Project life pages

hello everyone so glad you could stop by and view some of my projects, so lets get to it here are some of my project life pages that also add on to my 50 projects

Im going to start from week 21 and work my way back, (because not all these count into my 50 projects,) I started the project life before the 50 projects this is week 21 and on almost every week you will see something I cooked and something that my fur baby has done and at least one thing that I have either made or ordered, it should be fun to look back on next year

some weeks are more active then others so I take filler pages and tell about something I love, doing, listening to reading anything that's about me or someone in the family,

I try and put at least one picture once a month of gas prices just to look back on and keep up with, and if there's something going on around this little town, a new building coming up, a parade a fair I try and go and take pictures

 

I have a lot of quotes pinned to my pintrest and I like to use them in my project life pages they come in handy as fillers and they are so true.

 

my book is on its way, I'm really far behind but I will keep on pushing until it is finished its really fun working on it and it is a nice keepsake to look back on.

50 projects almost there

ok are you ready for some more projects, here are some that where given away to friends and family, this feels so good

this is a paper bag mini that I made for my friend at the office, she is a grandma and keeps all here photos in her phone, I spyed this unfinished mini on a shelf in my craft room and the light bulb went off. so I got in contact with her 3 girls and asked them to send me some pictures that they had sent their mom already I had them send them to my phone and I had them printed at my local Walgreens and the book took off, now these brown bags, lord knows I have gobbs and gobbs of them in that room, I was so happy to find a use for them so I grabbed one and went to decorating to match the book, put some tissue paper and it was lovley (presentation is everything to me)

the paper I used was DCWV I think its called safari  did a lot of fussy cutting and used some glitter flowers I had laying around in my stash, I tried to place a flower every where she had to pull out a tag (she is not a crafty person) I left here lots of room for journaling and some room to add more pictures if she wishes,

 

I also found some children quotes I had and tried to used a lot of them in this book, with the create a critter cartridge, I was able to embellish with a bit of whimsy, I came in early that morning and left it on her desk with no note or card and she knew just who put it there, and she loved it, I know she will cherish it and take very good care of it. that made me feel good.

here are some small junke journals I made for another co-worker's daughter, she works in a pet store and always has to write something down, what better way then to use a personalized journal so I pulled out my pet paper (I also have a lot of that) and started cutting, the pet paper is random I picked some up everytime my local scrapbook store (when they were open) had some and it started to pile up but this was the answer to that I used a lot of that paper but I still had a few sheets left, she has not received the books yet her mother is waiting for her birthday next week, I cant wait to see here face when she opens the bag, (oh yes I decorated another bag for this gift to, I'm loving this make and give away it's great and I use a lot of things that I have been hoarding lol)

 

that's it for now, next time I will share some of my project life layouts.

More Projects

Hay I'm back and I have some more of my 50 projects to share, I'm really on a roll here and enjoying every minuet here. I am using things I brought some time ago and have never even opened up, it feels like Christmas every time I come in this room to craft its good to finally get them out of the package and using them. lets start with some vinyl projects. but first let me say, I have a large box of vinyl that I was hoarding for a while rolls and rolls of pretty vinyl that had never been opened, first I had to blow off the dust and open a few of them and I was so happy I had so much of the stuff. I opened up my cameo and picked out a few designs and phrases that I wanted to cut and I started on my journey after I had cut them and put them on the transfer tape and tried to transfer them to the place I wanted I could not believe it but the darn thing would not stick to nothing there was no sticky left on some of it so here are some of the things that I could get to stick

my black vinyl is one of the ones that no longer stick and I was heart broken because I wanted some of my phrases to be in black so I had to settle for navy blue, (oh well what ever works) I love this phrase it says Every family has a story Welcome to Ours it is on my front door.

 

this is my bedroom door I love this saying to it is just so fun, when my kids first saw it they didn't get it but after a few days they get it.

Here's my bedroom closet I read this every morning when I open my eyes, and it helps, the colors are not what I wanted but it was the only vinyl that would stick.

