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Today is my fifth wedding anniversary!! We're heading to my mom's house today for my baby shower tomorrow. Hopefully we get there in time so that Chris and I can go out to dinner to celebrate. :)

Details:

Value Pack - Yellow

My Minds Eye - Playdate

Tim Holtz - Rays embossing folder

Pink by Design - Just Beachy

You are Elephant-astic!

I'm back! Ok, so I scheduled this last night but still! Pink by Design's 10th challenge was to use an animal or animal print in your project. I've been wanting to do an elephant lately (don't know why) so this is what I came up with.

 

Details:

Nate's ABCs 3"

Core'dinations - Jet Stream

DCWV - Green #1

scraps

Pink by Design - Jungle Fever

I have a little surprise for ya'll. Since you've stuck by me during the ups and downs, how about a little giveaway? Here's what you've got to do:

1. Comment telling me one fun thing you've done this summer  (We bought a pool)

2. Comment again if you are a follower - just tell me you are

You'll have until Labor Day (Monday, Sept 4th) at 11:59pm PST to comment. I'll post the winner on Tuesday.

Walkin Boots

This is one of the Pink by Design sets that was released last month. I grew up in a small country town where the biggest event is the fair and rodeo Labor day weekend. We are at the end of a circuit so whoever wins at our rodeo goes onto Nationals in Las Vegas (the Super Bowl of rodeo). So I had to have this set!!! It was so much fun to work with, and for a non-colorer it was fun to color. :)

Details:

Pink by Design - Cowboy Take Me Away & Cowgirl Up

Denim Paper - Stash

Recollections Red

Burlap 

Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

Pink by Design is turning 2 years old and they're celebrating!!! Check out their facebook event page HERE to find out all the fun stuff that's going on! You won't want to miss out. ;)

Happy Birthday Mr. Fix-It

Here's a fun card that I've been wanting to do ever since Pink by Design came out with their Gears background stamp.

Details:
Tim Holtz Gadget Gears Die
Pink by Design - Gears Background
-Scripted Year (Happy Birthday)
-Just 4 Men (Mr Fix-it)
Value Pack kraft & chocolate

Challenge:
Celebrate the Occasion - masculine birthday

Link Parties:
Sarah Hamer Designs/Pink Cricut
Blue Cricket Designs
Joyful Stamper
I Heart Naptime

A couple coffee cards

Here's the other cards I made yesterday. I'm going to take a break of the coffee cards for a little bit. Only because I also got the 9 Months cartridge yesterday. :) So look for some baby cards.

Details:
Love You a Latte 4"
Value Pack chocolate
Bazzill Chablis
scraps
Pink by Design 'Perk Up'
Tim Holtz Retro Circles embossing folder

Furbaby layout

These are my furbabies! We have two rottweiller mixes and I love them to bits. On the left is Rocky and he's half rott, 1/4 lab and 1/4 shepherd. On the right is Kenya and she's half rott and half newfundlund. The tags pull out where I put the journaling. I used The Scrappiest's sketch 122 for this set of layouts and Kenya's page is a mirror image.

Rocky

Kenya

Details:
George & Basic Shapes 10.75"
ANW Crestwood Burgundy
Bazzill Mud Pie
Value Pack kraft
Wausau Paper black
cracked paper (mats behind pictures) - ? from my stash
Tim Holtz tickets & tiny stapler
tags - LSS
Inkadinkado - Artstamp large Alphabet
ribbon - Debbie Mumm

Prayer Journal

My brother's girlfriend requested another journal. Since her birthday is on Monday, I decided to just make it her birthday present. The journal I gave her for Christmas had a travel theme since she had just returned from a couple months in Kenya. You can see that journal HERE. It's the 2nd journal pictured. It was hard to get an idea of what I wanted to do for this journal so I went through my stash of masks and stamps that I rarely used and here's what I came up with. I love how I distressed the tag and added a stamp to it.


Back cover

Inside the front cover - I added a tag and holder. The tag has a note from me. On all the prayer journals I make, I add Bible verses on random pages and I did the same here.

Details:
Zutter covers and O-wire
Wausau Paper white (cut at 4.75 x 7.25)
Script stamp - Inkadinkado
Tim Holtz Borderline masks (LOVE his masks!!!) & ticket
Coffee bean stamp - Fiskars 'Latte Love'
Doilie and flower corner stamps - KaiserCraft "Tea at Elsie's"
Sentiment stamp - Pink by Design 'Perk Up'
Tag - from my local scrapbook store


Link Parties:
Patches ofPink
Joyful Stamper
Just a Girl

Summer's coming... *fingers crossed*

I found these flip flops on the Pink Journey cartridge and it worked perfectly with Mr. Pink's challenge on the Pink by Design message board. I also used Peachy Keen's current sketch (#54) to help the juices flow.

I had this great idea to twist the ribbon but it didn't turn out exactly how I had pictured. Hmm... I'll have to try again.

Details:
Pink Journey 3"
Cocoa Blooms Stack (from Tuesday Morning)
Tim Holtz mini stapler
ribbon
Stampin Up! Melon Mambo
Pink by Design Jungle Fever

Another Journal

Yesterday was my brother's girlfriend's birthday. So I put together a little care package to send her (they live in Colorado). Her favorite color is light yellow (think pastel/Easter) so I found a little candy dish and big coffee mug that were both yellow. I filled the bowl with Dove caramel chocolates (wrapped in yellow wrappers), mini York Pepp. Patties and of course Starbucks Via. I had my mom ship it from her work so she could add something too. Oh and I made this journal. haha

Back cover

Details:
'A' stamp - Inkadinkado
Masks, coffee stain stamp, 'Renew' stencil - Tim Holtz
Flower stamp - Kaisercraft
'I like you a latte' and coffee stamps - TPC Studio 'Coffee Cafe'
Ledger - Unity Stamp

I'm, possibly, considering making one of these to sell on Etsy. Just to see if they'd sell. What do you think???

