Use IT Challenge #11

Here is Ingrid's challenge:

1. Size: square card base

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2. Theme: Summer

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3. Embellishments:

use a flower(s), ribbon, pin(s) and twine
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4. Tools: Punches

Here's my take! Hope it's still in on time!!

A coupla pages!

I need to do my use it challenge card...i think it's due today! But I wanted to post these pages I did.

I love these papers! I got them from Holly. I think they are a new stampin' up set!

This lo is for the Hearts and Crafts Design Team. We had to do something for Father's Day with all this stuff. We also got some other stuff. *Edit...since I took this pic...my hubby wanted something on this page...so I let him, he messed up and didn't like it. So now the yellow strip is a black strip with a quote...A Bird in a cage...is worth two in a bush.

This was for a BOM challenge. It was really hard. The blue rectangle with the arrows is an accordian style hidden journal. It's kinda personal. I hid it...
And, I finally scrapped the puppy pics of Princess! She is huge now...but got this page done...
TFL! Off to make the card!

Weekend

What a busy weekend. It wasn't really...it just went so fast it feels like it. The girls went camping at Fiesta Island with the girl scouts. I can't wait to get their cameras developed. I always send them with disposables. They said they didn't take very many pics. I think Chloe will use the rest of her film taking pics of the cats. I find so many on my digital camera! For example:


But anyway! I wanted to post some lo's I did at the lss night crop on Friday. Since I had no children, I stayed reeeaallyy late and I was exhausted on Sat. morn at 8 a.m. when I got up. ...For no reason cuz the kids were still gone. So Sat. morn I watched the finale for Ugly Betty. And guess what? I missed the end cuz I recorded it and it went past the cut off time for the recorder. So if anyone knows, can you tell me if Daniel's wife died or not??? Thanks.
So here's a lo that I did last week for the Scraptathlon chall. I love the distressed look of this. I also like the topic and inspiration. I got some points from votes. I have to load it anonymously.

SO Sat. around 12:30 or so, Holly picked me up because she had a bbq at her house at 2 p.m. and I had no car. Then I hung out until 10:30 p.m. and went home. Shawn came for a little while. It was nice. I held a baby that is 4 weeks old and I want one. sshhh..don't tell. I will change my mind soon.

Another lo. This one is for a Scrap the Beach chall. (75% blue and brown) and for the Mother's day chall.

Today the girls came home at about 11a.m. I missed them soooooo much! I held them like babies ;) Then I scrapped and they watched t.v. because, you know, they had to camp with no t.v. God forbid! ANYWAY, I have dispersed the lo's throughout the whole post so you wouldn't get bored! This was long..sorry.

A lo for the Scrap the Beach chall. journaling.

A lo I did of my friend's sons. For the Scrap the Beach Chall. stamping.
Just a random lo. I wanted to do a page before I forgot about soccer.

Scrapbook Challenges DT Blog Hop!

I was checking out a blog hop and it is so much fun! It started at Pamela's blog and then hopped to 9 others. Here's my take on the sketch they had to win a RAK.
The sketch:
And my take:
TfL!

Use IT Challenge #10

Here are the rules of the challenge:
1. monochromatic scraps- All of it is scraps but all the green is monochromatic scraps.

2. rub-ons or clear stickers- the part that says is You & Me are rub-ons

3. chipboard- Both stars are chipboard covered in paper. The LOVE is chipboard also.

4. (optional) non-traditional ribbon- I don't know if my rope ribbon counts as non-traditional. But it isn't traditional to me!

And here's my take on it!

I got this sketch from the CTMH catalog. Thanks for looking.

Church in Jamul

I had my final conference with the teacher today and she is so great! I love how re-assuring she is. She said the girls are doing wonderful. We have enough work turned in, but finish up the reading in the books we have and maybe do a couple hands on activities out of the book because we have to turn them in and then this summer work on multiplication up to 5's and work on the computer on compass learning. She said take the summer off! No work...lol. The compass learning is cool because it is games that introduce them to things they will learn next year. I am so darned happy!

I still haven't done my 10 cards for Stamp Camp tonight! I gotta do those right after this post :)

So today the girls were talking about how a kid in their class has an uncle who is a pastor. I said, we have a cousin who is a pastor. They were shocked! So I looked his church up on the www and found him. He's a youth pastor though. No biggie...but then I clicked on his blog and he talked about how he speaks in the main services about once a year and this weekend is the weekend he is doing them! Talk about a God thing! I haven't been in church in a few weeks months and now we are going to watch my cousin speak. I called my aunt and she said she goes to the 9:30 service. Looks like we will be up and gone really early Sunday. Their church is in Jamul.

