Half A Dozen Cards

Last month, Paper Crafts Magazine held an awesome contest for World Card Making Day. I made 8 cards and sent them off for a chance to win a prize package and have one of my cards published in their magazine . Although I didn't win, I am happy to know that the cards that I sent in will be donated to Operation Write Home, an organization that supplies our troops with blank handmade cards to write home on.

Here are 6 of the cards that I created:

supplies: Patterned Paper- Echo Park (Christmas Countdown, Merry Border Stripe); Cardstock- American Crafts; Flowers- Petaloo; Stickles- Ranger; Ribbon- AC Moore; Shimmering Spray- Creative Imaginations Luminarte; Pearls- Queen & Co; Rub-on- Pink Paislee; Border punch- Fiskars; Other: twine, vintage button

supplies: Patterned Paper- Echo Park (Christmas Countdown), Jillibean Soup (Cup Of Yak), Making Memories (Big Dot); Ribbon, floss- Making Memories; Button; Rub-on- Pink Paislee; Ink- Clearsnap; Stickles- Ranger; Adhesive- Helmar Premium Craft Glue, Zapdots, Quick-Fix Permanent Tape Runner

Patterned Paper- Jillibean Soup (Cup Of Yak); Cardstock- Bazzilll; Buttons- Stickopotamus; Twine; Rub-on- Royal & Langnickel; Pen- sharpie; Ink- clearsnap' Lace- Prima; Border Punch-Fiskars; Adhesive- Helmar Premium Craft Glue

Patterned Paper- SEI; Rub-on- Royal & Langnickle; Border punch- Martha Stewart; Ribbon- Joann’s; Adhesive- Helmar Premium Craft Glue, Zapdots; Other: twine, vintage button

Patterned Paper- The Girl’s Paperie; Cardstock- Worldwin (kraft), American Crafts (white); Stamp- Hampton Arts; Ink- Ranger (black), clearsnap (brown); Other: twine, vintage buttons, thread

Patterned Paper- Days Away; Cardstock- Bazzill (blue), Worldwin (kraft), American Crafts (white); Floss- Making Memories; Embossing folder- Cuttlebug; Pen- sharpie; Ink- Clearsnap; Circle Punch- Marvy Uchida; Rub-on- Scenic Route; Other: thread; Adhesive- Helmar Premium Craft Glue, Zapdots

Thanks so much for stopping by today!! Have a scrappy day!

Fantastic New (to me) Snack

I love to snack....I mean, I reallllly love to snack. Of course, some of the snacks that I eat are of the unhealthy variety (ahem), BUT I love the healthy stuff too!

Yesterday, I ran into my favorite supermarket, ShopRite, and found a super delicious and wholesome snack from the Snack Factory and I just HAD to share it with you!

I love pretzels, so when I saw these bags of pretzel thins sitting on a rack as soon as I walked through the door, they caught my eye.

I picked up the garlic parmesan flavor and let me tell you, those bad boys are goooood!! I'm eating some as I type up this blog post. They're baked and one serving (10 pretzel crisps) contains only 110 calories, 1.5 grams of fat and 3 grams of protein. Talk about yummy and healthful! I think I'm going to have to make my way back to the supermarket and get a few more bags. I used the $1 coupon on the bag, plus my ShopRite card and only paid $0.99!!

You see, it's the small things in life that make me happy!!

Have a great day!!

Disney's TANGLED Giveaway

To celebrate the release of Disney's new movie TANGLED, I am hosting a giveaway!!! I am so thrilled to share this with you!! The story of Rapunzel is one of my childhood favorites and as you know, TANGLED is Disney's take on this classic tale.


ITEMS FOR GIVEAWAY:

- Silly Bandz – set of 4 characters (Rapunzel, Flynn, Pascal, Maximus)

- General fit Pascal t-shirt in Adult and Youth sizes (S, M, L, XL)

- Female fit Rapunzel t-shirt in Adult and Youth sizes (S, M, L, XL)

- General fit Flynn Rider t-shirt in Adult and Youth sizes (S, M, L, XL)





I am giving away ONE of each T-shirt plus a pack of silly bands to 3 randomly chosen winners!!! All you have to do is post a comment here by 11:59 pm EST on November 24th.

