Hello my scrappy friends! Well I have been busy in the Scrappin Place! I like that kind of busy! I am sure all of you do too!  Here is a layout that I made, which I was going to enter for a DT tryout, but I had my dates confused, so I look at it as another layout down, many more to be made.  LOL!

The inspiration for this layout was based on a toy, which had lots of the primary colors, it was almost like a tinker toy.  Well, once I saw this toy, I knew exactly what pictures to use and what paper! I used the Bo Bunny Blast Off line, which was the only choice in my mind for the pictures! : )  I cut the title with my Cricut using the Cutting Up cartridge.  The circles were cut from PlantinSchool Book and the tails were actually cut using Superman cartridge and I attached the circles over the stars of the cut that I used.  The letters needed some sparkle, so I used Yellow Stickles.  I also used Star Dust Stickles on some of the circles and stars on the paper.  All of the edges were inked with Blue Iris ColorBox Chalk Ink.

Hope you all like the layout and do not forget, we have a Challenge still going on at Getting Scrappy at Amanda's blog and here is the link: http://amandascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/2012/01/getting-scrappy-challenge_22.html  So get your winter layouts posted over there!  Hope you all have a wonderful Sunday!

Sending you scrappy hugs,
T

Well here it is, Monday!  Here at the Scrappin Place, I have still been working on several challenges and other crafty things.  I am a member of the Ning site, Creating the Crafty Life and there are several challenges every week over on this site, besides great crafty friends!  Here is the layout that I made for the challenge over at CCL:

Yes, I know, more wedding pictures! I think my wedding album is going to be a non-ending project.  I used the DCWV Formal Affair stack.  All of the cuts were made with my Cricut, using the Gypsy Wandering and PlantinSchool cartridges.  Black Soot distress ink was used on the edges and the ribbon is from my stash.  The journaling card is a scrap from my cuts and the roses on it were from IAR. 

Well my scrappy friends, I hope you like the layout and come on over to Creating the Crafty Life! We have a great time scrappin over there!

Sending you all scrappy hugs,
T

Good Sunday Morning my scrappy friends! That is right, it is time for the Getting Scrappy Design Team Challenge!!!! The title this week of our challenge is "Flurries of Fun" which is a winter themed layout.
Now, here in California, we are now just getting some wet weather, which has kinda put a damper on getting my usual snowy, wintery type of pictures.  But we are now having some storms come in and hopefully the snow will fall!  Now here is my layout:

Snow falls where my husband works and so he usually has the truck loaded with snow that he brings home for our son and his friends to play with.  I used the Bo Bunny Snowfall collection and the truck is from the Everyday Paperdolls, which I cut at 5" with DCWV paper.  The snow in the back is actually clouds, which I cut at 4" with my Winnie the Pooh cartridge and ran it through my Cuttlebug, using the "Swirls" embossing folder.  The title, "Truckin Snow" was cut at 1.5" with the Doodletype cartridge.

Please head over to Amanda's Blog, http://amandascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/ to see what the rest of the design team has made to inspire you with this time!

Sending you scrappy hugs!
T

Happy Scrappy Saturday my scrappy friends! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend planned.  Here at the Scrappin Place, I have another challenge that I completed Sketchabilities site, which you all should go take a look and here is the link: http://www.sketchabilities.blogspot.com/  They have wonderful sketch designers over on their site and the layouts that these scrappy people come up with will inspire! Trust me on this one!  Here is the layout that I came up with for this week:

My son, Robby took this picture of his bare feet and I only thought it was fitting to do a layout!  I used some paper from my stash for the background.  For the embellies, I used my Accent Essentials cartridge and cut them at 5" with Core'dinations card stock.  The hearts were cut using the Sweetheart cartridge and those were cut at 1".  The title "Tooties" was cut at 1.5" and I used the All Mixed Up cartridge.  I painted the hearts with yellow watercolor paints, which I mixed with Iridescent Medium, which gave them a sparkle.

Now all of my scrappy friends, come back tomorrow for the Getting Scrappy Design Team Challenge! I know you will all enjoy the challenge this week! I know that I did!

Sending you scrappy hugs,
T

See, I told you, my scrappy friends, I was not done with my posts today!  Here is a challenge that I completed for the Scrappy Moms Tuesday Challenge.  The Challenge was to use some type of cartoon character.  Now, to my upset, my Mickey & Friends cartridge is not working!!! So, I used another fav of mine, Winnie the Pooh!

