Back Porch Memories

This month I was lucky enough to get my hands on the Solo kit which was filled with all kinds of Little Yellow Bicycle, Hello Fall Goodies. I can not single out one item to call my favorite! I loved it all. Last night as I was cleaning up the scraps I was so so sad. There is just not much left over...I want another kit just like that one to hoard away! The Prima Crystals, the felt flowers, those adorable banners and the canvas borders...GORGEOUS!

Here are the pages I put together...I just hope I did this yummy kit justice!!









And last but not least...this was my favorite project this month!

My five blessings are 1) Jesus Christ, 2) Love, 3) Family, 4) Our friends, and 5) God’s hand in our lives. We see His amazing work in so many places.

Hope - Breat Cancer Awareness Month!

This decal sells for $8.

Do you know?

Have you seen this? It has to be my favorite decal to make. I want everyone to have one! This would normaly be a $10 decal, but because of the passion I have for the message I plan to sell them for $5.



He Came. He died. He rose from the grave. He ascended into heaven. He will come back!

Crazy Little Business Experiment!

So I'm all the time talking about how neglected my Expression is. I worry myself to death that I just don't use it enough. Well, I have the solution. I'm going to try and take it to our local fall festival and do some custom vinyl cutting. The past few weeks I have worked ridiculously hard on putting together some really great artwork to cut. Maybe I've been able to create some things that people might want to buy. I'll try and get some pictures posted as I finish getting things ready!!

I have finally finished with my business cards. These where fun! I wanted unique and I think that's just what they are:

Scrapbook Express Design Team Call!!

They are looking for outgoing, talented and creative individuals to join the Scrapbook Express Design Team. As a Diva you will receive a $30.00 SE product stipend per month. You’ll have the opportunity to run monthly contests, participate daily on our Facebook wall, the forum and gallery. As a Diva you’ll also receive a 10% discount in the Scrapbook Express (SE) store!

International applications are welcome but must agree to pay shipping and handling expenses.

In order to be considered for the DT you must be a member of Scrapbook Express as well as have a Facebook account. Our webmaster has a full time job, so approval of your Scrapbook Express membership could take a few days. We appreciate your patience!
We want to have an opportunity to get to know you and for you to get to know our online community. Activity on the message board and in our gallery will be taken into consideration when selecting Divas. Click HERE for more details about the Design Team call.

Entries and applications are due by Friday, September 16, 2011. GOOD LUCK!

We haven't had these fish in the aquarium 2 weeks yet and look what we hve already found! The girls are just beyond excited. We have SO much fun hunting through the aqaurium looking for our new fishies.

Can you see it there? They are nearly impossible to photograph they are just so tiny!



Can you see them here...there is 2 of them in this picture!!



There are dozens of them hiding in between all of the rocks around our aquarium...each of them no wider than a pencil led and no longer than a very short fingernail!

The Weaver Zoo

Our aquarium saga continues. Since we lost The Bruces & The Uglies in that crazy snow storm in 2009 I haven't had much luck keeping things alive in our aquarium. In 2 years this is the 3rd set of fish we have had to buy. :( That's not good. I feel a lot like Spencer from iCarly. lol I've just lost my aquarium mojo I guess. I've even pondered selling our aquarium. *gasp* Thankfully my husband knows that would be a stupid move. Having an aquarium keeps in mind some good memories of my Mom...that alone is reason enough to keep working at this whole aquarium thing. The girls LOVE having it...they love watching our new fish. This time we got us some cute little Mollies and some Platies. The mollies are so fun to watch! Very active and right out front. The platies spend most of the time hidden in and behind the rocks, they are just boring! (they sure know when it's feeding time though!) We also got a pair of snails...I never would have guessed those little buggers would be so entertaining. It's a searching game every time we look in the aquarium...where are they now?? For snails those things sure do get around. You never know where they will turn up!



There's our Cory Cat too...he is the ONLY fish that survived my last round of fish killing. (I think I overdosed the aquarium with algae killer. I killed my fish...but you can see it didn't even make a dent in the algae. :( )

Scrapbook Express Design Team Call

They are looking for outgoing, talented and creative individuals to join the Scrapbook Express Design Team. As a Diva you will receive a $30.00 SE product stipend per month. You’ll have the opportunity to run monthly contests, participate daily on our Facebook wall, the forum and gallery. As a Diva you’ll also receive a 10% discount in the Scrapbook Express (SE) store!

International applications are welcome but must agree to pay shipping and handling expenses.

In order to be considered for the DT you must be a member of Scrapbook Express as well as have a Facebook account. Our webmaster has a full time job, so approval of your Scrapbook Express membership could take a few days. We appreciate your patience!
We want to have an opportunity to get to know you and for you to get to know our online community. Activity on the message board and in our gallery will be taken into consideration when selecting Divas. Click HERE for more details about the Design Team call.

Entries and applications are due by Friday, September 16, 2011. GOOD LUCK!

Design Team Call

If you are looking to scrap with a wonderful, creative, fun and inspiring design team...I have just the call for you!

Head on over to Scrapbook Express and give it a go. You will not be disapointed. I love this place. The forums are filled with a bunch of sweet and very talented girls and Cindy is just the best to work for.

