Disney Withdrawl

The kids and I have been going thru some Disney World withdrawls. It has been 2 1/2 years and no trip is planned for the immediate future. This is the longest we have ever gone without our Disney fix. lol. I know, it's pathetic. Since I am not working anymore vacations are pretty out of reach right now.
I made this Disney funds jar out of a box of Nestle flips with hopes we could some how save enough for a trip next year.
I painted the lid with several coats of black stayz on. It is not staying on :)! I used my Cricut Disney font and regular Disney cartridge to cut out the letters and the Mickey. The papers are Reminisce.


I had a change drawer in my room and the kids scrounged around the house to put change in it. Canyon and I took it to the bank yesterday, $71, woo hoo! He looked so cute hauling it into the bank. The bank tellers loved it, I thought about asking for donations. Lol, just kidding. Now we only need to come up with $71 in change about 100 more times and we are home free!

Here is the other side. I'm not sure which side I like the best, so I won't call either the front.

I made this layout for a challenge at the nook. We had to create a shaped layout, with no pink and at least 4 lines of journaling.

I cut out a Mickey head on my cricut, then traced around it and cut it about an inch bigger by hand. I have heard that if you use Design Studio or Sure Cuts A Lot you can trick your cricut into cutting a little closer to 12x12. I don't have either, so I had to kick it old school.

The black and yellow are Bazzil Bling, the red and the journaling sticker are Reminisce. I sewed the ruffle to the layout, idea courtesy of Leah Killian (see Life As Lou link on the right). I handmade the flower using the backside of the Bazzil and just scrunched the heck out of the paper. I like how it turned out. It isn't my usual mad layering style, but I think it will look super cute in my Disney album.

Canyon loved meeting all the characters, except Mickey. He actually snubbed him. It was hilarious. Mickey just threw up his hands, shook his head and walked away. He adored Donald Duck. He couldn't take his eyes off him. It is hard to see in the picture, but he is smiling at the camera and looking way off to the right, where Donald was.

The journaling says

We met Minnie at Chef Mickey's.

Canyon didn't ignore her like he did Mickey.

He even smiled for the picture.

His eyes, however, never left Donald Duck.

Canyon's birthday and graduation pics

Canyon graduated from Preschool this morning. It was a cute little ceremony. My mom made Canyon this candy boquet for his graduation. Isn't it adorable? It has a balloon attached to it also. He loves it.

Canyon's birthday party at Storybook Island this weekend.

It was cool having the park to ourselves, as it isn't open yet for the season. People saw us playing and kept trying to come in. I felt so bad turning some of them away, but there were at least 20 families and several large groups that tried to come in. It would have defeated the purpose of me renting and paying for a private party if we let half the town in.

Canyon's "just us" birthday party at Chuck E Cheese. He loves his baby dinosaur. I can't believe that my baby is 5 years old!

The new favorite ride.

This is a pic of the cookies we had Eileen's make up for Canyon's class for his birthday. They did exactly what he asked them to. He loved them. Just imagine biting into one of those nice juicy green segmented caterpillars. yum-oh!

IVY

I just completed another challenge at The Nook. We had to create a layout with the colors from this piece of fabric.

Here is my layout. Paper and stickers are Bo Bunny Alissa from The Playground. I used a Cuttlebug folder on the white cardstock. The foam letters are Target dollar spot. The foam letters match much better in real life. (almost perfectly actually) I took the pic outside with the bright sun directly overhead, I assume that is why they show so much darker.

Isn't she adorable in these pics? I love that you can't see her eyes in any of them. They are from her 2nd birthday party at Canyon Lake Park. That was 2 1/2 years ago. Wow time flies!!

I really liked this nook challenge. These are colors that I wouldn't typically put together, and pics I wouldn't have normally scrapped. I am definately getting some things done.

Home Sweet Home

This is a gift card holder and mini album I made for a challenge to make a gift card holder at The Nook. It is for friends that just bought a new house. They had a particularly difficult time with the sale of the old house, so I wanted to make them something special.

