Happy Wednesday everyone! We got happy mail today! My mom is so thoughtful, she used to send me care packages when I was a single gal livin in San Diego and I loved getting them! Today we got a Valentine care package loaded with goodies! My mom made me a hat and scarf set and I sadly lost the hat on an evening walk with Lily some time ago and when I opened the package today right on top was another hat and a matching set for Lily! SO cute!!! Here we are posing for Nana!

My mom also makes cards and they are really cute but she hasn't really figured out how to post them so here are a few of the cards she made for us. I loved the Valentine one!! So clever Mom!!

See where I get my creativity from! Finally I am posting a cute pic I shot of my Lily being the sweetest feeding Cayden some cereal snacks this morning. He was crying because he had just been woken up by Lily and she came over with a cereal bite to console him. Of course the shot was blurry and I could not get them to repeat the same pose Darn! But you get the idea.

Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy your day and create something!

Rainbow Connection & a new challenge is up today at Scrapping out Loud!

Ok I know I am a sap but I loved the Muppets as a kid and rainbows. I snapped this pic from my bathroom window Saturday afternoon. I really do get excited over rainbows, they are God's way of reminding us that there is real beauty in the world.

Scrapping Out Loud Challenge reveal day!!!

For this week's challenge Baby I am Amazed By You, Scrap your most amazing life's moment at Scrapping Out Loud I used this Page Maps sketch.

The Paper is Pink Paislee from my December kit at Paper Posies. I embossed the chipboard and used the back of the Prima felt border along with some bling and flowers. Having this photo taken of my children and I sitting in the spot where my husband and I were married in Kauai this summer is definately one of my most amazing life's moments.

Come join the fun over at Scrapping Out Loud and post a link to your layout for a chance to win this Month's awesome RAK sponsored by Love is In the Details! Click here to visit their awesome site!

Happy Scrapping!

Scrappy Challenge Weekend!

Hope you had a great weekend, we sure did! There was no football watching HOORAY!!! My sweet hubby and I were just "happy together" We went out to a nice breakfast Sat and followed that with a trip to Toys r Us to spoil our little girl a bit with some educational toys. I wanted to get her the Elmo kitchen but apparently it's only avail online so we got her some blocks because she's really into stacking things and a nice board puzzle to teach her shapes. Oh and we finally got her a little chair just for her that she loves. Here's a few pics of her playing with her new things.

After Toy's R Us I went off to Michaels for glue dots and a white pen and of course I got more than I went for and then some. Mat and I spent the rest of the weekend just hanging out together and it was so fun. Saturday evening we watched Friday the 13th in 3D. He picked it up at Best Buy while I was at Micheals and I was cracking up at him with 3D glasses on. He just looked SO kooky!

Sunday was a day for Scrappin and lazin around the house. I got more projects than I expected done. I am really bad at waiting til the last day to complete challenges and often end up missing the deadlines to compete.

Here's a couple of projects I did get completed on time for this week's Hero Arts challenge Birthday Week. Of course I had to finish them after I lost the natural light so forgive the pics.

It was Birthday week and we had to create a birthday card, layout or project with one hero Arts Stamp. For my birthday card I cut a hole in the front and then cut a green piece of card stock with my Nestibilities scallop shaped die and then cut a circle in the center to layer. I used pop dots behind the circle to add dimension but you can't really tell from the photo. The owl and the flower stem are part of my new stamps.

I also submitted a layout for this challenge with some pics from Lily's 1st birthday. I feel awful that I am just now getting around to scrapping them. I used some paper from the All Kinds of Happy collection from Imaginisce. I also used a few different stamps by Hero Arts and the Birthday sentiment is Unity.

For this layout I used the paper from my October kit I purchased when I joined Paper Posies. I knew I wanted to cut out this owl when I saw it on the card stock.

Stay tuned for Scrapping Out Loud's Tuesday challenge. We've got another awesome RAK up for grabs so come play along with us!

Happy Mail and a Fun evening meeting new friends!!!

Yesterday was HAPPY MAIL day!! Oh boy did I get some good stuff! I got my prize from the 12 days of Christmas contest...a CROP A DIAL!!! I have the big bite but I had been wishing I got the Crop A Dial because it just seemed more versitile. It came in the case too with a ton of eyelets, thanks Scrapbooking and Cards Today!