Open to US residents only!!

As always, there are additional chances to win. Help spread word of this giveaway-- tweet about it on Twitter, post it on Facebook, or Blog about it and then post the links here and get an extra entry for each!! You can also get an additional entry by becoming a fan of this blog.

TANGLED opens in theatres everywhere on Wednesday, November 24 in Disney Digital 3D. I can't wait to see this movie...oh yeah, my kids can't either! LOL!

EEEEEKKKKKK!!!!!

It's almost Halloween...it's almost Halloween!!!

I love Halloween!! It's always been at the top of my list of fun holidays and now that I have children, I really get into it! I dress up with the kids and take them trick-or-treating and to whatever other fun events that I find in our area. I haven't gone as far as decorating my house yet, but I have a feeling that I will next year!

Last weekend, I took the boys on a hayride and pumpkin picking as part of our Fall tradition. We searched and searched for the perfect pumpkin to carve. I've never carved a pumpkin before (I know shocking, right?), but I treated it like a scrapbooking project and this is how it turned out. Really cute for my first try, right? It originally had 6 teeth, but I accidentally knocked out 3 of them as I wiped away some of the excess guts.


Today, I need to put on my endurance shoes and my patient panties, along with my witches' hat because the boys and I are going to 3 parties! That's a lot of running around...and a lot of kids all hyped up on sugar, mine included!! LOL!!

Not only is Halloween one of my favorite holidays, it's also one that I love making crafts for!! I swear I buy as many Halloween products and I do Christmas products.

I made these little pumpkin treat holders for Donovan to give to his classmates today. Each pumpkin houses a bag of chocolate covered pretzels...our fave!! YUMMY! I used my cricut to cut the eyes and freestyled the mouth.


Here are a couple more that I made for Purple Cows using the 2-in-1 trimmer and the straight and scoring blades. You can decorate them using cardstock, as I did in the previous photo or patterned paper as seen here. These are so versatile, just change up the colors to create your favorite ghouls (see the little Frankenstein in the back?). For complete instructions to recreate these treat holders, chick HERE.


I recently made this LO featuring Xander last Halloween for Creative Imaginations using Samantha Walker's new Harvest line. He was all decked out in his little Frankenstein costume that once belonged to his big brother. Isn't he adorable?

For complete instructions to recreate this layout, click HERE.


This final project is not a Halloween project, but it features my 2 favorite little ghouls in the whole wide world!!


I created this for gonescrapbooking/examiner.com. Here some close-up of the details and those fabulous My Mind's Eye products.





Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today! I hope these Halloween projects have inspired you to dig in your Halloween stash.

Have a safe and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Don't forget to check back on Monday for a "hair raising" giveaway!

Cards

Just popping in to post a couple of projects that I created for gonescrapbooking/examiner.com

There was a time when I didn't consider myself to be a cardmaker...and suddenly, I guess I am. I love making cards now.



Thanks for stopping by!! Stay tuned for a giveaway coming in November!!

Helmar Halloween Howler Blog Hop

Welcome to Helmar's Halloween Howler Blog Hop!!! If you've just hopped in from the very talented Gayle's blog, then you've made it halfway through and are well on your way! If you just happened upon my blog and want to join in on the fun, we're more than happy to have you along. Just go back and start at Helmar's blog and make your way to the end. There are tons of prizes at stake, so be sure you leave comments on all of the blogs along the way.

I am featuring Helmar Foam Zapdots and Helmar Professional Acid Free Glue on my projects. I love the levels of dimension that the zapdots allow me to achieve. The acid free glue is specially made for book binding and doesn't leave my projects feeling stiff.

I traced one of the the ghost pages from a Nikki Sivils chipboard album to create this Happy Howl-O-Ween card. I inked strips of white cardstock and used Professional Acid Free glue to randomly place them across the card. I used foam Zapdots on a few of the strips to add dimension.


supplies: cardstock- American Crafts; ink- Clearsnap; rub-on- Melissa Frances; googlie eyes- Nicole Craft; Adhesive- Helmar Professional Acid Free Glue, Helmar Zapdots

For this Frankenstein card, I used foam Zapdots to pop up the eyelids and nose for dimension. To create the hair, I used Martha Stewart's icicle punch and black cardstock.

