Happy St Patty's Day and A Disney Project

Hi everyone. I took a short break from blogging the past few weeks since the LOAD challenge. I have been enjoying being outside and planting flowers and tomatoes with my husband. I did not even make any St. Patrick's Day cards but I do have a big pot of corned beef and cabbage in my crockpot for tonight's dinner. After we eat, my hubby and I will take a motorcycle ride this evening. The weather has been absolutely picture perfect here in the sunny south. You must take advantage before it gets entirely too hot. I have been creating and working on other projects since LOAD though. I thought I would share one I finished last night. I participated in a swap to create a project altering a container and using a theme to put specific items inside the container. I chose a Disney theme and my altered box is actually a Bath & Body Works Wallflower box. I covered each one with Disney themed paper and the new designer tape that is so hot right now. I found this at my local scrapbook store. I really love how these came together and added the adorable red ribbon around each box.

Inside each box is an adorable altered office clip I created using the Mickey Mouse Cricut cartridge. Once the faces were cut and put together I glued them using a pop dot. You can use these to hold pictures, recipes, cards or love notes!

This is the opposite side of the altered office clip with Minnie Mouse. Isn't she just too cute? Below Minnie is a brad I created using my I-Top. I am really loving this cool tool.

Finally, I put together these adorable windows that can be used for a card or scrapbook layout. I had several Disney vellum quotes that I cut to put inside them. I plan to find a couple more little store bought things to add to my box and then I am mailing them off. I can't wait to see what everyone thinks about them and I can't wait to see what I get in return! It is so much fun to swap and share.

I hope you have a wonderful day. I am off to eat corned beef with cabbage and Irish soda bread. Yum!!!

LOAD Day 29 Final Day of Challenge

Today was the last day of the LOAD challenge. There will be another coming in May and I will let you know when it happens. I would encourage anyone to join as this has been the best inspiration and motivator to get me back to the basics of scrapbooking. Today's challenge was to create a page about something you do "once in a blue moon"...Well, here you have what my hubby and I do....I can just smell those fresh doughnuts!!!!

LOAD Day 28

Happy Days was one of my favorite shows growing up and "The Fonz" was my idol! Just love his cool way of saying "aaay!!" As you can see, today's challenge was to talk about a crush or favorite idol you had as a kid.

LOAD Day 27

When today's challenge came up to scrapbook about your pets, I knew just the pictures I would scrapbook. I have always owned cats and it started when I was little with my first cat named "Boots". Boots was a sort of wild cat you might say. I was about the only person she would allow anyone to touch. Boots had a lot of offspring and at one time I had 22 cats! Thank goodness we lived in the country.

Mini Allbum and Paper Doll Swaps

Hi everyone! Super busy here between working and trying to keep up with daily happenings. I have had some late nights at work so that has kept me from keeping up with LOAD. However, I plan to jump back on the bandwagon this week. I also will be working a bit backwards to get the days I missed caught up. I love the inspiration I have got from being a part of the LOAD challenge. Meantime, I joined a couple of swaps a while back and decided to work on those this weekend. The first swap was a challenge to use recycled junk around the house and make a mini album out of it. Well, I decided to make a couple of these mini albums since I just adore these little guys! My first album I created using matchbooks. I removed the matches and cut K&Company specialty papers. The pages inside are loose so that they can be decorated by the receiver with pictures or journaling notes. I wrapped a ribbon around the book to hold it together and placed a butterfly bling on the front. I also added the twisted ribbon on the front to give it some contrast.

For my second project making a mini album using recycled junk, I chose to use toilet paper rolls. I covered them in designer paper and created tags to slip inside them. I decorated them with flowers, brads, and some bling. When completed I bound them together using my Bind It All machine. I was really pleased with how cute these came out. The paper I used is by DCWV and is called the Green Stack. Very appropriate for this project.

Finally, I participated in a swap several weeks ago to exchange paper dolls. Below is a picture of the beautiful dolls that I received. I can't wait to use these in a project. Not sure if I am going to put them in a frame or book yet. Any ideas?

Hope you enjoyed my projects. Have a wonderful week!