Just wanted to share cuz I thought it was great. By the way, that pie was nasty! LOL...but the girls liked it!

End of school year stress!

I am totally tripping on having everything done and turned in by the end of the school year. In case you don't know, this is my first year homeschooling my girls and we homeschool through a montessori program. So they get to go to school a couple days a week and there are only 4 more "school days" left. Two more Tuesdays and two more Wednesdays. I emailed the teacher today to find out just how much work I need to pack into the next two weeks to pass 2nd grade. Ugh, I'm stressed!

On a happy note, Holly and I are attending Stamp Camp at the Stampin' Up ladies house tomorrow night! I am so excited! I love going and learning new stuff. The best thing is the card swap. Last month I didn't participate, but Holly did and she got some amazing cards. I am excited. So I guess I better go get started making my 10 cards to swap. :/

On Memorial Day weekend, the girls are going camping with the girl scouts from Friday - Sunday. Isn't that awesome!! And guess what else?? :D Hubby might be going to the river with a couple of his buds too! Could you imagine...an entire weekend at home by myself! Holy mackeral! I gotta find me a crop or two or three! The only bad thing is we only have one car and hubby is talking about taking it. Guess I'll be staying home :)

Here's a pic of this wonderful looking Lemon Meringue Pie I made tonight. I say wonderful looking because I haven't actually tried the pie itself yet and this was my first time making one. Doesn't it look yummy? :) Has it been 3-6 hours chilling yet?

Use It Challenge #9

Here's my entry for the USE IT Challenge #9:
These were the must-haves:
1. Color challenge: PINK, BLACK, WHITE
2. Accents: SCALLOPS, RIBBON, AND BLING,
OH MY!
3. Pattern: POLKA DOTS, BABY!
4. D.I.Y.: aka 'do it yourself'
Create something to add to your card....
I made a flower by sewing some ribbon into a circle and then pulling tight and adding a button to the middle.
The button doesn't look very pink, but I promise it is. On this pic it looks more red to me.

Anyway!!! I have to get some scrapping done because I joined way too many challenges. But wanted to get this card in today while I was in a missing mood. I miss my friend.

Use It Challenge #8

I am following a new blog called Use It! that has challenges to use my supplies in the way of card making. Here's this weeks challenge. I had to use flowers, metal (brad), fiber and as an extra, a tool I haven't used in a long time...didn't do that part. TFL.

Stuff from Scrapbook Expo

Here are a couple of the things we made at the scrapbook expo:

This was the make n take at the Tattered Angels booth. It was so fun. We used tons of glimmer mist and the mask/stamp set they have there. These are the new Framed fonts that they have. Super cute!!
Just a free make n take we made at a booth. It was cute.
a sand shaker box we made at Heartstring Designs. They made these using a bag. I thought that was neat considering I learned from Holly using pop up tape and a little piece of plastic as the window. They also have a unique product called Matboard. It's this board above here, double matted. It's thick. I like it.
An Acrylic album that we made using a Bind It All Zutter. I love it! I want one so bad. Do you know how many books you can make as gifts with this thing! It was so cool. I also now love acrylic!
I made more things there but they are half finished so they will be posted later...


Some cards I made for one of the NSBD challenges at scrap-diner.com. I had to make 6 cards using titles of songs as the sentiment. Here's 3 + the 1 below. Still have two more to make.

This card is for the Card Challenge at Scrapbook.com. The theme is a thank you card. Plus it has a song title so it counts for the challenge above! TFL!

National Scrapbooking Day

Well...it was today but I was too busy to participate in anything on the site I live on SOOOOO...I joined another site because they have 10 challenges going on all month! That's right! I don't have to download anything until May 31st! Of course, I'm gonna. Hopefully I won't have to wait all stinkin month to scrapbook.
Here's a page I did this morning before we left for the grandma's house while hubby and the girls went fishing. This is done for a few challenges on Scrapbook.com but mostly for the design team at Hearts and Crafts:

I had so much fun with Holly at the scrapbook expo yesterday! We went to every single booth. Did many many make n takes and took a class that we weren't too thrilled about. It kinda sucked actually because we thought we were going to learn a whole buncha techniques that we didn't know...but we didn't learn anything new at all. However...we did learn lots of new fun stuff at the make n takes at the booths and Holly bought lots of fun stuff that we are going to play with very soon. I will post pics later of the cool stuff we did there. After I finish unpacking it...

So gotta go...off to scrapbook..lol.