Check out all the details here: Scrapbook Express Design Team Call

What do you think!?!

I have finally redone my blog. *shew* I think it's finished and I'm thinking I like it! What do you think? The banner was fun. I actually scrapped it. A little Basic Grey, Hello Luscious and a little of the new Simple Stories, 100 Days of Summer, some old old My Minds Eye and a little Maya Road doilie on some old corrugated cardboard. The background is also Basic Grey Hello Luscious...I photographed it and used the .jpg for the background.

Tell me if you see some things that need tweeking or if you have any suggestions for my blog. I'm not very good at this sort of thing and need all the help I can get!!

Thank you, Thank you!! :-D

Glitz Giveaway!

Oh my, Oh my, Oh my! I just had to share. Check out Glitz's new line, Dance in Sunshine. I cannot wait to get my hands on this line!! Fun colors, gorgeous patterns...and all those gorgeous goodies are going to be a lot of fun too!

Head on over to the Glitz Blog...they are having a giveway. Someone will be lucky enough to win this entire line. Yay!!

Dance in Sunshine



So many gorgeous goodies too, here is a teaser:

Bare with me! :(

A few weeks ago I learned about a new tool. Picasa Web Albums! I love it. It is a great tool for backing up your pictures.

I also learned something else. Every time you upload a picture to your blog...any picture; your banner, your little side bar doodads, all the images you've uploaded to your posts...all those images are saved to one little file.

Guess where?

Yep, you guessed it..in Picasa Web Albums. I also learned that if you accidently delete that file because you have a happy trigger finger and you've temporarily, even for a just second loose your mind...that file is lost and gone forever...and so are all your nifty little blog pictures that you've had for ages and ages and can't seem to find them to upload them again. *sigh*

I was really wanting to update my blog...I know it's been neglected for a while...but this was just NOT how I wanted to do it. lol Bare with me here while I try and figure out what I am going to do with my little piece of internet real estate. I know it looks a little sad right now. But I'll get to it!!

Back Porch Memories Online Crop!

You really need to come check out our crop this weekened. You are not going to believe the great challenges, games and classes we have planned!! There are 22 challenges to be done. Yes, that's no typo. I said 22!! Come join us starting Friday, May 13 @ noon EST. We'll be cropping right through until Sunday, May 15 @ 6 p.m. EST. No stress though...you have until May 16 or May 21 to get those projects sumbitted.

Then the most incredible part!! The prizes: Each challenge, game and class has its own prize! Plus we're giving away a six (6) month autoship subscription to Back Porch Memories Kit Club. How is that for a prize?? Sounds good, doesn't it?! WooHoo!

Come on and join us...I can't wait to see you there!

Scrapbook Express!

My very first Scrapbook Express Diva LO! I am so excited to be on the design team. It's such a great board, so full of talented sweet women! What a blessing! Come check us out!! Scrapbook Express!





MME - So Sophie - Anyhting for you.
MME - So Sophie - Best Thing Accessories Card
MME - So Sophie - In Love Petite Red Floral Paper
MME - So Sophie - Never Enough Daring Dot Paper
Basic Grey - Basic Kraft - Sticker Labels
Kraft Cardstock

The Original Scrapbox Giveaway!!

Wow, that's all I got, just Wow! lol

The Original Scrapbox is having a giveaway. Hurry up...because it's over when they get 10,000 "likes" on FB. They are almost there!! Hurry Hurry Hurry!

Check it out here:

The Original Scrapbox on Facebook

Always a Dare Devil!

I did this for the weekly challenge At Scrapbook Express! What a fun challenge, the challenge was to recycle something non-scrappy. The timing was funny because just last week I cleaned out the girls hairbow bin and we where going to throw away a bunch of baby hairbows...but the butterflies where just too stinking cute to trash! I wish the others had matched the LO, but this one lonely butterfly had to do.



Here is the rest of the page:







Man how time flies. I remember watching her swing and getting butterflies in my stomache because she always wanted to do something just a little scarier than I could handle. lol She's 5 now...and still doing the same thing. "Watch this", is going to be the death of me!

This page is made with with Echo park papers and stickers...the square letters are also EP and the white glitter letters are Sugar Coated Doodlebug. I also used the pink doodlebug paper frill and some MM brads.

Danger!

And that is the truth! Thier bedroom is very dangerous! These MLSB papers couldn't be more perfect for a sign for my girls scary bedroom. Isn't that monster just the cutest? lol I just love him!

Just for Fun!

I did this for a Back Porch Memories challenge. Laura Jean challenged us to use at least 5 hearts on our page. So...I went through my stash looking for heart related embellishments. Hmmm, I don't have hardly any!! Hmph! But any way...I made due with what I did have. But as I was looking for hearts I pulled out every bit of scrappy embellishments that rather matched my papers and decided to see just how many different manufactures I could include on this one page. lol Ha! What a fun mix of stuff. Embellishments: My Minds Eye, Jenni Bowlin, WRMK, K. & Co., Glitz, Tim Holtz, Bella Blvd. and 7 Gypsies. PP: Fancy Pants, Studio Calico and My Minds Eye. I know that is a record for me! lol






I got to stop into Archiver's for a split second just to pick me up some Echo Park, Little Girl. I love this line!

