Fall Fun

We are having such a beautiful fall here in the Seattle area. So far the weather has been great with not a lot of rain. What rain we have has fallen all at once so we've had alternate rain and no rain days. Not a lot to complain about (yet!).

This year Robby got to carve his own pumpkin. Putting a pumpkin kit carving knife in his hand was pretty scary but he really did a good job carving ALL our pumpkins. We exhausted all the "easy" but scary templates on the web but still had more pumpkins to carve. We decided on a ghost but, of course, my freehand ghost was not good enough. So, off to the pazzle. I cut out the ghost that came with the Holidays CD and our last pumpkin became a carved piece of art. Have I mentioned how much I love this machine????

My sis sent me some pictures of my too-cute nieces and this one was just screaming to become scrapped. So, I did.

Enjoy

I really wanted to do some major pazzle playing this weekend but things never work out like they should. I went to bed on Thursday night and woke up Sunday for dinner. Really, I don't know what I had but a good 4 day nap and I'm feeling much better.

I wanted to do something for my neice in Texas-Olivia-for Halloween. I have to assume that my sister isn't into letting her have a ton of candy so I found myself at Target in the $ section and picked up stickers. Then I put my pazzle to use and drew her her very own coloring book. Not bad for a first attempt and it opens the door to so many possibilities. Now, Peyton needs something fun.

Enjoy!

New Layouts

Wow, I can't believe it's been over a month since I posted last. We've had quite a few hectic last couple of weeks with Ryan catching swine flu. Andrew got a mild case but other than that the rest of us stayed healthy. Honestly, it was a little scary as I didn't really know what to expect and the sore throat and cough lingered on forever. It was the sickest I've seen my child in a really long time.

Fall is officially here! And with the record heat we've had lately I'm actually ready for it. The trees are trying really hard to change color but with temps over 80 it's been a little rough for them. Alas, my birch is turning yellow!!

On to scrapbooking-I've been playing with the pazzle and having a total blast with the pen tool. It doesn't fit my CTMH pen collection but with a little tweek here and there I did get it to work. Here are some layouts I did. I'm working on a few cards that I should have posted tomorrow.

Enjoy

4th of july

My kids absolute favorite time of year. I think it even beats Christmas. But only because there are fireworks involved AND they get to light them off. Here is my layout for this year. I took the first picture and thought that it was a little bland so I added some bling and took another. The picture quality could be better (sorry) I'll be sure to take another when Scott gets home and can help me.

I'm not sure of the paper I used. I found it at Michaels last week. I did use the pazzle to cut out the July. After watching Klo's tutorial I just had to go find some fonts and dingbats and turn them into cutting files!

Enjoy.

Little things

I absolutely love making little (mini) albums. Here is a 6x6 chipboard accordion-style album made for mom. She asked for some albums dealing with friendship. Everything here (except for the blue rhinestones on the front) is CTMH. Nope, I'm not a consultant but totally love how things match so perfectly and effortlessly. I have a new paper-pack coming in today (Bella) that I can't wait to play with. I might have to break into it before the Tuesday night crop. The tags were easily cut with my Pazzle.

Teacher Appreciation

I don't think I would have attempted these without the pazzle! I cut each box and the SMS. It didn't take that long as I had 3 mats going. The tag reads "Just a little somthing EXTRA to let you know we think you are worth a 100 GRAND. There is no need to go NUTS, simply open and enjoy!". Then filled it with extra gum, 100 grand bar and a hershey bar w/ nuts. I think they turned out real cute and only took about 5 hours to complete them all. Teacher appreciation gets harder as the kids get older. The easiest for me is elementary school and I think these turned out great for middle school. I have no idea what to do for high school but I have until next year to worry about that!

Mom asked for a photo book for Mother's day. A while back I made one for my niece. Having 3 boys I love being able to play with pink sparkly paper. I didn't take a picture of it but here is the one for mother's day. I used CTMH's paper pack and the designs were cut with the pazzle's paper lace cd.

I had a few weeks of lack of motivation and I guess I made up for it yesterday-I also made a mother's day gift for me! I had these chipboard "mini coaster" that I was hanging on to. I named this album "Simple Things" because I really think it's the simple things that make life worth living. Not that I don't really enjoy my DVR and big screen tv!