All That Scrap For Me

Howdy blog land! Now that the Christmas festivities are over, I'm back to blogging (hopefully regularly). I taught this as a class at Scrapnesia during December and had lots of fun!! Inside this little tin are 6 basic dividers that are used to separate my cards. One tip on the dividers - make sure they are not bulky at all so that they take up as little space as possible!! This was so super simple to make and is an excellent gift idea!! So, the details are pretty simple. Paper is from Core'dination (red solid paper) and My Mind's Eye Bloom and Grow Collection (flowered and striped paper). The CARDS word was cut using the Cricut and Ashyln's Alphabet font. This has become one of my favorite fonts!! Then, I also used some bling to accent the word. For the top (which I failed to take a picture of! LOL), I used the reverse side of the flowered paper which was striped (the same paper matting the word). I then added some ribbon around the handle. To hide all my white spac...

Whew!! Finally got the December swaps and challenges post at Fancy Paper Crafters . It's quite a challenge coming up with the ideas each month!! Hope you can participate!! Happy crafting!!

I'm sitting here trying to think of something to blog about and realized I haven't posted anything recently about my little family. For now, it's just me and my husband Dan. We celebrated our 8th anniversary on November 17, 2009. There is a good possibility that we will try for kids next year but we'll see. This is one of my very favorite photos of Freckles (our youngest Cocker Spaniel at almost 8 years old). She is definitely HIS dog and follows him around everywhere. If I'm home without him, she's wondering around the house looking for him!! We have had her since she was 6 months old and she is definitely a handful. She is a "chewer" and we have to be very careful about leaving stuff around the house that she can get her paws on. She's also addicted to playing with her tennis ball - from playing fetch to chewing all the fuzz off the ball LOL. It's so funny to see how she hides her tennis balls all over the house - just when you think you have...

So, I had an awesome friend over this past weekend (Tracey) for a little bit of craftiness. We are working on an ETSY shop to try to raise a little bit of dough (check it out - http://www.etsy.com/shop/FancyPaperCompany ). I decided to try my hand at one of the challenges issued by Katie Cotton at the Paper Makeup Stamps blog. She's the owner of this ultra-cute stamp line and recently moved her challenges to the weekend. I had the stamped image in my stash (I've ordered the PMS snowmen!!) so I just decided to stick with this image instead of a PMS one since I'm making Christmas cards. Hopefully this won't disqualify me from the challenge?! Now, for some details. The striped paper is by My Mind's Eye, there's light and dark blue Bazzill, and then (I think) Bo Bunny Snowflake paper. As I said, the image was from my stash of swapped images so I have no idea who it is made by. The little snowflakes are the small Dress It Up! embellishments. I colored the image usin...

Check out this RAK opportunity on Paper Secrets . Looks like some nice stuff!!

I have the pleasure of being a member of the Southern Bella Club at Funkie Munkie Scraps . This club has taught me soooo much so far and it has been quite rewarding. This month's project had 2 cute little milk cartons that fit nicely into the little holder. Now, I can't give away all of the details as that would be unfair to Funkie Munkie Scraps as this is club is not free. BUT, I can tell you that the wonderful template that was chosen was from Lauren Meador, owner of Papertrey Ink . On her site, you can purchase (very reasonably priced!!) many many cute templates to make adoarable things like this. The little girl stamp is by Stamping Bella . I love this stamp line. In our previous club meetings, we have only used the Bella images (fancy ladies lol). Well, this time around, we used another style by Stamping Bella which I just LOVED!! It was really nice to see what else this stamp line had to offer. We used the nestabilities oval sets to cut out the ovals for the stamps and...

Okay, so with this project, I officially went outside of my comfort zone (which by chance is one of my scrappy goals for 2009). I have only altered a handful of items and have just never really felt comfortable in doing so. Then, Evelyn (owner of Scrapnesia ), asked if I wanted to teach a class on altering this cute little gift card holder by Creative Imaginations. So, I said sure, why not? Well, once I got it home, I realized I had absolutely zero time to work on it due to family issues and wasn't really all that excited about stepping "out of my box". So, as the date approached closer and closer to my class, I knew I had to get it together and get creative. So, without further ado, here's what I came up with for the front: and here's what I came up with for the inside: I think it turned out pretty good for someone who's rarely altered anything. The supplies are really very simple: Bazzil Cardstock (Bitter Sweet Chocolate) for the spine, Core'dination C...