Creations from the Cherry Pit

2011 is Closing..... Welcome 2012!

2011-12-28T11:16:00.001-08:00

With 2011 quickly coming to an end I can't quick help to reminisce and think of what I have been through, what I have accomplished and what I just didn't have time for.

On a personal level it has been a big year for growth, and I don't mean the negative kind. LOL I have made huge leaps in to creating a better self, someone I am actually very happy being, and someone I am actually proud of. There were a lot of ups and many downs to get to where I am, but in the end it was all worth it. I've learned to love me, and respect me, I've learned that heartache doesn't last forever, and that by allowing myself to love anything is possible. I've learned to enjoy being me and to take better care of me. I had spent a lot of time thinking and evaluating my life and I have even figured out what it is I want out of it, now 2012 is the year to figure out how to get it. :)

Now on to what's relevent for this blog.... my crafty side. Well, I must start by saying it has been an great year for the Cherry Pit, it seems I was always busy creating and making Decor items for myself and for others and I've had a lot of fun! There may have been times when I may have taken on more than I could hanlde at one time but I made it through and got the jobs done. I'd like to thank everyone for they support, whether it was in buying something or sharing words of encouragement, it was all very important to me and I greatly appreciate each and every one of you. THANK YOU!

As far as my personal crafts (aka my scrapbooking) I am pretty dissappointed in how little I've actually accomplished this year. My goal was to catch up on the pages I was behind and to hopefully not get too far behind in my 2011 pages. Well, I just updated my Excel sheet of what it is I have to do to become up to date and well, I did NOTHING with my 2011 year of photos :( I have a list of 250 pages that need to be completed to have 2011 in the books and that's close to 1000 photos to work with! YIKES!!! I did manage to get some pages does from 2010 this year, and even a few complete for the 2009 year, but I still have a long way to go to get those years complete... 115 Layouts for 2009 and 190 left for 2010.... yea if I ever what to get caught up I NEED to get to work, find my groove and NEVER lose it! LOL So with these winter months being the slow time of year, not many events or outings, not many photo opportunities I need to take advantage of this time, and crank out some pages while I'm not building up too much 'NEW' work for myself. It would be so nice to use my stuff again, and even more nice to get creative and sharpen up my scrappy skills. :)

So there's my 2011 in condensed form and my crafty goals for 2012. I wish you all the best in 2012 and hope to see and hear form you in the new year.

Scrap on! :)

~Jenn

~~ CRAFT SALE ~~

2011-11-21T09:28:00.000-08:00

I am going to be apart of a craft sale in early December, and I am quite excited! This will be the first 'real' sale I've done, and even though it is going to be small it's gonna be a great opportunity to figure out how it works, what things people are most interested in and will hopefully better prepare myself for any future shows I may decide to be a part of.

Since it's a good idea to let others know the types of things I will be offering ahead of time, I have made a document that can be printed so they can see, and I am also making this Blog entry for anyone who would like to take a look and better see some things.

So first a little background on what it is I do. I am a paper crafter. I love to scrapbook, make cards, and I use paper with other materials (such as wood) to create some really nice and unique Home Decor items. This is my hobby, this is my passion. I have a lot of fun being creative, not only is it a way for me to be artistic but I also find it theoraputic. Along with my personal reasons, I also enjoy sharing what I do with others.

The following are some of the items I have to offer:

Block Signs

( These range in price from $15 to $25 (depending on the length of word))

This Family Sign is one of my most popular creations. It is solid wood, and stands close to 7 inches tall, is 3.5 inches wide and is 21 inches long.

I also make other words and use other phrases. I have done, "Home is where the heart is", "Baby a Gift from above", and "Dance like no one is watching". Also my newest one will be "Faith makes all things possible". I do take custom orders of these so if you'd like A certain Phrase, or certain color scheme I can make one up for you and have it ready in a day or two (depending on how many orders I am working on).

Phrase Pyramids
($15 Each set)

These Pyramids are solid wood and stand approx. 11 inches tall and is 10 inches at its widest point. Again these can be custom ordered with words and colors of your choice. Word Groups I've previously done are "Faith, Family, Friends", "Dream, Imagine, Believe" and "Live, Laugh, Love".

Memorial Block Set

($10 each)

10 inches long x 6 inches tall x 3.5 inches wide. This photo memorial decor piece is a special way to display and remember your lost loved ones. Solid wood, paint and seal for easy cleaning, and a candle (Candle may vary depending on supplier). These are custom made for you, all I need is for you to send me the photo that you would like to use and I can attach it to the piece.

Pine Signs

($10 (2 feet x 6 inches)) ($15 (2 feet x 10 inches)

Signs shown are NOT for sale, however, if you have an idea for a sign and phrase that you would like I can custom make one for you in the colors of your choice. Generally I use 2 foot lengths and can use 6 inch or 10 inch wide boards (prices shown above), if you are looking for something bigger I can still make it, but the prices will vary depending on what you are looking for.

Christmas Trees
($15 each)

Solid wood, with twig and berry decorations. Stands approx. 12 inches tall (plus star height) and is 8.5 inches at its widest point. Painted then sanded for an aged look.

*PICTURE SOON TO BE POSTED*

Snowmen

($10 each)

Solid wood, painted with a brown wash for an aged look. Stands approx 11 inches tall and is 6 inches at his widest point.

Santa Coat Blocks

($5 each)

Solid wood, embellished with ribbon and buttons. These are 5.5 inches tall and 3.5 inches wide.

*PICTURE SOON TO BE POSTED*

Handmade Cards

($2.50 each or 4 for $8)

A lot goes in to each card with the high quality products used and attention to detail in each one.... at $2.50 a piece they really are a steal!

Cupcake Socks

($3 each or 2 for $5)

These little cupcake socks and sure to keep you warm and cozy during the holidays. Each cupcake is made up of a pair of Ultra Soft socks and wrapped in a custom cut cupcake wrapper. They are the perfect idea to have as party favors or they would make great stocking stuffers.

Snowman Soup

($2 each)

A warm and thoughtful gift that's sure to please. Would make an excellent stocking stuffer or Office / Teacher's Gift. Poem Reads as follows:

*PICTURE SOON TO BE POSTED*

Snowman Poop

($1 each)

For that someone in your life with a sense of humor, a bag of "snowman poop". Poem reads as follows:

*PICTURE SOON TO BE POSTED*

Misc Items

The following are just some misc items that I have done up. Each item started as something I wanted to make for myself, and I happened to pick up a few extra things to make multiples of each.

Clay Pots

($2 to $5 depending on size)

Prim Boxes

($5 each)

Prim Christmas Greenery Box

($5 each)

Framed Items

($6 to 10 each)

*SAMPLES SOON TO BE POSTED*

As I've mentioned a few times in the item descriptions all items you see here you may custom order to suit your needs. It will take a day or two to complete orders and this may vary depending on how many orders I have to make.

I am currently working on building a stock of things to have available at the sale but If you'd like to order anything in advance you may email me at CherryPitCreations@gmail.com or you can find my group on facebook (Cherry Pit Creations) and contact me that way.

Thank you very much for your time in coming to see my creations, that alone means a lot.

~Jenn

Junk Attack!!

2011-10-11T08:58:00.001-07:00

As all my facebook friends have already found out (or at least the ones who read my status updates lol), I hit the mother load of items today to refinish. I got ALL of this at a thrift store (the locals will know it as Frenchies :)), for less than $17!! I though it was a pretty good deal.

Everything here I plan to alter in some way (well besides the mugs, I just got those cause they were awesome LOL). I already have so many ideas in my head for these items, I just hope I can do something and get the ideas out of my head and in motion before I lose them! So I have 6 new projects to attack (I really didn't need more, but man how could I pass this stuff up??), I am so looking forward to it though.

So stay tuned, I will be posting each item as I give it a make over and hopefully turn this 'junk' of someone elses in to my treasures. :)

Happy Crafting, Scrapping or whatever else you decide to do today!
~Jenn

Salem Signs

2011-10-08T15:14:00.001-07:00

Well here I am back with more... (see I told ya!) LOL I've been thinking about some signs for my home since days before LAST Halloween. I knew I wasn't going to make any in time for last year, and I also knew that if I didn't get on it now, I wouldn't make it this year either.

My favorite thing or maybe better to say my theme for my Halloween Decor is mostly Witches. I like the hats, I like the black cats, the cauldron's, the green, the brooms, the spell books, pretty much anything to do with Witches. Then there is also the fact that I was born in Salem Massachusetts, I love history (especially local things), so the decision to go with Witches and references to Salem was an easy one to make.

Now, there are LOADS of great Sign ideas on the web for this theme, different styles, different sayings, here are a few that I have come up with.

This first sign I thought was a cute idea, I do have to admit that I am TERRIBLE at freehand painting! I did write the words (with pencil) first, then attempted to paint them. It turned out 'OK' but definitely could've been better, I still like the sign though.

This next one is my favorite of the three signs by far! The font I picked out looks great, and I am in LOVE with the little broom!!! I made it myself, used raffia for the bristles and I asked one of the boys to go outside to find a broken branch for me.... I didn't do anything to 'clean up' the branch, it was perfect just the way it was with all its little imperfections. My one and only complaint is that I am reminded why I NEVER put straight titles on my scrappy pages! It's because I'm not that great at it....LOL Now the 'm' is purposely on a slant to follow the line of 'Co.', but I don't know what the heck is up with the 'roo'....oh well, it was my 1st attempt, and it's for my house, so it's not like I am trying to please a customer (I'd never sell this with the letters looking the way they do), it's just a reminder to take more time to get it just right with the next one :)

With this sign I got a lil smart with the lettering.... I used welded words, so I didn't have to line up every letter, and as you can see, "Salem" goes every which way, (which is how I normally mask my poor lining up skills). I think even though this is a very simple sign, it has interest, with the two colors for words, different fonts and placement, and I even sanded and scuffed up this piece letting the orange that I painted under the black show in some places.

One thing I did that I am proud to admit is that I reduced the amount of materials I used. I actually painted the two pine signs, on the back sides of my Christmas decor signs I painted last year. So as soon as I'm ready to say good bye to Halloween all I need to do is flip the signs and say hello to Christmas! :)

I still have more ideas, but this will do for this year.... I'll leave something for me to do next year. haha

Happy Crafting!

~Jenn

It's the most wonderful time of the year!!!

2011-10-03T09:52:00.000-07:00

So Halloween is coming, (YAY! my favorite holiday of the year!!!) and I had a terrible discovery with my box of Halloween decorations this year. My basement is quite damp year round, and unfortunately for my decorations they were the only ones that were still in a big cardboard box (thank goodness I take better care of my Christmas stuff and have it all in plastic totes!!). Anyway, I had to throw away a lot of my things and start new this year.

I started the season off by making these lil Pumpkin Shelf Sitters. I saw some of these online, so I take no credit for the idea, but I did make them my own by adding the moss and "dirtied" up the bright orange with a coat of watered down brown paint. These are really cute, and can be used from beginning of fall straight through the season. I was thinking it might be cute to paint the back sides with Jack-o-lantern faces so at Halloween they can be turned around and serve a double purpose.... I dunno, I'll wait until next year and maybe I'll do it then if I still think it's a good idea. lol

Next, another Shelf (or sill) sitter set. Now I had these painted and sitting on my table and left blank for a long time! I just wasn't sure what I wanted to put on them. I finally decided on what you see below. I liked the idea of a rough Jack-o-lantern face (because when I'm not carving fancy designs pumpkins, mine traditional ones are never uniform), so to keep with the "messy" look, I opted to hand paint (and purposely squiggle) the word "Boo" on the next block. When I look at it it makes me think of a ghost, waving in the wind with his long shakey 'oooooooooo' sound so I think I got the look I was going for. Sometimes imperfections can look good too :)

Lastly, this cat. No, I did NOT make this cat, I am by no means that handy with a saw (YET), but I did find him at a thrift store for $1. He was very beat up, and his paint was scratched badly, but I brought him home, gave him a fresh coat of black paint, and here he sits on top of my refrigerator. A great (and inexpensive) addition to my Halloween Decor. :)

So thanks for stopping by today to read along. I've been having fun with these little projects and there will be more to follow soon I hope!

Have a great day, and happy crafting!!

~Jenn

National Card Making Day

2011-10-01T09:07:00.000-07:00

Happy National Card Making Day!! I set out today, with the best intentions to get a whole lot of cards made. As the day went on, and I kept telling myself I needed to scrap, I needed to scrap, it just wasn't happening like I had hoped.... it was as if I lost my entire desire to get anything done. Don't you just hate those times? A day where you can do anything crafty you want and you just can't think of anything.... oh that scrappers block, you never cease to show at the wrong time. LOL

Oh well, it was the thought that counts I guess. On the up side, I do have a lot of Christmas cards that I need to make over the next little while, so hopefully real soon I'll have something done and ready to share with you.

