Another Birthday!

Wow, another birthday! It has really been crazy lately! I am sure you all had a time where it seems that the harder you try to accomplish something the longer it takes to get it done! It almost seems that you are moving in slow motion and will never reach your destination? Well enough! This Friday I am on my way to Lake Geneva for a Weekends Away Scrapbooking Retreat and can't wait!
I just made this card for my niece and I really hope she likes it! Thanks for stopping by and thanks for stopping by to here me whine!

Niece's 13th Birthday Card

Hi, it's me again! I am really liking my IPhone and the ease of posting with Blogger! I made my niece a birthday card for her 13th Birthday! I can't believe she is a teenager! I used some Washi tape and stamps that I just got from Close To My Heart, and the tickets I printed from Persnickety Prints. Actually, it was from a site called uprintables that I found online, sorry about that! I still love the Persnickety website! I have to make another girl birthday card in the next couple of weeks for my other gorgeous niece who just got braces , pink I might add!

I hope you have a great day and thanks for dropping by!

New Fishing Card

Yeah, I know it has been some time since I posted! Time sure does fly! I went to the Scrapbook Expo in St. Charles this past weekend and saw this wonderful demonstration of Sizzix flip cards. Didn't buy the die so I decided to open up an old pal SCAL and have a try at creating the circle flip card. To make a long story short and after a few hours I decided to make a card for my Uncle. He took my boys fishing with his grandson for three days straight and boy did they love being out on the pontoon!

Hope you like! P. S. This is also my first post from my IPhone. hope it works!

Scraplifted Layout

Wow, Spring is finally here and it is totally beautiful outside.  65 degrees is pretty warm for Wisconsin at this time of the year.  I can't say that I like the time change since now it is dark outside in the morning.  But that will end soon hopefully.  I have been creating alot lately but I just do not have enough time in the day to actually take pictures and do the posting.  Sorry it took so long, I hope you enjoy.

I was doing my regular blog hopping and using pinterest to save a bunch a projects.  I was working on a layout and knew it was missing something.  While looking through all my pinned layouts that I am hoping to use as inspiration there it was.  I found this wonderful layout at dapfnie.design and I am just in just in love with her site.  Please hop on over to visit her here.

This is her layout and I really liked the buttons on the bottom of the page and thought it would balance the page I was working on. 

Isn't it just beautiful!!!!!  And here is my layout:



Thanks so much for stopping by...hope you have a wonderful scrappy day!

Hugs,

Angela

Echo Park Giveaway

Hello, I just came upon a wonderful giveaway here on Creating from the Heart's blog.  Click here to check it out!  You won't be sorry that you dropped by, she has a wonderful blog!

Birthday Cake-Tiramisu

Well, I did it after about 30 tries....I got my picture off my Tracphone into my email address for the 1st time ever.  Don't know if I will ever remember how to do it again.  But I did it just all of you to see what a wonderful surprise I had at the Cheesecake Factory for my birthday!  There is a candle on top of it and sorry for the picture...but it was the only camera that I had.

Have a great day!
Hugs,
Angela

Valentine Banner

Ok, this is new to me as I have never created a banner at all.  But all in all I am happy with how it makes me feel!  I just wish I took pictures of the top on the mantle and I replaced all the photos with something to do with Valentine's Day!  This year my DH and I will be celebrating out 15th wedding anniversary Feb. 13th!  I had a great birthday today at the Cheesecake Factory and got my birthday Tiramisu...need to figure out how to get my camera picture sent to my email so I can post it!

Anywho...I used the Tim Holz Valentine paper from his Seasonal stack, for the letters I used the Glitter Cardstock stack from DCWV.  There are heart shaped rhinestones on the bottom of each pennant and I alternated between red and clear.  On the letters I used red rhinestones to accent them so they stand out more.  The hearts are from SCAL shape inventory and the red glitter cardstock I got from Archievers.  It sure does sparkle, but it really doesn't show up in the pictures too well.  I used my Crop O'Dile for the first time to set the eyelets and was disapointed when the white finish cracked.  Anyone have a solution for that?

Thanks for stopping by and all comments are welcome!  Have a great night!

Great Giveaway!

