A few new layouts

Here are a few layouts I have been working on

I actually had a lot of fun with this one. It is for a challenge on ACOT , to use the colors of a candy cane. I mod podge all around the red ripped paper and then sugar coated it. So it has a real glittery look to it.

Here is the Box Room layout- for the sketch challenge at ACOT



And finally this one is from a Pencillines sketch and was the featured sketch from The Everyday Scrapper this past Sunday.

The Kitchen Project

We bought a house in October that had a seriously outdated kitchen. It was basically the original kitchen from when the house was built in 1954. So we had to redo it. It took about 5 weeks or so but it is finally finished. The pictures below show the entire process and what it looks like now.

the original kitchen

the demolition

the dry wall is up

cabinets but no granite

And the finished project- the space to the right is the dining room and to the left a sunroom/breakfast nook

Christmas Magic

This was a sketch challenge/guest designer contest entry for Back Porch Memories. It is a bit sideways, but my camera charger is MIA and my battery is dead, so . . . had to use the one I had.

The Everyday Scrapper

The Everyday Scrapper is an up and coming scrapbook website/forum. It is a great resource - the website is amazing and has a lot of great tutorials and ideas. The forum is so much fun with a great group of ladies. And I have just joined their team. I am not sure what my exact title will be, but I will have a day where I get to post inspirations, questions and just general stuff. So follow the links and check it out.

Another cute and easy Christmas idea

I just found this super cute idea on the Scrap Tiffany blog. I think I will try this this weekend and let me girls color or paint them. May make a nice little gift for teachers.

A quick and easy Christmas ornament

I was searching the internet for some simply paper craft ornaments. I had an idea of how to do one in my head, but with life as crazy as it is, I thought, "heck I need to find one that is already done and tried." So I searched around and found this. It is exactly what I was looking for.

Now to just find the time to do it.

What a face

The sketch for this layout is from a fabulous site, Stuck?!Sketches. The pp is Cosmo Cricket, the Gretel line. That is for the manufacturers challenge at ACOT . All the pp were scraps that I found as I was searching for other paper for a different layout. I decided to distress the strips and I really love the way it turned out.

The Box Room

We moved last week. But we owned the house for about 6 weeks before we actually moved in. So whenever we brought stuff over, we just stuck it in one of the bedrooms on the main floor. That room has since been dubbed the "Box Room." Here are two pictures of it.


So, yesterday while I had a baby sitter I worked on the room and now you can actually walk in there. Also, I found things that I had been looking for. But I can tell you this, "The Box Room" will be my next scrapbook page.

I did it

Scrapbooked that is. LOL. I tried to yesterday, and I got a little bit done, but neither child napped very well. So this morning I couldn't sleep so I got up and made a Christmas card, then this afternoon while the girls were in preschool I did another card. I also finished the LO I did yesterday but that can't be shared for a while.

The cards, well one of them, is for the monthly card challenge at ACOT. It is to do a Christmas card with a Santa or a snowman as an accent.

So here are my cards
And I have to say that I am totally loving my craftbox, from the Original Scrapbox people. It rocks, and it forces me to clean up when I am done.

December 1= new challenges

Today is a day I have been waiting for- it is the day the new challenges are posted on A Cherry On Top. They always have the best challenges and I can't wait to get started on them. If you love challenges, you should totally check them out.