I really meant to!

Okay, so I totally crafted last week! But I didn't have time to update the blog!!!! I'm falling behind! Well, I'll use this opportunity to catch up! Last Friday I went to a friend's house and we scrapped and laughed a good 6 hours!!!! So much fun!!! I finally finished scrapping the last 2 layouts I had to do from the first half of 2011! I also organized all the photos from my vacation this June too....that is going to be a lot of work to scrap all of those pics! I think I may just do a separate book! Here is one of the pages I completed. I used a cute ribbon holder from Queen and Co. It adds a little something extra to a page!

This page is patterned paper from Scenic Route, cardstock DCWV, letters from Hobby Lobby, ribbon from Scrapbook Convention, ribbon holder from Queen and Co., journal tag fancy pants designs.

This is a close-up of the cute ribbon holder! Isn't it adorable! I love the polka dots!!!!

This weekend I went to another friend's house (if you haven't figured it out, scrapbooking is really just a social event at times) and we created this cute candy box and Halloween card!

I'm not sure what supplies I used. This was a friend who is a Stampin Up Demonstrator and she had all the pages pre-cut for us. I do know the box was a Cricut cartridge cut. I had so much fun making this box and card! I really got out of my comfort zone, got a new product idea for some really sticky tape runner, and learned how to use some of my own products I had bought during the years and never used! I had fun creating, gossiping and of course laughing!

I hope you enjoyed what you saw! I also hope you have a group of friends you scrap with too! I'm all for scrapping at home, but I do love scrapping with the ladies!! Thanks for looking!

Pinterest

Hi everyone! So, I've joined Pinterest....if you have not, you should! So many fabulous ideas for everything! Scrapbooking, organization, classroom ideas, math ideas, recipes, fashion, home decor.....just to name a few!!! I love it, but it takes up way too much of my freetime!!!! I did get out of the computer zone, and made these cute boxes...(which I got the idea from Pinterest...)

I created these using the boxes from the Crystal Light Packets....of course these were Great Value from Wal-mart, but same difference! I found a couple of scrap papers that I loved, cut them 9 in x 3 in and glued them around the box. I punched out circles, and taped them on with raised glue dots. So super easy!

I plan on using these either in my scraproom for little items (buttons, brads, tiny scraps of paper) or I may use them in my classroom for name sticks. Either way, I am pleased with the ease of making these!

I also spent some time working on putting in pages in my albums...if you have done this task, you know how daunting it can be at times! I think I filled my first 2011 album up, so I will start volume 2 of 2011 with the end of May pages and then summer and the rest of the year. I did just order all my prints from the summer, so I have a lot to do this fall getting those pages done! With that....more to share with you! Hope you enjoyed this post and thanks for looking!

A month? I need to catch up!!!

Hello Everyone! I can not believe it has been a month since I have posted last! Being a teacher really sucks my creative time, especially at the beginning of the school year! I have 2 weeks down, and I feel a little caught up! I have done a little scrappin...but not much. The main thing I have done is making some cute baby decorations for my friend's shower! Scrapbooking though....not so much! However, plans are already being made to get in some scrapbooking time together! I hopefully will have much more to post as this year goes on! I did want to post what I did for the baby shower though! They turned out super cute!

This is the flower bouquet I made for the table. I used my cricut for the flowers....Walk in My garden, george, lyrical letters, and gypsy wanderings. Various Cardstock all bought at Hobby Lobby. I love making these flower bouquets! They are so cute and easy!

Baby Banner. This was fun too! I used cardstock from Hobby Lobby. Ribbon was ribbon I had. I used Mini Monograms cart, Lyrical Letters cart, and Gypsy Wanderings cart.

This is a close up of the bottle...you can really see the cute colors which matched the baby's nursery.

We put the banner on the stairs where the mommy to be opened her gifts.

Here is the table with the cake and some of the food. You can see the bouquet, fun tablecloth and I made the poof tissue balls too!

I really had fun making these decorations! I hope you enjoy them too! They were very easy to make, as long as I had my Cricut! Thanks for looking!