My Crafting Adventures

Just letting you know...

2009-04-20T10:25:00.002-07:00

... about a blog candy giveaway on Debbie's blog! She's giving away a bunch of great stuff! =)

Wow, I actually posted two days in a row. Amazing! =P LOL!

Popping in...

2009-04-19T22:26:00.004-07:00

... to say "hi".

I love the simplicity of these cards. I made two sets of "simple" 3x3 cards a couple of weeks ago. I made a green set and this pink set. I REALLY liked the green set and I was too lazy to take pictures of it and it sold at the neighborhood event we attended this weekend. I should have taken a picture!! Good thing they were simple... it shouldn't be very hard to make another set. =)

These cards are pretty straight-forward:

- Cameo Coral CS

- White textured CS

- Choc. Chip ink

- Ruby Red ink

- Fundamental Phrases (HI THERE)

- Botanical Blooms (from Sale-a-Bration)

Card size is 3"x3". I inked the edges directly with the ruby red stamp pad. That just darkens and defines it a bit. Botanical Blooms is a two-step stamping set, so I stamped the filler with Ruby Red and the outline with Choc. Chip ink. The sentiment was then stamped with Choc. Chip ink. and the white textured square was dimensionaled onto the front of the card. =)

Anyway, thought it was about time I stopped back in here to update this forgotten blog and say something on it! So I said "hi!" and now I'm saying "bye"! =)

I'm Still Here!

2009-03-07T00:42:00.004-07:00

Wow! It has been a lot time since I have posted on here! I have not had time for digital scrapping and I don't think I will for some time. My mom and I have been keeping ourselves busy with our little Etsy shop and local classes here in our little neck of the woods, along with LIFE! =)

Today I worked at the smoothie shop that my husband and I own. We are short-handed on Fridays, so I'm the fill-in! LOL! One of the employees asked me today who I was working for and another employee said, "No one! She's on the schedule!" Well... let's hope not for too long. ;-)

As far as crafting goes, we had our first real custom order last month for a wedding guest list book/album and it was quite an endeavor, but it was very rewarding to complete and send off! I haven't heard back from the bride-to-be yet, but I did send her pictures and she was very happy with those! Here's some pictures so you can get an idea of what we made for her!

Freebie Find Friday #5

2009-01-23T17:13:00.003-07:00

Wow, I'm actually keep up with this and posting a freebie! The freebie this week come from Chanin Mettey's kit called Cora's Best Friend. There are a couple of QP freebies with elements and paper from the kit. Below is one of them. Click on the picture to go to the post where you can download the QP's!!

What I've Been Busy Doing...

2009-01-20T07:30:00.001-07:00

So I haven't been updating this blog very much! I haven't had a lot of time to digi-scrap, but I've been working on other crafting so I'll share some of that!

Here's some love notes I've made for the Etsy store that I share with my mom. I made a set of pink and a set of rose red. Don't you love the gold?!

Of course, most of the materials used for these are from Stampin' Up! Have you seen the new catalog? There are some cute ideas in it for sure and I also spotted a new border punch that is so sweet!

TFL! Have a nice day! =D

Oh, BTW, I realized I never posted a freebie for Friday... will post one this coming Friday. =P

Better Late Than Never...

2009-01-17T00:28:00.003-07:00

Alright, I got a page done with FFF#4. I know it's almost an hour past Friday, but I got it done and here it is:

I used the papers and elements instead of the QP. I loved the tree in the background and found this picture of Jacob and my dad. It just made me thankful that Jacob has someone like my dad to look up to, not because of who my dad is exactly, but WHO he believes and trusts in. In case you can't read the text on the page, the following is the journaling and the verse:

"I am so glad that my son has a grandpa like my dad. He is strong like a tree, whose roots go deep in the ground. My dad has built his life on Christ, the Solid Rock. Jacob is a tender sapling, learning how to grow. He has people around him to point him to the Lord. People like my dad."

"Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose trust is in the Lord. For he will be like a tree planted by the water, that extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes; but its leaves will be green, and it will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield fruit." Jeremiah 17:7-8

Being a flake again...

2009-01-09T09:52:00.001-07:00

Well, as you can see, I have nothing new to show you... and it's Friday! Yikes! Well, I am going to drag this on another week and that will give me some more time to make something with last week's FFF. I'll catch you later!

Freebie Find Friday #4

2009-01-02T11:13:00.003-07:00

I found this really nice freebie that has a QP option or elements to make your own page. I'm not sure what I'll end up doing this week yet. Here's the picture.

As usual, click on the picture to take you to the download. Thanks for looking! Have a great Friday and enjoy your weekend!

Finished Quick Page

2009-01-02T10:59:00.002-07:00

Okay, finally made myself do something with the quick page that I featured in the last Freebie Find Friday. Here it is...

If you want to find out how to get this free quick page, click HERE.

I'll be posting soon with the next Freebie Find Friday! Check back soon!

Getting Back in the Swing of Things!

2008-12-29T13:17:00.002-07:00

I know, I know! Friday came and went and I didn't post a thing! So sorry! I am getting back into the swing of things here and I will have a page done this week and be posting a freebie on Friday. Sound good? Okay...

Freebie Find Friday #3

2008-12-19T23:13:00.002-07:00

Okay, here is the freebie promised! It comes from Faith Sisters and is a quick page. I decided to feature a quick page this week, because I'm not going to have the time to come up with a page on my own this week... too busy!

You can get the freebie by clicking on the picture! Enjoy!

