Birthday card & Toilet Paper Cake

I made this card for my SIL for her birthday using my Scrap Stash Challenge pack I made & think it turned out really well. The inside quote reads 'You turning 40 reminds us of the old Chinese King -- Yung No Mo. I used the Paisley Cricut cartridge for the doll image

 I made my SIL a toilet paper cake for her gift this year because she is always asking us for an extra roll once in awhile & since we live next to each other we help out when we can. We told we got her a cake & she was surprised to find out it was this type of cake. It was fun make as it was to watch her receive it.

Using your Stash Challenge

Made this layout using a kit I created from stuff in my scrapbook stack. I think this is a great idea (Thanks Rachael!!!). The challenge is to use what you already have in your own stock pile of stuff to shop for your own scrapbooking kit & use it to create layouts, cards, or whatever without buying new stuff & too NOT hoard your supplies for that 'Special' project later. Here's a layout I made for the challenge.

New Beginings

I hope to post more on here than in the past since I started this blog. I hope to be more creative this year & get my projects posted on here more often. I'm also going to try and write something on here each day, so I can do more journalling for scrapbooking & to help keep the memories fresh & in the moment.

My God bless each one of you who pass by my blog & hope 2012 brings many challenges & wonderful moments in your lives.

Progression Challenge/Journalling challenge

This double LO, titled Little Drummer Girl is for two challenge entries. For the journalling challenge. I have always hand written my journalling no matter how long it is. This is quite a bit of journalling for me on one LO, but I had a lot to say about how my daughter & I made this toy & how she loves to play with it.

As for the Progression part of this post here it is:


1. This is my inspiration for the LO






2. My scrapping are before I began











3. Progress during my creative time



4. The finished product which is the first picture posted







The materials I used are: Recollections All Girls paper stack, cardstock from a paper stack bought at Costco years ago, Plantin Schoolbook, Wild Card, Everyday Paper Dolls & George Cricut cartridges, Fiskars threading water border punch, DCWV Sweet stack chipboard shapes, Autumn Leaves 'Stamped & Coded' clear stamps, Memento black ink, BIC Sharpie markers, Skittles, Stickles glitter glue, & the flowers were from a swap.

Countdown Challenge

This LO I created is for a Countdown Challenge. I used items on my LO in this order.

5 - Flowers
4 - Ribbons/Strings
3 - Strips of paper & brads
2 - Alphas or fonts
1 - Picture

The flowers were from a scrapping friend, the ribbons scrap strips of paper & brads were all in my stash. The letters are from George & Wild Card Cricut cartridges & the picture is of my two kids. TFL

She has arrived

My baby girl has made it into this world. She is a joy & challenge that God has blessed me with & I'm so thankful to have her in my life. I can't believe that she belongs to me & wouldn't trade her for anything.

Baby Shower card

I went to a baby shower awhile back & since there was a group gift I said I would make the card for everyone. I used Storybook, Paper Doll Dress Up, Wild Card & Doodlecharms for this card & everyone love it. I was quite impressed with myself with this one too. I have not done anything this detailed, ever. Thanks for looking