Here Is An AWESOME BLOG give away on an AWESOME blog

Check out the blog for Melissa, side bar blogs that i follow, creating from the heart. SHE has a blog giveaway that i would love. so anyone who wants to register and if you win, give me the CRICUT CAKE, yep, that is correct, the CriCUt CaKE. go for it. if you want to keep it for yourself, dont worry about commenting, because i am going to win. you should become a follower though, because she is SOOO talented.

wow~ i actually am posting!!

Ok, so i have been totally neglecting my blog. But hey, who really looks at my blog! i just had to follow everyone else and say i have a blog. So here i am, finally posting. A couple of months late, but anyway. I love "junk" shopping. it is one thing my husband and i can really enjoy doing together. At least i like when he is with, so he can pay for my loot!! anyway, i am really loving the vintage postcards, and when i found this one, i had to have it. who knows where it is now, as i am sure my mom either threw it away or burned it in the fireplace :( oh well. i used glimmermist,bling, and kraft paper and handmade flowers.

A CowBoY CarD f

Here is a super fast card that i put together for my second cousin's 90th birthday party. i used stamps from close to my heart and stamping up and tim holtz distress inks.

I have found my new FavOriTE CandY

yip yip, thank goodnes my computer decided to let me online tonight, because i was able to go look at the blogs i follow. I got to the second one, Creating from the heart, look on the left side for a link to her blog. You just might want to check out the blog candy Melissa has, i would never need chocolate again. i will still need my Coke though! this is really hard for me to share :( because i am stingy and the less that enter, the great my chances. just call me violet from willy wonka!

FINALLY A POST, AND IT IS A LAYOUT OF BEN

OK, SO I HAVE REALLY BEEN BLOG NEGLECTING. I HAVE NEGLECTED MY BLOG AS WELL AS THOSE THAT I VISIT ALMOST DAILY. SOMETIMES LIFE GETS AHEAD OF YOU. I HAVE BEEN VERY BUSY DOING LAYOUTS, VERSUS SURFIN' AND BLOG HOPPING. I THINK I HAVE GOTTEN ALMOST 8 PAGES (ALMOST) DONE IN A WEEK. THEY ALL NEED THE FINAL TOUCH, BUT I DON'T THINK I USUALLY GET THAT DONE IN A YEAR!!

THIS IS A PAGE I DID LAST MONTH OF BEN. BEN WAS ONLY 2.5 YEARS OLD IN THIS PICTURE. WHAT A SWEET CHILD I DO HAVE. I AM A BLESSED MOM! THE PAGE IS VERY SIMPLE BUT I LIKE THE WAY IT TURNED OUT. LOTS OF DISTRESS INK, ACRYLIC PAINT, AND GLIMMER MIST. THANKS FOR LOOKING!

ELiZaBeTh CaRviLLe and ELiZaBetH CarViLLe LyNN

Here is another layout of Ellie's baptism. This is my grandma holding her. They share the same name, other then the Lynn that i added to Ellie's middle names. My grandma was so important to me growing up and i love looking at this picture. The baptism outfit is the same one that my niece Brittany and Ben were baptised in. Prima paper, prima packaging, prima bling, prima flower, smooch spritz, craft supply flowers, and of course my VINTAGE flower center. I glimmer misted the craft flowers. I really love the Prima stitched paper...

Ellie's BAPTISM

Here is a layout of Ellie's Baptism. I have had this paper prior to even having a baby girl so i have had it for a while. It is not what i would typically scrap with now, but since i had it, i decided to use it. I had to glimmer mist it, to had a little messiness to it. Prima bling, flowers, and butterflies. AND A HORRIBLE PICTURE OF ME!!!!! actually i can not believe that i have posted this on the blog.