For this layout, I cut the background Winnie at 11" and the other one at 4" on my Cricut.  The Hunny Pot I cut at 3"  The frame around the picture was cut at 7" and is the perfect size for a 4 x 6 picture.  I then used my white gel pen to accent the frame and used the piece from the frame cut out for the journaling.  Brown Studio G Glitter glue completes Robby's name.

I had a lot of fun with this challenge and got to use my Winnnie and Friends cartridge for the first time and I will be using it again for sure!

Sending you all scrappy hugs,
T

Happy Friday my scrappy friends!!! Today it is raining here in Cali, but we needed it bad!!!  Hope that you all have a great week of scrappin, I know that I did! Here is a project that I made for a challenge over at Let's Capture These Sketches site!  You all should go over and take a look at this sketch site!  They have sketches for both layouts and cards!  I am going to give their card sketch a try!  Here is the layout that I made for with their sketch for this week:

These are pictures of my son, Robby and his buddy Katy.  These were taken at one of those photo booths and I just had to get them on a layout! The paper is from Fancy Pants from out of my stash and I used a paper dollie, lace, pink ribbon and buttons to complete the layout.  The word buddies are alpha stickers from Webster's Pages. 

I will be posting more in a few hours, as I have been doing challenges gallore!  I must admit, it helps to do these challenges, as I am getting more photos on paper! Love it!

See you soon my scrappy friends and do not forget, the Getting Scrappy Design Team will be posting a new challenge, so I hope you will all be back this weekend to see the layouts and participate in the challenge!

Sending you all scrappy hugs,
T

For the Winter and Snow Blog Hop, please click here:

Hello and welcome to the Valentine for Kids with Cancer Blog Hop, which is being hosted by the wonderful Liz!  The lovely cards that you will be looking at on all of the stops on this hop are being sent to some childern, who will be spending their Valentine's in the hospital while having treatments for Cancer.  When Liz asked about participating, who could say no!?  If you have arrived from Ashley's blog you are on the right track, if not, please start at Liz's blog and hop on thru!

Here is my Valentine card:

I made an easel card from red cardstock from my stash.  I stamped the heart with white ink and stiched along the edge of the card.  I stamped the sentiment with Tim Holtz Barn Door Distress Ink and put heart brads on the sentiment.

Of course there is some blog candy and here are the sponsors for this hop, please show them some love as well:

. Decade of Scrap, http://www.zibbet.com/beautydecade

Will sponsor 3 Valentine Digi Images from my shop of your choice!


2. Whimsy Stamps, http://whimsystamps.com

Will Sponsor 2 $15 Gift Certificates to their online shop!


3. Wee Stamps, http://www.weestamps.com

Will Sponsor three of their DIGI Images!!!


4. OhMyCrafts, http://www.ohmycrafts.com

Will Sponsor One Goodie Gift Pack with different surprise items!!!



5. Lindy's Stamp Gang, http://www.lindystampgang.com

Will Sponsor a Gift Certificate to their store!

6. Sweet Stamping Treats, http://www.sweetstampingtreats.etsy.com

Will Sponsor 5 Digi Images of your choice



 Thank you for hopping on by and in case you get lost, here is the lineup:

1. Liz- http://decadeofscrap.blogspot.com/
2. Ashley- http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/
3. Teresa - http://scrappintplace.blogspot.com/
4. Lina- http://sweetnothingspaperco.blogspot.com
5. Nikki-http://paperpiecingsbynikki.blogspot.com
6. Nicolette http://beyondscrapin.blogspot.com
7. Misty - http://mbtreasurista.blogspot.com/
8. Ellen ♥ CardMonkey - http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/
9. Theresa Neubaum - http://scrappyartcrafters.blogspot.com
10. Beckie http://justbcreativecrazy.blogspot.com/
11. Doris - http://mybugandmecreate.blogspot.com
12. Amber - http://pixiperfectcreations.blogspot.com
13. Leslie-http://ScrapOfArtDesigns.blogspot.com
14. Melissa-http://timeweavers.wordpress.com
15. Amy - http://lv2scrapandfibrofacts.blogspot.com

Thanks for hopping on by!
Sending you scrappy hugs!
T

For the Valentine's for Kids with Cancer Hop, please click here

Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's Winter & Snow Blog Hop!
You should have come from Jessica's
If you have come here by mistake please start at the begining http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

I decided to create two cards for this particular hop, as I am attempting to make more cards with my Cricut.

