A few things from the retreat

Ok, I know it's been over a week, but I finally got around to taking pictures of some of the stuff I did at the retreat last weekend. It was a GREAT time!! Getting to spend a whole weekend with my sister was awesome! It was way overdue!! We went for drinks on Friday night and spent all of Saturday and some of Sunday scrapping and just catching up! Kris was awesome too!! Such a sweetheart! :) Here are some of my favorites projects from the weekend.

Criss-Cross Card- This was for a challenge at the retreat to use at least 2 things from the goody bag we got.

This is my favorite layout of the weekend. Justin and his lil buddy Gabe! :)

Gotta love the kid that wants to learn to ride Daddy's old skateboard!

This was for the monochromatic challenge.

These were the cards I made in a class I took. We made 4 cards and a "box" for them. Super cute! I definitely see myself using these as gifts in the near future!

Lora from Scrapaholic Retreats did an awesome job planning a super weekend! I can't wait to do it all again in April!

Happy Monday!

Happy Monday everyone! I had such a great weekend scrapping with my sister and Kristin at our retreat! It was my first ever retreat and Michelle and I are already planning on going back in April (Kristin, you definitely need to come too!!) I promise I'll post pictures of what I did later. But before we talk about what I did this weekend.....

Today is the first challenge over at Paper Therapy! I'm so excited. The Design Team did a GREAT job. This week's challenge was a sketch (my favorite kind of challenge!!) and here's my take on it. I just love this lil monkey stamp! :)

Every Monday there will be a new challenge posted over at Paper Therapy. C'mon over and check it out! Since this is the first Monday of the month, there's even a chance to win a prize! Woo-hoo!! Hope to see everyone there! Have a great Monday! And I promise I'll be back soon to tell you all about the retreat!

Only 2 more days!!

Just two more days until I leave for my scrap retreat! I'm so excited! I get to spend a whole weekend scrapping with my sister and meet Kristin from Paper Therapy! Speaking of Paper Therapy, my first Design Team project is due on Friday! It's turned in (WOW! I really finished something EARLY?!?) and will be revealed on Monday! I'm so excited. Some of the other DT members have submitted their cards too and I'm gonna tell ya, it's some pretty cute stuff!! In the meantime, I did manage to create a Halloween card for PT's Card of the Month contest. I think it turned out pretty cute! ;)

Alright, that's all for now. I've got a tired soccer player who's ready for bed (even if he doesn't think so!) ;) I need to start packing!! UGH! Is it ok if I take ALL my stuff with me to the retreat?!?

A New Life

Thanks to Kristin and Stacey over at Paper Therapy, my blog is getting a new life! I have been selected as a member of their Design Team for the next 6 months! Woo-hoo!! I'm really excited! I've never applied for a DT before and when I saw the call for this one, I figured "what the heck?!" Nothing to lose, right? So for the next 6 months, I'll be posting at LEAST weekly! I can't wait for you to see the awesome challenges that Paper Therapy has planned!

I'm pathetic!! *hangs head in shame* :(

Ok, so April 18th was my last blog post. Let's not talk about how that was like 4 months ago!! Life has been busy, I've become a Facebook addict, and well, really, I'm just a blog dork! I've spent the last month or so scrapping for other people and last night I actually did a layout for me!!! Woo-hoo!! Hopefully I'm getting some mojo back!

So my friend Jenny is on a Design Team for a fun new blog. It's called Candy Shoppe Designs. It looks like they're going to have tons of fun challenges (yay for motivation!!) and give away lots of really cool prizes! All you scrappy ladies should go check it out! C'mon! You know you want to! And leave a comment...tell them I sent you! It'll give me more points for their monthly drawing! ;)

Ok, well, off to go scrap something...or maybe go watch Big Brother...yeah, that's what I'm going to do...gotta love the DVR! ;)

Scrappy pics

So here are the pictures of the things I did a while ago, that I said I would add forever ago! I'm so terrible about this! I mean, seriously...it takes 5 minutes to blog! I'm so lazy! :) Anyway, I think both projects turned out really cute! The expecting momma liked the baby book and Dave took the names to my sister in law today! Hope she likes them!

Not a whole lot going on around here. The weather has been nice the last few days and it's supposed to be nice again today. Dave is busy helping his sister move today, so I think I'm going to take Justin for a walk. Well...he'll ride his bike and I'll chase him! :) Maybe we'll go out to lunch too... Not that I need it! We went out to dinner last night for my birthday and I had a yummy dinner (with fries!), ice cream at Applebee's (Justin told the waitress it was my birthday...too cute!) and then we went for ice cream afterwards since I was the only one that got some at dinner....yes, I had ice cream there too! Oops! So much for that diet thing....calories consumed on your birthday don't count, right?!?! ;) Hopefully while Justin is napping I can get some scrappy stuff done! I have a layout that I started the other day and still haven't finished!! It's making me crazy! I hate having unfinished layouts laying around! Happy Saturday!!

Is it Friday yet???

This seems like such a long week! Maybe it's cause I know mom and dad are coming tomorrow...maybe cause the first few days of the week were so gloomy and cold...I dunno. Anyway I look at it, I'm ready for Friday!!

Nothing too exciting going on here. Did a little bit of Easter shopping this week...hope the Easter Bunny left a basket from last year in the attic...got my hair chopped :) made a baby shower gift for a friend...cyber shopped for treadmills...pretty boring! I think we're going to go get a new treadmill tomorrow. We've (ok, Dave) has been using ours quite a bit lately and it's been acting really crazy. He blew out the motor about a month ago and it just hasn't been the same since the replacement came. Dave was running this afternoon and the thing shut itself down on him for the last time!! He was running at 7.5 miles an hour and it just stopped (again!). Needless to say, the redneck came out in him and the busted up piece of crap is now in the back of his truck waiting to be taken to the dumpster at the fire station!!

I've been a bad scrapper lately and haven't done any layouts of Justin! I did make some letters for Cole and Calebs' rooms and a baby shower gift for a friend. I think they all turned out cute! I'll have to post them later cause Blogger is giving me a big ol' error message...nice!

So all my scrappy friends, what should I buy? My fantastical friend Carrie got me a gift card for Hobby Lobby cause I've been watching her girls on Thursday nights. As much as I would like a Big Bite, I'm not sure I would use it enough to want to spend the money on it. Same goes for alcohol inks. I think they look cool, but I've never done them before. Whatcha think??