Weekend Fun!

Let's see I guess I'll start with a challenge card. Over at Allsorts this week their theme was "Spring is in the Air!" Love it! Then SPCC had a great color combo that worked so well with Allsorts challenge.

http://www.allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/

http://www.spcolorcombos.blogspot.com/

I had alot of fun creating this card. We've had great weather the past couple weeks, however the weekends haven't been as nice, strange wouldn't you say? So it was nice to create a springy card while it was quite chilly and gloomy outside yesterday.

I had Friday off so that I could go to the boy's kindergarten class for a "Beach Party!" Lovely weather I must say. Both Dad and I got to go and particpate. We had so much fun, dressing the part in our summer wear. I got so many awesome pics to scrapbook. Yay! I can't wait! Anyways, we had a great lunch of sand (vanilla pudding w/ finely ground graham crackers), seaweed (salad), octopus (hot dogs) and gold fish crackers & sea water. Very clever that teacher is....she shared a story that after 20 years of teaching and after 20 years of having beach parties, her and her husband have been slicing the hot dogs to have 8 legs to look like octopus, 100 total. She was watching Leno and they were sharing silly gadgets. They had a octopus maker for hot dogs. She said its takes her about an hour now, before it took them so much longer to cut each by hand. LOL! At one of the tables there was a real octopus....um....gross! It wasn't alive my boy wasn't completely grossed out, but a bit nervous. I decided to face my fears of any creatures and put the gloves on and held it and I was completely creeped out but happy that I could share that totally gross moment with him.

Friday evening Lucas got to spend the night at my mom's, first time ever! He loved it and said he would want to go there again soon. The bf and I went to Wyandotte for 3rd Friday. That city holds this all year, you walk around the shops stay open late, and there usually is a theme each month. Afterwards we went to a friends house for a bonfire. Perfect weather!

Saturday was just lazy!

Sunday my sister and I went to a GREAT! Scrapbook Event, sort of a expo....got the best deal and was so happy! I love my Creative Memories albums. Well some of you may know that they discontinued the very short lived landscape album (10x12). I have 2 of these and have needed refill pages for quite some time. They had 2 refills & pg protectors for 50% off. Woot! Woot!

So I've babbled enough, sorry if I went on for too long, but when you have such a great weekend its easy to babble. Have a excellent week my fellow creative bloggers!

BTW....check out my sister's new blog she is new to the blog world and has only posted once so far, and really its an introduction.....at www.scrappylos.blogspot.com

Lazy Rainy Days

So this weekend was super rainy and gloomy, thats ok it was a great weekend still. I stayed in completed and started some challenges. Got to do my first blog hop w/ SPCC, first time for them hosting a blog hop. Too much fun, and lots of inspiration! We all need that from time to time. I actually learned alot about going green while scrapbooking. Something I've gone green on (but didn't think of it this way until I read others green stuff) is that I take cake frosting containers clean them up, take the label off, and create a new label and use it for storage. Try it, perfect size for so many things. Darn it, I should of taken a picture of some of mine. I will and post later.



My first card here is for the SPCC #38

Serious? My coloring is off again. I think the computer at home needs to have some adjusting. I saw bright pink. Well either way it was fun using the colors that I did, cuz I normally would not. You should go to http://www.spcolorcombos.blogspot.com/ to see what the other entries are, beautiful stuff for sure!

My second challenge #43 is over at http://www.allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/ this week they chose a color combination. I got to work w/ my favorite colors, black, pink & white. Awesome!

Well its time to start this week off, and I actually have Tuesday and Friday off so I'm hoping to finish the other challenges that I started. Happy for the lazy rainy days this past weekend. BTW the weather channel is calling for sunshine all week and next weekend will be more rain. Oh yea, my sister and I are going to Macomb Community College for a Scrapbook show. Yay for us!

Good Morning!

So it's a new week and a new Monday morning post, I don't have much to say. Gotta get busy, here is my card for www.spcolorcombos.blogspot.com & www.allsortschallenge.blogspot.com this week.
SPCC color combo and at Allsorts its Just For Men. I love when I can combine challenges. Have a great day everyone!

What a fab weekend!!!!

Good morning all, its Monday again, and we have to start another work week. No bother, gotta do it to get to another weekend! So how was your weekend? Good I hope for all.

I was able to get some cards done this weekend. The challenge this week at http://www.allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/ was to make a Mother's Day card. I made 2, one for my mom and another for my someday mother-in-law. The above card is my entry for this challenge the 2nd card I thought I would just share with everyone.

Well the rest of my weekend was great, I got to visit with my brother and all of our family so that we could celebrate his birthday. It was very nice there aren't many visits between all of us, we have to be careful or too much time goes by.

