Simple Me Giveaway-Scarlet Lime Kit

Donna at Simply Me is doing a Scarlet Lime February Kit giveaway, hop on over and take a look.

Grand Winner at Practical Scapper

My LO was the grand winner at Practical Scrapper Pattern Paper Challenge, I was so surprise but extremely excited. New to scrapping only 3 months but loving every minute and it was nice to know that I am doing something right. Practical Scrappers Challenges are fun and so easy to combine with other challenges so go on over and have some fun. Finally got my blinkie to work.

Practical Scrapper's Challenge this week is to use a die cut machine so using the Bigshot and the Sizzix Flowers and Vines decorative strip I made some leis for Paoa Kahanamoku, many people have been to Waikiki beach, taken a picture by the statue and still don't know who he is, now you do, so next you are in  Waikiki don't forget to give him a lei. Also going to enter this in the Scraproom Blog Challenge - Lots of flowers and in Flutter by Wednesdays - Butterflies or Fairy in project

 

Butterflies were made using Sizzix Butterflies and Vines decorative strip.

So after making my first card yesterday, I think I am now hooked and will be doing more.

First Card

Very first attempt at making a card, boy is this so much harder than doing a LO, I will be submitting this card for a couple of challenges just because it is my first and I want to make it count. The Sketch is from Mojo Monday, really love it,

 

 

Am also going to submit the card for Paper Sundaes 3rd Challenge - Valentine, Lexi's Creations - Valentine Challenge up your heart #13 - Valentine , Corrosive Challenge #49 - All you need is love, Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge - Valentine/Love,

The cardstock and ribbon is Cosmo Cricket, the heart is inqueboard colored with Colorbox Paintbox Magenta, the stamp is Inkadinkado, bling is K by Marcella also use Marvy LePlume II pens., the red thingy (not sure what it is suppose to be) is Brenda Pinnick

The LO for Sketchy Thursday is done just in time, it turned out pretty good, this may actually end up being a two page LO will see. Really love the sketch, it is simple and clean which makes it to easy to interpret anywhich way you want. DH comes back from his business trip tomorrow which means scrapping time is going to be limited.

 

  

 Draw the surfboard on cardstock then ink with Momento Rich Cocoa and use Marvy LePLume II black to line it out, the inque board (just love this things) are painted with Martha Stewart dusk blue pigment ink, Autumn Leaves Clear Stamp Word Art and some generic blink. No PP but use some chalk on the cardstock for effect. Alphas are Angela Ash

 Stopped by Tuesday Morning for their big Scrapbooking sale and all the good stuff was gone, which I expected since I called the 1-800 number yesterday and the stores only had about 2 of the good stuff but found some cheap K&I flowers and butterflies.

Spent the day today with my sister and are kids scrapping, I gave the oldest an album for Christmas, I had a lot of her baby pictures so I started the album and included some supplies for her to continue. What I didn't expect was that the other kids will be interested, so everybody wanted an album and wanted to come over to start it. I picked up the Cosmo Criket kit from Tuesday Morning and predesign a lot of the pages for the 2 little ones (7 &8)  but the two older ones had 12X12 album and the boy had a special  manly looking album that looks more like a drawing book. We had a blast, I wasn't sure about the younger ones attention span but boy did they actually get into it, they did all the work them self, I did the cutting and inking the stamps. They went through 2 glue runners, 2 glue stick, half a pack of glue dot, lost count of the flowers after about 50, multiple spool of ribbons, but the time spent with them seeing gthe joy on their faces after each LO is complete is priceless. After scrapping, we had a big lavish dinner made by me in between scrapping, baked cookies and cleaned up.

My nephew initially wasn't going to scrap with us, saying it was too girly, but we were having so much fun and he kept coming back downstairs (boys/men were upstairs playing games) and hovering. So I asked if he wanted to join and he said maybe, so I went I got the album I have gotten for him and boy did he have fun. You can see my baby girl C every time the camera goes up, she hold up her current LO to show off. You are only seeing one of the tables, the other table had the Bigshot, stamps, ink and paper cutter.

This is the Practical Scappers Friday Sketch, the PP is really hard to work with, actually I think the whole kit is hard to work with, the PP are double sided but they have the same pattern on both side. PP Poppy Ink, alphas Angelas Ash, inqueboard.

You can see my Christmas Cactus in bloom in the back, tends to bloom year round so most like the location, had it for about 7 years now.