Life is What Life Does

Soooo, I thought I would share what I did with GCD Studio...and a winner!

So, I thought I would share what I did with GCD Studios Morning Glory line, and share the winner, as well! Here is what I did first...

Ok, this is what it looks like all hanging up. And then, each one, too.

And here was my review for them.

When I first got the Morning Glory line, I was so happy (and not just because the paper screams happiness ;) ), because I finally, after almost 10 years of marriage, actually KNEW what I was going to do with our master bathroom!!! Yes, I know, not many people would say that after seeing this line, they would think this would work great with Easter photos, or some photos from vacation. Not me, I saw it, fell in love with the colors, and could not WAIT to start working on something altered for my bathroom. The line was SO easy to work with, obviously, and cuts like butter with not only punches, but with the Cricut, as well (even with the papers that are heavier and have glitter, and embossing, on them). I could not have been more pleased with this line then a kid in a candy store! Thank you, so much, GCD, and Heidi, for sending it to me and allowing me to work with it.

Now, for those of you who said a magnet for the dishwasher, I was soooooo slapping myself in the head and doing a very bad imitation of Homer Simpson's DOH! Hello, never ever though of making one of those...lol. So am doing it now!

And we do have a winner, too!

Hi ,

Marilyn has left you a comment:

Hi! It's beautiful. I think it is a sign for the bedroom or maybe the bathroom after it has been cleaned so everyone can be warned to keep it clean for awhile. 

 

Marilyn, please email me your addy and I will get your prize out to you asap!

 

Till next time,

~M
 
 
 
  

Here's a little sneaky peeky and a giveaway!

So, a couple of months ago, I tried out for the GCD Studios  design team, and, even though I didn't make it, I DID get asked to do some product testing, so I did...and had a blast! Here is just a little tid bit of what I did.

Now, if you can tell me what I made with this, I will send you a bit of something in the mail (including some of those lucsious papers I worked with!)!!!! Now, you can't just say it's a layout, a card, or altered project. You need to tell me WHAT it is, so good luck! I will pick a winner when my things appear over at the GCD Studios Blog.

Till next time,

~M 
  

Here's a little Dreamstreet for ya (and we are down to 23 days, baby!!!)

Hey, all! Thought I would pop in more then once every other month this time around. ;) I have some exciting news to share, some actual scrapbooking to show you all, and, hey, while we are at it, how about the fact that I get my hubby back in our lives (only for 11 days, we lose 2 just in traveling alone, urg!) for a bit in 23 days, woohoo!

Ok, first up. Here is the exciting news. I got a wonderful wonderful phone call from Nikki Sivils, asking me if I would like to be on her design team for Nikki Sivils Scrapbooking! Of course, I was so happy, and said yes right away. I just got my first box of goodies from her and I can not wait to start playing!!!

Now, onto the actual paper crafting goodies. :) So, I was the October Guest Designer for Dream Street, and I just had SO much fun working with their products! I am still working on some projects for them, so I hope to get them done before the end of the week, fingers crossed!

Here is a layout of Alex, using the Urban Ink line. I actually really enjoyed using this line. I am such a bright paper kinda gal, but I loved loved loved this line, especially with this photo of Alex.

Supplies used:

Patterned paper, rubons, and diecuts- Urban Ink by Dreamstreet

Cardstock-Core'dinations

Cricut Cartridges- All Mixed Up (wild), All Mixed Up and Simply Sweet (crazy), Doodlecharms (i used the heart that they have as my stitching guide)

Cuttlebug Folders-Love Language (the hearts) and Diamond Plate

Here is an actual card I did, and it's an actual card that I like. I know, weird, right????? I blame the Superstition Paper Line, it totally made me want to make a card!

  Supplies used:

Patterned paper, chipboard, rubons-All from the Superstition Line by Dreamstreet

Cardstock-Core'dinations

Pearls-Kaisercraft

Ribbon-Orange (i have NO clue), brown star-Maya Road

And here is the altered Christmas Tree Countdown Calendar, all using the Merry and Bright Paper Line.

All patterned paper used-Merry and Bright Line from Dreamstreet

Cardstock (including the awesome Jenni Bowlin embossed cardstock that i so so love)-Core'dinations

Punch-Fiskars (apron lace) and Marvy Uchida (scallop oval)

Thread

Cuttlebug Folder-Swiss Dots

Cricut Cartridge (for the numbers)-Plantin Schoolbook

Pen

Ok, I think that is it for now! I will try and be better about updating. I do promise this! Hope you are all enjoying your fall!

