Some serious blog candy!

I just happened to wander into Tina's blog today and she's been going through her massive stash of scrappy supplies and has purged and is doing a giant giveaway!! You have to go check it out, it's craziness! She's also an amazing scrapper so go check out her blog, there is some serious inspiration going on there!

*crossing my fingers!*
Goodnight!

February's 12 tags of 2012

Good Morning! Sorry it's been so long since I've posted, but we finally had to give our laptop back to my aunt...because it was hers...so I am downstairs on my 7 year old desktop right now! I know right?! Anyway, hoping to get something new, but it probably won't be until the summer, so in the meantime, I am being a lot more productive, because I don't have the internet right at my fingertips any more! 

I'm cutting it really close, but I really wanted to participate in Tim Holtz's 12 tags of 2012. I'm really excited about it, because I will have all month to make a tag, plus it's not in the crazy busy Christmas season so it will be way easier to play along! I had a lot of fun with the 12 tags of Christmas last year, but unfortunately I only got about 6 of them done, and I haven't even posted them yet!! I made canvases out of them and gave them to my mom and mother in law for Christmas!

Anyway, here's my take on February's tag:

I don't have his cupid die, but I do have one on my Silhouette, so I cut it out 4 times on kraft paper and glued them together to get the "chipboard" effect. I also didn't have red stickles, but I had sparkly red embossing powder...

I'm not really a big mushy Valentine's person, so when I started making this tag I thought this Graphicat sentiment would be fun to use on this tag! I used Tim's "Bitty Grunge" and "Ultimate Grunge" stamp sets for the background.

I literally did rip Cupid's wing off...hehe...and I put it behind the heart ;) That sentiment cracks me up every time I look at it!!

Well there you have it! I was pretty impressed with myself with this tag, because I used all my own things! I'm really trying to be good and not buy any new crafty things until I use up a TON of what I already own, so *yay* for self control!! lol 

I'm going to enter this tag into the following challenges: Tim Holtz- 12 tags of 2012

                     Scrapbookers Anonymous "G" challenge (Graphicat Stamps)

Scrap Creations: Pop it up

Cute Card Thursday: Winged Things

CAS-ual Fridays: "Jest for the Pun of it" (Funny sentiment)

Graphicat Sketch Challenge

Good morning everyone! It's time for another fab sketch from Graphicat Sketches!! There's no theme this time, just make a card, layout, or altered project using this sketch! The winner this time will win the Margarita Stamp set from Graphicat Designs!! 

I know Valentine's Day is over, but I was killing two birds with one stone and getting my husband's card done with this sketch! I love this sentiment from Graphicat Designs. The hubs thought it was pretty chuckly too! The images are both Simply Betty Stamps, which you can get at Graphicat Designs too! 

I put some rock candy distress stickles over the heart, and it didn't photograph well, but in case you can't read the sentiment it says: "I love you so much I don't even mind being seen in public with you anymore!" hehe 

Sorry for the bad photography...I really need to charge the battery for my SLR again! lol I've been lazy these days and just using my point and shoot, but I can't seem to get a decent pic with it..

Well, there you have it! You've got until March 4th to get sketchy with us and you can link it up here to win this :

Isn't it a great set?! So what are you waiting for?!?!  Get Crackin!! lol

A Quick Card and Some Exciting News!!!

Good Morning Blog Land!! I just wanted to share with you a quick card I made for my boys for Valentine's Day. I made 3 exactly the same...not very inventive I know, but I have to admit that I wasn't very into making any cards when I made these, so I just whipped em up quickly, but my boys really liked them, so that's all that really matters! The sentiment I used is from the Awesome Kids Set from Graphicat Stamps. I LOVE this set! It has so many very cute and sassy boy sentiments! You definitely have to go check it out!

Now, my exciting news....I've been chosen to be on the Design Team over at Frosted Designs!!! I'm so excited and honoured to be chosen to be on their team and I can't wait to start creating for them! So stay tuned for some fun challenges from Frosted Designs!!

I'm going to enter this card in the A-Z challenge over at Scrapbooker's Anonymous, this time it's "G" and I've used Gears and the stamp set from Graphicat Stamps.

Don't forget you still have some time to play with us at Creative Accents Seriously Creative Challenges with your LOVE recipe: Layers, Ovals, Vintage and Embellishments

You've also got a few more days to get sketchy with us at Graphicat Sketches!!