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

Candy Corn Pots

2011-09-30T07:52:00.001-07:00

I saw some painted clay pots one day while I was surfing the web for ideas and I thought of a great idea to paint mine up for Halloween.

I decided to paint the pots to look like Candy Corn. Little did I know someone had already come up with that idea (doesn't surprise me, it's a really cute idea!), and luckily for me I even found some tips on how to paint them and get clean straight lines (which if you look closely, you can see I was having trouble with when I painted my first one.

The trick was to use a thick rubber band to mark the lines ( I had used tape at first, but that was pretty hard to keep straight going round the curves of the pot).

So this ended up being a super easy, super cheap, and super FUN little craft to do, and now I have great new little additions to my Holiday Decor, not to mention ideas now for more in the future.... maybe even for Christmas. :)

Happy Crafting!

~Jenn

For A Good Cause....

2011-09-03T11:19:00.001-07:00

When I opened a Page on Facebook for the Cherry Pit, I immediately got a lot of positive feedback on my creations, and a few orders for items rolled in and I was even approached by a lady asking if I would be willing to make a few items as donations for her Fundraiser for Breast Cancer Awareness that will be happening in October. I agreed to do something because it's for a really great cause, and I was honored to be asked and able to help in any way that I could.

So, after talking with Karen, I decided to make one of my phrase pyramid signs, as well as a set of cards for the Silent Auction. So here is what I came up with:

A Phrase Pyramid done in neutral tones, with the Words, Faith, Family and Friends. I added some extras to this one, like the raffia and flower, just to make it a lil more special and give it a little more dimension.
Next, I made up a set of 4 cards specific to Breast Cancer Awareness. I kept them simple in design, but a bit busy and I could even say pretty with the pattern of paper I chose to use. This was my first time using my ribbon embossing folder (which I've had for years), and I really like how things turned out. I did use chalk and rubbed it over the ribbon shape just to make it stand out a little more.

And Rather than just putting the cards in a ziplock bag, I got a little fancier than that to make them appear that much more special. I really hope these help at the Bust A Move support for Breast Health in Nova Scotia fundraiser. If you are in the area and would like to check things out, it is being held on October 1st, at the New Beginnings Center in Greenwood until 2PM. There will also be a second show on October 8th at the Top Hat Lounge in Greenwood, same time. :)

Until Next Time..... Happy Scrappin'
~Jenn

Even more Layouts Still

2011-08-10T10:52:00.000-07:00

I told ya I'd be back! and here I am again with even more layouts that have been sitting here in the Cherry Pit for at least a year waiting for titles to be added to them. It feels so good to finally get these pages finished and into their albums! and it's nice to have the shelf space back from where they were sitting in a pile waiting to be completed. :)

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

Another Quickie Layout Post

2011-07-20T14:13:00.000-07:00

I really love these quickie layout posts, makes me feel like I'm accomplishing something when I get to post on my blog. LOL These pages are all ones that I had started last year, and then left them to sit with no titles. I have finally gotten around to posting these and there will be more to post under the same circumstances soon.

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

sweet cards

2011-07-07T18:57:00.001-07:00

Hi folks!!! Just a quick drive by post while I have a few free minutes. I have been in quite a creative slump when it comes to playing with just paper, whether it's scrapping a page or just a couple of cards. Other projects have taken over, and I have so many great ideas in my head it's been hard to get them out one at a time.

I forced myself to sit down and play with paper however. I decided to start small and make a couple of cards. So I did! I have to say I think these are SO cute! I stuck with the ever popular Cupcake theme, pulled out my DCWV Sweet Stack, and had a lot of fun making these "twin" birthday cards.

Now I feel like I might be able to finally be creative again with paper. These lil cards have inspired me in a lots of ways, the important way being that I've learned I still have what it takes to make something as sweet as these cards.

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

Baby is Here!!

2011-06-24T04:22:00.001-07:00

I'm a little late in posting this, but after helping new Momma adjust to new Baby, then getting back home which I had been away from for almost a month, I needed some time to get used to being back home, and get back in to the groove of my Mommy routine and get back to taking care of my own family again.

Here I am now though, announcing the arrival of Michael Levi Burrell, better known as Little Levi. He was born early in the morning on June 1st, and for the most part has been a very good baby so far. :) Not to mention cute! Holy Moly! So much hair for a new little person, and huge eyes, so alert right from the start. picture taken just after his 1st bath..... he's not even a whole day old yet.

It's hard to believe it wasn't that long ago I was going to Doctors appointments with my friend and here is a Digital page I made of that moment.

While I'm here posting and since I thought of it, here is the Thank You card I made for my friend to give out to everyone who came, or sent something to her for the Baby Shower.

It's been a great month so far, what a great way to start the summer season :)

Happy Memory Making!

~Jenn

Zoo Themed Baby Ablum

2011-05-21T14:31:00.001-07:00

I was asked to make a baby album for my Cousin in law for her baby shower. It was fun to do, but I found it to be a challenge. First off, not knowing the sex of the baby had to be the most difficult part of this album. I didn't want it to lean more one way than the other, but I didn't want it to be "blah" either. Luckily Mommy had a theme for the Nursery (Jungle) so I was able to find fun papers to work with (the DCWV Animal Crackers Stack), and went straight to work.

Second issue, it was HARD to not go over board!!! I've done 3 baby albums in the past (one for each of my boys), and I swear I had a page for every move they made, narrowing it down, to not only fit in 1 album (without adding extra pages), but with trying to allow space for all the important moments. I finally settled on doing a page for before baby was born, a double of the day baby was born, and then 1 page for each month in baby's life. Knowing that not every month can be crammed on one page, I also did a double specifically for putting "baby's firsts", now I left those pages pretty open, cause I know how hard it is to capture every moment on camera.

Finally I ended the album with a double of baby's 1st birthday, and a single for Baby at age 1 to complete the first year album. Below are the pages that I came up with.

I actually really liked how this album turned out (these pictures do it no justice!!). Every time I look at these photos I find a different page I like more, so I'm going to take that to mean I like them all equally and I just have a hard time choose which is my favorite.

Thank for stopping by, until next time......

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

Showing Team Spirit!

2011-05-17T23:48:00.000-07:00

As baseball season is here, I've decided to make a few things for my home to show my team spirit. I made one of my 2x4 Block Signs and came up with this:

I also took a leftover piece of Pine I had after making all my Christmas signs and I made this Fenway Sign.

Right now both of these are in the computer room on the main floor of my house, they are my teams and I like to show my team spirit. However, the boys are getting older and as they do they are becoming sports nutts more and more every day. So as I redo their room in a sports theme (mainly Boston teams theme), I will eventually be moving these into their room.

Happy Craftin'
~Jenn

Quickie Layout Shout Out!

2011-05-11T11:05:00.001-07:00

I have just beeing playing around wit some old pictures I have had printed for a very long time and thought I'd finally get them their own layouts and get them in the books. :)

Thanks for stopping by!!

Happy Scrappin'!

~Jenn

Baby Shower Time - Part 2

2011-05-04T05:06:00.001-07:00

Wow, Still can't believe I needed two posts to get everything I've done for this baby shower on here. Today I'm going to quickly show you the things I have done for games & decorations.

Games First.... my friend said she liked the "cheesey" Shower games, however, told me not to go over board. So I kept it simple with a Memory Game (a tray loaded with a number of baby items), the classic Clothes Pin game (where if you say Baby someone gets to steal your pin),

and a Diaper Pull Game (I cut mini diapers, everyone chose one as if they were choose a game card, and they opened their Diapers, who ever had the "dirty" one won the game. See, all very simple games, but they kept the activities and conversation going.
For Decorations, we also kept it very simple, my firend and I are BOTH very frugal, and find some things (such as balloons, flowers etc.) to be not neccisarily a 'waste' of money, but that money could be better spent elsewhere.

So I made her a Diaper cake that doubled as a decorative center piece. This was really fun to make, but can be very costly if you don't plan it out.

I have seen some VERY extensive Diaper cakes be made and all I can say is WOW! What little I put on this one cost a fortune! but I think it still turned out really cute, and for my first Diaper cake, it was fun learning how to make it.
Finally, on the other side of the room, to spread the theme around I used baby sleepers and onsies in the colors of the baby's room and decor and hung them on a line as a sort of banner.

Over all I was happy, didn't go over board with the spending, the guests ha d a great time and Mommy to Be was happy too.

Happy Craftin'!

~Jenn

Baby Shower Time!!! Part 1

2011-04-29T10:18:00.001-07:00

Yay! Finally I have a Baby Shower to plan!!!! This is all new to me, I'm so used to being the one to have the kids, it's actually quite exciting for me to be on the other side of waiting for a new baby. :)

My best friend is having a baby, and she has chosen a color pallet of Chocolate Brown, Bright Greens (more of the lime family), and random blue things for a slight color change here and there (yes it's a Boy!!), and she also like frogs, so there are frogs all in the room, and on some of the gifts I bought too.

So here is the Invitation I came up with for the Shower. For the most part we used a group in facebook to invite people to the event, but for those not on there, and that wanted the keepsake invite this is what they got. I used a Sweet Shoppe Designs digital scrap kit to make this, and just sent it off to a photo lab to be printed in a large quantity.

I made for her a Baby Block Sign to go in the babies room in the colors she chose.

I also altered this wooden basket to match (when I found it at a thrift store it was really scratched up, white and with a lot of purple flowers painted on it, so it got quite a transformation). In the basket I put the brand of soaps, lotions and creams she wants to use on baby.

I also made her a set of framed photos (again that match the items above), to put on the wall in the babies room. 4 of them in total.... with a photo of each of my boys on their first day, and the 4th is for a photo of her little guy once he gets here.

Then I made this card to go in one of the bags with her gifts (there were more, lots of cute blankets, sheets, and that rag quilt I showed you in an earlier post). Anyway, I used the scrap pieces of paper from the above projects to make this card, so again, matchy matchy.

So I can say I'm excited all I want, but I think with all the spoils posted it really shows. There will be more to share, so stay tuned.

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

Cupcakes.... They aren't just for eating anymore.

2011-04-21T05:41:00.000-07:00

Cupcakes seem to be all the rage in the crafting world... (or at least one of them), and I've seen these cute lil guys on blogs all over the web so when I knew I would be planning a baby shower, I thought these would make great prizes for some of the games.

These were super easy to make, I managed to find some .svg files to use with my Cricut to cut the Cupcake Wrappers, and I must say, locating the files (which was fairly easy) was the hardest part of this entire project. lol

Next, I took a pair of fleece socks (that I was able to purchase at the Dollarstore), and Rolled them up, and shaped them a little to make them look like a frosted cupcake.I topped each sock cupcake with a little red pom pom, and then packaged them in a clear bag and that was it.... easy huh???
So looky at that, a new way for Cupcakes to give you that warm & fuzzy feeling. Cupcakes: They aren't just for Eating Anymore. :)
Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

Baseball Season has Begun!

2011-04-11T06:09:00.000-07:00

Baseball Season is here!!! It's a great time of year, when spring comes after a long winter season and we can finally get back to doing and enjoying our outdoor activities! Well, the kids get to enjoy doing them, I get to enjoy washing uniforms, driving them to their games and practices, and of course take LOTS of pictures!!! :)

This year I helped design and create a display board for the league to use during the recruiting and sign up days. It was a lot of fun playing around with my cricut and the files I had to cut items so as the baseballs, gloves, and bats.
I created my own files to cut for the team logos (and I tell ya, that Jays one had a LOT of detail and was pretty hard to piece together all the little parts.)

I also cut a bunch of titles and words, and for hours layed out the items I had and tried to make them not only fit on the board, but look neat and presentable also.

In the end it turned out awesome, and I had a lot of fun!

Happy Craftin'

~Jenn

My First Rag Quilt

2011-04-06T05:25:00.001-07:00

In my quest to make as many of my gifts as I could for my friend for her Baby Shower I decided to take on the task of making a Rag Quilt. This was a pretty ambitious quest considering I had never made a Rag Quilt (or any kind of quilt) before in my life. However, after watching many tutorials on Youtube I became confident that I'd be able to handle the task.

Here is a real quick step by step of what I did. First off I found coordinating flannels that I wanted to use.

Then I cut the fabric to the size I wanted. I believe I had decided on 8x8inch squares.

Then I paired each pattern piece with a solid brown piece (as the back) and laied them out on the floor to figure out the pattern I wanted for the blanket.

Once I figured out the pattern I wanted, I pinned each row together (there is a trick to the pinning, I will post the youtube video that I watched at the end so you can hear what she had to say about that), and sewing together one row at a time.

After sewing the rows together, I then sewed them to each other to make it as one.

