Candles

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Funny thing... I've made a lot of candles in the last year for gifts and people have purchased them from me to give as gifts and such. These four candles were "commissioned" by someone who is a dear friend of my mother's, as well as a fellow member of our church family. I say church family because we spend so much time there that it truly is another family to us.

Anyway -- I just figured I'd snap a few pictures and share. I used some Prima flowers on a few and some pretty ribbons, blingy brads, pearl pins, all sorts of goodies. The stamps are mostly scripture verse stamps from Hobby Lobby and the candles are from Michael's. :)





And a few close-ups:



These are always so fun to make and I'm hoping to get a few moments to make more soon!

Thanks for looking!

Pure BLISS!

For those of you who know me or even for those who have been following my blog for a bit, you may notice that I have hardly any themed stuff. For instance, wedding, Christmas, or most holidays... I have this major aversion to Holiday or themed paper. I like it, I think its pretty. I have a really hard time getting it to come out how I see things in my head without being what I would consider something to be over the top (*gasp* Did I just say that I'm over the top sometimes??? haha).

I've been married for a little over 7 years now and just recently someone introduced this site/blog to me suggested trying it for a challenge. (Scrapbooking From the Inside out has a lot of great challenges, check out their site!) I'm always up for a good challenge, so I figured I could do a wedding layout and really challenge myself. :)

Here is the end product --- I like it! What do you think?


I don't come right out and say that I love a page that I make myself too often, but I really really do love this one!

Here are some close-ups of details:



And for those of you straining your eyes trying to see what I wrote - I'm not ashamed of my love for my husband... so I'll share!
"This picture is taken with one of the few throw away cameras we had around during the reception. Granted its not a great picture of the two of us, but you can certainly tell just how happy we were this day! I love you!"

We just celebrated 7 years last week Monday, Sept 20th. You know how we celebrated? It was a normal day.... but thats okay. Its a nice reminder of how far we've come and what we have with our family and most importantly, our beautiful children. (We did go to dinner on Sunday night, the 19th to Buffalo Wild Wings, nothing fancy - but we used to go on a date every Tuesday night-Wing night when we were dating and first married.) Oh, and a leak in the basement... minor drama for the evening running to Home Depot before they closed to get the parts needed to replace some valves in the basement so we wouldn't have water leaking all over the floor. Yep, just another day in paradise. :)

And now I'm done being mushy for today... I promise. :)

Crate Paper

I have a lot of Crate Paper now and I have yet to use any of it. This line just screams "little boy" pictures to me, even though its called 'Brook'. Loooooove the vibrant colors and all of the fun curves and textures in the paper.
Anyway, sorry for the critique on Crate Paper - but their paper is fantastic. Really. Get some today! :)

Here's my layout of my little guy last summer... he wasn't so sure if he liked sitting in the grass but he loved watching all of the animals and was very curious what was going on in the bushes!

Birthday Girl!

This is the very first birthday layout I've scrapped of my daughter... and it is from over six months ago when she turned five. How bad is that? Show's you how far behind I am on things. :) I'm still playing catch up with the baby books!

The paper is from SEI - a recent release of birthday stuff. Lots of cute graphics and embellishments for this line, I enjoyed the bright colors. I have a hard time scrapping holidays and birthdays because I feel like somehow they always end up kind of cheesy, but I love how this turned out. :)

Thanks for looking!

Cuttle Buggin'!

This is such a fun layout, if I do say so myself.

My lovely daughter decided she wanted to help me make some origami flowers for some cards that I did a while back for a card swap. I figured she could use the cuttlebug no problem since she has her little cuttle kids. Well, she comes downstairs all dressed up and ready to help me... in her butterfly costume. She figured if she was going to use my cuttleBUG she should be a bug! How is that for a five year old's train of thought?

The paper and die cut are from one of the new Quite Contrary My Mind's Eye lines. I embellished the die-cut to make it have more texture and dimension and then of course there are some lovely new Thickers that one of my scrappy friends sent me, thanks Jessica! :)




("pearls" are from Liquid pearls... I finally used them! Yeah! I used a lot of Stickles on this page too. Gotta love all the sparkles!)

Just a note!

A cute little birdie card I did with the new DCWV stack 'Songbird'. :)

From the Scrap and Chat Weekend. :)

Here are the other layouts I got done this weekend during an online 'Scrap and Chat'... like a mini crop thing. :)

An 'OOPS' challenge - to incorporate pictures of little ones with boo-boos and things... this was when my niece had a broken ankle and they had rented a wheelchair for their vacation (would be walking a lot) and they brought home my daughter one night and I saw them walking down the street to come home and I had to snap a picture of her on her lap -- so funny! :)





Banner Challenge (products on this page are mostly from the Dear Lizzie American Crafts line):





And then the last one is a mosaic picture challenge... I scrapped a picture of some gorgeous bright pink flowers my husband surprised me with one day 'just because'. He's so sweet to me. :)

'Scraplift' from CK

I got a few layouts done this weekend for some challenges! :)

I scraplifted this idea from the newest Creating Keepsakes magazine... page 103 (a Jennifer McGuire layout):




Its a picture of my little guy passed out in his stroller after a long day at the zoo on his first birthday. (We had the party on a different day - his birthday was on a Monday... so we decided a trip to the zoo was in order!)

Page Kit Swap! :)

Hello, hello! Its been a little bit since my last post. I've been holding onto my latest projects so I could post them in groups.

I was involved in a neat swap on a scrapbooking board where we made up little page kits and sent to everyone in our groups. I was in three groups and four people in each group.

Here's my first girl group I was in... there weren't too many rules. We sent 2 patterned papers and a piece of cardstock and some random embellishments to match. From there it was wherever our creativity took us!











This was technically a 'girl kit' - but I kept going back to this picture so I just had to use it! :)


I have one more girl group and an 'Anything Goes' group to finish up! I have a few done, but will post when I have all four for each group!