Just a quick post of the latest LO that I made using a kit from The Scrap Room. This is a pic of my hubby and I at my Dad's B-day party, which just happens to be on Valentine's Day. The sketch is by Julie Bonner and the kit is Pink Paislee Cupid. I loved this kit and it was very easy to work with! Which is a little strange since I usually hate "themed" stuff. I added some Prima lollipop flowers and A&M initial cards along with some Thickers Alphas. Those are my latest must have product! The stamp in the upper right hand corner is a Basic Grey Bitty Stamp that says Be Mine...it was too perfect not to use on this LO! A Martha Stewart punch easily added a great border to the page. I must say, it is my favorite LO at the moment!

Happy President's Day!

I love Monday Holidays! My Mom and I often go out shopping together on these holidays and today was no exception. Our favorite thing to do is find new crafty stores, as long as they are not too far away. Today we found another scrapbook store, The Inspiration Station, thanks to a suggestion from a friend. It was a little over an hour away and in another state, but hey, my Mom and I love to explore! I found lots of new stuff to work with and a lot of stuff for my wedding album, which I want to start on.

For The Scrap Room Blog Challenge this week we had to create a LO with a scalloped edge/border in it. This was my take on the challenge, using a sketch I found on Julie Bonner's Blog. This is our cat Sasha taking a nap next to me while I play on the laptop.



Isn't she cute? This is part of the February shipment from The Scrap Room and is a line from American Crafts. I thought I would have a hard time scrapping with it, but it was the first kit from the FOTM that I chose to work with. Hopefully, I'll be able to work with them all by the end of the month!

The cold has settled in here in Western MA and I am not liking it! I am a summer girl and I always will be! However, that only means I have been getting a lot more scrappin' done these days! I have been trying to keep up with the challenges at the Scrap Room and Sketch Inspirations. I have also been doing a lot of things for the A-Z Year that are not necessarily new but I appreciate them more when I associate them with the current letter! We are on C now, so I will have to think of some things to do....

Here is a LO I finished just tonight for Sketch 108 at Sketch Inspirations:

A pic of my hubby before we got married. I thought the pic went so well with the paper from the Basic Grey Indian Summer kit from the Scrap Room!

Here is another LO I created for the Jan 1-15 Got Sketches at The Scrap Room:

Some cute pics of my nieces with my parents at the girls' joint bday party in October.

And finally, I have a LO I made to remind me of the goals I have for 2010. This was for The Scrap Room's Week 1 Blog Challenge. I used an older kit for this LO and I loved how the square stickers were the perfect size for my tiles!

Well, off to do more scrapping and think of the letter C! Have a great weekend!

Just wanted to pop in quickly and say hello! Hopefully tomorrow I will be posting the winner of the December Raffle in my Etsy shop, http://www.playswithpaper828.etsy.com but for now I will leave you with some of my latest creations.

I made this first card for my Mother's B-day, which is tomorrow. I kind of had a brain stump until I started playing with a stamp and ended up creating the background image by stamping multiple images. I then stamped the same image in a darker color and raised it up, adding ribbon behind it. To add some bling, I added some rhinestones to the flowers. I love the way it came out!

Next I have a card/tag set I made for a friend's baby shower that is next week. I really fell in love with this giraffe stamp and just had to use it! I embossed the background paper with my Epic Six and then inked the raised part to give it definition. I also stitched with floss around the edges to give it a more "cutesy" look. I really like the way these two came out!

Hope everyone had a great New Years!!

Eek! I have been a really bad blogger lately! I have been so busy with Christmas Projects, tradeshows for work in the fall and daily life that I haven't blogged since Sept.! It's pretty amazing that I have found time to sit down and do it now, but here goes!

Thought I'd share a LO I did at one of the tradeshows while stuck in a hotel. The design is pretty basic and the only thing I had to cut with was my paper trimmer, so all of the lines are straight! When I found this kit on sale at The Scrap Room, I just knew I had to have it for these pics! These were B-day cookies I made for my husband this year back in July! So, that shows how backed up I am with my scrapbooking!

Next, I have a pic of the November Raffle Prize Winners Prize for my Etsy store! A set of cute holiday cards that can be used at any time of the festive season! Congratulations go out to joyfulgreetings who won this cute set that I made!

Well, I have more Christmas Cards to finish! I hope everybody has a great holiday and I will be sure to post again after they're all done!

~Amy

Thought I'd share a page I completed this weekend. I am a member of The Scrap Room, www.scrap-room.com and I receive the kits each month. Recently, I also started perusing their message boards and forums for scrapbooking chit-chat and such. Each month they have challenges for their kits and this LO is in response to a 4 kits in 1 challenge. Each month there are 4 kits in the club and this challenge is to use at least one thing from each kit on one LO. This month was a little difficult as two of the kits had a masculine feel and two had a feminine feel (in my view, at least). I matched up some of the paper with this pic of my older brother and my niece and went from there. I love how the LO has a mix of masculine and feminine vibes, since that was the feeling I was going for. I wanted to document how much my older brother has changed since we were younger and what a great father he is. Thanks for looking!

Just wanted to write a quick post tonight. I have been busy making items for my etsy store, www.playswithpaper828.etsy.com , that are halloween themed. Eek! I can't believe it is almost that time of the year again. Well, I will be posting more this weekend but for now, here is a quick peak at one of my items. It is a 5 x 7 frame that I have stitched. All you have to do is slip a 4 x 6 pic in and voila! Scrapbook page almost complete!