A Little Green

Hi everyone!  Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Today I wanted to stop by and share with you another projects we made using the Canister Die from Eileen Hull and Sizzix. This time, Ainsley's creation. This die is so versitile.

Ainsley needed a little container to hold all her makeup brushes...and we thought that this die would be just perfect.  The original cut was just a bit tall, so we decided to cut it down to 4 inches...perfect.

Of course, she had to go all out with the embellishments.   Ainsley chose some pink pleated trim from May Arts, a few flowers, bits of bling and a resin butterfly from Prima Marketing, and of course I couldn't resist throwing in a bit of new trim I had from Decorative Trimmings.

Hugs.

Quilting

Hi everyone!  Today I have something totally different to share with you.....

A quilt!  No, I don't sew...well, except for the occasional stitches on my scrapbook pages.  This beautiful quilt was sewn by Ainsley.  She really likes sewing, don't know where she gets it. lol

She was originally going to give this quilt to my niece, but ...well, it is a long story.  Now it lives on Ainsley's bed.  Maybe Ainsley can give me sewing lessons?

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs

A Cricut Birthday Invite

Hi everyone!  Hope you are having a great day!  Me?  Well, that still is waiting to be seen.  I thought we were going to head over to the beach today...but the weather doesn't look so hot (literally, high of 65).  And since I missed you yesterday...don't know where the day went.  I thought I would share with you a project Ainsley made using my Cricut and the Paper Trimmings cartridge.

 She turned the doily into a card merging two shapes.

 Cut the top layer and embellished with a pink button.  Yes, right now pink and green are her favorite colors.

A bit of printed vellum with a flower embellishment provides the party details.

I hope some of the girls RSVP soon.

Hugs.

Nancy

Two Scoops - The Sampler

Hi everyone! Happy Tuesday.  Sorry I haven't been around much...summer is kicking my........  Well, I hope you are having a great day.  Me?  it is going to be hot, hot, hot and that means time to grill.  Maybe some more big, juicy, burgers? 

 I love the fun patterns and colors in this kit and am so sad to see it gone, but you can still get yours here.

That huge burger Ainsley is trying to stuff in her face just cracks me up!  Be sure and check out the June, Walking on Sunshine kit from the Sampler. 

Later this week we will be having a color challenge using some of the colors in this kit over at Ideas for Scrapbookers.  You won't want to miss it!

Hugs.

Nancy

Good Friday

Hi everyone, and happy Friday.  If you are celebrating Good Friday, Passover, or just that it is almost the weekend, I hope it is fabulous!

I wanted to stop in today and share with you a couple of projects I made with the new Dear Lizzy Neopolitan.  I love the fun, bright colors in this collection.

The first one is based on a Pagemaps sketch, Ainsley's 10th birthday.  When I got busy adding pages into albums (which has stopped for some unknown reason...need to get back to it), I realized I had never scrapbooked her birthday party.

 I love the fun, new Flutterbys, although I have to admit they are not as easy to get off the sheet as I would have liked.

 

Sorry about the color here, but you can see the layering (lots of foam dots used) and the bits of stickles I added to the butterflies.

I have a new found love for these resin roses.  I think they are just too perfect.  hee hee

And here is more Ainsley, this time at one of our many swim meets.  This was lifted directly from the back of the Flutterbys packaging.  I love that there are so many ideas on the packaging these days.  It really made the project come together quickly.

 The little rosette is the perfect embellishment for this swim page.

Well, another full day here.  I hope you enjoy your holiday weekend, whatever holiday you observe.

Hugs.

Nancy

Hooray for Long Weekends

Hi everyone.  Lots planned here today, not all fun...totally need to tidy my office/scraproom.  With all the scrapbooking, school starting, and the end of swim season...goodness...the mess!  But, there is some fun in store and I plan on doing a little mess making today and tomorrow as well.

Before I am off to do some errands tho, I wanted to pop in and share a few recent projects.

This first one is Ainsley playing in the beaver pond in Stanley Park (Vancouver).  They had a few docents with lots of little goodies including a telescope, nets, and microscopes so that the children could explore the environment.  Ainsley of course jumped right in and was ready to play.  She didn't catch much in her net, mostly bugs...but it was very scenic and there were pretty flowers, turtles, and the beaver dam to look at.

Pink Paislee Daily Junque collection, Prima flowers, Maya road flowers, American Crafts alphabet, Misc. lace.

And you have seen this photo before.  This is the South Sawyer Glacier in the Tracy Arm, Alaska.  Stunning.  Simply amazing how massive these glaciers are.  Such a shame that many will never have a chance to see them as they are rapidly receding.  To give you some perspective, the crevasses are 300 feet deep and the seracs are also a few hundred feet tall.  Needless to say, the idea of walking on these glaciers is not smart.  You need some serious ice climbing equipment.   I promise, it is straight in real life.  I wish I could get my scanner stitching again, but alas, for now I must deal with photos and keystone distortion.  sigh

Authentique papers, Pink Paislee alphabet, vinyl.

Anyway...off to run a few errands.

Hope you are having a great weekend.

Hugs.

