{Just Me}

So very...

...lazy feeling today.  Yuck.  Yesterday I was pretty active.  Went on a bike ride, Greg clocked it at over 2 miles.  I also mowed the lawn and got the yard cleaned up.  I just need to stay in long enough today work on the inside parts.  I also went to a CTMH party last night.  As I am typing I realized that I forgot the page I made there.  It was a fun time tho to get out and get crafty. 

I made another square card the other day.  I am trying to use more of what I own already.  I do have some stamps on order to me and I need to make some TLD cards soon! 

For this card, I used some old patterend paper in my stash.  The base is Bashful Blue.The back mat is Bazzill orange peel white, and the front is Bazzill Smoothies.  When I think about my So Very set I think about my friends DH who thought it was all one word sovery.  I also used CUTE in Barely Banana, and some fun polka dot ribbon.  Looks like a cute baby card.  I have to pick up a gift for a new lil boy and get it delivered this next week. 

I enjoyed hearing your plans for the 4th.  We are going to stay home, BBQ with friends tomorrow night and then Sunday we are headed out of town to the DR.   I'll be back for sure on Tuesday but you may see something over the weeekend.

Be SAFE!! 

Belated Birthday Wishes

Yesterday was our niece's birthday and I failed to get the card out until last night!   Oops.

I was able to create yesterday afternoon.  RC is finally old enough to go to our local Boys & Girls club, so they went there for the afternoon.  I figure it's better than the heat of the pool when it's so hot.  Plus it gives RC the opportunity to be away from us and prepare him for Kindergarten.  And it's less fighting.

So while McKinley napped I cleaned up the basement and then worked on a few cards.  I dug through my images and used this one rom Live Large from SU.  I used Bazzill pink lemonade smoothies cs for the matting, and Heidi Swapp dp for the checkerbaord backgrtound.  The various ribbon is actually self adhesive.  Then I punched out the sentiment and added it with a brad. 

I am enjoying a peaceeful week.  No running anywhere this week.  I think we are even going to stick around here for the 4th.  How abotu you?  How will you spend this weekend?

Back on Track

I managed a post yesterday but I have nothing crafty today.

My new website is live now for Three Little DReams.  Click the name to check it out.  It's been a long weekend anyway, and to have that be driving me crazy all day yesterday.  I feel a lot more relaxed today.  And it's so hot, I am anxious to get to the basement where it's cool!

Thanks for hanging in there. 

Bella Monday

Hi all. I'm sorry I haven't been around.  Between RC's birthday party and my crazy class reunion weekend, I haven't had time to stop on the computer.  Ugh.

First, Today I have an article on Craft Critique - Making Memories Scrapbook Paints.  Check it out.

Second, tomorrow my brand stinkin' new website will be up for Three Little DReaMs.  I am supah excited.  It's just been crazy, so I will be happy to get it up and going.  I searched around some, and in the end decided to try it myself, and I am impressed with myself.  We will see what you all think tomorrow!

And finally, some cards.  Last week, the girls on SCS held a Bella Bridal Shower for Sprakle.  If you don't know Sparkle click her name to see her beautiful blog.  She rocks.  And she deserves the special treatment those gals gave her. I wanted to play and got these done last week, just never had time to load them. 

This card is for the 3rd chalenge to use, well, sparkly stuff.  Da bling! LOL...  My favorite bling is Bazzill Bling.  That paper is awesome!!  I used Grumpabella, because I thought about how grumpy some brides (not you Sparkle) can get before that big day.  Or any other time too...lol.... So I paper pieced some bling for her bathrobe.  I also used Basic Grey dp, and chocolate Bazzill cs.  I used Bella Baubles for a lil more bling. The ribbon is also kind of shiney.  And used a TAC sentiment and my ticket punch for the sentiment tab.  I also sponged around the image.

I dont know why the picture still looks pixelated. I signed up for the Typepad Beta team, and some things are still goofy.

 OhsoprettyBella is for the first challenge...the traditional challenge to use something old, something new, something blue and something borrowed.  So I started with a borrowed image, b/c I don't have this stamp.  The dp is from Making Memories and is pretty old for me.  (a year?) I hpe you can see the blue on there, which is also new b/c I just got some new SU! cardstocks. 

I also used SU organdy ribbon and the sentiment is from Stamping Bella. 

And the final challenge was to use Sparkle's wedding colors in your card.  The White, Red and Khaki look really great together and make a very, elegant card.  I used Kraft Prism paper, Bazzil orange peel for some textured white, and real red SU cs.  I only outlined her dress in a light grey for some shading, but I also used Angel Wingz Glimmer Mist and I think that is why the picture looks grey.  Then I simply added some misc. flowers.  I think it's purdy!  LOL...

You can see the challenges on the Bella Forum HERE. 

OK, I am off to do some other things.  This week my to-do list is short...it says RELAX SISTAH!!

Have a great day!

Happy Birthday RC

Today Mr RC is turning 6!!

He has been waiting for today all month!  LOL..  Right now the  radio is playing his favorite song - She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy by Kenny Chesney. 

He is so excited!  I just made this simple lil page to share with you today.  RC's party is Sunday and I made some simple invites too.  I hate to waste too much on something that won't be cherished too much.  I used Beate's Weekend Sketch from last week.  I used the penguin from Imaginisce and 3 Bugs Island Theme papers.

Also used a strip of Prism cs on the bottom.  Then I handwrote the your invited.  We are having a pool party with the slip n slide, sprinkler and I'll try and get some other fun things ready too. 

The next few days are crazy.  My class reunion starts tonight.  I think it will be fun.  I'm looking forward to it.  Tonight is meet and greet, family time tomorrow and a dinner tomorrow night.    Tonight Grandpa is taking them to the new Indiana Jones movie.  Tomorrow they are sleeping at Gpa and Gma's. 

