It's no secret that my favorite thing to do on Sundays is craft. It all starts with a trip to Michaels and from there it's all about whatever inspires me. The store is loaded with Easter and Spring decor right now and I love to decorate my home for my family and they enjoy it too.
When I was dating my husband he revealed to me on our honeymoon how much he enjoyed coming over to my apartment during the holidays just to see what I'd come up with for decorations. He said that this was one of the qualities he loved about me and my creativity.
Thanks for that babe xxoo...
So anyway, I was inspired to turn some pussy willows into an Easter decoration. It's still a work on progress but here's a little peek...

Here's a quick basket I put together and a little trick to bring your goodies to the top of your baskets. Use packing peanuts to fill your basket or newspaper and then spread decorative grass over the top to cover and then just add your goodies. Super easy. I actually keep packing peanuts under my bed lol. Guess they finally came in handy.

Now on to a great tip I want to share with you today.

I was disappointed at Micheals earlier today when I couldn't find some glitter chipboard that Making Memories makes and I was going to head over to the other Michaels near my house when it occurred to me that I had lots of chipboard and glitter at home. So my wheels started spinning and I remembered that my friend Heidi had given me some chipboard awhile back that I wasn't able to use because the color scheme.

So then I thought, maybe I can peel off the printed patter and alter it without having to paint it. Sometimes I want to whip up a project fast, you know what I mean :) I mean we all like to be able to create something in an hour or less...

So I peeled the patterned paper off easily and had bare chipboard

Next I found some craft bond in my stash that I could quickly spray on instead of having to use liquid glue. I've found that this spray is he best adhesive for glitter because it doesn't clump or hold too much glitter on your project

You just sprinkle on your glitter and shake the paper to even the glitter and then tap off the excess. You do get a bit of sticky on your fingers but that's all fair in love and glitter right?

And voila! You've got re-purposed chipboard!

I can't wait to show you what I'm making using this chipboard but I'm not quite done yet!
Hope you have a crafty Sunday too! Thanks for stopping by!

Party Party & 2 S4Y!

Today was a busy day running the kids around. Scott went to visit his friend Tenna and Lily went to Stephanie's 2nd birthday party today. It was really a cute party. Stephanie's mom, Maryann made the cutest hors d'oeuvres I have ever seen...lady bug on crackers

And tasty little rolls shaped as snails...

The rain stayed away long enough for the kids to play a little outside. Lily loves the Cozy Coupe. I wanted to get her one for her second birthday but Mat thought she wouldn't play with it too much but every time we go somewhere and there is one there she goes straight for it.

Stephanie was trying to give Lily a push and they put their heads together trying to figure out how to get the Coupe to move.

We had a nice time and the cake was delicious. I did not get a pic because I had put my camera away since we had to head home to pick up Scott. Lily made a few new friends and we had a great time. Thanks to Maryann and Stephanie for inviting us!

I managed to make a card this evening for 2Sketches4You's challenge. I always feel bad making my card on the last day of the challenge but I really like to participate when I can. I have been so swamped with week with my work at home and other things but I am glad I got to stamp with my newest Hero Arts Stamp. Of course by the time I photographed and uploaded my card I realized I missed the deadline...darn it for livin in Pacific time...lol

I used my new copics to color her in and I am looking forward to the Copic class I signed up for at my local scrapbook store Monday Night. I feel like if I learn more about these markers I'll feel more confident using them. That's it for tonight! Thanks for stopping by!

Get Sketchy #28

Hi friends! Happy Friday to all. This week's challenge at Get Sketchy is to make a shaped card...no sketch just imagination! We're being sponsored this week by

Daisy Bucket Designs

Here's my card using Daisy Buckets Scalloped Card elements in berry

I love how easy it was to coordinate the pre-made card with pattern card stock in my own stash and that it took me 10 minutes to create this card!
I'd like to extend a warm welcome to the new DT girls. Please visit their blogs to see their amazing artwork!

• Anja Curvers
  
• Grace Tolman
  
• Lenet Mos
  
• Lisa Forsythe
  
• Sherri Thompson
  
• Stephanie Muzzulin
  

And...Toot Toot my Love card I posted yesterday with the eyelets made the Cards blog today. Check it out here.
Thanks for stopping by!

Cards Cards and more Cards

Hi friends. It's been a busy week for me but I wanted to share some cards I've been creating this week. The first one I made with this month's Paper Posies kit.

I made this for the Hero Arts February challenge

This one for the Cards blog eyelet challenge

This one for Mojo Monday on the Love My Tapes blog

And finally here's a pic I snapped of my sweet daughter. She was not too happy and I love that I caught the tear that had welled in her eye.

