Surprise!!

Valentine's Day Gifts
These are a a few things I made for Matt's Parents for the Valentine's goodie box we sent to them. The first is recipe holder that I made with Heidi Grace papers, brad's, embellishments, ribbon, and a few other non-SU! products. I bound it with my Zutter BIA. I like how it turned out, and his Mom loved it. I also made a mini album with chipboard, Heidi Grace CS, brads, embellishments, and the BIA.

On another note, I have to say how much I love my Husband! He surprised me with a new toy for my scrapbooking addiction this past week. He bought me a Cricut Expressions =) How cool is that? I LOVE it! It even came with two cartridges, Plantin Schoolbook & Accent Essentials. I have been having so much fun with it, and even he and Gabby have joined in on the cutting and creating with me, and helped to make some really cool things! I had to go buy a spatula after trying to peel off the papers a couple of times and 'tearing' them, LOL, but other than that I am good to get scrappin!! I can't wait to make more fun projects with it for Easter. It is truly a scrapper's dream tool and I now see what all of the craze was about =)

I will post some finished projects very soon!!
Hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day projects

I cannot believe it's February already. Last year this time, I was in Florida relaxing by the pool! Not this year, as the NC temps have been oddly colder than normal :( I will survive, as long as I have my projects that keep me inside where it's warm :)
Gabby and I made some Valentine treat bags for some family & friends this year. Nothing fancy, just a little treat that we put together using small zip-lock bags, card stock, ribbon, and Valentine's foam sticky hearts.

This is a cute little diaper fold pouch that I saw on a SCS tutorial page and had to make it! It was surprisingly very easy, quick, and is great for sticking little treats in, coupons, photo's, small gifts, or about anything you want. I made it for my MIL and put some coupons in it. This was made using my fav, Heidi Grace DSP, chip board embellishments, brads, a heart shaped paper clip, paper scorer, and 2 magnets. I added the magnets to the back so she could hang this on her fridge :) I'm happy how this turned out, and will definately be making these often as gifts for the army wives in DH's company!





This is the clip board calendar I made for Matt's Grandmother using Heidi Grace DSP, (I LOVE Heidi Grace!!) chipboard, Heidi Grace embellishments, ribbon, & brads, medium metal clip, & Always Artichoke Stampin' Up! ribbon. I printed the calendar from the Red Castle website. I've been having a lot of fun using my Zutter Bind It All. So far, I have made 2 memory books, a birthday reminder/card organizer book, & a recipe book. It's sort of a trial and error for me, but I think I am finally getting the hang of it. I hope the people I made them for like them :)




I made this greeting card organizer for Matt's Grandma. Sorry about the picture quality, this was taken with my cell phone camera :) I used Heidi Grace DSP, card stock, embellishments, ribbon, BIA, and printed the calendars from the Red Castle website.


























This is the medium memory book I made. This was the first project I attempted with my BIA, so yes, it's got some imperfections :) I used the Heidi Grace DSP, black ribbon, Live-Love-Laugh stamp from Stampibilities (I think), my Zutter bind it all with 3/4" wire, and various embellishments to decorate the inside. This was a 8 x 6 memory book.

1st Pics

I had to post a picture of our lovely snow we got yesterday here in NC. It's a very rare event here, like maybe 2 inches every 5-6 years if you're lucky, and we got 4 in one day! I don't care for the wintery mix, but it is pretty to look at so I thought I would share it =)

I finally have had the time to do some cards! I also got to use my new Zutter bind-it-all and I absolutely love it :) I have made 1 medium photo album/scrapbook, and 2 mini-books. Here are just a few of the cards I have made so far. I have to leave out the V-day cards until the holiday is over so that you don't see it too early :) I used both SU as well as other products.

This is just a little card that I made for the facility where I get my infusions every month.











A simple but cute Thank You card made with my favorite "latte" elements :)













Made with Stampin' Up! Simply Sent kit.

















A variation of the Stampin' Up! Simply Sent kit, except I used a cute little flip flop clear stamp instead of the a SU stamp. (I'm addicted to Flip-Flops so I had to do it!)

New Hobbies, Mo money!

Happy New Year to you all! Well, the holidays are all over and the new year has begun. Matt is starting his college class this week, and I had planned on staying in "my room" to finish up a few gift projects I had been working on. However, plans changed. My MS relapsed a little over a week ago, therefore I have not had the time to really do any scrapbooking at all, which makes me sad. I think I am getting better finally, so hopefully this week will bring me some opportunities to do some card making! I just got the new Zutter bind-it-all (V2.0 in pink of course), so I am really anxious about putting that to use asap! My next purchase will be the Cricut Expressions, although I need to sell a lot more on eBay before that one is purchased :) I just wish JoAnn's and the rest of the super duper stores would allow you to use those 40% off coupons on the cricut's! ugh!