Scrapbook Nook everything!!!!! *Photo Heavy*

HA!!!! What do you think?!!! Better? Yes! I have to thank dear Sasha for giving me the suggestion of changing my template!! It did the trick in a snap!! I really don't know why I hadn't thought of that before. :P I guess that just shows how brain dead I can be sometimes! LOL! Anyway posts are going to be great from now on! I do need to tweak the coloring a bit but for a few days until I can get to it this is how it is going to be.

So this post is all about the Scrapbook Nook!!! I have so much to show you and catch up with telling you! DT projects from both February and March and also pictures of the new kit!!! And let me tell you this is the best kit ever!!! It is so jam packed I can hardly believe it! I have already created three LOs with this and I just got it a few days ago! I am going to be taking pics of the LOs tomorrow so that is another post still to come. :D

First off we will catch up on February. :D This is the first LO I have done about Jed and I getting married. Very simple and to the point. And I love the photo of us so much I think I have scraped with it like 5 other times so far!! LOL! *Just to clear the air that is not a photo of us when we got married. This photo is from a little while after that we took ourselves. I actually remembered the camera when we got married but totally forgot the photo cartridge so we don't have any photos from the actual ceremony! Funny I know but so classic of me.*

And I am going to start doing a new feature on my blogs whenever I post a LO or project. I am going to start giving a list of supplies! Yay! I see other people do this and I really like it because then I can track down those awesome things that they use! So here is the first one for the LO above...

Supplies: Paper-Kraft cardstock, Jenni Bowlin
Calendar-Jenni Bowlin
Ticket-Making Memories
Letter stickers-American Craft
Flowers-Maya Road

This next project I actually did for both Scrapbook Nook and the February Date Night category over at Category Stories. It is a little coupon book that I gave to my husband! :D He is not actually going to do anything with it, and his reasoning makes sense. He says that it doesn't matter what night he might decide to use one of those I will always have some excuse or need to do something with Cree, the house or scrapping. :P So it is a little more for show and fun than actually being useful. I don't by any means neglect him or anything so he doesn't feel too much need for this book anyway. :D



Supplies: Paper-Kraft cardstock, Jenni Bowlin
Tickets- Making Memories
Pink Ribbon- Making Memories packaging :D
Other-grosgrain muslin ribbon, stick pins, embroidery thread

This next one is a little LO I did of Cree and her first hairdo! She looked like a Who from Whoville when I did it so I had to take a pic and document that! She looks so tiny there! Wow I can't believe how much they change in such a short period of time!


Supplies: Paper-Jenni Bowlin, Black cardstock
Journaling tags-Jenni Bowlin
Tickets-Making Memories
Ribbon-Prima

Now moving on to the March kit!!! Yay!!! This is such a gorgeous kit! And there are still a few available! Click here to get it! And there are also still a few of the addons available too! This kit is perfect for a lot of things but is specially made for celebrating a wedding! It is the Everafter line from Cosmo Cricket!

Complete Contents: 12 double sided cardstock weight paper from Cosmo Cricket
1 double sided cardstock weight border paper from Cosmo Cricket
1 double side cardstock weight journaling cards from Cosmo Cricket
1 package of rubons from Cosmo Cricket
1 sticker sheet (sayings) Cosmo Cricket
1 fancy lace from Prima
1 say it in Pearls from Prima
1 sheet of Alpha Stickers from Basic Grey two colors
1 package of buttons from Jenni Bowlin

This is a tiny LO I did of Cree and Jed. Such a wonderful picture! That is her favorite place to be!

Supplies: Paper-Cosmo Cricket, Making Memories, Grey cardstock
Chipboard-Cosmo Cricket
Word Sayings-Cosmo Cricket
Ribbon-Cosmo Cricket
Letter stickers-Basic Grey

This LO was actually a lot of work that you don't see. LOL! Don't you hate it when you work sooo hard on something that is super complicated and it just doesn't come out as intense and complex as you thought it would? hehe. Anyway. I did a lot of sewing on the tulle to paper underneath what you see and also the whole piece is raised up super duper tall so that all those chipboard pieces and flowers and things could fit under there and still have the top layer flat and not bulky. :D Did any of that make any sense? But still I really like how this one turned out. This is another photo that I am using to no end because I just love it! And it has been working great with the last few kits I have gotten so why not? The glittered swirls in case you are wondering are actually the plastic backing on the Prima pearl swirls and I just filled the little dot indentations with fabric paint (clear glitter filled) and then covered it with glitter! :D I really like how it turned out! And it made those swirls last twice as long!

