8 Days To Go!

Only 8 more days until Christmas...can you believe it? I certainly can't! I swear, I'm getting worse at getting my decorations up in a timely fashion every year. I bought my Christmas Tree a couple of days ago and it still sits...undecorated! I'm going to do it tomorrow, though...I promise. The good thing is I'm just about finished with Christmas shopping. I have a few gift cards to pick up and then I'll spend a few days next week wrapping everything up. I'm excited to see the looks on my boys faces when they wake up on Christmas morning.

Part of the reason that I'm so behind is the fact that I've been tied to my scrap desk...and boy what a messy desk it is. I'm busy creating CHA products to get ready to ship to CA, keeping up with my DT assignments and creating some stuff...just because.

I created this project quite a while ago, but never posted it here. I love making these little gift bags from dies. I put a lot of work into this one, creating a shaker box on the front for added visual interest. All of the dies are from Cheery Lynn Designs, the flowers are from Petaloo and the papers are from Pink Paislee's Queen Bee line. I used my Purple Cow Laminator to laminate the lattice die cut to make the shaker box.

This bag can be easily adapted to create a gift bag for any occassion. Here's another one that I created for Christmas along with step by step directions.

I know it's December and most people have their minds on the upcoming holidays, but I couldn't help creating a layout featuring some of my favorite pictures of Donovan from Halloween. This was the first time that he chose a scary costume and he really got into the acts. Check out his Zombie stance!

I used Pink Paislee Hocus Pocus collection, which suited my pics perfectly. I took apart one of the DooDads and used it to mat one of the small circle photos. I never thought I'd ever use a fly rub-on, but I found a home for them here...I mean what self respecting Zombie doesn't have flies buzzing about?


Well, that's all I have for now, but I'll be back later this week with an adorable altered project.

Have a fantastic week!!

52 Week Project - October Photos

Can you believe it? 44 weeks down...and only 8 more to go until the end of the year. I've stuck with the 52 Week Projects!! I've snapped some photos a little late...ran out of ideas...thought of some news ones...and found inspiration from other participants.

Here are the photos that I captured during the month of October.


Week 40/52 - taken 10.15.11 in my backyard before heading to Maryland to hang out with my girlfriends at a wine festival.

Week 41/52 - taken 10.16.11 I love a sexy pair of shoes and fishnet pantyhose!

Week 42/52 - taken 10.22.11 creating something beautiful in my messy scrap room...

Week 43/52 - taken 10.23.11 One beautiful autumn day at Parker Farms

Week 44/52 - 10.30.11 One of my 2 costumes this year

Love the photo, but hate the fact that the belt is not in place...guess I have to just embrace that imperfection.

I had fun dressing up with my boys for Halloween...as always!

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Happy Halloween!!

Have I got a really great, super fun Halloween project featuring Core'dinations cardstock, May Arts ribbons, and Petaloo flowers.

I created a Halloween card and a few treat boxes...after all, Halloween is all about the treats, right?!

I traced a cube gift box onto 3 pieces of cardstock, cut and then formed into a box. I embossed the front panels for each item and used Core'dinations' sanding block to expose the core and then adhered to each treat box. I then added coordinating ribbons, flowers, and Spider dazzlers to complete the set.

close-up of the details


Thanks for stopping by the blog today. Have a safe and happy Halloween.

Full of Bella Blvd

Just pictures today...





Later,

Favorite Cards of 2010

I made more cards in 2010 that ever before and there's no slowing down now. Seems like the more I make, the more I fall in love with card making.

These are my 10 favorite cards from 2010:

Spider Halloween Card


Thanks Card
Joyeux Noel Card


Kraft Butterfly Card


Get Well Card


Pleated Flower Card


Be Happy Card


You Color My World Card


Thanks A Bunch Card


Perfect Pair Card

Creative Imaginations Overload!!

All of the following projects were created (between March and August) for Creative Imaginations.

Card: IOD Loolah

Corina Accordian Mini and Box: Jen Mason Hocus Pocus Click here to see the album in full.



12x12 Amanda Frame: Samantha Walker Christmas Traditions and Luminarte Paints

Layout: Oceana



Card: Debbie Mumm Back To School

Card: Creative Cafe Robots Rock and Luminarte Paints


Card: Creative Cafe Robots Rock

Layout: Helen Dardik Cutie Pie Boy
flowers, foam alpha- Petaloo

Thanks for taking a peek!

Happy Monday

In less than 2 weeks, I will be sitting back, chilling with my family, and stuffing my face with some gooooooood homemade food. I can not wait for Thanksgiving!! My sister and I have taken over the cooking in our family, so we're in the process of getting the menu together--well in reality, we usually cook the same traditional feast, but we have to divvy up the tasks.

I have to make sure to remember to get photos this year. I'm always so caught up in the hooplah, that I forget to take the camera out.

I have a few projects to share with you today. The first 2 were created for Petaloo. Remember these photos that I took at the butterfly farm in St. Martin? Well, I've finally gotten around to scrapping them. I combined papers from Pink Paislee and Webster's Pages to create a neutral background that allows the photos to pop. Then I added a few dazzlers for a touch of color.

I used Jenni Bowlin papers and brown berry picks from the Canterbury Collection on this card.


This last project was created for gonescrapbooking/examiner.com. I used Echo Park's adorable Halloween line along with that super cute spider sticker from Reminisce to create this card. Is this cute or what?



I'm also thrilled to announce that I made the Design Team for Cheery Lynn Designs!!! So stay tuned for lots of inspiring projects using their dies!

Thanks for stopping by the blog today!! Have a wonderful day!

Fall/Halloween Photos

We had a very busy Halloween weekend. The boys and I attended 3 parties the Friday before Halloween and went to a Fall festival and trick-or-treating with my sister and nephew on Sunday. Needless to say, we had fun!!!

I really scored with these Halloween costumes from Old Navy. The shark costume was $9.99 and the Superman costume cost a whopping $4.99! The boys have been wearing them since a week before Halloween and Xander still wears his!! Definitely getting my money's worth!




Of course, I had to get in on the act, too! I'm just a big kid at heart and Halloween really brings it out in me!!


I took the boys to a local garden center the weekend before. We went on a real hayride! No bales of hay for us, nope...the wagon was filled with loose hay for us to sit in. It was very messy, but they loved it! Donovan had a ball on the hay slide, AKA a very large dirt hill covered with hay. They roamed through a small corn maze and slung pumpkins into a field. We picked up a nice pumpkin to carve and then headed home.

These are a few of my favorite pictures from that day.








Thanks for stopping by my blog today!! Have a wonderful week!!