Lifestyle Crafts & Life As Lou February Die Cutting Contest!

You have to check this amazing giveaway out! Leah and Lifestyle Crafts are offering a chance to win one of two great great prizes. Yeah!! Good luck. I can't wait to see who wins! I hope it's someone I know!

Check out Leah's Blog Life as Lou:

A little Scrappy time!

Ugh! What a weekend. Saturday I woke up with a little crick in my back. It hurt, and I whined and carried on all day...but it wasn't enough to stop me though, just a slight nagging pain. THEN, my hubby got the girls a new little toy to play around in, (a two seater go-cart) Of course we had to ride it around a while to try it out! Well, of course the darn thing broke down on us about a half mile up the road...and of course we ended up pushing it most of the way home. :-( Then...about an hour later I was rolling around on the bed in the worst pain EVER. My pain went from a nagging 3 to I'd rather be in labor kind of pain. It's finally feeling better now. I don't know what I did to myself...but I never want to it again! Yuck! The worst part of having a back ache is having the urge to scrap...but being in too much pain to even think about being creative. :-( No fun! I did manage to get one page done Sunday night.

The sad part of this page is...it's the second page I have done about Chloe's butt. lol It's just hilarious to me how the poor girl never has enough butt to keep her britches up.

Have you ever wished that scrapbook stuff came with an undo button. Oh, I do. I've gotten way to comfy with my sewing machine lately. What was I thinking when I thought I could sew a circle around Chloe's tail? It did not turn out at all like I wanted to. What was I thinking?? I started to drop the photo in the trash and wait until I could get the photo reprinted to finish the page...but I hate leaving things half done on my desk. lol I just had to finish it. I covered up the mess as best I could. Flowers to the rescue.

My Scrapbook Nook - Virtual Crop

I had so much fun scrapping this weekend. My Scrapbook Nook was having a crop with tons and tons of fun challenges. I hate it that I only got 3 done. There where so many more that I wanted to do...there just aren't enough hours in the weekend.

This is my first page...Challenge #11 - Getting to know you.

Talk about hard! What a great challenge. The challenge was to interview a family memeber. Then where the hard part comes in...you had to use 4 pps(target $ spot pp, BG, MLYB and CI), at least 2 different alphas(AC, MM and Dyno tape) and 5 different types of embellies (buttons, flowers, bling, puff ball ribbon, and a journal tag).







Second is #3-Old Stash

All the talk of vintage photos really got me wanting to scrap and old photo! This was me when I was 3. I used some ancient Daisy D pp that I've had since, well, forever! It was waiting just for this picture I think. I also used some old Prima flowers and bling from last year that I just can never bare to use. Just too darn cute to use up!





Then last was Challenge #7 - Scraplift

I am so in love with this designeers work! It was just an honor to get to scraplift LG Balarmino. I lifted her Winter Funland page.



Here is my lift:

Back Porch Memories

Can you believe it has been nearly a month since my last post? Yikes! There just isn't enough hours in the days.

I am so excited to be posting this today. I was lucky enough to get to scrap as a guest designer for Back Porch Memories this month! Yay! What a privilege it has been! The January Solo kit is absolutely gorgeous! It's filled with My Mind's Eye, Fine & Dandy goodness!! I am so excited about this kit, I don't know which page to show first!

Let's see, the first page I did was Welcome to Kindergarten.





This is Chloe on the first day of school. She was so very excited! On this page I used the Fancy Pants, Love Birds alpha stickers, I used a bunch of the MME Fine & Dandy Layered Stickers, those things are just too cute!! I also used some of the Fine & Dandy MME Ribbon, I loved that too! So gorgeous! The pps I used are Tickled Pink: Adorned, Cheery and Pretty. I also used the Fine & Dandy Jewels from the add-on embellishment kit.

The second page I did was Snow Fun! More Chloe...she is my camera hog!






I used a lot of the same goodies on this page as my first, the Fine & Dandy ribbons, the jewels, and the layered stickers. I also used both the Fancy Pants Alphas and the Bumble Thickers in my title. I did add a few buttons from my stash as I have a button addiction. lol The papers are all Tickled Pink pps, Radiant, Pretty and Cheery.

The third page, Our very Own Sunshine, I did for the January sketch.






I thought it would be fun to follow along with Danielle P.'s Single/Double challenge with this sketch! More gorgeous jewels, more yummy ribbon. I used the Bumble Thickers for my title. I also had fun with some fussy cutting with the little birds and circles from the Adorned pp. I also used Cheery and Radiant pps.

Then last but not least...this was such a fun project! And what a way to use up scraps. I used nearly all of the rest of my kit on this flower pot.






I finally got to use the gorgeous aqua and Orange Jillibean Soup Sugar Picks and I also used all 6 ppps from the kit in this project. I also finished off the rest of my ribbon too. :-( I want some more! Of course I added some buttons from my stash.

And that's all! I so hope you enjoy this kit as much as I did! I really tried to do those gorgeous papers and goodies justice.