Next I got my order from Hero Arts I placed from winning the 50.00 shopping spree for the fresh face winner taht I won. I can't wait to play with these stamps and there's another contest up that's due tmr eve. If you're interested get the deets here and come play along for some really great products. Hero was really generous and threw in a few extra stamps.

And...I got my winning stamps from the Hip Hop a few weeks ago and a few extra goodies from Angela who is just the sweetest girl ever!!! She has totally made now want to vacation in Minnesota just to see her and Eryn! I also got that cute tree stamp in the Unity block from my sweet friend Jacquie! She won it in the Hip Hop and already had it so she had Eryn throw it in my stash of goodies. Thanks SO much Jacquie girl! I can't wait to use that Harlaquin background stamp!

Last night I got to meet Daiseyfreak from the Hip Hop Unity friends I've made since finding them in the Splitcoast forum. She was visiting her long time friend Cori who lives about 30 mins from me. They invited me to meet them for dinner at the Road House Steakhouse in Long Beach. That's the lovely Cori on the left and the very talented Joy in the middle and moi. She made the most amazing card with Unity's Love is Toxic set. Please go check it out on here blog here. Both of them were super sweet! Joy's husband was there too and I felt so bad for him because all we talked about was scrapping an stamping! LOL It was really great meeting them since I don't have any scrappy friends here on the West side.

Finally here at the cards I didn't get a chance to post yesterday from the Hip Hop Challenges by Jeanne this week. I got to meet Jeanne at CHA and she is really sweet and super talented. Check out her blog here. She totally amazes me every week with her creations!

This card was the gel-tastic challenge to use gel pens. Um, mine are about 10 years old and pretty dried out but here's my card

And finally my Get Tilted with Unity challenge card. For this challenge we had to create a card and tilt the main image.

So I am off the breakfast with my family and Mathew will be gone this evening to do a little male bonding with his buddy so I'll be scrappin it up in my studio. Have a fantastic weekend whatever you are doin!

Hip Hop hangover artwork

Hey readers! Good Morning!!! So my DH set the alarm wrong and instead of getting up at 6 like I usually do I was up at 5. I didn't realize the time til I sat down at the computer to read mail after showering. Boy am I gonna need a nap later because my daughter woke at 12:45 and kept me up til 2 am. What was that about? We put her in bed with us hoping to get her to sleep but she just wiggled and put her feet in my back. Then she did laps around her crib while I was in and out of sleep. At one point I was hit in the head with her glow Seahorse and Monkey. Ahh the joys of parenthood...

So folks ( I love that word) here's your UNITY DEETS for this week!

Be sure to check out Angela's Rewind specials for Hip Hop over here. Unity has new stamps and awesome new packaging!!! Don't have Unity Rubbah yet? GET SOME!!!!

So here's a few things I made with Unity this week!

this challenge was to make a Valentine card with a non Valentine stamp

this week's sketch challenge at Splitcoast why is this image so small??? I am too tired to fix it grrrr

A card I made for my CTMH Cafe Mom group with the All My Love set

And a sneak peek of a Unity altered project I am working on with Basic Grey and Prima flowers. I have two more cards but I had no lighting to photograph them well so I'll be posting more later today.

Have a great weekend!

Scrapping Out Loud Challenge Tuesday!

It's time for another challenge and the winner of January's Rak is revealed! Hop on over to read all the deets here and see the amazing artwork created by our talented team! This week's challenge is to scrap your stash! Make way for the new products coming out after CHA by using stuff from your stash that's at least 6 months old. Here's my layout for this week's challenge,

On another note I am pleased to post that I had a few birthday cards and an altered project featured in the Jan?Feb issue of Ready, Set Create! It's an online scrapbooking magazine ran by the sweet and lovely Jennifer Blackwell. You can purchase a copy here

I also scrapped a two page layout for my monthly kit club Paper Posies. I am not a fan of two page layouts and they are a challenge for me but I needed two pages to tell this story. I had seen an article about scrapping the year in review in one of my scappy mags and wanted to give it a try. I used paper by Basic Grey and Paper Crate as well as American Crafts letters and Prima flowers and bling.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your day!

Hip Hop hangover and some more CHA pics

Here's my Hip Hop bright and bold challenge card from yesterday's Hip Hop dedicated to ALL my Hip Hop friends! I {heart} all of you amazing and sweet women who make my Thursday's the best day of the week!!! As always it was fun chatting it up with the ladies. Angela and Eryn were definitely missed! Check out Unity Stamp's blog for the new releases here and don't forget Angela is giving 10% off all orders til Feb 1st!

