Campin'--Scrappin' Weekend!!

What a beautiful weekend we had. It was alittle chilly on Saturday but we campers braved the weather...actually we camped in our camper in the back yard!!! Big Daddy hooked her up for us and Brady, Savannah, Robin and I camped!! I had promised them forever to do this and where the time goes I don't know....anyway we had a ball. The Fiskateers had an online crop all day Saturday so I tried to get on and participate as much as possible so the girls and I decided to craft some Sat. night and craft we did....I think we bored Brady silly but at least he had UTUBE to keep him busy watching car burnouts and racing!!! I finished up my Halloween book from Bettye's awesome class and I will post some pics this week. Hope everyone has a great week!!!

Halloween Cards

Well I'm still on this Halloween thing!! I finished the grandkids Halloween cards tonight and wanted to post one. I used the same motief that I did with the ATC spooky cards. I love, love that haunted house and the ghosts with the stickles so I decided to create their cards the same way instead of the traditional pumpkin. I used Paper Dolls cricut cart. to create all of this. After Bettye's cricut class at my LSS and using paper dolls so much I got my courage up!!LOL..you see it is kinda hard to figure out which prompt is for which design, just a little challenge right Bettye!! That is the most versitile cart. I have ever seen. Okay so I need to get ready for bed. Lilly and I have a scrap-o-dex class tomorrow night and we are "draggin'" our friend Marsha with us. She has never been to one of our classes so we are hoping to capture her in our scrappin' web!! Have a good Thursday everyone..

Another ATC!!

Well I have officially finished all of the ATC swaps that I have signed up for (at the moment!!LOL) I just have to get them all postal. I am posting a picture today of my Thanksgiving ATC for my Fiskateer friend and fellow Nifty Fifty girl Laura...I wanted something that had a distressed look and detail. Well I just can't leave anything alone so I stamped an image and colored it with markers. I am collecting Copics (thanks MicheleO) and I'm slow, only have 5....they are so pricey I have to have a coupon at Hobby Lobby to afford them but believe me they are worth every penny. They are awesome to work with....moving on I wanted possibly burlap but then I picked up a tissue type wrapping paper that something from Pottery came in so I crumpled it up and inked it and stuck it on with ribbon and a button for a shimmer (you know it has to have either glitter, bling or shimmer for me!!) I sprayed them with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist. It's certainly not perfect but I had fun making them. I'll post about my class tomorrow but it will be a minute before I post my book...it was a MAJOR project but it is so cute....Have a great Tuesday everyone...

Productive Saturday

Well I actually think I had a pretty productive Saturday. I managed to get some fall decorations up, vaccum, finish laundry, go have my car cleaned up and finished up a mini album that is a Christmas gift for one of my daughter-in-laws. I love days when I seem to get more done. I'm really excited about a couple of classes I have next week at Sassy Scrapper. Bettye is teaching a "Little Yellow Bicycle" Halloween Haunted House mini book. It is soooo cute and lots and lots of details. I will post some pics next week. I am posting today my Cricut layout from Thursday night. I had so much fun doing this layout. We used Paper Dolls cartridge and George for the word EEK!!!! We ran the tree and the kitty cat through the Cuttlebug which really adds dimension to the project. I wanted to put some last years pics of the kids but I have refrained myself I will wait till this year!! LOL...

Cricut layout

I just put a photo on my September Cricut class layout. Bettye always has a super project for us. This layout was one that could be used for any occasion. I used it to of course display pictures of my kids/grandkids (my favorite subjects!!). We have been incorporating the Cuttlebug on several of our layouts lately as well and I love the look when we use embossing folders. We got a sneak peak today our our October layout and it is awesome. I will share it with you maybe next week...Have a good Tuesday!!

I'm Hooked on these ATC's!!!!

Well I have joined in on a couple of more ATC swaps...they are so much fun and I love swaping and getting everyone's work in return. I am going to post a couple that I have finished and I lack my Thanksgiving one...I haven't worked it out in my mind yet but I'm sure I will. We had Roger a 60th birthday party this weekend at Bubba and Michelle's new home. It was so nice and so much fun. All of the kids were there except Jamie and David and they were both in a wedding in Knoxville. I'm gonna post a couple of pics from that. I hope everyone has a wonderful week..

Long Time No Post

I honestly do not know where all my time goes. I must not use if wisely. Chase and Brady are still in fall ball and I'm having the best time with that. There last two games are this week and I'm sorry to see it end. Roger and I went camping last weekend but silly me did not take any pictures. When the grandkids aren't with me I tend to forget to make pics!! I'm hoping we get to go another weekend in October as fall is my favorite time to camp but he is really busy with harvest so we'll see. I'm gonna share a couple of pics today of my step son Bubba combining corn with the new combine. Also Josh has started a MAJOR project of restoring and I mean major restoring a car. It is a Mustang coupe and he calls it his winter project (maybe more than one winter!!) He gets that love from his Daddy as Butch loved fooling with old cars but then so did my dad so he got a double whammy of it!! Well I am deep into ATC swaps and have gone postal with a couple but will try to get some shots and post them tomorrow of my finished products...I am just lovin' doing those little bugers.....

Happy Sunday!!

Hope everyone had a great weekend. I finished up my banner for Halloween on Sat. and will post a couple of pictures. It was fun to make, I got the idea from Stephanie Ackerman's Holiday Home magazine and put my own spin on it! I took chipboard and cut it out then covered it was pattern paper. I used my treading water punch and did a trim around the board. Then I shadowed the letters with my cricut to say "BOO 2 U"....I may glitter them up alittle to just give a little shine. I embellished with some foam pumpkins and some pom poms. I punched some holes with my crop-a-dile and ran some hay twine to string. Then I just cut ramdom halloween color ribbons to add to the look. I promised the grandkids we would put up the decorations in a week or so this is just alittle something new to add....have a good week!!

Halloween bug has bit again!!

I am really on a roll with this Halloween stuff. I think it is one of my favorite times to scrap. On the Fiskateer site I am involved in an ATC swap for Halloween. I had alot of fun doing these and actually learned some things. I just googled halloween prints and about a zillion came up!! I printed and cut these out and used mod podge to adhere my cardstock (purple) to my chipboard on both sides and also used the mod podge to adhere the cute little witch. Then I coated the entire front and sprinkled the fine glitter just to give a little shimmer. I then embellished with stones and stickles on some Maya Road stars, stamped the back and put my info and there you have a Halloween ATC...I am working on another Halloween project that I will share in a couple of days...Let's just say I have to wait for Roger to bring me some hay twine to finish!!! enough of a hint??!!!

Got the Halloween fever!!

I don't know what has come over me, maybe its all of my magazines coming in with the cool Halloween layouts and projects but I'm in the mood for fall/halloween decorating. The first project that I am going to share is the Halloween Advent Calendar that I put together this last weekend. It was so much fun to do. I went to the Dollar Tree and picked up the small size cookie sheets. I went through my "stash" and pulled out Halloween papers and embellies that I had from last year. I used the Jeepers Creepers paper by Heidi Grace to do the base. The letters are glossy thickers that were in my SO kit last month. Then I just started using my punches and small Halloween goodies for the days and put a magnet on the back. Let me know what you think!! I will have a couple more projects during this week to share....have a good week everyone!