With This Ring

I have to say that even if I don't get the job at the local scrapbook store at least it motivated me to update some of my scrapbooks. I have been married for 4 years and I finally got around to working a little more on our album :)

I wanted this page to be very simple to accentuate the black and white photo. I thought that a plain white background would do that the best then I found the green and white Basic Grey paper from the "porcelain" collection hiding in my stash, perfect! I added my quick quote and metal letters at the bottom, which I think I might have had since before we got married, LOL well at least I'm using up some of my stash too :) Now I'll feel better about buying new stuff if I get the job! Anyway here is the page I came up with.

Pictures for the Purse

Hey all, I found this fun little project when I was browsing the web one evening looking for some inspiration. I thought it would be a perfect way to show off my favorite people at my 10 year class reunion. (Go figure, then I forgot to put it in my purse.) This book was made from one sheet of 12x12 paper, super cheap and quick to make. Here is the address that I found the directions at... http://scrapbooking.about.com/od/layouts/ig/Mini-Book-Layout-and-Sketch/and here are some pictures of what I came up with, Enjoy!

Jenna & Dustin's Wedding Invitations

This was my biggest project for the summer! I made 150 of these for Jenna and her soon to be hubby. They turned out beautifully and my lovely cricut and design studio did most of the work for me :) I love my Bug!!!! I used George and Basic Shapes and Story Book to make this trifold invite for them.
***These pictures don't do them justice, they look way better in person!***

If anyone is ever interested in me making invitations of any kind please let me know!I can make them alot cheaper than you would ever pay in a store!! I can do Birthday, Anniversary, Wedding, Thank You notes.... You get it, if you want it I can make it :)

Family Faces Book

Slowly but surely I will get all of the things that I have made this summer up here for you to view, but I think I will start with projects.

This is a project that I made for my son so that he would be able to recognize faces that he might not see that often. Let me tell you how mad I was at myself when I got the latest copy of Creating Keepsakes from my mailbox and saw an extremely similar project within their pages. That could have been me!! (grrr..)

This project was super easy to make thanks to a pad of 6x6 Basic Grey paper and matching ribbon. I think its the "recess" collection. To make the pages more book like I used the thicker cardboard that comes in packs of paper. (Reuse, Recycle!) I also laminated this book to make it kid friendly. The colored rings are from the office aisle at Walmart. And finally the cricut cartridge I used for the names was cuttin' up.

Topiary Tree

I'm so overwhelmed with all of the projects that I have to share with you I'm not sure where to start... So I choose this topiary tree that I made recently. I saw this tree online in Michael's idea gallery a while back but the paper strips where much wider than mine. I thought it would look better with more paper strips but didn't realize how much work it would be. It really was quite fun to make though :) Hope you enjoy! My husband even liked this project when it was done.

New Blogger Background

I found my new background here check them out!! They have very awesome scrapbook looking backgrounds.

While your at it go check out the super cool Halloween album at this site.
http://scrapnplace4me.blogspot.com

More to come tomorrow, some pics of the projects from this summer and hopefully an update about the job interview. Keep your fingers crossed for me, I left the interview feeling really good about how it went

Exciting News!!

I'm so thrilled! I got a call for a job interview today... I applied quite awhile ago and was being a little silly when I filled out the application with my answers. I figured I would never hear from them, so you can imagine my shock which quickly turned to excitement today when they called and asked if I was still interested in interviewing for a position in their store!!! I can hardly contain myself! If I'm going to go back to work why not have a job that is my passion!!! Its like a dream, nobody wake me up, please:) My husband and I were just talking about me finding a job part time to get out of the house and have some social interaction and to add the cherry to the cake this job is in the area we will be moving to. I told them that I want to interview for part-time but if it works out I just might be interested in going to a full time position when the house sells and we live closer :)

My interview is on September 4th so I will keep you posted. I may not be posting some of my recent projects on here until after the interview. I have to have something to surprise them with!

Sorry

As you can all see the summer has taken me away from my blog. I wanted anyone who might check to know that I have not forgotten about it or you and I plan to post again soon. I have made many things this summer, I unfortunately just didn't have time to craft and keep up my blog. Some of the things that you can look forward to me posting are wedding invitations that I made for my girlfriend. A few layouts and a few cards. I have also taken a ton of pictures of my son this summer so you might even see a few of those here :) I will try to have something new up by Thursday so please check back!