It's Almost 2012!!

Can you believe it's almost 2012??

WOW!! Where has the time gone??

The challenge this week at Paper Sundaes

is "Celebrate!!"

So here's a fun project that will help

us celebrate New Years Eve!!

Tuesday Morning Sketches-sketch.

Then for Paper Cupcakes we are to use a bird,

which went great with a LO I was working on

for a challenge over at SB dot com. 

Thanks bunches for stopping!!

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas,

and a fabulous 2012!!

Until next time.................tootles!!

The Rest of the Week!!

I did really well with doing Sunday and Monday

challenges on those days!!
Tuesday and Wednesday I think I only accomplished

one. Thursday I had oral surgery,

and man did they give me good drugs!!
I slept like a baby all day Thursday, all night Thursday

night and until about noon on Friday!!

That was nice!! *smile*

Friday proved to be rather busy as my sweet,

little baby girl turned 14!! How did that happen??!!

So that just left today to catch up!! 

Here is what I got done:

Paper Pretties-anything but a card.

Whimsie Doodles-favorite image/stamp.

I know this is pretty plain, but it's for in my

purse so I can't have anything sticking up

or it's sure to get knocked off.

I love this stamp. I really should use it more often!!

Flutter By Wednesday-celebrate with an angel, butterfly or fairy.

Friday Mashup!-gate fold and numbers.

Tuesday Morning Sketches-sketch.

JUGS-sketch.

Daily Bread-dots or stripes.

Gem of a Challenge-photo inspiration.

Crazy for Challenges-back to school.

Sweet Stop-sketch.

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Thanks also for the notes you leave.

They are very sweet and make me smile!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe

holiday weekend. PLEASE, PLEASE,

don't drink and drive!!

Until next time.............tootles!!

Hello!!

It's so nice of you to stop by!!
Thank you!!

Always love to have visitors!!

A few challenges this week:

Design 2 Delight

Stampin' Sisters in Christ-music.

Card Patterns-sketch.

Daily Bread-add a tag.

Crafty Catz-emboss it.

Paper Sundaes-just saying hi!!

Sweet Stop-sketch.

Flutter By Wednesday-butterfly, fairy or angel.

Friday Mashup!-butterfly and bling.

Just Us Girls-alter a notebook.

I Did It Creations-shaped card.

I was going for a banner look, but it ended up with more of

a napkin look to me!! *L*

Thanks again for stopping by!!

I hope you liked the things I made.

I so enjoy making them!!

I hope that each of you have a wonderful, love filled week!!

Until next time............tootles!!

Bling it!!

Lollipop Crafts wants to see you bling it!!

So I did this cigar box for my big sis!!

She loves glitz, so it will be perfect for her!!

Personal I think it's a little overboard!!

Die Cut Dreams-sketch.

Image by Angie Whally.

Paper Cupcakes-make your own flowers.

I made the flowers. The vines and butterflies are from

3 Tails Crafts.

That's it for now!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Thanks also for all the comments you leave!!
It's very sweet of you and I so do enjoy them!!

Until next time................tootles!!

Posting Challenges has been Challenging!!

So happy to see blogger back up and running!!

The challenges I have finished so far this week:

Lollipop Crafts-more than one fold.

Paper Cupcakes-sketch.

Tuesday Morning Sketches-sketch.

Spoonful of Sugar-sketch.

Flutterby Wednesday-butterfly, fairy or angel.

Dutch Dare-winged things.

Friday Mashup!-manly monochromatic.

That's all for now!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Until next time...............tootles!!

As Promised

I'm so excited about this project!!

I saw this on Split Coast Stampers,

and knew I had to make it for DH's great niece!!

It was just so wonderful!!

It took some time to find all the elements to put it together,

but at last it's finished and I can share it with you!!

Ta-Da--------

Finding the perfect hanger was the hardest part of the puzzle.

Once I had that, I could start putting it together.

I had to break out the new hot glue gun I bought

months and months ago. I'm so scared of those things!!
I have been burnt one to many times with them.

But I did very well this time, didn't burn myself not once!!

I glued the lovely brown fringe to the back of the hanger.

On the front of the hanger I glued the wide soft cream lace.

On top of that I glued the beautiful pink roses.

I painted the wooden frames brown,

then brushed on the crackle stuff.

When that was dry, I add the pink paint and wa-la, crackle!!

Added pearl swirls, more roses and a metal bow to finish it off.

My sweet DH helped me add the hardware so it would hang.

We are very pleased with how it turned out!!

He thinks maybe his mother would like one!! :)

Thanks for stopping by!!

