Dinosaur Valentines

In sticking with my theory of using what I have instead of buying more scrapping stuff....I decided to use the super cute new Roar! dinosaur stamp set to create 'manly' valentines for the boys for school.  The card will have a dinosaur toy attached to it, rather than the traditional candy...the parents will love me for not sending candy, I'm sure the kids will think I'm an old fuddy duddy, but such is life! ; )  For once, these were super easy to make and reproduce 33 times!  I random stamped a sheet of white daisy cardstock with the dinosaurs in pacifica, sunset, pear and desert sand.  Cut the heart using the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge, and ink distressed the edges with desert sand (Jeny will be so proud of me)...and VOILA...33 cards are finished, except for the boys to write their names and their friend's names on them!  One more thing of one million off the to do list!!

Valentine you're DINO-MITE!  How cute is that!  The boys like them, so that's all that really matters! : )  Happy scrapping!!

New stamp set card swap

For training with my CTMH upline in January, the team decided to pick a stamp set, design a card and do a swap at the February training meeting.  I picked the Just a Number stamp set because it has smarty pants birthday sayings, that sound as though I could've written them myself.  I found a design in one of my card recipe books, thought it looked simple enough, and set out to make 1 for me and 12 for the swap.  You would think that I'd know by now that simple enough in the book, means painstaking to reproduce more than once...but I'm a slow learner.  It is sort of what I had in mind, but since I have way too much to do, and not even close to enough time, it has to do for now! : )

You know you're getting older when...the candles cost more than the cake!

The flames on the candles are actually super small hearts cut from my Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge, flipped them upside down!!  They are the only thing that made this card any easier to reproduce 13 times! : )

Family album for Mother in law

About a year ago I was given several pictures of my mother in law's, mother's side of the family--The Anderson family.  Between my love of scrapbooking, and interest in getting to know that side of the family better (even from such a distance), I came up with an album for her.  Here are a few of the pics of the pages, that I forgot to take good pictures of before I gave it to her (because I procrastinated up to xmas eve to get it done for her on xmas)!!  It's the first album I've ever made and given away, so it was difficult to create for someone else.  And it was incredibly challenging trying to put some kind of order and semblance to pictures of people from generations ago that I've never met, and not heard a lot about.  It was a good experience for me, and has gotten me interested in researching both my mom and dad's side of the family.  I have very few pictures of either side, but making a detailed family tree that I could pass along to my kids someday would be fun, and quite an adventure nevertheless!

PS  My website will be updated and fully functional in the very near future!  www.scrappinmama.jcrackington.com