Nancy

Guest Blogger

Hi it's Ainsley and I am here today to show you some of the projects I have been making.

Last weekend we went to see my friend Sarah at her scrapbook store, Our Paper Place.  I took a kid's class from Jeanne.  It was super fun and I got to play with Cosmo Cricket paper.  Jeanne told us that they are going to try and do a monthly class, so if you are a kid and live in the Bay Area, you may want to check out Sarah's store.  Besides, she is super nice and she has super cute stuff that my mom always lets me buy.

Jeanne had everything we needed to make the project.  But I brought some inks and some pop dots to make mine special.

I put stickles on the fairies wings and on the butterfly.  I used some glossy accents to make the heart super shiny. I added the pop dots to the mushroom to make it stick up more.  I added a few pearls and rhinestones to make things sparkle.  

The ribbon was super cute and matched the box perfectly.  I used stickles in the center of the little flowers on the bottom of the box.

This is a mini album I made that fits inside the box.  On the fairy I used more stickles.  Her wings, her hat, her skirt...all sparkle.  Sarah was super sweet and wrote the title on my mini album.  It says To Fairy Land.  She has pretty writing.

I also made this page of my cousin, Lili.  My mom had been playing with buttons and so I wanted to play to.

It took me a long time to glue everything and to find the letters.  I made the flower with my mom's sizzix.

Well, that's all.

Love,

Ainsley

Projects

Over the weekend Ainsley and Brighton had our Zone Championship meet for swim.  So, Phil and they were gone most of the weekend.  So, what did I do?  Well, tons of chores....they never seem to end, a bit of computer stuff (Phil just updated my computer) and  some scrapping!  Yeah me!!!!

The first project I wanted to share is one that I have had laying on my desk for quite some time.  You may remember that I made some memo pad holders by Kaiser Kraft last year for Christmas?  Well, they had come in a pack on 3, and I finally got around to making the last one.  I don't know what I am going to do with it as often happens with these projects, but I am really happy with how it turned out.  I used some older Fancy Pants papers, a bit of Tim Holtz Crackle Paint in Tattered Rose and lots of bits of trims and flowers.  I even tossed in a cameo and frame.

Fancy Pants Papers, Prima Flowers, pearls, bling. Maya Road flower (pink rosette), American Crafts frame, Webster's pages trim and cameo, Tim Holtz ink and paint, Jillebean Soup and Jenni Bowlin stick pins

 I also found the time to do a few layouts.

Fancy Pants Papers, Target pink snowflakes, Cricut white snowflakes, Diamond Stickles, Seam Binding dyed with Tattered Angels Starfish, Unkown ball trim, Tim Holtz inks 

This one is based on a pagemaps sketch I had lying around.  I love these photos of Ainsley.  She had so much  fun in the snow.  If only it hadn't been so cold.  Lots of Fancy Pants here too.  I am trying to use up some of the stash to make room for all the new things that will be coming out after CHA!  That is my beautiful niece, Caitlin, with her on the tubing hill.  Such a sweet girl.

And finally....

Bazzil Cardstock, Crate Paper patterned papers, stickers, chipboard, rub ons, Graphic 45 button, American Crafts Thickers alphabet.

Mackenzie on Christmas morning.  (sorry about the photo, need to clean my window, hee hee).  Another pagemaps sketch and lots of yummy Crate paper.   She got the new Nook Color and just loves it!  She is quite the avid reader so it will come in very handy.  We can even download books from our local library!  And, with the new she can browse the internet and play games and such with the Android apps.

Well, Gotta run!  Swim team meeting tonight!

Hugs.

Nancy

Phew - Holiday Paper

What a weekend!  It was a really good one, I got a lot done, and much of it had to do with playing with paper.

Friday night I snuck over to Memories Live On to check out Holly's take on the Tim Holtz tags and see what card she was making.  Well, while I was there she handed me a few pieces of paper to play with for the store and guess what happened next?

I couldn't wait to get home and bust out my Cricut Winter Woodland cartridge to get to work.

IOD by Creative Imaginations and Graphic 45 papers.

Lots of fun papers, stickles, Martha Stewart glitter, and a bit of diamond dust....so fun to make.

Well, then, Ainsley decided she needed to have a Christmas tree in her room.  And, being that I already have three other trees in the house, who was I to say no?  And, since we already had a few artificial trees boxed up in the garage....Well, the only real problem was, we had no ornaments.  I hadn't set up the 18" tree in years.  Well, Tim Holtz and Twisted Papers to the rescue.  I had downloaded some awesome vintage Santa Images and with the Tim Holtz fragments and a bit of glossy accents.....

Ainsley was even able to do most of the work herself.  She would have been able to do everything, but in the interest of saving time, we went with the exacto knife to cut the images as opposed to scissors.

Ainsley had the best time making these.  She did the gluing and the sanding of the edges.  

Oh, I also made my Christmas cards...but not sharing till after they are in the mail.  And I made a Christmas present, again, not showing till I give it away.  Add to that piles of laundry and tons of housework and I would say it was a very productive weekend.

Well, off to finish tidying up.  Hope you had a productive weekend as well.

Hugs.

Nancy