It was fun sharing a project with you instead of a card for a change!!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!

Until next time............tootles!!

Our First Snow Celebration

It SNOWED!!! I am so excited!! We have a fabulous tradition that we call "Our First Snow Celebration!" Now dh isn't really into it but I am totally over the top about snow and at the first sight of it, I go all ga-ga!! DD also enjoys the first month or two of winter!! So when she was really little I started this tradition. It doesn't count to just see flakes in the air. We can only celebrate when the snow sticks to the ground. Another rule is, no Christmas movies until it snows.

Our Celebration always starts with me dancing around saying "yippee!!"

Then we make Gingerbread and Orange Fluff!! (this is the part DH likes!! *lol*)

Then we watch "Yogi's First Christmas" movie while we cut out snow flakes!!

And finally we get to eat the Gingerbread!!

All while watching it snow!!

Ah....I love the snow!! I wish it would snow more. All that was gone very quickly!!

**update 12/6 I've decided to enter this LO in the challenge over at Lollipop Crafts (http://lollipopcrafts.blogspot.com/ ) Thanks!! **

I have been wanting to make a banner after seeing all the ones in the gallery at SB. I wanted to do it with mittens, but when I saw these big flakes, I had another idea. I just love how it turned out!! I have it hanging in my studio!! I stickled the chipboard letters. The flower on the S snowflake, was just blah silver, so I inked it blue and put clear embossing powder over it and put the ole heat gun to it. For the holly leaves behind it, I inked them even more silver and used silver embossing powder on them. I was shocked it turned out so good!! Don't ya love when that happens?? Anyway... here it is:

I have been kept busy this week, working on some mini comp books for my mom. She belongs to a sewing guild and wanted to give each of the ladies a little gift at the Christmas party, so she asked me to do these for her. I ended up making her 17!! They were fun and took up my time well. When I had them done, I wanted a way for her to be able to give them without to much work. I was gonna go to the $store and get some little gift bags when I remembered that one of the free cartridges that we just got on our gypsy download was for the tags, bags, and boxes. So I pulled out my old Christmas paper and set to cutting out 17 little gift bags. Glued them together, added ribbon handles, dropped a book in each one, added tissue paper, and wha-la....ready to give as gifts!!

So that was my week!! I didn't really do challenges this week. I was busy with the other things, I suppose!! But it was a fun week and it finally snowed!! I'm sitting here today looking out the window every 3 minutes in hopes that the snow we are to get actually arrives!! So, if you have extra snow where you are, please blow it my way!!

Until next time...........TOOTLES!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Altered Tin

Hello!! Just a quick post to share the tin I altered for the the challenge over at Scrap Love Laugh. (http://scraplovelaugh.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-10-15T11%3A39%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=7)



It's just a little band aid tin. Not much, but I did want to enter the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by, and be sure to head over to Scrap Laugh Love and check out all the entries for the challenge!! Plus check out their NEW Design Team Call!!

Until next time..........tootles!!

A Birdhouse and 3 Baskets

Hi again!! So glad you took the time to stop by!! Love having visitors!!

I have a little birdhouse to share with you!! It was made out of a coco can. The papers are MME. The bling is Prima. I made the flowers so they would match!! I'm just so tickled with how it turned out!!

The next few things I have to share are some cute little baskets!! I'm in a swap over at SB.com, and I needed to make a Christmas Basket and a Thanksgiving Basket!! Each basket is to be filled with at least $5 worth of goodies. These are so easy and so much fun!! I want to make them for everyone!!

First up is my Thanksgiving Basket for the swap. I'm trying to decide about adding lace to this. I was looking for orange lace but so far I've found nothing!! What do you think?? It needs it or it's OK without it?? (isn't that scarecrow cute??!!)

The second one is for my Christmas spot in the swap:

And, third, a Halloween Basket for my SIL:

(love all those little spiders, so cute!!)

I sure hope that who ever my partners are in the swap, will really like these!!

Thanks again for stopping by!! Leave me a note if you have time!! Thanks!!

Until Next time..........tootles!!

More Paper Fun!!

Hello!! Thanks to everyone who tries to keep up with my blog. I don't have much to share this time. My mother had knee replacement surgery this week, and so my time has mostly been spent with her. However, I did manage a few things.

I was still fiddling with the idea of these little paper purses and so I made a couple more. They are fun, quick and easy for the most part!! Perfect when I felt the need to scrap but didn't have the proper time to do so!! These are the cutest ones I made.

I'm still stalking the gallery over at SplitCoastStampers. They have some amazing things there. Very talented paper artists!! This is a set of boxes/drawers that I got from there. I thought they were so cute!!