Till next time,

~M

 
 
 
   

 
 
 
 

Thought I would share some photos

Hey, all. I know it's been a very long time since I have posted...lots of little things going one that, when you are the only one home able to take care of it, always add up to MANY big things all at once. Between the boys' school, trying to scrapbook, going back to school, visiting family, and trying to NOT pay attention to the calendar telling me that Paul will be back to visit very very soon (we are not going to be together as a family till probably February, at the earliest, but here's hoping that God will help me through that, too). With all of that, and the everday things of cleaning, laundry, getting homework done (for both me and the boys), dinner, all of that jazz...fun stuff, i tell you, fun stuff. But, I have had some time to finally take some photos of the kids, and thought I would share.

These first photos are all of Miss C taken at Pinchot Park. She and I had a date day while Nanny took the boys to see Toy Story 1 and 2.

 

And here are some from the weekend we just spent with Grandma and Grandpa.

 

 

 

{don't you just love that last photo...the best one of all three of them together...these kids are gonna be the death of me, i swear ;)}

And here is a little LITTLE sneak peek of what I have been working on.

Yep, a layout of Alex. :) It's going to go into a calendar that I am making for one of the grandparents for Christmas. :)

Ok, that's enough for today. I have tons of work to do, in the house, homework, and scrapbooking, too!

Till next time,

~M
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Winner of my paper giveaway!

I thought that I would announce the winner of my paper giveaway before I headed to the scrap table to finish up a layout. :) Brendan picked out the winning person. And that person was....

Barbara said...

Just voted for your brother's band.....how exciting it'll be for them if they win and get to open for Tantric. I've never heard of Pop Evil but my boys listen to Aranda so they must be pretty good too.

So, congrats, Barbara! Please email me your mailing addy and I will get the paper out to you asap!

Till next time,

~M

Winner of the Home Accents Cricut Cartridge!

Ok, I did the random # generator (and took away the comments I made, so it's all legit, I promise!), and here is the winner, #53! I would copy and paste what they had on there but it's not liking me at the moment and it is 1:08 am...and I am kinda tired...soooooo...without further ado...

Congrats to.....

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Elizabeth said...

Happy anniversary! Thanks for the chance to win. I've had my eye on that cartridge Congrats,

Elizabeth!!!! Please email me your mailing addy and I will get the cartridge out to you by the end of this week!!!!

Now, don't forget, there is one more giveaway, for a ton of AWESOME patterened paper, that is going on right now!!!! It's this post right here!!!!! And you can sign in more then once for that giveaway, as well, so if you already did it once, and want to do it again, go for it! Also, if you voted for my brother's band, that means you would be in more then twice already, then! :D 

And, before I leave, I thought, before I would leave, that I would leave you with one more sneak peek of the canvas. :

    

Ok, so that's that!

Till next time,

~M

So happy happy Blogoversary to me!

Yep, today is my blogoversary! Hooray!!! And I do have something to kind of share with you, today. I need to make sure I can share it all, so as soon as I do, I will, I promise. It's for Core'dinations, and is an altered canvas that I made for fall. I think I am liking it. Very different for me (very folksy but I am liking it), but that's ok. Maybe different is good! And I used SOOOOOO many different techniques on it...so much so that I think I may be techniqued out for a bit. ;)

Here is just a little tidbit of the canvas.

Yep, that's just a little tidbit of what I did to this 14x16 canvas!

And, also, I thought I would do another giveaway! I have some extra papers from Making Memories, Prima, Jillybean, My Mind's Eye, just to name a few...basically it will be a WHOLE box full of papers sent to you, all good papers, I promise! I will have this be open till Thursday, the 10th of Sept.

And one more thing. If you vote for for my brother's band, Rhea Silvia here, I will put you in TWICE for the drawing! You just need to come back and let me know that you voted so I can put you in again! So easy...I promise!

Ok, I am off to run my errands with Miss C before the boys get home from school! I can't wait to see who wins this HUGE package of paper (and I will try to get a photo of it up soon, I promise!)! :D

Till next time,

~M 

It's ALMOST my Blogoversary...and guess who gets the present????

