Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

In case you didn't catch it, we're pregnant!!! According to our 12 week ultrasound, we have a healthy baby due June 30th and couldn't be more excited. This pregnancy has already had it's ups and downs but I'll go into those later. :) This is why I haven't been posting much lately. I've been super nauseous and way too tired to do any crafting. :( But I think I'm slowly coming out of that so here's to crafting again... hopefully!

Have a great Chrsitmas!!!

Thanksgiving 2012

Hi all!!! Sorry I've been a little quiet. We've been busy with family stuff.

We went over to my mom's house on Tuesday afternoon after Carver got out of school. It was a day earlier than I thought so I was scrambling to get everything ready and not forget something. It was also the day that we needed to pick up all the wreaths people bought from Carver for his school's fundraiser. They were hoping to get $3,000 to fund a new playground set (it's a non-profit Christian preschool) and they got over $11,000!!! How awesome! So anyways, we got everything loaded - in the POURING rain - and headed out of town. I think that extra day made everything more relaxing. Chris was able to duck/goose hunt almost every day.

We had Thanksgiving at my Mom's on Thursday. Then after Carver fell asleep my mom and I got in the car and headed to Yakima (45min away) to go to Walmart and Target. I wouldn't have gone that night if I didn't have a choice. Carver has been talking about how he wants a camo jeep just like Noah's and we just tell him to keep saving his money and he'll be able to get it. Well... I saw that Walmart had a battery operated camo SUV that in all actuality looks like a jeep! So we had to go. Then we got in line for Target. We were only in line for about 20-30min before we got inside the store. We opted not to get a cart, which was a perfect idea. After getting the few things we wanted, we waited in line to pay for AN HOUR AND A HALF!!!! It was crazy. We were both tired and our feet were killing us by the time we paid. We got home around 11:30pm and then Carver woke everyone up at 5:30am. Yay! So we went to Fred Meyer to get socks, mainly. Then we picked up my brother, Jake, and went back down to Yakima to go to Cabelas and the mall.

While we were at the mall, we ran into Carver's preschool teacher! It turns out she grows up in Naches (another small town close to Yakima). Carver got a little confused when he saw her and started crying but got over it quickly. He thought it was pretty cool that Nana and Pops got to meet Miss Erin. :)

After the mall, we came back to Ellensburg and Chris, Carver, Jake and I went to my grandma's for another Thanksgiving with my dad and his wife. We were a little late but it was a good time. After we left there, Chris dropped me off at Starbucks to have coffee with a friend and talk logistics about her baby shower I'm hosting, and Chris and Carver went out to Chris's uncle's house to deliver his wreath. Oh! I totally forgot to give my grandma and dad their wreaths! I got all the way home and realized they were still in my mom's garage. Thanks mom for dropping them off! :) Anyways, it was great catching up with Colleen and we've got a starting point for her baby shower. She's having a little boy in May. :)

Saturday morning, we helped my mom set up their Christmas tree and headed home. We had about 45min at home before we had to be at Chris's parents house for yet another Thanksgiving. Surprisingly, I didn't eat turkey at any of the meals we had. Guess I haven't fully recovered my meat eating from being pregnant. Sunday turned out to be a lazy, relaxing day. We were supposed to set up our Christmas decorations but never got around to it (or today, either, for that matter). Hopefully tomorrow we'll get some of it done.

That's what we did. It was a whirlwind and we're still recovering a little but it was a lot of fun. Hopefully I'll be able to catch up more on other things sometime soon. These dark evenings make me tired way too early.

Happy Black Friday!

Have you noticed that Black Friday has turned into Black Thursday? It's starting to get ridiculous! I could justify starting at Midnight, but 9:00pm? That's pushing it. If I kept my same schedule and went at 6am Friday morning, everything would be gone! So my mom and I will be driving to Yakima (45min away - because there's only a Fred Meyer in Ellensburg) at 8pm after Carver goes to sleep. We'll hit all the big stores (Michaels, Target and Walmart) and then do Fred Meyer on Friday morning. This might make the bulk of shopping less tiring since we'll be breaking it up but it still makes me frustrated. 

Ok, enough ranting. Here's fun card I made using Pink by Design's Black Friday set. The current challenge over on the Pink by Design blog is to use your favorite background. I thought for sure I had the big dots background stamp but I guess I need to go shopping. :) So, my favorite background is big polka dots but my second is dictionary paper. These two sheets are actually the same since it's double sided.