This card was cut from the Winter Frolic Cartridge and I welded the background together on my Gypsy to make the card.  I cut the Warm Winter Wishes at 3 inches and used Stickles on the word Winter.

This card I used the Snowfriends Cartridge and cut the snowman out at 3.5 inches and used a Peachy Keen Snowman face stamp, which I had not had the opportunity to use yet.  I can guarantee that I will be pulling my Peachy Stamps out more!  I ran the card through my Cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots embossing folder.

Don't forget to comment on ALL of the blogs in this hop to be entered to win the BRAND NEW set of K. Andrew Designs It's Valentine's Stamp Set

Next you should go to the wonderful Carla's blog, http://racincrafts.blogspot.com

In case you get lost along the way, here is the entire line up.

Start- http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com
Jessica - http://thecreativestamperspot.blogspot.com /
Teresa - http://scrappintplace.blogspot.com /
Carla - http://racincrafts.blogspot.com /
Indira - http://craftyhomemade.blogspot.com /
Erica- http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com
Cori- http://createdbycori.blogspot.com
Doris - http://mybugandmecreate.blogspot.com
Cindy - http://toolsofacropingqueen.blogspot.com /
Laurie - http://mincedpaper.blogspot.com
Lisa - http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com /
Blog Candy- http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com

Thanks for stoping by!
Sending you scrappy hugs!
T

Good Morning! It is going to be a busy weekend here at the Scrappin Place!  There are two blog hops that I am going to be participating in and I hope that all of you hop on by this weekend!!!

I have been crafting away here and I decided to do the layout challenge over at Bo Bunny, which is one of my favorite paper companies!!! My local scrapbooking store knows exactly what I want when I walk through their door!

Here is my take on their challenge:

I used the Bo Bunny Liberty Line and in the picture that Bo Bunny wanted you to use for inspiration, there was a quilt on the bed and a ball.  So I took my cue from those items in the room.  I cut triangles out and taped them to the pictures for the photo mounts.  I distressed all of the edges with Brushed Corduroy Distress ink, which has been a fav of mine lately, fussy cut the main part of the layout and then placed it on the paper. 

I also altered an old frame that I had a picture of myself in, which I felt needed some updating:

I painted the frame with gesso and white paint.  I then took Moonlight Glimmer Mist and washed it on the frame.  I also used Graphic 45 papers to cover the photo mat and also washed on the Moonlight Glimmer Mist.  I took IAR roses and painted them with Pink Ink Glimmer Mist.  The crowns are Tim Holtz Grunge Board, which I used Sapphire Glimmer Mist and Skittles. 

I hope you all have enjoyed my creations and I hope you all stop by this weekend for the Valentines for Kids with Cancer Hop and the Winter & Snow Hop!!!

Sending you Scrappy Hugs!
T



Good Scrappy Morning! Here in the Scrappin Place, I have been scrappin away on layouts, as you all can see by my previous post!  Well, here is another layout that I have made for the challenge over at My Creative Time.  You all should go and take a look at Emma's blog, she has some wonderful tutorials, really neat stamp and die sets, which I have been eyeing for a long time....

For Emma's challenge, you have to use a sports theme and use your cricut.  The football photo corners and the football player are cut from Everyday Paperdolls cartridge.  For the journaling spot, I used my Gypsy to weld a football helmet together, which turned out really cool for a journaling spot.  The letters are from the Mickey's Font cartridge.  The paper used for the layout is from my "football" paper stash.  I still have to scrap Kieth's High School Football pics!

I also wanted to show all my scrappy friends, that I have a scrapping buddy in the scrappin place:

That is right my scrappy friends, this is my buddy, Bella and she hangs out with me all day in the scrappin place, thinking that she is helping with my scrappin!  When she jumped up on the desk, I just had to snap a few pics.  I do think she needs a bling collar, don't all of you think so?!?!

Don't forget to head over to Amanda's blog and enter the challenge for the Getting Scrappy Design Team Challenge!

