Pierce This!

Evening! Or Early Early Morning! =]

I made this layout to document getting my eyebrow pierced. These 3 pictures, that I cut out with deckle scissors have been on a piece of printed paper since I got the pictures back. So I thought I'd do a proper layout of them!!

I got the title from a comedian. I get my inspiration from strange places, I know. lol. A couple weeks ago on a Saturday, Comedy Central had Comedy Central Presents on ALL DAY. If you don't know what that is, it's pretty much a comedian for 1/2 an hour doing stand up. Have you heard of Rocky LaPorte? If not, you must check him out. He's HALARIOUS!! Click on his name to go directly to Comedy Central and see his videos.. just keep clicking "next video" and you'll see the whole 1/2 hour. After you watch it... you'll understand my title! If you do watch him, let me know what you think!

I had my Dad watch them when I was drying my hair and I was laughing sooo hard just hearing him laugh like crazy!! No one can crack me up just from lauging like Dad can!! He was the same way with my Aunt Syl.. just thinking about it makes me laugh!

All the paper on this layout is by SEI, their Poppy Collection. LLOOOVVEE this collection. I don't buy many full collections cause there's usually a few that I don't like whatsoever. Not that I need more paper.. ohh that's pictures coming up... you'll see!

I hand cut the flowers and traced a Jenni Bowlin Die Cut Paper - Label. I love the shape but can never find the size of things I want in that shape, so I thought I'd make my own. I used distressed stickles and crackle accents (my favorite!) on the flowers.

To keep my journaling straight, I used a little dotted line stamp and Versamark ink. So I could still see it, but it's not really seen if you're not looking for it. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been even close to straight!! To make the lines straight, I used my Self Healing Mat and my ruler. I lined up the ruler with the markings on my map and left the ruler there while I stamped. I stamped every inch then went back and without the ruler, stamped every 1/2 inch between.

Journaling: By the look on Mom's face, you'd think a stranger was forcing a straight needle through HER face! When you thin of a teenager getting a piercing, you don't think of them taking their Mom with them, except me of course! Mom, Erin & I went to Charlie's after much begging. I'll admit, it hurt much more than I was expecting! It throbbed for a while and was sore for a couple days and never hurt since. I've had all kinds of "eyebrow jewelry". Plastic, stainless steel, a hoop, a regular barbell, dice, thorns, blue, white, black, orange and purple. 3/2002

Like I was saying with Label Die Cut Paper, I love the label/top note shape but can't find it a lot. So, while at our closest scrap store, a 1/2 hour away (We lost both of our store this year, I'm guessing to the economy.) I found a 6x6 template, made by The Crafter's Workshop. You can use spray ink, outline, doodle, put ink on it and stamp with it. It's pretty cool.. this is the "Orchid" one that I got.. this is what the whole thing looks like..

They come in 12x12 templates too!

I used my crackle accents (yes, again!) to use just a little section of the template.

A Good Sense Of Direction

I made this card for Day #349 at 365 Cards. The challenge was "A Good Sense Of Direction".. Something that has to do with direction - think about words like here or there, North, South, East, and West. Or maybe use a symbol or two, like an arrow. Here's what I came up with...

My cousin in Ohio brought me a magnet that said "Where the hell is Easy Street?" Little did she know... we actually have an Easy St. here, hehe.

Happily Ever After

I made this card for Caardvarks challenge this week. To make your best Wedding Card. I don't really like how mine turned out. I should have left the background white, it looks a little too tye die for my taste!! But, enjoy anyway!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Happy Valentine's Day!! I hope you all have a lovely day!!

Enjoy this sweet video! This is my niece singing "Elmo's World"... then she just mouths it, lol. Don't forget to pause my music player at the bottom of my blog so you can hear this goofball!!

