How about a handmade bouquet of flowers for mom this Mother's Day?! And a bonus? these flowers won't wilt and I bet she appreciates the time and effort. :)

Greta

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24 hours of scrapping at my lss...that's how I spent my NSD:)  12pm-12pm...yawn;)  In that time I completed one mini-album (seen below), a layout, taught a class, had LOTS of laughs and yawns, sarcasm a-plenty:), snuggled up with a fellow scrapper on an air mattress in the middle of the shop for a few hours of sleep to then wake up and start all over again:)  Lots of fun!

The Peek-a-boo album by Tinkering Ink.  A fun easy project:)  4 chipboard pages with tabs and windows and 3 acrylic pages.  I used Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels to treat the chipboard.  Just a little spritz will do ya.  It colorizes the chipboard and gives it a hint of glimmer:)  Super easy:)

Album cover:

Page 1:

Front and back of page 1:  I sprayed a bit of Glimmer Mist on the acrylic page and left to dry.  I used this paper:  For the birds  Note how the birds are mirror images.  PERFECT for an acrylic page...thank you ms. or mr. Tinkering Ink designer;)

Page 2:

Page 3:

Last page:

Supplies:

Patterned Paper:  Tinkering Ink:: Wild Woodland
Transparency:  Heidi Swapp
Acrylic hearts:  Heidi Grace
Stickers and book plate:  MM
Flower:  Prima
Buttons:  Autumn Leaves

TFL:)  Love, Tracy Austin

I've been seeing it everywhere. A little pop of spring/summer fun! I'm all about mixing patterns and bright colors, so this is right up my alley! :) Check out these pics...

These are from Target, The Company Store, and JCrew. Soooo super cute! I've managed to get Lilli into some cutie madras shorts, I'm working on getting Bob into some long bermuda ones (sedate brown so as not to scare the poor man), and have my eye on a little beverage bucket I saw this weekend. Might have to throw a party to justify that purchase! ;)

Naturally, anything that I see in out in the "real world" gets translated to my scrappin' addiction. And the search for madras plaid paper began. And ended...rather abruptly unfortunately. I have plaid papers, but no madras...not even plaid in the vibrant hues that are calling my name "Staciiiiiii, use meeeeee!" ;)

So what's a scrap-desperate girl to do? Well, since I wasn't making a late night fabric run (don't laugh...I've done it!), this chick took out those cutie shorts of her daughters! I took a macro pic of them, photoshopped it up a bit for extra oomph, and printed it onto matte photo paper. Yep, I made my own madras plaid paper from Lilli's shorts! LOL :) And you know what? My Madras-Mad Self was quite happy with the result! :)

Check it out...

Supplies: Adhesive (Adhesive Technologies, Provocraft), Buttons (Autumn Leaves), Patterned paper (Dream Street Papers), Pen (Sharpie, Uniball), Rhinestons (Glitz Designs), Ribbon (Cream City Ribbon), Stamps (Fontwerks), Stickers (American Crafts, Autumn Leaves), Misc.: staples

Madras. Yes, its everywhere. Learn to love it and the springy happy feelings it gives you! And of course, scrap with it...however necessary! ;)

Have a smilie-filled day! ...Staci :)

ah, spring. my favorite season (although i guess we don't have actual seasons here in southern california). not only is the weather perfect, but all the flowers are in bloom:

hope you're enjoying your spring, too!

--Caroline

Earth Day. Its been a whole week of festivities at Lilli's school. Trying to bring focus to our world in fun, creative ways for the kids.

One of the projects is a Family Recycled Art Project. We had to create art completely from items that can be recycled. Lilli and I brainstormed and I remembered a super-cute mirror frame I'd seen at Urban Outfitters. That one was made with teeny rolled bits of papers. I thought folding would be easier for almost-7yo fingers so we went with a folded magazine bits wreath.

We got to work. Lilli did so great...really doing her best to get everything lined up when she folded all the paper bits, so careful. She was working solid with me through the first magazine. By the time we hit the second one, she was done. Poor baby fingers worked to the bone. LOL :) So Mom is the one staying up tonight to finish it off.

Turned out pretty cute I think. In a random, handmade kinda way. ;)

Lovin' the little family art projects. Can't wait to do more this summer!

Oh, and I hung it on the door to surprise Lilli in the morning. She'll be excited b/c my little clone was worry-warting about it not being done in time for the 1st grade tour.

  ...Staci :)

After a very long winter, I think we can safely say that spring is finally here! We had a few days last week that were good and warm by afternoon. However, by the kids’ actions, you would have thought it was 95 degrees! My oldest and his friends decided the mud holes in our backyard would be perfect for swimming. Such a boy thing to do. Stripping down to shorts only and jumping into muddy, murky water. Ugh. They seemed to have a ball so what mom is going to take away their fun?! After bathing in the brown stuff, squishing it through their toes, and smearing themselves like warriors, it was time to get the hose treatment to wash it all off. I wonder if they were regretting their actions at that point?? Ahh….probably not! Boys will be boys.