Happy Birthday Megan!

We celebrated Megan's birthday last Tuesday night with pizza, pasta & presents with family. The top gifts were earrings, a new book "Twilight" (which went over very well!!) , clothes including a Ozzy shirt which she went crazy over and a mirror that I made.

The better party in her book tho was Saturday night when we hosted a party for 5 of her friends! Our home became a complete mad house...girls running from room to room, phones, movies, hair dye....it was CRAZY! They had an excellent time I think!

I knew Sept. would be a crazy month for posting on the blog, but I didn't think it would be this bad. I have had something everyday it seems like! So to make up for lost time here's several recent projects to get your creativity going!

Megan's 14th B-day Card
Materials: Pink textured card stock, Hobby Lobby; brown dot paper, Rusty Pickle; white cardstock, Office Depot; "Celebrate" stamp, Close to my Heart; Prisma glitter, Close to my Heart; Flourish stamp, Autumn Leaves; Brown ribbon, Hobby Lobby; Butterfly, cricut and then used swiss dots from Cuttlebug.




Meg's Mirror
All materials from Hobby Lobby except mirror from Wal-Mart. Bling, Prima Marketing; charms, black ribbon, glass vials.

This picture does not do this mirror justice. I wanted it to be glitzy, beautiful and still remain vintage looking. All the charms are things that Megan likes. She loved it and that's what it's all about!


Tomato Fun
Materials: LOT'S and LOT'S of Liquid Glass, Close to my Heart; Green felt flower, Making Memories; Brad, Hobby Lobby; Circle Coluzzle, Close to my Heart.












Boo Card
(Made 12 of them for private order)
Materials:Yellow print paper, Jeepers Creeepers Heidi Grace; white cardstock, Office Depot; Green Cardstock, Hobby Lobby; Black glitter paper, unk.; Orange cardstock, JoAnns; Fibers, Michaels; Stamp sets Halloween Dingbats, Creepy Cobwebs & Happy Haunting, all Close to my Heart; Prisma glitter & tonertex pen, Close to my Heart; Stazon Black ink & cleaner, Close to my Heart.
You're Sweet!
Materials: Brown/pink/stripped/plaid paper, Rusty Pickle; Brown ribbon, Hobby Lobby; Prisma glitter/tonertex pen, Close to my Heart; cupcake stamp, Hero Arts, liquid glass, Close to my Heart, Watercolor pencils & water brush, Close to my Heart.

More later, school let out early and supper is only couple hours away!

j.

First time fishing...............

We decided to take a picnic lunch to the park this weekend. We didn't know 30% chance of rain meant rain off and on all day! It was still fun though. We had lunch under a shelter house, played on the playground when it stopped raining, fed the buffalo and let Addie try her hand at fishing. We had a lovely quiet day.

Last year at this time I was making "Save the Date" cards for my friends' son's wedding. Well the wedding happened yesterday and hopefully everything went well, she's supposed to call me Monday with all the details. Until then, Congrats Misty and Michael may you share a long happy life together!

One of my mom's longtime friends Mildred frequently orders things from me and I really enjoy making things for her. She is a really special person in my book. So when she ordered a special card for her sisters 75th Birthday, I wanted it to be extra special. This is the card with envelope.Mildred loved it, and that's what I wanted.

Happy Birthday Beverly!


Techniques & materials used: Stamp: (Today) Ali Edwards, Creating Keepsakes Kit Rub-on's: (Flourish) Basic Grey Sultry Collection Cardstock: (Red Linen) Archivers; (White 110 lb for photo/printing) Office Depot Distressing Ink: (Creamy Brown) Cat's eye Misc: (Mini Bling Diamonds) Close to my Heart Ribbon: Hobby Lobby Ink: (Sweet Leaf) Close to my Heart.

I'm off to bake a German chocolate cake for John's birthday today!
Happy Birthday Daddy! Love ya!

J.

Nothing new here, just trying to get into the normal swing of things with school. We have a full plate with volleyball, kindergarten & 8th grade. I thought I would have all day to "play" in the scrapbook stuff, but I don't think I have even touched it since last Sat. when I went with my friends to scrap at a local store. I have spent my days cleaning everything in sight and doing more laundry than any one person should ever do! I have even been washing windows! yuck!

