Home Sweet Home

Hi everyone!
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So glad to be home! I had an absolute blast in Anaheim at CHA and met so many amazing people. My roomies were the best and I am thrilled that I finally got a chance to meet Jess and Anabelle in person!

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A new queen has been crowned. LOL Anabelle modeling a gorgeous tiara at the Prima booth.

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Showing some love for Jess at the show.

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These two are the best! Don't know what I would do without Summer and Kimber! Love you girls!

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Met lots of Paper Crafts women. You all are so wonderful.

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As you may have noticed I have not posted any pictures of all the amazing projects and products from CHA. We took a ton a pictures and a lot of them have been added to the Emma's Paper blog. Make sure to check it out and see some of the great stuff we saw.

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Now speaking of Emma's, Sherry Wright created a wonderful sketch for last week's challenge. You can find the sketch on the right hand side of the Emma's blog. Here is my interpretation of the sketch. Hope you like it and make sure to check out everyone elses projects on the blog.

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Have a great week! Stay warm!

A Colorful Challenge

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Busy, busy day ahead. I am packing up and trying to get ready for my trip to CHA! I CAN NOT wait!!!!! Lots of laundry to finish today so that my sweet family has clothes to wear while I am gone. Need to also finish up two projects before I go and I am helping out in the school library today as well. .
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Finished up a layout for Magistical Memories yesterday that I thought I would share with you today. There is a fabulous challenge going on for January. All you need to do is create a layout using your favorite color and you could win all of the 31 new releases from Magistical Memories. Check out the details here. My favorite color has been red for as long as I can remember. It just makes me happy. :) Anyway I love using red with brown and teal so I threw a little bit of that into my layout as well.

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I used the scallop lace border by Magistical Memories under the photos. I painted it white and then added UTEE to it to give it a little extra shine. The brown ribbon is folded over and then I added some red buttons for color. I just adore these teal Prima flowers. I may have to get some more, my stash is almost depleted. :)

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That sweet little bird is also Magistical Memories. I also painted him and covered him with UTEE. I then painted the Antique Filigree with brown paint and mounted the bird on it.

Make sure to check out the challenges and contests at Magistical Memories. I would love to know if you are going to be at CHA too. I would love to meet some of my on-line friends! Have a great week!

Magistical Memories Monday

Happy Martin Luther King Day!
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"The quality not the longivity of one's life is what is important." -Dr. King
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What a wise man. Our world is definitely a better place because of the quality of his life.
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I have some projects Magistical Memories projects to share with you today. I did both of these last weekend at my retreat but have not had a time to post them yet. I have one more I completed last night that I need to get a picture of as soon as this lovely fog lifts. :)

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Anyway the first is a Halloween layout I finally got done. I have been meaning to scrap these pictures for well over a month. I had them printed the last time I went scrapbooking up in Indy but never got to them. This is definitely one of my favorite Halloweens. I love that the girls were interested in designing their own costumes this year. It is so much more fun than buying princess costume after princess costume. That grin you see on L's face was there the whole night. I decided that even though it was nowhere near the time she should be wearing dangling earrings it wouldn't hurt just for her Halloween costume. She was in heaven! And where to begin with K's costume! We had the best time creating her frazzled housewife outfit. She played it up too. Makes me grin just thinking about it! Then of course there is the fact that they got to go trick or treating with the sweet neighbor girls.

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I used the one of the bats from the Gone Batty set from Magistical Memories. I also used one of the nested circles. Love those!

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I also created this card using some yummy MM chipboard. I painted one of the Fancy Bookplates and placed it over a card from Webster's Pages, then trimmed the edges.

Speaking of Magistical Memories, make sure to check out their blog. Crystle has been posting the new chipboard pieces and I have to stay I am excited to get my hands on these. They are fabulous!

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Also, if you are a chipboard lover make sure that you check out the DT call. You can find all the details here..

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Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by!

I am obviously too old

Please forgive my lack of coherence in today's post. I am happy to say that I did get to go on my scrapbook retreat this weekend but did not get near enough sleep. Friday night we didn't get to bed until after 3 and Saturday was after 1. I am wiped out. K had a swim meet yesterday when I got back so I didn't get to take the nap I desperately needed.

The weekend was a lot of fun and I got a fair amount completed. I have not taken pictures yet but I will share a few of the projects with you in the next couple of days. Until then I do have two others to share.

This first project is for the color challenge on the Emma's Paperie blog. You really need to check out the gorgeous photo Cindy found for this month. Lots of lovely blues and browns. So here is my project. I just love the colors of that GCD Studios paper. You can find my complete supply list along with the other designers projects on the blog. I will be adding this little pillow box to my Etsy store (link is on the left) if anyone is interested in picking it up.



The second project I have for you is a card I created for a recent Paper Crafts call. I just adore Crafter's Secrets. Their images are amazing and I am constantly inspired by their products. I will be adding this card to my Etsy shop also in the next couple of days.

Thanks for taking a peek and have a fabulous week!

Oh the weather outside is frightful

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

The girls got their snow day today. I guess I should have seen it coming. K's teacher has 30+ years of experience and when she sends books home (just in case) I should probably trust her judgement. :) Planning ahead last night I even turned off the girls' alarms so they could sleep in. Um...yah...that worked so well. At 7:38 K starts yelling from upstairs, "Mom, get up! Our alarms didn't go off!" So much for sleeping in.

Now I have a dilemma. I am supposed to spend the weekend scrapbooking with friends, but if the snow continues like it is supposed to there is no way I can drive up there. I had planned on spending the day packing my stuff and planning my projects. I hate unpacking (Bleckkkk!) so that would stink to pack up and then not get to go. What to do? What to do?

I do have a wintery project to share with you this morning. As I have mentioned in previous posts, I love mini albums and end up buying more that I could ever use. So I have started trying to find creative ways to use those mini albums. For this project I used the circle album of the Girl mini albums kit by KaiserCraft.

To create this little guy.

You can check out the Emma's Paperie blog for a list of supplies and instructions. Have a great day and stay warm!

Breathe Deeply

Happy New Year everyone!!!
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We had a REALLY nice visit with DH's family but I have to admit, I am ready for a little R&R time. The kids had off yesterday and we spent the day relaxing and running errands until gymnastics and swimming in the afternoon. Today, everyone is back to school/work and it is time to get things back in order. Lots of sheets and towels to finish washing, Christmas presents to put away, and projects to finish. Hoping it will be an efficient day.
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I wanted to share a couple of projects with you today. The first one is a layout I did for a recent CK call. Got it done yesterday just in the nick of time to submit it. The call was to use only paper and cardstock. I have to admit that this was a challenge for me. I love to add my "stuff". LOL Each of the strips of pattern paper measure 4 inches wide (the first page got a bit cut off). I added pop dots to my stars to give them dimension and created my own ric rac using my wavy rotary cutter.
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The second project I have to share is a sketch I created for Emma's Paperie. I am sure that I am not the only one that has a LOT of Christmas scrapping supplies left over. I decided to put them to good use to create my thank you's this year. Here is one of them:
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You can find the sketch and supplie list on the Emma's Paperie blog.

Make sure to also check out the Magistical Memories blog periodically this month. Crystle is posting a new chipboard release everyday and they are amazing. Just love the cute cupcake she posted today. Also, if you love chipboard, make sure to check out the Design Team call!
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Time to get something done around here. Have a fabulous day!