Glitter strikes again!

I had this layout in mind while working on My Pink Stamper's national scrapbook day challenges, but I did not have time to work on it over the weekend. Today while the littlest man was napping, little man played with stickers and crayons while I scrapped.

This is a picture of me on the carousel at the boardwalk while on vacation last summer. We had coupons for one free ride, but Nathan didn't want to go. So, my mom and I went on the carousel, haha.

I love when I get the chance to make girly layouts with girly colors, since most of my scrapbooking revolves around little boys!

Challenge #5 - any 3D object

For this NSD challenge at My Pink Stamper, I chose to alter a wooden plaque. A couple months ago, I made an altered canvas similar to this for a friend who is getting married. I wanted to make this type of project for other family and friends. This will be the second part of my mother in law's mother's day present. I painted the wood...a couple coats and let it sit and dry while I worked on other things yesterday. I cut the name and "est. 1989" using Alphalicious, and for "Family" I used opposites attract. I used Mod Podge matte to adhere and seal this project. It was done late last night, but it was still drying. This is a quick and easy project that certainly doesn't look it!

Challenge #8 - Summer Themed Project

My Pink Stamper's National Scrapbook Day Challenge #8 is create a summer themed project. It just so happens that I am so behind on my scrapping that I am working on stuff from last summer. I chose this picture of my son and my sister at the beach when we were on vacation last summer. The font and the other shapes (starfish, waves, flip flops) are all from Life is a Beach cartridge. The background paper was part of a paper pack I found in Target's dollar section! This layout is fairly simple, but since I worked on several things today, I felt that I needed to keep it simple. You can't really tell in the picture, but the flip flops and the picture on the peach mat are popped up with foam dots. Unfortunately, the colors of the flip flops didn't show up great in the picture, but it is late. So this picture will have to do ;-)

Challenge #1 - cupcakes!

So, yes, I went out of order with the challenges, but in any case, challenge #1 at My Pink Stamper was to do anything with cupcakes. I chose to make a card for a friend who LOVES cupcakes. I had seen others make ovens that opened using the oven from the From My Kitchen Cricut cartridge, and I always wanted to try a card like this. Many people use this to do a "bun in the oven" card for an expecting mom. Since my friend who is expecting loves cupcakes, I made the oven open up with a cupcake inside. Both the oven and the cupcake are from the From My Kitchen cartridge. I cut off the cherry that is typically on top of the cupcake. "Congrats" is from Gypsy Wanderings. I used an exacto knife to cut the oven door open...it didn't turn out as clean cut and pretty as I had hoped, but for a first attempt at an oven card, it was okay. Next time, perhaps, I will weld something together on my Gypsy to make an oven card.

Challenge #4

The fourth challenge at My Pink Stamper was to make something with a mother's day theme. I needed to make cards for all the moms in our life, so this was the perfect opportunity. The outside says "unique" and the inside says "Happy Mother's Day to a one-of-a-kind woman"

I used a Cuttlebug paisley embossing folder and Kraft Edgers scissors on the teal cardstock. The flowers are from the Walk In My Garden Cricut cartridge.

Challenge #2

My Pink Stamper's challenge #2 was to use Kraft Cardstock in a layout or project. Here is an altered frame that I made for my mother in law for mothers day. It was an unfinished wooden frame from Michael's that I painted green, used Kraft cardstock to cut out the quote on the cricut using various fonts (opposites attract, don juan, jasmine, teardrop and opposites attract's other font), and used some flowers and buttons to dress it up. I coated it in Mod Podge matte decoupage protective coating before adding the flowers and buttons. Thanks for looking!

National Scrapbook Day

Today I will be scrapping/crafting as much as a mommy of 2 young rambunctious boys can. I am following along with My Pink Stamper and completing some of her challenges. Stay posted for some projects from these challenges and check out her blog or facebook page to join in the fun! Happy National Scrapbook Day!