Supplies: Paper-Cosmo Cricket
Ribbon-Prima, Making Memories
Chipboard-Cosmo Cricket
Rubons-Cosmo Cricket
Swirls-Prima packaging with Pink Paislee glitter on them!
Letter stickers-Basic Grey
Other-Vintage tulle, Millinery flowers

Now here are a whole bunch of photos of a class I gave over at the Scrapbook Nook! It was my turn to do an altered project class on the Nook boards and this is what I came up with! I wear scarves and sweaters all the time so having something small to embellish them with sounded perfect to me! Check out the class link above for instructions on how to make all of these little brooches!

Supplies:

Paper: Cosmo Cricket

Chipboard: Cosmo Cricket

Ribbon: Cosmo Cricket, Prima, Making Memories

Pearls: Prima, my own stash (pearl sprigs)

Letter stickers: Basic Grey

Buttons: Jenni Bowlin

Other: vintage ribbon and lace, millinery flowers, pin backs(for attaching to the back of the brooch so that it will go on a sweater or something)

This next project is something very special to me! This little book is about the evening that Jed and I got married! It is addressed to my family because this is a little thing that I made to help soften the blow that we got married! Yeah that is right! My family didn't know! This was to help them not feel quite so left out. :P We are going to be having a bigger ceremony and everything down the road so they will for sure all be there but this is for them in the meantime.

Supplies:

Paper: Cosmo Cricket

Chipboard: Cosmo Cricket

Sticker: Cosmo Cricket

Letter stickers: Basic Grey

Ribbons: Cosmo Cricket, Prima

Rubons: Cosmo Cricket

Buttons: Jenni Bowlin

Other items: vintage ribbons, stick pins

Now we are moving onto the new April Kit over at The Scrapbook Nook! I seriously can not say enough good things about this kit!!! I love it soo much!!!! It was a exactly what I needed to get my scrappy butt in gear! And get some mojo going! :D

Complete list of contents:
10 sheets of paper in the Pink Paislee Winsome "Captivating line"
4 sheets of die cut paper
elegant maya road pearl pins
1 yard of American Crafts ruffle ribbon
1 yard of American Crafts brown argyle ribbon
1 Pink Paislee sticker book- including an alphabet, journaling spaces & borders!
1 package of Pink Paislee Captivating Brads
Maya Road calendar/date "A Year to Remember" sheer embellishments
2 lovely Prima Bonnet Blossoms
2 sheets of bazzill cardstock

This was the first LO that I did with the kit! Love love love this kit! The picture of Creedence didn't turn out quite so well in this picture but that is ok. You get the gists of her want to go running off into the water! It was actually really difficult to keep her out of it that day so we finally just gave up and let her get soaked! She was also having a ball trying to get some of the birds there on the beach! She is so funny to watch!

Supplies:

Paper: Pink Paislee, Kraft cardstock

Ribbon: American Crafts

Stickers: Pink Paislee

Pearls: Prima

Flower: Prima

Pearl Pin: Maya Road

Letters: Pink Paislee, American Crafts

Brad: Pink Paislee

Rubon: Pink Paislee

Chipboard: Pink Paislee

This LO happens to be a Janine Langer lift! I lifted a LO in this post! I just love the design of that LO so much I had to do my own version of it! I turned it and switched some things up, added a couple things and did some things different but still very much the same design. Love lifting because it is so fun to see the changes that get made and it is so inspirational! This LO is one of three that I have made for Cree's album which is really really bad! I need to move backward and start doing some of the older months so that I can get caught up! Ahh! Love how this LO turned out though!

Supplies: Paper: Pink Paislee, Bazzill cardstock Letters: Pink Paislee, American Crafts Brads: Pink Paislee Rubons: Pink Paislee Sheers: Maya Road Ribbon: American Crafts

This LO is from a sketch over at Pencil Lines! It is sketch number 120! Love that one! And love Pencil Lines! So much inspiration over there! This is actually the second LO I have done using this sketch but I never got the first one 100% finished so once that is done it will make it onto the blog. :P This LO is documenting the fact that I am not so sure I will remember all of these little things my daughter does. She is changing so much and so fast these days that they are seriously a blur and that makes me very sad. I am really really going to start working on recording the little things. Because they mean the most to me.

Supplies: Paper: Pink Paislee Rubons: Pink Paislee Brads: Pink Paislee Sheers: Maya Road Letters: American Crafts, Pink Paislee

Ok so that is all I have for right now!!! Yay!!! I am all caught up on my Scrapbook Nook stuff to show ya!!! I will have some more stuff very soon though! Thanks for being patient! ~Amy

This word....I do not think it means what you think it means.