It took a while, but I snipped all the joining pieces by hand. I did purchase a pair of spring loaded scissors (this proved to be very helpful and it definitely saved my hand!!), and the process went rather smoothly.

Once it was snipped it had to be washed so the snips could fray and this is what it turned out to look like. Not bad for a first try, I'd love to do more, but definitely not when I'm on a time restriction.

Happy Craftin'!

~Jenn

Birthday Invites

2011-03-07T12:29:00.000-08:00

It has been a busy time of year, no sooner does Christmas get over, and it seems like all the Birthday's just pile right up on me.

I thought I'd come in here with a real quick post just to show the Birthday Party Invitations that I created for my two older boys. I used Digital Scrapbook kits to make them, and just sent them off to the photo lab at Walmart to print as many as I needed. They turned out super cute, and definitely saved a lot of time and money in making them this way.

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

Desktop background

2011-02-26T13:08:00.000-08:00

Today I was just messing around with my PSP and some Digital Scrap Kits that I've had for a while now and decided to put together a 'page' to use as my new desktop background.

I used the most recent photo of my 3 boys and the "Jingle Baby" kit from Sweet Shoppe Designs along with a quote I found and liked from scrapbook.com, and here is what I came up with.

I made it to fit a 1280x768 screen resolution, but it will fit and still look right on most widescreen monitors. I'd be happy to make personalized desktop backgrounds for anyone who wishes to have one, Just drop me an email and we can go from there.

I have also been following along with thte Crop that's happening over at A Cherry On Top. So far so good, there are some great ideas and inspiring challenges over there this week-end. I'll post what I've been working on after the crop is over so stay tuned.

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

The making of a layout

2011-02-24T12:44:00.001-08:00

Well it finally happened.... today I was FINALLY inspired enough to scrap something!!!! woohoo!!!!! Not only was I inspired to scrap something, but I also got an idea for how to blog about it too! So today is a "two-for" for you, a new layout AND a peek at my decision making process of how I go about completing a layout.

So to start with I "TRY" to get everything together for the page I'm about to create before I get started, especially when I already have an idea in mind. Keyword there is 'try'..... there are obviously times, when things don't work out as I see them in my mind, or times where I think of something that I have that will work much better (you'll see some of this going on as I post the photos of my work in progress).

Now before we get started here is a link to the page that inspired me and that I did a lil scraplifting from.

What you see below are the items I decided I want to work with: All papers are DCWV (the Citrus stack), inks are Studio G, Flowers are either from Prima and/or Kaiser, Kaiser bling, and just some other goodies from my stash.
Next step was pretty simple, I just cropped my photos and cut my papers to size. After everything was cut, I placed everything kinda where I wanted them to go just to get a feel for how things were gonna go.
I wanted the photos to 'pop' a little more so here was my first adjustment to my supplies I had already pulled out. I got a piece of white cardstock to mat the photos with and I also used it to stamp my journaling template on. I also inked EVERYTHING. I have a hard time NOT inking everything on my layouts....lol I also trimmed all my patterned paper down... each block was originally 6x6 but I decided that was a little too much so I trimmed them to 5x5.Now it's time to place everything out again.... as you can see I've changed some things a little, such as swapping out the flowers for different ones and other little things like that. The page is almost complete.... time to start sticking this stuff down!
I tend to use repositionable adheasive because I never like where I first put things.... or things don't end up straight (I always try to have things on angles anyway just to avoid being picky about straight lines). I did find a quote square (by my Minds Eye), that worked with the kids and the color combination of the layout, and I already had some glitter letters that matched well so I decided not to use the Cricut to cut my title like I had originally planned.

and there ya go....a finished layout to stick in my album. :) I had a lot of fun making this page today and I hope you at least got inspired today to have some fun of your own.

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

Time to get scrappy......

2011-02-21T15:53:00.001-08:00

Hello to my followers and any new comers who are on board and reading with us today. As you can see from previous posts I haven't been doing a whole lots with just paper lately. I have had a lot of set back this past year. no Internet for inspiration, a child who LOVES to get into my stash and mess things up and as the kids get older my daily routine gets filled up more and more with the "Soccer Mom" routine of extra curricular activities. Well, I am here today to tell you I am taking back some of my 'me' time and get back to doing something I LOVE and have fun doing.

Today's post is gonna be a recap of some of my favorite past layouts that I've completed, hopefully by looking at them I will be reminded of how much fun I've had scrapping, and even better I hope they inspire some of you to get some stuff done for yourselves too. :)

So sit back, take a look and I'll be back soon with more great stuff to show you.

Happy Scrappin'!

~Jenn

Valentine's Day Greetings

2011-02-14T06:03:00.001-08:00

Happy Valentine's Day folks!!!! Now I admit this in probably my least favorite holiday of the year, but I had fun this year helping my kids with their Valentine's for their classes, and I made them a special heart shaped supper (breakfast for supper, but everything was cut into heart shapes).

This year Xavier, my oldest son wanted to do something special for his 'girlfriend' (he's only 9 so it's super cute that he even says he has a GF...hehe). Anyway, I helped him come up with the idea to make her a flower with his photo on it. The following pictures are of him during the creation process.

Here he is using my Cricut to cut the shapes he needed to make his flower.
Then I taught him how to ink his paper and he went right to town inking everything!!! (just like his momma ;) lol).

Halfway through the assembly process.... he's inking the center of the circle.

and he sticks his adorable lil face in the center of the flower.

....and here he is, very proud of his gift and a job well done. :) From what I heard when he got home, his GF loved the gift, and his teacher even took a photo of him giving it to her..... as a scrappy mom who HAS to document EVERYTHING I am hoping to get a hold of that photo! hehehe

We attached the stem and leaf with a hot glue gun so it held well.... but here it is, the finished project up close. Now to find the time for myself to make a flower pot for ME of all my flower children.

Until next time, happy crafting!

~Jenn

Playing Catch Up.....

2011-02-11T15:17:00.000-08:00

Little by little I am getting caught back up on the layouts I am behind. Some of these are just from 2 years ago, the rest are even older (back when we were a family of 4 instead of a family of 5 to be exact). Anyway, it feels good to get these done, and hopefully I can get some more done soon.

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to see what I've been up to. :)

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

Babies in Frames

2011-01-22T06:39:00.000-08:00

I've had pages I made of my kids on the day they were born sitting in a pile for a very long time.

They were 12x12, with these photos, and their names on them. I have been hunting for YEARS for frames for them, but have not been able to find 12x12 frames.... and really wasn't looking for the big expense of getting custom frames made.

Then, I was in the Dollar Store of all places looking around and I saw these white frames and I really liked them, so I said to myself, I was gonna end my search, and just remake the pages for the frames. I'm so glad that I did.... because not only do I really like these frames.... but these pages look a lot better than the originals LOL

XAVIER JAMES ~ 02/22/02

ROBERT DAVID ~ 03/24/05

PRESTON JAKOB ~ 07/19/07

I do plan to change out the photo in the 3rd one. I have a photo that's not as close up, and that has a blue hat instead of green.... I just think it will make them all coordinate that much more.

Thanks for checking this out. Happy Scrappin'!

~Jenn

Remember Me This Way

2011-01-11T15:21:00.001-08:00

Almost 6 years ago I lost my father to Cancer, it's so hard to believe that that much time has gone by already. It certainly doesn't seem like that long ago, and definitely doesn't feel that way. I still sometimes expect to see him when I go to visit my Mom. it is somewhat comforting to know that he is still "close to home", the graveyard is up on a big hill, which is pretty much behind where I grew up and where family still lives, he is literally above us, looking down here on Earth as well as from Heaven.

For years I have been wanting to find a way to display a certain photo of him, and for it to be more memorable and meanful than just a photo in a frame, and since I've been doing a lot of work with wood lately, here is what I came up with.

A 4x6 piece of 2x4 painted black is what I attached the photo to, I used Mod Podge to attach and seal the photo. The base is a 10 inch long piece, again painted black. It took me a while to figure out what to put on as a saying. I really didn't want to use names, or dates, again I wanted it to be more meaningful. It was difficult because I had little space to work with ands had to keep it short. I finally came across the saying "Remember Me This Way..." on http://www.scrapbook.com/ and I knew it was PERFECT!

I knew I wanted to add a small candle to the project, so I went to the dollar store thinking I'd just get a Votife Candle and a holder for it, but instead I found this solid black cube candle.... and it was PERFECT! Even the bling added a little something extra without being over the top.

Over all I LOVE how this turned out, and am so glad to have my Dad out in the open instead of just in an album somewhere in my home.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, until next time...

Happy Crafting
~Jenn

Handmade Christmas Gifts

2010-12-22T10:47:00.001-08:00

Tis’ the season for finding the perfect gifts to give to our family and friends. I Decided to make a few gifts again this year, to add that personal handmade thought and touch to each one. So I put the wood working tools, paint brushes and Cricut to good use this holiday season.

I started with another Family sign for my sons Great Grandparents (they have been asking what I’ve been working on all year long… every time their saw was borrowed to cut my wood in fact) LOL. I chose the colors that I knew where in their new furniture and I must say, it looks great in their home.

Then I wanted to do something a little different for the boys’ grandmother, so I decided to make a smaller sign with a different phrase. “Home is Where the Heart is” is what I chose. I knew shelf space was limited so this one fits in nicely. Again I used the colors that were in the furniture to tie the look together.

The next couple I did for my Sisters in Law. One of them is very much into the Primitive Décor, country sayings and plaids so I made this set of words that are stackable in pyramid form. Another 2x4 project, and I made sure to keep the biggest of the 3 under 12 inches wide so I did not have to piece and seam the background paper. They are 10”, 8” and 6”.

The next is probably the most personalized of all. My other sister in law loves shoes! When I was looking for ideas I kept seeing references to the Wizard of Oz and the Ruby slippers and an idea hit me right away! I had a vision in my head of exactly how I wanted things to look and I achieved just that by keeping things classic with the black and white AND by making the paint job very rough looking. I added some bling to the shoes to make them appear fancy and the project was complete. This one was made on a 10” wide pine board, cut 2 feet long, and I did use mod podge to seal everything in to place.Everyone was pleased with what they got and only then did I know I did a good job.

Happy Crafting!

~Jenn

Teacher's Gifts

2010-12-12T08:29:00.003-08:00

I was asked this holiday season if it were possible to make a few Teacher’s Gifts. I was excited to create something different than what I have been doing so I accepted the job. I was sent a photo of the type of idea she was looking for, and I went ahead and did my own thing and came up with these.Pretty simple… again I chose to work with 2x4’s, kept it classic with black paint, but instead of using background papers, I opted just to do the letters, and to give it a more finished look I tied a piece of Ribbon around each “I”. Each set is personalized with the Teacher’s name.

I really liked how these turned out. Later in the week my nephew had asked me to make a gift for his Teacher, so I decided to make another one of these. As I was working I had a domino effect of ideas and decided to make one for my nieces Teacher and also some for my sons Teachers as well.

So in total I made up 7 of these and couldn’t have been more pleased with how they all turned out.

Happy Crafting

~Jenn

My Christmas Signs

2010-12-12T08:29:00.001-08:00

It is true, I am picky. LOL To elaborate, I have an idea in my head of how I would like my home to be decorated during the holidays, and since it is very hard to find what I want I decided to make some things for myself.

First thing I made was this set of stacking blocks (made from 2x4). I love all things with peppermint and candy cane stripes (just red & white, not really green). I saw a set of painted blocks on the internet with just these words. I changed it up a bit by adding background papers to mine.

Next I made a few signs out of pine boards 3 are from 6 inch pine, the other is of 10 inch pine. All words were cut using my Cricut, and I did seal all of these over with Mod Podge.

In my house we are believers of Santa Claus. I do collect Santa’s so I decided to make this sign to put over my window that says “We Believe in Santa Claus”. I was happy with how it turned out so I kept going….

I made another sign in the same color for the same room except with pegs for the boys to hang their Stockings on since we don’t have a mantle of any kind or a fire place. I cut the phrase “The Stockings Were Hung” for this sign. It looked so cute with the stockings hanging and served its purpose well.

This year was the first year I had decided to decorate my Kitchen. As I said before I am not a huge fan of green, BUT with forest greens mixed with old minty greens and white things looked really frosty and cool. Of course I still added the Red in there with words, berries and my Peppermint/snowy accessories.

I went with a theme in my Kitchen of my Favorite Holiday Movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life”. With my windows being different and having nice lengths I made signs to sit on the tops of each of them. The first being simple and saying “It’s a Wonderful Life”, the second being like the road sign in the movie saying “You are Now Entering Bedford Falls” (I know the movie says you are now IN Bedford Falls, but this just looked better).