Now this is the only thing that I had in the color that I wanted. this is one of the colors in my bathroom I was just playing around with some of the flourishes in the cameo and came up with this one and I like it came out just right.

last but not least, this is my project life box, given to me by my bff Pocono Pam it keeps all my Becky Higgins core cards safe and sound and I thought it was a little plane so I added some phrases that I thought fit, they didn't stick to well and when I go to open it some of the letters fall off so I guess I will have to order some more vinyl and try this again but until then I will try and use every bit of that vinyl that I have that will stick. ok that's it for now will come back with more later.

 

Just a few of my 50 projects

.Hello there, sorry this post is a little (really late) AGAIN but I'm just slow about posting things so please bare with me I will get the hang of it. Like I said on youtube I have joined a facebook group called 50 projects and been having a really good time with it. (fell of the wagon a time or two but got right back on and got back to business) so here are some of my projects.

                                                               THE BOOK
 here is a book I made for my sister who came to visit for a week the book was sitting on my book case in the craft room unfinished for a very long time when I had finished the pages of my project life (the week of her visit) I had a hand full of left over pictures from her visit trying to figure out just what I was going to do with them, looked over at the book case and this little book was born, its a vertical paper bag mini and when I made up my mind what I was going to put in it, It really came together fast. I put all the pictures I had in here the paper line I used is Recollections Today Tomorrow Forever, I used Niki Riki Thickers for the title and some swirl bling to fill in the blanks, the image is a Inky Antics stamp called worldly women( I just love these spunky ladies) coloring them was a challenge but I will keep working at it.(coloring is another project)

here are some of the pictures in the book we went to Joes Crab Shack and had a ball, laughing and talking of old times. when the book was finished I boxed it up and mailed it to her house and when she received it she called me screaming I GOT MY BOOK THANK YOU SO MUCH it felt good to make someone happy with my craft. and since that felt so good off I went to my next project.

 

 

THE BAGS 

 My daughter Ashley has a jewelry business and is always in need of bags to deliver her product in, I was playing with some cuts on my Cameo and cut out these two bags and as soon as I took the pictures she swooped them up and used them, glad she liked them.

 

 

THE TREE

I have a friend who is a school teacher, and every year since she's been teaching I have helped her with her bulletin board, and it seems that every year is better than the last, this little tree was a flying by the seat of my pants kind of thing, she said she wanted some type of tree and I had no idea what or how, so after some online research and a lot of tree pictures, some trial and error this tree was born,

 

 

now the first tree I stapled to the board, my friend laughed so hard she could not hold it straight for me to staple (I had to admit I laughed a little too) but with the layering and cd's and leaves it turned out to be a cute little tree. I used my cameo to cut out the leaves, bird and squarle  I used brown paper bags for the tree trunk and branches,

 

 

for the branches I just took strips of the bag and twisted it really, tight  and glued them to the sides of the tree forming the 3d look on the board, the cd's came after the tree was completed, my friend looked at it and said what if we hang something from the branches? so she told me about a tree she saw online a technology tree, we gathered up some old cd's and this is the final results. I kind of  like it do you.

 

Ok that's enough for now will post more soon I got a lot of projects to get posted here thanks for stopping by see you soon.

It always seems that the first words in my posts are (I know I've been MIA) so I will just by past that and say that I have exciting news, a lot of exciting news and I should have been put it here but you know how that goes. lol well here goes first of all I reposted a video up on my youtube channel a while back and it went viral can you believe it the thing was seen by thousands of people, and for a brief time everyone in the scrapping community knew my name and a phrase or two I had in that video. How about that, lets see if I can get that thing over here. don't seem to do it so I will do it when I get home well anyway after that video everyone wanted to send me something and it was fun Tim Holtz can you believe it Tim sent me a box and made me a card/tag with his own hands just to say thank you for making me smile wow aint that something

 

 

aint this cool I just love it Tim Holtz sent me a tag all I can say is wow Now here is the box of goodies that Tim sent along with the tag

 

It was chalk full of goodies that I will have fun using that long flower die there I Love it I have the big one but I always said that he should have a small one and now its here and I use it all the time it is now my go to die when I need flowers for anything I just love it. he even sent me a set of his markers for this season the box was truly a blessing and I appreciate it so much, now after that Xxron heard about the video and wanted to send me something to