LOAD Day 20

Hi everyone! I have been super busy and out of town over the weekend. My hubby and I went to St. Augustine for the weekend and stayed at a Bed and Breakfast. It was awesome and much needed to recharge the batteries. I missed LOAD days 16, 17, 18 and 19. However, I plan to catch up this week. I managed to get today's challenge completed. It was to describe the type of clothes you may have worn growing up. Well, I have been holding these crazy looking pictures for a while now. I thought they were perfect for this challenge. These are serious 80's styles! LOL!

Halfway Point of LOAD

Can you believe we are in the middle of February already? It is so amazing! Another thing amazing is that I am still creating my pages with LOAD! I am actually stunned at myself to get so much done. If you ever have the opportunity to get involved with LOAD I highly suggest doing so. It has gave me so much inspiration. I can't beleive I am halfway through the challenge. Here is what I completed for Day 14 and 15. LOAD Day 14 was to make a layout based on things you love. Well, kind of goes along with Valentine Day for love! Anyway, the thing I loved the most growing up was of course, horses. So, I created a page about all the horse stuff I used to collect.

LOAD 15 challenge was to create a layout with music in mind. You could do your page any way you desired. I decided to make a page based on the song "You Are So Beautiful To Me" and placed my two kids on this layout. I just adore these pictures of them!

Lastly, here is another Valentine Day card I created. I had a leftover tag and some pretty paper, so I just made this card fairly simple.

Have a wonderful week!

Happy Valentine Day and LOAD 13

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Here are a few cards I created using Cricut Love Struck(hearts)& Celebrate with Flourish cartridge(cupid). I was so pleased with how these turned out that I decided to make a two page scrapbook layout to match the card. We made these cards in our Cricut Chic Club on Saturday. The gals loved it!

I created this layout so that it would be ready to put some pictures of me and hubby on it. I wanted to mimic the cupid card that I created since I loved the card so much!

Day 13 of LOAD was to create a page based on a craft you enjoy. Well, super easy for me....scrapbooking of course!

More LOAD and Create A Critter Treat Boxes

Hi everyone! Bet you were wondering where I have been the last few days? Well, I had several evening things to attend to so it kind of slowed me down posting. However, it hasn't slowed me down crafting! As you can see I am still on the LOAD roll. I have days 9 through 12 below and still going strong. I do have another busy week ahead of me this week so, I expect I will have to post several of my LOAD days together on other posts. My crafty weekend included my very first Cricut Chic Club meeting. A couple gals came over to my house with their Cricut machines and I helped to get them started using them. Both are new Cricut users and had been asking me to help them with their machines. We had a fabulous time with our chirping bugs! This week is a special week and we all know what that is....Valentine's Day!! I just love it! I have something VERY special planned for my dear hubby for Valentine's Day and I can't wait for him to find out what it is...plus I have been super busy making Valentine Cards for family and friends. I have also created some special treats for the elderly residents at the assisted living community where I work. I made these super cute boxes from Create A Critter Cricut cartridge. I plan to fill them up with treats and hand them out to our residents.

Here are the LOAD challenges for Days 9 through 12. Enjoy!!! LOAD Day 9 challenged me to create a page about Home Sweet Home. To me, my family is what makes our home. You can see we all like to be ourselves in our home including the pets!

LOAD Day 10 is make a page about one of your favorite memories. Nothing better than being a daddy's girl!

LOAD Day 11 was centered around school days. Here is a picture of my locker when I attended high school.

LOAD Day 12 was to create a page about how history repeats itself. Here is my take on this layout...History does seem to repeat itself. Funny how my best friend and I have so much in common. Not only did we name our oldest daughters the same name of Erica, our daughters actually look like us in so many ways!

LOAD Day 8 and a Cricut Valentine Card

I am featuring a card that I will be doing with my Cricut Chic Club this weekend. The Cricut Chic Club is a small group of gals that want to learn how to use their Cricut machines. I decided I would start this group in my home and about every six weeks get together and create with our bugs. The first card we will be making is a Valentine card pictured below. This card was made using the cartridge Birthday Bash. I cased the card from the Cricut magazine February issue using a design by Jing-Jing Nickel called Bee Mine! I think it turned out pretty cute!

And finally, Day 8 of the LOAD challenge was to tell about something you miss. Growing up I had many childhood pets, most being dogs and cats. I can't remember a time in my life when I haven't had a furry friend. My layout features some of the ones that I remember dearly!

Happy Crafting everyone!