Vinyl Tumblers and Water Bottles

I didn't have any spare time to participate in challenges this week. I am deep in the final stages of 250 elephant shaped wedding programs. I handed off 200 this evening to my friend to tie bows. I only have 50 left to print, which means another 150 pages. There is nothing complicated about the program, just layers upon layers, upon layers.

To keep my sanity, I took an hour break to fill some tumbler orders.

1) Lakers is for my husband. I was supposed to make this the minute I tried vinyl for the first time, but a few orders came in quickly. He was smiling from ear to ear. He sent me back to my corner to add the jersey numbers of some of their greatest players. Lakers logo was an image file that I broke apart using SCAL.

2) Cowboys belongs to my big brother. His birthday is Wednesday and this will not be making it to the post office in time.

3) Papa Smurf belongs to my dad for his birthday next week. It's going to be filled with Tootsie Rolls. He and I watched the Smurfs together faithfully on Saturday mornings from 9a - 10:30a. He took the grandkids to see the movie. This is an svg file that I downloaded from Mardenz Blog.

4) Tumbler. Turtle is a cricut cut.

CTO Challenge 23

I am so swamped with tumblers, water bottles, and wedding programs, that I barely have time to see the floor in my scraproom. Seriously, it was crazy in here. I just spent the last hour reminding myself that there is carpet underneath it all. Now it's fairly clean. In between wedding programs, I took a second to participate in the Blue & White Challenge over at Celebrate the Occasion.

I made a Christmas Party Favor:

Platinum Scraps Team A July LO 2

The Layouts are in full effect this week at Platinum Scraps. The Design Team had to create a layout, using inspiration from this sketch by Sketchy Thursdays:

Here's my take on it:

Invite and Place Cards

There is a bulletin board at work that I get to decorate from time to time. Nothing big but a place to post pictures of our events. But, once a year on my 9 - 5, I get to put my love for scrapbooking to use for a few days and get paid for it! We have an Employee of the Year awards ceremony and I'm always part of the decoration committee. This year, I volunteered to do the programs because I was tired of the same old style (8.5 X 11 paper folder in half). The top honoree chose the colors black, white, and fuschia, mixed with her love for shoes.

Christmas in July 2

Over at Celebrate the Occasion this week, they are still celebrating Christmas in July. This week, you had to create a shaped card. I kept my entry simple since I have yet to get a handle on making holiday cards this early. Here is my entry:

Not sure if you can tell, but the snowflake has been embossed using the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder, and the tips of the snowflake have diamond stickles on them.

Platinum Scraps July Team B Card Sketch

I decided to hang out with Team B over at Platinum Scraps this week. The challenge was to create a card using this sketch from Pagemaps.

Here's my take on it:

Christmas in July

Over at Celebrate the Occasion this week, it's Christmas in July. The catch, you cannot use red. I hardly ever make my Christmas cards with red (only once in 5 years), so this was a piece of cake. Minus the fact, that I can't even think about Christmas cards this time of year. Here is my challenge entry:

Try it out Thursday!!

Happy Friday Eve!!!! For my weekly followers, you may remember I've mentioned my "Things to try" in 2011 list. At the beginning of the year, that list included 2 things: Tshirt Vinyl and Glass Etching. Over the last few months, you know I have fallen in love with tshirt vinyl. So, this post checks off the other "try" item of the year; glass etching. I watched my friend Lisa tackle this before my very eyes. She was so patient and cautious as it was her first time. A few trials and she got it. I thought, "oh Lord, do I really want to do this." Yes, I must check it off my list. So, below is my first attempt. I had a few slips of the vinyl and I"ve never been a painter, but tadaaaaaa...

Ingredients: Cricut Machine, Armour Etching Cream, foam brush, skinny vase, white vinyl, thick popsicle stick, and transfer tape.

Now, we are 6 months away from a new year and my 2011 list has grown by 2 more techniques: Paperbag Album (which I've done 4 already) and something with canvas. Stay tuned for that one..

Platinum Scraps Team A July LO 1

Layouts, oh layouts, wherefore art thou layouts? It seems like forever since I completed a layout. Especially one I actually intend on using in an album. This week at Platinum Scraps, Team A had to create a layout, using the following sketch from PageMaps:

Here is my take on it:

Be sure to hop on over to Platinum Scraps to see what my fellow designers did with the same sketch.

More Vinyl Tshirts

Tomorrow we celebrate the Indpendence of America. What I also love about this holiday, is seeing the sky all lit up with fireworks. Luckily for my kids, we get to hang at PaPa's house where we are able to light out own fireworks as soon as the night sky arrives.

All I wanted to do this weekend was relax. I did just that but I had a few projects that had to be finished and delivered today; especially since I just got 10 more water bottle / tumbler orders today, for my church fundraiser.

Vinyl for days....

Happy Friday Bloggers!!!!!

