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.