My son asked to play in the snow while his dad was shoveling. So I got his snowpants on him with a quickness. I got so many great shots of him playing in the snow. I have to say taking photos in the wintery snow with him playing are my favorite types of pictures to take. Plus scrapbooking those photos are always awesome too. While dad was shoveling our snow he decided to help our neighbor with her walkway up to her door. It didn't last very long but for being 5 years old
I thought that was pretty cool, she did too.

He played for about 30 minutes then asked to go in so that he could warm up. No problem! It was quite chilly.

Well the rest of my weekend was just being lazy, relaxing around the house oh and I got a fab new haircut, thank goodness for a minute there I looked like one of the Jonah's Brothers, then I started to have what I thought looked like a Carol Brady-d0. E-gads! What would have been next if I hadn't gotten a cut.....Billy Ray Cyrus for sure, you know Achey Breaky Heart days.

I did go to dinner with my men (son & bf) and naturally I played Keno. Alittle history with me and Keno well I play the same for 4 numbers every time for 5 games at $2 a game. So the prize is double. I never win :O( I decided to switch it up a bit this time, I chose 17, bf chose 36 & our son chose 5 & 80. I only played $1 games.....and guess what I won $75. I'm a winner finally!

Ok so I'm a little chatty this morning, but it truly was a terrific weekend. I'm looking forward to the next one. Have a great week everybody!

I heart challenges!

So I've been exploring this blog world for about 2 months now. I am totally getting into these challenges I find all over the blog. I have been doing the challenges over at Allsorts for about 4 weeks now. That site gives me all sorts of inspiration to make cards. I like doing cards but I'm not as detailed as they get with all their copic markers (to which I've only heard of since I've started blogging). I have to say I'm curious to see them, and try them out. So as I am a true scrapbooker at heart I searched for some new sites this past weekend. I did discover another site on Saturday SPCC, it seems to be more scrapbookers and their challenge is all based on the color combos, so the colors they provide are what you have to work with. I also came to Practical Scrappers they try to get you to use your stash. I am excited to join all of challenges. I hope to keep them straight, and to keep up with it all because it will help keep me up to date. I've already completed the Allsorts and posted. Now here is my take on SPCC. Funny about 2 weeks ago I started a Allsorts and didn't have enough time to finish and post in time. Well the LO had 2 of the 3 colors on it that SPCC was asking for, so I was able to complete it last night by adding the third color.

Allsorts Challenge Week 40

Good Evening, I did a card this morning for my brothers birthday that will be coming up on the 27th. Over at the Allsorts Challenge this week it was Tag, Ticket or Label. Sorry I don't really have much to say, I'm at my sisters and gotta rush home to the fam to make dinner. I'm thinking loaded nachos or tacos. Hope everyone is having a great weekend. Bye for now!

Allsorts of fun!

So I did another challenge at the http://www.allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/ 3, 2, 1....this was fun. I've decided in order to complete a challenge I must create before the weekend is up, otherwise I won't get it done. I did do last weeks but wasn't able to post in time. Bum deal I know but it's all good because I got 2 pages done last week. Got to keep it up it helps w/ keeping me caught up. 2 thumbs up to Allsorts!!

So here is my take, 3 papers, 2 ribbons & 1 very super cute pic!


Highlights of my weekend:
-Well my sister Barby and neice Shelby were in town they live in Kentucky and are here for a few days only! Got to see them last night for a short visit.
-Completed 2 scrapbook pages. So that's not a lot but better than nothing.
-Shared valentines day w/ my family. We went to have a nice lunch.
-Got to drop off hot pink tulips to my mom.
-Took a nice nap Sunday. Awesome!
-Bought 2 sweaters at Macy's, a Donna Karen & some other designer brand.....$129 regular but after a number of discounts and my $25 gift card I ended up only paying $8.47! Um that is sweet!

That's all I have today, have a good week!

1st Challenge at Allsorts

Hello all....

So I was doing challenges with a company that I had found on fb, but they never seemed to do as they said they would. Always giving extra time to complete the project, never announcing who the winner was yada yada. So now that I'm part of this blog world I came across Allsorts and I love the format of the challenges you can scrapbook pages, cards, gift boxes whatever your little ole heart desires as long as you follow the theme that is given.

So I did my very first challenge yesterday, now I'm a scrapbooker all the way and dabble very little in cardmaking. I noticed at first everyone did cards with such elaborate designs. I looked through the other crafty bloggers and saw such beautiful cards. I decided well I'll do a scrap page, then changed my mind because my sister went in for surgery yesterday and thought lets do a "Get Well" card. So I did, and I was very surprised at the pretty card that I made, where it may not be as fancy as the others but it is way beyond what I've done before in cardmaking. So I'm posting, to which I need to figure out how to post on that Mr. Linky deal. Above to the left is the sketch we had to follow and then my take on it on the right.

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