I THINK next year I will add to this theme and make a sign to hang on the wall on the other side of the Kitchen that says “Bailey Brother’s Building & Loan”, or something like that. J

Thanks for reading along and checking to see what I’ve been up to. I wish each and every one of you a Happy Holiday Season and maybe you have a wonderful New Year!

Happy Crafting!

~Jenn

Whippin' Up some cards!

2010-12-12T08:28:00.000-08:00

This year I was asked to make some Christmas cards. I thought it would be fun since it had been a really long time since I had made any cards. Because I was excited, ideas came to my right away and I started the job. I whipped up 30 cards in a matter of days, which for me is huge since cards usually take me the longest AND I make the biggest mess in making them, but I managed to keep the mess to a minimum. I was also working on these while working on my wood crafts (thank goodness I fixed my room up so I had a scrappy station AND a “paint” station, or I’d never have gotten anything done!)

Anyway, here’s a look at some of the cards I made for this set. J

Happy Scrappin’

~Jenn

Signs Orders - Family Dance? :)

2010-11-04T03:59:00.001-07:00

It’s that time of year and orders have been rolling in for some handmade gifts. This year I made 6 Family Signs and a Dance Sign. I was fun making a bulk order and it did help me figure out ways to create these projects more easily and use my time more efficiently.

All of these are the same as what I have been doing all along. 2x4’s as the material of choice, color combinations to what was asked for and my Cricut for all my lettering needs. Without my little bug I’d be making NOTHING, because I definitely wouldn’t want to be cutting out all of these letters by hand! LOLI was also asked to make a Dance Sign. Because of the Darker paper used I opted for White Font instead of black… I wasn’t 100% happy with the white until I added the bling to each letter to make them stand out more, after that I was thrilled with how this one turned out!!Until Next time, Happy Crafting!

~Jenn

Our New Michael's!!!

2010-10-14T07:25:00.001-07:00

FINALLY!!!! After years of hoping and wishing there is finally a Michael’s Store in New Minas!!!! Unfortunately I no longer live close by like I once did so I still rarely get to go there, but hey, at least it’s close. LOL

I was lucky enough to be in the area on opening day (nope not a coincidence, it was planned that way, but don’t tell everyone else that!!). It’s a great store, smaller than the Michael’s Stores I’ve been to in the city, but organized and set up a LOT better than they are. I didn’t have a lot of money with me (that was probably a good thing for the budget), but I did have enough to pick up something I have always wanted but have been unwilling to pay the shipping costs to get it from the states and that item was the ATG Adhesive! YAY!!!

My ATG was not only CHEAPER than any I have looked at o

nline (even with better US pricing), but it was way cuter too because it was the Breast Cancer Awareness edition so it’s pretty in PINK!

I can’t wait to go back again and walk around when it’s not so busy…. Opening day was kind of crowded but I was glad to be a part of it. I was a VERY happy Girl that day! A new Store AND a new toy for The Cherry Pit!!! J Now to figure out how and when I can move back to that area!!! LOL

Until Next Time, Happy Scrappin’!

~Jenn

Tick Tock Goes The Clock!

2010-09-16T16:49:00.000-07:00

I always seem to lose track of 'time' when I'm crafting, I guess it's true what they say..."Time flies when you're having fun!" :) I've been wanting to alter a clock for a long time but just never found anything I liked that was at a reasonable price. I found this plain white clock at Dollarama (my favorite store! I get all my alterables there!), and I bought it!

As soon as I got it home I took it out of the packaging and took the whole thing apart and got to work right away. I chose papers in colors that I've been using in my other decor projects for the Cherry Pit, it was a bit of a challenge to use only papers and not layering too much because I had to keep everything as flat as possible so the clock hands would still be able to move around. Speaking of the clock hands, I thought I was NEVER going to get them back in place! I had to take every part apart to be able to put my paper in place.... I lost and found a few pieces along the way, and I am proud to say this clock is ticking right along and keeping time well. :)

Thanks for stopping by today, I haven't been doing a lot this year in the crafty part of my world, so I was pretty excited to have started AND completed this little project.

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

Lighthouse Layouts

2010-09-10T14:39:00.001-07:00

This summer I got to do something I've always wanted to do, and that was to visit some of the Local Lighthouses. Now there are close to 200 of them in Nova Scotia alone, so I certainly didn't get to see them all, BUT I did make an impressive dent for having a small gas budget, and only having so many days to take some mini road trips.

With that said here are a few layouts of some of the lighthouses I did see, I still have more to create so I'll be posting them whenever I get around to them (knowing me it'll probably be next year before I do LOL).

There are more photos, and descriptions on my other Blog 'Nova Scotia Lights' if you would like to learn more. Thanks for stopping By.

Happy Scrappin'
~Jenn

Maps anyone!?!?

2010-08-10T16:41:00.001-07:00

I love to scrap, and on occassion I will create page maps for myself before I even have pictures to put on them! Hey, it gives me a great excuse to get out there and take some new photos to be put in the books.

For those who don't know what a pagemap is, it is either a sketch, or a completed page (with no pics) that are ready for you to complete or inspire you to create.

The following pages are a few I have made for myself and some for others. *Photos are clickable if you'd like to see them on a larger scale.* Enjoy!!

(this one I forgot to take a photo of before I added pictures, but it started out blank)

Happy Scrappin'!

~Jenn

Our Trip to the Zoo.

2010-08-06T05:25:00.001-07:00

This past spring for Mother's Day, I took my boys to the Zoo for a day of good family fun. Yea, I pprobably could have asked for a day to myself as a gift to get some scrapping done, or something, but really I wanted nothing more than to spend the day with my children.

I decided to hold off on posting about our day back then and waited until I had scrapped the event so I could share with you our adventure AND show my creative side.

So, here it goes, I will let the layouts tell the story. :)

As you can see we went to Oaklawn Farm Zoo. It was a great time of year to go cause there were a lot of new little babies just born and they were so cute!!! The big animals were cool too though :)

Baby: A Gift From Above

2010-07-22T19:35:00.000-07:00

I’ve been making a lot of these signs lately, and I wanted to do something a little different just to see how it would look. This is my “Test” piece of a baby sign, but I think it turned out to be one of my best signs yet!

“Baby: a gift from above”, done in browns and blues, with a hint of orange and green looks very boyish or just rustic. A Perfect item to put in a Baby’s Nursery, or to give as a gift to an expecting family or at a Baby Shower.

I wish I had thought of this back when I was still putting together baby rooms for my boys. J

Happy Crafting!

~Jenn

Dance Like Nobody’s Watching

2010-07-18T06:10:00.000-07:00

My Niece has been in Dance classes for years. This year I was lucky to be living close enough to go to her recital. She did a great job (and so did her Mom, who dances also). She is getting to that age where she has accumulated a ton of toys, and though she still loves them, she is growing up, and starting to ask for more grown up things. So instead of purchasing a toy I have no idea if she’d even like, I opted to make her a gist this year. I made this sign just for her, pinks, silvers and black as a more “grown up” yet still girly color combination and lots of sparkle (just like her). J

Happy Crafting!
~Jenn

Show a Little Team Spirit

2010-05-24T18:14:00.001-07:00

This year I took on the task of helping to Coach my boys' t-ball team. I was pretty excited, and because me being me, I wanted something with me that showed my Team Spirit. So I decided to get a clipboard to alter and here's what I came up with.

I even managed to find a baseball eraser top to put on my pencil....lol

The photo on the clipboard is of two of my boys and my niece who were all on the team together. It's been a fun season so far, and I'm sure it's only gonna get better from here.

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

Layouts & Cards

2010-04-25T15:56:00.000-07:00

See I told ya I'd Be Right Back :P and here I am to show the few layouts and cards I've made over the past couple of months. Now there are only 4 things to show, (I know right? I told ya I was slooowly getting back in to the swing of things) but I am pretty proud of the job I've done on all of these.

First up is this "LOVE" card I made right around Valentine's Day. I had no real reason to make it as I don't celebrate V Day, but I did have some SVG files I wanted to play with and some new ribbon and old paper I wanted to use up also so thought 'what the heck?' and went to town creating this beauty of a card.

I created this card just to use up some of the scraps from the Bathroom Signs I made in my previous entry. I also had a little fun getting aquainted with my Copic Markers.... I still have a LOT to learn when it comes to using them properly but I thought the lil froggy turned out nicely.

Next up a few layouts I created. I scraplifted the idea for this layout from one I had seen in the ACOT gallery. I fount papers that would work with the idea, then luckily I had a fairly recient photo that shared the same colors of those papers. I used Kaiser Papers, cut the phrases out so I could place them around the photo as you see them here and finished it off with a minimal amount of Kaiser bling.

Lastly, a soccer layout as my start to scrapping Xavier's 2009 soccer season. I am creating an ABC album for the season so this is my letter "M" for MVP :)

Ok there you have it, a little bit of creativity from me. Now that I have completed a few things I am really excited to dive in to my paper and getting some more layouts cranked out. Even though I scrapped a LOT last year, very little of that was from 2009 events so I am looking forward to getting last year caught up and in the books and hopefully pick away at some new pics also.

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

Finally some things to post!!!

2010-04-25T15:19:00.000-07:00

Hi to all!!! I hope you are all having good days and have found some time to be creative. I have slowly been finding my groove and slowly completing projects I had long ago started. Gonna make a few posts here today just to break things up a little bit.... today was all about alterations.

Of all these projects not one of them was started today..... no sir, they were all started months ago and have been waiting for me to brave putting up with the cricut long enough to cut my words and images. I love my cricut, but sometimes it's so much of a pain in the butt that I dred using it, but that was NOT the case today :)

The following I have made to put in my Scrap Room.... The Cherry Pit :) Another wooden block sign, with an inspirational scrappy saying. This one is a bit different than ones I have made previously as I used a few different paint colors instead of sticking with all black. I wasn't sure at first how it was going to turn out, but in the end I really like the look.

This is a baking sheet I altered in to a maganetic board. Titled for the Cherry Pit, and using the same coordinating papers as the block sign. The maganets I made by cutting the tails off of brads and gluing on a maganet in their place, this was pretty fun and simple to make.

This sign I made to put in my kitchen to help tie in all the colors I've got going on in there. I painted a 12x15 canvas in the color blocking you see here, then used my Cricut along with Sure Cuts A Lot (SCAL) to cut my words and the mugs. I used multiple fonts as I like the look of mixed media. Such a fun and inexpensive project to make.

Lastly I finished up these signs I had started to make to hang in my bathroom. Not the most traditional saying to use for home decor, but it tickles my sense of humor, besides I really wanted something that would "match" these cute toilet paper rolls. :) I really like how these turned out and how they look hanging in the bathroom.

As far as finished altered projects this is it for now. I have one more thing in the works but it is going to take a bit more time to complete. I hope to get it done and posted soon as I cannot wait to show it off!!!! ;)

Ok, off to set up my next entry, just a few pages and cards I have made lately.

Happy Scrappin'
~Jenn

I'm still HERE!

2010-03-16T08:19:00.001-07:00

I'm still here, I haven't forgotten about my blog yet! haha I'm slowly picking away at a few ideas and getting some things done in the Cherry Pit. Some creative stuff and some organization stuff... both of which are helping me get back in to my creative groove!

It appears as though spring has sprung early (gosh I hope I didn't just jinx all this nice weather we've been having) and with that the boys and myself have been taking every opportunity we can get to get out there and enjoy our days not being cooped up in the house. As you can imagine I've been out there with them being their own personal version of the paparazzi and I have been getting lots of new stuff to get scrappy with! I tell ya, it is helping a LOT with making me want to be creative, I can't help it! New pictures get me excited!

Here are just a few things that w have done this past week.

Took the boys to the park to play....

Went to the Prim Point Lightstation.

My Nephew Trenton turned 11!

Xavier tried on Uncle Keith's old Football gear and that was pretty amusing....LOL

Preston outside riding his trike :) He loves that thing!

... and Robbie decided he wanted to try out the Sponge Bob Roller Sneakers out. :)

This week-end I am going away, hopefully lots more photos ops come from my days. I am also excited that I will be able to pick up my scrappy stuff I left at my friends house so I can bring it all home and finish these things I have been working on. I left them behind thinking, "I'm not using the stuff, why lug it back and forth?" Well that logic bit me in the butt didn't it?! LOL As soon as I get back I'll be able to finish things up that I've been working on and I'll then have some new things to post for you all to see.... woohoo!

So, today I am back at the organization of stuff.... maybe a bit of de-cluttering too, who knows. I hope you all are taking some time to be creative! Until next time.......

Happy Scrappin'!
~Jenn

Creations Recap

2010-03-10T08:16:00.000-08:00

I said I'd come back and show you the few things I have made during the winter to get you caught up on where I am creatively. As I said in my previous entry, I have had a bad case of scrappers block all winter long, it's very disappointing knowing I did nothing to get myself cause up during the months where I don't take many pictures and don't really do much of anything else but craft (usually).

