Birthday Weekend Crop

This weekend was my birthday. I got a few LOs finished. Not as many as I'd hoped. I think if I'd just stuck to the Counterfeit Kit I put together, I would have gotten more done, but I had a page kit that was a challenge, and 20 other challenges to do, so the Counterfeit Kit ended up sitting most of the weekend. :( That's okay, I still managed to get a ton of stuff done and used up from my stash. I think the only thing I used over the weekend that was new was the adhesive! ;)

James' Christmas

Happy Harvest:

First Birthday:

GiGi

Yesterday I turned 39:

Caroler:

And a small peek at the Telephone Scraplift. Cutest little mouse in the house. Well, luckily, the only mouse in the house!

First March CK LO

Here is the first LO I've done with my Counterfeit Kit. I used some VERY old stash and it sure feels good to have it used! The LO is really simple, but all four of the kids got home at the same time, so this is as good as it gets! ;) Thanks to whoever made that aged frame eons ago in a swap - great with this CK and the page!

March Counterfeit Kit

Here is my March Counterfeit I put together. They used this kit for their lift. Here is my take on the kit. I put together a much smaller kit this month than I did last month. I used some old Chatterbox, Shabby Princess, Scrapperdashery, DejaViews, and a few other pieces I don't know the names from. I had a few "aged" looking pieces, plus, I had several frames, words, phrases, and worn or denim feel tags and such. I think I'm missing a photo - I'll find which device it is on and upload that, too! There are some beads and flowers in there, too.

LO Share and Counterfeit Kit

Got some stuff done over the "Sister's Birthday Party Weekend Crop." Really simple LOs, but I got some things done. I also attempted the Counterfeit Kit Challenge. I tried to copy the second kit they posted. I used all Daisy D's papers. I am such a Daisy D hoarder, especially now that they are out of business and they were my FAVORITE company. Several of the papers (the floral and stripes) reminded me of stuff I have had in my stash for years, so I went with it. I took some pictures of what I was using. I added a ton of the stickers and embellies and letters that came with the matching papers. I added cardstock - I hope that's allowed! Anyway, I figured even if I do something "wrong" with the challenge, at least I'm using up stash, and seriously, I enjoyed my whole weekend, knowing I was not only scrapping, but using some of my favorite, yummy papers! Here are some the pictures!

LO's: (I think my hair is that weird thing on the side of the photos - sorry!)

Cowboy Conversations - I did this as a comic strip.

A Gift For Mom - I made this Barn to hold Mom's thread spools.

You are a Miracle - This was a Inspirational LO done from this album cover: The Swift

Learning to Garden - collage of all kinds of pictures and produce I took last summer while different stages of my First Garden were growing. :)

This one was not done with my CK papers. It was one of the challenges at the party to use 2 of the 4 papers provided and brown glitter glue. The LO has pics from Ayla's BDay party. The glitter glue is over the die cut letters in the title.

You are My Heart - Last of my babies to wear the family heirloom . . . and on to Sister's baby!

Oh, this LO I used a TON of die cut circles from my stash and followed the "tutorial" on the CK site to make the background paper. :)

There are 2 more LO's I did this weekend, one I can't show yet because it is the Telephone Scraplift Challenge, the other I have to either find, or retake pictures of!

Last Post for Tonight

"Party Games" is my last LO for the night. That makes 6 LO's in 2 days, with journaling! That's a record for me of late! LOL! So these are pictures from Isaiah's Dinosaur 10th Birthday Party. The kids made dinosaur "feet" out of tissue boxes, then used them for relay races later. We made sure there was even a pair for Little Cousin; we cut a box in half, since he already has a hard time not slipping when he walks! ;) I used several Disney's Animal Kingdom papers and stickers for this!

Whoooo Am I?

