Like father, Like son.
Here’s something I did just recently for a design team assignment at Practical Scrappers. Our challenge was to use animation or cartoons somehow and I had saved these little drawings Summer did of her dad and her brother playing basketball. Years ago when she drew them I scanned them and printed them out onto white cardstock because I knew I wanted to use them someday on a basketball layout. The time finally came and here it is. Her drawings have been decreased in size (they were originally a full 8×10 page) and they’re a bit smaller than a playing card.
and closer views:
Here’s a closer look at Summer’s drawings (she was 6 years old):
On a side note……This is also a good way to incorporate your child’s artwork into your scrapbook pages. I have another page where I did that and just realized I never showed it here on the blog before. I will post that one for you to see tomorrow.
Filed under Scrapbook Layouts, Scrapbooking | Comment (1)Ouch.
This is what happens when you’re the catcher on your softball team…..and the pitching machine pitches at 30+ miles per hour (yes I know that’s not very fast but she’s 10 years old)…..and the batter misses the ball…..and you get hit with the ball!
See that line of little red dots? Those are actually the indentation from the stitches on the softball! Her momma (ME) probably would have cried, as I am a big baby when it comes to being in pain…….but this kid is like her daddy in this kind of situation. She’s a tough cookie. Didn’t even complain about it! You’ll be seeing this photo again in the future on a page for her softball scrapbook.
Filed under Life, Scrapbooking | Comment (1)Operation Write Home blog hop!
I am so happy to be participating in another blog hop with Operation Write Home. I think it’s a fabulous organization, especially now that this young man is a soldier:
I’ve spoken about him before on the blog here. He’s my soldier nephew and is about to turn 19 in a few weeks. He graduated from boot camp in Fort Benning, Georgia in December and I wrote about the trip I made down to attend that and bring him home here.
There might come a day when he’s one of the deployed soldiers and might appreciate a card from one of us, so I am happy to help make cards for the ones who are over there now fighting for our freedom.
So…… if you didn’t come here as part of the blog hop and you want to play along with the hop and see the others’ blogs then go to the beginning right here.
Here’s what I made and I’ll be sending in to Operation Write Home to give to the soldiers overseas. Our theme was to make a red, white, and blue “missing you” card and this is what I came up with.
The top card has white paper flowers from Imaginisce and I inked them up with cat’s eye ink pads. For the second card, I used a Martha Stewart butterfly punch on some vintage music pages and inked them up with a cat’s eye ink pads.
If you’d like to participate with their cause, you can donate money for shipping costs or you can make cards and send them in to them anytime and they’ll ship them overseas to the troops. They accept cards that are for a soldier, like a card thanking them for their service, and they also accept cards in all different themes for the soldiers to use to send cards home to their loved one. You can read more information about the process on their website here.
And now you can go to the next blog in the hop and see what Nicolette made here. I haven’t seen what she made for today, but she recently showed some hummingbird cards on her blog and they’re absolutely beautiful! Go check her out!
Filed under Life, Scrapbooking, Projects | Comments (61)Making Memories ROCKS.
I just want to send some love out to Making Memories for a minute. I have been scrapbooking for almost 14 years now (suddenly I feel old now….) and have tried every paper trimmer that Fiskars makes, several Cutterpede, Carl, all of them with no luck cutting a straight line. It has made me nuts for years. I have tried everything to perfect the way I’m holding the paper on the trimmer, the way I’m rolling the blade, etc., just in case it’s ME that’s defective. ha ha But no matter what I’ve done, it never helped. Then I finally got the folding Making Memories paper trimmer, and I fell in love. I’ve had it for a couple of years now. But that’s not even my point! It has this long plastic piece that I think is a safety guide or something, never really paid much attention to it….until it broke off. And I wasn’t hating on Making Memories for that or anything…..shit happens, okay? But I’ve never seen replacment pieces in a store for this and I didn’t know what to do, and I NEEDED one because the rotary blade will NOT cut without this plastic piece. So I went to Making Memories’ website and I contacted customer service to ask how to go about getting a replacment piece for my trimmer.
And I am not even kidding you, literally 3 days later a box was dropped off on my doorstep with a brand spanking new plastic piece thingie. Are you kidding me? THAT, my friends, is what you call good customer service! I have always loved Making Memories products, they’re my favorite brand, and back in 2009 when I was begging companies for donations to auction off for my trip to Anita, Making Memories was the first company I e-mailed and believe it or not something like 4-5 days later I received a box full of stuff for the auction. That made me love them even more, of course, but this puts the icing on the cake.
I love this kind of service. I can’t stand bad customer service, and I think when someone provides great customer service they should be praised, so THANK YOU Making Memories! You guys totally ROCK!
P.S. No, Making Memories did not ASK me to say nice things about them or give me free stuff so I would say nice things about them. I just wanted to of my own free will.
Filed under Scrapbooking | Comment (0)awesome giveaway!
I just stumbled onto Kadie’s blog (LOVE how her name is spelled) from someone else’s blog and saw this fantastic giveaway she’s doing. Check this out! I want to get my hands on those buttons. My supply is running low.
You can go over to her blog here and check out the details of how to enter yourself!
Filed under Scrapbooking | Comment (0)Love Bandit.
I was lucky enough to win a prize pack from Rita at the Colorfully Creating blog and just had to share with you. I don’t know Rita personally, but I think she’s pretty cool because she shows lots of beautiful projects on her blog…AND….she wears red specs. Those of you who know ME will know why I say that! ha ha
She sent me a package full of Bo Bunny’s Love Bandit line, and I love it! Check it out….
Thanks so much again Rita! Bo Bunny is one of my favorite manufacturers, so this is a sweet prize!
Filed under Scrapbooking | Comment (0)Sneaky Peeky…
of my latest project for the design team at Practical Scrappers. This week we had to use markers, which isn’t something I do a lot so it was a nice change of pace. I actually gave my markers to Summer with this stamped image and asked her to color it for me. I knew I had the perfect photo to go along with it.
Go on over to Practical Scrappers here and see what the finished page looks like!
Filed under design team stuff, Scrapbooking | Comment (1)Sneak Peek.
Here’s a sneak peek at my project this week over at Practical Scrappers.
Isn’t she adorable? Her name is Rainy Cynthia. Our assignment this week was to use rub-ons, which isn’t what I’m showing you here. It’s a digital stamp from The Stamping Boutique that we were also supposed to use sometime during March and I thought she was perfect for my photos on this layout. Go here to see my entire page and see what the other talented ladies have done.
Filed under design team stuff, Scrapbooking | Comment (1)Another prize.
Check this out! I won another prize…..this time from Reminisce. They are one of my favorite companies. I love their Disney stuff. I won the Easter prize pack and I can’t wait to use it very soon!
How CUTE does this look?
Filed under Scrapbooking | Comment (0)Check it out….
Last month I used a sketch from Heidi over at Cropstar to make a scrapbook page and entered her contest to win a prize pack she was giving away on her site. She is one of my fellow design team members over at Practical Scrappers. And I won! Woo hoo! This is it:
Heidi is having another contest for March and you can go here to check that one out. There are 2 sketches she has done and I am loving both of them. I think I’m turning into a sketch user. I don’t know what’s happening!
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