However, I have found a new thing I like to do crafty-wise and that is work with wood. Now, I've always liked tole painted things and crafts for the home, but never really got in to making anything for myself because well, I'll admit, when it comes to painting designs, I suck at it! LOL I discovered a happy medium this winter though, that has allowed me to think outside the box and combine my like of wooden decor, with my love for paper crafting!

Here is what I made for my Sister in law and my Mom for Christmas that got me started on this new crafty adventure.

These are so simple to make... chop up a 2x4, paint it, gloss it, glue paper to it, put the Cricut to work cutting out letters and it's done. The possibilities are endless really!!!

I also did some altered jars to put in a few gift baskets. I thought they turned out pretty cute also.

These are fun to make also... the glass jars came from the Dollar Store (that is my favorite place in the world by the way for finding treasures to alter!!!), a little paper and ribbon and ya got something that looks pretty 'homey' to hold your treats in your house :)

Ok, so if those were all gifts, you MIGHT be wondering "Well, Jenn what have you made for yourself?" If you weren't wondering that then you are probably done reading my blog for today, but if you were wondering then keep scrolling down...hehe

The first thing I wanted to do for myself was make my own 'Family" sign. So I picked out papers that matched my curtains and other items around the house and here is what I came up with.

I made the letters a little bit smaller along the bottom on this one than the others I made, not so sure I like that part... it's nice having more space top to bottom, but the bigger space between words bugs me a bit; but it's done, and that's how it is staying, create and learn! LOL

So from the 3 patterned papers I used I had lots of scrap left over, sooooooo I made as many coordinating items as I possibly could using only the left over scraps. Here is what came of that:
These plaques were fun to make. Found the wood shapes at the dollar store, painted them up, cut the papers to size, worked the Cricut and here ya go. :)

and then I made myself a set of matching jars..... (they are still empty.... candy and me aren't getting along right now with my lack of eating it and all....LOL).

Found this little clip board at the Dollar store also. It was just white to begin with, I painted then covered it, covered the pencil and added a border to the the pad of paper that came with it, and then tied ribbons along the bar that is holding the pad in place. I think it's cute!

These magnets came last. I altered a couple of coasters, & added a magnet to the backs. I made 3 with the initials of each of my boys. They are meant to be photo magnets but I have yet to find and print pics off of each of the boys that I'd like to put on them....LOL

So there you have it.... my crafty projects that have nothing to do with scrapping pictures! LOL not to say I haven't scrapped any pages at all.... I think I've completed a have dozen or so over the winter, maybe I'll post pics of them next time.

Right now I have an altered cookie sheet, and three more wood sign projects on the go at the same time as well as a painting..... all of which are waiting for me to head out to wal-mart and pick up some new cutting mats for my Cricut so I can get started cutting the shapes, words and phrases that I need to finish them up. So I am gonna head out and fix that problem now :)

Until next Time, Happy Scrappin'!
~Jenn

Let's Blow The Dust Off This Blog!

2010-03-09T06:17:00.000-08:00

Hello my readers (if there are any of you left out there!), it's the bad bad blogger trying to make another attempt to breath some life back in to this blog. What can I say, I've been inspired and I feel like writing so what the heck right?

Let's see, what has happened in the past 3 months since my last post....... umm, 2010 is here! LOL It's not all that much different from 2009 so far. Well, maybe it is a little different. I did decide to leave my boyfriend after being with him for 10 years. It was NOT an easy decision, especially with the kids involved, but things had been bad for a really long time and a change was definitely needed. It's been an ok experience so far, we've been working together to make it as easy on everyone as possible.

Let's see what is going on with me.... oh I lost 10lbs so far this year! It doesn't seem like much over 3 months, but I'm pretty excited, and now that it seems like spring is on it's way and it is warmer outside I'll be able to get out there and do some walking and shed more faster! WOOHOO! I'm not following any fad diets, trust me, in my life time I've tried them all and they just don't work for me! I'm doing this the old fashion way, counting my calorie intake, changing my eating habits by eating more good for me stuff and less bad. It's been working out ok, and I feel a heck of a lot better too! I just hope I can keep it up and go the distance with it this time. :)

Ok, kid update.... Preston is still a barrel of monkeys, he gets more funny by the day and smart too!!! Robbie is still a sweet lil smart ass, soon we will be registering him for school in the fall! I don't know were the time went, but in two weeks he's going to be 5! WOW! Xavier is doing well in school, just brought home his report card yesterday, mostly straight A's with a few B's thrown in there; one of which I am arguing only because there is no explanation as to what he is and is not doing... how can he improove if he doesn't know what is wrong? I dunno, we'll see what happens there. I think he has decided to try baseball this spring instead of soccer, we'll see about that too, first I wanna see if he can even throw or catch a ball hahaha Oh, and he just recently turned 8! I know, I still can't believe I have an 8 year old either!

As far as my craftiness goes it hasn't been going much at all this winter. So discouraging since the winter is usually my time to catch up on the previous years scrapping. I have been more in to making things to put around the home. I made a few family signs as Christmas gifts for some family members and then decided I should probably make some things for myself too rather than always just giving my creations away. LOL I'll be posting pictures of these creations soon... maybe even as soon as tonight, who knows, but I promise they will be posted! For now, I need to finish up a little bit of housework I started so I can spend the rest of the afternoon being crafty!!!

Happy Scrappin' My Friends.... enjoy this beautiful spring-like day!

~Jenn

Where has the year gone??

2009-12-02T11:23:00.000-08:00

Seriously!?! I know I'm not that great at updating my blog but it does NOT seem like it's been 6 months since my last entry! lol

Lots has happened since then, my baby boy turned 2! We had the most horrible summer weather ever (I'm still waiting to get a summer, somehow with Christmas around the corner and our days being below zero I don't think that will happen this year! lol). My oldest boy had a great soccer season (besides all the rained out games and practices) my boyfriend got a new job, we've moved, and I got to take my dream trip to NYC!!! Yahoo!

Now December is here and I am in full swing with the Christmas spirit and all the activities that go with it!!! The interior of the house is all decorated, tomorrow we get to go pick out our Christmas tree and I have been busy making some handmade gifts for my family. Oh and how can I forget to mention how extremely excited I am to follow along with Tim Holtz & this years 12 Tags of Christmas! I swear I wake up and check it out before I even think of my morning coffee I'm so excited. hehe Our calendar is filling up pretty quick with parties, events, and holiday preparations and I am so excited!!! It truly is the most wonderful time of year, full of lots of warm and fuzzy feelings!

Today I have my niece and nephew over for a visit, so I am going to hang with them while they are here, and hopefully I'll be back real soon with some more updates and some sneak peeks of what I am (and have been) working on!!

As always, Happy Scrappin'
~Jenn

Benifit of babysitting

2009-06-13T18:23:00.000-07:00

This week-end we decided to hop in the van and drive to visit with family, since it was on the spur of the moment I didn't have time to think out any projects I could easily bring with me so I just made sure to pack up the laptop and away we went. When we got here my brother and sister-in-law needed a spur of the moment baby sitter.... how conveinent eh? I was all for it because it's been a while since I've spent a lot of time with the kids and honestly we had no other plans anyway, so I was pretty excited. They had a blast playing together all day, and once the night came and it got quiet I had some time to pull out the lap top and play with Candy's Treats new "June Collab" kit and came up with these two layouts.

I like the brown one so much, I'm thinking I might make a sketch for it before all is said and done.

This is a super cute and fun kit to play with.... I'm so glad I had some beachy pics to work with, but really theres so much more included in this kit that you could make pages of any theme. :)

Anyway, I better get back to these kids... one is asleep already, the big boys are still playing video gams but the baby is fighting going down so I need to try a lil harder with him. He's used to total dark and quiet when he is put to bed, so this place and the extra people are really throwing him for a loop.... and it's already 3 hours past his bedtime!

Hope you all enjoy the rest of your week-end!
Happy Scrappin'
~Jenn

I finally have a name here!

2009-06-06T11:44:00.000-07:00

After a lot of thinking I have finally come up with a REAL name for my blog. To anyone who visits my blog you will remember this blog as being RJXRP designs. The RJXRP name was made by my boyfriend and I as a "Family Creations" name. Each letter in the name was the first letter of every name in our family. Ric, Jenn, Xavier, Robbie, Preston. Although I loved that idea, I knew I wanted a real name for my blog and Creations from the Cherry Pit is what I have come up with. :)

I am a collector of all things with Cherries on them; jewelery, housewares, decor, stationary, all things scrappy.... you name it, I probably have it with Cherries on it. My favorite candy flavour is, you guessed it Cherry....but here's something funny, I can't stand to eat the real fruit... LOL I grew up with 3 larger cherry trees right outside my bedroom window, the blossoms were so beautiful every year and it was fun to watch the cherries grow and hang in the trees as if it were a pretty picture hanging on my wall instead of me just looking out my window. The town where I grew up has a festival every year called Cherry Carnival, so as you can see they've been a big part of my life for a very long time.

All my scrapping friends know of my love of cherries and I have received a lot of wonderful gifts over the years from them. They always say they can't pass by something with Cherries on it without thinking of me, and to me that's the best part of the gift :) So, because of my obsession, I did in fact name my Scrap room the "Cherry Pit", how suiting eh? so THAT is where the blog name came from.... it was kind of a "duh Jenn" moment, after all I create projects in my scrap room.... I post them for you to see.... so wholla, creations from the Cherry Pit was born. :)

Here are a few pics of the Cherry Pit:
So there you go, a lil' history lesson for you today on me and my love for that pretty lil' red fruit :) I spent most of last night making my new topper and then played around this afternoon and made a matching blinkie for my blog too, feel free to grab it and put it on your own blog if you want.

Have a Great Week-end!
~Jenn

Lil Gifty Creations

2009-06-04T15:54:00.000-07:00

Well, yesterday I was detrmined to play with paper and I had a couple of bookmarks to make for a friend so decided to make those and a few extras while I was at it.

I forget the original website I got this idea from (I saw it over a year ago but still had the file she shared on my PC to cut it with my Cricut.... I'll update when I locate the proper blog)... anyway, these lil corner bookmarks are so cute and so very easy to make. The hardest part to making them is trying NOT to use bulky embellishments so they can lie as flat as possible.

So my best friend is going out west for the summer and asked for a few of these lil guys before she left, so I used her favorite Pink/Brown/Orange color combo and came up with these...

Then I just kept going and made these ones as a end of the year Teachers Gift for my sons Teacher.

...and this one was one I originally made for my sons Teacher but thought it looked too childish so I put an 'X' on it and gave it to my son...hehe
That was the first half of my day. LOL Then for the rest of the day, most of the night and most of this afternoon I spent creating this Paper bag album (PBA). I caught up with an old friend from high school that I haven't seen pretty much since I graduated 9 years ago, she has two beautiful little girls and mentioned she wished she had time to pick up Scrapbooking, so I instantly thought to myself I'm going to make her a PBA! ....and the rest of the story lies in the photos I guess :P

I did have a lot of fun making this album because I RARELY get the chance to play with girly papers, colors and embllishments, so I am very happy with the outcome of this project considering I had no idea what to do! LOL

So I hope you like what you have seen and hopedully with any luck it inspires you to start a few projects of your own. Thanks for stopping by and Happy Scrappin'!

~Jenn

Just Playin' Around

2009-05-24T15:21:00.000-07:00

I was looking around the Candy's Treats website with full intentions of grabbing a freebie kit and trying out some of the awesome tag tutorials but I got side tracked and ended up making a Digi Page instead...go figure :P

Anyway, I used the taggers sized "Wicked" Kit and made this page of myself. I'm always loved Oz, and I've always love witches (kinda hard not to love them being from Salem, MA and all), so I snagged the kit and used my photo from Halloween last year and made this page just for fun.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by and checking in on things here. It's been a long week... and I'm ready to lay down and enjoy the rest of the evening before the next week starts.

~Jenn

New Kits To Play With & A new sketch by me too!

2009-05-19T03:27:00.000-07:00

Two new kits have been created by Candy's Treats and I got the chance to sit down last night and play around with them. I've got to tell ya, there is so much packed in to the Enchanted & After Dark kits, I had a really hard time not using too much and over doing my pages! LOL So needless to say, I'm definatly going to be using these kits for more creations. :)

These pages I made using pieces from the Enchanted Kit

(the large frame came from the after Dark Kit)

For the next layout I first created a sketch then used the kit to create what I did. So heres my Sketch

and this one I made using pieces from the After Dark Kit and the Freebie Kit.
...AND as if Digi Kits weren't already a steal for their already reasonable prices you can get BOTH of these kits as a Combo for even MORE savings! So head on over to Stargazer Scraps and snag this awesome deal! Don't forget to stop by the Candy's Treats blog, theres a great freebie and some quickpages there too!