That would be YOU! It's almost my Blogoversary...two years ago I restarted up my blog. Mainly to share things with family while we were in Hawaii (I can't believe it's been that long since we first moved back there!). And this time around, I have a present FOR YOU! Yep, for you! I have a brand new, in packaging, Home Accents Cricut Cartridge!!!! Here is what it has on it.

 

Seriously, it is one awesome cart! I may end up offering some more things up for those of you who do not have a cricut, but here is one of the presents you all will be getting from me during my Blogoversary!

You are allowed to comment more then once to win, but I ask that you only comment ONCE per day. :)

This will be up for grabs until next Tuesday, September 8th. :)

Good Luck, everyone!!!!

Till next time,

~M

Thought that I would finally share some things I have been working on

Finally, the kids are back in school...and do you know what this means??? I finally have time to scrapbook! Yeeeeeehaw! Maybe, now, I can find that missing  mojo, too, so I can make pages like I use to. ;) Until then, this is what I have to share.

First up is an ornament I created using Vintage Collection and some of the new Jenni Bowlin Embossed Cardstock, too. :) I also use one of the Christmas ornaments from Clear Scraps, as well.  

Here are the directions:

I put the green vintage behind the acrylic and used the new dot embossing folder from QK with it. I used the Lyrical Letters Cricut Cartridge to cut out the argyle that i used with the Jenni Bowlin cardstock, plus, I had to hand stitch, it's like a law with me.

And here is the ornament:

 

And here is a layout I did, using My Little Shoebox, as well as the chocolate box  and the whitewash collection. I am not to terribly happy with this layout, but I had to stop playing with it, for sure, or it was just going to look worse.

   

I made my own buttons with the paper chains stamp set by banana frog.  

 

 

So that's it for right now! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Till next time,

~M

  

Good Grief, a new, and wonderful blog challenge

Hey, all. Long time, no blog, right. ;) Life has been pretty, well, like my blog is titled, basically. Been dealing with a two year old who thinks she is 16, a 6 year old who thinks he is 2, and an 8 year old who has been, for the most part, an angel. We just made it through the halfway mark of Paul's deployment and I am ready for the rest of it to be just done. The boys, thank goodness, start school in a week, and, hopefully, this will mean that the rest of this time will just fly by. Fingers crossed, right???

Ok, now, onto what I really came on for.

 

I was asked, a couple of weeks ago, by my friend Lisa, if I would like to partake in a challenge blog that was unlike any other that I had heard of, up until that point. Basically, it was a blog for those of us who have lost someone very close to us. As most of you know, I lost my mom almost 6 years ago (I can't believe that it's been that long already, it seems like yesterday, most days) from a pulminory embellism two weeks after a routine knee surgery. Anyway, back to the blog challenge. The hostess, Amanda Probst, assembled an amazing array of talent, and I think that this blog will really be helpful, and beneficial to those of us who have lost a loved one. I know that it has helped me, already. You can see the blog here: Good Grief.  Even if you haven't lost a loved one, it's a wonderful blog to check out and see the amazing talent on there, I promise. :)

Here is the layout that I did. I used the new Core'dinations Jenni Bowlin Embossed Cardstock, which I need by the truckloads...as I see that I am totally and amazingly in love with. ;)

   

 

 

I am not a huge Josh Groban fan (just don't know his music that well, that's all, I promise), but whenever I hear this song by him, I think of ma right away. She was always there for me (whether I wanted her to be or not ;) ), and, in the end, it was to raise me up, to have me be my best, and be me. There isn't a day that doesn't go by that I don't miss her, and that I don't think about her. The kids see me, raising my eyes to the ceiling, talking to her, and they say that mommy is talking to nana up in heaven cause we are being bad again (yeah, I do that a lot, too, saying how she is doing this on purpose to make me see how hard it was to raise me and my three younger brothers ;) ).

So, I do hope that you will go over and check out the blog. There are many other wonderful layouts from Jamie Harper,  Jen Waters,  Lisa Swift,  Stacey Kingsman, and Tania Willis. I think that it is beyond wonderful that we finally have a place where it is ok to be mourn, to remember, to showcase, to celebrate our loved ones lives within the scrapbooking community, and beyond. :) 

Till Next Time,

~M