I will try and post some Bella cards, but its taking me 2 days and three trys to post this dang thing.

Trying a New Color

This card is super simple, but I wanted to try something different.  I used all SU!  Gasp!  WOW... I am so into everything else these days, so I wanted an only SU card and I almost did.  I used Barely Banana cs for the base, and scraps of SU dp for the green.  I stamped the sentiment on Whisper White and roughed the edges. I matted that on pink for a hint of color.  This is the beautiful ribbon from American Crafts that I loved.

I used the polka dots from Polka Dots and Paisley's for the background and used my CropaDile to make the embossed dots.

A simple pick me up card. Can't believe it's the middle of the week.  Hope you are all enjoying a crafty week.

Cupcakes....yummm...

That title makes me think of Homer Simpson....Donuts....Yummm...  LOL...

I did make a cupcake card for Taylor's Cupcake challenge on Friday.  I only have a couple cupcake stamps and Cupcakabella is one. 

As I like to do, especially with this bella, is paper peice.  I used some DP from Hobby Lobby for her dress and cupcake wrapper. For the frosting, I used Bazzill and some Angel White Shimmerz to give it a glossy look. The base of the card is Bazzill, and the base DP is from CTMH.  I used some pixie pink cs from SU for the half circle and the polka dots from Polka Dots and Paisley's. The ribbon is also SU, from last spring I think.  I used some brads I got from a Bella Sistah and the stamped the sentiment from TAC on a CTMH sticker. 

I like this card, but I see how trapped I am on one color combo. I use too much pink and brown.  I need to venture out huh?

Maybe for tomorrow's card! 

Tonight is TBall and Baseball practice.  Unless it keeps raining, I'm not even paying attention to the weather anymore! LOL...  I think it's a Wii brain! 

A Sketch for you to Try

Happy Monday readers!  Hope you enjoyed a great weekend.  We spent a lil time with family this weekend and got some shopping done.  Didn't find what we wanted for the birthday boy, but we did get the Wii.  I told the boys our no TV during the day applies to the Wii too.  Maybe unless mom and dad want to have a match.  LOL.. You can check out my {Family Blog} for some cute pics of well, family! LOL...

Here is a card for you today.

This is from Jen's Saturday Sketch.

I used a Riley image from Hanna Stamps. He is so relaxed and enjoying the summer.  He makes me laugh b/c I think about my friend and her tale of trying to get into her hammock.  LOL...

I started with a base cs of Old Olive from SU.  Then I used 2 sided dp from Wild Asparagus.  The front is the paisley and the back is brown.  So I matted it on the back.  I also used my SU tool for shredding the edges.  I did the same for the image portion too.  For the embellishments, I used Making Memories ribbons on the lower part.  These actually have words on them but I hid that pretty well huh? For the upper part, I used Bella's Baubles.

This card seems so relaxed and casual.  Just like I would envision life if I had time to chill in a hammock.  Instead I am counting down til Friday and my class reunion.  On one hand I am excited to see some people that I haven't seen in 10 years!  And on the other hand nervous to see some people I haven't seen 10 years!  LOL...  It'll all be OK.

Scrapbook Sunday

I really need to get back into my scrappin' so I hope that I can set some goals for myself to get at least something done each week.

If you want, you can also set some goals with Sunday Scrappin's blog. 

First my To-Do's

• Make Gift Tags for Reunion prizes this weekend.
• Work on RC's Birthday Treat bags.
• Scrap more on our trip to SD
• Get pics printed off from everything else!!

And my Ta-Da's

• I got RC's invitations done and mailed out! Yay me! (I'll post them this week)
• I got all this week's birthday cards made and mailed out (have 4 birthday's this coming week!)
• My room is done and organized!

Now for the challenge - haven't been doing them, but I plan to this next week.  However, I did get some pages done from our trip.  I have a travel album that these will go into and then eventually get pages for each kid too. 

OK, me and scrappin'. First, I have three kids and one is already 8 and I've forgotten a lot.  So when I scrap it's to tell the story and preserve the memory for everyone (even my great-grandchildren!!) So I rarely just leave one picture on a page. Maybe if it's cute and has no other meaning to the picture.

Anyway, it's 99% for getting the story into the album.  And I love to use Becky Higgins's sketches.  This is from the first book of her's. 

I used the Thickers letters and then handwrote what those pictures were on the journaling mat.

Page 2 and I used some hinges from CTMH for some hidden journaling. 

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazzill; Designer Papers - American Crafts, Kids line; Ribbon - AM Kids; Rub Ons - AC Kids; Thickers - AC; Hinges - Close to my Heart; Various tab (fun)

Hope you enjoyed.  We are on our way out of town for some shopping. Need something for RC's birthday and Greg is convinced we need a Wii.  Have a good day!

Young Love

Miss Korin sent me some sweet images with my last SNSS order and I finally sat down to get crafty yesterday, so I used this one. 

While cleaning I found some fun papers in my scrap stash.  I re-organized that too. Anyway, I don't know where this paper came from, but it was cute.  So I colored these lovely lil ones to match the colors  Matted on Bazzill papers and then carried the circle them with my CM cutting system.  I tried three times to get a rub on on there and finally ended up with a green *love* from SU.  Then hand wrote young. 

I'll be adding some funds and popping it in the mail to you young couple getting married next Saturday.

I'll add a close up of the coloring here.

I don't know what the plans for today are.  It's noon and we are moving at a turtle's pace today.  Tonight tho, we are going to my mom and dad's for dinner.  The relatives are here and we are celebrating Aunt Mary's birthday. So I need to make a cheesecake.

Anyway, tomorrow is Scrapbook Sunday and I actually  have something. Yay me!