paper smooches!

I am obsessed with this brand of stamps. They have the cutest little animals and I love how their sentiments look. I came across their blog and behold, their sparks challenge! I had an idea in my head but it didn't look so well when I started cutting and piecing. Maybe I need new scissors. But uhm, I already own at least 7. But in a scrapbooking perspective, they would gasp I don't own a sharp detail scissors. Now, that's my problem.

Whelp, here's my first card to my first submission to their challenge!!

This is the image that I was suppose to create an item (I made a card) to inspire me by:

Isn't it cute?!? I can totally make that. lol. They found it on Pinterest and

that, is a whole another post. I'll get to that in the future.

Hope I win because I'm gonna keep playing till I do! lol.

http://www.papersmoochesstamps.com/

Simple Stories layouts

One of my favorite lines that's out right now: Simple Stories. I can't wait to see what they have brand new at CHA. Unfortunately I have never been there before and I don't think my paycheck will like me if I ever went. So here's a couple quick cute scrapbook layouts I did using simple stories!! The 1st and 3rd layouts I used their Life Documented collection and the 2nd one I used a bit of their 100 days of Summer collection (the journaling spot is from Echo Park).

This is their website where you can get these collections: SIMPLE STORIES!!

Quick Card!!

Here is a cute little card I wanted to show you guys that I made for Valentine's. It's just around the corner, you know?

I used:
The Greeting Farm stamp Amelia
Stamp Phrase
Crepe paper stitched with binding ribbon-got this out of a calender kit by Recollections
K&Company Valentine paper

All about some journals

I think I have been going on a smashbook/junk journal binge. I was in a Junk Journal swap on the Cricut mb and here is an awesome junk journal a fellow mb member, OneCraftyCat sent me. So adorable. I just want it to sit on my table and look pretty, it's too cute to ruin and write in it and scribble notes and even let my kids touch it. lol.

And I completely forget to take photos of the one I sent my partner.

But here are photos of the one I made as a quick journal for myself to take to work. I added cute little photos of my kids:

I used Echo Park's For the Record collection and some Doodlebug nifty notions stickers and Tim Holtz tattered florals die and Hero Arts sew stamps.

Fall is here!

Another swap for a fellow Cricut member.
This was a all homemade swap and I created 5 things for her. I picked "Fall" as her theme and made some super cute stuff.

here is all of her goodies!

I made her a mini tp album, mini notebook, a crocheted squirrel (that jingles too!), 3 felted flowers, and a chunky charm.

Well I hope she likes it. She'll be getting it soon!

Bottlecap swap!

So I am in a bottle cap swap and I am addicted now. Michael's clearanced out their bottlecaps and so I had to buy it all out. They have silver, black, pink and teal. And from what I have found in stores and online, they are the only ones that have them completely covered in color. There's etsy stores that have colored ones but they say they are silver on the inside. Plus these have holes already, major plus for me because I'm scared to put a big bite to them.

I decided to do 2 groups: designer's choice and graphic 45.

Here is my designer's choice. I decided to do cameo of ladies and a butterfly from Teresa Collins Posh. I didn't think these girls were "vintage" enough but they have a great girly paris nostaglia to them.

And my 2nd group was Graphic 45 and I decided to use their newest collection, ABC Primer. I bugged my local scrapbook store for this collection. Turns out they aren't going to carry the paper pads so I was left to buying individual papers.

My first decision was to use le' romantique but decided to just do one bottle cap. Hence the A is for apples, B is for butterfly and C is for cat. I also made them more personal so each card has their own initial at the bottom. I made felt flowers with these using Tim Holtz tattered florals sizzix die.

If you have any questions on how I made these, don't hesitate to ask!

Hello again!
I know this blog is taking awhile and I don't go on that much but please bare with me, I'm trying to get use to using the internet and really having the free time to work on my crafts and go online. But I have been crafting like a mad woman, finished this album in a day. My daughter Alex started school this past Tuesday and she was super excited and of course, I was excited too but also happy sad that she's growing up so fast. We let her ride the bus in the morning and crazy paparrazzi parents we are, followed the bus and watched her get out. She was so stoked to see us waiting for her, she's like "what are you guys doing here?". And she was even more excited to find it there's another day of school and another and another. I'm waiting for it to get old, lol.

So here is the mini gatefold album I created for her. I used Simple Stories line, Elementary, graphic 45's ABC Primer and a little bit of Reminisce simple math paper. And of course, cardstock from Recollections. The binding is a 1 inch white wire using using Bind It All machine. The tags were created using Cricut's Tags, Bags, Boxes and More. I may have altered the sizing because I used my gypsy for them. The other cuts were actually given to me by a another Cricut member, noradickey (thank you so much!!) and they were from the Recess lite and Hello Kitty greetings. The black words I welded using the gypsy and the font was from Zoo Day. This cartridge is growing on me, I love how childlike the font is and when you weld them together, it's pretty adorable. The chipboard was actually given to me from another cricut mb and I think it's from a company called Punky Sprouts but I could be wrong.
Some of the products I used was Tim Holtz crackle paint in Fired Brick, TH game spinner, TH notebook embossing folder, TH distress ink pads in walnut stain and vintage photo, echo park letter stickers and Recollections and Sandlion Owl stickers, random buttons, EK success binding edge punch, baker's twine. I am sure I am forgetting some things but if you have any questions, feel free to ask me!

The only pictures I got to put in it was her doctor's appt to get her physical and shots for kindergarten. Oh man, she kinda knew they were coming but I called it "vaccines".