ICS #42 plus lots more!!!

I hated that I didn't get to play along last week with ICS but life just got in the way! This week Dawn has another fabulous sketch this week for us to play with. The design team got to play with some of The Greeting Farms digi images too. There is a yummy prize up for grabs from The Greeting Farm so be sure to play along.
Is this image not the cutest or what?

supplies: Daisy Bucket pp, Prima flowers, The Greeting Farm digi image, My Sentiments Exactly stamps, Making Memories pins, unknown cs, tulle, colored pencils, markers, stazon ink, white gel pen

We hope you will come and play along this week and be sure to check out what the rest of the design team did with the sketch!

You still have time to put your hat in the ring for the design team call at Scrap and Stamp Saturday, please go here for all the details! And you can see this weeks challenge HERE! And the Stamp, Scrap and Doodle challenge HERE for this week.

Tuesday was Patrick's 6th birthday but we didn't have his party until Sat! It is hard to believe my baby is 6 years old! Where does the time go? He is big into TMNT right now so he wanted a ninja turtle cake. I was lucky enough to find one of the old Wilton pans from the 80's. I was not happy with the way it turned out but Patrick loved it and that is all that mattered. Right? I know what the problem was though. I used the whipped icing and it was too hot in the kitchen while I was icing so it got to soft.
Patrick with his cake!

And with all his little friends. The little girl right next to Patrick is his little "girlfriend" Lily. Yeah still the same one from last year! She is such a little doll!

Here is a quick pic of his Halloween costume this year too! He has all the ninja moves down...lol

Thanks for sticking around to see all my pics! I hope you have a fabulous day!

Inspirational Card Sketches #36

It is that time of the week again! Time for another wonderful sketch from Dawn over at ICS! Of couse it is another fabulous one..I mean just check it out!

I flipped it on its side and off centered the cute little witch! The dt all got to work with some of Lindsey's Stamp Stuff adorable images! I just love her digi's I mean just look at her whats not to love! lol.

I paper pieced her dress and hat. I added stickles to the band on her hat, the edges and collar of her dress,her shoes and her wand. I also added liquid pearls to the buckle on her hat, handle of her wand, her necklace and to her bucket. On the bucket I wiped most of the liquid pearls off but it left a fine layer and just enough shimmer! Then I added a gem to her necklace.

supplies: Reminisce and Doodlebug pp, unknown cs, Reminisce stickers, stickles, liquid pearls, gems, markers colored pencils, sharpie

I hope you will join us this week. Be sure to head over to ICS and see what all the rest of the DT did with the sketch and to find out what the prize is this week!!

I also did this for the challenges at LaLa Land Crafts (paper piecing) even though it is too late to get in the drawing and for Creative Belli (fall or halloween).

Inspirational Card Sketches #32 and DT CALL!!!

Boy this weekend just flew by. I'm not sure where the days are going but they are disappearing fast...lol. It is hard to believe it is Tuesday already. But it is and we all know what that means. Yep another fabulous sketch from Dawn at Inspriational Card Sketches. I mean just look at this fabulous sketch.

I wanted a fun Halloween card so this is a little different for me. I had it made but got it in late because I was having problems with my email. ugh
supplies: Making Memories pp and ink, Bazzill cs, K&Co chipboard sticker, Doodlebug stickers, sharpie

I kept the inside really simple.

So what are you waiting for head over to ICS and get in on the fun. There is a great prize from Bunny Zoe's up for grabs.

Would you like to be a part of the fabulous design team at ICS? Then you need to go HERE and see what you need to do to put your name in the hat. We can't wait to see all of your wonderful creations!!

You still have until Friday to join in the fun at Scrap & Stamp Saturdays (show us your craft space and use stamped chipboard) and at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays (use the sketch). I hope you will join us!

2 cute 2 spook....

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This was a fun little album to make! I got to use up lots of Halloween bits and pieces and my fun Halloween stamps from Thats Jazzy Stamp Dream! I love Halloween...lol

Today it is time for another challenge over at Scrap and Stamp. This week we challenge you to do any holiday except Christmas with at least one stamp.

I wanted to do an album with photos from every year since Patrick's first Halloween. I used an 8x8 acrylic stadium album from kits2remember. I love the stadium albums because you can see a little peek from each page from the front.

I wanted to keep the front pretty basic. I used some fun Lil' Davis letter tiles and thickers for the rest of the title. I added one letter from "spook" to each page in the bottom corner. I inked all my papers with black stazon as well as the edge of the album pages.
Isn't this pumpkin so cute! Well both of them...lol. The little pumpkins, spiders and ghost stamps are all from Thats Jazzy Stamp Dream. The fun flourish corner stamp is from kits2remember. I love this flourish. I stamped the pumpkins on to a transparency and then colored them in with my markers.


The ghosts are stamped on a transparency as well and then painted with Making Memories pearlized paint. I then used a sharpie and traced the stamp on the backside of the image that way it looks the same from both sides.

I love how a little bit peeks over from the previous page. While working with the album I try and add a little bit to each side of the page so it adds some depth to it.