Details:

Studio Calico - Classic Calico

Pink by Design - Black Friday & Just the Ticket

Twine

Don't forget that I will be at 

Meeker Middle School 

Saturday 10-4

4402 Nassau Ave NE

Tacoma, WA 98422 (Browns Point Area)

COUPON:

If you buy a 4x4 Notebook, you will get a card for free. Just tell me about this post. :)

Noel

I wanted a simple easy card and this is just that. It's hard to not try adding things to it but that is exactly why I wanted it to be simple.

Details:

DCWV - Christmas & Winter Stack

Recollections - black

Pink by Design - Small Banners

I'm doing a show this Saturday at 

Meeker Middle School

4402 Nassau Ave NE

Tacoma, WA 98422 (Browns Point Area)

10:00am - 4:00pm

Not only will there be fun crafts, it will be benefiting the school's exchange program to New Zealand!

Warmest Wishes

I'm back! The hole is still there but I moved my desk back to *almost* the same spot so I could get some crafting done. I've been busy making notebooks for a craft show I'm doing this weekend (see all the information below).

I made this super cute card and love how it came together. The colors were exactly what I was thinking. Don't you love when that happens?

Details:

Simply Charmed 3.25"

DCWV - Christmas Combo Stack

Recollections - kraft

Divine twine (the picture didn't really pick it up - it's down at the bottom)

Gems

Pink by Design - Winter Fun

I'm doing a show this Saturday at 

Meeker Middle School

4402 Nassau Ave NE

Tacoma, WA 98422 (Browns Point Area)

10:00am - 4:00pm

Not only will there be fun crafts, it will be benefiting the school's exchange program to New Zealand!

An unexpected pause...

I was sitting in the office on Monday when I heard a GUSH on the other side of the house. I thought that I had left the water running in the sink and it overflowed... I came out to GALLONS of water dumping on top of my Cricut!! I yanked that out of the wall so fast. Then yelled at Carver to grab some towels. He stopped where he was and yelled "ACTIONS STATIONS TEAM!!!!" (It's from Bob the Builder). I called Chris and he came home to help. I went through ten bath towels before he got back. The kicker was that it was a nice, sunny day. It had poured the night before though. So when Chris got home, he pulled the rest of the ceiling tiles down and there was STILL more water collected in the plastic holding the moldy insulation up. Yes, I said moldy. So gross!!! We opened the window and he threw it all out into the yard so he could get a better look at what was going on. He found a rusted spot in the roof which he thinks he has fixed. But... I'm too worried to move anything back to where it goes. So everything is a mess and out of place. BUT, my Cricut works!!!! I'm so thankful that it wasn't ruined. 

Here's how it looks right now.

I have a party at my house this weekend (31 Gifts, if anyone wants/needs anything... hint hint!) so I have to do something before then. So, needless to say, I doubt I'll be doing much crafting before next week. I'm going to a scrapbook expo on Saturday so I'll try to post all my goods. :)

Joy

Super cute card! Love it!

Details:

DCWV - Christmas & Winter Stack

Recollections - black

Pink by Design - Small Banners

Snowflakes

I wanted a fun and simple Christmas/winter card and found this snowflake punch in my stash.

Details:

Value Pack - red

Recollections - kraft

Fiskars Snowflake punch

Pink by Design - Christmas Wishes

Happy Halloween!!

Just wanted to wish everyone a safe, and happy halloween!!! We're taking our little hunter trick or treating around town and then to a harvest fest at our church. Pictures soon! (I hope!)

Subway Art

Pink by Design has this stamp set that is amazing. It's called Subway Art. It looks like a background stamp but they are all different stamps. So you can use them individually or all together (like I did here). That is how I got the Be Grateful and Love Always in a different color.

 

Details:

Pink by Design - Subway Art

Ribbon

Leaf button - expo

Bounty of the Season

Ready for a super quick card? All I did was take a piece of paper from a matstack, put a mat behind it, the sentiment and ribbon. That's it! It kind of feels like cheating but I love this pumpkin so I'm ok with it. :)

Details:

DCWV - Harvest Gathering

Pink by Design - Bountiful Blessings

Ribbon

Pearls

Ho Ho Ho and I Believe...

I'm feeling the Christmas spirit. I haven't let myself turn on the Christmas music yet but it's only a matter of days until I break down. Here's a couple cards I made. They're the same design with different sentiments.

