Cabin pages

This is one of those trips where you can pare the pictures down to about 15 favorites. So I had to come up with some multi picture pages. I still have a few to go for this batch but I felt like I got a good amount done. You can see that I used my heart punch again. Also on the first page I had some scraps trimmed off of my top note die and I think that looks pretty cool. I used some of my In color paper from last year here: wild wasabi and buckaroo blue. I hope everyone else is getting some scrapbooking done as well.

Bringin' Back Baroque

My friend Monica and I got together and did a few cards together. This is one she came up with for us to make. I love the combination of Saffron and Chocolate. I still love Baroque Motifs. This stamp set is so versatile. One tip I do have for you with this card is for the small flowers on the top right is to stamp the center flower first and then stamp the other two afterward. I also think I could have stamped those particular flowers a little more to the edge. I didn't hate the final product enough to redo the whole card though.

Zoo Page

I'm finally getting the chance to play around with my Cricut I got for Christmas. Now my goal is to go through the pictures I've printed the last six months and get them on paper. I actually used three cartridges on this page. I used the George for the solid heart and the word Zoo Then I used Opposites Attract for the word Animals and the @. The swirly heart was from the Indie Art solutions cartridge. The small hearts are from SU! It's a new punch we have that punches three hearts at a time. You can get it in the Love You Much bundle that is available on sale right now. Look Here for the flier. The sale ends January 31st. In future posts you can tell I really like this punch. I think I used it on every scrapbook page I did on Friday. I was able to get four done. The funny thing is I was sitting there scrapbooking when I should be preparing to move a large piece of furniture instead. Sigh.

Project 365

I decided to start the project 365 this year. My good friend Misty suggested it to me and I mulled it over and decided that it would be quite the challenge. If you're interested in more information on this you can check out Becky Higgens blog. The basic idea is to take one picture every day for a year and journal about it. Becky Higgens has a free download that has some really cool journaling cards and some ideas about what other people are doing with their own projects. Here are some of the pictures I took for this week:

MondayPoppy soothes herself by playing with her hair. She also plays with my hair when I'm around and at times it drives me crazy. The other funny thing about this is I put a pair of Weston's socks on her to see what she would do. She insisted on sleeping with them.

TuesdayI spent my whole day at shopping malls around town. They were doing that settlement with the cosmetics companies. I cashed in on some free products (I do spend my share of money at these counters) and found some princess shoes on sale at the Disney store for the girls. Poppy had had enough by the time I was through. Too bad I forgot to put a stroller in my car.

WednesdayWhat can I say? Weston and I are totally hooked on this show. Tonight was the season premier of the 5th season.

ThursdayGenevieve made the cutest letter j's on her homework. I think they are almost done with Letter People. She has made a lot of progress since they started at the beginning of the school year. I really don't have to supervise her doing this kind of homework.

Friday
Poppy was in dire need of a haircut. I guess it was really that she needed to have her bangs trimmed. This is the before and after shots. I know it's time when she has to stop what she's doing and move her hair out of her face. I swear her hair grows so fast!

My Rainbow is . . .blog thing

Your rainbow is strongly shaded violet and red.

What is says about you: You are a passionate person. You appreciate beauty and craftsmanship. You get bored easily and want friends who will keep up with you. You are patient and will keep trying to understand something until you've mastered it.

Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.

New Catalogs. Yes!!

If you can't wait to get a physical copy of the Spring Summer Stampin' Up catalog, look no further! There are links to the PDFs on my side bar for you to download them. Make sure you look at the newest additions to the Decor elements line too, there is a lot of goodies to check out.

If you're new to Stampin' Up you can shop through me on my Demonstrator Business Website. Click Here or there is a link on my side bar as well.

Back in the Groove

I got together with my friend Monica on Monday. We were trying to get over the post-Christmas slump of non creating. I think it actually worked. I feel like I might even want to scrapbook some of the piles of pictures I printed back in October.

This particular card is a CASE from the fall winter catalog but it features on of the new sets from the Spring Summer collection. I would tell you what page it is one but I don't know where I put that catalog. I just flipped the card so it would be vertical. One of the things I liked about this card was the monochromatic look with the little pop of teal. I also like the little layers that overflow out of the circle.

PS
I am trying to be patient while I wait for UPS to deliver my box of catalogs!!

Supplies:
Stamps: Sweet Stems
Card Stock: Very vanilla, kiwi kiss textured, taken with teal
Ink: Taken with teal, black, Pumpkin pie, and kiwi kiss
Accessories: kiwi kiss satin ribbon, dimensionals, and Scallop circle punch, 1 3/8" square punch, 1 3/8" circle punch and aqua painter

The cake

Here it is! I enjoyed the decorating part of the cake the most I think. I made the butterflies out of royal icing a couple of days befor the wedding after finally getting the approval of the idea from Hillery. Instead of using traditional fondant I used the marshmallow recipe. I got a few comments from people that it did taste better. I'm not much of a frosting eater, I find it still too sweet but it does taste better.

Picture from top left an action shot of me putting the final touches on the cake, The finished product, the front corner view, the topper and a close up on the butterflies.

I used the 5/8" wide old olive grosgrain ribbon (SU) around the base of the cake layers. It's probably hard to tell in the pictures but I dusted some green shimmer powder around the main layers of the cake.

Back

I know it's been a long time since my last post. I have a good excuse. I made a wedding cake last week and now I'm in recovery mode. By Monday all of my visiting relatives will be home and I will be back creating new projects. Honestly the cake took a lot out of me. I will post pictures Monday of the cake so you can see the fruit of my labor. Phew!