I haven't posted much at all this week.  I've just been a little overwhelmed.  I hope to get back to my regularly scheduled blogging come Monday with a fantastic (rainy) weekend update.

In the meantime, I thought I would post this card that I made for the secretary at our school who was having surgery.

Being cooped up for the last few days has given me the opportunity to catch up on a few things.  Like backing up my photographs, cleaning out  my closet and organizing my kids rooms.

I also had an opportunity to scrapbook middle G's 8th birthday party.  It was fun doing all the pool pics while the snow was falling.



Here she is with her pool shaped cake and the invitation I made.  I like to keep a copy for her book.  Someday she may get a kick out of looking at it.


The top picture is Middle G shooting out the water slide and the bottom photo is G and two of her classmates.  On the right hand side of the page are more party guests as well as little G.


More swimming pics including Grammie in the pool with the cousins.  The shark is from the life's a beach cricut cartridge as is the flamingo on the page before.



Here is a close up of the cake and the singing and blowing out the candles page.  I should have mentioned that the book is 8x8 so there really isn't a lot of room for a lot of photos.


More pics of guests.  This time they are eating cake.  The crab and the octopus are also from the Life's a Beach cartridge.



Look how happy G is opening her presents.  She had a blast and really liked the pink swim cover up and the shades.  LOL


Last page.  Finishing up gifts and wrapping up the party.  It was a lot of fun and the weather was fantastic.  Not a snow flake in the sky!!!

This is a layout featuring my kids and some others at a local pizza shop. We had a party and they all got to make their own personal pizza.

I had too many photos from this event. (obviously) However, I didn't want to cut anyone out. There are 20 photos on this page. Some have two beside each other. I know it is overwhelming, but I still like it and it's my book.

What is the most amount of photos you have ever used.

I had an urge to make some birthday cards this morning. Here is what I came up with. Let me know what you think.



The little chick is a dollar stamp and so is the little birthday hat. I used a Cuttlebug folder to do the Happy Birthday embossing. I really like how they turned out. Inside they say. "Tweet, Tweet. You're Sweet. Happy Birthday."

Here's another board book I made this week. This one is for my niece. She love soccer as much as my daughter.

Of course, Middle G saw the book and now wants one for her soccer pictures too.

I used the sports mania cricut cartridge to make the soccer ball and the title. Lovin' this cart.

What did you make this weekend? Leave me a comment and I'll be sure to check out your project!

It's Saturday and that time of the week to show off some of your crafts. This week, while my children were away, I had an opportunity to play around a little bit more with the Cricut Sports Mania cartridge. I have to say that the more I play with it the more I enjoy it.

Here is a picture of the baseball board book I was able to make for my nephew.


A few weeks ago, at the CK Convention my sister saw a similar item for sale and I told her I thought I could make it.

For those interested here's how.

On the Expression cut the baseball mitt as a blackout on chipboard with the deep cut blade. Do this twice at fit to page, which should come up as 11.5 inches.

Next you want to cut the images for the front of your book. For mine that includes, one 11.5 blackout image in white, one ball glove in light brown and one layer in dark brown.

Then you want to make your baseball player. Mine is grey and blue because those were his team colors. He is cut at 9 inches.

For the back of the book you want to repeat what you did to make the layers for the front but you want to use your FLIP button so the images will cut in reverse. This allows for the book covers to line up.

After you have completed the covers you want to cut the inside pages. My book has 10 pages cut using the blackout feature. My book is bound with the Bind-it-all, but you could bind it many different ways.

What did you make this week? I'd love to see your creations, please link you post below.

I love the way this page turned out! These pics are from 2007 and from our visit to Virginia to see my mom and step-dad. I had all sorts of Jolee die cuts I needed to use and really like the way the look on this page.

First I want to apologize for how late I posted this. I'm sure all my Eastern Time Zone buddies are long past looking at blogs for the night....okay, not long past. Maybe this is prime time blogging time for the weekend. Who knows. I'm rambling.





I'm posting pictures from 2007 when my kids and a bunch of my friends and their kids all went strawberry pickin'. MMMMMMMmmmmmm.....I like me some strawberries.


The paper is black cardstock and then I cut the pictures out to make a border. I found the strawberry paper at Michaels but I can't remember who made it. I'm terrible, I know. That was cut in one inch strips to make the inner border.




Thanks for stopping by today. Let me know if you made anything this week. I'd love to check it out.

For this weekend's Let's Get Crafty post I'm showing off some birth announcements I'm working on.

Of course, everything is last minute in my house and the baby shower is tomorrow. Hopefully the entire set will be complete.