The papers, rubons, ribbon and album is TLC/Breezy Design. I got the little mailbox at Target.

I left the album blank for their pics. The pic on the front is ripped out of a Target ad. I just wanted to display that a pic shows thru the heart cutout in the front.

I love how the little mailbox turned out on the sides!

Boy oh Boy

This is another layout I did for the Scrap Off at The Nook. I am loving the fact that I decided to give these challenges a try. I am a procrastinator at heart, so I never get anything done unless I have a deadline. I often force deadlines on myself for various things, but it seldom works. The challenges at The Nook all have deadlines and it is forcing me to actually get some layouts done. I am constantly buying the latest and greatest, but seldom actually using it. I need this!

The Nook challenge was to do a layout using more than 1 picture, and it had to be the same picture. You could alter it anyway you wanted, except photo tinting. I enjoyed working on it. I usually have to stop myself from using circles on every layout, I let myself this time. I really like how the wavy cutouts I have layered all over each other on the bottom turned out.
This layout is done with Bo Bunny's U Bug Me line. I got all the paper and embellishments at The Playground, except the Creative Imaginations filmstrip which was in my stash.

Last week a couple of us got together and made some great paper flowers. Kendra brought her Gesso and we got messy. The flowers turned out gorgeous. Kendra's are on her blog. here. I am sure that Cathy will post the layouts she made sometime soon, so watch The Playground blog for those. I can't wait to use mine.

Mother's Day and Monster Minis

I made this Card for my mom yesterday. I am pretty happy with how it turned out. I really like the argyle. Sorry about the lighting on the photos.


I made these 2 mini cards for a challenge at The Nook. I love the monsters they are so, so cute. This is the new Daisy Bucket paper and stamps from The Playground. The rubons on the first one are the October Afternoon monster line and the paper on the bottom of the second is Sassafrass.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Mother's Day!!

Play With Me

I did this layout for a challenge over at The Nook. The challenge was to scraplift one of the design team layouts and still show your style. Here is the original by Leah Killian.

I used almost all Sassafrass Lass on this layout. I love that crossword puzzle paper.

The Nook Off

If you are like me and missed out on most of the NSD challenges and contests you've got to get over to My Scrapbook Nook and give this one a try.
The Nook Contest
They are giving away almost a months worth of mini prizes. The grand prize is 6 months on the design team.
This is a great site, a great contest and a great bunch of talented ladies.
If you do sign up, please be sure to tell them I sent you.
Tessa

Today at my house

At a scrapping retreat I recently went to I got to take a look at a friends Paper Doll Cricut cartridge. She was cutting out dinosaurs on it. Canyon has a dinosaur obsession. He has since he was a baby. I thought it would die down by now, but it hasn't. So, I bought the Paper Dolls cartridge just for the dinosaurs. I figured that I have spent more than that just on dinosaur dies that were tiny. I didn't think I would ever use the paper doll feature of the cartridge. Boy, was I wrong. From the second the package was torn open Canyon wanted "little guys". We made "little guys" all day. We made a knight complete with a magical golden sword. The knight also has a dragon that he can fight. The dragon lives in a cave made out of a diet pepsi 12 pack box. We made a cowboy with a lasso and a cow to use the lasso on. We also made a super hero and a hula girl. He played with them all day, and when he wasn't playing with them he was begging me to make more. He even told Marissa if she was really good he would make her a princess and let her press "unload paper". Silly kid.

Birthday card for Card*a*licious 20

This is a card I created for the challenge at Card*A*Licious. The challenge this week was to make a birthday card using green, blue and circles. I pulled out some of my Cosmo Girl Friday scraps and got to work. See the white paint again? I'm addicted I tell ya.

Papers are Cosmo Girl Friday
Flowers are Prima
Ribbon is Maya Road, DCWV and Basic Grey
Stamp is K&Co
I found those cute wooden buttons at the dollar store.
I cut the large flower shape with my Cricut using Accent Essentials. I love that cartridge.

