The Graduate & Blog Hop

It's time for another blog hop for Bitten By the Bug. This week, Regina asked us to use the ribbon Paper Pups cart. The first thing I thought of was when Liberty graduated the Petsmart classes.


All you have to do is just leave a comment on my blog for a chance to win this set of Technique Tuesday stamps:


When you're done, please visit Penny's blog for another chance to win more goodies. I'll choose a random winner by Friday.

Thanks for stopping by. :D

Simply the Cutest Thing Around

CuHere's another cut from The Cutting Cafe. I think that arrow is so cute!

Winner of Cutting Cafe cuts

Random.org chose two winners. They are: Terri and Jaspere. Terri, I'll send you the pumpkin cut and Jaspere, I'll send you the school house cut.

Thanks everyone for all your kind comments.

Here's a layout:


I saved several tags from the school clothes this year.

My Mom is a fames scrapbook werker

I found that sentence on some of Trent's schoolwork. He was writing sentences about his home and his family.

Reading that made my day!

I asked him what made me a famous scrapbooker and he said, "'cuz you're really good!" Ok, everybody say, "awwwwwww....".

The layout below was ripped apart three times before I finally decided to just accept it. I worry and fret over every little detail of every page I do but in actuality, my son doesn't really care. He thinks my pages are awesome (fames) anyway.

Searching for the Perfect Pumpkin

Here's a new cut at The Cutting Cafe. Isn't that little pumpkin cute?

I'm doing a give away for both of these cuts! The School House cut is from my previous entry. Leave me a comment and I'll draw two winners on Sunday. Let me know which cut you'd prefer. :D

Back to School House

I am so excited to announce that I am now designing projects for Regina at The Cutting Cafe. Here is my first item:

The school house, the apple, the pencil and the "Welcome Back to School" title is all from her site. Check out all the great digi stamps she has.

Thanks Regina!

Also, I'm going to be giving away the Back to School House cut on Sunday. If you're interested, all you have to do is leave a comment on my blog. I'll let random.org will pick a winner.

Last week's card

Ooops, I forgot to upload last week's card for Bitten By The Bug.

We were to use the scallop tag from the Celebrations cart.

Girl Power

Flair Fresh & Fabulous

Free Sunday

No work today. Whew! It's nice to have a day off on a weekend.

We watched a couple movies today and now Erik is making hamburgers on the grill. Actually, he's making Juicy Lucys. I think it was a Man vs. Food episode where restaurants were putting cheese inside the burgers.

School started last Thursday. My youngest is now in Kindergarten. :(

Here are some layouts:

October Afternoon Ducks in a Row Katrina's teacher gave us this note the day before school started. I cried just reading it.

BasicGrey June Bug


Crate Orbit

Webster's Magical Wishes

Blog Hop winner

Sorry, I didn't get to this yesterday. I was sick and in bed most of the day.

Random.org chose Lisa as this month's winner! Congratulations Lisa and thanks everyone for stopping by and leaving a comment.

October Afternoon

If you're looking for the blog hop, it's in the post below.

Here are a couple October Afternoon layouts I completed today.

Cherry Hill


Road Map

Another Blog Hop with Candy

It's that time again! Bitten by the Bug is hosting a blog hop. Make sure you hit all the blogs and leave a comment.

Regina asked us to use the couple from the Going Places cart. Since I've been working all week with new Technique Tuesday stamps, they were the first thing I thought of when I saw the challenge she gave us.


New stamps are Oh, Brother!, Friends Forever and My Sister.

Leave a comment on my blog for a chance to win this:

Little Yellow Bicycle journaling cards and BasicGrey brads.

Now, go to Shelly's blog here for another chance to win.

I actually used this card

Most of the cards I make end up sitting in one of several ziplock baggies. It was my mom's birthday so I gave this one to her.

Regina from Bitten By The Bug asked us to use the cone from the Indie Cart. Stamp is Technique Tuesday

New Technique Tuesday

It's time for new stamps! I'm so excited to be showcasing some of these. I have three for now but I'll have more later this week.

Friends Forever set


Oh Brother! set

Favorite Memories by Ali Edwards set

See you later this week with more!

in the moment

I can't believe it's the 14th already. Where have I been? All I remember is that it's been very hot. I keep waiting for the rain but it's been pretty light so far this year.

Here are some layouts:


Dream Street Heartsong

My Mind's Eye Breaking Free Fruit Flavored
Technique Tuesday Piccadilly stamps
I cut the ice cream cone and the swirls on my Cricut.

Blog Hop Winner

Thanks everyone for participating in the Blog Hop! I have drawn a winner using Random.org.

Bonnie B wins that great set of stamps from Technique Tuesday.

A new card

I've been playing with one of Technique Tuesday's latest sets, Thanks for Everything. I love all the different fonts and ways to say "Thank You" that are included in this set. I also really like that it has a few verses for the inside of the card.



This card also uses Dew Drops. I think they're the coolest little embellishment. I just use a small glue dot to adhere them.

The patterned paper is the new Flair Fresh & Fabulous.

Oh, this card is also one that I'll be doing in my next class. We'll be doing some "Thank You" and a couple sympathy cards.

New Stuff and Favorites

If you're looking for the Blog Hop, it's in the post below.

Here's a layout I forgot to post from the stamp challenge I was hosting at Peek.

The challenge was to use stamps to make a border. I used Technique Tuesday Borderline Notions for the borders.

This is using the new Flair Fresh & Fabulous:

I cut the crown on my Cricut. The clear buttons have the Flair line underneath them with glitter on top. Old school. ;)

Now, here are my latest and favorite Cosmo layouts. ;)

That's it! Thanks for stopping by. Don't forget to leave a comment in the post below for your chance to win a great set of stamps from Technique Tuesday.

Blog Hop with Candy

It's time for another blog hop with candy from the Bitten by the Bug team. I have a great set of stamps from Technique Tuesday that I'm giving away this time.

Regina asked us to use the "Freedom" cut from Graphically Speaking. Here's my take below:

Just leave a comment on my blog to be entered into a random drawing at the end of the week.

Now, after you leave me a comment, please be sure to hop on down to Carole's blog.

Thanks for visiting!

Card Story

The kids love to make cards. They pull out a scrap piece of cardstock, use my Score-Pal and go to town. Trent's are usually complicated with lots of pockets and fancy folds. Katrina only folds hers once and for whatever reason, she always writes her name in big letters on the outside.

Right now she is making a card for Kiersten. Kiersten died over a year ago but she thinks I can somehow get this card to heaven. On the inside, it says, "I love you, Kiersten" and it is full of butterflies and flowers (some I drew for her), caterpillars and a sad face with tears.

Here are some layouts. I get some stuff done even though I've been so busy.


October Afternoon Ducks in a Row

Technique Tuesday stamps. I had a stamp challenge going on this month and this is one of the pages I did for it.


KI Memories Friendship


Another October Afternoon Ducks in a Row