Sending you all scrappy hugs,
T

If you are looking for the "It's Cold Outside" Blog Hop, Day Two, click here

Good Scrappy Sunday!!! It is time for the very first Getting Scrappy Design Team Challenge!!! I am super uber excited!!! "Anything Goes"  is the theme for this challenge, so I figured since the DT announcement was yesterday, which was my 17th Wedding Anniversary, and my hubby, Bob, puts up with alot of "scrappiness" from me, so I figured I should dedicate my very first challenge to him (yeah, I am in the picture too, but he could not be kissing anyone else at that moment):

I used my Cricut and cut the circles with Platin Schoolbook.  I cut "KISS" from the Gypsy Font on my Gypsy at 1" and covered it with Black Diamond Stickles.  The Photocorner was cut with Storybook at 3". 

Head on over to Amanda's blog, http://amandascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/ to see what the rest of the creative ladies of the Design Team came up with for you.  I am sure their layouts are amazing!  Thank you for stopping by the Scrappin Place!

Sending you scrappy hugs!
T

If you are looking for the "Getting Scrappy Design Team Challenge" click here

Welcome to the "It's Cold Outside" blog hop! This hop will be today, Saturday, January 7th and Sunday, January 8th. If you came here from Ashley's blog, you are on the right track! If you just happened find this, great, but you should start at Zenita's blog and hop on through!

We are very greatful to our wonderful sponsor, Visual Designs by Chris is donating a wonderful SVG file and we would like to thank Chris for this wonderful prize!

Now for my project for today, I have made another Winter layout:

The papers I used were Bo Bunny's Midnight Frost Collection and used my Cricut with the following cartridge:

Plantin School
Winter Frolic
Joy of the Seasons
The edges were inked with Tumbled Glass and Dusty Concord Distress inks.  Ice Stickles in Crystal and Blueberry were used for some sparkle.  On the snowflakes, I used Tattered Angels Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Mist for shine.

Thank you for hoping along and in case you get lost, here is the hop line up:

1. Zenita - http://www.scrappinwithz.blogspot.com/
2. Janet Royer- http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/
3. Lissa Marie - http://www.somanycrafts.com
4. Ellen -- http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/
5.anita cannon http://www.anitaandbugs.blogspot.com
6. Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com
7. Teresa - http://scrappintplace.blogspot.com
8. Yvette- http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com/
9. Lynne - http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
10 Shannon - http://www.purplelionpaper.com/blog/
11.Melissa-http://www.timeweavers.wordpress.com
12. Pammejo- http://pammejo-scrapbookflair.blogspot.com/
13. Lisa - http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/
14. Jennifer - http://scrapaholicjen.blogspot.com

Now you need to hop on over to the wonderful Yvette's
blog, http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com/ and see her wintery creation!

Thanks for hopping on by and scrappy hugs!
T

For the "It's Cold Outside" Blog Hop, click here http://scrappintplace.blogspot.com/2012/01/welcome-to-its-cold-outside-blog-hop.html

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE SCRAPPIN PLACE!!!!!

I am so excited, honored, and scrappy happy about this!!! I have been chosen to be on the Getting Scrappy Design Challenge Team over at Amanda's Crafts and More blog!!! Woo Hoo!!!
Be on the lookout for our challenges, which will be not only posted here at the Scrappin Place, but also on Amanda's blog at http://amandascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/ and our first challenge is tomorrow, January 8, 2012 and I hope all of you will participate!  There are some really creative and talented ladies on this Design Team, so make sure you send them some scrappy love!
Again my thanks to Amanda for choosing me to be on this Design Team and I hope that these challenges will lend you all some inspiration!!!  Be sure to come back tomorrow to see the first of our challenges!!!

Sending you scrappy hugs!
T

Welcome to the "It's Cold Outside" blog hop!  This hop will be today, Saturday, January 7th and Sunday, January 8th.  If you came here from Ashley's blog, you are on the right track!  If you just happened find this, great, but you should start at Zenita's blog and hop on through!

We are very greatful to our wonderful sponsor, Visual Designs by Chris is donating a wonderful SVG file and we would like to thank Chris for this wonderful prize!

Now for my project for today, I have made a Winter layout:

I used last year's My Minds Eye Christmas papers and used my Cricut with the following cartridge:

Winter Frolic

The edges were inked with Colorbox Chalk Inks and for the little boy's face, I used a Peachy Keen stamp.  Stickles in Waterfall and Black Diamond added some sparkle to the little boy and Gell Doll White pen was used for the white stiching.