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

2009-05-14T03:51:00.000-07:00

It's my birthday today! Woohoo, the day I get to travel all over the internet and visit all the different sites I belong to and change my age in all of my profiles....LOL

What will 27 bring me?? I dunno, but I'm gonna start this new year for me off by doing what I love.... SCRAPPING! I invited a friend over and we gonna scrap the day away, or at least the morning, I've also gotta fit baking a cake in the early afternoon, and an early supper along with Soccer practice for Xavier tonight, the work of Mom never takes a break, not even on her birthday! hehe

So with all that said, hopefully I'll be back later and have some creations to show you :)

Happy Scrapin'
~Jenn

********UPDATE********

Well I didn't get nearly as much scrapped as I had hoped, I guess that's what happens when A you don't plan your projects and B you haven't seen your best friend in a while and have tons to talk about and catch up on......LOL

I did complete these two layouts though. I really like how they turned out.

and just showing off my birthday presents I got on my birthday... a balloon flower from hubby, and a balloon mouse the kids picked out for hubby to make.

My birthday ALWAYS falls just before a pay day, so I never get anything on the actual day. It's all good I make sure to get something once pay day rolls around, hehe This year I put some new clothes on layaway to pick up next week, I'm very excited!

I'm part of a Creative Team!!!

2009-05-13T06:48:00.000-07:00

A big THANK YOU to Diane over at Candys Treats for inviting me to become a part of her Creative Team! Her new Full Sized Digi Kits are super cute and I am having a lot of fun playing and creating with them :)

This Page I made using Candy's Treats "Playful" Kit. There is so much more to this kit you could get lots of pages done and no two pages would look alike!

I made this Page using Candy's Treats "Moms Day" Kit. Another beautifully put together kit, with loads of goodies to play with. The colors and pattern make for some really nice creations.

and here's a Girly one... The Kit used here is called "Dazzle"

If you like what you see, and would like to see more of these kits you can head over to the Candy's Treats blog or visit her shop over at Stargazer Scraps and purchase them for yourself.

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

A New Hobby

2009-05-12T07:53:00.000-07:00

Over the past couple of months, I have discovered I really enjoy creating layout sketches. It started out as just messing around to see if I could really do it, to creating some exclusive sketches for Scrapping Friends (an online scrapping community), and now along with those exclusives I am going to be periodically posting sketches on my blog as well.

Here are previews of some sketches I've created for Scrapping Friends.... I am only showing those that have already been used, but there are plenty more in the sketch vault that will eventually be released and I can share a sneak peek with you. ;)

I am only 1 of many talented sketch designers on site including my friend Sandie who also shares her sketches on her blog Tales of the Steakgoddess. There is a new sketch posted in the group each week and all are left on site as an archive for later reference :) So if you like these sketches and you would like a better view of them, and if you'd like to meet other scrappers you should check out Scrapping Friends.

Now on to my first Blog Sketch. When it comes to creating sketches I work a little backwards. I usualy make the layout first THEN the sketch....LOL Theres just something about my approach of setting a certain amount of things in from of me and telling myself see what you can do with that... and I do. When I'm done, if I like how things turned out, I eventually make a sketch of it. So MOST times when I post a new sketch I'll have a sample layout to show you a possible end result to give you even MORE inspiration, or at least I hope so :)

Layout Sketch #1

Sample Layout

I also have this sketch in Digital template form, I haven't uploaded it yet since I' not sure if anyone would want it, but if you do send me an e-mail and I'd be happy to upload it and share with you Digi scrappers out there. :)

Hope you can get some ideas from this sketch and if you do I'd LOVE to see your results :)

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

A couple of cards

2009-05-07T06:23:00.000-07:00

I thought I'd show off a couple of cards I've made reciently. These are all fairly simple but I had fun doing something I don't normally get to do.... play with the color PINK! Since I have all boys and don't normally have a chance to use pink I decided I could use it on cards so I bought the DCWV Sweet Mat Stack since it was so cute, and I'm just crazy about the cupcake trend so this paper is perfect for that also.

Speaking of the cupcake trend, how much do I LOVE the Studio G series 27 cupcake stamps?!!? Wel let's just say I almost wish they were real cause they look good enough to eat! They are soooo darn cute! So I have the whole set and have been having fun playing with them too, and of course they are perfect to go with the sweet stack!

Other than that I've used my usual favorites on these cards, stickles, dew drops, or skittles which ever you call them, ribbon, flock, glitter, primas, they're all here.

and this is just a card I did up trying to follow a T!m Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas tut... (Day 1 ~ 2007). I did manage to get all the techniques on to this cards, I did not have some of the materials on hand like the blending tool which really made inking the way he did a challenge. This card is far from perfect, and I call it my "Ugly Card", and still say if T!m saw this he might actually come to my house and take away all my TH products so I can't reproduce this! LOL

I give credit to a friend of mine, Nancy for the over all look of this card since I followed a sketch of hers. If you like the layout of this card, and are thinking "hmm, I'd like to see more sketches by this Nancy lady" there is a way. This sketch and many more are available exclusively to Scrapping Friends, a terrific online scrapbooking community (I go in to more detail of this place further down my blog if you are interested) ;)

Once again thanks for stopping by my blog, I hope you have a wonderful and creative day!

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

NAME CHANGE ALERT

2009-05-07T04:09:00.000-07:00

If you haven't already heard Everything Cricut has changed it's name. It is now being called Imagine That. So don't fear it's not gone, head on over and check out what's new! :)

http://everythingcricut.blogspot.com

~Jenn

SCRAPPING FRIENDS

2009-05-06T16:56:00.000-07:00

So, I'm a part of this group, an awesome group, an amazingly awesome group of super talented scrappers who enjoy each others company, and who enjoy sharring their work, tips, tricks and ideas..... sound good so far? What if I said that this group had nearly 100 paper crafting lessons, places to chat and get to know others, has fun games to participate in, and lots of different activities where you can win prizes, grant a fellow scrappers wish, and even make a wish of your own.... sound like even more good stuff?? What if I also told you there was a swapping area, with new swaps posted each month, and that there are weekly challenges to get you motivated to scrap and is a place where Traditional Scrappers and Digital Scrappers can be together?
Does this sound like a great place for a scrapper to be or what? ALL this wonderful stuff and I still haven't even mentioned the crops yet! Every year Scrapping Friends (or SF as the locals call it), holds quarterly crops each season. Each crop lasts approximatly 2 weeks and in that time there are lots of games to play, loads of challenges to keep you busy the entire time, and in the end, there are lots of great prizes to be won!

Well I'll tell ya first hand it is a wonderful place to be, and that place is http://www.scrappingfriends.yuku.com/ ! I have been a member of Scrapping Friends for a little over 3 years now and I have to say it's been the best experience in my life (well next to having my kids of course...lol). The talent of the group is beyond amazing, the kindness, support, and encouragement from the friends that you make is unbelievable! It really keeps your Scrappy Mojo going and if you do run in to Scrapper's Block, it isn't long before you are inspired by something to give a try.

So if this sounds like your kind of place then head on over to http://www.yuku.com/ and make an account and join us! Hope to see you there!

Happy Scrappin'
~Jenn

Another Month Gone

2009-04-02T04:22:00.000-07:00

Here it is April, and I didn't make one single post in March.... bad bad me! If it's any consolation I didn't do much of any scrapping either! A card or two, and a few ATC's, that's about it (I'll post them later this week).

Let's see.... what has happened? My nephew turned 10 on March 12th. He's growing way too fast, I still remember him being the only lil man in my life then I had my 3 boys....sheesh. Here he is all grown up at his party.

Two weeks later my middle son Robbie celebrated his 4th birthday! He's such a funny guy, has really grown up this past year.... grew tall and has lost his baby fat. So sad to see the changes, but at the same time he's a real big boy now which starts a whole new level of excitement with things he can now do.

Xavier had his March Break from school.... he spent about 85% of that week playing with his wii......LOL In less than a month of having the thing he and his father both beat the Zelda Twilight Princess game. He was very proud of his accomplishment.

Now that the two big birthday months are gone, it is time to settle back down in to normal life and enjoy the rest of the year, but wait! My Sister in law and her two girls will be arriving in NS from BC for a visit for a few weeks.... YAY!!! The fun never ends! :)

Other than that I am getting super excited about spring being here, even though we are still covered with snow it is melting fast and I am getting excited to get out of the house with the boys, take them to the park, start geocaching again.... and then all the other fun summer things to come. Looking forward to another year of great pictures of memories to scrap!

Speaking of scrapping...Spring Crop coming up mid month...... boy do I need it! After scrapping nothing all March as of today I am 33 layouts behind on my "layout a day' goal! YIKES! I got together a bunch of old pics I've had here that I am having a hard time getting scrapped that I need to get done, I'm hoping to get them scrapped before the crop and then print off some new fun stuff to work with then, gotta keep the spirits up during crop time for maximum mass producing FUN! I don't need scrappers block causing photos holding me back! LOL

So there, you are up to date with the happenings here. I've got some fun (well more interesting fun than interactive fun) posts I want to make here so hopefully I won't go MIA any time soon!

Have a good day!

~Jenn

Where did I go?!?!?

2009-02-24T08:16:00.001-08:00

Hello readers, if theres anyone out there actually following my blog you are probably wondering what happened to me and where I dissappeared off to. Well, I haven't ben far.... I've just been really busy, and now things have finally slowed down at least for now so I can play a little catch up here.

First thing to keep me busy, was helping out in the moving of an online group that I am an assistant manager of, many of you know what I am talking about...... Scrapping Friends! Anyway, there was a LOT going on behind the scenes to get the group moved over to it's new home on Yuku, before the 21st of this month which was when MSN had announced they were closing their groups forever. It's been a bitter sweet journey, so many new things to get used to and even though msn was a royal pain in the *** most days it was still the one place I called my online home for many years. The important thing though, is that we kept going, all our friends have moved with us and we get to continue to be the fun and supportive group of friends we always were.

Next on my busy Agenda.... my oldest son's 7th birthday! I don't know how it was that he got to be 7 already but it came and went in a flash! He had a great time at his party and is still enjoying all the goodies he got for his birthday. He loves Pokemon, so we did a pokemon themed birthday complete with pokeball cupcakes for his friends! He also got a lot of pokemon cards from his friends.... he had MAYBE 20 before his party and as you can see in the photo below he has a LOT more than that! LOL He also got a wii, and a few games/attachments with that. He was so excited! and he's goot at it too... kicks my butt at bowling every time we play! LOL

I spent over a week on cleaning patrol getting ready for his party and in the 2 hours his friends were here it was trashed! LOL That's how it goes though.... it's not too bad, a day of nit picking and it should be under control once again..... then in a month we get to do it all over again for Robbie's birthday!

In there somewhere I did manage to squeeze in a little scrapping time and got some cards made and a few small pages, nothing major, but hey at least it's something. :) Currently I am 7 pages behind on my layout a day goal for this year, so I'd like to get back on track at some point this week.

So there you have it...... the past 2 weeks in a nut shell. Hope you have a pleasant day!
~Jenn

Just Some Cards

2009-02-12T19:25:00.000-08:00

I needed to make some "Thinking of You" style cards for a friend as a prize to a game we played. These are my usual style, I pulled some scraps out of my scraps bag the looked good together, grabbed a few sheets of cardstock and away I went. I didn't use any sketches to make these but will be making my own sketches for them.... is it wrong to create sketches backwards?? I say what ever works to get a sketch made for the next scrapper to use :)

All cards were inked with Cats eye liquid chalks, I used some super tiny Primas, Stickles, Liquid Pearls, Kaiser bling, and of course my Studio G Stamps.

So this is what I picked at all day long! I only had time for bits and pieces here and there so I thought I did pretty well considering :)

till next time.......
~Jenn

ATC Valentines

2009-02-09T15:12:00.000-08:00

So I was challenged and inspired by Marti over on the Pezadoodle blog to get creative and make some ATC Valentines AND to use those Studio G stamps we all know and hoard and LOVE! Her challenge ends February 14th so it you want more details and you want to try this challenge out pop on over to her blog and check out the details! :)

Now I have to admit I am not a fan of Valentine's Day.... I never make cards, I never buy pretty and lovey papers and embelishments, and hubby and I just don't do the exchange of cards and the over priced gifts. We buy stuff for each other all the time, and besides... he knows BETTER than to buy me a card, or jewelery or flowers... yup, he has learned that if he wants to surprise me with a special something it better darn well be something I can use in the Scraproom! lol Anyway back to the point, because I'm not a big V-day fan, It was a litle difficult to keep these in theme.... especially when I only had 3...yup thats right 3 valentines/love related sets of Studio G's! LOL

So here are 4 that I came up with:

My favorite of the bunch is the bottom left corner. I love the roughness and different heights the flocked heart has, I ran the chipboard through my Xyron X sticker maker as the adheasive for that one. I love experimenting with different ways to flock. hehehe (My favorite is still to paint the piece then had a layer of white glue then flock. :))

The chipboard flourish on this card and the chipboard bracketed piece on the next card were from a 7 Gypsies ATC chipboard kit.... a lot of neat lil pieces in those packs and they are pretty cheap too (I got them from LoriMart ;)).

