Valentines and Mixed Media ART

Getting ready for preschool and 1st grade valentines party has consumed my life the last 2 weeks. But we are ready to hand out 24 of these adorable treats and it was worth the crafty late night hours. I found these cute butterfly printables on this site from pinterest. Makenzie loved helping me glitter all the punched hearts and stick on the wiggly eyes.

Check out the long lashes, isn't she cute? And I was so giddy when the placement worked out perfectly so that the twisted wrapper looks like hair and a smile on the face!

And here is my son's box to collect all of his classmate's valentines. Yes, I know...made it a bit too girly but he's okay with it! I actually found a really cute alligator box I was going to make him but he didn't like that idea..wanted a robot and then he suggested I used the leftover wiggly eyes from sister's project. The robot was actually cut out from the front of a gift bag I found in the Target dollar bin. I just added the eyes and buttons and embellished the rest. Quick and easy.

Now, for the last project..my mixed media canvas flower. I had a total blast making this! It was a 3 hour class and I haven't taken a local class at my scrapbooking store in like 5 years but now I"m totally hooked on mixed media. So much distressing, painting, inking, sponging, spraying, heating....just like I was sitting back in art class at school. Just LOVE it!

Hope everyone has a fantastic Valentines week shared with your loved ones!

PTI Challenge #5

Hello there! Haven't been to my scraproom in a while, been busy with other crafty things around the house and for the kids. But I couldn't sleep after my 2 year old woke me up at 11pm to use the potty, then 2 hours later my 5 yr old woke me up to take him to the potty, and then it was hopeless for me to go back to sleep so here I am. Finishing this card at 3am and here to share it with you. Papertrey Ink is having a challenge on their blog in celebration of their 5 year anniversary and the challenge today is to use one of their DT's pinterest images as inspiration for your project. I chose this image by Elissa Hudson

I just LOVED Heather Nichols's take on the image bringing out the word YOU so here's my take excuse the crooked scan as I can barely keep my eyes open much longer.

Supplies: paper MME hearts and October Afternoon Farmhouse red letters, alpha dies, stamps by Hero Arts and PTI Fruit Fusion Apple

Happy Tet New Year!

Wishing everyone a year full of heath, happiness, and prosperity! This weekend we celebrated the year of the golden dragon. I love my little China girl and asian boys.

A quick layout based on Got Sketch using Basic Grey Picadilly

I am feeling so lucky lately. I won some goodies from Imaginese not too long ago, a chevron stamp from Kinsey Wilson's blog giveaway, and just today I was notified I won the Stretch your Kit class by Amy Tangerine from Dawn McVey's blog! Sooo many scrappy goodness! :) So it's my turn to give back. Leave a comment for your chance to win some scrappy supplies. I'll draw a name on the last day of the month. Where is your favorite place to shop?

Take Twelve - Jan 12th

Sometimes I sign myself up for too many projects and then never follow through but I like challenges and this is one that should be fun. The Take Twelve photography/scrapbooking challenge is to take 12 photos on the 12th of every month. I actually took more than 12 and had a hard time narrowing it down so this post is going to be a photo overload.

1. My son never takes a bath without bubbles.

2. Husband chillaxin in Kenzie's room after a full day

3. My daughter LOVES to gurgle mouthwash...scope, listerine..she can handle it.  So we got her an iCarly bottle for her stocking, it has an easy squeeze cap so she doesn't have to ask us for help to open it up.

4. Chef daddy making breakfast each morning while mommy gets the kids showered and ready for school.

5. My parents just returned from Vietnam and brought back these rosary bracelets for the kids.  Micah and Kenzie wanted one of each color.  They also got a travel tic tac toe game.

6. Paxton loves to play with his trains ever since his cousin Koen introduced him to them.  He's obsessed with them!

6a.  Toby, Henry, Paxton, Thomas....even mommy knows all 50+ names

 7. Kenzie is reading 2nd grade level books now, this was her AR reading book this week and she loved that the last page had an interactive circle that she can move around to choose the different moods and faces.

 8. I just finished reading the 3 set book of Hungar Games which is a big accomplishment for me because I never have time to read any more but this book is next on my list.  Lam received it as a prize after we ran the Cessna Fly By 5k last October.  And my goal this year is to beat my previous time.

 9. What we're currently wearing

 10. On our fridge is Micah's leader of the day calendar for PK, Kenzie's lunch menu (she used to want to bring her lunch on the days the food wasn't so great but they got a new cafeteria chef and she tells me her lunches were so goood), and the YMCA schedule of group classes for me since we are now members.

 11. Lam's favorite game is jewels. 

 12.  The pantry, after and before picture.  It must have taken me 2 hours to match up all the tupperware I had.  Soooo many boxes without lids and lids without matching boxes.  It feels good to organize it all.

Lots of Chap

It's been a while since I've shared some layouts but i"m back into the swing of it. This month I got a chance to play with 3 Scrappy Boy's January Add-On kit and it is full of the American Crafts Chap line. Perfect for boys but so much color infused, you could adapt it to any occassion.

Right now 3SB is having a huge sale, go stock up while you can. 

This week (in addition to the inventory sale)

only all Smash products and paints and mists

are 50% off!

It's the dreaded inventory time! To make my life

easier, we're having a sale-anywhere from

10-70% off, most items are over 35% off!

***I just updated the store with new last

chance clearance, clearance, and past kit

clearance items. Plus they are now an extra

10% off.***

Co-worker Gifts

A Merry Christmas to everyone! Hope you are gathering with loved ones today and celebrating a wonderful season. I"ve been very blessed this year, our family is in good health, our kids are excelling in school, we've got stable jobs, it's a lot to be thankful for. I posted about these two pages over at 3 Scrappy Boys. The pictures are a co-worker's daughter, layouts I gifted to her. :)

I received this amazing prize package from the wonderful people at Imaginisce for one of their blog giveaways. I tell you what, all this bling is so pretty, makes me want to put it on all my pages now! The bling lipstick packaging is too cute. The i-rock tool is so easy to use, you just plug it in and the heat transfer will just melt the hot rock accents right onto your page where you have it positioned....it's very cool!

I love all things pink and sparkly...I made a set of 15 monogram ornaments for the co-workers. The idea was from my lss, using glue dots dipped in glitter, very easy and cute.
I"m on a week of vacation so hopefully I'll have more pages to share after such a busy month.

Post Retreat

Just getting a chance to finally upload a few layouts completed during my retreat last month. Moving on to my Daily December Album which I'm already 3 days behind! Should have an update soon.