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.

It's a Wrap

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving break with their family and loved ones.

Now that Black Friday is over the official countdown to Christmas is on!  With those newly purchased gifts, it's time to wrap them up.  I just Love when the packaging includes little touches of cuteness and here are two ideas to add to your wrapping this season.  

1) Add handmade fabric flowers topped with a little bling or buttons.  One of my flowers was adhered to a little hair clip from the November Main kit.  It was just clipped into the packaging so that it can easily be removed and reused.  Love the recycling aspect of that!

2) Roll a tshirt up like a Hogie Sandwich tied with a trio of Ribbons.

I had some scrapbooking tshirts with our theme "Bee Creative" imprinted for my scrappy friends so I decided to go with black/yellow/white/kraft combo.  Taking a sheet of tissue paper in two colors, I just rolled it up and folded the ends to a point.  Then created some quick and easy tags cut from my George cricut cartridge and stamped some polka dots and layered with diecut flowers.  And Wa-lah!!  You have a cute Hogie Sandwich wrapped tshirt.

All about the rides

Last month my workplace sponsered a night at All Star Sports with discount tickets so we took the kids and usually they are all about the arcade but surprisingly this time, they spent the majority of the time on the rides. Much better on our wallets. Paxton was still too short to ride on most of the kiddie rides but this bug one was right up his alley and he loved it!

Dancin'

I remember when my nephews just got this dance pad, Micah had a blast moving his little feet to all the arrows. Of course he'd miss the beat each time but when you're two...it didn't matter!


Creative Scrapper's sketch

From Bare to Beautiful

Happy Monday!!!

Today i'm going to show you my step by step process for sprucing up bare chipboard.

Step 1: Lay out the chipboard pieces you want to use and choose the inks, paints, or spray colors that will coordinate with your page. I am using the Maya Road assorted Autumn pieces that came with the November Main it.


Step 2: I inked my pumpkin with some papertry summer sunrise ink

Step 3: Next I used my copics to outline the borders and to draw in the centers for some added dimension

Step 4: And then I misted the chipboard with my new most favorite mist: Mister Huey Calico shine.

STep 5: After it dries a bit I go in with some cats eye chalk and ink the edges some more. Aren't they so pretty?!

For the acorn I used tattered angels Frozen lake" glimmer mist and hunter green cat's eye chalk. Hope you've enjoyed my tutorial, have a great day!

3SB Weekend Crop & Sale!

Lots of fun things going on at 3 Scrappy Boys.

This weekend, there is a mini crop going on at the message board. There will be games and challenges as well as some prizes!!! Who doesn't love prizes?! Be sure to head on over and join the fun.

There is also an anniversary sale running through Black Friday with items marked 30% off!! Great way to get a jump start on your christmas shopping!