Magazines!

I saw these on Carrie's blog & HAD to try them out!! HOW FUN!!

Create Fake Magazine Covers with your own picture at MagMyPic.com

Create Fake Magazine Covers with your own picture at MagMyPic.com

Create Fake Magazine Covers with your own picture at MagMyPic.com

Create Fake Magazine Covers with your own picture at MagMyPic.com

Create Fake Magazine Covers with your own picture at MagMyPic.com

okay back to work ... Enjoy your Monday! :)

Project 365 Jan 11th - Jan 17th

Another week of Project 365!

Jan 11th

Seth's first sleep-over of the year at our house with his two best buddies - Michael & Scott

Jan 12th 

Leave it to the weathermen to predict 1-2" of snow & we really end up with about 6".  This is the view from Seth's school looking west.  I love when the clouds hang low over the mountains.

Jan 13th

Seth's pocket contents!  The same day I took this pic I saw the quote " not all treasure is silver & gold" ... perfect.

Jan 14th

Seth's new Denver Nuggets Basketball jersey.  Last Friday, Rick went to the Nuggets game & brought this home for Seth.

Jan 15th

This week Seth is the star student at school, so he gets to do all of the morning cool things.  I was glad it was a week when I was helping out so I could sneak in a pic!

Jan 16th

Ahhh me at my computer - not a great pic, but whatever I on the other side of the camera! ;) LOL!

Jan 17th

With the weather reaching the mid-60's, we hit the park with our friends.  Here are the boys investigating the ice covered stream ... and if you look near the top of the pic, you can see the dads up at the top field - where we later played kickball, baseball & football!  Good times!

TFL :)

FABBY BLOG AWARD!

WHooo whooo! I rec'd a fabby blog award from Carrie. Be sure to click on her name to check out her FABBY BLOG!



So the deal is, I list 5 of my addictions and then hand out this award to 5 people with FABBY BLOGS!

5 Things I am addicted to:

1. Photography
2. Scrapbooking
3. Sleeping
4. Coffee
5. the Internet

And I would like to give this award to:

JOLENE
NICOLE
RACHEL
BETH
MARYFRANCES

Be sure to check out these FABBY blogs!

Another new layout!

It feels so great to be creating again - I think the holidays always zap my creative juices! :)

Here is a layout I did for the BINGO challenge at Ally Scraps. My items to use were at least 3 photos, a sketch, a journaling card & buttons!



Journaling: You picked the name America for your 8th Webkinz - a bald eagle.




Here is the sketch by Debbie Gaydos that I used:


Thanks for stopping by! :)

A new layout

I scrapped last night - YAY - and created a layout I absolutely LOVE!!! I love all of the distressed edges & the layers of papers and embellishments!!



I used this sketch by Debbie Gaydos for inspiration:


You can check out some of her other sketches here at Ally Scraps in the archived sketch thread.

Project 365 Jan 1st - Jan 10th

I was one of the lucky ones who was able to get a CK Project 365 kit - so worth the money and hassle, it's so cute, coordinated & all ready to go! It has been sitting here since Weds & I cannot wait to get started on it.

I am starting on Jan 1st (not Dec 29th like some people were starting on Dec 29th cause it was Monday).

Jan 1st - One of our holiday traditions is to buy yummy pears from Harry & David. Here is Seth digging into one!


Jan 2nd - During our long holiday, Seth enjoyed a lot of 'pj' days ... even when we had to run to the grocery store to get Rick's prescription, Seth wasn't about to get out of his pj's!


Jan 3rd - Rick & Ninja watching the NFL play-offs. I really love this photo of Rick!


Jan 4th - My brother Robert's 37th birthday; I talked to him on the phone for a bit, but we did not see him today. Today's photo is Seth playing his Nintendo DS.


Jan 5th - There is always laundry to do! Since our washer & dryer are upstairs with the bedrooms, I can monitor it and keep up on it regularly.


Jan 6th - Seth started back to school yesterday - homework was in full swing.


Jan 7th - Wrestling practice is Monday & Wednesdays - here is Seth & Griffin Payne practicing some new moves.


Jan 8th - Basketball practice started today. We also decided to take our Warriors Football banner to Li'l Ricci's for it's official hanging. The boys were super excited.


Jan 9th - Seth lost tooth #8 last night. It had been wiggly for a while & he finally pulled it out. The tooth fairy left him $1. And yes, we are totally anticipating him being an early orthodontics patient LOL!


Jan 10th - First basketball game today. We won 54 - 22, Seth made 10 baskets! Great game!

Card Sketch Blog DT Call!

Check out this new card sketch challenge blog! They are having a DT call, if you are interested & if not keep an eye on the site for some great sketches to come your way!

Inspirational Card Sketches

I am hoping to make a card using the sketch this weekend when I scrap! :)

NFL Play-off stats ...

at our house are:

Rick: 3-1 (picked Arizona, Indianapolis, Baltimore & Philly)

Seth: 3-1 (picked Arizona, Indianapolis, Baltimore & Philly)

Me: 2-2 (picked Arizona, San Diego, Miami & Minnesota)

I was hot on Saturday but totally wrong on Sunday! ha! Do you notice I march to the beat of my own drum in the house? ;) Here's to next week - hoping for another great weekend of games!!

Mmmm feels so good ....

TO SCRAP!! lol! It's been since early November since I made anything other than a few random cards & it was starting to worry me! But a few challenges from www.acherryontop.com and I am good to go!

Here is the first one for ACOT's monthly contest (scraplift a Christmas layout for another holiday) I lifted this layout from Laura Fiore:





This second one is ACOT's monthly manufacturer challenge, to use October Afternoon - yum! My first time working with these papers & they are AWESOME!!



I was hoping to scrap some more, but after watching the Arizona / Atlanta game I am feeling lazy ;) maybe I will watch the Indy / San Diego game & be a couch potato! ;) I am hoping to see something good out of Arizona or Miami this year - so cool for both of them to come this far (especially Miami from a year ago - WOW! ... and since I don't have Denver or Dallas to cheer on :( ).

Hope you are having a fabulous New Year so far!!

2sketches4you

Last night I found this really great card sketch blog (and they are local to me too - love seeing other CO scrappers!!)- 2sketches4you so today I decided to play in this week's challenge!

Here is Laura's sketch:



and here is my take on the sketch:

Here is Katie's bonus sketch:

And here is my take on it:

I'd love to see you try out the sketches too ... you have until midnight on Sat., Jan 3rd to upload your card at 2sketches4you

TFL :)

Pumpkin Carving!

Last night after we signed Seth up for Youth Wrestling thru the local high school, we carved his pumpkin. Bless his heart for waiting so patiently since Friday when we bought his pumpkin! Seth drew on the pumpkin with a marker & Rick cut out Seth's design ... I think they both did pretty good! :)

Here is Seth with his pumpkin on Friday:


Here are some shots from last night: