Beautiful Bookworm & Smile {Scrapbooking}

 

Hi folks, hope you all are having or had a great weekend! I sure did. I snatched up a really nice buffet/credenza at an estate sale and got to sit down and scrap.

Oh My Goodness it was great to finally get some scrapping done! FYI I'm a scrap-a-holic & a  picture taking fanatic! My favorite subjects to photograph are my children-of course.

My oldest daughter is a serious bookworm! She is a self proclaimed geek/nerd. Some parents are fussing at their kids to, "Come pick up your toys". I'm fussing for her to pick up her books.

 She wanted to do a photo shoot that showcased her geeky/nerdiness and her love of reading in her new favorite graphic T. We had so much fun taking these pictures. They grow so fast.

This year for my little one's birthday, her Dad and I surprised her at school with cupcakes! This was a  big deal to me because her previous schools didn't allow outside food in so this was her first time sharing cupcakes with the class.

She is my "smiley" child. Always smiling and giggling.

I am so in love with the newest lines from My Minds Eye- I.want.them.all. Their stuff used to be too busy for me. But for my birthday this year my friend sent me the Sunshine Collection and I adored it. I went to a convention a few weeks ago and snatched a few pieces from  new Indie Chic Collection.

 

 



Materials Used for LO/1:

My Minds Eye Lost & Found 2

                                            ~Sunshine "Forever" Classified Paper

                                            ~Sunshine "Two of Us" Damask Paper

                                            ~Sunshine "Lovely" Plaid Paper

                                            ~Sunshine "Memories" Blossoms Paper

                                            ~Sunshine "Memories" Buttons

                                            ~Sunshine "Forever" Decorative Brads

                                            ~Sunshine "Sunshine"Decorative Brads

                                            ~Sunshine "Two of Us" Pearls

Kraft Paper-not sure of the manufacturer

Kaiser Kraft Basic Pearls Yellow

EK Success Edger Punch Scalloped Scallop

Creative Memories Corner Rounder

 
Materials Used for LO/2
My Minds Eye Indie Chic
~Ginger "Direction" Brocade Paper
~Ginger "Pictures" Damask Paper
~Ginger "Travel" Tulips Paper
~Ginger "Adventure" Bouquet Paper
~ Direction Layered Stickers
~Direction Buttons
 ~Sunshine "Two of Us" Pearls

Who is your favorite paper manufacturer?

 

Thanks for stopping by. See you again soon!

 

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Retreat…Retreat!

Two weekends ago for the 2nd time I attended the Crop Cirlces Srapbooking Retreat in Bedford, PA! Gorgeous coutryside..that I didn’t take time to go out and shoot because I was too busy scrapping, chatting, and eating!

Bedford, PA

I’ll have to go back and take pictures though, they have 14 covered bridges and a place called Gravity Hill that I wanna peep!

Top: Cassie, ME, Andrea, Linda Bottom: Zemma, Lisa, Adora

Me in the Tall Green Hat- If you were wearing the hat when the timer went off you got more tickets to enter in the raffle.

Above is a card and below are the layouts I created…much more progress than last years 4 or 5! I took a break in between layouts to get the most fabulous FREE 1 hour massage (which I won at last years crop). That’s partly why I go! To get that massage!

Usually when I come home from a crop my mojo is flowing….this year was no exception, here are a few more layouts I created once I was home and hadn’t even upacked!!

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Slumber Party-Hollywood Style

This past Saturday 2/19 my Munchkin turned 11 years old! I’m still trying to wrap my head around that. We started planning her party back in December. She decided she wanted a slumber party with a celebrity/super star theme. So I told her to go research and bring me her ideas. WOW! She came back with a 6 page written plan for her party that included: game ideas, food ideas , diagrams, invitation & goody bag illustrations, and websites for decorations…she had it all planned out!

We got some cool ideas from this blog!

She chose Silver,Black, and Gold for the colors after finding these decorations at Partycity.com

She’d done a Google search to get ideas on how to set up for the party and found these "Popcorn" cupcakes. Too cute, it’s not really Popcorn on top it’s mini marshmallows that you cut cross-wise and spray with yellow food coloring or Wilton  Color Mist in Yellow.

This cupcake wrapper was made with my new favorite Cricut Accessory – Make The Cut software. I LOVE MTC! I will probably never buy another cartridge again! I used Stickles to outline & fill in the stars and 11.

Guess what I used to make this super cute banner?

Right!

Make the cut! Really, this software is Ah-may-zing! If you have a cutting machine!

Most of the decorations I got either on sale, with coupons or at the $1 store!

For the goody bags,I bought plain black paper sacks from Michael’s. I traced and cut out the star shape then glued cut pieces of page protectors inside the bag. I LOVE to embellish so I used a paper trimmer to make the loops on the top of the bag. Munchkin cut out little stars to glue on the outsides and the clapboard tags were made with……….YUP MTC! So was the clapboard on the balloon center piece and the front door.

The party was hit, the girls had a fun, there was pillow fighting, boy talk, movie watching, whip cream smearing, a hi fashion show and they designed their own T-shirts. They were 10 girls in all and they were all very well behaved.

The Pookie Doo has started planning her 7th birthday  with a Pinkalicious theme! Her Bday is in September so this is going to be FUN! My orders were, “Mommy, EVERYTHING has to just be PINK!”

*Sigh* I love planning parties!

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