Craft Room Update 3/11/10

Hi All,
Here is an update on my room. Ethan and I went to Lowes last night and picked out the paint. When I told him I was going to paint my room green he decided he wanted to go shopping with me. His favorite color is green and I think he wanted to make sure I picked the right shade of green. LOL

You all know my favorite color is blue, but since I have blue carpet I didn't want to paint the walls blue too. The color we picked is called Hazy Jade. It's a really pretty shade of green. Can't wait to start painting.

Here is what I got done last night...
I took out the black shelving and moved that into my sons room. He is thrilled because now he can display his Lego buildings and has places to put his Playmobil guys. He was so excited I even got him to dust the shelves.

I took down my Jetmax (or as my mom keeps calling them Inkjets or JetPacks) section and got the walls prepped for painting in these two sections.

I have to confess I have a love for the hammer and nails. Holy cow are there a lot of holes in my walls.

Here is what a picture of the section cleared...Isn't that radiator pretty?

Can't wait until tomorrow. Painting.....

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Craftroom re-do this weekend!

YAHOOOO!!!!

My schedule at work changed a little this week. A few longer days during the week and a few hours this weekend, but I'll be off Friday and Monday! Scott will be at work, Ethan will be at school.

You know what that means....I can start my room re-do tonight......

I'm running to Lowes (or Home Depot) tonight and I'll pick the paint and shelving. Then home to start boxing. Depending on what I get done tonight, tomorrow I will finish up the boxing and then start prepping the walls to be painted. Friday I will paint the room and then this weekend we'll start hanging the shelving. Monday will be a day of un-boxing and setting my room

These are some older pictures of my room.

I'm on my lunch break now, so back to work I go. 

Hope you are all having a great Wednesday.

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Another Thank You Card

Have you ever just felt like not using your Cricut? Yes I said it.....I just wasn't feeling it this past weekend....

Anyway here is a card that I did make...

Supplies: Kraft Cardstock (Paper Trey Ink), Berry Sorbet Satin Ribbon (Paper Trey Ink), Thank You Rub-on (Stampin' Up!), Butterfly  Punch (Martha Stewart), Scallop Punch (Fiskars), Nook and Pantry Pattern Paper (Basic Grey), Corner Rounder (Corner Chomper)

Guess what....I'm re-doing my craft room. Yep the week before Easter weekend Scott and I are going to dismantle the whole room. There will be nothing left in my space. Not even my computer. GASP! (thank goodness I have my laptop). I'm so excited! I've been wanting to re-do my room for a very long time. I've tried just moving things around, but it's just not the same. I'll post pictures of the progress...Do I really have to wait 3 more weeks?

Have a great Tuesday.

Don't forget LOST is on tonight. LOL I'm totally addicted to that show.

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Thank You Card

I hope you are all having a nice relaxing Sunday! I know I am. I've got dinner in the slow cooker so that is done. Laundry and house cleaning is done and I even had some time to craft.....Yahoo!

Today's video is a Thank You card that I made for my son to send to everyone that gave him gifts for his birthday. He had a great day!

Enjoy!

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Hello Card

Happy Friday,

The other day I picked up my son at my mom's house after work and what does my mom have. A card I made for her birthday when I first started scrapping. Well I had to take it so I can post...

First here is a card I made this morning...

Supplies: Cricut Lyrical Letters Cartridge, Cricut Expression, Scallop Nestabilities, Summer Sunshine Paper Trey Ink Cardstock, Summer Sunshine Satin Ribbon, We R Memory Keepers "Grandma's Kitchen" pattern paper. 

Now here is the card from probably that mid to late 90's. I wish I wrote on the card the year I made it. It's amazing how things change and our tools for scrapping keep us changing how we do things.

Have a great Friday and a scrappy weekend!

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Child's Year Card

Happy Tuesday,

I hope you are all having a great week so far....

I took a few last night to play with A Child's Year Cricut cartridge. I think the new cartridges coming out in March has gotten me going again. Preserves looks like it will be the first one in my shopping cart. and Give a hoot looks good too and....

Oh wait I was talking about A Child's Year... I've been having a hard time deciding what to create with this cartridge. I love the images, but just don't know what to do with them....Here is one I came up with last night. As I'm typing this I'm thinking these images would look great on the wooden frames from Michael's. Maybe a project for tonight? 

Supplies: Sweet Blush Paper Trey Ink Cardstock and Satin Ribbon, My Minds Eye pattern paper, Bazzill brown and off white cardstock, White Pearls from Queen and Company. 

I've received some blog awards over the past few days. I just wanted to thank you all so much. How sweet you all are. I have to go back and read all the comments over the past week and make a list of the awards so I can post them all at once. I'll be working on that over the next few days.

Hugs to all of you. You are all so very very kind and sweet.

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Miss You Card~Video

Hi All,
I hope you are having a wonderfully relaxing weekend. I've been having a ball, I've gotten some much needed crafting time. Lovin' it.

Today is a "Miss You" card using the Home Decor Cricut Cartridge.

Supplies: Home Decor Cricut Cartridge, Oh la la pattern paper by My Minds Eye, Paper Trey Ink Aqua Mist Cardstock and satin ribbon, Paper Trey Ink Vintage Cream Cardstock, Bazzil Brown Cardstock, Fiskars Scallop Punch, SU! Word Window Punch, SU! Label Punch, My Pink Stamper Stamps, ATG Adhesive Gun.

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Songbird Card-Video

Today is my baby boy's birthday! 

Happy Birthday Buddy!

I can't believe he is 8 years old already. 

It's day two of snow. It started yesterday morning at 4:30 am and it's still going this morning. We have almost 9 inches of snow and the drifting is amazing.

Here is a quick video using the Cricut Songbird Cartridge. I needed some bright pretty spring colors to help kill my cabin fever.

supplies: PTI white cardstock, Bazzil brown cardstock, PTI Raspberry Fizz satin ribbon, Daisy Bucket pattern paper, Cricut Songbird cartridge.

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Picture Frame

I started making this frame just for fun. It's one of those $1.00 wooden frames you can find at Michael's. 

I painted the frame with a off-white acrylic paint then layered Bazzil cardstock with some My Minds Eye pattern paper. I did a zig zag stitch around the outside and inside of the pattern paper.  I really really love how it came out. 

I cannot stop making these flowers. I wanted to show you a close-up of the flower so you can see the "Diamond Dust" I added. Diamond Dust can be found at Michael's in the adhesive aisles. Have you seen the Prima flowers at Michael's that have the water drop look? Well this is what you use. Just think off all the flowers you can make...If you haven't seen my video on how to make these flowers click HERE

Have a great Wednesday!

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Teapot Mini

I finished my Teapot Mini. It's a gift for a family friend. She collects teapots so I thought she would really enjoy this.

Have a great week.

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