Supplies: Cardstock: Coredinations Kraft Core, and Bazzil. Patterned Paper: Basic Grey. Tim Holtz for Sizzix Gears, EK Success Punch.

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment, it really means a lot to me!!! 

New Do ;)

Well everyone, I've been toying with the idea lately of cutting my hair, and those of you who've known me for a long time will know that long hair is not usually my thing, but I have just been keeping it pretty low maintenance since I had Kieran. But lately this long hair has been dragging me down big time and I decided to chop it off, and I'm sooo glad I did!! I just love the new do so much that I had to scrap it right away!!

Frosted Designs is challenging us to use the word "Love" on our projects, so I thought what better time to use the word than on my makeover layout ;)

I made this layout at the crop this weekend. It was the first one and it came together very quickly. Everything in this layout is from my Counterfeit Kit. I had forgotten how much I love making up kits to do my layouts...it just makes life so much easier!!

It feels great to get rid of all that hair! It was totally dragging me down, and it's really not that much more work than having it long...I'll just need to cut it more often ;)

Have a great night and Happy Crafting!

Snow Day

Hello everyone! I hope you had a great weekend! I spent the entire weekend cropping at a fundraiser crop! My wonderful husband watched all three of our kids all weekend! He's so fabulous! I had a pretty productive weekend. I made 2 layouts and 3 cards...in the first two days, then I got sick today and just sat around like an uninspired lump...ya win some ya lose some! lol

So I thought I'd share one of the layouts I made yesterday. It was inspired by this fabulous sketch at Frosted Designs: 

These pictures were taken a few weeks ago when we finally got a good dump of snow combined with some nice weather after, so we went out and went sledding. It was Kieran's first time sledding and he had soooo much fun! He kept wanting to go up the hill and he didn't want to leave! It was a great day...the only thing that would've made it better was if my husband was there, but someone's gotta work! lol

All the supplies I used were from my Counterfeit Kit except this fun pink trim that was in my goodie bag at the crop. It's from Stampin Up!

I made this banner using a Hero Arts stamp and some baker's twine...it was kinda fussy, but it was worth it :)

The white strip of "patterned paper" was made using another Hero Arts heart stamp and black memento ink. I just randomly stamped it all over the page. I really liked the way it turned out :)

I'm also going to enter this into the challenge over at Simon Says Stamp and Show-anything goes

Have a great night!

Supplies: Patterned Paper: MME, Basic Grey. Cardstock: Bazzil, Coredinations Kraft Core. Trim:Stampin Up! and the Twinery twine.Punches& Dies: Tim Holtz for Sizzix, EK Success. Stamps: Hero Arts. Ink: Memento, CTMH, Distress Ink.  Journaling Block: Basic Grey. Embossing folder: Couture Creations.

My Counterfeit Kit

Hello Bloggers! Another quicky tonight...it's already midnight and I'm seriously lagging! But I finally got my Counterfeit Kit(s) all organized for the crop this weekend and I was excited to share them with you! My wonderful Hubs is letting me crop ALL WEEKEND!! I know! He's fabulous!! I wasn't sure what I was going to do this weekend, and then I remembered Counterfeit Kits had their new kits out now and it's been a while since I've played along...problem solved! It's a fabulous way to prep for a crop! Anyway, they've got 2 awesome kits up for "stealing" this month and at first, I wasn't going to do the first one because it was kinda lovey-dovey and valentiney, but it did have the new Kraft Fun Day papers in it which are some of my new favs right now, so I decided I would make a gushy mushy kit too! lol I'm really glad I did, because I'm kinda stoked about this one now and I can't wait to go play with it! You can check out the real kit here.

For the second kit I was really inspired by the funky "retro" vibe and I based my kit off that. I didn't have a lot of the same stuff, but that's the beauty of counterfeiting, you don't have to! And you can use up your stash at the same time! 

I didn't have any corrugated cardboard, but I did have some starbucks sleeves and they just happen to be corrugated on the inside! Yay (and if you use steel rule dies, they cut nicely too!) I also added some JillyBean corrugated alphas too :)

I kinda covered up the paper with all the embellishments in the first coupla pics, so I thought I'd give you a shot of just the paper

Well. that's it! I'm sooo excited to play this weekend and having my kits all set up is going to make my life a whole lot easier!! Yay!! Now I just have to find some pictures to go along with these fabulous papers!!