It's Card Kit Time!

Welcome to Card Kit Club 2013! We have 10 ladies in the club this year... 10!!! These are all wonderful ladies who I've had the good fortune to meet at Scrappin' Mojo. Wait until you see all the talent and inspiration!

It's time for our first Kit Club reveal. This month's kit was put together by Beth! It was full of Valentine sweetness:



Here are the cards that I created:



In this card, I used everything that grabbed my attention first: the doily, tissue paper, ribbon, beads and roses. I created this one for Beth's Challenge at Scrappin' Mojo:





Now I needed a Valentine card for a boy, so I combined my stamps with Beth's stamps, doily and cute PP, and came up with this:





I lifted this card from Pinterest. I had some cute BG heart paper that worked perfectly with Beth's PP and beads. This is created for Stella's challenge at Scrappin' Mojo:





The flower stamps were just screaming "STACK ME!" So here's a card with an amazing stacked flower. I just love the colors that Beth picked for this kit!





Be sure to checkout the creations from the other ladies:

Beth - bethiejs.blogspot.com
KimP - http://www.scrappinmojo.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=218
Diane - mumblebeedesigns.blogspot.com
Terri - jazzyscrappertidbits.blogspot.com
Mary - justanotefrommary.blogspot.com
KimO - http://www.scrappinmojo.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=218
Jan - http://www.scrappinmojo.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=218
Niki - ellenaspaperhouse.blogspot.com
Mara - loveyourmotherearth.blogspot.com

Well, that's it for this month! Thanks for dropping by!

February [be creative] Unity Challenge

I just adore the creative images on Unity stamps! I especially LOVE the Itty-Bitty's... and cute image and and equally cute saying.

Anyway, over at Unity, they have created a new challenge blog. A new challenge will post the second Thursday of each month. This month, was a sketch.



For this card I used a cute Itty-Bitty stamp set called How's it Rollin'. I didn't use the cute saying. This time I combined the image with some old stickers by Fancy Pants. I thought it would make a nice Father's Day card.

Thanks for looking and I hope you have a great day!!!

Project Life Marathon Training - Week 3

We have just finished week 3 of Marathon Training. Here's our page. I'm bummed that our picture is blurry, but it's the only one I have, so it will have to do...



And here is this week's free card. It's an overlay in PNG format, so you can add your own photo or pretty patterned paper behind it. Just click on the image to download:



Happy running, everybody!

Happy Birthday, Ran & Cat!

My brother and sister-in-law have birthdays which are only a couple days apart. This year we had a nice family gathering at my folk's house to celebrate with one of my mom's FABULOUS lunches and a piece of birthday PIE!

Happy Birthday, Ran & Cat!

12 Tags of Christmas

Welcome to the February edition of the 12 Tags of Christmas!

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

And here is my second Christmas tag of 2013:

Thanks for stopping by!!!

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.

A Random Day

How about a day starting with a morning of ice, a trip through the snow to the desert where we saw a giant sea serpent AND a life and death battle between a grasshopper and a scorpion?

It's just a typical New Year's Eve in Southern California, haha!

So, Cheryl and I started with an early morning run... 5:30am and 37F! It was COLD! The grass and roofs were frosted, and the cars were covered in ice.

While we were gone, Jim was packing up the truck for our trip to the desert.

This is a trip to the DESERT? We certainly didn't expect SNOW!

WELCOME to the Anza Borrego Desert!

A rich guy whose family made their millions by inventing Post-Its paid to have these huge metal statues put up to generate tourism to the little town of Borrego Springs. The statues are scattered throughout the town... it's like being on a scavenger hunt.

Here is the sea serpent. It's HUGE... its humps span the highway!

We also liked the grasshopper vs the scorpion...

Here's Team Grasshopper:

... And here's Team Scorpion:

We also did a little 4-wheeling while we were out there:

Thanks for joining us on our typical Southern California Day!

Happy New Year!

Welcome 2013!
All photos were taken on my Galaxy TAB. I love how easy it is to post to the blog using the TAB!