..down the hill he goes

For those of you who don't know, we rescued a dog on Christmas Eve named Scruffy. He's a cute little white poodle/terrier mix. (Don't worry, pictures to follow!) Since we got him, when he needs to go to the bathroom, I take him for a walk. 4 walks a day that is.. which is fine, God knows I need the exercise too! I did that cause in our backyard we have a fence and on both sides it's open. There's all kinds of critters down there, especially at night. Just 2 nights ago there was a opossum in the backyard, just strolling along. So last night, at 2am, I was getting ready to go to bed, so I left him out in the back. Dad put two fences where the openings were so he couldn't get down the hill yesterday. Wouldn't you know that little stinker went UNDER it?? I still don't know how he fit! So I'm standing outside thinking "uhhh what do I do now!?" lol. Of course this is also the one time I couldn't find a flash light ANYWHERE! So I quietly snuck into my parents room and got my Dads. Doesn't everyone in Earthquakeville keep one by their bed? No? Just Us? I went back outside... I'm not sure at this point what I thought a flash light was going to do!! Fast forward to an hour later... he's at the top of the right side of the hill. Begging and pleaded is not working. I have the flashlight in one hand, trying to move a gate that's a good 60lbs with the other. He FINALLY comes back up. And this is what he looked like.... keep in mind, it's now 3am...

His face was just soaked!

Nice muddy feet too. At this point there is now mud on my favorite jammies ever (thanks Luci for those!) and my Ohio State sweatshirt.

As I said on my facebook status... no one PLANS to wash their dog at 3am. This was after his bath.. all white and fluffy again!

Tomorrow is his first visit to the Vet.. with me anyway. I hope to God he's been before! I had signed him up for dog training classes, cause this little boy, although cute as a bug, has some manner problems.. not many though. So I signed him up at UNLEASHED. We just got it a couple months ago I believe. It's owned by Petco. I must say, the people that work there are the best.. they're so personable, they actually listen to what you have to say and they're just the nicest. Unlike Petsmart. That was where I went first to check out prices and all. The girl who helped me cost her store $$, I'll tell ya that right now!!

So anyway, I've been trying to get his shot paper since we adopted him. The place where we adopted him, one of the people who either runs it or owns it found him at a shelter, got him to adopt out at their rescue place but instead fell in love with him and he stayed at her house for about a year. She's the one that said "Oh I need to get you his papers"... not me. So when I signed him up a week ago, I called, left a message. The next day I called the store and told them the situation that I signed him up for classes and I had to have his shot papers in hand when I go. They said they'd contact her... nothing. Thursday I called again and talked to her husband and he said she'd call me back at 7:30... again, nothing. So I called today and I'm not one to confront strangers, but at this point I was getting a little mad!! So I called and talked to her husband again and it turns out that he never had his Rabies shot. Ok.... this dog lived at their house for a year, with a 2 year old, and you knew that and never got it? They hold shot clinic at the place I adopted him. So it's not like she never had the chance. Just weird in my book. So we got to the Vet just to have him checked out then at 4 we go there to get his shot. I'll be curious to see if she's there.. since it seems she's been avoiding me this whole time. Couldn't have called me week ago and told me? Something sketchy here.

You make me smle all over my face

Don't you just love that quote? I saw it in a stamp set at Joann's, it's by a 5 year old I believe. One night when the little one was at our house, we were making some jewelry. The jewelry was made out of perm rods =] You can see her necklace in the picture on the left!! We wanted to get a picture of her new bling, so she sat down with Papa and my sister said "Klayre, smile!"... little did we know this is what she was going to do! lol. She just has the best smile!! I apologize for this horrible photo! With the embossing and photos it was hard to take a photo of it.

This layout was made for Capture These Sketches - #3 - Dopey

How can you look at this picture and not start laughing yourself?!

New Layout!!

Do you guys like my new layout? I thought I'd decorate for Valentine's Day =]

Family & a Target trip!

This may be one of my favorite layouts I've ever made.. granteed, there's not A LOT to pick from, lol, but I really like this one. I cut the printed paper out... vvverrry carefully. But I'm the type that has a lot of patients with this kind of thing. The type that gets excited when necklaces are tangled together.. so I can try to take them apart! I know I know, that's not healthy =]

I used crackle accents on parts of the flowers... can you see it?