Thanks for stopping by today. I'm looking forward to the weekend how about you?

Jacksonbelle Tuesday and some more Moxie Fab with Jen Martakis Robots

Hello friends! It's Tuesday and that means we have another fab challenge from the Jacksonbelle blog. Be sure and scroll down to see some cute creations for Moxie Fabs Stamping Olympics!
It's a color challenge! Make a card or project using white, brown and blue. We’d love for you to play along. If you do be sure to leave us a link to your project in the comments section of this post or use keyword JBE095 when uploading to SCS or PCP.

Here's my take on the challenge

Supplies: Pink Paislee pattern paper, Basic Grey stamp set, Misc ribbon and button. If you'd like to play along with us leave a link to your project in the comments section of this post or use keyword JBE095 when uploading to SCS or PCP.
Now go check out the other DT Rock Stars challenge creations

Dawn Lusk

Julie Lacey

Heather Pulvirenti

Windy Robinson

Stephanie Severin

Amy Tsuruta

Pam Varnell

Lynda Benden

Tobi Crawford

Jill Dunn

Heather Lee-Reppen

Lindsey Botkin

Here's Jen Martakis's new release at Two Peas today. I created this Hybrid card with a love theme for the Moxie Fab challenge Stamping Olympics. The stamped sentiment is Hero Arts.

And another love themed card with KaiserCraft's Made with Love line

I love the stamp set that came with this line. The images stamp crisp and beautifully!

Imaginisce March Sketch Challenge

Good Morning friends! We kicked off this contest last month on the blog with a fat prize package of Imaginisce goodies valued at $75.00 for some lucky player to win. Congratulations to the winner, Kim Johnson-Martin!!!
Well it's a new month and we're ready for you to play along again! Our very own and super talented Erin Bassett has created this month's sketch for the Imaginisce sketch challenge.

Here's my take on the sketch using our Lucy Bird line...

Supplies: Imaginisce Lucy Bird, Jillibean Soup, American Crafts, Zva Creative and Martha Stewart.

So here's the deets on how you can win some yummy goodies from Imaginisce! Link up your take on Erin's sketch to the post here by March 25th!

Need a little inspiration? Our Design Team has created their takes on the sketch so stop by their blogs to see what they came up with for this fun sketch.

Cari Locken

Aida Haron

Sarah de Guzman

Akiko Kuroki

Tracy Gardiner

Aphra Bolyer

Tammy Wark

Melinda Spinks

Tomomi Hiramaru

Robyn Schaub

Cristal Hobbs

Julie Bonner

Renata Moni

Penny Smith

Lisa Day

Liz Qualman

Heather Carpenter

Samantha Hauser

Cindi Stevens

On another note...Jacksonbelle Embellishments has Imaginisce, Pink Paislee, Stampavie (Not the new pre order) and Jenni Bowlin on 30% off. Code JBEEMAIL will get anyone 10% off their entire order
I'll be back tomorrow with our latest Tueday challenge from the Jacksonbelle blog!
Thanks for stopping by!



I proudly use Love My Tapes adhesive on all my projects

Project 12...have you started?

I first heard about Project 12 from the girls at Little Red Scrapbook. Davinie from Scrapbooks & Cards today dreamed up a compromise to the challenge of taking 365 photos. So Project 12 was launched. Each month we get a fabulous sketch from Becky Fleck to work with and who doesn't love the chance to win a prize to. The rules are really flexible and you can read all about it here.

So I decided to take on the challenge of scrapping two page layouts, something I never do. I'm glad I did because it's been fun. Here's my January and February takes...

January Project 12



February Project 12

I can already feel that the scrapbook these are going into will be fun to reflect back on. If you're doing project 12 be sure to link up your takes so I can come by and take a peek. There's also a thread for January in the Two Peas message board here.
Thanks for stopping by!

Get Sketchy #27

Hello friends! It's a new sketch and a new prize this week at Get Sketchy. Our sponsor this week is

The winner of this week's challenge will be getting:
A $15 Gift Certificate


Here's our Sketch




And my card this week



I used the new Cosmo Cricket mini deck Material Girl and the coordinating buttons from the line along with some Martha Stewart twine.

So if you're like to play along with this week's sketch and win a prize link up your card to Mr. Linky by next Thursday at midnight.

Get Sketchy is also look for a few new Designers! Check out our site for more info and good luck!

Thanks for stopping by!

My happy place and some Moxie card creations

I never really thought about my happy place until I was doing my online training for SDU and there was a layout the instructor created titled "my happy place" It got me thinking and really my happy place is Manahattan Beach.

