Paperplay challenge from week of July 16th

Week 26

Favourite chocolate/candy. Let your favourite nibble inspire your creation.

Well, I choose Lemon Bars because I had pretty much polished off a 9x13 pan of them by myself over that week. (blush)

I was using my glaze pen for the leaves and stems and it pretty much exploded on the inside of the pen but no ink to use. :(

So I had to come up with some other idea.

Hope you enjoy.

Paperplay challenge from week of July 9th

Week 25 Theme of Fashion

I'm squeezing in just under the wire on this one.

Shopping!!!

While I don't find enough time to really craft, I can find time to shop! Be it online or in my favorite craft store, well only craft store in town, I love finding new things and GREAT deals. Last month we went to see my MIL and I didn't get to do my normal scrapbook store hopping while there I did manage to go to one store twice. It's a Achiever's. LOVE them!!! So below are my finds, deals and steels from my trip and some I found once I got home as well. I didn't take pictures of all the yummy papers though. I used MIL's big die cutting machine and already cut the letter's I needed out and they are too fragile to play with too many times before I use them.


Some of those great items were 25% off and others are for a book(s) I'm going to do with my son/daughter's name.


I have a crappy flower stash. No more!! : ) And yes, the ones in the cute pouches were on sale 25% off. Looking back I'm stupid for not grabbing all they had left. lol


I have a Scraparatus and got the case for under $7! I needed pearls so got the ones I thought I'd use most. Can't remember if they were on sale but I think they were.

I ordered most of this off the net but a few are from the Ohio trip. On the net I got them all on sale. It was a June sale so I ordered while I was out of town and the package was delivered the day I got home. That's that I can a sweet deal!

Last of my Ohio trip finds.

My home State is where Hobby Lobby is from. These are my latest finds there. Can you believe the sale price? DS is an Ernie fan, so those are for him.

Yes, you are seeing the price correctly on these. It's in a $ spot at a store in town. Sad thing is they are getting rid of that section of the store. : (

I have to go back often to get things as they mark them down.

I have 8 packs of the brad letter. : )

Don't you love the HUGE brads?

A Day at the Ft Worth Zoo

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Sometimes i play with smilebox. Here's one I just did for my cousins whom we met up with at the zoo on Friday.

Sent with no good pictures for me

I spent a few weeks doing a 52 week baby album for a friend, the one I did the baby card below for. Silly me got so caught up in dealing with my own 2 babies I didn't get any pictures of the finished book. I have just these 3 photos from kind of early on.

As you can see the book is rather thick. Take my word for it, if you do one be sure the album has the expandable spine or you will be out shopping again. (I so loved the first one I had picked out.) I did all the pages in the same style and loaded them in the protectors so they are all which way. I'm letting mom do the deciding on how she likes them. I sent journaling strips so she can write easier on them not being in the book. There is a whole little baggie with lot of different colored little tags to write the week on. She gets to do a little crafting in finishing it.

So, as I said above, it's a 52 week album. You take a picture of the baby on the day he or she was born and one every week on that day for the whole year and one on his/hers first birthday. You journal just something from that week such as, "You had your first smile this week. It was for your sister and daddy missed it. " Just little things. The Birth one just gets the baby's stats on it. I really wish i had thought of this with my second or my first for that matter. I hope my friend enjoys her "A year of Saturdays with Conor" album.

Father's Day cards for Paw Paw

Here are 2 cards for my FIL.

I did the top one to be from my little girl. My son did the bottom one, with my help.

He pickedout the pieces of paper and told me how big to make them and where to glue them and what way they needed to go. He even wrote all on his own. I just helped to support the pen.

Baby Card

I have so many friends about to have a baby or who just did, that I need to be spitting these out 2 or 3 a day. How I dream of days past with no kids so I COULD be doing what I want. LOL I know, dreaming and wishing my babies lives away. I keep reminding myself they are only little once and that time flies. This card is for my dear friend Val, who is about to have her second child and first boy.

For the hands and feet I used black pigment ink first and then used a blue chalk ink. I didn't want them to line up but almost. I love how it turned out.

Printed papers are from Deja Views Sharon Ann's Little Ones My Precious Boy 12x12 paper pad. I just love this set.

I'd have to go check the stamps to see what brand they are but I know little hands and feet are pretty easy to find.

Scuff marks on coffee table provided by one of my 2 babies. Don't you just love their artwork?