I don't know what it is with small eyelets like this, but I can not set them. I use my crop-a-dile, or crop-a-gator as my sister calls it (it's not cute, she's 28, lol). Anyway, they won't set properly! They're not cheapy ones either, they're Making Memories.. so I'm not sure what the problem is. Around the hole gets all smooshed, so I put some crackle accents on those too, and you can't even tell there was a problem =] Does anyone else have this problem with small eyelets?

This is my new stamp I got at CHA. I stamped it on Kraft Cardstock and cut it out. I embossed "Family" with Copper and used a white gel pen for journaling.

Journaling reads:

Every generation finds out from the next that the way they brought up its kids was all together wrong! Mother's Day 2009

Trip To Target

Today My Grandma took her friend Carolyn, my Mom, my Sis, the little one and I out to lunch at Bob's Big Boy. They all made fun of me cause I ordered Breakfast! Big Boys are delicious but I felt like breakfast!! So what if it was 1:00 in the afternoon, lol. After "lunch", my Sister, the little one and I went to Target. My sister was looking for something so Klayre and I went to the toy section! Klayre's 2 by the way. 2 year old.. toy section, you think this would turn out really bad, right? lol. This little one is so well behaved it just amazes us. My Sister says she'd like to think it's her and my Brother-In-Law's parenting, but she's pretty sure they just got lucky! She says "Bless You", or "Bess You" she says "Thank You", or "Tank You", she says "Please".. or "Pease"! Doesn't say her L's yet!! Anyway, back to Target!

We were walking up and down the isles and this was the convo we had..

Klayre: "TT, yook! I hod pease?"

(TT, look! I hold please?"

TT: Sure, you can hold one, which one would you like to hold?

Klayre:"Dis one!"

... a minute or so passes ...

Klayre: Okay, "I a done"

(Ok, I'm all done)

We keep walking and she finds another and another and another

Klayre: "Hold dis one?"

(Hold this one?)

TT: "Alrighty!"

Klayre: "Can we open dis one TT?"

TT:" No, we can't baby, it's not ours"

Klayre: "Ohhh, okay"...."Buy dis one TT?

TT: "Not today Klayre-A-Bell"

Klayre: "Ohhh, okay... anoder day?"

(oh, okay, another day?)

TT: "Sure, another day we can!"

Klayre: "Okay.. put dis one bat?"

(ok, put this one back?)

now...... my question, what 2 year old does that??? lol. Any other child, 2-11 would be screaming there head off. She amazes me on a daily basis. Today in the car I asked if she wanted something and she said "no tank you" I said "how about this one?" and she said "I don't want that one either" Either? Are you sure you're 2?? lol. Love You Klayre-A-Bellie!

Marsha's Birthday

Happy Belated Birthday to Marsha! So far in sending out Birthday Cards, just this year I am already 0/2 getting them out on time! This is the card I made for Marsha (RN2007 on sb.com). It is also for Day 330 on 365 Cards.

Me... organizing?? whhaattt.

I don't know what got into me but I've been organizing like crazy!

First, I must explain some of the background in this photo! lol. The mannequin legs... for those of you who don't know me personally, I've had a leg problem since I was 13. My parents go back to Ohio every year and they asked what I wanted. I said "new legs please!" Ask and you shall receive!

At CHA, a booth was selling ribbon and this is how they had it all hung... with shower curtain hooks! The round ones could work just as well! I bought 2 3M hooks, the kind you can put up anywhere and take off any time without hurting the surface you put them on. I used a spring rod (I have no idea what it's really called, lol sorry!) and placed the hooks on it. When I need a ribbon, I take it down, since I had to put it pretty high on my wall cause I'm running out of room!

This is my 2nd organizing project! I bought a 3 inch binder and a box of transparencies. I used a 3 whole punch on the transparencies and on some white 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock. I taped the front of the stamp transparencies (that has what the stamp looks like in a color) on the front of the transparency and placed the stamps on the back. Then place another transparency on the back and put the white piece of cardstock behind the 2nd transparency so I could see the stamps.

I of course STAMPED the side label!