*ahem* Well I have not even bothered to check and see what date it was that I last updated this blog. All I know while writing this is that March is gone (almost), and I know for sure that I was last on here before February was done. My oh so awesome *Idea* of making a schedule to update once a week sort of went splat. Life has happened a lot here at the house. Not major life but more like the everyday life that saps up every bit of energy and enthusiasm you have to blog. :P

But I will attempt this again. :D

My big problem and main reason why I dread blogging is the fact that I can not for the life of me get my pictures to work on here anymore! They are either waaayyyy too big or waaayyyyy too small! I have heard people say that when they save their images in Photoshop they click 'save for web' and it does everything for them? Huh? I am going to give it a try and see if it helps me. I just end up making so many different copies of my pictures trying to get the right size that I inevitably lose track of which one is the original! :P So needless to say I don't have pictures to show you right now. I need to find my originals to a few and try resaving them using the save for web thing and then I will put them on here and see how they look. If they are too big they get cut off but if they are too small then it is just dumb. LOL! I feel so silly having this hold me back!! If you have any suggestions please please tell me! I would love to get some input on how people do it and have it be so perfect!

Well just thought I would check in and make sure people didn't think I have given up! :D I will be back tomorrow hopefully with my things from this past month and some new things too!! See you tomorrow!

BTW: The post title is a quote from a movie I have been thinking a lot about lately because I have not seen it in sooo long! It is from the Princess Bride. One of my fav lines from the whole movie! :D

~Amy

Category Stories February Sponsor!!!

Hi!! I'm back!!! Yay for another post so close to the other ones!! You guys may think I am silly for being so stoked about. I am usually super bad about posting on a weekly basis (forget daily!! Ha!).

I wanted to make sure you all know about our fabulously fantastic February sponsor for Category Stories!!! It is...da da da da......

They are being so generous and totally awesome to us this month!! They have offered not just one but TWO fantastic prizes for our wonderful Category players this month!! For our main monthly prize winner, you'll receive a $23 voucher to the TallyScrapper shop for you to spend how ever you like!! (Don't you just love that!) WooHoo!

But in addition, if you enter the February prompt for Category Stories and also upload your creation to the new TallyScrapper gallery-you will automatically be entered into a drawing for a very special RAK...the AMAZING TallyScrapper February Kit!! (I will have a photo very soon I promise!) Totally nuts right?!! Aren't they just wayy too awesome?!!!!

So don’t forget to link your page to our FEBRUARY category post (and also upload to the tallyscrapper gallery!) to be in with your TWO chances to win!

And also I wanted to let you all know that Category Stories is now on FACEBOOK!! Come visit and join in!!!

Last but not least, make sure to come and visit us on February 15th to check out the totally awesome new thing we are doing!!!! Yay!!

Take care
~Amy

Can I scream and jump and fly and run through my whole house because I am soo soo soo excited?!!!!!!

Oh wait. I already did!!!! Ok I am going to firstly say that I was reading Adrienne Looman's blog post about needing an inhouse designer on Prima on Monday morning and was just dreaming that if I lived near the office in Chino I would soooo go and apply!! But as quickly as I thought that, my mind moved on because I knew it would never happen. Needless to say I had moved on long ago from the dream of thinking I would make the Prima design team! I seriously seriously had realized and admitted to myself that I just wasn't going to make it. I spent that whole Monday as normal with washing, folding, playing with Cree and making dinner for when Jed got home. Well as I was just finishing dinner (literally just pulled it out of the oven), the phone rang. Soo thought it was my dad because he always calls at that time of day. But when Sharon Laakkonen introduced herself and where she was calling from, I went dead. I almost could not get words out during the conversation for fear of screaming and crying at the same time!! hehe. Yeah can I tell you guys how much of a dork I am!!! I am still in utter shock!!! I could seriously go on like this all night (ask my husband he has been driven nuts over the last few days!), but I am going to save you the side pains from laughing at my rambling!



I give you the new 09 Prima Design Team!!!!!



Sharon Laakkonen-US

Anam Stubbington-CAN

Cari Fennell-US

Caroline Ikeji-US

Christiane Müller_Germany

Ingvild Bolme -Norway

Iris Babao-Uy-Philippines

Jaime Warren-US

Janine Koczwara-Australia

Jen Jockish-US

Jo-Anne te Raa Chater-Netherlands

Joei Lau-Japan

Julie Fei-Fan Balzer-US

Malin Dahlstrom-Sweden

Oddbjorg Ringsby-Norway

Prisca Jockovic-France

Tracie Hudson-UK

and me!

Check out the post on Prima's Blog here!!

Look at all of those names!!!! Soooo much talent there! I am in awe! I know I am going to be spending the whole morning checking out all of their sites!! I can not wait to get started creating and can't wait to see what this amazing team does!