I altered this clipboard into a calendar with my Paper Posies January kit. I signed up for this kit 3 months ago and have been loving it! The goodies are awesome and it's totally affordable! Check past kits out here

I also wanted to share with you some awesome altered chipboard albums from Maya Road I totally loved!! I really think they have the best selection of chipboard.

Gorgeous, oh how I looooove butterflies

This bird with the added leaves that sparkled was amazing to touch

these little albums make great gifts

So that's it for today. I hope you have a wonderful weekend. We are visiting family tomorrow in La Crescenta and Sunday is Super Bowl. Something tells me that the baby and I will have the house to ourselves and I'll be scrapping.

Tim Holtz, Splitcoast challenges and Hip Hop!

My favorite booth at CHA was Tim's of course! He had some amazing things to look at and projects that really rocked! Of course his new grunge boards weren't bad either...LOL Here's some photos for you to OOOOOOhhhgle over

Flippen LOVED this!!!!!

Isn't it all amazing???? And then I met Tim...he was showing us some new products and the technique of masking. He was totally sweet and funny. He had a really nice personality! I could have stood there and watched him the entire day!

I was card making into the wee hours last night working on some Splitcoast challenges. I've really been trying to do at least one or two and of course the Unity Addicts Challenge. Here's what I came up with

Unity Addicts Challenge, Check out the gallery here

Splitcoast color challenge, view the gallery here

Splitcoast sketch challenge, view the gallery here

It's Thursday and you know what that means...HIP HOP BABY!!!! Check out some great pics on the Unity Blog here and don't forget there's new releases today and new packaging. Stop by the Splitcoast forum here and make a new friend! I did at CHA. Her name is Patty and she is so purdy and sweet! We hung out together all day on Sunday and I had SO much fun! She is just the sweetest ever!

So have fun whatever you do today, now I have to go see if I won the Slice on Making Memories and HIP HOP with my Unity Crew

New Challenge up at Scrapping Out Loud!

It's Tuesday and the Design Team rocked another challenge! It's reveal day at Scrapping Out Loud and if you come play along you'll get another chance to win this month's awesome RAK by Kraft Girl Kits!

So this week's challenge:

"5" Challenge! - use 5 pics, 5 patterned papers, 5 embellies, 5 buttons, and 5 ribbons on your page.

My layout is titled Her love of reading and the journaling reads: At 18 mos, Lily loves to read her books nestled in her toy box.

I used the awesome background page I got in this month's Paper Posie's kit. Pop on by their site and check February's kit. I am already in love and can't wait to get my hands on it! If you decide to join make sure you tell them I sent you. I also used Prima flowers, leaves and packaging for my cardstock. I used a sheet of the Basic Grey paper that also came in my kit behind the larger photo.

Here's a little detail in the leaves I cut from Prima packaging to blend on top of the green leaves.

And the flower I layered and used a strip of cardboard packaging from Prima Say It In Crystals for the center and rolled it with glue dots and painted the center with Making Memories red paint. I used the backs of the white swirls to add a little extra to the flower.

I'll be posting some more pics from CHA tmr of Tm Holtz's booth and some shots I got of him in action! Of course I was totally classy and asked him if it was ok that I photograph him.

Have a great day and scrap something!

Wow, what a day at CHA!!!!

I am SO tired right now but I want to post a few pics before I head to bed so I think I will start with Unity. You see me post about their stamps every Thurs. Angela is the most amazing, sweet and generous woman I have ever met. Her passion for her business but mostly her customers makes me appreciate her product even more. This business is her heart and soul and it's clear how much of herself she pours into it. I really enjoyed talking to her and spending time with the Unity crew. The booth was simply Amazing and the new packaging is just so cutting edge and consumer pleasing! Enjoy these photos and I'll be posting more soon!

Me and Angela, isn't she gorgeous!

Our fab Unity Crew!

The girls

The new packaging for Unity sets

My layout with the artwork board

I got a GOLDEN TICKET!!!

I can hardly believe it! I went to meet Angela and the super COOL Unity Crew and Eryn totally suprised me with this!

Sorry for the bad pics but it's 12:45 am and I've got to get to bed. I now have an exciting and early day ahead of me!!! I'm taking my camera and will be back with all the deets later!!! I {heart} YOU ANGELA!!!!