Inside of the card reads: "Wishing You A Monster-rific Halloween".


supplies: Cardstock- Worldwin, Bazzill, American Crafts; stickles- Ranger; border punch- Martha Stewart, ink- clearsnap; silver paper- Creative Imaginations; Adhesive- Helmar Professional Acid Free Glue, Helmar Zapdots

This last project was created for one of Helmar's Preferred Partners, Purple Cows. I used the 2-in-1 trimmer along with Partner Products from Cosmo Cricket, Clear Scraps, Clearsnap, magic mesh to scrap these photos of my son from last Halloween.

I used more foam zapdots to give the bat a little lift.

I even added in a little 450 Quick Dry--it's perfect for adhering acrylic elements.

supplies: patterned paper, stickers- Cosmo Cricket; acrylic frame- Clear Scraps; ink- Clearsnap; mesh- Magic Mesh; pen- Marvy; trimmer- Purple Cows; Adhesive- Helmar Zapdots, Helmar 450 Quick Dry, Helmar Professional Acid Free Glue

Thank you so much for joining the blog hop!! I hope all of the projects featured will inspire your creativity! Just click on the arrow below to be taken to Amy's fabulous blog!

Two Scrapbook Layouts and Two Cards

Fall has officially arrived here in New Jersey. Believe it or not, I had to turn the heat on yesterday. All of the rain we've received has really cooled things down. The temperature in my house was hovering around 62 degrees, which is way too cold for my blood. I like it around 68...maybe 70...not too hot and definitely not too cold. I love Fall because of the beautiful color palette, but I'm still not completely ready to let go of the warm weather, so I'm hopeful for a few more 70 degree days.

One thing I do enjoy about the colder weather is getting to stay inside to do what I love most...scrapbook!!! All of the beautiful colors of Fall inspired the colors on this layout that I created for Helmar Adhesives, using Premium Craft Glue.

Premium Craft Glue is one of my "go to" Helmar Products, especially when I'm creating a project like the one below, where I've used thin strips of paper, borders, and ribbon. I use Premium Craft Glue on everything and I don't have to worry about it oozing out, causing a sticky, glue-y mess. It adheres ribbon perfectly...I couldn't ask for a more versatile adhesive!! I used Quick-Fix Permanent Adhesive Runner, another of my faves, to adhere my photos.

All of the products used here (except gems and bull clip) are from Preferred Partner, Jillibean Soup. I love how easily these products go together and how well they accentuate the photos of my little "Professor", a nickname give to him by my mother-in-law.

I took these photos of Donovan in his Kindergarten classroom on the day of his graduation.

This layout was created using a PageMap sketch.

This All About Me layout was created for gonescrapbooking/examiner.com. I love using lots of patterned paper on my layouts, but I wanted to keep this one simple since there was a lot of journaling. The circle design helped me to achieve both. I was able to include 16 different patterns (18 if you count the die-cuts) without overwhelming the page. To read the journaling click here. I mixed quite a few October Afternoon lines with some from The Girl's Paperie and I love the turn out.

The photo is a self-portrait taken 2 months ago on my 36th birthday.

A few other things that I love about cooler weather: eating creamy tomato soup from Panera Bread (which I had for lunch today), drinking yummy flavored teas and hot chocolate, pulling out my favorite sweaters, and scrapping winter events which usually means including my favorite color, blue!

I made this card for gonescrapbooking/examiner.com using Petaloo's new reindeer dazzlers and glittered paper. I created the "snowy" background by embossing the cardstock...love my epic six!!

And finally...a card I created just because!! I'm getting a head start on my Christmas cards this year..YAY!! These sweet little papers are from Creative Imaginations new Polar Express collection. I recently created a layout of Xander during his first Christmas season and I can't wait to share it with you!

I hope wherever you are in the world that you are staying warm and dry and taking the time to scrap those memories!!

Thanks for stopping by my blog! Until next post...happy scrapping!