Family Vacations

You know, I remember going on family vacations and having a blast when I was a kid but as I got older, I often wonder how much fun it was for my folkes. Well we are currently on vacation and working our way towards Yellowstone and I gotta say as a parent I am having as much fun as my children are. Here is what we did today and I just gotta say it was amazing! I can't wait to get these pictures home to scrap them!

Another Cute Simple Card!

Okay so I caved and bought the Hello Kitty Greetings Cartridge from Cricut and I just adore it. It speakes to the little girl in me! Anyway here is a fun birthday card I whipped up tonight using papers from Lil Lambs Boutique!

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A few cards!

Have you ever noticed that one minute you have a ton of cards and the next, bam, nada????? Well that's what happened to me recently, so I've been putting my new stamps and newly organized paper scraps to good use and replenishing my stash of cards. Here are a few of my favorites!

Wow it's been a long time!

I have been so busy this past month, I haven't had much spare time, but have had a great time watching my boys play baseball. They were each on a different traveling team in addition to playing league ball, which my husband coached! Here's a few pics!

Cricut Fathers Day Card

So my husband absolutley loves baseball and is coaching my sons baseball teams. I'm pretty sure he is going to love this fathers day card!


I used the Sports Mania and Beyond Birthday cartridges, welding the ball and the card togelther in Design Studio. I then layered the ball, frame and blue background in. I sure do love my bug!

Papertrey Ink Inspires Me!

I spend a lot of time on the Papertrey Ink website drooling over their beautiful stamp sets, paper, ribbon and all kinds of other wonderful goodies. I just love their logo and it inspired me to create this card!

A quick cute card!

I just got some uber cute stamps from Rubber Soul and made this cute card for my great-nieces birthday. I'm gonna love this set!

Cutting Vinyl with the Cricut!

Okay cutting vinyl with the Cricut is soooooo cool! Here is my first project! These are the boys baseball #s for their traveling team! I put them on the back window of my van! Couldn't have been easier.

For this project I used:

• 1 ~ 12 x 12 inch piece of white vinyl (printonit.com)
• Sports Maina & Plantin School Book Cartridges
• Design Studio
• Settings: depth 3, pressure 3 and speed 3
• blue painters tape (for transfering image to glass)

My New Scrap Desk!

I have been so busy lately that I haven't gotten to share my new scrap desk! We were putzing around Hobby Lobby week befor last and I came accross this beauty!


For those of you that know me, we live in a tiny, tiny little house and I was formerly tucked in a cramped space under the stairs in the basement. Now don't get me wrong - I was happy to have that little space that was all my own, but the work surface was too narrow to fit a layout on, so I was forced to stand and scrap on the deep freeze (what we won't put up with to play with paper)! This unit won't hold all my stuff but the stuff I use all the time is tucked into the drawers and close at hand! I love that the drawers pull out and I can just set one beside me to pick out what I need, the put it back. The fold out work surface is just the perfect size and my cricut is soo handy. This is the first photo I took, but will post more as I get things organized! I am still in the basement, but no longet tucked beneath the stairs like a troll! I am over the moon with this desk and having a blast getting things just the way I want them!

Funny Cat!

As you all prolly know, we live out in the country and in the country you gotta have a cat around the place. We, as good country folk, have a cat who we like to call Bob. I saved him from certain death when I worked at a vet clinic 11 years ago. He has been a really good cat but,probably should have been a house cat because he has very long hair, that gets terribly matted each winter. So each spring (yeah we have to wait till June till its warm enough at night) we take him in and have him shaved. His pink little body never fails to bring a smile to our faces. Please to enjoy " Nekkid Bob"!

Graduation Card Design Studio .cut file

I've recieved many invites this year from graduating seniors, from three different schools. I wanted to create something simple that I could use for all the cards but could personalize with each school colors. Here is what I came up with!


I put a little Ranger Stickles on the stars for a bit of sparkle and a simple bow of coordinating ribbon ! I lined them with plain white paper and left them blank on the inside for a personal message. I got two cards out of an 12X12 sheet of paper and they fit perfect in a 6x6 envelope. If you would like to download this.cut file click here!

Help me - I think I'm addicted!

Just got the cutest new acrylic stamp set in the mail yesterday and had to share the card I made. I think I am totally hooked on the clear stamps! I mean after stamping for years with ONLY Stampin' Up! products I was kind of a a SU! snob and wouldn't even consider any other stamps (I know, how dumb right?) but I am totally in love with seeing where I'm stamping! Who Knew?

This set is chock full of fun fruit! It's called "Fruity Fun" and I found it at Clear Dollar Stamps. PaperTrey Ink also has some unbelievably beautiful sets. I made the card below with their "Green Thumb" set. And of course my much loved double dot paper!

NSD #10 - A Circle Layout

I just love the way this one turned out - I used some papers from the DCWV Nanas kitchen stack, Bazzill silk flowersand the Pooh Font Cartridge!

NSD #5 ~ A Scrapbook Sketch Layout

This challenge made me create one of my all time favorite layouts of my dear daughter using the DCWV La Creme paper!

NSD #3 Challenge - A Kids Page

Here's my entry for the Pink Stampers #3 challnege. I used the DCWV Green Stack papers for this fun layout!

Challenge #8 Card Sketch

Her es my card for the 8th Challenge on The Pink Stampers blog in honor of National Scrapbooking day. The strawberry patterned paper is actually stamped with Papertrey Inks Green Thumb set.

NSD Challenge #6 - Patterned Paper

Wow - I haven't scrapped this much for myself in a long long while - thanks Robyn! Even my daughter likes the way this one turned out! She picked the theme and the colors!

I used DCWV La Creme paper and the Zoobaloo and Doodlecharms Cartridges on this one. The flowers are Prima Sprites.

Challenge #4 Mothers Day!

Heres my submission to The Pink Stampers #4 Challenge ~ Mothers Day. Feels so good to have my mother in laws card done and ready to send! Thanks Robyn!

On this one I used all Bo Bunny Double Dot Paper (except the white), Cricut Walk in My Garden and Storybook Cartridges! I get Double Dot Paper at Lil Lambs Boutique!

NSD Challenge # One At Lil Lambs Boutique

I just finished this one for Lil Lambs Boutique first challenge " life-changing advice ". Thanks mom for always telling me, "God doesn't send you what you want, he sends you what you need. " I love and miss her more today than ever!