More containers found empty around the house, begging to be altered!! :)



Last but not least... A LO I did for a challenge over at Scrappy Jo's a couple weeks ago!! I just thought the LO we had to scrap lift was AWESOME!! I really like how mine turned out!! Everyone did a great job with the lift!! I'm always amazed at all the wonderful things that we each see in the same LO!! Anyway....Just thought I'd share this one!!



I guess that's pretty much it for this week. I'm hoping to find something really amazing to work on this week!! Any idea's for me?? I'd love to hear them!! You all have a FABULOUS week!!

Until next time....Tootles!!

Storage and Organization

I'm alway in search of next great thing I can use for easy storage. I have such a tiny house that every inch is accounted for!! I had been in search of a small embellies shelf. I happen to stop in at the salvation army one day and saw this cute little shelf. It was sitting on the rack still in the packaging. It was marked as $2.99!! I took it to the register, thinking it was marked wrong and they would tell me so, but it rang up for $2.99!! woo-hoo!! It is about 18 inches tall. It's perfect for all my little things I want to have close by!! Check it out:



In th sudio, we each have our own space. DD and I share a big table. She gets half, and I get half. DH has a little desk in front of the window, that he never uses for anything but piling up stuff he doesn't he want to put away. So I reclaimed it for scrappy stuff. I really wanted a place to put my lovely things that my friends have sent to me as gifts. Plus I could use it for storing more stuff!! He was sweet to let me have my way. He bought the shelf and put it together, and I love it!! Check it out:

More storage!! *L* I had bought these 3 metal canisters for like 75 cents or so here a couple of Christmas' ago. They are about 7 inches tall. I had lace and other embellies stashed in them on a shelf in the closet. I pulled them out and re-invented them!! I went with a cherry theme and added the little glass knobs I got at Joann's for $1 each. I think they turned out so cute!!

Then I had two chipboard round boxes that I wanted to spruce up. I fell in love with these peach roses in lace section at Hobby Lobby. And can you believe it...they were on clearance!! How lucky am I?? *L* So I got 2 yards and transformed my first container into what my DH says looks like a wedding cake!

As for the other chipboard container, I was painting the lid and laid it on the top of the trash can to dry. Well, not thinking we gathered up the trash and took it to the curb. The next day I was ready to work on my container and couldn't find the lid anywhere!! Then I realized what had happened and was so sad. So I had to be creative. Not my best quality. And came up with this: Not bad, huh??

For fun DD and I were altering stuff we could find around the house. I used an old hot coco can for my project!!

And last but not least today, and what really started me on re-inventing all the contaniers I could find, is a paint pail I altered for a very sweet lady over at SB.com!! We were to alter a pail and fill it with $10 worth of goodies. This is what it looked like: Vicki, I'm so happy you liked it!!

Well, that's it for now. Until next time....tootles!!

Just Scrapping Away

I have had a great couple of days, doing what I love most...SCRAPPING!!

DD and I made 17 flowers yesterday!! They turned out so awesome!!

Friday I made some little mini albums!! The inside is made using just one sheet of 12x12 paper. Then I made a little cover for them and used scraps to make the inside tags!! I really like them. If you like them, I'm willing to sell the 2 little brown and yellow ones, the other is for a friend. They are $5 each and $1.50 for shipping. (the bottom pictures are the inside of the little blue book. If you would like to see the inside of the other two, please email me.)

And last but not least...My little table and book!! I saw this table idea on the Graphics Fairy's website. I thought it was so cute. I went right out and bought the stuff to make one. Well, it was a total disaster!! *L* After 2 times trying to make it work, I threw it away!! But, I still wanted to make it!! So....*L* I went to Hobby Lobby and got new stuff to try again!! This time it worked!! I think it turned out so cute. The little book on top of the table was DH's idea. What a good idea, huh?? It is another of the one sheet mini's. Since I live in a tiny house and have no place to put this, I am also willing to part with it. $15, free shipping. (You will need to attach the table top to the base. It will be much easier to ship in 2 pieces.) The base is Tim Holtz crackle paint and then sealed with mod podge. The top has been mod podged as well. I made the flower on the front of the mini. Any questions, please feel free to email me!!

So that's what I've been up to. Now I need a new project!! *LOL*

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog. I so enjoy your comments if you would be so kind as to say hi, that would be great!!

Until next time.....Tootles!!

BTW--I will also be willing to sell any of the embellies pictured in my previous blog entry. They are $2.50 each, $1.00 shipping. Or 2 for $5 and I'll take care of the shipping. I no longer have the pink one, but still have all the others!!