Today is my 47th birthday and I am going out to lunch with my family at the Cheesecake Factory...watch out Tiramisu here I come.  I know it has been awhile since I posted but this doesn't mean I haven't been crafting.  I made my Valentine's Day banner (1st banner ever) yesterday.  I will post pictures soon!

Melissa from Creating from the Heart is having another amazing giveaway-it's her 40th birthday! Hurry on over to her blog to get in on all these fab goodies.

What's up for grabs this time????  Click on the link above and go see, you won't be sorry that you did!

Hugs,
Angela

Lilsweetpea's Place New Years Giveaway!

Hurry on down and check out this great giveaway and her blog is fantastic!  Click here for the link.

Hello Kitty Birthday Card

Hello!  Another weekend of crafting!  I am feeling so bad that I forgot about my niece's birthday, so I knew I had to create something special and I really hope that she likes it!  I put together this Hello Kitty card that I created with an SVG that I found online and had for about 6 months and knew that I would use it someday!  Well that day has arrived!  Instead of the solid colors for the dress and bow I thought that I would use a print that I had in my stash.  Granted I have 2 boys and hardly ever create girl layouts and cards but I do have some pretty things as you never know when it is needed.

This card is about 9.5 inches tall and 8.25 inches wide-due to the whiskers and I don't have an envelope that big!  So I got out my MS score board and made my own-after watching on youtube how to do it.  It really isn't that hard!  I will probably put this envelope in a Manilla envelope as I don't want it to get ruined. 

Let me know what you think and thanks for dropping by!

 And here is the gigantic envelope that I made.  It looked so plain that I decided to bling it up!

Happy Scrapping!

Halloween Fever!!!!

Okay, so hopping along everyone's blog got me in the Halloween Fever!!!! I just had to do something Halloween even though it is more than a month away!!! I asked my son if he wanted to make Halloween cards and instantly he said sure and he wanted to do it himself!

Well, looking at the Happy Hauntings cartridge he really didn't like much except for the skelton and he cut it and put it all together by himself. This is a first guys as he thought all I do it scrapbook/layouts. He did a great job and made two of them. So we had to decide what to put with it and I tell you I had no Halloween paper (well four sheets) so I ran out to Michaels and Joanns and made some purchases. Then we cut out the tombstone for the card. Love the caption M.T. Tomb (empty tomb) at first my son didn't understand and to tell all of you I didn't either at first.

For the background of the card, I have to say that I scraplifted from Creating with Christina's youtube video for the Happy Hauntings card found herehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xd-BZbw2xU&feature=fvsr. Gee whiz I used to be able to highlight the word then add a link, don't know why it doesn't work anymore? Anyhoo, I liked her card so much that I made the witch from Happy Hauntings also.

I also made a cute favor box that Shery K Designs was sharing on her site which I made with Halloween paper instead of the printable that is offered with it. Here is the link: http://www.sherykdesigns-blog.com/2011/09/free-svg-printable-favors-gift-box.html?utm_source=http%3A%2F%2Fskhedrdesigns.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault%3Falt%3Drss&utm_medium=SKhedr+Designsemail You know I really don't like all this linkage run ons! Someone please help me, I really don't like blogger anymore. This is the first time that I made a box and I have to say it wasn't too bad. But I really had no idea how to put it together at first.

Well, Happy Halloween everyone and thanks for stopping by!!!

Deja Views' Page Layout

I know it has been a while on the posting and been having a hard time adjusting to the boy's new school schedule, school bus, new after school care, and being sick for the past 2 weeks after returning home from vacationing in Colorado! I really loved going there for a first time and would recommend it to anyone. The weather is beautiful and the mountains are awesome to see! I just finished a layout of my oldest son when he was born. This will be the first page in his album and I wanted to make sure it was extra special. This is the first time that I used a layout sketch and I just can't seem to find it now. I hate it when that happens! Anyhoo, the paper is from a stack that I got at Joanns on clearance called The Sharon Ann little ones collection. It has all these vellum sheets and cardstock embellishments to go along with the paper and all I had to do is add some glossy accents, buttons and twine!

Really had a hard time leaving some blank space on the left side but hopefully all the embellishments on the right draws the eye to the picture. "Sprout" is the name that we use as an endearment nickname and at times I still call him that even though he is going on 12 years old next month. Thanks for dropping by and I promise to try to post more often!

Happy Scrapping!

