Christmas is almost here...

Please forgive my absence.  We have family visiting and we've been going, going, going!

My nephew is here with his parents and so my youngest daughter (who is the same age as my nephew)  wanted to make cookies!  But not just any cookies...Ginger bread men!

They had so much fun.  I'm glad too, because ginger bread dough has to be my least favorite cookie dough to deal with!

MidWeek Mojo #21

So ...
ScrapbookSteals has a challenge every week for us to try out.  This week the sketch HERE is what I went by to do this page.

I think I went a little overboard with the embellishments but, I'm going to leave it and look back at it in the years to come, as a learning experience.

I need to catch up!

I haven't posted anything in a long time!

Don't worry, I haven't stopped scrapping or crafting. 


Just haven't taken the time to upload any photos.  These were all done for the sketch challenge on http://www.scrapbooksteals.com/ 's facebook group.  You can go to the blog at the site just listed and see the sketches.  A new one comes out every Wednesday.   Hey, that's today!  Woohoo.



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I also found a pattern on the internet for tissue box covers!
And boy have I been busy!  Just look ....

Made another layout...

I'm thinking I might have to make an album just for All the states we've lived in, and another for the countries we've visited!

Just finished this one and thought I'd add it...

Testing the mobile app

I made a couple of cards yesterday, but my mobile phone's camera isn't the greatest. :(

yeah, that is some sorry quality.
Here is a better photo...

Happy Thanksgiving!

It has been a great day!  My parents are here visiting from Louisiana and it snowed here in Missouri!  Awesome!

Alicia's most recent birthday...

and more!

Ebay...

I don't know what is going on with me lately, but I'm just not in the mood to scrap. :(

So....

I listed some die cuts on ebay!  I spend enough money there, I thought maybe I should try to make some of it back.  LOL

Go see what I've listed so far...

Feel free to send me suggestions on what other die cuts I should list. 

I have so many Quickutz dies, it's crazy!

ho hum...

Just wasn't feeling the scrapbooking vibe today...
But when I finally got in the mood, this is what I came up with.
(layout #18 from scrapbooksteals.com blog.)

The two layouts that I held back ...

This is from Alicia's 9th birthday party...

And this one is from her 10th birthday party.

I guess I better get to work on Karina's pages...

Nothing to share today...

I woke up at 3 am today and just could not sleep.  So what did I do?  I went to my craft room! HaHa
I managed to put two pages together, but I'm not ready to post photos today because I am looking for just the right stickers to add to it.

After putting those two pages together I managed to go back to sleep for a little while.  I'm just feeling so great today.  I'm sure it's nothing.

Then after sleeping for a little while I felt like scrapping again, so I put my Cricut to use and played with my new Cartridge, Indi Art.  My girls are going to love this cartridge for sure!

Looking back makes me smile...

Today I put together a page for Karina.  This is from Easter 1998 when she was 2 years old.  She was beautiful then and even more so now...

And this one is from a hiking/camping trip we went on while living in Massachusetts in 2006...

I also made one just like it for Alicia.

What a great start to the morning...

This is the view I see off my back deck...

And today there was the prettiest Rainbow greeting the day!

Some Cards...

I love playing with my Cricut machine, and these little birds are from the Create a Critter Cartridge...

They can be Birthday cards or Congratulations on a couple getting married.

This Couples card embellishments were also made with a Cricut Cartridge.  The Stretch your Imagination cart.

The trees on this winter/Chirstmas card were made with the Stretch your Imagination cart too.



Ribbon Cans...

I've been seeing videos of scrappers making their own Ribbon holders/dispensers and thought I'd give it a try...

 First, I gathered my supplies...

 With my jumbo emery board I roughed the can up a little...

 Then I measured my paper that I wanted to cover my can in...

 Now, take the Mod Podge and coat an area of the can for my paper to stick to...

 Once the entire can was covered and I had put a thick coat of Mod Podge over my paper, I set it to the side to dry.

 Now that my can is dry, I can use the Crop-a-dile to punch my eyelet holes in it...

 Now for the eyelets...

 I used the same tool, just changed the setting to the eyelet setter...

 I then dropped my spools of ribbon in, then threaded them through the eyelet holes.

All done!


For my less ''crafty'' friends that want a ribbon holder, but think they can't do what I've done above (or don't have the supplies needed)...
For this box, I simply punched holes in the lid and added eyelets to run the ribbon through.

Older Photos...

Here are a few of the older photos that I scrapped this week...

What I've been doing lately...

 I found a REALLY great deal on DCWV Matstacks the other day and boy have I went to town with them!
The cupcakes in these cards are a new stamp that I got the same day as the Matstacks and I had a little fun painting them with watercolor crayons and Martha Stewart Blending Markers.

I've also been scrapbooking old photos like crazy...

These photos are from Summer 2010 while we were living in Louisiana.

This photo is from 2009, also in Louisiana.