Cosmo Cricket Craziness...lots to show you...

I really need to stop reading message boards. They are like the bad girl in school who smokes in the bathroom and tries to get you to skip class. I might as well get a pink ladies jacket because I am easily influenced. Sale at Tuesday Mornings you say? I have to find some way to pop in there. LOL And I went. And I shopped. And, OH MY GOODNESS! I found such great deals! Really cute embellies for only 99 cents or less...

And (are you ready for this?) a fantastic deal on a Cosmo Cricket Craft Kit. An overflowing box of everything I need to make a plethera (totally fun word) of projects. Want to see? I thought you might.

And inside the box there was....a set of 2 8x8 albums...a tag album...a chipboard album and a mini book...and.....

a card kit...love banner...picture frames...magnetic frames for the fridge...photo cube...and....

adhesive, paper, embellishements, ribbon....and.....Alphabets (stickers, chipboard and cardstock), chipboard embellishments and stickers.A $50 kit for only...$15 dollars!!! It is beautiful and it has everything I need to finish a bunch of projects. Cool, huh? They had it in a pink set and a blue one. I got pink. I should have gotten several, but wanted to spread the wealth. :)

Besides shopping, I did manage to eek out 2 cards this week. I found some GREAT inpiration. Mojo Monday inspired this one:

This next card was inspired by: http://papertrufflez.typepad.com/paper_trufflez/2010/01/one-of-a-kind.html

Enjoy your weekend. :) I'm hoping to play with my new Once Upon a Princess Cartridge.

Snow Day....and not getting much done.

Oh, give me a home, with sound proof walls...and an ability to stick my kids in a room and ignore them. LOL Okay, I am way to good of a mom to do that. Therein lies the problem. I just care too stinkin' much about my kids. So I interact with them...and have very little time left for me! Oh, what a world! What a world!

On the bright side, I did get a Mojo Monday card done. What? It's Tuesday, you say? I so did not need to hear that. Why would you even tell me that? What is wrong with you? Seriously?

Here is the link to the inspiration (even though you don't deserve it):

http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/2010/02/mojo-monday-125.html

And here is what I came up with:

And just because I can't just show you ONE card...here are 2 oldie but goodies I made a while back.

I may be back. I'm hoping to play some more tonight.

A break through and some goodies!

If you have seen my scrapbook room, you might just notice the massive amount of paper I have. You need cardstock right? And I don't want to run out, so....I have a lot of that. And patterned paper is so pretty! And it comes and gos so quickly that I feel the need to own it now before they discontinue it. I have stacks of single sheets of patterned paper and about 25 different stacks from companies from Basic Grey to Sassafrass Lass. Sigh. I am in paper heaven. I knew Michaels was getting in some new things so I decided to pop in there on Saturday when Billy took the kids to the pet store (they are right by each other after all!). And there it was! Paper that made me gasp. Pretty paper that I have no idea what I will do with it, but it is so beautiful I had to buy it. By the time I got the discount on it, it only cost me $10 and change, so the price was great. But how to sneak it past Billy...LOL To my surprise, I showed him the paper when we met at the van and HE LOVED IT! Called it art and said we should frame some of it!!! Seriously doing the happy dance about that! No guilt trips. No "how much paper do you need" speech. For one brief moment we were one about my paper addiction. Sigh. Doesn't get any better than that. Want a peek at the bonding paper? I'm warning you...it's too pretty to pass up.

I found this great MM package of baby embellishments on clearance there, too. Love all of the different pieces and it doesn't have to be just for baby items.

They had some new Studio G stamps, too. I am trying to cut down on my addiction to those and use what I have, but come on. This bunny was begging to come home with me.

I have been seeing alot of cool paper flowers and embellishments made out of book pages. I love my books and have no intention of ripping them up, even for the sake of art, so I made a quick trip to Goodwill to see what I could find. I managed to find a thesaurus and one of my favorite books, Turn of the Screw. I can't wait to rip them apart. I found some cotton twine, too. Good deals!