 

Love everything in this box to you cant have paper without glue and xxron covered every aspect of that I love every xxron machine I have and they sent refills for just about every one of them I've been using all this stuff too I was just what I needed I was really feeling good now it was like Christmas almost everyday the mail man or ups man showed up on my front door. it don't get better than this or dose it...a few weeks later the ups man knocked on the door again with another box and this one floored me

this one was from Teresa Collins and dose she Rock or what, this box was filled to the top with 5 yes 5 collections from the new line and everyone is great, I love them all and all the embellishments and everything was there, I'm in a world all by myself now. and loving it. this is the answer to the question, the icing on the cake the day that every crafter dreams of and I had it Me lil ol Me wow. now lets see what I made with all these lovely goodies. (tee-hee)

 

My weekend with Shianne

My niece came over Saturday and we spent just about the whole day in the craft room and this is the book she came up with. she did it all by herself all I did was show her how to use the tools and things like that I think she really enjoyed working with her hands and now she has a beautiful journal to talk to her child to be a lovely gift that will keep on giving when that child is old enough to read he/she can sit down and read all about mommy's adventures while they were still in her belly I just love it

this is little miss Shianne and me holding her book. we really must do that again. and when the day was over and she was getting ready to leave I blessed her with my cricut expression and she was in love I hope she has many happy times with it. It is really a great machine I just don't use it like I should I'm in love with my Silhouette. the Cricut really has nothing on my silhouette so why not find the Cricut a home where someone will use it and take care of it. I do believe that Shianne will take good care if it and use it to its fullest  and create many projects with it.

Hello all I'm back again and again I have soooo much to tell you let me start by saying HSN had a 24 hour craft day back in March  I really had a great time watching seeing that HSN has not done this in a long long time.  I started this post a while ago and never finished it so I will post it now.

                                        

So here is the box that arrived and it took me and Ashley to drag it into the house it was big and it was heave I was so excited I couldn't wait to open it up and dig inside.

Lets start with this, its Martha Stewart glitter, I got this for Ashley she is the glitter queen in the house and she really makes some beautiful things with it I think it has 12 tubes of some of the prettiest glitter you've ever seen I just love Martha's glitter if I hadn't used my Michaels coupon a few weeks before this show I would have got me one, I have the 20 bottle pack.

 

 

This I thought I was getting for Kristy but when it arrived she told me that it was not self adhesive and she couldn't use it but its not going to waste I got big plans for this glitter paper I used some of it on the wedding mini that I'm making for my nephew it cuts very well on my new Cameo, (OH I didn't tell you about that did I ok that will be my next post) 

 

Really getting into Project life with Becky Higgins so I ordered her Plum core Kit and I love love it love the colors and the patterns, I already have I think 2 core kits of hers, (Amber and Turquoise but not happy with them) and when I seen this one on HSN and heard Lisa say that this was exclusive to HSN I had to jump right on it

 

With the core kit I got the matching papers and the cards this kit is perfect for the summer months that you document and I also got the markers, I have a boat load of markers and a lot of them I just wore out the tips journaling so I had to start a new set, I just have to remember to get rid of the old ones. lol

Now this is something I have been wanting FOR EVER I just couldn't afford it and HSN had it for a price I could not pass up, my sister has one of these and she lives  by it. I have 3 the X and the 5" and I also have the that's a little larger mouth but every time I go to use them they were just not big enough no with this one I can get corner to corner glue coverage. I love it  

this here is the beginning of a washie tape addition I think I love this stuff its just great you can put it any where, and do anything with it. so when this came up on the screen I had to jump on it I love this stuff. well this is the stuff I got from HSN a while ago a lot of this stuff I have used already and had a good time playing with it. I will say ta-ta for now and will be back soon with a couple of projects.

This Weekend

 

Ok this weekend my beautiful  grand daughter graduated from Jr High into High School I am so proud the road here was rough sometimes but she made it

 

Now that was Friday, so Saturday I tried to spend the day crafting and it was just to hot in that room I'm goanna have to get me some AC back there, I'm trying my hand at collages now and saw a video on you tube with Yolie doing a collage on a mailing envelope, I just had to try it and so I did I like the way its turning out wish I could have spent more time on it but the heat was getting to me and had to leave it.  

