A Boy and His Phone

Sometimes, it feels like Ethan is constantly on the phone. So, one day while we were riding trax i decided to capture his obsession. I then created this simple page to highlight my feelings. = ). I think the Scenic Route letter paper really brings out the idea of texting. Finally I have a lot of rub-on letter that don't have a lot of letters left int hem. But, after combining all of them I think I came up with a fun hodge podge design. I actually think that I like the crazy title better than I would if it actually all matched.

Blood Donors Wanted

About two years ago I was looking up ideas for Halloween titles for scrapbook pages and stumbled across the saying "Blood Donors Wanted". Even though it didn't work for the page that I was working on at the time, I thought that it was an awesome idea for some kind of Home decor Project. Finally, I made a project with the saying for Halloween this year, and I think that it is coming out cute. A little plain, but cute. I think I'm going to do a couple more layers of Mod-Podge and then add some "bling" or something else. If you have any helpful inspiration to help it pop a little I would love suggestions.


I used a Canvas Panel for the base of this project. I got the idea from my sister-in-law Kory. She made us this super cute version using photos of Ethan and I for our family's gift exchange last Christmas.Even though I had seen these in the store before I had never given them any attention. Thanks Kory. Before I attached anything else I painted the whole canvas orange. The image of the vampire and the Bloody font I used on "Wanted" come form the Cricut Happy Hauntings Cartridge. The words "Blood Donors" comes from the Sesame Street Font cartridge.


I really do love this and can't wait to hang it!

My Harvest Angel

I just found these pictures as I was downloading my camera. I had totally forgotten about them.

So before I hung up my fall wreath I couldn't help torturing Ethan with it first. Of course it wasn't enough to just torture my poor hubby, I also had to take pictures. I'm so thankful that Ethan is so patient with his momentary torture. I might feel like a bad wife, except for the fact that the pictures turned out so cute. Except for the clenched teeth, he does look like some kind of ancient Harvest Angel.

Cricut Craft Room

Okay, so nothing to show today, but I still have something crafty to share. For those of you with a Cricut (or a Cricut Create) Provo Craft is developing a new program for use with their Personal Cutters. If you have ever used the program Cricut Design Studio you know that it isn't always the easiest thing to do. Similarly, although they made a lot of improvements, the Gypsy wasn't much better. But, all of that is being solved with the new program Cricut Craft Room. Now we can do everything in just one program. Best of all you don't have to buy a $150 machine! Right now you can download and use this program for FREE!!!!

Just go here and get started: http://www.cricut.com/craftroom/

Enjoy.

Halloween Stacker

Okay, so this is my last post for today. last night we had an unofficial ward craft night. I would like to say thanks to Amy for inspiring us, Melissa for inviting us all into your home, and cutting all the wood for us, and thanks to all the other wonderful women in our ward for coming. I have had so much fun getting to know you all over the last few months, and, of course last night continued that trend!

Most everyone used the design Melissa came up with (one more thing I'm thankful for), but ever since I saw the original inspiration, I knew that I wanted to use up some more of my scraps. I just didn't know that I was going to be the rebel crafter of the night. So the picture here is of my project, and I will up load another pic once I finish my second one. Finally, thanks to all the girls who brought ribbon (Anna, April, and maybe others?) The ribbon really tops the whole thing off nicely.

The fonts I used for the top two tiers of my stacker are from the Halloween Haunting cartridge and the font on the bottom is from Opposites Attract.

Fall Wreath

I loved my summer banner so much that I could help but to make another one. This one is for the fall, and so it isn't quite as bright, but I still think that it is super cute.

I used a lot of scraps and just one piece of new paper from the Imaginisce fall line. For me, it was nice to be able to use up some of the scraps that I have been collecting since our move here. I don't know who keeps coming into my room and cutting up paper, but I already have a lot of scraps. That really is a surprise to me since I decided when we left Utah that it would be silly to pack up and move all of my scraps. So, if you look close you will see that a number of the papers are used only once since a number of them were small strips.

I used buttons to cover up the centers of my medallions on this wreath.

Summer Home Banner and Wreath

Now that we are officially setting up house here in Texas, I decided that we needed a little something something to really make our apartment home. Therefore, in true crafter style, I decided that our new decorations would have to be home made.


Okay, I know that the first thing that you think of when you hear the word "wreath" isn't summer, but i saw this idea in the new Stampin' Up Mini Catalogue and I knew that I had to try it.


First, I made the home banner using some retired Stampin' Up DSP and coordinating cardstock. When I went to cut out the triangle shapes I was shocked (and slightly appalled) that of all the Cricut cartridges I own, I didn't have a single cartridge with a bloody triangle!! There isn't even a triangle on the Accent Essentials cartridge! In the end, I found a good compromise for the triangles. I used the piece of pizza on the Simply Charmed cartridge. Then I made a medallion to go behind each letter. Finally, I used Storybook to cut out the letters. I don't know if I just use too much glue int he middle of my medallions, but some of mine have big ugly centers. I used the letters to cover up the centers of the medallion. This is why a couple of my letters look like they are off center.



I cut all the scraps to 1-3 inches each. Then using my Score-Pal, I scored each strip at 1/2 inch intervals. It takes two stripe of the same width to make each circle, so be prepared to do a lot of scoring. I did mine while catching up with my Tivo recordings. Finally, once everything is scored, you just do alternating mountain and valley folds along the score lines.Finally, glue the ends of the two strips together (I used hot glue) and then add more glue in the center to make the circle shape.


Sorry, if this explanation isn't very clear. I will try to create a step-by-step demo so you can really see the process. This is really a pretty easy project, and as you can see from the pictures. I think it makes a big impact.

Welcome to Texas

Okay, so it has been a long time since I have blogged, in fact I had given up on my blog, but I have turned the corner and decided to try this out again. Especially since I like to look at other people's blogs online and get ideas, I decided that it was only fair to give a little bit of my inspiration and/or "Scraplifting" back.

And, to be honest, I have been missing a lot of my old Utah friends, and so I'm hoping that this will be a better way to stay in touch with all of the people out there that I miss. And love.

So, in short, here we go again. Welcome to a little bit of paper crafting, and little bit of sewing, and lot of our life here in Texas as we start to try to find our place int he world. Again