Details:

Jolly Holidays 2"

scraps

American Traditional Designs - Holiday Cheer

Reminisce - Santa's Workshop: St. Nick

Pink by Design - Winter Fun

Gems

Season's TWEETings

Loving these cards! Here some more that my Gramma bought from me. She won't let me give them to her. :)

Details:

Jolly Holidays 3.25"

DCWV - Christmas & Winter stack

Recollections - black, white & red

Bazzill - Orange Slice

Pink by Design - Winter Fun

ribbon

Embossing Powder

Reindeers Galore!

I made a bunch of Christmas cards to have at my last craft show. And my Gramma bought them all! So now I need to make more for my show this weekend. If you're around Belfair WA, come say hi!

I made a box of five for each design.

Details:

Create a Critter 3.75"

Bazzill Mud Pie

Recollections kraft

scraps

DCWV - Christmas Combo, Christmas & Winter

Pink by Design - Christmas Wishes

Spellbinders Labels 8 (cut in half)

Baby Overalls

Hi all! I have another baby card for you today. Sometimes I find it frustrating that girls get all the cute stuff. So when I find cute boy things it makes me happy, like these overalls. :)

Details:

Baby Steps 3.5"

Stampin' Up! papers & ticket stub punch

Recollections kraft & white

scraps

Pink by Design - Big Thoughts & Everyday Banners

I will be doing a craft show this weekend. I'd love it if anyone local would stop by and say hi. :)

Trails End Vendor/Crafter Fair

October 20, 2012   10am-4pm

2151 E Trails End Dr

Belfair WA

Little Socks

When I was making yesterday's card, it cut out these socks with the dress. I was originally going to just throw them away since they didn't go with my idea for the card. Then it came to me that I could make a card with just the socks! As Carver would say, "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!" (Thanks Bob the Builder for teaching my son about the three R's.)

Details:

Baby Steps 3.5"

Stampin' Up! papers

Pink by Design - The Life you Imagined

Divine Twine & My Minds Eye: Lime Twist twine

Pearls

scraps

Baby Love

There seems to be another wave of pregnancy announcements on Facebook lately so I decided to make some cards to have on hand. I love the orange and pink together! It makes me think of rainbow sherbert. yum!

Details:

Baby Steps 3.5"

Stampin' Up! papers

Pink by Design - Sweet Baby & Everyday Banners

Fruit Punch Stickles

Wishing You Sparkle

**Today is the last day for voting on the Master Craft challenge. I'd love it if you would head over and vote for me. :) (I'm #27)

I had a craft show last weekend (it went pretty well, by the way) and figured I should make some boxes of Christmas cards to have. It's a good thing I did because my Grandma stopped buy and bought them all!! haha 

Here's the first set I made. Since you can get 6 mats from a 12x12 sheet of paper, I made a box of 5 and an individual card.

Details:

K & Company - Green Starlight

Create a Critter 2"

Pink by Design - Christmas Wishes

scraps

Blast Off!

There is one more day to vote on the Master Craft challenge over at Pink Cricut. I would love it if you would head over and vote for me. (psst! I'm #27). :)

I was busy with lots of crafting while I was also doing the Master Craft projects. So I'm going to be slowly getting those posted. I actually did a whole bunch of crafting in the last few weeks. Yay me!!

This was a fun, different card for me. I haven't been participating in challenges lately but I like to keep a list of what the current challenges are so I can use them as inspiration. If I remember right, this was for a transportation theme.

Details:

Just Because Cards 8.5"

DCWV - All About Boys

scraps

Screw brad - Eyelet Outlet

Pink by Design - Oh Boy!

Master Crafter

Voting is now open for the Master Craft Challenge!!! Head over to THIS LINK and please, please vote for me. :) I'm #27. Thanks so much!

Craft Show Tomorrow!

I'll be at the Mason-Benson Club Craft Bazaar tomorrow from 9am-2pm.

5971 E Mason Lake Dr W 

Grapeview WA 98546

Anyone that comes and mentions this post will get a free card with the purchase of a 4x4 notebook. 

So come say hi!!

Blessed

This is a post for the Master Craft Challenge at Pink Cricut. Voting will open on Oct 4th at 12:01am CST. I'd love it if you would vote for me. :)

There is a paper in the DCWV Rockstar stack that is a chevron pattern. All I did to make this card was cut it in half where the lines met. :)

Details:

Straight from the Nest 3.75"

Recollections kraft

Value Pack Chocolate

DCWV - Rockstar (c)

Queen & Co Rhinestones (c)

Pink by Design - Bountiful Blessings & My Type (c)

Thoughts

This is a post for the Master Craft Challenge at Pink Cricut. Voting will begin on Oct 4th at 12:01am CST. I would love it if you would vote for me. :)

I've been trying to use all the challenge materials on my projects. On of them was a scissor mouse from Westcott. Since it's a  tool, it doesn't show up in the projects, but I have been using it. Its a fun little tool and Carver has even tried it out. :) I've found that using a ruler/straight edge helps with getting a really straight line but you don't have to use it. This would probably be a really fun tool to use for wrapping presents too!

