HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy 2013 to everyone!!! Is it just me or did the hoildays seem to just past so quickly???
I hope that everyone enjoyed their families and loved ones through out all the festivieties that you celebrate. As for us we enjoyed friends and family but with a sad and heavy heart we also said goodbye to my mother-in-law who lost her battle with demintia just a few days before Christmas. We celebrate her life knowing that she is in the Lord's hands and one day we shall see her again.

For this weeks challenge we were to pick an element that we never worked with before for myself I choose paper folding and inking a blank sheet of cardstock.

Using an Ivory colored sheet from my Recollections pack I tried to teach myself via u-tube how to create a paper rose. I also added chalked butterflies from a Martha Stewart punch and placed glitter to add some bling to the bodies. My stamping choice was from the Heidi Grace collection of assorted florals and I also added a few butterfly inkings by Roanda. Using my ink pads in assorted colors I watercolored the images with a blending pen. To finish off my page I added a few gems to the flowers and also two green Prima flowers to the bottom of the rose on the top of my page.

I hope everyone stops by to check out all the other great challenges this week.just-a-scrappin.com

Happy Friday sorry this is late had a change in my work schedule due to pre Thanksgiving
But here is my Tag Challenge. I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving and don't forget to stop by and check out everyones great designs at just-a- scrappin. The challenge this week was any theme but to add bling and a tag. I'm working on an album for my son who went to Dallas and saw his Cowboys for his 26th birthday so here is another page that I worked on Hope everyone likes it.

Supplies used:
I used a tag templete and cut out the Texas state from a 12x12 page from Stamping station.com
Football design also a 12x12 strip cut from Hot off the Press Pizazz.com
Star was cut using my cricut craft room program and I just added glitter stickle to the edges for my bling effect.
Attached the tags using star brads from Making Memories
The title boarder Texas was cut from a 12x12 from Stamping Station .com
12x12 smooth texture in Citrus Teal from Core'dinations was used as my layout page.

Autumn has arrived

Autumn is here the days are cooling down the sun sets a little earlier in the evening and here at
Just- a- scrappin we are celebrating with a challenge using the colors of the season and stripes.

We just came back from visiting Las Vegas for the first time wow so much to see one of my  favorite casinos to visit was the Bellagio and it was decorated to welcome in the season of Fall with pumpkins and a windmill and my favorite was a talking old oak tree. Hope everyone enjoys the season with friends and family and don't forget to stop by Just-a-scrappin and get to celebrating the season with us.

Supplies used were
12x12 Burnt Orange DCWV
4X5 MATTING PAPER -CORNUCOPIA KIT from Me and My Big Ideas
Pumpkin die cut from Cricut Craft Room cut at 3.25
Autumn colored brads assorted from Making Memories
Fall leaves were cut from a 12x12 sheet from Recollections paper slab ALL SEASONS

John celebrates his 26th in Dallas Texas

Hi everyone this weeks challenge over at just a scrappin.com was to do a 3-D, Card or Layout with a cheerleading theme.My son John just celebrated his 26 th birthday and he flew out to Dallas for opening day to see the Cowboys play. His day was filled with meet and greets awesome picture taking a tour of the stadium and even though he  was born and raised in Califorina he is a true Cowboy football fan.

Supplies used in my layout were:
12X12 Jet Stream paper by core dinations foundations.com
football mini sticker from EK Success
mini star brads by making memories in white and blue
bling in silver on the pom poms and in the corners of the pictures by Tulip
my cheerleader was cut using the cricut craft room download at 3.75
I colored in her legs to make it look like she had her cowgirl boots with #36 in smoke silver
her hair was #5 yellow
#13 in red for her lips
#33 in blue for the eyes
for the flesh I used a pastel chalking pencil in #4439 light flesh
all these were memory pencils from the General company.

Don't forget to visit all the other great designs and check out just a scrappin.com for some great inspiration

Anything goes challenge

Hello my DT Sisters.

Fall is finally here yet in sunny California it's a warm 80 degrees. For my anything goes challenge I used a purple cardstock . In a royal purple ink. I choose the sentiment Today belongs to you. Using the chalking colors orange/yellow  I colored in the butterflies and then added assorted colors of glitter stickles. I added two loopy brads to the card with a cream twine and also a lime green twine which  I knoted in the middle. On the edge of the card I stamped with a shimmer green ink a pretty vine which connects with the lime flower diecut and as a finishing touch a cute diecut butterfly. Don't forget to stop by and see all the great projects at just a scrappin.com and join the fun with your own creative journey.

Supplies used:
Purple cardstock by Paper Reflections
Assorted twine by Pebbles Inc.
White loopy brads from Queen's Eyelets
Sentiement stamp by Inkadinkado
Floral stamp by Stampendous from Changito the Monkey
Butterflies chalked with Pebbles Inc
Floral diecut from K&company
butterfly diecut from My Big Ideas

Swap Challenge

Hi everyone. It's been awhile life sure becomes busy when school is in full swing and there just seems to be not enough time in the day.
I was so excited to be a part of this swap challenge and just want to thank Patti and my swap buddy Bridget. She sent so many wonderful emblishments and a beautiful chipboard mini album just so I can do what I never do and scrap about me!!!! Let me see where to begin she sent a 12x12 choco color paper that she was kind enough to score and cut this was the starting point to my very first exposion box!!! She included assorted ribbon, stickers, mini emblishments a mini punch and a 6x6 assorted paper pad, I hope I remembered everything.
I themed my box with my son David and his friends from his 17th birthday from last year. In the first box I added the title ''A Son Is........" I then added the words talented, funny and perfect. I stamped a cupcake design using studio g and then with my cricut cut a cupcake that I then added blue glitter to make it look like frosting.In the group picture I titled it ''Friendship" and then added the words alike but diffrent. I had the picture of David acting like he was shooting flames from his mouth so I added the words crazy and cool.

I hope everyone enjoys my very first exposion box I know that I'll be making many more thanks to Bridget.

Halloween 3-D Challenge

My first 3-D project I used my Happy Hauntings cricut cartridge and added emblishments from the Recollections Halloween 12x12 paper slab. I cut out a headless horsemen and added glitter stickle to his cloak and also added glitter to the grass I cut a frame and added purple stickle and then cut out a spooky pumpkin and a few haunting ghost and a cute smiling spider was added from a cut out pattern from Hot off the Press. I added a few tags and used a spooky font stamp and halloween is not complete without a haunted house.

Frames from the Diecut collections Halloween from Recollections
Cricut  embellishments cut at 3.25
Glitter stickle from Studio G
Happy Spider from Hot of the Press aw