I can see clearly now...

My daughter got glasses about a month ago...astigmatism, just like her momma! Unlike her momma, she LOVES to wear her 'cheetah' glasses...so of course, I had to document the occasion with a layout!

This layout features the Miss Caroline line from My Mind's Eye...lovely stuff! And since I had it out, I created a couple of cards too!

Of course, it's all held together with my Xyron Adhesive (this time it's the Mega Runner!) All of this fabby, scrappy goodness is available at The Scrapbooking Studio in Moline, IL!

Spring is COMING!

Spring has sprung! Not that we've really had any winter here this year...and it was 50+ F today! Looking forward to another unseasonably warm day tomorrow too!

With that said, I created some spring-y projects for Xyron's recent appearance on HSN! Love the DCWV paper stack that I got to play with too...Lemon Flower...and some Xyron Shapez by Spellbinders (the flower pot flowers!)

Let's start with my fave...the flower pot with paper flowers! This one was time consuming, but oh, so worth the effort!

Next a thank you card:

A layout highlighting my nephew's personality:

And finally, an altered frame featuring my youngest niece:

Thanks for popping by today!

 

Some Valtentine's Day Cards...

I was lucky enough to get away Saturday and crop with some friends at The Scrapbooking Studio in Moline, IL....it was a fun, relaxing and PRODUCTIVE day!

Here are some Valentine's Day Cards I got finished at the crop:

The patterned papers are Love Me by My Mind's Eye (designed by Robyn Meierotto), the flair buttons are by Shelley Haganman, the 'I love you' tag is by Ormolu and of course, the adhesive is Xyron!

Thanks for stopping by, hoping to get my completed layouts posted yet this week!

FINALLY! Some creative time...

I know my family is probably looking for some Thanksgiving pictures...BUT I'm happy that I got a chance to do some creating this weekend, so I'm putting up a crafty post today!

I had a chance to pull out my American Crafts AMY TAN products...such FUN! Love the colors and the textures...here's what I created...

I've seen these butterfly boxes before, and the 'science' geek in me is drawn to how they resemble specimen displays...I used my Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Butterfly dies and adhered the beauties to a punched grey circle before mounting on the cardstock with the printed quote...LOVE this project!

AMAZINGLY...I created a couple of cards...

Those that follow my blog know that I publicly complain about my card making abilities...perhaps I've turned a corner?

Lastly, but not leastly, I created this photo-less layout documenting our family's road to our Iowa HOME!

All these FAB Amy Tan (and the Tim Holtz die) products are available at The Scrapbooking Studio in Moline (or Bloominton)...check 'em out!

ps. if you're in a holiday mood, check out my handmade ornaments on the Reminisce blog!

Some Cards...REALLY!

I was feeling inspired to be crafy over the weekend, but found I was way SHORT on time...so, in order to get my paper fix I created a couple of cards...the first features the Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia die and Teresa Collins Christmas Home papers...I used my fabbie Xyron Adhesive to assemble the card, attach some crinkled tissue paper to the red cardstock and add glitter to the foam alphabet stickers!

I got a little 'techniquey' on this next card...surprisingly it took very little time...I got out my Basic Grey Indie Bloom papers and Allison Davis card sketch #11, stamped a heart in a circle image over top and embossed with clear embossing powder....after heat setting the embossing powder, I 'painted' over the embossed images with my Maya Road mist and wiped the excess off...the clear embossing powder acts as a resist and lets the wonderfully colored patterned paper show through! I punched out the images with a circle punch, mounted them on a second larger white circle that had already been run through my Xyron X sticker maker and then coated the white border with white glitter...love the effect!

That's it for today...thanks for stopping by...

I have a thing for cards...

and it's not a GOOD thing...I have issues making them...not sure why, but I do...at the beginning of 2011, I had a crafty goal to create more cards in 2011....and according to my blog, I did create more cards....7 to be exact....definitely progress, but no where near what I thought I could do...

So, in the spirit of creating EVEN MORE cards in 2012...I purchased this Ella Book...

It's a great source of inspiration, card making inspiration...and I love it that I now have a 'book' I can go to when working on these little works of art...who knows...maybe in 2012, I'll hit a record 10 cards created!! A girl can have goals, right? ;)

Some more scrap-happiness...

Well, here's the last bit of scrapping that I will get done for the next bit--the big MOVE is next weekend and so the last of my supplies are going into boxes this week...(sniff, sniff)...hopefully they're among the first boxes UNPACKED at the new house...

So how about some birthday cards featuring DOODLEBUG:

A halloween layout (with last year's pics):

And a woven candy basket (from PAPER!):

That's it folks...hope to be back at it soon...thanks for stopping by!

A Core'dinations Card...

This past weekend I whipped up this card using the NEW Xyron Creatopia Shapez flower die (by Spellbinders) and some of my fave Core'dinations cardstock...the sentiment is from a Jillibean soup diecut sheet and I adhered it to the backside of a heart stickpin (also from Jillibean) and stuck it in the foam adhesive....super fun and super quick too!

Thanks for stopping by!!

My Spellbinders DT entry...

Well, since my dream of being on the Spellbinders 2011 DT is OVER (no worries, just means they were looking for something else, a different style, cuter kids (haha!)--please don't leave any pity in the comments-I'm fine, really!!!), I thought I'd take some time to post my projects...I did really like them...for Round 1, I created a layout...

I used their large lotus flower die as a sun, I misted through the stencil function of the die to create the orange sun center...I used one of their borderability dies to create the accent strips and backed them with some of the dark pink American Crafts paper for added contrast.

I was asked to create a card for Round 2...you saw my rejected entry HERE, here's the entry I submitted:

Still like it...the rainbow of bright colors, the octagons...a tiny peek of white space...oh, well, maybe next year!!!

A card reject and some updates...

Hello blog readers...I'm back from my vacation in India and (mostly) over the jet lag...so I thought it was time for an update post...I'll be sharing vacation photos over the next two weeks, along with Reminisce SNEAKS and maybe the occasional craft project...we'll see...

For starters, while I was gone, I received an email indicating that I had made the second round of the Spellbinders DT contest--YAY me! My assignment for the 2nd round was to create a card....so I created two, sent in my fave and will share my 'rejected' card here!!

I used the Octagon Nestabilities to cut the shapes and then used the OUTSIDE of the same die as a stencil to outline the shapes...the sentiment was computer printed...my actual entry incorporated a similar theme, just had a few more details and also used the embossing feature of the dies...I can't share my entry until the contest is over....but I certainly will then!!

Toodles all...thanks for stopping by...oh, and just for fun, here's one of my FAVE photos from vacation...still need to edit out the 'beach trash' in the upper right, but this one's definitely a keeper!