Thinking of you

So a dear friend of mine lost her 18 year old nephew in a car wreck in TX last month. I thought I would send her a quick card to let her know that I am thinking of her.  She has always been there for me, so making this card was something I could do to show her how much I care for her.

It was pretty simple. I got this paper pack for $4.50, DCWV 12x12 Green Tea stack at Marshalls. I had no idea that Marshalls would have paper until my good friend Allison over at http://papercraftweekendchallenge.blogspot.com/ "informed" me that they have some great deals. And seriously, $4.5 for a full stack of paper... *drool*

Anyway, where was I. Right, the card. So making cards can be pretty easy or complex, just depending on how much time you have to put into it. For me, time is not on my side right now, so I had to make something quick.  So I took one sheet of white 8.5 by 11 cardstock and cut it in half, folded it and taa daa, I had my card base. Then I used one of my favorite Martha Stewart punches along the border, so pretty. And my spellbinder dies. A couple stamps later, glue it down and it was done.  Quick and simple, but I know she'll love it

And for the inside I used a sheet of the blue cardstock and stamped a swirl to it, just to give it a little texture or something

And finally my finishing stamp, one I got off this great seller from eBay. Love his selection and prices are amazing! Seriously!! 

Well thanks for looking!  I have another fun project to post for you guys. This is something that I love to do, more than pages. It is an altered item for a gift exchange. So be on the lookout, once my busy season at work ends, I will be back to creating and crafting all the time 






Around the track

Hello everyone! Sorry for the delay in posting my next project. We lost power for multiple days and it was hard to get online, then I went away for the weekend on a scrap retreat, working lots of hours... (Insert lots of random boring excuses here, haha)

Anyway, I worked on a page before the power went out.  It is kinda boring but I wanted to share with everyone. My little brother Jason is into racing cars. He belongs to a sports car club racing league and is a really good driver. (Seriously, you think scrapbooking is expensive, try racing cars! OUCH!!!).  My dad was always his chief crew member and my older brother was part of the crew. When my dad passed away, my older brother Matt became the chief crew member. Matt painted the car in a orange and white check pattern in memory of my dad (my dad had painted Jasons first race car those colors and he always loved them). For the first race of the season I went up to the track to watch them both in action. I was starting a new scrapbook and needed a single layout. So I started by picking the pictures that I wanted to use and paper. And what a great way to start a new album but a fun family memory at the track.

Here is a sampling of the supplies that I used. SEI paper pack called "En Route", the black paper is from AC Cardstock and the sand colored paper is from Core'dinations "Sandy Tan".  I also used some brads from My Minds Eye (Abbey Road Travel Kit), my gypsy and cricut.

I cut some arrows out from Graphically Speaking cricut cartridge on the sandy tan paper and the font from Nates ABCs in black paper.  Just slapped the photos on and tada!! Quick and simple.

To finish it off I just added 3 brads and drew arrows using a silver pen around the large tan arrows.

As a mom with 2 little boys at home, I struggle some times with the big boys layouts. I think this one, although simple, will do just fine in my album.

Rebecca

Welcome!!

So my good friends over at the papercraft weekend challenge group have encouraged me to start a blog. So here you have it . I hope to share with you some projects that I am currently working on as well as some old ones. To get us started, I thought I would post my calling card as a member of the cricut circle. Using my cricut has really opened up the world of paper crafting for me. No longer do I run out of the "A, E, N" stickers, now I can cut the ones that I want to use, with the right size, right color, its awesome.  I went to a meet up in PA and handed these out to fellow circle members. 

I used Hello Kitty Font and Mini Mono for the scalloped square.

I look forward to sharing more projects with you!

Rebecca