I've been quite busy over the last 2 weeks. I am part of a fundraising team at church and for my project, decided to sell water bottles. I'm having fun with all this vinyl but that means nothing else is getting done. The men in my life will be shocked if they open a store bought card for Father's Day but it's looking likely. LOL!!!

Along with the fundraisers, I'm also in the final stages of planning my church's annual women's retreat. The committee had their final meeting yesterday. Every year, the committee donates gifts to use as giveaway prizes during the retreat. Since I was already playing with vinyl, I kept right at it and made 2 tumblers as my giveaway. The image is our logo this year along with our theme.

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT weekend!

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Platinum Scraps Team A June LO

This week's layout sketch was designed by Leialoha of Platinum Scraps. I haven't done an interactive layout in a while, and as soon as I saw the file folder, an idea quickly came to mind.

CTO Challenge #16

"School's Out" over at Celebrate the Occasion this week. I'm sure kids and teachers are counting down everywhere. I'm counting down to a long summer homework break. Homework wiped me out this school year. Anyway, here's is my challenge entry (guidelines stated that an apple must be present)"

150 Followers....BLOG CANDY GIVEAWAY

Happy Saturday Everyone. Thanks to each and every one of you, I made it to 151 followers. I don't want to ever take you and the time you spend on my blog looking, getting an idea, or leaving comments. I appreciate it. Because I spent so much of last month celebrating me, I want to take this time to CELEBRATE YOU!!!!!

This month is Father's Day and those close to me will tell you, I am a true, certified, daddy's girl. For the majority of my life I was raised by a single parent... dear 'ol dad!!! I think my dad is the BEST in the world.

One of my favorite memories is seeing my dad sitting up front with his camera around his neck and tears in his eyes, as he watched his favorite child (yes, I said favorite and he agrees, just don't tell my brothers) march down Constitution Avenue, shaking my pom-poms or twirling my baton. He was so proud. What tickled me was this was an annual parade but he cried every year like it was the first time. I think by High School he was good.

One of my favorite pasttimes with my dad was watching Football and Basketball. He even sent a note to school saying I had an appt, so I could leave early to watch Georgetown in the NCAA tournament. Ahhhh, the good 'ol days.

On to the GIVEAWAY... I'm giving away the All Sports Cricut Cartridge.

Leave a comment telling me a favorite memory with your dad or a father figure in your life. I will pick a winner next Wednesday.

Still Celebrating!!!!

Hello All,

Things have been busy in my world!! Yesterday, hubby and I celebrated our 11th Anniversary. Woohoo!!! We didn't do anything special, but we spent the entire day together. I also have 3 other married couple friends celebrating their anniversary this weekend as well. Here is a project ordered by one of the couples.

Now, about that RAK.. My life has really been on auto pilot this week, so my RAK will be coming next week. Have a GREAT holiday weekend!

Reason to Celebrate!!

Hello friends and family!!! I was hoping to get some crafting finished over the weekend but.... Today is my BIRTHDAY!!! I spent all Friday running around in order to prepare for my get together on Saturday. Sunday, the family and I were invited to a friend's house for dinner. Today, I've been home all day watching movies. DVR is a beautiful thing because I never get to watch movies on a regular basis.

I was hoping to do a RAK today (my 1st blog ever), but I never made it back to the store in time to pick it up. But, I'd love to still know what is your favorite birthday memory? Stay tuned for a possible RAK later this week. This year I was able to spend time with a great group of a ladies, over Sunshine and Seafood!!! Yummy crabs and fried fish. LOL!!

Mother's Day Finale

Most of the cards and gifts have been delivered, so I wanted to finally share a few of the other cards I made. Also adding in a paperbag album. This is my 2nd one and I didn't have pictures from before, so I made sure to snap them this time. I really enjoy making these and I wish I had a few more reasons to make more in the near future.

This week, I need to play catchup on 3 separate projects that were pushed to the side. Let's hope I conquer them by Saturday night.

My First Digital Layout

As I continue on my quest of learning new things, I decided to try my hand at a digital layout. It seems strange to say that I have never done one in the 9 years that I've been scrapping. I really enjoyed giving this a shot and my Cover Girl in the photo made it easy.

Mother's Day 2011

Next week, Mother's will be honored everywhere. I hope that you all honor your Mother all year long and not just one Sunday in May.

On to my project. Yesterday, I had some friends over for a little scrapping. A month ago, I challenged two of them to pick something ahead of time and only bring those items. I also had to challenge myself, although all my supplies were in the house with me. We each chose our weapon and away we went. LOL!!! Of course, I chose Mother's Day and Vinyl. My project is playing along with Celebrate the Occassion this week. Now, let's just hope the recipients don't check my blog this week.

My project: Flameless Wax Candles

These were quite the challenge because the vinyl didn't go on so easy, even with transfer tape. I'm certain it was because of the wax but I kept at it. The large pieces of vinyl went on a lot easier. I attached the flowers, using a glue gun.