Happy Thanksgiving!

My poor neglected blog! I've had classes for work the past two weekends and finally I have a day free - too bad I have to spend it doing some power cleaning because we are having Thanksgiving at my house and my parents are coming in from out of town. I also have to go out of town tomorrow, will be back Monday and they come in on Tuesday. We only get Thursday and Friday off at our school system, so it'll be another crazy week ahead.

I wanted to post this project I did for the Everyday Digital Scrapbooking Blog. Full directions and a template are shown there, if interested.

I used the FREE 2006 Seasonal Sampler Kit by Shabby Princess to make this transparency box/bag and it was a really easy project! In addition to everything else going on, I've got some deadlines looming so hopefully I'll be back posting more stuff really soon!

Have a WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING & Remember all that you are thankful for!

NOVEMBER!

It's already November! I just can't believe how time flies! I'll be having a fun November because I'm "Miss November" over at Everyday Digital Scrapbooking Blog. I have my first tutorial there now on how to make a hybrid photo frame like this one:

Have a GREAT week - Did you remember to set you clocks back???

A little card

Got another card up for Di's Card Sketch Blog:

Love this new paper by K&Co!

Have a fun and spooky Halloween!!!

Boo!

This is a fun hanging sign I made this weekend. I can't remember if I found these unfinished letters at Michaels or JoAnn's but wanted to give them a makeover - here's the "before" picture:

The letters are pretty big, about 6" tall, so it made a nice big hanging sign. I used the new "Scared Silly" kit by Dani Mogstad and Jacque Larsen. I love the paper and embellishments in this kit!

Got some fun news from Julie Ann over at Everyday Digital Scrapbooking, she asked me to be the Guest Designer for November so I am thrilled! I got a peek at some of the things that'll be going on there in November and although my lips are sealed, I can tell you that you might want to mark your calendars to check in during the month cause there's good stuff coming!

Later!

I Want Candy...

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Got a new card up on Di's blog. I used some really cute Halloween papers by American Traditional Designs, Bazzill, ribbon and some buttons. I made the black border along the center with my Cricut Expression and the Accent Essentials cartridge. I picked up the new Cricut Expression a few weeks ago when AC Moore had the bundle package (the machine, mat, 4 cartridges and the markers) on sale. I still have my original Cricut, don't know what I'm going to do with it- its stuck in the closet for now.

That's about it for now - hope to have more stuff to share really soon.....

This and That....

Happy Wednesday! I sure do miss posting to my blog :( I've just been so darn busy!

I had a couple of projects in this month's Paper Trends Mag:

Friendship Journal (made for my dd)

An Altered File Box, and


"Turkey Day" Treat Bag (filled with sunflower seeds)

Also have a new card up today for the latest card sketch over at Di Hickman's Blog:



and lastly....a card in the latest edition of Scrapstreet Ezine (you've gotta check out this online magazine if you haven't yet, its fun, fabulous and FREE!!!!!):

Have great week!

A Halloween Goodie and Some Cards

I'm not sure if you would call this a bag or a box - it's a wooden box shaped like a bag. I wanted to make something Halloweenish with Dani Mogstad's new Spookable kit and I had two of these bag-boxes in my storage cabinet so this is what I came up with:

I designed the elements and then after I got it all assembled I realized it was the same saying that was used on the candy tent from the Design by Dani October newsletter...oops...no wonder it seemed like a good saying to put on a candy bag, I had just seen it there.

BTW - Dani's having a sale right now to celebrate the the store's 2nd birthday so check it out:
http://www.designbydani.com/

Here are some cards I did for Di Hickman's Sketch Blog, the bottom one is a digi card as you can probably tell:

Make sure to check out her blog to see all the cute cards the sketch girls did!

Happy Thursday!

October Is Upon Us!

The October Newsletter is up at Design By Dani, you can download it here:

http://www.designbydani.com/designbydanioct.zip

Included with the newsletter is a free printable template to make some adorable Halloween candy tents that you just print, cut and fold!

Speaking of Design by Dani, I found out this week that one of the projects I did for for Dani's Girl Talk Blog was featured on Disc Talk Radio on the Dishin' the Digi - Coast 2 Coast show! That was exciting!

Can you believe Monday is October??? I'm hoping to have time this weekend to do some Halloween decorating and crafting. I love holiday crafts! If you have some Halloween crafts or cards- link me up in the comments section cause I'd love to see them!!!

Saturday Stuff

Just poppin' in with a little card I did for Di Hickman's Card Sketch Blog this week:




Also had another request for a project from Scrapbook Dimensions yesterday and that made me happy :) You know I love that magazine!

I had such a nice surprise last week when I found that Karen Maggie mentioned my blog in her September Workshop: Focus on Hybrid post for Scrapbookgraphics.com. I was blown over when I saw the link to my blog there! This article is a GREAT resource for Hybrid Scrapping and getting hybrid projects published. I've had a lot of people ask me questions about Hybrid and this article has all the answers! The uber-creative Julie Ann Shahin is featured in this article, scroll down in the comments section and you'll see all the links she has for everything Hybrid and MORE! Good Stuff!

Have a great weekend!!!

I'm Baaccckkkk....

Wow! I've been MIA for 2 weeks! I got a temporary job for the month of September so I've been working every day and that has kept me quite busy. Needless to say, not much crafting going on around here. I did have a card in this month's issue of Scrapstreet.com Magazine - here's the card:

This latest issue of Scrapstreet is a good one so go check it out!!! Have a GREAT weekend!

Altered CD Binder & Some Freebies :)

Last weekend I spent several hours backing up all my digi kits from my external hard drive onto CD's. I wanted someplace safe to hold my CD's so I remembered this CD binder that I had, it's like a small three-ring binder (except it has two rings) and it holds little CD-size page protectors to hold your CDs. I decided to make it cuter by using Trish Jones' Popsicle Meltdown Papers to alter it. I love bright colors and this kit delivered! I thought it would make the chore of backing up files a little better if I knew I had something cute to put them in - LOL!

Also.....I found two great freebies for the day if you are fast enough:

1. HURRY!!! Scrapbook Dimensions magazine has got a current special going where they are mailing out free magazines to the first 50 people that they get emails and addresses for. If interested, please send email and mailing address to freemagazine@scrapbookdimensions.com.

2. Close To My Heart is giving away free stamps! Click here: Free Stamps and click on the link at the top of the page that says "Enter to win free Close To My Heart Products!"

Happy September today!!! Hope you all have a great LONG weekend!!!