Went to Wal-Mart the other day and came across this paper trimmer and I couldn't believe the price on it. the thing was $15.00 and I grabbed it up I've always wanted one of these it cuts 6 sheets of paper at one time Love it I found out that it needs another blade and now I have to go search out a blade for the darn thing but that's ok

I'm working on a book for my nephew who is getting married in June I am loving this book and I'm putting everything I got into it I get the feeling it wont be ready for the wedding date but I will mail it to him and his new bride.

This is the paper I'm using for the book got it at Wal-Mart and it really came in handy its all black and white and silver I have a lot of black and white paper pads but this one really works on this book

here's a picture of the naked book before any paper, I made the whole thing from chipboard and paper

well for now that's it will be back soon with another post

project life weeks 1-5

Soooo I've been working on this project life, been wanting to try it since Beckey Higgins came out with it a few years ago, but was afraid that I would not keep up with it so I didnt give it a shot, well this year Pam talked me into it, and so far its going along pretty good,
This is my title page I cut the tree and the title out with my trusty Silhouette and I just love it, the title card came from a core kit from Becky that I was not to happy with the name of the kit is Turquoise, I chose it because I love the color turquoise but not the case with this kit, I just dont like the designs on the back of the cards, but I tryed to find a way to get them into my book anyway. The paper I used is from jelly bean soup 6x6 pad, cant remember which one but I thought the trees on the one page was just right for my title page (what do you think????)

Now this is week 1 and I just love it more papers from jellybean soup and a few embellies as the pages come along you will see I get the hang of adding the embellies and picking out the papers I think I will add a quote or a saying to that blank box next to my daughter, it just looks so lost out there all by itself.

 

here it is again with the journaling and the quote now isnt that better lol

 

 

Week 2 is starting to look up, I'm getting the hang of this and it feels good and I'm gonna try to keep it up as long as I can, I like the fact that it only takes a short time to bring the week together and your done, its as easy as pulling out the photos, journaling on the cards and sticking them in the pockets and on to the next week, Its only as hard and complacated as you want to make it

 

 

I'm cooking with gas now I really like this page and when I look back on it a year or two from now I will be so glad that I put this book together. I received some core cards from Pam, (she got the amber kit and I love them so much better than mine. love them so much I had to purchase a set for myself.

 

 

week 4 I'm really getting into my stylenow and this is still fun, I used a lot of embellies , arrows and journaling this is comming along just great.

 

 

now last but not least this is week 5 and I really reached deep into the embellies I found some wood pieces at michaels, used up my grung board arrows pulled out some stickers I forgot I had and went to work.

Some time down the line I'm gonna get back to using my silhouette and cut out some of the phrases that I downloaded but right now I'm gonna try and us up as many stickers and chipboard that I can

But for now all the weeks and numbers are cut out using my silhouette 

 

Ok thats it for now, be back in a few with some more scrappy goodness. lol

I know I know-- I have not posted anything in a long long time, (lol) but I'm here now, and boy do I have a lot to say, (what I think I will do is just make a different post for all the different things I've got to say, first off let me start by saying that this weekend is all about the crafting and getting my eat on. Ashley has to go to work at 2 so I'll be here all by my self just me and the crafting: so I got my crock pot going with some beef and broccoli and in the frig marinating is something called ham and cheese shooters, I guess I should tell you that I got all these recipes from pintrest so I guess you can say that its another craft that I've got going on today lol.

ham and cheese sliders

beef and broccoli

I also want to mix up a pan of oven baked chicken fajitas, they are SO good, I don't want to have to worry about food at all this weekend, this weekend is for crafting.

Next: when I got home Friday from work this is what I saw

 

Yep I had a package, I bet you cant guess what it is, here's a hint, I have been wanting one of these every since I seen it hit the market, and now that dream has finally come true

 

 

ITS MY CAMEO yeahhhhhhhh

I love this thing, so today I'm gonna play get acquainted with it and try a couple of things so I will be posting all day long. so let me go play a little and I will be back soon.