Details:

DCWV - Rockstar (c)

Recollections kraft

Pink by Design - My Type (c)

Queen & Co Rhinestones (c)

twine

Bag of Coffee

This is a post for the Master Craft Challenge over at Pink Cricut. Voting will begin on Oct 4th at 12:01am CST, so please vote for me. :)

One of the challenge materials was this cute bag from State Line Bag Co. I knew I wanted to do a coffee theme but it sat on my desk for awhile while I mulled it over in my head. Here's what I finally came up with. :) It's hard to tell, but there's some green & brown twine on the top left.

Details:

State Line Bag Co.

Pink by Design - Perk Up & Make it a Venti

twine

Starbucks Pikes Place roast (my fav!!)

A Pocketful of Love

This is a post for the MasterCraft challenge over at Pink Cricut. Don't forget to come vote for me starting Oct 4th! To see all my other Master Craft projects click here.

I made a box of cards! :) I'm so proud of myself. I haven't made a box in forever. I made cute little 3x3 cards to put in it. This project fell together so easily. Don't you love when that happens?

Here's the box. I used the new half pint stamp sets from Pink by Design. Aren't they so much fun?

 Here are the cards. I made two of each card.

Details:

Recollections - black 

DCWV - Rockstar (c)

Pink by Design - Pocket Full & My Type (c-"thoughts")

twine

Button (c)

Gems

Something Other than a Card

This is a post for the Master Craft challenge over at Pink Cricut. Don't forget that voting begins on Oct 4th.

I wanted to do something other than a card and I had a bunch of blank notebooks that I'm working on for a craft show. This was perfect!

Details:

Chipboard

Notebook paper

3/4" owire

DCWV - Rockstar (c)

Button (c)

Twine

Illuminate the World

This is a post for the MasterCraft at Pink Cricut. Don't forget that voting opens on Oct 4th.

I'm finding that I was really inspired by the paper. Don't worry though, I used the other challenge materials. :) I love how this one turned out.

Details:

DCWV - Rockstar (c)

George & Basic Shapes 3"

Pink by Design - Illuminate

EK Success - Star punch

iRock

Star Dust stickles

Creativity

This is another post for the MasterCraft challenge at Pink Cricut. Don't forget that voting will open on Oct 4th.

When I saw this guitar paper I knew I wanted to use it somehow. So I flipped through my stamps and saw the Definitely Definitions and it clicked. The green rhinestones were from the challenge materials too.

Details:

DCWV - Rockstar (c)

Recollections kraft

scraps

Pink by Design - Definitely Definitions

Queen & Co rhinestones (c)

Bring You Peace

Here's another card I did for the Master Craft challenge at Pink Cricut. Don't forget that voting will open on Oct 4th. I wanted do a card that you wouldn't expect from this stack. How unexpected would a sympathy card be from a Rockstar stack? :)

Details:

DCWV - Rockstar (c)

Core'dinations - Deep Navy

Recollections white

Spellbinders Labels 4 Small

Pink by Design - Sympathy

Ribbon

Ghostly Greetings

Yay! I'm back! Sarah from Pink Cricut is having a Master Craft challenge right now. Only 100 people were able to participate since we were given challenge materials to work with (think Craft Wars on TLC). Those 100 spots filled up in less than 10 hours (and a majority of those were sleeping hours)! We were challenged to create with the materials we were given and then there will be a link up on Oct 4th over at Pink Cricut. But never fear for those that couldn't get in. You'll be voting on the projects. You can check out this post for all the details.

Here's the first project I did when I saw all the skulls in the DCWV Rockstar stack.

Details:

DCWV - Rockstar (c)

Recollections - black & white

Pink by Design - Guess Who & Ghostly Greetings

ribbon

Gems

Roarin to go!

My internet was down... again! So that's why I haven't posted in awhile. A technician was supposed to come out yesterday (the ticket said 10:37am to be exact) but we ended up calling at 3pm and again at 7pm because he never showed! It was so frustrating to sit at home all day yesterday waiting for someone that never showed up. I made Chris call both times because I was so frustrated. I kept Carver home from a field trip (to a children's museum type place) because he was supposed to come right in the middle of the field trip. Anyways, he came out this morning and fixed the problem in 15 minutes!! Yay! I'm back in the land of the living. I've got a whole bunch of projects to post so I'll get on those later tonight while Chris and Carver play outside. :)

Happiness is...

