School Begins on Monday

Well, summer had to come to an end sometime, and I guess this is it. Although I love teaching, I sure like spending extra time with my own kiddos during the summer. August is always a tough time for me getting everybody back on schedule and spending more time on school work and a LOT less time on scrapbooking. I'd sure love to have a job where someone would pay me to make scrapbook things : )

Anyway, on to this past week's creations. Hope you enjoy them!

See ya next week!

Another Weekend!

This weekend, I'd like to feature a couple of cards I made along with what I like to call a "card purse." One of my student's father died last spring and there is a benefit for her family coming up soon. I decided to make something for the silent auction.

I got this idea from Paper Crafts magazine a couple of years ago. I put 10 cards in each card purse. I hope you like them!

Here are a couple of cards that I am putting in the card purses.

Hope you enjoy the weekend! (Also - welcome to the Willow Traders Blog Hoppers!

Willow Traders Blog Hop

Here are a couple of new cards I made in honor of this weekend's Willow Traders Blog Hop. Thanks for encouraging me to create!

I got the idea for the second card from Kristina Werner's blog. She has fabulous cards and examples there - you should check it out!

Have a great weekend!

Happy 4th and Some New Hero Arts Cards

Happy Fourth of July!

Here's a new card that I made - it was inspired by something I saw in the latest issue of Card Creations by Paper Crafts - vol 7.

Also, I have been checking out Jennifer McGuire's blog a lot lately. She is teaching a class on Two Peas called Thinking Inking. I got these ideas from her and from her class.

New Idea for a Project

I was inspired by something I saw in a magazine recently. Unfortunately, I can't remember where I saw it. Anyway, I thought it was a cute idea to slip little notes with pictures and jokes into my son's lunch box.


I made up a few - they are very simple, but he gets a good laugh out of them each day.

This set is available in my etsy store - see link to right!

New Baby, New Year, New Project

Hi everyone!

It's time for a new year. It's been so long since I've posted, but with the earlier than expected birth of our baby Sarah, I've been so tired! She's a cutie, but she sure keeps us up at night. I'm encouraged by last night though - I only got up once and my husband only got up once. So, that's better than the 27 times I feel like we've been getting up per night!

I'm happy that I got one of Becky Higgin's Project 365 kits. I'm sure I'll post some of my photos here, but mostly I will putting them in my kit. It's an exciting idea for a project. I just hope that I can keep up!

In the mean time, here's one of my projects I've worked on lately. I really like the Cricut cartridge with the Disney images. Very cute, but very time consuming!

Here are Some Christmas Cards

Here are some Christmas cards that I have been making. Several of them are from Stampin Up's card kit for November. I love that they are making a card kit for each month. That's so cool!

Also, you can see a card I made from the new quickutz jolly set. Love that set. Alphabet and shapes are all great. I basically scraplifted that card from the quickutz site, but changed the paper.