Just Call me Lazy!

Yep, that's why I haven't been updating my blog these past days.  I am just plain lazy.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it, lol! That, and I'm tired and right now I'm sticky hot on this Memorial Day Weekend.  Today I went to a family picnic and now I'm at home catching up on laundry and prepping my 2 rocking chairs on my front porch to be repainted.  That's what I love about these extended holiday weekends... gives me the opportunity to do extra household chores and home projects that have been on hold for so long!  Ohh, and of course, being lazy and chowing down ice cream AND all the other favorite picnic foods ! ;)

So  this week I had a very heavy box delivered to my front door.  We are talking about 35 lbs. of heaviness... 35 lbs. of pure LOVE!  My first Core'dinations dt box arrived and it was overflowing with  cardstock.  I just couldn't believe my eyes, and tearing into that box, I felt just like a little kid on Christmas Day!  I've started creating some things with it too this week, mostly card designs. 

Most of them I can't really show just yet, but I'll share one card that I made using the Vintage Core collection, which is one of my favorite lines. 

This card also uses some yummy Sassafras papers and one of their chipboard flower accents.  And to you see the denim strip on there?  I rubbed some cute Studio Calico button rub-ons over it and added them to an old Creative Cafe diecut frame as well!  The sentiment is a Papertrey Ink stamp.

I also participated in a fun card kit swap this week at the Nook and here's a card that I put together to send along to my swap partner...

For this card I used up the remains of my Pink Paislee (House of Three) Daily Junque paper scraps, and the darling flower I created using the Cricut Give a Hoot cartridge.

So that's all I have for this time, but I hope everyone is having a great weekend!  We don't have much at all planned for tomorrow but we'll probably hang out with some friends at their camp-site... and maybe I'll even have some more ice cream!  ;)  Perfect plan!

A Sketch At Nikki Sivils!

Howdy!  Hope everyone's had an enjoyable weekend.  Hard to believe it's about wrapped up... those Sunday evenings sure do come around quickly when you don't want them to, lol! 

I had big intentions of doing a lot of scrapping this weekend, but somehow those intentions didn't amount to much at all between catching up on the loads of laundry, sweeping the floors and cleaning out closets.  The Nook was having their May virtual crop all weekend long and they had 29 challenges listed.  I really had hoped to do many of them... I wrote them all down too and was thinking about which challenges to attack first.  In reality though, I was only able to produce one layout for the #12 challenge to "Go Wild About Animals".  At least I did finally get these pix scrapped from last summer when we had a little thief amongst us... a sneaky groundhog who kept burrowing it's way into our garden to feast upon our veggies.  For this page, I used some of the adorable Beatrice papers from Nikki Sivils and also used the sketch from the Nikki Sivils blog to try to earn a Guest Design Team spot. 

And here's the sketch...

I also used a variety of Core'dinations cardstock here and the Paper Lace and Sweethearts Cricut cartridges. 

Okay, that's it... that's all I got done, so it's all I've got to share for this time.  Ohh, I almost forgot though, I also wanted to share that I had some fun scrappy happy emails this past week as well... I had one card requested for the Oct. CARDS issue as well as four other projects picked up for the Oct. issue of Cricut, so of course those really made my week super exciting!  And did you know that the Cricut magazine has gone monthly now instead of bi-monthly?!  I'm really stoked about that! 

Well, I do need to be on my way... Monday morning will be here before I want it to and I've got to go to work.  It is nice to be working outside of the home part-time again, but I don't think I can ever get used to and enjoy the Monday morning routines!  Hope everyone has a great week :)

I'm Shocked to the Core!

This is what I woke up to find this morning...

HAPPY NATIONAL SCRAPBOOKING DAY!

We wanted thank each and every person for applying for the Design Team Call.

It was not easy and the Core’dinations Team spent endless hours going through the entries. There were so many amazing entries and narrowing things down was extremely difficult.

Without further ado, here is the new Core’dinations Cardstock Design Team (in alphabetical order).

 Andrea Amu 
April Derrick
Char Dobson
Leica Forrest
Lydia Jackson
Kim Jeffress
Brianne Nevill
Melissa Oliveira
Debbie Standard
Shaunte Wadley

Sarah Hodgkinson, DT Core’dinator

Ellen Sosnoski, Blog Core’dinator

Core Teachers:
Vicki Boutin
Cari Locken
Kimber McGray

Again, thank you to all of the applicants!!! We thank you for

the amazing entries and for your love of Core’dinations Cardstock. It

means so much to see that.

I was floored!  Still am.  But I can not hardly wait to get started in my venture with them.  I also want to give my congratulations to all the other designers!  Well done, and I look forward to working with you all this term!

Now onto other scrappy news on this wonderful National Scrapbooking Day...

as I am also hosting a fun last minute Mother's Day layout challenge for NSD at For The Luv of Art.com.  Would love to see you all pop in over at FTLOA and play along.  Here is the thread LINK to my challenge.  All you need to do is complete a page which includes:

* Fussy cutting with some patterned paper.

* Using either the word "Mom", "Daughter", "Son" or "Family" as part of your title/sub-title.

* Using butterflies as some sort of embellishing.

Here's my example which I am framing and giving to my mom for Mother's Day tomorrow...

I used lots of Core'dinations (Cosmo Cricket Neutrals collection in Weathered Tin Mixed Dot and Jenni Bowlin Studio Vintage Brights collection in Aquarium Butterfly), Pink Paislee/House of Three Daily Junque papers ("Tickets" and "News") and some Maya Road embellishments.  All my diecutting accents were created with the Cricut, monograms from A Child's Year cartridge and the postcard design and Always & Forever phrase from the Sentimentals cartridge. 

Your challenge page should be completed and uploaded to my thread my Monday, noon (EST). This is the RAK that is up for grabs for one random participant...

Hope you'll play along and join in with all the other fun challenges happening over at FTLOA today and throughout the rest of the weekend!   I am going to get going so I can finish getting my scrap on ... it's been a very fast paced day and unfortunately, I've gotten very little done.  How does time fly so quickly when you are doing things you love to do?  Anyway, I hope everyone else is enjoying their day too.  Happy NSD and best wishes to all for a very special Mother's Day tomorrow as well!

 

My Layout at GingerScrapStreet Magazine!

Good afternoon all! 

Just wanted to do a quick post for today, as I'll be back Saturday to post some stuff for NSD (National Scrapbook Day)! 

I have a layout featured in the May 2011 issue of GingerScrapStreet's digital publication which can be seen HERE!  And here's my page as well with some extra detail shots too...

This layout was based on the following wonderful sketch by the uber talented, Allison Davis, featured on her Sketch Support site...

For this page I used the heart, medallion and cupid accents cut from the Cricut Sweethearts cart and the font, XOXO and fabulous heart border which I cut using the Cricut Paper Lace cart.

That wonderful houndstooth is a digital paper design by Chris Hertel.  I've used that print of hers numerous times, but I love it and it's so fun to use on layouts and cards.  If you'd like to download some of your own, you can HERE!  Just be sure to give Chris some well deserved credit! ;) 

Thanks for stopping by! I'll be seeing you all around on Saturday for NSD!  Can't wait!