P365, LOAD 211, OMG, WDTM?

So this year, I decided to do Becky Higgins' Project Life or Project 365. That is to say that I am trying to take a picture every single day and put it in my beautiful, specially made album put out by Becky Higgins. Let me tell you, I love this idea. I even got my BFF to start her own album along with me. I've been doing great and haven't missed a picture yet. Although, truth be told, it's only been one month. But I really am loving it.

So fast forward to last week and I see a link on 2peas about Lain Ehmann's LOAD 211. What's LOAD 211, you ask? Well, it stands for Layout A Day Feb 2011. Get it, LOAD 211. Cute huh! Yay, sound's cool, so I sign up. Then it hits me. This means I'm supposed to not only create a layout everyday in Feb, but I also have to take a picture as well as up load it into Flickr. Am I crazy? Yes, yes I am. Picture a day {POTD} and layout of the day {LOAD}. Sah-weet!

But no matter, right? I can just use that LO to post everyday to my blog and then my faithful {non}readers can see for themselves what I'm up to in Feb. Because we've seen how well I keep up with my blog. ;)

Coloring your letter stickers

Did you know that you can use Bic Mark It's to color on your letter stickers? Neither did I!

 

I was creating this layout, but was too lazy to get out my Cricut. I only had while letter stickers {I believe they are Making Memories} and I wanted blue. So I took my daughters markers and just colored. They work really well for this. I want to get some white thickers to try too.

 

I think I may need some more colors though, because I'm trying desperately to ignore the fact that the marker is more of a bright blue that goes with the patterend paper {piggytails} rather then the more grey blue of the cardstock {bazzill} BTW-I totally scraplifted this from 2peas Garden Girl Nichol Magourik.

Sweet card for my Sweet

 

Hopefully, he doesn't see this. Hahahahahahaha! *wipes tears of laughter from eye* Sorry, like he'd ever look at crafty blog. Even if it was mine. :)

Anyway, I made this out of scraps that I found in my stash. They were so cute, I just had to use them. I can't even tell you who made the paper or the adorable valentines. I can tell you that I got both from my Apron Strings scrapbook kit in say 2008 (maybe?). The cardstock and ink are both Stampin Up! and the sentiment is Close To My Heart.
*Also, need to mention that this card was inspired by Megan Gravener over at Above Rubies Studio. Linky on the right --->

Almost made it, well not quite, okay not even half..

But I did go 5.5 months without spending a single cent on scrappy supplies. Go me, heh! But that whole $9.99 Cricut cartridges deal at Michael's did me in. Seriously, how could a person pass that up. I ended up coming home with 6 (yippee!!) cartridges. Old West, Pagoda, Cars, Sweethearts, Jubilee and Birthday Cakes. I *love* them.

I did find myself being pretty resourceful and found a new attitude towards scrapbooking. I've learned that it doesn't have to be perfect (perfect paper, perfectly matching colors, perfect embellishments, etc.) and to just enjoy the process, not the outcome. Well enjoy the outcome too, but mostly the process. Okay, enjoy both equally.

So on the whole, I'm pretty happy with what I did accomplish (even though, I blogged about none of it, sorry about that, although I guess it doesn't matter too much since no one but me reads this blog) and I can't wait to see all the new to me stuff I missed out on. I now fully embrace my title of The Girl Who has all the Scrappy goodies!

(Have you noticed I have a love affair with parentheses {is that how you spell that?})

A Year without Buying!

Over the last several (7!) years that I've been scrapbooking and cardmaking, I have amassed a huge quantity of crafty goodies. I'm talking over a foot of cardstock, about two feet of patterned paper, 70ish ink pads, 2 football fields worth of ribbon, more paper flowers than I can shake a stick at, and punches a plenty. There's no shortage of supplies here!

This summer I took a look around my scrap office and realized that I could probably go without buying anything for a full year. So I decided to try it! On August 1st of this year, I started a year long spending ban. Yikes! I'm not sure I can do it, but one month down, 11 to go and I'm doing okay.

My goal is to spend $0 on supplies and I don't think I'll even need to buy adhesive. I have 12 rolls of ATG tape and those last me a good long time. I have to confess though, I did buy a few things to make sure I could make it the entire year. I bought cricut and 12" trimmer blades, 2 12x12 albums (for 2010 and 2011 pages), several packages of pages protectors, black and white cardstock and an extra glue pen to keep me going.

I hope I make it!

Card for Little Cowboys

Because I have had 2 little girls for the last several years, most of my creations are decidedly girly. Lot's of pink, flowers, and frills. With the birth of my sweet baby boy though, all that has changed. And lucky for me, Provo Craft came out with a very cute baby boy cartridge called B is for Boy! I so love this cartridge. Here is a cute birthday card for a little boy I made using the hobby horse cut from B is for Boy.



I also used up a bunch of scraps for this card. Even the cardstock base was a scrap.

WDW page

I've been working on this layout, little by little, for the last week or so. It's finally finished and I love the way it came out. I used a sketch from Amy Alvis' 4x6 sketch blog and I designed my own Mickey head scallop paper using my Gypsy.
Papers and ink are Stampin Up!
Cricut used for title (Winnie the Pooh font) and ice cream cone (Once Upon a Princess)
Creative Memories Mickey punch (square in the upper right hand corner.)
Cuttlebug swiss dots on the cone.