Sweet Treats January 2020

Good morning and Happy New Year!

I cannot believe that we are already in 2020, it just blows my mind 

I really need to get back into scrapbooking more often, so I figure I would start the year of on the right foot with a simple layout. I am just a tab bit behind but that’s ok. It’s fun going through older photos and reminisce. 

I also decide to step out of my comfort zone and do some sketch and tic tac toe challenges this month.

I feel like I have set this hobby on the back burner for the last few months. So I am determined to get back into doing layouts and catch up with my scrapbooks.

I also decided that I really need to use up some of the supplies that I’ve had for years. So this was a perfect way to use up old products and get a layout done.

I hope to post more often this year and keep the fire burning for crafting.

Have a great day! 

Lisa 

Scrap with Stacy

Through the Eyes of Rochelle Spears Screapbooking

Sketch challenge

  Hello there crafty friends, it has sure been a long time since I have scrapbooked and posted on my blog. I sure do miss it very much.

 

 Well I am here to share with you a layout I got to work on at my Birthday crop over the weekend. I used a couple of challenges to get inspired. The Scrappy Friends Challenges are the ones that I used. The first challenge I used is from Brenda and you can find her blog here with great inspiring sketches and challenges here .  The second challenge came from Rochelle and her challenge is "This or That" which can be found on her Blog with other amazing challenges here.  I hope you have a great day and I look forward to posting more layouts.

Christmas Goody Bag

  Hello there my crafty friends, I hope you are enjoying the Holidays as I am. 
 I wanted to share with you what I made for small gifts. I used muslin bags that are made by my mother Silvia ( thanks Mom)  I also used Pink By Design stamp and die unfortunately the package doesn't have the name of the stamp set :( but it's a super cute set. I also used my all time favorite product that all crafters must have in my opinion lol. Trendy Twine's Cherry Limeade , it's part of their new line of Christmas colors.

Thank you for stopping by and visiting me today.

Merry Christmas
Lisa

Scrap Society Crop Project

  Hello there my crafty friends. I know it's been a very long time since I've posted last. But a lot has changed in my life ( for the good). My Husband and I have been working so hard to buy a new home, and this year we were able to purchase our dream home. My craft room is still packed away for at least another week and half, but it'll be so worth the wait. I will post pictures of my new craft room as soon as I get it all together again.

 

 

So this week-end was the Scrap Society Clue Crop, and I was very lucky enough to attend. I won lots of goodies, but they're put away now. I wish I had taken a picture as I won them. 

 

   This tag below, was a tag I made for my kids classmates at school for Halloween. I haven't attached it to the goodie bags yet, well because I can't find them in my moving chaos lol.

 

I used some of my most favorite products.

Trendy Twine's Lime Licorice twine

Trendy Twines  Krackle embossing folder

Stampin Up's Tope Note Die

Cricut to die cut the Happy Halloween

Red Stickles for the bats eyes

Tim Holtz Distressing ink Black Soot to ink the edges.

                                    

 

 

 

 

 

 

   This is my next project I made at the crop. It's a note pad wallet. These are for the kids teachers. I hope that they like it.

 My friend Erlinda was so very kind to let me barrow her Build A Bear die from SU last year. So I made a bunch of different bears, but never really had a need for them until now.

 

 

  Here is the inside of the wallet (below). In the envelopes I am going to put individually wrapped candies for a little treat, to help them get through their day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Wheelers Prayer

     Hello there my crafty friends. I hope you are all doing well and getting crafty. I have, I've been making a lot of Christmas gifts lately. Unfortunately I can't post them until I give the gifts out. lol So you will have to wait and see them.  Today I made a cool gift for my husband, but I think I am going to give it to him early, well because I HAVE to share it now!! lol I hope he likes it.

I have been using my Pazzles machine more and more lately. But unfortunately my computer keeps freezing up on my. But I was able to cut this Wheelers prayer out with very few glitches.

 

My husband and I love to go 4 wheeling  when ever we get a chance. I saw this on the internet a long time ago, and I saved the picture. I am so happy that I did. He will think its funny.

 

Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you all have a great day.

 

Lisa

Trendy Twine Challenge

 

     Hello there, my crafty friends.  I know that I have been missing in action, but I'm back.

 I have seen so many very cool challenges and I always want to enter them, but I tend to doubt myself a little.

 

      Well, today I decided to go a head and bite the bullet and just enter. So I created this really cute snowman tag. He is just made up of 6 different size circle punches.  I embossed it with the Divine swirls folder with my cuttlebug. I also added 2 of my most favorite products, Trendy Twine 

( Candy Cane) and Stickles.

 I have him on my tree now, since I don't have a gift wrapped yet to put him on, so I can't wait to start wrapping, plus it looks better with the tree in the background than my messy table lol.

