Project Life idea.  The journal cards are currently out of stock at Amazon right now because she is changing vendors.  They will now be made here in the USA!  I have been making my own using Silhouette Files.

To make this journal card, I selected the image, filled it with the soccer pattern, then I did an internal offset and filled it with white.  Next, I added my text and chose a font and font color.  Lastly, I used the cut edge option so there were no layers to be glued.  Please feel free to contact me if you need help with this.  If you are doing Project Life, I would love to see your projects, please share!

Teacher End of Year Cards

Folder and matching gift card holder. 

These end of year folders served the purpose of a card.

I made all the kids an insert page which matched the front of the folder.  To make the insert page I used the knife/cut feature in the Silhouette software to cut off the folder at the bend.  Then I enlarged the image that was left so it would fill the gap between the front of the folder and the back.  As you can see, the front of the folder is much shorter than the back.  The folder files were purchased from the Silhouette Library.  I love these files...one bit of advice is to use double sided scrapbook paper.

Here is the link to the file in the Silhouette Store  - FOLDERS

These were a big hit with the teachers, my son's teacher couldn't even look at hers until after school was over.  They are a great group of kids, so sweet and innocent...I hate to see them grow up :-)

You can see some of the art work, the monkey is the class theme for my daughter's kindergarten class.  The pizza is there because they were studying pizza - I don't know all the details but I know they discussed how everyone likes different things on their pizza and they even made a pizza at school. My kids were so blessed with awesome teachers!

Cherissez chaque moment

 

I love the new white frames that are the craze right now.  I used the Hoot Hoot paper stack by the Paper Studio and added the phrase, Cherissez chaque moment, Cherish the Moment.  I used vinyl for this project.  I love working with vinyl, it is so easy and the results are always FAB!

Art notebook

 Front cover

 Inside front cover (with pocket)

 Inside back cover (with pocket)

 Back cover

I made this notebook using a cereal box and Hoot Hoot paper pack made by the Paper Studio.

The pocket folders were hand cut.  The trees and owl on the inside pockets were scraps - yay!!!

I used vinyl for the words and flowers on the front cover.

Inside this notebook is probably 50 to 100 white pieces of 8 1/2 x 11 paper.

My daughter is going to spend a few days each week with my parents and I found a really cool book that teaches how to draw animals.  She loves to draw and wants to be an artist when she grows up so I thought this notebook would be a perfect place for her to keep all her summer art.

My wonderful hubby used the Bind it All with Cinch brand wire to put it together.  I love that he does this for me, I am always scared I will mess it up.

Thank you card

I made this simple thank you card for my son to give to his teacher because she came to support him at his soccer game.  The card is a Silhouette tab file.  I used the offset feature to make the white portion of the card.  A SwissDots border embossing folder, I assume that is what it is called, was used on the bottom near the zigzag edge..  I also used a "thank you" embossing folder to emboss the rest of the white area.

I love the simplicity of this card...his message was as simple as the card.

I have so many projects to share with you, but so little time...one day, I will catch up with posting some of them.

Have a great rest of the week!

End of the year teacher gift!!!

I'm so excited!!!  With the help of the other Moms, I was able to purchase a Silhouette Cameo for my daughter's teacher.  Now, I just hope I can wait until the end of the year party to give it to her!

Fruits of the Spirit

My children attend a private school and they are having a silent auction fund raiser. As room mom, I am in charge of creating a basket for our silent auction and also an art piece for the parents to bid on.

My daughter's teacher sent me a picture of a canvas that looks like the one I created. Not sure where she got the picture from (sorry).

I taped off the blocks with painter's tape, then my 6 year old and I got to work painting.

On Friday, I went to school and got the kids to put their handprints/fingerprints on the canvas. I spent a couple of nights this week finishing up the project.

I used vinyl for the words.

I had a pear label I bought a few months ago from the Silhouette Library and I used it to create a pear for the back of the canvas. On the pear, I listed the fruits and the name of the child that created the fruit.

I am not an artist...but I think this turned out pretty cute. What do you think???

3D Flower Pot Gift Card Holder (Rework)

Back of card (originally the front)

Front of card (originally the blank - back of card)

Insert gift card in the green space

3D view of card and envelope

I felt like I needed to embellish both sides of the card for my previous project. This required a little rework on the original "front" side of the card. I wanted to make it easier for the room Mom to attach the gift card, so the back is now the front.

All files were purchased from the Silhouette library. If you have any specific questions, please let me know!

Thanks for looking! I look forward to your comments!

Flower Pot Gift Card Holder

Card in envelope - (Click image to enlarge)

Gift card holder (inside) - (Click image to enlarge)

3D view of the Daffodil's - (Click image to enlarge)

My children's school is having a silent auction and every class is donating a basket for the auction. I am doing a scrapbooking basket for my daughter's class. The room mom from my son's class asked me to make a gift card holder for the gardening basket. I have seen these cards but never made one, so tonight I thought it may be a good option.

I bought the file for this from the Silhouette Library and I also used the 3D Daffodil file - also purchased from the Silhouette Library.

I think I will cut out "Gift Card" in vinyl and place it on the front so the gift card does not get thrown away.

Please let me know what you think! Thanks for looking!

Easter Layout

Since my kids have discovered I used to create scrapbooks for them, there is a high demand, esp from my daughter, to create new pages. This works in my favor when I want to take a pic of my daughter but she isn't feeling it at the moment.

