no more lost cards...

Flash cards that is. I used some of Wendy's new products out today to make sure of that. First off she has an awesome Cardstock pack out. Look at all of those great colors!

And to go with it she has some alpha's. The bundle is the way to go here.

So, what did I do with these? I made some flash card books! I used the above products as well as her Back to School: Overlays and my wonderful Bind it All to create these. Now there is absolutely no reason for them to be all over the place. I did "shuffle" them up so they would not be sequential. Now all I have to do is find the subtraction cards in stock at the store, and put it and the division together and they will have a full set!
Well, hopefully we don't get all of this snow that they are calling for. I am so ready for all that white stuff to be gone. Have a great day!

for Mom

Ok. I altered a clipboard for my mom this week using Wendy's new kit Fat Tuesday. I didn't have any New Orleans pictures, but the papers are just gorgeous and I wanted to play with them. My mom really loves the color purple so I figured this was the perfect kit for this. I also used some Bazzil swiss dot cardstock I had found at the store and really love. Anyhow, this is what I managed to come up with. Do you like it Mom?

Organization

First off I am very sorry it has been so long since my last post. My whole family has been sick , and not all at the same time. Of course we had to drag it out and all be sick one after another!

One of my goals for this year is to be more organized and I decided to make myself a file to help with that. I will be using it to store medical and dental receipts, unpaid bills and such. Isn't it just gorgeous? I even got to play with my new Bind-it-All in making this. The flower on the front is also raised up 2 times with dimensionals. Ialso used the kit Elegant Whisper by Legacy 4life, pop dots, a corner rounder and red bazzil cardstock.
I will be back with more again soon I hope. Have a few things in the works.

ballerinas

So, I hope everyone's New Year is going well. Ours hasn't been too bad, after all my Buckeyes finally won a bowl game! And my Browns also pulled off a win streak to end the season. If only I could get rid of this lingering cough. It has been hanging around for over a week now and is really getting old. Fortunately I seem to be the only one in the family affected.

Vacations are almost over. Les went back to work today and the kids head back to school tomorrow. I have almost forgotten what peace and quiet sounds like!

Ballerinas are currently a very big thing with my niece. She is taking dance class now and is TOTALLY loving it. So I made her some stuff with an awesome kit called Tiny Dancer which is a thrice as nice collab at Scrap Matters. I made her a shirt, which I hope to have a picture of her wearing soon and this barrette holder which I am so tickled with.

In with the new year!

Well, here we are about to start the new year. Are you all ready for it? I think I am. I have lots of goals for the new year but I think the biggest one will probably be to get myself into better shape. I will be using the planner that I made here to help keep me on track. I will also be trying to use Walker Tracker more often and hopefully my widget down on the left of the page will reflect that. I will also attempt to blog more regularly this coming year.

I have something to share today that I made as one of my Christmas gifts. I really liked how it turned out so I am thinking of making another one for me!

Supplies used:
Glam Tidings - Kim B's Designs
Terracotta pot painted with gold acrylic ink and Java Walnut ink (random strokes).
Dowel rod stained with Java Walnut Ink
Ribbon
Cone form
Floral foam covered with dark chocolate corduroy.
MANY dressmakers pins

Baby it's cold....

It has been cold and nasty here the last day or so. We had really high winds yesterday which knocked out our electric for over 9 hours total. I decided that it was something that I would probably want to look back on years from now so I scrapped it. Here is what I came up with.
Credits:
font - Alaskan Nights
Let it Snow - WM[squared] designs and Purple Tulip Designs
Save the Date V.4 - WM[squared] Designs
staple from D is for dog - WM[squared] Designs

Another speed scrap

I totally forgot to post this layout from the speed scrap that I did on Monday. I am rather pleased with how it turned out. I used the repeated circles to go with the wheels on the bike.

It was definitely out of my comfort zone with the directions given. (you get 7 sets of directions over a 60 minute time period and then have another hour to finish the layout.)


Credits: ric rac - Sense of Adventure - Happy Scrap Girls Ribbon - Honeydew -WM[squared] designs date - Save the Date v3 - WM[squared] Designs staples - D is for Dog - WM [squared] Designs Christmas in Paradise by WM[squared] Designs and Haynay Designs tab - CU Basic Elements - Creative Dreams

a fun new challenge

There is a fun new challenge over at DSO right now. Bunny is running a trial ATC swap challenge. For this you make an ATC card digitally and upload a low res version to the gallery. If you want to you can send the high resolution version to her and at the end of the month (most likely a couple of days after to give her a chance to get them all together and recover from New Years day *giggle*) she will send back to you the files from everyone that decided to share! Now how awesome is that!!!

I decided I wanted to get in on this. So here is what I came up with. Let me tell you I think that was the most intensive thing I have ever done. There are over 60 layers on just the front side of this!

Credits:
Anyone for Tea - Kim B designs
Toof Fairy add on - Kim B designs and GS Creations
Garden Treasures kit, little bo peep freebie, frog prince freebie, twinkle freebie, waterrushes freebie, maryqc2 freebie - GS Creations

I think I have all the credits sorted out, in case I don't everything used is by either Kim B or GS Creations

More hybrid goodness

I have another hybrid project to share today. I had an absolute ball making it. I used Wendy's Santa Baby kit to make it that is still available right now in a wonderfully stuffed grab bag.

It is only in grab bag form until Thursday so if you want it you better get it fast!

But back to my project. I decided to make a Christmas ornament with this kit. While browsing around looking for other project ideas I had seen a tutorial for double ball ornaments at Splitcoast Stampers and I had loved it. When I got started I realized that the hatpins I had were larger than what they used in the tutorial so I ended up making it a triple ball ornament. What do you think?

I think she's gone crazy!

Who you ask? Anne of Creative Dreams has gone crazy! Let me tell you why... She has a new kit coming out on Friday (I'll show you something made with it here in a minute) and to celebrate "Black Friday" she is having a HUGE sale. ALL of her kits will be $1!!! And as if that is not enough all of her CU products will be only $2! All weekend long! Talk about an amazing deal. Be sure to run over and take advantage of this deal!

Here is my promised sneak peek of the new kit. It's a fun, retro Christmas kit. Great for you to pull out all of those old pictures of Christmases Past. Here are my niece's waiting anxiously for the adults to be up and ready.