 

 I hope you like my little Snowman, Thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful day.

 

Lisa



Cricut Challenge 33

Hello there, I hope you are having a great Sunday. I am off to a late start today, but I'm here now. Last week was very weird for my household. I woke up Thursday morning with and overwhelming dizzy feeling. I could not stand up or function, it finally went away Friday evening. Saturday we decided to do a little late Spring cleaning, boy that was a lot of work and we didn't even finish. My son Anthony woke up yesterday with a slight fever, so we fought that all day. I actually got a little scared when it got up to 103.2, but it didn't stay there very long after a Popsicle, some jello and a cool bath along with some Motrin. This morning he woke up just fine. Thank God for that.  Enough about me.

 Here is my quick post for this week since I really had no time to craft at all. This layout took me all of 20 minutes. It's very simple but cute I think. I used some brads that I had purchased oh let me think about 6 years ago when I first got started with Scrapbooking. lol I guess you can call them vintage now lol. I used The Performance Stack by DCWV. I bought this paper stack last year in El Paso Texas with my Aunt. Oh how I miss her!!! In the pictures my son was a little over 2 years old. He was playing my husbands ukulele that we got on our honeymoon in Hawaii in 2005. So this has so many memories for me. My son is now almost 6 years old. I hope you like my layout today. I am realy hoping that I get to craft this coming week. If all goes well.

Cricut cartridge I used
Phrases  "You make me Smile" because my son has a contagious smile.




   Thank you for stopping by today, have a wonderful day.

    Lisa

Cricut Challenge 32

Hello there my crafty Friends. Todays post is of some swaps that I participate in. I just love our Host Doris Parker, she does an amazing job organizing and comminucating with us on every detail.

This first card Is part of an Emboss With Technic. I saw this stamp set on a release blog hop and Just had to have it. I'm sure most of you recognize it, it's Jaded Blossom "Simply Sayings"  There is a version of this card which emspired me to make my own twist on it.

Here are the supplies I used:
Jaded Blossom Simply Sayings stamp set
Versa Mark Ink pad with white embossing powder
Stampin Up Following products:
  Pacific Point C/S
  Baja Breeze C/S
  Pacific Point Classic Ink
  Sizzlits Lg Paper Doily Die
Trendy Twine Blueberry
Cricut Art Philosophy for the tags
Cricut George and Basic Shapes For the circle

 This card is a Birthday swap.
Supplies used:
Cricut Birthday Bash Cart for the Ballons and the It's Your Birthday saying
Cuttlebug Embossing folder D'vine Circles
Stampin Up Tempting Turquois classic Ink pad
Stampin Up Hostess stamp set Happiest Birthday Wishes for sentiment inside.

 This is the last swap, Its a baby die cut swap. I wanted to make something Unisex. When my kids were babies and started to eat solid foods, I took great pride and pleasure in making them their own homemade organic baby food. To this day I am so happy I did that. My children LOVE veggies and Fruits.
 Cricut Cartridge is BabySteps


I hope all my swap partners like my creations. Thank you for stopping by and visiting me again.


Have a great Sunday, I know I will. :)

Cricut Challenge 31

  I really haven't had much time to craft lately, but I am still trying to participate is die cut swaps. For the month of June there were 2 swaps I signed up for. The themes are Patriotic and BBQ. You have to make a 4" inch cut for each theme.
  For the BBQ theme I made a hot dog (above). It wasn't my first choice, but I like the hot dogs better than the first set of cuts I made.
   Below was my first set of cuts. It's an apple pie slice, but for some reason it just didn't work for me. So my swap partners are getting a slice anyways lol.

 For my patriotic cut I made a Home of the Brave. While I was making this I was thinking of my cousin Javi who was in 29 Palms Calif. for a training mission. So this cut really hit home for me. You see my cousin was in Afghanistan for 6 months in 2010. He missed several holidays with his very young family. Now when I say very young he had to leave shortly after his second son was born. I am truly proud of him and all of our service men and women. They're all in my prayers every night.  I love you Javi.

Cartridges I used:

 Hot Dog                           Fast Food Lite  at 2"

Home of the Brave           Stand and Salute at 4"

Pie Slice                            From my Kitchen 

  Thank you for stopping by and visiting my blog.

