Making Your Home a Haven Challenge

I am looking forward to joining Courtney in her Fall challenge to bring peace to our homes. I know September has certainly amped things up here in my home and this is just what I needed to calm things down a bit. Check it out.

Follow this link to go to her blog: http://womenlivingwell.org/2013/09/making-your-home-a-haven-fall-challenge-is-back-with-an-ipad-mini-giveaway/

All'asta

I am very excited to have joined the All'asta family as an Independent Consultant. All'asta is a new home party company with a twist. Along with a catalog full of fabulous home decor, jewelry and other items, we hold a silent auction at all of our parties. The guests and hosts bring their own items to auction off so everybody wins! At an All'asta party we Shop, Sell, Have Fun! Check out and please "like" my Facebook page for more info https://www.facebook.com/Allastawithgina

Baseball All-Stars Star

For my son's 11-12 All Star team the Mom's made these stars for them. We hung them on the dugout at every game. I really loved the way these turned out. The large gold star is an 18" cardboard cut from Party City. The black sparkly paper I bought at Target...love this! The other papers are Recollections Precious Metals. I did find that the usual scrapbook adhesives did not work very well when trying to adhere the cuts to the glitter paper. I ended up going back over them with good old Elmer's glue. Enjoy!

Little girl scrapbook pages

It has been quite a while since I created these, I really need to get back to work. To give you an idea of how far behind I am...this little girl is now 15 years old! There are some Cricut cuts in these as well as some Creative Memories and DCWV papers. Enjoy!

I'm Back!

Oh my...where has the time gone. I have no other excuse for not posting except to say that life happened. The kids are getting older and more involved in sports, which has been so fun! My scrapbooking has been put on the back burner as well, as if I wasn't behind enough to start with. I now find myself with extra time and renewed energy to focus on my passions. I will soon post pics of some projects I have made during this time, so stay tuned!

Cricut has it's 100th cartridge!!

Check it out here...

http://www.cricut.com/shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?id=361&s=1&sc=2

I am proud to say that I own 45 of them...hopefully soon, that number will be much higher.

A classroom wreath

For my daughter's classroom door. I scraplifted this idea from Nilda on the Cricut MB. Thanks Nilda.

I used Locker Talk for all of the school cuts, and Plantain Schoolbook for the stars and the lettering of her name. For the chalkboard in the center, I used DCWV Grade School stacks. The background is from the 8x8 stack and cut a couple of inches off of the top to make it a rectangle shape. For the frame I used a page from the 12x12 stack and cut it into strips. Enjoy!

Check back soon for education creations!

My daughter is going to be a first year fourth grade teacher and I am very excited to help her decorate her classroom. I'm thrilled that she asked. I will post them here once completed. She is still trying to decide on a theme. Any ideas would be appreciated. Please leave them as a comment below.

Baseball gift basket

First I must apologize for not posting more on my blog. Life has kept me so busy, I haven't had much time to create. I did recently make some gift baskets for a team participating in a local state little league tournament.




I used the cricut Locker Talk for the pennant, Opposites Attract for the font and Baseball Solutions for the baseball and the stars.

The Master Bath is finally done!!!!

Well, almost. The only thing left to do is install a frameless shower door. For now we are using a curtain. I just love my new bath!!

The most focal point of the room. My vanity from Costco..with granite top. Notice the rocks around the tops of the walls...my contractor didn't like me for chosing those, but I had to have them.



The floor...it looks like a rug, but it is tile.



A dual flush toilet...it doesn't take too much to make me happy.



The tub is the only original part of the room.



The shower.



A corner shelf.



A wall alcove.



And here it is...all those close to me know what I went through to get this tile. It was backordered, and I waited 5 months for it. I tried to find a subsitute, but I just couldn't settle. I am so glad I waited...




A picture from the shower side



Thanks for looking.

Our Christmas tree helper!

What a cute picture!! Our Jack-Jack on the ladder helping trim the family room tree for Christmas. What a sweetie!!

Exploding box!

My daughter wanted to make an exploding box for a school project. I had never made one before, so we began this adventure together. She needed to use pictures from a recent family field trip and wanted the box to be bigger than others we had seen so that the pictures would fit. We used Martha Stewarts 18" x 18" paper from Michaels and made the box 6" x 6" x 6" in size with 5 layers. It was actually a lot easier to make than I thought it would be. She cropped and matted all of the pictures herself. She added the journaling and rounded all of the corners. She cut 2 different sized circles to go under an ornament in the center to make it look like it was on a rug. She also used the Cricut to cut out her title and the Xyron to put adhesive on the title and the ribbon. I did cut out the corners of the papers for the layers of the box, but only because the paper was too big for my trimmer and the corners had to be cut out by hand, but she did all of the folding. I also had to make the lid, that was a bit complicated. I am so proud of her and she had so much fun and used so many of my tools. Some she had used before and some that were new to her. I think her favorite was the bone folder.

Happy Halloween!

My 11 year old DD was Jack Skellington from the Nightmare before Christmas, with a feminine twist and my 9 year old DS was a Crash test dummy. Little Jack was a pumpkin.

I finished 5 layouts yesterday!!

I wanted to share these because, I really like the papers. I got these from Current quite awhile ago. I love the bold colors and they are of a heavy weight. I would guess 80. There is no cricut in any of these. I have decided, that I need to get things caught up. These papers have enough going on that I don't think I need to add any cricut cuts. That is a good thing and it will help me get caught up. These pictures are from 8 years ago. Enjoy!

I've been shopping!!!

I just wanted to share these great deals that I have found this week. I am still waiting on a delivery from Custom Crops and CM too. Oh my!!

I found this small Ott light at Tuesday Morning...just look at the price tag!!!! $14.99 They also had a larger one for, I think, $39.99, but I have already spent so much this week.



I got this new Tonic Studios Guillotine trimmer from Ritzcamera.com on sale. They have awesome customer service!! I've already tested it out, it makes incredibly clean cuts and cuts straight! I love the grid that guides you as you make your cuts.



I found these three different sets of Inkadinkado clear stamps at Costco. They were $19.49 each and each set has 128 stamps, a clear block and a small black ink pad.



This is the Holiday Seasons set:


The Spring Blossoms set:


The All Occasions set:

Our new baby!! Jack-Jack

Yes, I have lost my mind. I just fell in love with this face, and he is very much a cuddly smooshy lap dog. None of my other dogs are this cuddly. We just drove to Pennsylvania last Saturday to pick him up from a breeder. His birthday is August 2, 2008.



A couple of new pictures from October 5th.

Where's the fire?

I really struggled with this one before I found a look that I was happy with. I think the chalking really makes the page.
I used Plantain Schoolbook for the title, Christmas Cheer for the fire, and Mickey & Friends for the fire hydrant. I also used the cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder on the little blue strip at the bottom with three red metal brads to give it some dimension.

The background paper is from CM Perfect Fit Reds pack, and the cardstock is CM cranberry, royal blue and black. The yellow is a basic yellow from ACM.

A card for my oldest DD

I'm not really a card maker, but I am trying.
I made this for my oldest DD as I have seen her grow up into an amazing, strong, intelligent young woman. I couldn't be more proud. Hopefully, she won't see it here until after she receives it in the mail.

The patterned paper is from the CM Blush Blooms paper pack. The cardstock is a CM gray, I am sorry, I do not remember the name and it is no longer available. The tulip stamp is from Inkadoo and the thinking of you stamp is from Studio G. The shiny pink metallic dots stick on and are from Joanns. I also used pop dots under the tulip.