Once Upon a Princess...

Yep. I just ordered it! Isabel is very excited and even Collin thinks it is cool that we can make a 3D castle. But not in pink mommy. In grey. And make it look like rocks. And I can smash it in a battle. And you can just make me a new one. LOL Happy to oblige, little man. I'm sure it will only take an hour or two to assemble.

Here is a pic. of some of the cuts. I think I will be able to use it for a lot of things and I got a GREAT deal on it. $36 shipped to me! Please get here soon!

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood!

One thing I love about my scraproom is that it is a really warm yellow color. Originally, I picked the paint for Isabel (it was her room first) and every little girl needs a room painted the same color as Winnie the Pooh, don't you think? When we switched rooms, I decided to keep the color (boy, was Billy confused...he was sure I would want to paint...I think he was disappointed). When the sun shines in, the whole room glows. And when it is gloomy out (winter in Indiana...pretty much a given) the room makes me feel not so grey. I am a natural light kind of girl, so yellow is a good color for me.

So this weekend we went to Indy to go to the Children's Museum. It was the last weekend for the Barbie exhibit. Talk about crowded! I loved seeing all of the different dolls and there were lots of activities for little girls to do.

The girls could dress up and do a fashion show, too. Isabel has quite a model walk. LOL Very serious and sloooooow!

It was a fun day and my ulterior motive for planning this trip was to try and sneak in a stop at Archivers. Lafayette has the big box craft stores, but I miss the personalization and focus that a LSS has to offer. I was on a budget, but I enjoyed browsing (Billy kept himself and kids busy so I would not feel rushed) and saw so many pretty things and got lots of ideas. My spending tended to be more practicle. I opted for things I could get alot of use out of...stamps. LOL Like I don't have enough of those. They were re-setting for new, fun products, so their clearance section was HUGE! I got the following stamp sets for $20 total. Right in my budget. :)

You don't think I'd leave you without a peek of what I have been working on, do you? Never! I did finish 2 cards...and no, Pam, I'm afraid they are not for you, this time. :)

Happy Wednesday to you!

It is Wednesday. Yeah! I'm not sure why that is exciting. My days all seem to run togethe anyway, but other people get excited so...!!!!!!!!!!! I have been not feeling well, which has translated in some lazier days for me and more projects to look at for you. I have been trying to use my cricut more, so I have been looking at different cuts that I normally don't use and trying to do something with them. Thus the birdhouse. LOL Cute, don't you think? I'm also trying to use some of my vast collection of dollar stamps. Love them. Don't use them enough. And my Copics. Yep. Trying to use those, too. HAHAHA...sorry. I'm sick, remember? And easily amused today.
I also wanted to make some more of the mailboxes that are in the dollar spot in Target. I decorated some for the kids last year and yep, you guessed it, they got destroyed. Sigh. This year, I am going to put them away to save for next year. I'm such a mean mommy.

So, I made one for each of us: Isabel (pink hearts), Collin (robots), Billy (lions), and me (frogs). I am going to put them on the table with the coaster box I also made to hold little notes that I stamped and some fun pens Billy got me last year. We are going to write little notes and slip them in the boxes each day until V-Day. On Valentines Day, the boxes will be full of fun little surprises.

I also made a very cute layout of Isabel and some friends with the Basic Grey Sugar Rush goodies that Pam sent. Love this paper!

Labor of Love

So last night I sat in awe of the fun package I got from Pam. I knew the sensible thing to do would be to start cutting and put a layout together, but I just couldn't do it. Cut that beautiful paper? And which side to use? Really, the stress of using nice paper is such a burden some times. The other slight obstical last night was Billy and Collin being sick. I spent alot of time tending to the ill. I did have a chance to think about what I wanted to do with all of that lovely paper so I could get right to work this morning. I spent a lot of time on the tree...adding layers of papers, buttons, brads, and bling. The cuts are from a variety of carts, but mostly Paisley.