Our next Weekend Crop Challenge is to use this Font:

"KG Skinny Latte," which you can get for free here:

http://www.dafont.com/kg-skinny-latte.font

We had to use the font somewhere/somehow on our LO. I used it to do a LO about who I am today. I used Jubilee on my Cricut for the Title. Oh, and hey, April, my friend Tara gave me 2 CM albums to fill up, but I need 12x12 page protectors for the old albums. Can I still get those??? :) Oh, and one more thing. I was looking back at an old LO I did about my top 10 favorite things about me a few years ago, and oh my goodness, I didn't date it! So I made sure this LO had the date on it! (Hard to see in this LO, but it's on the bottom right corner!)

The journaling says:

The Hats I Wear . . .

Wife

Mother

Daughter

Sister

Friend

Business Owner

Scrapbooker

Gardener

The Movies I Like . . .

You’ve Got Mail

While You Were Sleeping

X-men: Origins

Miracle on 34^th Street (original)

It’s a Wonderful Life

Tangled

Places I Like to Go . . .

Disneyland

Mom’s House

Church

Tara’s House

Disneyland

Anywhere with Lacy or Jess

Did I Mention Disneyland?

Places I’d LIKE to Go . . .

On an Alaskan Cruise

Germany the Week after Thanksgiving

Hawaii, When I’m Skinnier . . .

Any Primerica Trip We Can Earn

Disneyland . . .

People I Am Thankful for . . .

James

Ayla

Isaiah

Peter

Nathanael

Mom

Lacy

Tara

Jessica

Games I like to Play . . .

Farmville

Wii Fit

Phase 10

Skip-Bo

In an Alternate Universe . . .

I am Skinny

I am Athletic

I am Rich

I am a huge Benefactor

I am Beautiful

I can afford and eat all the Chocolate I want without gaining weight

My Favorite Foods . . .

Coffee

Chocolate

Cheese

Cheesecake

Fondue

Chocolate Fondue

Ice Cream

Cookie Dough

Seeing Santa

One more LO for this weekend with the two Littles and Santa. Notice the little finger pointing to Santa like he's telling Santa something VERY important. What cute kids! ;) Thanks to an old Christmas Swap from years ago that did the cute sleigh and reindeer. I would give credit, but I don't know who made them. If it was you, speak up so I can give you credit! :)

Sugarcoated Kidz

Another LO for this weekend's crop. No challenge included, just scrapping accomplished. Old pictures of my Mom with the Grandkids, Easter 2010.

Saturday's Edition . . .

So, today's first Challenge is to use this Sketch from: http://www.pixels2pages.net/2012/02/01/non-subscribers/seven-in-all-blueprint-for-seven-photos/#more-23818

to do a LO. My LO is as follows: (Please forgive the flash spots!)

CM Crop weekend

This weekend, my CM Consultant, April Drinnon, www.mycmsite.com/aprildrinnon , is hosting an online crop. Well, seeing as I never sit at my computer long enough to look at anything, I only found out about it about an hour before it started! So I am playing along, but not expecting to get as much done as I would have had I prepared better! LOL! Anyway, our first Challenge required us to go to a CM site (www.pixels2Pages.net) and look at their challenges, use one for a LO, and show it to April. I figured, since I *rarely* post anything to my blog, I would post things here and have her see them where you can also see them! (I'm smart that way!) The site we got the ideas from was for digital scrapping, but we could turn it into a traditional LO, too. I was having a hard time seeing directions for the challenge I started, so I decided to use 2 different challenges on this LO. Surely one will count! The first one was "Challenge 86" which was to "use a shape as the background and then add your words on top and then size each letter to the outline of the shape (basically the shape is a guide for placement). When finished, you delete the shape behind it." I tried this with the pennants on my page, making a trapezoid, wide on the left and narrowing to the right. My letters and pennants get smaller across the page, making it look as though they are getting further away . . . I hope! Anyway, I also did Challenge 81, Put a Ring on It, including a ring on the LO. I wanted these photos to really stand out, so I did the journaling in the patterned paper so you would have to look for it a little. Here it is:

"A Cowboy To LOVE"

(Yes, there really is journaling there . . . )

More journaling under the bottom picture, and on the ring.