My next favorite...."Always Love You" I totally messed up on this one, I touched the ink while it was still wet after I stamped it, and smudged it... at first I was mortified, then I decided to continue to mash my thumbs in to the project and wholla! a true one of a kind masterpiece.

This "x's&o's" one I made for my son... I'm going to hide it in his lunchbox on Friday so he gets it at his valentines party at school. He loves all things with x's so I used an x&o's stamp, and brad on this card.

and the pink/brown one is the reason why I should never ever EVER attempt to work with pink.... I plain ol suck at it! Maybe there was a creative reason behind why I had 3 boys! LOL I do love the pink/brown combo of colors though. ;)

The lil woven please tag flips to show this....

and here the stamp I use on the back of all my ATC cards.... I bought this one from Oriental Trading Company. I think it's a pretty neat way to finish these cards off (and please excuse the fact that I desperatly NEED a new ink pad...LOL).

So that was my fun for last night and bits and pieces of today. Hopefully tomorrow I will get the chance to play with ome pretty cute papers I recieved in the mail today from a friend... DCWV Sweet Stack papers! I'm so excited!

Thanks for stopping by today, and thanks Marti for the fun challenge, it was great getting those stamps out and giving them a try, I'm sure if they could thay's thank you too!!! lol

~Jenn

*******UPDATE FEBRUAY 13TH MIDNIGHT*******

So I've been looking back at these ATC's and I just have to say I'm not 100% in love with them.... not just because I don't normally do lovey things... but they don't say to me "Hey I made that... that's a lil piece of me". So, tonight I made one that was totally me and still managed to stick with using a love themed Studio G Stamp!!

everything again inked with Cats eye Liquid chalks, scrap cherry paper and bazzill, cuttlebug paisley embossing folder was used on the red, Heidi swap mini joural notes and chipboard cherries, and of course studio g "love you with a cherry on top". Oh, and I went a lil crazy with the liquid pearls....LOL

Now this one I am very happy with! :) Now I can sleep better knowing I know have an ATC that 'says' Jenn :)

The Challenge

2009-02-08T06:07:00.000-08:00

I have been wanting to post this for a while but due to challenge rules I was not allowed to post this layout publicly until voting had closed, which actually happened last night.

The challenge was set up like this. Anyone who wanted to participate was to send the hostess $1 and in return we each got a pile of supplies that we had to use on our layout. Everyone was sent the same amount of paper and the same embellishments (besides the fact that they varied in size, color, pattern etc) I do believe there were 2 pattern papers, 1 'ugly' paper, and 9 embellishments (and we had to use 8 of the 9 embellishments), and and we had to include chipboard and the word 'love' somewhere on our page also. We were allowed to make any sized page we wanted to, and use as much or as little of each of the papers also. We were also allowed to add whatever else to the page we had as long as we did use the materials we were given according to the rules. Then everyone e-mailed a photo of their page off to the hostess, and a poll was set up for voting.

This had to be one of the most challenging challenges I've ever done... I was being 'forced' (willingly...lol) to use things I wouldn't normally use and I had certain criteria to follow, and I couldn't talk about or show anyone what I was doing (that was the hardest part!) AND I chose a really hard photo for me to face and scrap.

So I got the package in the mail, opened it up right away and my first thought was what the heck am I going to do with this? After 20 minutes of looking it over thinking I'll never pull it off, a photo came to mind, and the rest was a piece of cake! I decided to do 8x8... then I started looking trough a ton of pagemaps but nothing was saying "this is the one" so I winged it without ANY pre planning, I just started cutting and sticking not knowing what the next move or placement was going to be.

and now that I've talked your ear off, here is the layout I created:
(click on it to see a larger image)

This is a photo of my Dad and my Grammy. Grammy is still here, but my Dad past away 4 years ago on the 18th of February of Cancer. I was given his photos to make a scrapbook almost right away, and I just haven't been able to bring myself to pull them out an really work with them. I have taken them out and scanned them to keep originals but even that took me years.

This challenge was so amazing in that it gave me inspiration and I will even go as far as to say it gave me the strength to pull out this photo and scrap it to the best of my ability.... and trust me folks, I had no idea I had it in me to create a page like this....normally I will pick apart any creation I make pointing out it's flaws and what I could have done to make it better, but not this one.... I can't find one single thing wrong with it.... it's Perfect.

With all that said I DID win the challenge (yay me)... but honestly I had more fun completing the challenge and seeing what everyone else came up with for their layouts than the actual winning part... that was just the cherry on the top ;)

~Jenn

A Scrap addict for sure!

2009-01-22T08:33:00.000-08:00

OMG! I spent all day yesterday scrapping. Amanda came over to scrap with me and it was so much fun! I managed to scrap 15 pages while she was here and I did 5 more before calling it a night. I hadn't scrapped in almost two weeks to I had a LOT of creative energy to let loose. lol

I did all this and manged to use up a lot of great kits and goodies I've recieved from swaps and friends, to show them at their hard work and thoughtfullness was not forgotten (some kits I have had for 3 years waiting for the right pictures to match up with them!)

Here are some thumbnail samples... if you are interested to se them full size you can visit my facebook scrappy album. :)

Needless to say I had a lot of fun....I am sooo very tired today though, yet all I can think about is "What to scrap next?" LOL

Hope you all have fantastic day, and even better I hope I've inspired some of you to get a lil scrappin' done as well :)

~Jenn

I am so excited and motivated!

2009-01-15T15:46:00.000-08:00

Like most people every year I resolve to shed those extra pounds and become a healthier person in the new year, and again like most people I fail miserably. Well I have found a website that has given me hope and has really motivated me to give it a real try this year.

The website is called Calorie Count ( http://caloriecount.about.com/ ) and it is just awesome! You can track everything you eat, and everything you do... it'll tell you how many calories you've eaten and how many you've burned.... it does all the hard work of figuring and writing things down for you! Pretty cool eh?

My favorite part of this website are the tools, the BMI calculator, and the Calorie target just to name a few. The calorie target is cool, you just put in your weight, and your goal weight and it figures out a reasonable time frame and what your calorie intake should be and even gives you suggestions on what activities to do to help burn those calories. Mine gave me a date of March 10th 2010 which I thought a little more than a year was amazing considering I want to lose 90lbs!!! That's when I got excited and said, "I really want to do this!"

So far I've just been counting the calories and getting used to what my intake is..... suprisingly it's not that much higher than my goal intake, so really I just need to step up the exercise plan (which it's starting me off at 13 minutes of walking or 9 minutes of cycling a day... c'mon who can't fit that in right?), and choose some better for me foods and I should be rockin' it! They've got a good set of fourms set up too, I found a lot of great tips on how to get over my vegetable phobia! haha

So anyone who is like me, and has been trying to lose weight for years, practically my whole life and has done nothing but fail, KEEP TRYING! You never know when you are going to find that something, that's gona motivate you like you've never been motivated before!

Good Luck!
~Jenn

Just playin' around

2009-01-10T18:13:00.000-08:00

I had been working all day long at decluttering and organizing my scrap room most of the day... it looked so inviting when I was done that I just had to sit down and make something! LOL So I decided to make a few cards that I needed to make for a friend.

I went through all my scrap paper (I will only ever use scrap paper on cards, I need to use up all those lil pieces somewhere) and here is what I came up with.

It felt good to get some work done for a change :)

I inked all the edges with Tim Holtz Distress inks, again paper was all scraps (well besides the base), ribbon, primas and brads for embellishments (I added stickles to the pink brads to bling them up a bit). The happy birthday is from a clear stamp set by Imaginesence, and the Just a lil Note is a mounted Studio G stamp.

Now it is 10:30pm, I'm not so much tired but I have a pounding headache! Ugghh, so needless to say I am done for tonight. I hope I can get so play time in tomorrow too!

Have a nice night!
~Jenn

a little catching up to do....

2009-01-08T10:44:00.000-08:00

A few things to catch up on since my last post....

Game night was a blast! It was fun to get out of the house and visit with friends, and play a a board game.... nothing like a good old fashion night of good clean fun :) We decided on the classic game of Monopoly and for the first time ever I WON! YAY me! The kids had a good time playing with toys and watching movies until we were done, they were pretty good considering it was pretty late when we finally finished. Still unsure of the next time we will get together but I think we will be playing "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?".... :)

Other than that there has been a lot of the same ol same ol going on.....Xavier is very excited to be back in school, Rob has been a little lonely without Zay around all day but he makes due with his own ideas, toys and games. Preston has been getting a lot more freedom to run around the house instead of just his room / livingroom now that things are clean and mostly baby proofed :)

I have had time during the day to clean and organize my scrap space. Usually the noise level of the children make it hard to do much of anything, but now that Zays back in school and we are back to our normal routines I have reclaimed my 'me time' back. haha I even scrapped a little bit last night which was the first time in over a week! It was for a special secret challenge so once I get the ok that I am allowed to post it to the public I will the first chance I get......hehe

We've been dealing with a lot of winter storms lately, a lot of snow last week, a few clear days and now a lot of snow/freezing rain...... oh boy what a mess! and NOISEY! Oh my, the snowplows and tractors, with flashy lights and *beep beep* back up sounds really made it difficult to get any sleep last night! It's back to snowing now so I'm sure there will be more cleanup work to do again later. :S

So that's about it for getting you all up to date with the happening in my life, my husbad is almost done work for the first half of his shift, so I need to get up and figure out what we are going to have for supper tonight and get started on that. I swear one of these days I'll finally be able to use this blog for what I intended it for and that's showing you some of my creations! hehe

Bye for now!
~Jenn

Uggh, already off to a bad start........

2009-01-03T17:09:00.000-08:00

Look at me....hoping to keep a current blog preferabally a daily one and here I went and missed day 2! Oh well, there wasn't much to report, this is the week-end after all. Ric has Fridays - Sundays off from work so mostly it's clean and get him to help with odd jobs, and play games online together, movies, tv, run errands etc etc etc Theres never really a lot of time for me to have to myself to be creative or have meaningful thoughts at least.

Tomorrow night is over first game night with friends, that should be fun, and then Monday my oldest son goes back to school.....YAY!!! I love him, but man has it been a long winter vacation! Him home too often with his brothers just makes for one BIG whine fest! :S I'm hoping Monday may be a day of scrapping with a friend but we'll see what the weather has in store for us first.

Happy New Year!!!!

2009-01-01T16:19:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year and Welcome to 2009 everyone!!! I hope this year is off to a good start for all, and if it started rough, I hope it only gets easier/better from here on out!

My Family and I had a fun time waiting for the new year. A few friends came over and the boys played board games with them most of the evening. Then the guys chatted while they watched tv while the gals scrapped the night away! :) We were also hit with a HUGE snow storm that started last night after supper and the last time I checked it was still going on out there.... BIGGEST storm of the year I tell ya! Then again there isn't anything else to compare it to yet so I guess it kinda has to be...LOL So needless to say our company left early so not to be snowed in. Xavier, Ric and I watched the local celebrations on tv and did the count down to midnight, watched the fireworks then sent Xavier to bed (he's 6)... poor Robbie really wanted to see everything but he fell asleep 10 minutes before midnight and once he falls sleep there is just NO waking him up! Shortly after midnight Ric went to bed, and I stayed up a little longer. To me New Years just isn't New Years without watching the Ball Drop in Times Square NYC! So I wanted, played a game on the computer for a bit then finally went to bed a 2am. Not your usual 'party' hoopla for my New Years, but eventful and fun just the same.

On to the resolutions... well like everyone I want to try to be a healthier person. I'm not going to set a big weightloss goal and set myself up for failure.... I just want to take those baby steps to better my habits :) I also have LOTS of Scrapping goals... from organizing, to the amount I do, to the sortting of albums, I've got something I'd like to get done for it all. I think most of it will be fairly easy to do and continue to do except maybe the cut back on the shopping thing....LOL Lastly, my blog. I started one in 2008 but never kept up with it..... in reality I have always been horrible at keep a diary.... I really want to have and keep a functional and current blog so I started this one new today and hop to give you a lil something to read each day.... or at those busy times at least once a week. :)

So I will sign off for today, by saying I wish you all a happy and safe and healthy year ahead, and I hope you come back to read and visit me soon. :)

~Jenn

Blog Updates

2008-09-06T17:52:00.000-07:00

As you may notice my blog has changed it's look over the past few days, and I have to say not for the better. I'm really just playing around with setting until I decide what I would like it to look like then I'll get creative with it.