I got these two Memory Box dies at the last scrapbook expo I went to and have been itching to use them. They are so easy to work with and are a nice change of pace from using the Cricut (I still love you Cricut!). I only had about 5 minutes to make a card so I'm pretty happy with what I came up with. I literally just threw everything together.

Details:

Nikki Sivils - Something for Everyone

Recollections black

Memory Box dies - Wired Bird Cage & Meadow Bird

Marcella - Clove

Pink by Design - Rise Above it All

You Make Me :)

I am totally LOVING this card!! I made it for a friend of mine that is a photographer and it turned out better than I thought it would. Don't you love that?

Details:

ColorBok - Treasured Brights Punch-Out Stack

Recollections black

Paper Clip

Pink by Design - Capture Life & Instantly

An Apple for the Teacher

What's the deal with teachers and apples? Is it just because apples are ready to pick? Anyways, I made this super cute, super easy, card for Carver's teacher to go with her water tumbler and Via.

Details:

Create a Critter 2.75"

Bazzill Mud Pie

Recollections kraft

scraps 

Pink by Design - Our Teachers

Teacher Gift

Here's the gift I made for Carver's teacher, Miss Erin. I couldn't find these tumblers at the dollar store anymore so I got a four pack of them on Amazon for way more than $1 a piece. I filled it with regular Via and a few iced Via. I used Cricut Craft Room to get the right size for the vinyl.

 Details:

Doodletype

Cricut Craft Room

Vinyl

scraps

Pink by Design - Perk Up

 This is the cute little 3x3 card I made for Carver for his first day of school.

Details:

Pink by Design - School is Cool & School Days

scraps

Notebook paper

Another Layout

Good morning!! Here's another layout. :) I'm kind of getting into a groove and I'm loving it! I think a majority of it is that I got a ring bound scrapbook album to put all my pictures and the paper/stickers/etc that go with them into it as a holding place. That way, I just look at the first couple pictures and scrapbook those. It's my cheap version of a Scrap Rack.

These are the first pictures (not counting the ones in the layout from yesterday) after Carver was born.

 Sorry they're so washed out. We have a bunch of smoke hanging around and it's messing with my lighting. If you haven't heard, pretty much the entire state of Washington is on fire. It's pretty crazy.

Details:

Me & My Big Ideas - Mambi Sheets Baby Boy

Simple Stories - Baby Steps (the Baby Bingo card)

Maya Road - Canvas Banner Pieces

Recollecctions kraft

buttons

Pink by Design - Journaling

Birth Layout

Yes, I know I said I'd post about teacher gifts next but... I thought you'd really like to see a layout since I haven't done one in FOREVER!!

These were the very first pictures taken after Carver was born. I picked up this clock page at an expo specifically for this page. I used a Quickutz die for the arrows to point to 12:59am which was the time Carver was born.

Details:

Sandylion - Baby Boy Words

Canvas Corp - clock face

scraps

Quickutz arrow die

Brads

Pink by Design - Baby Love & So Big (numbers)

First Day of Preschool!

This is going to be a non-crafty post. I'll post my teacher gift and card for Carver tomorrow.

 

Carver started Preschool today! All last week he was saying he didn't want to go but he woke up this morning soooo excited to get to the school!!! 

Quick picture with Chris before he had to go to work. Chris was able to stop by the school for drop off so he got to see Carver again before school started. Notice the baby pictures on the way. He's growing up WAY too fast.

 Carver and I had the same idea :)

 Breakfast #1. I told Carver we could go to Starbucks for breakfast before school. However... I took a load of stuff to the car before we left and got locked out of the house!! Carver was with me so don't worry. But my phone and keys were all in the house. So we ran around to the back door to find out it was locked too. I tried to leverage it open (it's like a school bus window) but that didn't work. So I took a trusty hammer and smashed in the window. I have to say, it felt kind of good, but then I had to clean up the mess and call Chris to let him know. Anyways, with all that, we only had time to run into Starbucks, get my coffee and Carver's bagel and run back out. He ate some of it in the car on the way. That actually worked out pretty good. I stuck the cream cheese in the fridge at the church (I had MOMS group) and Carver was able to eat the rest on the way home after school.

 Is it time yet?

 Check out my backpack! He wouldn't take it off.

 Checking out the sign.

 Handsome boy

 The deer had to get in there too