So since I haven't created anything new this week, I am posting a few things from the last couple months. Enjoy!

Techniques used: Liquid chalk distressing, stamping & layered stamping (CTMH)

Techniques used: Chalk distressing, stamping, heat embossing with clear and silver embossing powders (CTMH) & edge distresser (CTMH)

Techniques used: Stamping, chalk distressing, watercolor pencils (CTMH) & Water brush (CTMH)

Techniques used: ink distressing (CTMH)

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Techniques used: Ink distressing (CTMH)

(right pg of 2 page layout)

j.

Twas the night before school and all through the house.......kids were crying, some were hungry, mom was stressed, clothes were all in a big pile and well you get the picture. :-)

Actually things went pretty smoothly this evening. We had open house at school, took all the supplies and saw gobs of people that I went to school with. It was really weird. I used to pass them in the halls on my way to health class, now I'm passing them in the hall on the way to meet my daughters health class teacher! Seems strange.

A big bowl of Rice Krispies made everyone happy and we all settled ours heads for a long fall nap. Except me..I'm sitting here talking to you.

A couple of things before I go, today is my nephew Tony's 18th Birthday. I hope you had a wonderful birthday!


Megan....Addie.......Grace.... Tony ....& Kari.......I hope you have a wonderful first day of school tomorrow. May your teachers be awesome, your books be light and your faculty meetings SHORT! hahaha

J.

WOW, Time is flying by! Just so everyone knows I'm still kickin' here's what I have been up to......

Welcome to the World John Marcus........

Products used include water color pencils, stamps, liquid glass, coluzzle file folder and lots & lots of cutting!

Happy Birthday Helen..................

Products & techniques used: Dry embossing, stamping, stamp rolling & ink distressing.


This is the first order this customer had placed with me and I put these really cute flowers on and delivered them. Next day customer called and flowers had fell off the card! How embarrassing! Live & learn I guess....I liquid glassed them on this time...those suckers won't ever come off again!


Happy Birthday Ann........


Products & techniques used: Dry embossing, liquid glass & stamping.


Happy Anniversary Ann & Don..........


Products & techniques used: Heat/powder embossing, dry embossing & lots of sanding!


Lots more to come, just takes a while to upload everything!

j.

I kind of have a running joke about an Easter page I have been wanting to make. For those of you who haven't heard it, here's a little background.

I saw this layout on Ebay one night and I fell in love with it. I had to have it. It ended with many bids and it was several hundred dollars..way out of my league! But I thought if I saved a picture of it, one day I could re-create it. So I started shopping for the perfect embellishments and papers. It seemed as tho every time I went to the store I caught myself saying "oh, this would be perfect on that Easter page" or " ah ha! This is the paper that was on that Easter page I'm going to make."

Well fast forward 6-8 months and I decided yesterday was the day. I pulled out all my stuff I had been squirreling away and this is the stack of product I had.....ridiculous isn't it. I had enough stuff to complete a years worth of scrapbooking and I was planning on putting it on 2 pages..HA!

After several hours of burning the midnight oil I have completed the journey. I am tickled pink with the pages and mine didn't cost nearly what the one on ebay went for, oh no it was way more expensive.....hehehe. Ah the things we do to document the past for the future.

j.

BAB.......to most of you that means nothing....to some of us with young children that means money...lots and lots of money! And guess what??? My beautiful 6 year old loves BAB! Some of you are still probably wondering what the heck I'm talkin' bout! Build-a-B**r! For her birthday she received a gift "coupon" in the mail. It was good for one FREE Bear valued at $12.00. HA! We now own the aforesaid bear and it cost $31.00 with the coupon! I guess $31.00 isn't bad, it's the sales tactics once you get in the store that bother us parents. They ask the "child" if they want a heartbeat....clothes...shoes....tent....BMW. Well what the heck do you think a 6 year old is going to say? YEAH! Then it's up to us mean old parents to break the child's heart in half and leave crying.

ok, maybe it's not that bad, it was a good trip and Addie thoroughly enjoyed it. So everyone is HAPPY! I wouldn't have spent my Sunday any other way. :-)

j.