Thank you for hoping along and in case you get lost, here is the hop line up:

1. Zenita - http://www.scrappinwithz.blogspot.com/
2. Janet Royer- http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/
3. Lissa Marie - http://www.somanycrafts.com
4. Ellen -- http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/
5.anita cannon http://www.anitaandbugs.blogspot.com
6. Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com
7. Teresa - http://scrappintplace.blogspot.com
8. Yvette- http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com/
9. Lynne - http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
10 Shannon - http://www.purplelionpaper.com/blog/
11.Melissa-http://www.timeweavers.wordpress.com
12. Pammejo- http://pammejo-scrapbookflair.blogspot.com/
13. Lisa - http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/
14. Jennifer - http://scrapaholicjen.blogspot.com

Now you need to hop on over to the wonderful Yvette's
blog,  http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com/ and see her wintery creation!

Thanks for hopping on by and scrappy hugs!
T

Welcome to the “Love Bugs Banners for Kids” Hop.

Forty very talented crafty people have come together for a two day hop Friday, January 6th and Saturday, January 7th to showcase handmade banners that will be donated to the children at Pediatric Specialty Care. The hope of these banners is that they bring smiles to these children's faces and awareness of Pediatric Specialty Care to all those that hop along.

The “Love Bugs Banner for Kids” Hop has some awesome sponsors and prizes to give away to all those that hop along and leave comments. The more blogs you visit and leave comments at, the more chances you have of winning. That means if you hop through all 20 blogs each day and leave a comment on each blog then you are in the drawing 40 times!

Our Generous Sponsors are:

Jellypark Digital Stamps will award 2 free digi-images to one winner.

K Andrews Designs has donated a stamp set to one winner.

Robyn's Fetish will donate FIVE digital images of the winner's choice as a prize!

Now on with the hop....If you have come from Jamie's blog, http://craftygirl21.blogspot.com, then you are on the right track but if you have come here by chance – great! but please start from the beginning at Ellen's blog, http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/ and continue through from there.

Here are some pictures of my banner called "LOVE BUG" in which I used Walk in My Garden, Plantin School, and the Mickey cartridges to cut this banner out, Stickles, Martha Stewart Glitter gave it the added bling! Sorry I could not fit the banner into one picture, my camera would not cooperate with me whatsoever!

Thank you for joining us today on our “Love Bug Banner for Kids” Hop for the children of Pediatric Specialty Care. Please continue on to Deana's blog's at http://missdjones.blogspot.com and have a wonderful day.

Here is a list of the blogs for today, in case you get lost along the way:

1. Ellen ♥ CardMonkey - http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/
2. Sandie Dunne - http://sandieshores.blogspot.com/
3. Lori Apgar - http://scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/
4. The Scrapbooking Queen~ www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/
5. Linda Simpson - http://lindasimpsoncraftypieceofheaven.blogspot.com/
6. Beckie Woodall - http://justbcreativecrazy.blogspot.com
7. Lisa Lam- http://craftylam.blogspot.com/
8. Jenny (Crazy About Cricut) - http://crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/
9. Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/
10. Haidee-http://created2bunique.blogspot.com/
11. Carol - http://cardstockscissorsandglue.blogspot.com/
12. Edwina - http://edwinascreations.blogspot.com/
13. Jearise - http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/
14. Janet S - http://ladyluvbug.blogspot.com/
15. Denise - http://vintageheartfeltdesigns.blogspot.com/
16. Jamie http://craftygirl21.blogspot.com/
17. Teresa - http://scrappintplace.blogspot.com/
18. Dena - http://missdjones.blogspot.com/
19. Martha- http://pattisscrapingtime.blogspot.com/
20. Erica http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

Sending you and the children scrappy hugs,
T

Good Scrappy Day! Hope that all of you are having a scraptacular day!  Here is in the Scrappin Place, I have been workin' away!  Be on the lookout on Saturday, as I have a big announcement to make!!! I know, I am leavin' you all on a scrappy hook, but can't say until then.

But, I can post some of the projects that I have finished.  So without further ado, here we go......

Now as you all are aware, I was in a blog hop last Saturday, and for the project I showed a 8x8 page layout that I made with the pics of Mom, Dad and big brother, Kieth, when they brought me home.  Well, a little later that day, Mom got a phone call from her neighbor and she asked Mom for a receipt.  So Mom headed over, with Cookbook in hand and SURPRISE!!! Her friends put on a surprise baby shower for her!  So here are the rest of the pages:

I am glad that I was able to put these pictures on paper and I also found some cards from the shower, so I am going to add those to pages as well.  Hope that you all enjoyed the rest of the story and have a scrappy day!
Sending you scrappy hugs!
T