Angela

Anniversary Card

Hello everyone! Gosh, I can't believe that I have not posted this card that I made for my parent's anniversary of48 years! I really didn't want to have something to fussy and was going for elegant. Don't have much time to do that while putting my boy's scrapbooks together. I hope to post some pages soon for you on those. The paper I used had a really nice verse on it and I really don't know who makes it. I just want to say that there are some really nice people out here in blog land and I have been touched with many RAK that is so unbelieveable. Thank you everyone! Oops, I am rambling....on with the card. The ribbon is from Hobby Lobby ribbon packs, the flower is a lace trim that my Mom gave me, and the stamp is from the dollar bin from Joanns. Hope you like and I promise to post some more soon!

Back in Business

Well, I'm back in business!!!! My comments section is back due to a minor glitch in the post options. For some reason, my default in my post options was changed to Don't allow reader comments? Don't know why I would ever want to do this? But thanks to Leelou blogs they took a look at it and now everything is fixed! I am so excited and sorry about the trouble that all of you have been having. Now I will be back to posting!

Thanks!

Patriotic Birthday Card

I just finished making this card for my FIL, he turned 76 on July 1st and we usually get together for his birthday but this year it was cancelled. I downloaded the gingham print paper from here. She has lots of lovely papers to choose from and this one was free! Hope you like the card and I would love to here from you by leaving me a comment. Have a great 4th!

Father's Day Cards

Ok, so it has been a long time since I posted and I am really sorry for that. I got a new camera and am trying to figure out all of this stuff. Well, here it goes! I made a Father's Day card for my Dad and my hubby (from our precious canine) as my Mom had my boys and they made theirs at their Grandparent's house. I came across this neat digi paper for Father's Day and decided I just had to use it for my Dad's card! Sorry, can't remember where I got it from but it is a wonderful download. I printed it on photo paper so I could get a better print. I have to tell you I found these banner stamps at Archivers and they are just great except it is very tedious to cut all these out free hand. Needless to say my Dad liked his card as he was reading all the words from the paper.

Now, for my hubby's card, I used a recent picture of our family princess, our precious Abigail/Abby! She couldn't rest until I finished this card for her as she just adores her Dad! Needless to say it was a hit and my Hubby loved it!

Thanks for stopping by! I really enjoy your comments and I promise to post more tomorrow! I made a birthday card for my FIL as his birthday is July 1st!

Off Topic-Met Tim Tebow

Today was a beautiful day outside and I was fortunate to spend it with my fellow employees in the Jockey International Park to meet with our new spokesman Tim Tebow. This young man really has his act together and is a wonderful humanitarian. His foundation is helping our orphaned kids down in the Phillipeans by supplying them with items that they need. His foundation has already started to build a hospital down there for them.

When asked the question: "If you could meet anyone in the world and who would it be?" He answered, "Jesus, of course! Doesn't everyone?" His second choice is Abraham Lincoln, since he was a man of integrity and honesty. I would just love to pick his brain." I just have to say that we could not have picked a better person to represent our company! Below are a few picture and I am in the pink shirt standing next to him.

Jockey is so passiate about helping the adoptive children here in the US. We currently are working with a few groups with Post Adoption Services. Employees, volunteers, girl scouts are even helping out with making no sew fleece blankets for the kid's back packs. I am an Embassador on the Jockey Being Family Team and it really touches my heart for all the things a child has to go through before being adopted. These children are fighters but mostly the are just looking for a forever family.

I would like to start up a group of people to start making cards for these family to embrace their forever family and remember just how important it is to this child to make things works. Thanks for letting me rave, Enjoy the pictures!

Bird Bookmark

Okay, another posting and was excited when Paulo posted an SVG on his blog this morning! I could not wait to get home and make this bird bookmarker! To get his cut file please go to his site here. He has amazing files! I could stay on his blog all day! Thanks Paulo, glad that you are back posting! Thanks for dropping by and I hope you have a great day!

Finished the Mini Book!

Okay, for those who have been followers for a while know that I started this mini book back in January. I won this at my first blog hop from Kris at What a Bunch of Craft and have also added some of Celeste's (Touched by a Butterfly) wonderful flowers! I just love how this turned out and had a hard time parting with it as I gave it to my Mom for Mother's Day and she just loves it! Please leave me some comments as I would love to hear how you like it or not.