I purchased this layout template from the Silhouette Library. I added the scallop top border. I'm a huge fan of dry embossing so I dry embossed the egg. If my husband had not saved the day, I would have embossed the entire solid pink area bc I got adhesive on it and it wasn't looking pretty at all. (Thanks honey!)

Thanks for looking! Happy Easter everyone!

Magnolia

I created this magnolia using a cut file from the Silhouette library (purchasing available in the Silhouette library). This is so easy to do and so pretty! There are 2 sets of petals, both sets are the same, except one is larger than the other one. Place the 2 large pieces on bottom and the smaller pieces on top adorn with the carpel, then shape as desired. I used a brad to hold all the pieces together.

3D Passion Fruit

I purchased this file from the Silhouette Library and I am so happy with the way it turned out. I live in Alabama and passion fruit is NOT native here, however, I have a vine that grows in my flower bed every year.. It brings me so much joy in photographing the flowers. When I saw this file in the library, I knew I had to try it. This is very easy to create and so much fun!

Smash Journal - From/To

I bought this little notebook from Michael's today. It was in the dollar bin. The reason I bought it is because I like the paper inside. I tried to use my new paperpack to spruce it up, but I wasn't feeling it (see below)...

Here is what I finally ended up doing with the notebook.

and of course, my awesome hubby help me bind it. :-)

The paper is by DCWV and is from The Blossom Song stack. The frame on the front was on clearance and is made by Making Memories.

I cut the "E" out in vinyl.

The fabric tabs are part of the Smash Book line.

Thanks for looking ;-)

Green Blog Award

This award is from my sweet friends Tanya and Audrey . Please take a moment to check out their blogs for tons of inspiration! While you are visiting their blogs, become a follower, you will NOT be disappointed.

1.) This award is for any co-blogging friend who has helped your blog in any and all ways.

2.) This award is for any co-blogging friend who has cheered you along in your blog building, craft advancing career.

3.) This award is for any co-blogging friend who always stops by and is kind to you. you can count on them to always be one of the great comments at the end of your posts.

4.) This award is to be given to 3 to 5 Blends whom you feel meet the listed requirements.

5.) Create a post with the terms of use and publish your Blends of Choice.

6.) Blend of choice may copy the award from your blog and proudly post it on theirs.

7.) Blend of choice may continue the kindness by issuing this award to keep the circle forever growing.

I would definitely pass this award to Tanya and Audrey but they already sent it to me.

I am passing it on to Stacy and Marsha. Marsha is finishing up school right now, so she is not blogging about scrapbooking, but she continues to support my addiction, I mean hobby. Some of you may know Stacy from the Cricut Messageboard, please stop by her blog and see the new quilt she just made, it is so cute!

Basket

I saw this basket in the Silhouette library and knew I had to try it. I was a little scared this might be the project that "messed up" on me while cutting, but I had no problems!!! I used a solid color cardstock and it cut like butter with my Cameo. I used the predetermined size.

Blade setting = 5
Speed = 4

It has a handle - but I turned the basket the wrong way to photograph it. :-(

This was so easy to put together!

It would make a beautiful gift for Easter or Mother's Day, don't you think?

Safe in AL

Just wanted to check-in. I know some of you know I live in AL and our town was hit with numerous tornadoes last April. Our town was the first to experience tornadoes this morning, it came so quickly and was so scarey. I packed up and went across town bc they said it was supposed to be bad much of the day and I live in tornado alley. Thank goodness today was not as bad as 4.27.11 although there are many people who have lost their home today, including a coworker of my husband. He is in my prayers along with all those suffering tonight.

Thank you card and envelope

My daughter had an ice skating party for her birthday so my husband suggested I make an ice skate for the thank you card. The ice skate wasn't big enough for my daughter to write on so I put it on a card. These cards were an odd shape so I had to make the envelopes...about 1/2 through, I realized I could make a cut file and it would be so much easier, so that is what I did for the remaining 1/2.

We got them mailed, just in time ;-)

Phone Decor

I used vinyl to decorate my new phone. I used the premium vinyl for most of the layers but I didn't have premium in all colors, so some of this is regular vinyl...we'll see how long it lasts. Good thing is it will come off easy.

I used the owl pillow box file and cut the 3D parts off the box to get the owl shape. Pretty cool, eh?

Silhouette 3D Flower Help

I just bought some of the new 3D flowers but I am having a hard time twisting it so it looks good. Any suggestions? I'm off to youtube to see if I can find a video tutorial. Thanks in advance for the help!

Owl Pillow Box

I purchased this file from the Silhouette Library - how cute is this owl?!?!

I purchased the paper from Hobby Lobby, it is by the Paper Studio, the pack is called Uptown Flair - with Glitter.

I maximized the box on a 12 x 12 mat - in order to do this, I moved everything else off the mat, do a "select all", then resize. This keeps everything in proportion.

Have a great weekend!

Tour

Cool LEDs that change colors.

Windows are electronically tinted, even when they are tinted all the way, you can still see out. It takes about 90 seconds for them to fully change, but you can see the change start to happen within seconds of pushing the dimmer button.

Business class - anyone want a nap?

This was the third one to EVER fly!

Everyone can watch a movie of their choice...how cool it that?

We had a rare opportunity to tour a 787 Dreamliner, what a masterpiece it is! This will definitely be scrapped!