Your Story Mini!

I've been busy in the kitchen making some cookies for my kiddos to decorate tonight but I just HAD to play with my Your Story that came in the mail earlier today. SO CUTE! It's tiny, but it got the job done! Robyn at Pink Stamper and Karlee have a great how to video on this if you'd like to check it out. I tried to cuttlebug my cover then made the mistake of putting the end of the book through which kind of squished it LOL. You live and learn right?? I put in a bunch of white cardstock cut at 6x4 for "notes" and in under less than 2 minutes, my book was done! *Please excuse my messy desk and glue gunk of my mat hehe**

30 Days of Giving- Day 29!

Hey! :) Today is day 29 of this awesome daily blog hop hosted by Jill over at The Scrapoholic and it's my turn again! :D I thought for my project today, I would make a homemade 8x8 planner! (I'm also including a link to my previous project which was earlier this month!) Day 5

I don't know about you, but every New Year's my top 2 resolutions are always 1) lose weight (duh!) and 2) get organized! I've done good with my first one, losing 70lbs this past year, but I can never seem to get organized. So this upcoming year is MY year! LOL. And while I love all the cute and girly planners out there, I figured I might as well put my Cinch and Imagine to good use and make myself one but these would also make GREAT gifts to give out to anybody! :)



Tools needed for this planner:
Cinch
2 8x8 chipboard covers
Imagine
Paperbag for pockets
Jewels
patterned paper for decoration

What I did for the title was I cut out a decorative square from my Imagine at 5" and 4.5" for the brown one. I then cut out 2011 from Don Juan at 2" and I embossed the numbers in light pink. I then adhered jewels all around the edges using my iRock and added some ribbon to the wire. Yes, there is no black in my cover but I chose black ribbon to go along with my pink because that is my favorite color combo! (:D)



The inside calendar pages were used using my Imagine and Designer Calendar cartridge. I cut the pages out to 8x8 and printed my calendar grid (did not cut!) on both sides. I also printed out the months at the top so that I didn't have to do any cutting. :)



And lastly, I cut up a paper bag to 6" and used it as a "pocket" to hold notes and adhered Terrifically Tacky Tape to some post it notes so that I could use those in my planner and also, I could use that pocket to leave emergency info or contact information should I ever hire a babysitter :)



And that's it! I hope you all are having a great Holiday season! Feel free to comment below and let me know any homemade items you've made, I'm always looking for inspiration! :D

Martha Stewart Cartridge *Winner*

I totally wish I could give one of these out to every single one of you, but until I win the lottery I only had 1 to give :) so the winner chosen by random.org is....

Stacey at Stacey's Creative Corner! Stacey wrote:


Congrats Stacey! Please contact me this week so I can send this off to you :)

And thank you everyone else who helping me reach my followers goal, here's to 400! I'm thinking a cartridge giveaway every 100! :D

Last Day..Martha Stewart Cartridge Giveaway!

Remember, the comments thread closes tonight at 11pm central, so get your comments in if you'd like a chance to win the Martha Stewart All Occasions cart!

Here is the link: Giveaway Post!

Good luck!!

Black Friday Blog Hop *Winner!*

Alright- the lucky winner chosen from random.org is.... #7!



Who said...



So Ms. Gina, please contact me so that you can get your prize! Thanx to everyone who commented and participated! You all rock! :D

Twinkle Toes layout

I LOVE this cart! So girly, it kind of reminds me of the Paper doll carts and it's so easy to layer :) My little girl is too little to be in dance just yet, but I'm saving this page for her pics when she does start dancing! Directions after pic! :)



Directions:
12x12 pink background
11" scalloped frame cut from Better Together Imagine patterns
Ballerina cut at 6"
Twinkle Toes cut at 3 1/2"
Mats are 4x6

Black Friday small haul!

First off- THANK YOU GUYS SOOOO MUCH for helping me reach my short term goal of 300 followers! YOU GUYS ROCK! Thanks to everyone who reposted onto their own blogs, give me a few days to catch up with all my comments and I will make sure to follow each and everyone of you because you are all so talented! Next goal, 400! hehehe =) Maybe I'll make an awesome giveaway a tradition per 100 followers... ;)

**I forgot to mention this earlier but it's NOT too late to enter the giveaway! I'm leaving it open until Sunday night (11pm Central time) and choosing a winner on Monday.**

So, originally I was going to skip Black Friday because my DH works retail so he would be at work all day anyways and I don't know about you, but lugging around 3 kids under the age of 6 is NO FUN! At least, not until they are big enough to hold my bags! LOL... But luckily, my dad (who lives with us) came home early from work and watched my two boys while I took Ms. Julianne shopping and let me tell you, the girl LOVES to shop! Obviously, the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree! :) We went to Walmart where they still had a bunch of the "limited edition" carts, they were marked at $25 but I still managed to get Twinkle Toes at $20! Yay! Then we headed off to Michaels where they had all the Gypsy accesories 50% off and OF COURSE I couldn't pass up the pink Gypsy cover! I'm SOOOO excited I got this because I have been wanting it ever since I got my gypsy over a year ago but I just couldn't get myself to spend $25 on it! So $12.49, I could manage! Also- the Recollection stickers and embellishments were 50% off, so I got these two strips as well :)

*The SpongeBob cartridge came for me in the mail today which is why I'm including it! :)*





Hope you all had a great Black Friday! I'd love to hear what deals you all couldn't pass up! I'm a little jealous of those who got colored Expressions! :)