I added a cat sticker to each side layered together. So it appears to be the same cat.

supplies: Doodlebug, Creative Imaginations, Scrapworks, Making Memories, Reminisce pattern papers, Thats Jazzy Stamp Dreams (pumpkin, spider, ghost) and kits2remember (flourish) stamps, American Craft thickers, Lil' Davis chipboard tile alphas, Stazon ink, kits2remember 8x8 acrylic album, Scrapworks stickers, Making Memories paint, transparency, ribbon

I hope you will join us this week at Scrap and Stamp! I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Happy 5th Birthday!!!

My baby turns 5 today!! Five! I can't believe it! He is growing so fast and is so grown acting..lol. This is him first thing this morning as we were leaving for school. He is so NOT a morning person. Just like his mama..lol. Even though I was up at 5 am and he followed shortly after. But at least we got to spend some quite time together.
He had a little party at school this afternoon. I took cupcakes, goody bags, chips and juice for the class. He got to wear the "prince" crown for the day. And of course we had to get a photo of him and Miss Michelle! She is the best teacher ever...we just love her!
Happy Birthday Patrick! I hope you had a great one! Now...slow down and don't grow up so fast! I love you!!
We will be having a big party on Saturday! So check back for lots of photos..lol

On a scrappy note I did get a couple of projects done for the monthly theme challenges at Paper Popsicles.

We were to alter an item and then use the same design for a card. I used these yummy Pink Paislee papers and a little notebook/pen combo that I got at Biglots for $1. Scenic Route chipboard and SEI alphas and of course stickles.

We were also challenged to alter a paint can. Which I love to do so this wasn't a problem. I made this one for Patrick's teacher. We made cookies and gave it to her with a card! I love these fun Doodlebug papers.

I hope everyone had a great weekend! I was sick the entire weekend and I did nothing at all! So now I am off to catch up over at Scrapdango! I love it there and I have been MIA for about 3 weeks..so lots to catch up on.

I can't believe...

it has been 3 weeks since I have blogged! Well actually I haven't really been online during that time very much. It has been a crazy time for us. I have been out of town alot dealing with a family issue, I think everything is settled now and I can stay at home for awhile! And while I am at home we have been super busy. We have been on 2 fieldtrips with Patrick's school. His first one ever was to Faith Farms. It was alot of fun. They have alot of animals, lemurs, camels, kangaroos, goats, sheep...etc. Patrick even petted the baby lemur. They got to go on a hayride to the pumpkin patch and pick one out. Play on a jump castle and the playground. The second was to see a play "If You Give a Pig a Pancake"! It was a great and the kids had a blast! They did 7 kids books to music. It lasted about an hour and the kids loved it!
We went to the pumpkin patch again with our playgroup..I really like how this picture of Patrick and I turned out!

And about the only scrappy stuff I have gotten done has been for my DT at Kits2Remember. I did this little mini Disney acrylic book and the Mickey head for our niece who went on a trip to Disney this year. The mini book is 3x4 and the Mickey is made with 2 5inch and 1 8inch acrylic cirlces. All of the acrylic can be found in the k2r store. They were fast and easy to make. All I used was cardstock, stickles, various ribbon, Making Memories alphas and my Cricut (Mickey font). Check out the k2r krew blog for more photos!

This was an 8x8 album I made about our Summer from Krew Kit #8. I loved these papers! The colors are so rich and full of flourishes and butterflies. Whats better than that? I had so much left that I made this layout, 2 cards and I have enough scraps left for more! Check out the krew blog for more photos and to see what everyone else did with this kit! Be sure to check out the k2r store for this kit and some other great goodies as well!

It is so hard to believe that Halloween is already here! Where does the time go? Here are a couple of pictures from our outing last night. We then went again tonight with my SIL and niece.

Sadly to say I am glad this week is over. Between a field trip, setting up for the schools fall festival, going to and working at the fall festival and trick or treating twice I am too sick to do anything else. Maybe now I can get rid of what ever it is I have gotten...ugh.

Patrick doing a spidey move!! lol
I loved this photo op when Patrick started hiding behind a tree from a kid dressed as a vampire.

Now that I think life is getting back to normal I plan to catch up on my message boards and get back to blogging and scrapping again. Because I have been MIA from everything!

Have a safe and happy Halloween!

We finally got around to carving Patrick's pumpkin on Friday night. He has been wanting to all week and we just haven't done it. He just wanted a basic pumpkin because he wanted one like Lucy's on Charlie Brown. If you can't tell we have been watching The Great Pumpkin wayyy too much...lol.
And of course once daddy started carving he got upset and cried some. But he was very intent on watching the entire process but he did not want in on the work, because he would get dirty.
The advantage of picking a small pumpkin is the fact that it only takes a few minutes to do. This was the shortest pumpkin carving I have ever seen...lol









Here is Patrick with his completed pumpkin. Once I got him to actually smile and look at the camera...But my favorite is the one of him peeking over the top of the pumpkin.






And of course it all aglow!!!!

Check out this costume isn't it just the cutest thing ever. We bought it a couple of weeks ago when we were in Old Navy. Patrick fell in love with it and I was so excited that he found something other than the yellow power ranger that he has been wanting to be for months. He calls it his scary dragon. But how could anyone be scared when they see that sweet face.





He was trying to show off his tail in this one...:)



















And being scary...he has a really loud roar!