CtMH TopStiTcH MaKE anD TaKE

here is a super fun layout that Michelle Chikos who is a Close To My Heart consultant did for our monthly kit club. The paper pack is topstitch. Cathy from Altered Art had some luminiere paint that i had to streak across the page. It was to CLEAN for me prior to that. This picture of Ellie is one of her in my favorite outfits. We went to the circus last year, and she did not like it too much, so we played while my mom and Ben stayed and watched the circus. I spent this weekend a Michele's seriously scrappin fun retreat. It was PHENOMENAL!! I had soo much fun with my Friends. I won the BIG prize... Thank You Michele!!

HanGinG FrAMe

I saw this frame at the retreat in Chamberlain. Lynn with scrappin ladies had this as a class and i fell in love. The frame is from adorn-it, and it has a plexi center with vinyl wording about family. i am a little of a perfectionist and did not like how the letters transposed to the plexi, so i decided to make it a frame. This is one of my fav pictures of Ellie and myself, so i had to use it. The paper is from MME quite contrary line , the embelishment bling are prima, and i made the rose with core-dinations. All of those came from THE PLAYGROUND. Then the beads, man do i love vintage jewelry, and to top that off with a lovely vintage rose link from a necklace. I love love love how this turned out. Oh yeah, i am really into my glimmer mist, so i sprayed it with marshmellow!!

No ScRapPin Here~ BuTT FuNnY

No pictures for this post, butt hopefully a little laugh. As i am sitting @ the table tonight, making some pillow boxes for some breast cancer awareness bracelets the kids are playing outside. I have all of the windows open and can watch them outside and hear them. Well, at least i could hear them. I heard a lot of screaming laughter and looked out and saw 2 ladies walking their dog and laughing, and just prior to that a car drove by and just stared. I figured i better go check things out. There was my son, my sweet Ben, with a t shirt on, and nothing else. yep, he bent over, pulled his cheeks apart and gave the ladies, yet another full moon. Thats my BOY!! How do you not laugh at this????

Pink Paislee Mistletoe and SanTa

Paper is pink paislee mistletoe, man do i love this line. i have enough of this paper to make christmas and 4th of July pictures for the next 25 years! yes, i admit, i have a problem. and no, i am not ready for rehab yet! This was our visit to Santa this year, as you can tell, Ellie was less than impressed. and what a sweet bro, Ben was trying to comfort her.

PriMa STitChEd PaPeR~ I'm LoViN' IT

how fun is this prima stitched paper?? i absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE it. simple layout, yet it looks like it took a lot of work. Cathy @ the Playground will be getting some in, so others can have have the joy of playing with this mulberry, yep i said mulberry, paper!

I am BAAACK~ Boy DoES tiMe FLY

It has been a long time since my last post. i have been crazy busy. including going to the scrappin ladies retreat in chamberlain. i mainly worked on a birthday gift, but i did get a couple of other things started. i did finish a layout prior to the retreat, i took 10 nights of work. i believe it was well worth it.. the base paper is an orange piece of mme, that i layered music pages on, then covered with jenni bowlin white acrylic paint, and then distressed using tim's distress inks. i glimmer misted the paper and the chipboard faith word. it was a process, and in this process, the cat attacked faith and hence, the rip in the chipboard. i also used utee for the cross, and made a tule flower. then for the pearls, wow! i am loving my vintage jewelry stash.. the picture is of Ellie's hand/bracelet i had made for her baptism.

My HeROeS HaVe ALwaYs BeEn COWbOYs

This is Another one of my favorites, maybe because it has a picture of my dad. I will always be a daddies girl (and mommies girl), i just LOVE my parents. This is a special picture be #1: it is of my dad, and #2 it is out at the family ranch. Ben "helped" my dad pick the bales up out of the field. multiple different papers, grunge board shapes and letters, distress inks, heidi swapp acrylic paint and ALOT of DISTRESSING!! Most of the Supplies were bought @ the PLAYGROUND!