Something Scrappy and Some Weather

I finally got something scrappy done. I guess you could say I've had "scrappers block". That didn't stop me from buying new supplies however.

I created this layout last night. I love how it turned out. I recently discovered painting on my layouts and I am very happy with the results. The white around the outside was already there, I just painted around the little diamonds. I am considering taking off that big gear and giving it a whitewash also.

I made that big gear on my NEW CRICUT EXPRESSION!! Isn't it awesome. I am so happy with my cricut, this is exactly what I wanted it for.



Bought those little screws a long time ago. First chance I had to use them.


These are the cards from the Create My Keepsake kit. Aren't they gorgeous. Danielle is so talented. You can get to her blog from here. Homespun with Heart.

I added a couple personal touches to each, but not much. Gotta love stickles.

More white paint.

I'm not into birds, but this one is pretty on this card.

Marissa put together the Basic Grey cupcake kit. She followed the instructions, and then made them her own. I'm proud of her, she did a great job. She loves the stickles like her mama.

She also found some brads I've never used.

Another brad for a cherry.

What's with the weather here in South Dakota? We woke up to this! It's almost May!

I had better shut down my computer now, We've already lost power for a couple minutes 3 times.

Busy Saturday

We went to a birthday party Saturday morning for cousin Ashlyne at Eileen's Cookies. The kids took a tour then got to decorate 2 cookies to take home. Eileen's has the best sugar cookies that I have EVER had ANYWHERE. I was snapping away pictures the whole time. The kids decorating, close ups of plates of colored frosting, close ups of sprinkle cups. I could tell some of the other parents thought I was weird taking pictures of sprinkles.

After the party I went to show my husband all of the brilliant photos I had captured. No memory card in the camera. Sheesh!

Canyon's first soccer game was Saturday afternoon. He looked so cute! Very focused on the game and kicking some butt, which they didn't. Pee Wee soccer is hilarious! One kid stood on the sideline with a grumpy look on his face the whole time and wouldn't play. Every once in a while there would be a stray somersault on the field or someone would just sit down. Canyon loved it, he ran non-stop the whole game and kicked his little heart out. So much fun!

Grandma Jacq and Grandpa Gary came in from Casper to pick up a puppy they bought out of the paper. Isn't she cute? Canyon couldn't leave her alone. I got harassed all weekend about getting a dog. Not happening!

I'm Here

I've totally been neglecting my blog!

We went to Wyoming for the long Easter weekend. Could I have found time at my in-laws for a blog post? Yes. Did I? No.

I worked on my taxes for 2 days. Could I have found time during frantically scouring the house looking for receipts to do a blog post? Yes. Did I? No.

It then took me 2 days to clean up after the chaos that my mostly unsupervised kids caused while I was doing my taxes. Yes, 2 days!! Could I have taken a minute to do a blog post? Yes, I did, I'm doing it now. I'm still not done cleaning!

I got sick and tired of my button drawer not closing, so I dumped some of my buttons in to this giant wine glass thingy. I'm not sure that I am happy with it. My neurotic, color sorting mind is screaming at me.... "What have you done? They were in sets!" I'm sure the first time I am looking for a specific button I will be kicking myself, but now my button drawer closes.

A little Disney

Here are a couple layouts I got done this weekend. I was in some kind of funk, and didn't get any layouts that I liked done until the retreat was almost over.

This one was inspired by Susan Stringfellow of Creatively Savvy. I love her Disney layouts! This is the new Fancy Pants paper Summer Soiree. The ticket stamps are Close to My Heart. I wasn't sure that I would get much use out of them, but I have! I scanned Goofy's autograph and printed it on a journaling card. I also stuck a couple "hidden Mickeys" into the layout (although they aren't very hidden), ala Susan.

This isn't one of my favories, it is missing something and I haven't been able to figure out what. Maybe I should try a lighter background? I love these pictures though and the animal print papers are great.

I have a few more layouts to post, they just need finishing touches.

Thanks for stopping by.