Some of the presents I made

This is the To Do book that I made for my dad. For as long as I can remember, my dad has always carried a scrap of paper in his pocket that he keeps notes on. So I decided to make him a book.
Front (the pacifier is there for size)

Back

The cover is: 3.75x2.5 and the pages are 3.5x2.25
I used Brushed Corduroy on the masks.
The masks are mini compass and Timeworks.

I made three of these 6x6 calendars. One for each of my grandmas and my grandpa.













Month Stamps - Technique Tuesday
Blank Calendars - Boxer Scrapbooks
Papers - DCWV Christmas Combo/The Stack III/Through the Year (not the right name but you get the idea), and Bazzill
EK Success bat punch
Cuttin' Up for the 2011 on cover

Cody's Christmas Card. He asked for money to go towards his Haiti trip.

The inside of Cody's card.

Jolly Holiday at 4"
White - Recollections; Green - Super Value Pack; Brown - Bazzill Mud Pie; Stardust Stickles

The front of Sarah's journal

The back

Tim Holtz masks, metal embellishments and ink
Ledger stamp - Unity
Phrase stamp, coffee stain stamp - Tim Holtz
Luggage Tag and 'S' - ? (i'll look when I get home)

The front of Jake's journal

The back

Tim Holtz masks, 13 stamp, hands stamp, Listen stencil, metal embellishments and ink
'J' stamp - ?

Clearing the Clutter Challenge #3

Today is the Clearing the Clutter challenge!!! Lorie's out of town so it's just me posting this week. I only have a small project this time since we were gone for about a week. I found this letter coat hanger in the dollar section at Michaels back in May/June so I got one for Carver and an R for my friend's daughter. And Carver's has been sitting ever since. :( This is why I LOVE this challenge!


I used Rhonna Farrer paper (never heard of that brand but I got it at Michaels, I think) and mod podged it to the coat hanger. After it was dry I took my Tim Holtz sanding block and distressed the edges a little.

What have you done to clear the clutter? As always, feel free to post a link in a comment to any projects you've created. :)

Have a great weekend everyone!

Never Ending Card

Charlie if you're reading this... STOP!!!




I saw this over HERE at Creations By Christie and instantly had to try it out. I needed to make a birthday card for Charlie anyways so it worked out perfectly. :)

The front of the card. I used all DCWV papers on every fold.


Fold #2; Tim Holtz stamp ('Journey' set)


Fold #3


Fold #4; Tim Holtz stamp ('Journey' set)

Then it begins again at the first fold. If you turn it over, it has a whole new design. It turned out pretty awesome if you ask me. :) I'm going to hide a gift card in one of the folds.

An Oh My Crafts! Haul

I scored big time at Oh My Crafts! and I had to share with you. :) I originally ordered 9 sets of embossing folders and a refill for my Tim Holtz sanding block. They ended up refunding me for two of the embossing folders because they were out of stock. And the drumroll for the total................ $13.28 SHIPPED!!! (that's after the $3 refund). How awesome is that?!?!

These are cut and emboss folders. RIP and Beware.


I Love You and Cat 4-sets


Skeleton Scroll and Diamond in the Rough


Tim Holtz sanding block refill and Mickey Celebrates

Carver particularly liked the Mickey one. haha

Clearing the Clutter Challenge #1

If you remember back to THIS post, I accepted a challenge to make time to craft. Well I followed through! And a friend of mine is doing it with me. We'll be able to keep each other accountable and we'll link up to the other's blog. We'll be posting every other Friday.

Ok, enough lead up. Here's the project that I finished. I started it a couple months ago when I was inspired by THIS post by Creations By Christie. I thought it would be a great idea to keep track of everything and it feeds to my OCD. haha

The front. I used all Tim Holtz products for embellishing. The cover, book strap and o-wire are Zutter. I used Cuttlebug embossing folders and alcohol inks for the tabs.

The back. The only stamp that wasn't Tim Holtz is the script stamp.

I put the logo on each tab divider.

This is how I laid out the pages. I listed all of the current Cricut cartridges. There were some that came out after I printed the pages so I added those in. The ones in pink, and those highlighted pink, are ones I have. There's also 3 pages after this.

I couldn't get the Cuttlebug logo to look right. :(

This is the Sizzix and Tim Holtz embossing folders.

EK Success border punches.

I copied and saved the thumbnails from EK Success's website and pasted them on here. Again, I highlighed the ones I have.


I got all of these from the Ranger website.




This section just has the Changito monkey stamps. Since Carver's theme is monkeys, I have a bunch of these stamps.

The last tab is blank pages. This will have wishlists and additions that come out.

The reason why it took so long was that I did the covers and then punched with my Bind-it-All... except I put the metal spockets too close and it was too thick to fit in the Bind-it-All. And then to top it off, I punched the back cover on the wrong side. haha So I ordered more covers (5 to be exact!) and punched first! OH! I guess I should tell you how big it is. It's 7x5. The covers came at 7.5x5 so I had my husband cut it down with the chopsaw. It worked great! Good to know for future projects. I feel like I'm leaving something out. Feel free to ask questions.

Now, hop on over to Lorie's blog, www.live-love-laugh-create.blogspot.com

Want to join us? Just finish a project that has been sitting on your desk for awhile. Then send us a link in a comment! If there's enough people we'll add a Mr. Linky!!