A very succesful 1st All Day Crop.....

First let me whine minute :D I had a wonderful time at the PS 37 All day crop. It was a school fundraiser that I saw on Facebook. My partner in crime, Erin, and I cropped from 8 AM to 7 PM and it was a very productive day. In between winning little prizes (and breakfast, lunch and dinner) we managed to get a lot done. Here is the 8 page layout and card challenge that were completed. The pictures are not the greatest but they will do for now ....

Here is the title page from our Aquarium trip this summer. The porthole and aquarium die cut are from a company that shall remain nameless. I was very disappointed as the diecut has tears in it. The city name was cut with the Cricut Life's a Beach cartridge. I really like this one and may have to put this one on my have to have list!

Here are the next two 2 page layouts. The paper for the last page is actually Provocraft paper from 1999. Go figure. Here is a closeup. I embellished the paper with fish stickers from Walmart. I called this "in the belly of the whale".

These pics were taken outside of the aquarium. We do not have many pictures of all of us together (hubby is the photographer). For the Title and the arrow I used my Cricut Solutions Stone Script cartridge that I had not opened before. You cannot really tell but the pictures on the bottom of page 2 were two separate shots that I took so they would line up. Who needs a panoramic camera :)

The last but not least layout was made with a Stamping up scrapbook kit called Love Birds Simply Scrapping kit. You get so much in these kits and I always have extra left over. This was a fitting end to these layouts because it is the love of my life who inspires me!

Erin and I worked on cards as well. This week's Scrappy Jak challenge was Black and white. I had to also add a little bit of color to make me happy. This was made using the card feature from Life's a Beach. As I said before, I love this cartridge!

This last one is a card front that I asked Erin to make as a sample for me. She made it in my favorite color of course!

It was a wonderful day but one running on very little sleep. I think that is why I feel so sick today. Duty calls though so I must go to work tomorrow. I hope you all get to experience an all day crop. Next time I plan on being more organized to get more done. Until next time....

Happy Scrappin,

Sue

Dino-mite

I know, cheesy right? Well, I was preparing some die cut hearts for my Sunday school class tomorrow and decided to play with my Create a Critter Cricut cartridge when I was done. For some reason this dinosaur was calling to me. And I decided to make his buddy too! I have also decided I am in serious need of a paper run! I was also too lazy to go downstairs for the Cuttlebug for the blue dinosaur. I am sure I will be making more of these in the near future. So without further delay...

There were so cute that I just had to share. I have some card challenges I found online today that will be great for these guys. I will be sure to post them when they are done. Until next time.....

Happy Scrappin'

Sue

Lookie what I found.... Papercraft Star

http://papercraftstar.blogspot.com/2010/09/lets-celebrate-early-enter-our-2500.html

This is a cool website and I think I will be doing the sketch challenge today

Happy Scrappin'

Sue

Drum roll please.......

As I promised, we were to pick the winner of the blog candy today. There were 6 comments posted and all 6 are followers of my blog. The numbers were assigned in order of posting:

#1: Erin

#2: Scrappy Scavenger

#3: cowbelleru

#4: Melissa

#5: Dream cards

#6: Christy scrappin

And the winner is......

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#5: Dream cards - Patty, I will be contacting you via email today to get your mailing address.

Thanks all for playing along and I will be sure to have another one next month :)

Happy Scrappin'

Sue

Happy pre-TGIF!!!!

Good evening and welcome to all our new followers. I am so glad that you have stopped by. My vision for this blog is for it to grow into a place where we can share our love for all things papercrafting. I was thinking about this on my way to work today. I have a full time job in addition to home and hearth so my crafty times tend to be on the weekends. I was thinking how I see all these beautiful ornate cards and wonder, "How'd they do that?" So I hope to be able to share some videos soon. I am blessed with a great husband who LOVES to do videos. So that may be a possibility in the near future!

I am so excited about our first giveaway on the blog. I am sure that it will not be our last. So, please feel free to share this with all your crafty friends. The more the merrier I always say! And on that note, I will have to say good night. Duty calls in the AM. I hope to hear what wonderful things you will be creating this weekend. So, feel free to comment below. Until next time.....

Happy Scrappin'

Sue

It's Manic Monday.....

Happy Monday all :) It has been a pretty good day. Got together with my scrappin' buddy, Erin, We had to make a card for her boss who is going to have surgery. I had an epiphany at work and came up with two card sketches. One became the get well soon card and the other a Scrappy Jak challenge card. We also had a time limit so we had to work quickly. Here are the cards that we made.....

Actually looking at it, both of these would qualify for the pink Scrappy Jak challenge. Both the chick and the banana are from the Cricut Create a Critter cartridge.

I wanted to share a project that I worked on with my son for school. He was sure happy to have a scrapbooking Mom with all the colored paper. Here is David's Acrostic Poem....

Well, that is all I had time for tonight but wait until Sept 24th when Erin and I have a sleepover crop! I am sure there will be loads of projects made that night! Until next time....

Happy Scrappin'

Sue

Are you ready for some football?

I am. I don't really get to watch much and Monday Night football is out of the question but I do track and see how my NY teams do. Being a NY girl at heart, I just can't help it.

Today I made good use of my time. I was pretty much stranded so I decided to put together the cards for the die cut critters I made last weekend. I have so many card sketches I have designed and have to work on more of them. Here is what I came up with:

I decided to make one card of the set of 3 with a sentiment for these sets. I just love this happy little fellow!

Here are the two cards without sentiments. If I were to sell them online I am not sure if I would offer personalization. Any suggestions?

Here is the dragonfly. I would love to see him more sparkly for sure.

Here are the dragonfly twins :)

I think this one is my favorite! He was the first critter card I designed before even owning the cartridge!

I made two of these but they are identical :)

The sentiment in this one is one of many. I need to get a small alphabet stamp set one of these days but I am also a HUGE fan of handwriting on cards. They make them more homey to me.

And here are the owl twins. They are fraternal of course! The Inside has the same paper as the inside sentiment above.

And last but not least, the finished flower card....

I kind of switched gears on this one with the eyelets and the stamped sentiment (I normally wait to stamp until I need the card). The reason I did was this is a sample now. The glue did not dry clear so I was disappointed. C'est la vie as they say.

Well, I hope that you have enjoyed this post as much as I enjoyed sharing it with you. All comments are welcome. Until next time....

Happy Scrappin'

Sue