12 Months of Scrapbooking

This Saturday is our first month for 12 Months of Scrapbooking.

My house (ask for directions)*** 2-4 **** $10 (if you complete all 12 months receive a 12x12 Album FREE)***RSVP required please***Bring you favorite January pictures so you can make the picture boxes fit better

Valentines Kids Class

I know this is totally late and please accept my apologies. I promise I am going to get caught up on my postings. I have so much to post so my plans is to post everyday for the next few days to try to get caught up.

I was bummed that I didn't get to hold my Valentines Day Kids class like I wanted to, all of this crazy snow was making us get the kids in as we could. Rayshawn came on a Monday afternoon and got his done, Maddie and Noah came Monday night got theirs completed Snow came on Tuesday (day of the class) and Ada (no pics, sorry Ada (you are a cutie)) got hers done on Thursday night at make and take with her moms help (that is why no pics :( ) Thank goodness Tiffani was able to look at the project and figure it out. I had others who just couldn't make it and that bums me but I will be having another class coming up for Easter. Date and project will be coming soon.

February 11 Club Meeting

I CASEd (create and share everything) this card from one of my favorite people Dawn Griffith's blog. I think she makes the prettiest cards. You can not see all the glitter but believe me it has it on there. We will be making this card on February 11 during our CLUB meeting. If you are interested in joining club this year there still is time and 2 spots open. Please contact me if interested and I will give you all the details. I will have directions of how to make this card after next weeks class.

Happy Birthday Thank You's

I know is post is forever late. Where has the past 2 weeks gone. "I know! I have been trying to keep ahead of future projects." Yep I have been working on them and both boys and myself was ill last week! Everyone is better now and I am a couple projects ahead, you will have to check back in the next day or so and I will have them posted.

Two weeks ago on January 21 I had a Make and Take and was hoping the night was going to slide right on by and no would know it was my 40Th birthday but someone let the cat out of the bag and told on me. (I won't mention any names Sheila) plus being on Facebook it was plastered on it too. Any way I had 16 women in attendance and it was such an awesome night. I was showered with cards, a cake, a couple of gifts and LOADS of LAUGHS.


This is the card I designed to thank everyone for one of the best night I think I have ever had and really needed. I truly have the best group of friends and stampers, some of them I have known for years and others just a short time but wow how blessed I am to have met all of them. Thank You everyone for an awesome 40Th Birthday.

Upcoming Classes

Make and Take Wednesday February 3 and Thursday February 4 we will be making these really cute mailboxes, using the new Sending Love Specialty paper from the Occasions Mini Catalog. I found the mail box at Target and fell in love with them. I knew you guys would too. I made this sample using a retired Designer Series Paper (DSP) that I had on hand. I will be making up another mailbox using the Sending Love DSP and the really cute Sending Love Epoxy Brads. So keep your eye on my blog to see how stinkin' cute they are.

If you have not noticed I added on a second day a week for Make and Takes. I am SSSOOOOOO excited to see I am filling up on Thursday Nights. For those of you who can make it on Wednesdays for the month of February and March. I will be having a special little gift (don't get to high of hopes of anything overly big) to show my appreciation for freeing up space on Thursdays for me to grow.

I am adding on Kids Classes this year as promised in my New Years Resolutions. My first one will be a Valentines Day class. February 9 6:30-8:30, $7.00 non club members $5.00 club members. All ages welcome I just ask if your child is under 8 please come with them to help them out. Please RSVP for this class. It should not take the 2 hours to finish but I wanted to make sure we had time if needed. My kids classes will be on a Saturday in the future, I just could not get it in my schedule for February (thanks to Coleton (Science Olympiad and Kelton (his acting lessons). Future classes will be set up in different age range times so older kids don't feel like they are working with little kids and the little kids are not over whelmed

January Club Technique- Using Rubber Cement

This month technique was actually better then

I thought when I first seen it. Once you practice a couple time you can figure out the feeling of the rubber cement. In this lesson I will try to point out the areas that I made the mistakes at first so hopefully you don't waste to much card stock.

Supplies needed: Glossy Card Stock, rubber cement (RC) (be prepared to show ID when purchasing. I giggled when they asked me for mine), Ink refill (we used Pretty In Pink & Real Red), Sponge (to apply ink), Whisper White card stock, Real Red card stock, Pretty In Pink card stock, 3/4" Grosgrain Ribbon, paper towel, and a adhesive remover to take up the rubber cement.

First step is to cut your glossy card stock to desired size we used 4 3/4 x 3 1/2. Take the brush that comes in the rubber cement (RC) and wipe off as much as possible so you only have a small amount on the brush. Apply random lines to the glassy paper. (be very careful not to put to much on. I used way to much on the first coat while practicing.) Remember the part where you put the first coat of RC is going to show up white on your finished product.

Once the RC is dry you want to take the lightest color of ink refill that you want to use. We used Pretty in Pink with a sponge cover the whole card stock.

You then will need to take another coat of RC and apply it to the card stock again. Apply it in random spots again. Remember where ever you put the RC this time will show the color you just applied.

Once the RC is dry again you want to take the second color of ink (we used real red) and apply it all over the card stock again.

Take a paper towel to wipe any excess ink off the card stock and either use the paper towel or an adhesive remover to remove the RC and TA DA you have a designed card stock.

Now you need to finish your card. We used Whisper White as our card base cut at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 folded in half. A piece of Real Red cut at 5 1/4 x 4, Pretty in Pink 5 x 3 3/4.

For the smaller pieces be used a piece of Real Red 2 1/2 x 2 1/4, Pretty in Pink 2 3/4 x 2 1/2 and Whisper White 2 1/4 x 2

Here is how the class projects turned out. I think it is neat to see how different each one looks. I LOVE this technique. I hope you enjoy it too.

Northmont's Science Olympiad

Coleton is participating in a school event called Science Olympiad. He is loving every second of it so far. This group has to study different science topics and build different contraptions to do what ever the rules call for. As most of you know Coleton is my inventor of the group and loving this part of it. I really wished I knew how to make studying this fun for him in every subject.

This past weekend Northmont had their invitational, I am not really sure how many kids participated and exactly how many schools. I just know there was a boat load of people and about 17 schools and some schools had 2 teams. This is not only middle school, high school is included so make sure you double the numbers stated above. This picture just shows a sampling of how many people was here.

Brian (another parent) helped get the trophies and metals ready. He was feeling like a failure so he wanted to boost his own ego and pretended he won it all. If you knew him we would be glad that it was only pretend haha. Gotta love Brian.

Coleton did not have all of his events completed and dialed in like he would like them so he did not take his, the only one he took was his Junkyard Challenge and that will be talked about shortly.

Coleton help assist in a couple of extra events, one was Elevated Bridge and the other was Trajectory. Since this was his first competition ever he wanted to help out where ever needed and to get a feel of being watched by judges.

Coleton event that was his was Junkyard Challenge. His rules stated that he had to have a golf ball, 4 mouse traps and needed to come up with a device to set off all 4 mouse traps in a North, South, West, East pattern. Believe me I am so glad he has a coach to help him haha. He did not do as well as he would have liked to but considering it was a first he got 10th out 17 competitors.



Coleton I am very PROUD of you. Keep up the good work.

Wish him luck, his next invitational is on the 23rd at Centerville.