{I am so pleased with how this picture that I took turned out after playing with it in Picnik}

It's 10 mins from my home and we try to get there as many Sunday evenings as possible to walk with the kids. It's just so beautiful. Of course my happy place at home is my scrappy area, it may be small but crafting really fulfills something inside of me. This last year I have made so many new friends and strengthened relationships with others and I'm really thankful for them all. I just love the sisterhood of this hobby!

Speaking of my hobby, here's a few cards I made for the Moxie fab Olympics of Stamping. First up is my entry for the birthday themed card...

I am in love with my new Hero Arts large Chandelier stamp. It's wood mounted and big! Love this large image! I added some silver Stickles to make it bling and the silver embellies at the base are Hero too. I'd love to submit this to the Stamping Royalty Contest but instead it's going in the mail to my longtime friend Kim, who's birthday is today! Happy Birthday friend!!

Next is my Love entry

For this card I used 7Gypsies paper {yummy}, kraft from Paper Tray inks, a Maya Road craft tag, Kisses stickers for Adorn it, Japanese masking tapes (3 styles) from Love My Tapes and some silver Stickles.
Be sure and check out the Moxie Fab blog for some amazing giveaways! You'v still got a chance to enter!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jacksonbelle Tuesday

It's Tuesday and time fora new challenge at Jacksonbelle! This week the challenge is to use flowers…Primas, floral ribbon, flowery designer paper, flower stamps…ANYTHING WITH FLOWERS! We’d love for you to play along with us! If you do, please use keyword JBE094 when uploading to SCS or PCP or leave a link to your project in the comments section of this post!
Here's my take using Lucy Bird from Imaginisce.

I just love how girly this collection is. Now be sure and check out the Design Team's blogs to see what they created for this week's challenge.

Dawn Lusk

Julie Lacey

Heather Pulvirenti

Windy Robinson

Stephanie Severin

Amy Tsuruta

Pam Varnell

Lynda Benden

Tobi Crawford

Jill Dunn

Heather Lee-Reppen

Lindsey Botkin

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Happy Monday and some news

I love Mondays...it's a fresh start every week. A day full of optimism and planning for the week ahead.
We're all feeling better here at the Smith home and I feel like I got so much done this weekend. I have some fantastic news to share.

I'm an SDU Instructor! What's SDU you ask? Well it stands for Scrapbook Design and You.
Scrapbook Design & You® teaches beginner through advanced scrapbookers the essential scrapbook theories and principles of design. SDU will dramatically enhance the skills of any scrapbooker to create dynamic scrapbook pages. I am so excited to be part of the EK Success team!
Today was one of those days where everything just fell into place easily. I got my work done for Paper Posies, Jacksonbelle and Love My Tapes and had time to spend with the kids having fun. Lily loves this show called Oobi..I personally find it a bit strange but her favorite episode is called "Make Art!" She asks for this episode every night. So today we made some art of our own on the coffee table with some packaging paper I have on a roll and I secured it with some of the Love My Tapes decorative tape.

Lily's favorite color is "Yellow!" as she proclaims

I already know Cayden likes to color since he shows up covered in marker on his hands and legs...we keep him to just crayons here and I keep a close eye on him although he did try to beautify the coffee table instead of the paper...LOL
Here's a sneak peek at some of my Paper Posies projects

I hope you to had an amazing Mondaytoo! Here's what I've been crafting to tonight! I just love the video. Unfortunately it's blocked from me adding it to my Blogger page but check out the link here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oomhQpeyB0Q

Invaded by the cold bug again...

Yes sadly we have been bitten by the cold bug again in the Smith house. I am sorry for neglecting my blog but when Mom got it Sunday evening then daughter got it Monday eve and brother by Tuesday... well you can image where my time is devoted to right now. Ugh! We are tired of the sickies over here.
So I have a couple of fun things to share. First here are some cards I made for a call I thought was still open. I think they turned out cute. The first one I cut the bunny with my new Slice
and the Farm Time cartridge I won from Two Peas. I totally love the shadowing technique they added to the cartridges. I used some yummy new Anna Griffin paper to make these little cuties for Easter.

I just love this ribbon I picked up from Michaels. I really do have a ribbon obsession.

Now a little business for my Imaginisce fans! The sketch challenge is still open til Feb 25th so please submit your take on February's sketch and link it up to the post here for a chance win your choice of the i-top Tool package or a $75 prize package!!
And for even more fun! Take a pic of you and your itop tool and post it to our Facebook fan page here.
I gotta run and make hubby some soup but I'll be back bloggin again real soon!