Lisa

Cricut Book Organization

Hi there, I wanted to share a organization project that I found on Pinterest. You can find the tutorial here , I just used Photo boxes from Michael's Instead. The plastic boxes in the tutorial are from Staples and are too expensive for me at $11.99 each. The boxes at M's were $1.84 after tax and my moms teacher discount. What a deal. I had to use 6 boxes to accommodate the 231 cartridges I own.
  I also used plain card stock to make the file folders and the tabs. In the process of organizing my Cricut Booklets in alphabetical order, I found that I am missing 18 cartridges. This sickens me but, It's my own fault for not writing down who I lent them too. I call it a hard and expensive lesson learned.
 Here is a close up of 1 box (below)

  I hope you like my post today. It took me about 2 weeks  to complete this project and well worth the work. I am now using more carts than before. I would have to sneak in my daughters room at night and get my totes out from under her bed while she is asleep. Now I have the books in my craft room and the carts in my Gypsy. Much easier for me.

      Thank you for stopping by and visiting me. I would really love to hear your comments and suggestions.

Cricut Challenge 28

 This is the last page of my book. This is where I will add pictures of the class and a picture of my kids individually. I didnt put them in yet because I didn't want to put photos of the other kids without permission of their parents.

  The cartidge I use     Plantin School Book for the 2011 2012 class of.

This will be a long post sorry, I will put a picture of the entire book here so you can see it all together.

Here is part 2 of my post

    Well this was a true challenge for me. My husband is the absolute hardest person to surprise. When I try to surprise him, it always gets spoiled. But This year I finally managed to get him something that he has always wanted and surprised him.  This is the cover I got for his new Ipad in his favorite color. I added vinyl to it, to remind him that he is a great father to our 2 wonderful children. By the way, when he opened it, he was really surprised and happy.

The cart I used for the vinyl decal is
Father's Day Solutions cart.

 Thank you for stopping by today

Lisa

Cricut Challenge 29

 Hello there and Happy Sunday to you.  This weeks post is of a Die Cut Swap I participate in. We have to make 8 of the same die cut with the Cricut. The theme was graduation lol, can you tell.

 These are my little graduates for the swap. They are cut at 4"

The cartridge I used was the Recess Lite

 This is another swap cut for a wedding themed swap. This was also cut at 4"

I used the Tie The Knot cartridge.

  This is a Vinyl decal I made for Cecy to advertise the Jewelry she sells. This was truely a big challenge for me. I made this with my Pazzles. I actually made this with a lot of indiviual shapes and welding. Its really hard to see the wording because it's in white vinyl.

Thank you for stopping by and visiting me. Have a great day.

Cricut Challenge 27

Welcome back and Happy Sunday to you. Here is the second page of my book. For this page I wanted to represent my kids for the teacher.

Cartridges I used
Recess           for the students behind the desk
Lacy Labels   for the ovals backing the students





Thank you for stopping by and visiting me.

Cricut Challenge 26

 Hello there, I hope you are having a wonderful Sunday.

  This is the second page of my Thank You Teachers book I made for my kids Pre-school Teachers.

This is the Roll Call page, to remind the teachers of the students that were in their class. I only used first names, well for obvious reasons.

Cartridges I used

All Mixed Up               for the Roll Call
Cursive 101                  for Mrs. Jackie


Thank you for stopping by and visiting.

Cricut Challenge 25

  Good Morning to you all. Evey year I attend a wonderful crop. I get to just craft for 2 days straight. Last week-end was the Faith crop and I had so much fun. I saw some crafters I haven't seen in a long time and it was great to catch up with all of them.
  This project is very special to me, I started it a week before the crop but really had no time to devote to it to complete it. So I took it to Faith , as usuall I had no plan for it, I kind of just let it fall into place. And it did just that for me. It took me almost the 2 full days to work on creating this book and another one just like it.  My kids end of Pre-School year is hear and I thought about making these for the teachers for a Thank you for teaching my kids. I sure do hope the like it.

 Ok here are the details of the front Cover
Cartridges I used:
Recess Cricut Lite                  for the School house door
Art Philosophy                       for the windows
Stretch Your Imagination      for the bell ( it was an actual dinner bell, I just cut the rest of it off)
Cursive 101                            for the Silver Mesa

Pazzles                                    to cut the school house
Cinch                                       for binding
Prima flowers

  Thank for stopping by and visiting, come back next week to see the next page of my book.

Cricut Challenge 24

 Hello there and Happy Sunday to you all. This year I decided to make my Mothers Day gifts for my Mother and Mother-in-Law. My friend Dawn from scrapping the happening, made this adorable kit, so I had to buy one (of course) You can find her blog Here , she has some great gift ideas for sale.  This particular basket I made in the above picture is my version of her kit. I got permission from her to duplicate it and I am very happy that she let me. It's such a great idea for any holiday.

 The Cricut Cartridge I used
Mothers Day Bouquet  for the flowers
SU top note and border punch
Cinch
SU white Twine
Martha Stewarts Monarch Butterfly punch
Misc. buttons
Scotch Liquid glue

In addition to the baskets, I also made cards that were inspired by Pinterest. I made 2 slightly different versions of it.