In other words, I hope my currently ugly blog doesn't scare you away and you come back to visit soon! I promise it will get better! haha

~Jenn

Where did Summer go?

2008-09-04T05:45:00.000-07:00

oh my word, I had not realized I hadn't posted in August at all! That month went by in the blink of an eye I tell ya! It was a cold and mostly rainy month, not the greatest way to spend the last few weeks of summer. we did manage to get some time in at teh playground, Xavier had his 1st Soccer tournement and I was able to enter some photography and a scrapbook page in an Exhibition.

Anyway, yesterday was probably the most exciting day in a long time; Xavier's 1st day going back to school!!! He was very excited to go back....actually he's been waiting since the end of July to go back! LOL I don't know what excited him more, getting to see all his friends again or the fact that he's able to get away from his lil brothers during the day! haha

So yea, life is going back to normal as we are al adjusting to being back in our daily routine after the summer break.

Will be back soon!
~Jenn

Cards, cards & MORE Cards

2008-07-31T07:44:00.000-07:00

Just a quick post to show you some cards that I made from some Daily Card Challenges (hence the white text labels I placed on my cards).

More Completed Layouts!!!

2008-07-31T06:57:00.000-07:00

As I mentioned in my last post I just finished participating in a summer crop. Theres an MSN group that I belong to that holds quarterly crops and they are lots of fun! Lots of challenges to keep you busy scrapping and fun games to keep the chatter and good times rollin'. If this sounds like a group you may be interested in joining, please contact me personally and I can forward you on to the lady in charge :) She has made such a fantastic group, and I am so happy to have had the chance to get to know her, and all the members of the group... such a friendly bunch of people we really are all like family. :)

Anyway, here are a number of pages that I finished during the crop:

As always, thanks for taking a peek at my blog!

Have a great day!

~Jenn

Little Man's BIG Day!

2008-07-31T06:27:00.000-07:00

Hello readers! Sorry to be so far behind on my posting... I never was good a keeping a diary guess I'm still not. LOL July has been a busy month for us. We've had lots of summer events to keep us busy.

July is a month for birthday's in our family. My Mom's was on the 12th, my neice Kennedy had her's on the 15th and my youngest son Preston had his 1st birthday on the 19th!!! What a day! Little man was very well behaved on his birthday.... especially considering he refused to take a nap all day, I was expecting a melt down but he did really really well.... even after he dug right in to his cake and ate more sugar that he was ever allowed to before!!!

Here he is wasting no time at all digging in to the cake

and here is is grabbing and pulling the cake back towards him after I tried taking it away

and here he is all messy and filled with sugar! lol

Prestons birthday was also the same day as Cherry Carnival so we had a lot of fun things to do all day long, watch a parade, water sport activities, bouncy rooms, bingo, dunk tank, good bags, cotton candy, woodsman competitions, breakfast with bubbles the clown, balloon animals, face painting, sit down dinners, cherry pie eating contest, cherry pit spittin' contest, Kareoke competition, game of chance, CHERRIES & fireworks!!!!! Good times :) The best part is always seeing friends you haven't seen for a very long time.... Cherry Carnival always brings them 'back home'.

On top of this we've had soccer nights every Tuesday & Thursday.... Xavier is doing really well with it and says he's having fun.... thats the important thing. It is getting to be a bit tiresome lugging everyone out two nights a week, but hey that's what a soccer mom does right? ann to think this is the easy stage.... pretty soon I'll have 3 of them out there getting involved and it'll be more nights a week, longer times, real games.... I need a nap just thinking about it!! lol

Ok, I'l be back soon with some scrappy posts. I just finished participating in a summer crop also so I've got lots of creations to show ya! ;)

~Jenn

What a week!

2008-07-05T10:03:00.000-07:00

I hope everyone out there enjoyed their nations Holiday whether it was Canada Day or Independence day. I know we had a great time celebrating both! :)

Canada Day was a day jam packed with lots of fun for the kids. We went to our towns celebration, and enjoyed live entertainment, free hot dogs & birthday cake, candy scramble, crafting, balloon animals, frisbee throwing, Horse and buggy ride, and the boys personal favorite running through the giant sprinkler the fire department had set up! We also spent time at the wading pool and the boys had a lot of fun there too, the down fall to it all...dispite being loaded up with sun screen we all still got pretty harsh sunburns :( My poor little guys look like lobsters..... can't let that happen again, we'll just remember to take a break from the sun next time :)

{Robbie, Xavier & My nephew Trenton @ the wading pool}

{me & Preston @ the wading pool}

The 4th of July was fun although we didn't do a whole lot. We did go out for ice cream, and did a little geocaching too. Then we spent the evening home and watched the Pops goes the 4th special and the fireworks display in Boston. My dream is to spend the 4th of July in Boston watching that very same event. I love Boston, I love the Boston Pops and I love the fireworks display they put on every year!.... someday hopefully that dream will come true.

We've got a busy two weeks ahead of us. I've got lots of cleaning and preperations to do to get ready for my Baby Boys 1st birthday!!! and in between there are soccer practices, and whatever else the boys want me to take them out to do next....lol I hope to be able to sneak some scrappy time in there somewhere too and post a few things for you to see before we take off on our mini vacation.

Have a great week!

~Jenn~

Ready Made Pages

2008-06-29T05:26:00.000-07:00

Here are some samples of pages that are done and ready for you to add your own pictures. All you would need is some adhesive and a pen (both archival safe of course) and away you go. :)

Recipes Anyone??

2008-06-29T05:02:00.000-07:00

Oh, I just found these recipe pages that I had made a while back. They work well being done on smaller pages as well, will try and dig up some samples of those later on. :)

Creations so far..... part 3

2008-06-28T20:07:00.000-07:00

Ok, last one for tonight, here are some odds and ends I've created. Anything from page kits that can be used to create scrapbook pages with, altered pieces, mini albums etc.

Various page kits that I have created reciently.

These are monogram pieces that can be added to a scrapbook page. These were originally playing cards and I altered them.

Frozen juice lid altered into a fridge maganet

Altered Mini Notebook.... have done regular sized notebooks as well persoalized with names.

and this is a regular sized notebook that I altered.

"Exploding Box" ~ This particular one hasn't been embellished yet, but when the lid is lifeted off there are 3 layers of pages in each quadrant that fall down tht you can place photos on. A pretty neat lil way to share your memories :)

Paper bag albums..... these are fun lil mini albums to make and they always turn out super cute! They make great friendship albums ;)

Thanks again for stopping by.

~Jenn~

Creations so far ...part 2

2008-06-28T19:49:00.000-07:00

Now that you've seen some of my scrapbook pages I thought I'd show you some of my card creations as well. :)

Thanks For stopping by & checking these out.

~Jenn

Creations so far.....

2008-06-28T19:24:00.000-07:00

Since this is a new blog, and I have made quite a lot of things in the past that I would love to show you I thought I'd make a couple entries showcasing some of those items. This post will include some of my most recient and favorite Scrapbook pages.

Yes, he really is inside the pumpkin, and yes I really did do this to him just to have the pictures to scrapbook.....LOL

Thanks for looking :)

~Jenn

Welcome to my Blog

2008-06-28T18:17:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. :) Since this is my first post I thought I'd give ya a little bit of a background of who I am, and why I do whatever it is I do.

Firstly and most importantly I am a Stay At Home Mom to 3 wonderful little boys. Xavier is 6 and just finished his first year of school! We are so proud of him, he has grown so much as an individual this year and is one smart little cookie! Our middle son is Robbie. He is a 3 year old little Mr. 'know-it-all" with a whole lot of attitude, but he makes up for it by being so darn cute and funny. Preston is our baby, his first birthday is coming up on July 19th. That was one FAST year I tell ya!!! Preston is just as cute as the rest, and a very good baby. He loves everybody and is also quite the comedian. I couldn't be happier with these guys if I tried, and I love spending every moment with them as they grow up into good boys that everybody loves. :) My boyfriend Ric and I have been together for 8 years.... that's right folks, High School sweethearts we are. :) He's a great guy, and a great dad what more could I ask for? Oh I know! Maybe to be married.....sheesh! Maybe someday. :)

Here's our family photo I set up and took back at Christmas time.

Ok, now back to me. I'm 26, and currently live in the nice little town of Kentville Nova Scotia. We've been here almost 2 years now, and have loved it! I was born in Salem Massachusetts, and am very proud to admit it. I like to call myself an "Americanadian"... and show my pride for both countries I have lived. I have a Americana decor going on in my house....I figure that is the perfect balance, live in Canada, decorate for America.....LOL I moved to Nova Scotia with my family when I was just 4 years old. I grew up in Bear River, and enjoyed living there very much too. We do miss living there from time to time and miss having family close by, but we feel so at home in Kentville, and there is so much more here for the boys to do and get involved in, so we hope to someday find our permanent home here.

So what else do I do?? Well with raising 3 little boys it's hard to find time for much else. I spend every space second I can get scrapbooking. It's a way for me to get creative, and do something not only that I enjoy, but it's something I am doing for the boys. They my not realize the importance of the pages I make or pictures I take now, but they will when they are all grown up..... it's gonna come sooner than any of us think! I love working with paper a lot! I make a lot of cards, mini albums, kits, even some decor pieces. If it can be made with paper, I've probably tried to do it! lol I also enjoy photography (good thing eh? I need those pictures to keep me scrapping!). I am hoping to take a photography course over the winter then get myself out there as a freelance photographer. Wish me luck! I also love to design web pages, and play online games such as World of Warcraft! I also enjoy collecting Cherry stuff! I absolutly love cherries (and the funny thing is I can't stand them when it comes to eating them....lol).

As a family, we enjoy being together, weather it's playing outside, crafting inside, watching movies or whatever, we pretty much do it all together. We're big NASCAR fans, everyone has their own favorite driver and we love to route against one another for 'our' drivers. lol We also like football, and occasional baseball as well. We love our 'home' teams! Go Pats!, Go Red Sox!, Go Celtics! and yea go ahead and throw the puck at me now as I say Go Bruins! LOL We also enjoy spending a nice day out Geocaching! Ric loves the challenge of looking for the Cache, the boys love the fact that they find 'treasure', and I love the great photos I get to take both of my family and of the beautiful scenery along the way.

Ok, that's pretty much me and my family in a nutt shell, if I haven't bored you already, I hope you come back to see what I've been creating and what the family has been up to.

~Jenn~

Creations from the Cherry Pit

2011 is Closing..... Welcome 2012!

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Junk Attack!!

Salem Signs

It's the most wonderful time of the year!!!

National Card Making Day

Candy Corn Pots

For A Good Cause....

Even more Layouts Still

Another Quickie Layout Post

sweet cards

Baby is Here!!

Zoo Themed Baby Ablum

Showing Team Spirit!

Quickie Layout Shout Out!

Baby Shower Time - Part 2

Baby Shower Time!!! Part 1

Cupcakes.... They aren't just for eating anymore.

Baseball Season has Begun!

My First Rag Quilt

Birthday Invites

Desktop background

The making of a layout

Time to get scrappy......

Valentine's Day Greetings

Playing Catch Up.....

Babies in Frames

Remember Me This Way

Handmade Christmas Gifts

Teacher's Gifts

My Christmas Signs

Whippin' Up some cards!

Signs Orders - Family Dance? :)

Our New Michael's!!!

Tick Tock Goes The Clock!

Lighthouse Layouts

Maps anyone!?!?

Our Trip to the Zoo.

Baby: A Gift From Above

Dance Like Nobody’s Watching

Show a Little Team Spirit

Layouts & Cards

Finally some things to post!!!

I'm still HERE!

Creations Recap

Let's Blow The Dust Off This Blog!

Where has the year gone??

Benifit of babysitting

I finally have a name here!

Lil Gifty Creations

Just Playin' Around

New Kits To Play With & A new sketch by me too!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

I'm part of a Creative Team!!!

A New Hobby

A couple of cards

NAME CHANGE ALERT

SCRAPPING FRIENDS

Another Month Gone

Where did I go?!?!?

Just Some Cards

ATC Valentines

The Challenge

A Scrap addict for sure!

I am so excited and motivated!

Just playin' around

a little catching up to do....

Uggh, already off to a bad start........

Happy New Year!!!!

Blog Updates

Where did Summer go?

Cards, cards & MORE Cards

More Completed Layouts!!!

Little Man's BIG Day!

What a week!

Ready Made Pages

Recipes Anyone??

Creations so far..... part 3

Creations so far ...part 2

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