I'll come back someday ;)

For all those who read this, all 2 of you maybe if I'm lucky :)

I hope to be creative sometime in the future but who knows when it will really happen. I've been missing in action all month for reasons that have now led to just feeling crappy so I hope to get back with it soon but I can't make any promises ;)

Before and After pics

My scrap area is not the most glamorous room in our house, it's in the unfinished basement with plastic covered insulated walls! But......it's my space to use how I want to i TRY not to complain. I decided I needed to reorganize and for me that involves ripping almost everything out and starting over. so here are some pics that actually are kinda embarrassing but hey I love some good before and after pics so I thought you might like them too!

And here are the afters..... it's still not "cute" but it's better for sure!!!

a few cards....

Okay so May is almost over and I've hardly posted a thing! Shame on me!

I've been working on cleaning up my room (pics to come)

and scrapping our Disneyland trip (from last year hehe)

I think I've put off doing the trip for fear it wouldn't turn out perfect, pretty lame reason to not do it!!! I guess I should do our wedding pics next!

Here are 2 cards I made for birthdays this month.

I absolutely love my new American Crafts stamp set! 

"a little birdie told" sentiment can go with anything.

This picture is so pathetic! but the power was out and we were taking a walk to the mailbox to mail it so it was a dark pic or nothing!!!

The Pink Stamper challenge page

Here is my first challenge from The Pink Stamper. I so loved doing all of these, I wish I could have done all 10 but time run out.  This challenge was to do something brown and pastel. I know the flowers in the corner are a bit brighter, but the back ground is a nice pastel blue and I really love how this turned out. It was such a simple page and I kept trying to add more to it but it just didn't need anything else.

Challenge #2

This challenge was to create something new that you have never done. I know it's lame but I had never made a baby card, so here is my first. Okay a I think I just lied =) as I typed that I just realized that I've made baby shower invitations. But I honestly didn't remember that until just now. Oh well, I really like how this one turned out. I used a mistake brown scallop from the last page I had made and a left over elephant from a different page and the scraps. So this was really fun to see how it all came together.

Another Challenge

This challenge by The Pink Stamper was to create kid page. 

(NSD challenge #3)

I love these pictures! I look so happy, and I usually don't love pictures of myself (who does?) My little guy was finally get big enough for me to hold him and it was so wonderful!

I also LOVE this new stamp I got, and I'm glad I've used it. Isn't it darling?!

NSD Challenge

Here's my version of The Pink Stampers NSD challenge #5.

 This challenge was a sketch page.

I took this opportunity to work some more on my littlest guys baby pages. These are fun to scrap now, but there was way to much going on back then to even think about doing them. Three weeks in the NICU and daily milk delivery trips with an hour drive time, and 2 very active toddlers! I remember people asking me if I spent all day at the hospital with my baby and I thought seriously he doesn't know when I'm gone and my other kids do. Don't get me wrong I would have loved to stay with him more but they are the ones that "needed" me.

These pictures are from the day we brought him home. He was so small in that car seat it didn't even seem safe enough for him. We didn't even have the bassinet ready for him yet, so the first night he slept in a laundry basket next to my bed. It was the only safe thing I could think of.

Blog slacker :)

Wow it I sure have been a blog slacker!!! We had spring break this last week so we've been out playing with the kids. We had very warm 70's weather on Monday and then a foot of snow later in the week, pretty crazy for "spring break." 

Just before we left for our mini vacation my vinyl order arrived and I couldn't even play with it until today. So here is what I've created.....

I'm doing another craft night with my church soon. This is a quote from our Prophet last October so I thought it was perfect to make for themselves or for a mother's day gift.

(wow do I need to dust behind that red plate or what)

This one is bigger about 12x12 so I put it on the wall in the entry way. LOVE IT!!!!

Color CAS Challenge

YAY I finally had a chance to make a card with Kraft paper. I must admit this was a first for me. But I promise it won't be the last. This paper goes with everything, I think it's as much of a must as white or black :)

2 Sketches 4 You

This sketch was so much fun!!! The possibilities were endless. I used my newest font DB Woodsy to cut the Die Cuts and they turned out fabulous!!! I was so excited how well they cut. 

My Happy Wall

I almost forgot to share with you all (if anyone is really out there) what I made for my bedroom wall. I used some left over vinyl I had from some old projects I made with my little cricut to make these. I haven't really used vinyl since those projects since I had the small cricut, now with the big one and hopefully a new house soon my brain is exploding with ideas!!! 

The biggest one in this picture measures about 17 inches, if I had had more vinyl I would have made them all bigger, but this was a practice run and  I will make a better one for the new house (keeping the fingers crossed.)

I've just loved these they make me happy just to see them every morning, okay maybe not on really grouchy days :) Do you all have those days too or is it just me? 

on a side note here's a crazy story. So our littlest guy decided to grab onto the hand rail of the escalater at the mall today....well he is still really short and it started to carry him up and over to the top and he's feet started to come off the ground and he was about to go down, luckly my hubby and I got to him (each from opposite sides) just in time. It scared him pretty bad which is actually good if you ask me. I have to say my heart was racing for quite awhile afterwards too!!! As we went down I reallized he most likely wouldn't have been hurt too badly but still..... how can someone so short always manage to be so fast and get away from us?

Little Dollies

Have you ever seen such cute dolls? I absolutely love these little people, they are so fun to make too. I buy the patterns from Owlishly's Etsy shop, be careful if you don't want to buy anything then don't visit her shop!!! They are so adorable you just can't resist them I think I have about 7 patterns now :) don't tell DH.

My little niece had a birthday coming up and so I decided to whip one up, she was turning one and it would be perfect. I happened to be working on it at my other sister's house when her daughter (soon to be 10) asked what I was making, I had just told her when she blurted out "you can make one for my birthday!!!" Well how could I not with all that excitement. I now need to make a whole slew of them there are a lot of niece birthdays the end of March beginning of April. But I enjoy doing it.

2Sketches 4 You

I used the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch to make this card.

 This card was so fun to make!!! I used my new Bo Bunny ruler to make the curvy line. I love that the blue paper matched my swirls cuttlebug folder so I used that to make the bottom circles have a bit more character. And who can live without pop-dots? The card was so plain until I added the dimension too it. When it was first coming together I was hating this card it just wasn't looking good at all, and then it just went great. 

Thanks for looking!

CPS109 Fly away

I used the CPS sketch to make this card, I didn't follow it too closely but I LOVE how this turned out. I think it's one of my most favorite cards I've ever made I just love how it came together and it's so simple and was very easy to make!!! Thanks for stopping by to look!

Kid Decor

I must say that I am usually the most boring mom when it comes to holiday decorations for my kids (except Christmas) It seems I always forget to get them out until just before Valentines or Easter and by then I think why bother. So this year I decide that I would make something with paper and laminate it. Plus I had just received my new Expression for my birthday and needed a reason to use it right? Now I could make cute holiday things that were BIG. I made a bunny representing each kid and put them on their bedroom doors and one for the hallway. Then I punched holes in the huge eggs and strung it along the banister (the ribbon isn't my fave, but I was trying to use what I had) WOW the kids were so excited!!! It was like Christmas to them, I am really going to try and be better at doing things like this in the future, and now you can help me be accountable.