This one is for my Mother, I hope she likes it.

In the picture below is Dawn's Basket kit and my card for my Mother-in-Law

The flowers were all cut from dies. The centers of the flowers I added pebbles from Heart To Home. You can find her Etsy store Here 


 Thank you for letting me share my projects with you this week. Sorry for the quality of the photos, I took them with my phone.



 See you soon.

Cricut Challenge 23

Hello there, and Happy Sunday to you all. This week I have been on a major card making kick. Well because I needed to make a lot of cards. This first one above is a cute Birthday card for Logan. I really had no idea of what I was going to make so I started with just Mickey and built it from there. I hope he likes it.

I used Cricut Cartridges
Mickey and friends for the Mickey
Mickey Font for the wording
Teardrop  for the balloons
Black and white twine for the string on the balloons. ( thank god I saved my scraps of twine)

Here are the rest of the cards I made this week.


This one was inspired by a Pinterest post I saw:

This one below, I found a pic that I copied on the Internet. I actually hand cut this one, so no Cricut or Pazzles for this card. I did add some squares to this card after I took the picture, it just needed something else.

This one below, is for my husbands co-workers wife. She recently had a Baby Girl weighing over 10 LBS. Yikes!!!!!! I just love Twine (Strawberry Cupcake)

 This one below, is another Pinterest inspired card. I added some chalk to the embossed flowers and stems. 



This card below, I did with the new Martha Stewart Punches from HSN. They send you a cute sample project to get you started.  I liked it so much that I had to make it for a close and Dear friend of mine. It didn't come out perfect but it's still pretty.

 I hope you like my cards. Thanks for stopping by and visiting me. Have a wonderful day

Cricut Challenge 22

 Happy Sunday to you, I hope you are doing well. This week I made a single page layout to share with you. My kids have the Little Tykes cars and love to play with them, even to this day at age 4 & 5. I had remembered that I had seen a layout before with the little cars on it, so I decided to look for the cart among the many that I stashed under my daughters bed. LOL This is what I came up with.

Cartridges I use are :

B is for Boys Lite for the cars and the keys
Disney Pixars Cars for the street (I welded 6 street pieces together to get each corner street)
Boys will be Boys for the initials on the car.
Pebbles by Heart To Home
Stampin Up dimensionals

 Thank you for stopping by
Lisa

Lady in Red

Good afternoon,  I just realized that I forgot to do my post. Yesterday I got to work the Rubberstamp and Scrapbook Expo at the Texas Station. I cleaned out some of my crafting supplies that I either don't use or didn't want anymore. I went with 3 totes and 3 boxes plum full. I came home with about 10% of what I took with me. I made a good chunk of crafting change for new supplies LOL. I was a lot of fun to see new and long time crafters there.

 Back to my craft post. This week, I have been trying to get to know my new machine Pazzles. And I am finding that the more I play with it, the more I am loving it. I will continue with the Cricut Challenge next week. But as for now, this layout I made with a free cutting file I got on the Pazzles Craftroom website. It literally took me 1/2 hour to make this.

Thank you for stopping by and visiting me. Talk to you soon.

Lisa

Cricut Challenge 21

Happy Sunday to you all, I hope your enjoying this crazy weather we are having. Yesterday I had a little time to craft, in between laundry and taking care of my kids. This week I made a layout , that I have been meaning to do for a long time. In January of 2010 we went to Bartstow California to visit my husbands Uncle Rex and Aunt Alice. Well they have lots of boy toys and my son was in heaven. So we took him out to the back yard to let him try out all the tractors. Well Corrina had to get in the action too. So I got some great pics of both of them playing with the tractors.
  This first L/O above is of Corrina.

This L/O above is of Anthony and Uncle Rex. I really like how this second L/O came out. I might just have to redo Corrina's a bit. 

The cart I used is Boys Will Be Boys

I also Used Tim Holtz Gear die

 I recently got a new machine called Pazzles. Which I absolutely LOVE. So I will be posting projects from both my Cricut and Pazzles. This decal above I cut using the Pazzles. A few of my fellow Jeepers went to MOAB for the annual Easter Jeep Safari. We could not go :(.  But they took lots of pictures and share it with our R-Jeeps Facebook page. So it was like we were there with them.
 Well They couldn't find a decal in MOAB that they liked, so they asked me if I could make one for them. Well this is what I made and they liked it.  I just love working with Vinyl, I especially love seeing my work on several Jeeps around the Las Vegas Valley. I am hoping that some day I will have a small Vinyl Decal business going. I know I am on the right track.



  Thank you for stopping by, see you next week.


Lisa


P.S. I love you Rex My wonderful Husband, without your support I would not be here posting my crafts. You're the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!