PTI 6th Anniversary Celebration

This month I've been following the PTI Anniversary Celebration. I didn't have much time to join any of the challenges... up until NOW! We were supposed to find a photo on pinterest that inspires us to create a gift packaging project. I have lots of gift boxes pinned on pinterest, and I picked a very unusual one to share.

It all starts with....

Cut it up so that it looks like this:

There is a lot of room in there for a gift. I'm thinking of making these to give cookies to the neighbors next Christmas.

I used PTI product of course... the card you can see inside used the Heart-2-Heart #5 Mini Stamp Setand the Fillable Frames #4 Mini Stamp Set.

The label that I used for the packaging is from the Mat Stack 1 Collection Stamp Set and the 2011 Birthday Tags Stamp Set.

If you want to make one for yourself, here is the link on pinterest for the milk container box:
https://www.papertreyink.com/stamps/2011-birthday-tags-stamp-set/

Thanks for stopping by!

Project Life Marathon Training - Week 2

We just finished our second week of marathon training. Two weeks down and 16 weeks to go! It seems like such a long long time, but I'm sure it will go by before we know it. Here is the second week of training in project life:

And here is the free card of the week... click on the image to download.

My Favorite Things Challenge

I'm joining the My Favorite Things Stamp to Win Wednesday Challenge. I got my first set of MFT stamps called LJD Gift Card Greetings II and the coordinating Die-namics Gift Card Pocket die. Here is the card I came up with:

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you have a great weekend!

Project Life Marathon Training - Week 1

Week 1 of training is over, and here is my first training page for project life. There's nothing like a 6 mile run in the rain!

And here is my new marathon filler card. Click on the image below to get your free download!

One week down... 17 TO GO!!!

Project Life - The Road to a Marathon

There are so many digital goodies available for Project Life... journal cards, title cards, filler cards, photo templates, quote cards... But nothing themed to running or more specifically, a MARATHON! So I'm trying my hand at making some running related Project Life cards.

Here is my first one. This is going to go on my cover page. What do you think?

If you would like this card for your Project Life project, click the image above for a free download.

Enjoy!

Happy Birthday to Jim!

We had an unconventional birthday; celebrating with birthday cookies on Friday, and Big Boy ice cream sandwiches on Sunday at my folk's house.

That snowman is hiding a creeper board that he can use to slide in and out from under the truck.

Happy birthday, Jim!
I hope you enjoyed your weekend!

Project Life - Disneyland 5K

I have jumped into the Project Life fad with both feet, but unlike most, I decided to go digital... Yep, Digital Project Life! My Project Life book is going to focus on our 2013 goal --- Our FIRST Marathon (and in my case, my only marathon).

I haven't designed our cover page yet, but I'm working on it. The first page of this book is going to be about the Disneyland Never Land 5K. It's sort of the kick-off for our 18-week marathon training.

Here's my first page:

Stay tuned! More to come...

Disneyland 5K

It's our first race of the year, and aur kick-off to our 18 week marathon training! That's right! The kids and I are running marathon (more on that later). Last year the Neverland 5K was at night and included tickets to Disneyland. We spent the day at the park, and then ran a 5K trhough Disneyland and California Adventure after the parks closed. It was a BLAST. This year however, they changed it up. The 5K race does not include park admission AND the race is in the morning.

We had to leave the house at 4:30am to get to the race on time. At least it wasn't as cold as it has been... it was a balm-y 47F, haha. We left Jim at the gate to Disneyland. We entered Disneyland to start the race... Jim entered California Adventure to meet us at the finish line.

Here we are waiting to start at the END of Group C... We must have a castle picture:

It was so crowded being at the end of the group, that we were walking almost all the way up to "It's a Small World." It was still all lit up for Christmas!

It was exciting to run through the new California Adventure area "Cars Land." They had it all set up like downtown Radiator Springs:

We finished the race near the ferris wheel just in time to see the sunrise over California Adventure:

I hope that everyone had a wonderful long weekend!
It's back to work and school for us tomorrow!

PTI Make-it Monday

Today I'm playing along with the PaperTrey Ink Make It Monday #100 Challenge. The Challenge this week is to make a package for a card with oversized embellishments.

Here is the card I made using the 2011 Birthday Tags Stamp Set:

And here is the matching envelope madefrom a sheet of vellum:

I LOVE how pretty it looks together!
Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT MLK weekend!

The 12 Tags of Christmas

Last year I worked on one Christmas tag a month. By December I had 12 tags DONE! I LOVED having all my Christmas Tags done before Christmas!

This year I want to follow Tim's Holtz's 12-tags for 2013... my tags are so much fancier when I follow his tutorials. After all, I'm starting early, so I have the time!

Here is the link to Tim's post....
http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2013-january/

And here is my first Christmas tag of 2013:

Thanks for stopping by!!!

The Tiki Man Returns!

Happy birthday, sweet girl. We love you so very much.