My FFF Page

2008-12-19T13:22:00.004-07:00

Okay, I meant to get this posted earlier than today, but it didn't happen... you know how that goes. In fact, I didn't even finish it until today. Here's what I ended up doing with last week's Freebie Find Friday.

I primarily used the freebie for this page. Below is what I used!

Snow Day sampler (click HERE to find out how to get it!).
Rose knotted ribbon - from "Merry" (designs by krista), found HERE.
Love wire word - Wired Words Set 1 found on this page from freedigitalscrapbooking.com.

Thanks for looking! I'll be posting the new Freebie Find Friday in a little bit!

Esty Shop Added

2008-12-16T10:30:00.002-07:00

Hi there! I have been kinda quiet as far as crafting goes. Haven't had a whole lot of time... just been busy with other things. I wanted to direct your attention to the side bar. Do you see it?!?! My mom and I have an etsy shop and I put some of our items on the side bar. You can visit our shop by clicking on one of the pictures! We've got other cute stuff to check out over there!

I'll be posting something craft in the next day or so. I'm still working on my page using the Freebie Find. It's a fun sampler to use! Hope to see what you've done as well! Share it by commenting!

Have a great day!

Freebie Find Friday

2008-12-12T09:15:00.000-07:00

Okay, so here's my freebie find of the day, or the week for that matter. I know I did a freebie find last week, so I thought it would be nice to do another! I think I will make this a regular thing. I'm going to call it "Freebie Find Friday" and I'm going to try and use this freebie sometime before next Friday. Hopefully some of you will share what you do with this freebie as well! Onto the freebie... this freebie find comes from digidelights and is a sample from a kit called "Snow Day" that is being introduced. Click on the picture to go to the blog post where you can click the download button toward the end of the post.

This one looks like a lot of fun! Very wintery and nice shapes to play with. I know it seems like I'm stuck on winter, but it is that season, you know! There are so many beautiful things right now that are begging to be used that happen to be wintery... Sooooo, hope you enjoy it! I'd love to see what you do with it!

Bittersweet Freebie Page

2008-12-11T11:04:00.004-07:00

Here's what I made with the Bittersweet freebie I told you about the other day. Click HERE to see what freebie I'm talking about.

This was a fun page to do with some old pictures I had from a family vacation back in 2005!!! It took me a little while to find a picture to go with this paper. It's a little loud and bright, so not just any picture went with it. These pictures seemed like they fit. I used the paper mainly for the background and also cut strips and pasted them onto the main background paper. I used some white zig zag stitching from another kit I had to make it look like the strips of paper were sewn together. Below is my list of supplies:

Papers - from the Bittersweet paper freebie that you can get HERE.
Blue gingham bow - from a free birthday bash freebie at Faith Sisters shop by Julie Marie. You can get it by clicking HERE.
White zig zag stitching - from My Little Ladybug kit which can be downloaded for free by clicking HERE and scrolling down to kit.
Title letters - from painted newspaper alphas by Manda J Designs. You can download the blue for free HERE.
Metal clip - from an awesome free kit called Refresh Collection at Scrap Girls. You can get it HERE.

Thanks for looking! Have a wonderful day!

Decked Out

2008-12-09T11:09:00.006-07:00

This page was really easy to do because... it was already done for me! Yep! It was a quick page, ready for my photos! I just added the title and journaling! Love it!

The Sugarplum Quick Page can be found HERE. Just click "download now".

Alphabet that I used for title is from a free kit called "In the Snowflake World" and can be found by visiting HERE and going to the download buttons at the bottom of the post.

Family Photo

2008-12-08T11:20:00.003-07:00

Here's a quick page I put together of our family photo from this year.

I didn't use anything else but the free kit called "Snow Fun" by Nikki Painter. You can find this kit HERE! It was fun to use and after I added drop shadows to everything, it looked really great!

Another Page

2008-12-06T16:08:00.004-07:00

Here's a page I did of my kids from a photo we took a few years ago up in Flagstaff.

Most of the page was made with a kit called "Sugar Plum Dreams". This kit was a lot of fun to use and has beautiful paper and elements. You can download it for free by visiting Free Digital Scrapbooking and scrolling down to the kit!

The beautiful alphabet letters are from a kit by Meredith Cardall from a treasure hunt freebie. You can get that kit HERE.

Hope you enjoyed looking! Thanks for stopping by!

My post for today...

2008-12-05T16:59:00.004-07:00

Found this over at Faith Sisters' shop and thought I'd tell you about it! Love this paper! Just looking at it makes me want to make a page... but I can't right now because I'm getting pictures of some cute stuff ready for etsy. That's more important at the moment! Anyway, my post for today is a link to a freebie. You do have to make an account at FS to download the freebie, but for the price, why not?!?! Hope you enjoy it! Have a great day! Just click the picture to go get the freebie!

First Post!

2008-12-04T14:01:00.000-07:00

Hi out there! I wanted to have a place to put other crafts I work on here and there.

At the moment, I have been having some fun with digital scrapbooking. There are so many sites out there with free stuff... WOW! Anyway, wanted a place to share my digital pages and other stuff.

Here's a page I did of my kids feeding birds in our backyard. Thought it was a cute photo!

Most of the page was made using the free kit, "Life's Simple Pleasures" which you can download HERE by scrolling down and clicking on the download button for the kit.

Brads can be downloaded for free HERE at Faith Sisters.

Notebook flower from Eressea Design's Skool Skraps can be found HERE by scrolling down Skool Skraps freebie and clicking on the link.

Finally, the black zig zag stitching is from the free kit, "My Little Ladybug" that you can download by visiting HERE and scrolling down to the kit and clicking "download".

That's it! Thanks for looking and please come back!