Papa Bear

When thinking back I'm guessing it's been since the retreat in June since I actually scrapped a LO....so it was a real treat yesterday to do a page or two at the monthly crop I attend. It was nice being able to sit down and get a page completely finished, making it "done-done," what a great feeling!

We call my dh "Papa Bear" and when we found this resturant with his name sake, of course we had to go. If you're guessing the food was a tad bit "greazy".....you might be right...I probably wouldn't give the resturant 5 stars for it's food, but will for it's name!

Blog Candy

I was over at Popscicle Toes' blog today and came across her link for some blog candy, and WOWZA is it ever great! Hop on over to Where'd All My Money Go To? to take a look. I can guarantee it's a sweet offering!

Baby Girl Card

I joined a card swap club for 6 months over on the CMB, and this is one of the cards I made for my swap partner, she requested a couple of new baby cards this month, one each for a boy and a girl. I thought it would be easy and I'd crank them out in a short amount of time and be done with it, what was I drinking to think that?!! It took me forever, and I ripped apart more cardstock than I have in a very long time....it just wasn't working for me. DOH....I should have gone and looked at a few sketches or websites for inspiration.

I think I need to make a sign for my scrap area that says, "Don't be so stubborn, SEEK INSPIRATION!"

What I'm doing with my ITT's

I'm finally done with all the Inchies, Twinchies, and Trinchies....at least most of them! I thought I'd share some of the cards I made with all the ITT's that I've been working on for the Ultimate Challenges. These, along with a few other cards will be sent out as hostess gifts. I think they turned great!

INCHIES

TWINCHIES

TRINCHIES

I promise that I'll stop subjecting all of you to so many skulls, or at least posting pics of them....because I have a few more projects for pre-teens that HAVE to include at least one "YOU ROCK" skull! LOL!

Thanks for looking!

In Your Face....

I saw the tutorial for this tri-shutter card at SCS and fell in love with it. Here's a link to the instructions with a video tutorial at the bottom. If you get the chance to check it out, you should...it really is helpful! While thinking if I should make the card, I was blog stalking and saw Christina's blog and couldn't believe she made one of these gorgeous cards! Enough said, I had to jump on the bandwagon and try it for myself and I love how this came out! I hope my newphew does too...of course at 13, is he really going to tell me he LOVES a homemade card?!!

I wasn't sure if I would use the Indie Art cartridge very much when I bought it, other than for all the skulls...but everytime I look at it, I can picture another project in the works! It hasn't taken the place of Hello Kitty, but it is running a close second!

Twinchie Mayhem!

Here are a few of the twinchies that I made for the Ultimate Twinchie Challenge over on the CMB, I had to make 3 sets of 500...CrAzY don't you think?!! I seriously started thinking the same thing halfway through the 1st set because it is a whole heck of a lot of twinchies. This is just one of the sets and it's my take on the theme of black and white. You can't tell from the pics, but there are a lot of pop-dots and glitter paper, along with rhinestones for eyes...nothing like a "bling" skull!

Cards with Inchies

Here's a couple of cards I made using some of the inchies I've been working with...the first card was made with inchies I received from from the CMB Quick & Easy Inchie swap. Didn't the ladies that sent them in do a great job?


The second card is the inchie that I'm going to be sending into the second Quick & Easy Inchie swap. Now I know you can't tell from the picture, but I put Glossy Accents over the lips and they look just like lip gloss. I want to mention that the ribbon came all the way from Pennsylvania, I was going to put it back but someone talked me into it and you know who you are! Thanks for reminding me why I needed to make the purchase..."In every color!"


Not only do I love making these little things, I love what everyone else does with them too. Have you tried making any yet? You really should!

1000 Inchie Swap

Call me crazy in-love with inchies! This is the set of 10 inchies I'm duplicating 100 times for the CMB...CrAzY?!! Me and 99 other people are all heading to the looney bin! LOL!