7 GyPSiEs TrAy~

I have been guilty of blog neglect, but i have been busy creating and getting my fingers DIRTY and STICKY. when i first saw this 7 gypsies tray, i HAD to have it. Thanks to Cathy at the PLAYGROUND, my i got it. And i LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!! this is probably one of my favorite things that i have made. i used some of my own vintage items, 7 gypsies, maya road, tim holtz, prima flower, and making memories vintage findings. Theses pictures are some of my favs. We typically go to spearfish fish hatchery on sundays in the summer and these were taken there.

My SeConD HyBriD

I really like this one. It was my first digital layout. I just love the simplicity. I added a distress stickles, prima butterfly and flower. along with one of my special little blings that i have. the ribbon and blue paper were left overs. Actually the ribbon was on my scrap table, i had put them on my christmas tags. So i thought hey, lets put it on.

My FiRsT HybRiD

This is my finished project!! not to bad. All of the digital elements were from two peas. Thanks!
Then i added a few primas, and i had the happy day sticker and bloom and grow stickers, ????. Of course bling! Check back soon for the other one. I LOVE it!

2nd DigiTaL

Wow, i figured out how to decrease the file size, so i could post my 2nd digital layout. i have printed these, however i did not like how my printer printed them, so i tweaked my printer and hopefully i can reprint them without lines on them. and of course the lovely rocket scientist that i am, i took the ones that i did print to work. do think i can remember to bring them home?? nope, i am sooo excited to get out of there, i would leave my keys, purse, phone and self behind if they were not all grouped together and needing the keys to get into and start the car. yep, i am blonde. some would say it is drugs, i am just a TRUE blonde!

AnoThEr DiGitaL~ TuRniNg HybRid

I did another digital page tonight, however, i am not computer savvy enough to be able to download it to my blog. It takes up tooo much memory or something of that sort. I will try to figure it out, but if anyone has the directions to decrease these, so i can download them, let me know. I have got my other digital page done with embelishments, and i am working on the second one.. so check back soon, because i will put them on here.

The Nook~

A little late here, but i just got around to checking out Leah Killian's blog and whoo hoo there is a blog hop. Her work is amazing, as are the Nook kits. i must say that i am a little jealous, as i found out about the Nook and told Tessa about it. She signed up, and here i am a year later and still not signed up. Maybe this is the time??? Will see if the ambien kicks in, oh wait i did not take it!! any way check out the blog by first checking out http://lifeaslou.blogsome.com/2010/01/08/my-scrapbook-nook-blog-hop/.

hERe ComEs BIG TROUBle

Well, i have been wanting to see what this digital craze is about. yep, i LOVE it.. i can now scrap in bed, and then i can print this out later and add some dimension to it. first page.

of course there needs to have some bling and a few other things, but i am cheap and these were all free downloads!!!! not too bad for a first time digital page. i forsee a lot of digital scrapping in my future.. ok i think it will be hybrid. but it was fun. getting my fingers DiRtY and sticky is alot more fun though!!

ChRisTMaS CarD~ Tim Holtz Stamps

Here is the other santa that Pat did not get to the garbage!! whoo hoo! i am soo addicted to the stamps from Tim Holtz as well as the distress inks. Thanks Cathy from http://alteredplayground.blogspot.com/ for all of the inspiration and instruction on how to use these products, as well as the ablitiy to BUY them from you!! even though, i dont get a short cut from her blog!!! and well, no one reads mine. but hey, i am following the trend.. at least i have one!! the other reason, is for me to easily show my kiddos off at work.

EllIe'S 2nD BirtHDaY

My Baby Girl turned 2 on the 28th of December. With all of the Christmas bustle, i decided to wait until this weekend to have a birthday party. It was a small party, my parents were in Minnesota watching the Vikings kick some rear, so i just had my sister and aunt over. The party turned out quite nice. I picked My Little Pony for the theme, not knowing how Ellie would like it! and Wow did she really like it. She picked her Ponies out of the cake that she wanted to eat, yes, i cut right into the middle of the cake, for my princess. I bought the cake image off of ebay, and that made this cake simple, simple to decorate. It was actually the quickest cake I have ever made.