These are 2 pages, all the other aren't this full, trust me!

These are the labels I made to make sections in my stamp binder. I used the Fabulous Finds Cartridge for the cricut. Those are also some of my favorite brads! I bought this paper cause I thought it would be so cute as a skirt, lol. A pencil skirt! Ohhh man that would be cute!

Storm Watch 2010!

Every year when it rains, or almost rains, every news channel has "STORM WATCH", what seems like all day! It just has to sprinkle and we're on storm watch! On Tuesday, it was actually raining and I wanted to go for a walk. About 2 weeks ago I started going on a 45 minute to an hour walk every other day. I usually take Scruffy with me, but since it was raining, it was just me! Mom and Dad told me that I should wait until it stopped raining to go. I told them "It's just water!" lol, am I wrong? I had an umbrella, I wasn't going to melt! So I went our normal route and as I was going up the hill I spotted a rainbow! So of course, I snapped some pictures! What makes it even more fun is that a couple days before my niece, Klayre, who LOVES Sesame Street, just watched an episode about rainbows. So I was more excited that she'd get to see the pictures, since she was napping at the time!!

CHA or bust!!

This weekend was CHA in Anaheim, California. My Mom, Sister, Niece and I went today! I was AWESOME! Such an exciting event. Sadly, Tim Holtz was not there. Well, he was, but only teaching classes, so I didn't get to meet him! But I had a blast anyway! This is a picture of all of us!! Klayre had just woke up from her nap, otherwise, she'd be cheesin' it up for the camera!
I can see the stripe top was a bad idea, LOL. I just loved it though! You wouldn't think I lived in Southern California with glow in the dark white arms like that, would ya? =]

I did 2 make and takes. This is my first make and take EVER in my life! =] It's a little journal. I made it at The Art Bar booth, with liquid laminate and specialty tissue paper.

This was my 2nd, and last make and take. It wasn't in any booth, just a counter for them.

My Goodies!

There's a couple things I don't have seperate photos of... first is the shaped paper on the left. It's by Fancy Pants - Vintage Valentine - Ledger/Floral Bracket. In the back on the right is The Poppy Collection by SEI, looove it! I also got a Singo white gel pen. On the right next to one of the Design Runner disks is a free sample I got. It was from Dillon's Laser Designs. You put a photo behind it and it looks like you cut the photo into little pieces. They have a whole bunch of different laser cut pages too. Check out there site! Or you can be like me and do it the difficult way... cut a 4x6 photo every 1/2 inch and put a pop dot on the back of each one..... =]

Behind those are 4 6x6 pieces of chipboard that I got at The Red Bee booth. I'm not sure what they're going to be yet..... lol, but probably mini albums of some sort!

I got 3 6X6 paper backs from Basic Grey. I got Orgins, Eskimo Kisses & Lemonade.

My Favorite paper from each stack...

Eskimo Kisses

Lemonade

Orgins

*these are TOTALLY my colors*

I got a Xyron Design Runner for Christmas. Infact it was from a complete stranger on scrapbook.com. She found one at a thrift store, for a dollar and never used it and asked me if I'd like it. At Joann's there only 3 different disks, so when I saw these at the Scrapbook Corner booth, for $15 dollars cheaper, I HAD to have them!

Scrapworks Collection 1 & 2

Ballerina Font

I honestly had some sort of sickness. I seem to only buy date, journaling or alphabet stamps! I added more to my collection that day, from the Technique Tuesday booth.

Is this journaling spot not the cutest?!

At The Red Bee booth, stickles were 6 for $11. I didn't have any Distress stickles, so I mostly got those. I have never had a red stickles, so I got that one too.

Inchies!

I'm participating in Mel's inchie swap on scrapbook.com and got a chance to make my first inchies. Man are they small! But I enjoyed making them!! I used Core'dination cardstock and Inkadinkado's Birds Galore Stamp set for both the flowers (it was part of a bird stamp, but I just used the flowers) and the birds. I embossed them and used stickles and sepia glossy accents on them. The word stamps are KI Memories, verbology.