Scrap Tiffany "All About Boys" Challenge

This week's challenge for Scrap Tiffany is "All About Boys".
I have one son and I love him.
He has brought so much to my life and is a ton of fun.
He helps to balance me and my girls to not be too girly.
This layout is from his 8th birthday party.
We took him and a group of boys to the Motocross races at our local arena.
We had never been before but we completely enjoyed it.
The boys had a blast which was the point.
Here is my layout for this week.

This patterned paper is from Bo Bunny. I love it! It almost doesn't need anything else. It has so many details already.
Make sure you head over to Tiffany's to see what the other designers created this week.
Make sure you're enjoying your holiday season and your family.

Til next Time with T!!!

Scrap Tiffany Tuesday Tutorial

Tiffany's calendar for today has my name down for today's Tuesday Tutorial.

I decided to show you how to make the crepe paper flowers that I included on my layout from the "Crepe Paper" challenge about a month ago on ScrapTiffany.
If you didn't get a chance to look at all the different
ways to create with crepe paper on the you need to go check it out.
Trust me, you will never throw away those left over streamer rolls again.

Here we go...
It's so easy. You will be surprised.
You only need 3 supplies:
Sewing machine
Thread
Crepe Paper

That sounds easy enough right? Well, let's get started...

Can you think of a million possibilities with these? They kind of remind me of cupcake liners, but that's another post for another day. ;))

Ok, so have you been to the party store recently.
I LOVE the party store and I love to plan parties.
There are soooo many different colors and prints of crepe paper streamers.
You can layer these flowers to make them however you want them to be.
Don't forget, the more narrow you cut the strip AND the shorter you make the length, the smaller the flower will end up.

The center is a whole other design preference opportunity.
Brads, stones, metal, buttons, whatever else you can think of.
Even a tiny little crepe paper flower in a contrasting color would be great!!

Well, go on and get out your old party supplies and make some flowers with it.
If you make some, email me some pictures.
I love to see the different perspectives people have on creating the same items.

Thanks for stopping by..go get another cup of coffee so you
can finish your blog hopping for today. You know you want to.

Til next Time with T!!!

Scrap Tiffany "Girl Power" Challenge

The challenge this week with Scrap Tiffany is "Girl Power".
What a fun challenge this week.
We have 3 girls from ages of 8 months to 15 years.
I love my girls. We have such a great time together. Each one is different from the other.
I created a book of my girls for this weeks challenge.

I really enjoyed creating with this line of Bo Bunny Patterned paper. It's so bright and colorful.
It seemed to fit the personality of all my girls.
Get into your girl power today and head on over to Scrap Tiffany to see what the other
designers have created this week. If you create something girly this week send a picture of it to Tiffany. We would love to see it.
Loved this challenge!!!!

Enjoy your holiday festivities this week.

Til next Time with T!!!

Scrap Tiffany New Design Team!!

Yay!! We have the new Design Team for Tiffany!!
I am so excited about this group. Well, everytime there is a new group I am always excited to work with the next team.
It's a fresh start and helps get the motivation going within the group.
So without further waiting, take a looksey at the new and upcoming
Scrap Tiffany 2011 Design Team!!

I am so excited to work with this team. It's always fun to meet new people and design with others. It's inspiring and fun.
This new team starts in January 2011.
So don't forget to come back and see what the new team has to offer.
I just know you won't be disappointed.

Welcome to the new team!!
Congrats to everyone!!

Til next Time with T!!!

Thanksgiving!!

Ok so I am a little behind. I know this is a Thanksgiving post, but I have been super busy. I am already into Christmas stuff now but I must post about Thanksgiving.
So here goes....
We went to our dear friends house The Mortons.
We miss our family in TN but we are so very thankful to not have to spend our holidays alone. These good friends have become our family, since we can't be with ours right now.
We started the day with a prayer.
Then we ate and enjoyed each others company the rest of the day.
Here's the pictures...

Kevin praying.

This is Adoration's first Thanksgiving..

There was so much food there. If you got just one spoon of each item you needed two plates.

Bethany's cornbread salad. So yummy!!

No Thanksgiving is complete without a sweet potato casserole with golden marshmallows.

Darlene and Addi bug.

Brooklin.

Bernie and her mom Mary Jane. We call her Gma.

Doug, Gma, and Bernadette.

Shine and Addi.

Alisha and Grandpa's birthday celebration.

That's just a few of the pics from our wonderful day.
Thank you again to Kevin and Bernadette for having our family over once again
to be a part of your family celebration.

Til next Time with T!!!

Scrap Tiffany Food/Recipes Challenge

This week's challenge at Scrap Tiffany is "Food/Recipes".
What a perfect challenge for this time of year.
I love the holidays and all the new recipes that come out and I love the old traditional ones even more.
I created this recipe box with some of our traditional family
recipes that our family enjoys every year.
I am excited because it is almost time to eat some of our favorites again.
Funny, if you think about it, most of us only eat our favorites once a year.
Sounds weird huh?

Here's my project for this week...

Digital kit: Shabby Princess-"Holiday Recipe Collection"
Red leather flower: Making Memories
Misc: ribbon, buttons, brad

Last year I downloaded this digital kit for free, I had forgotten all about it.

Here's the link...Shabby Princess.
They have tons of free digital downloads and kits to purchase that are super cute and very inexpensive.
They also have a ton of digi tutorials that are super easy and also free of charge.

This is a digital kit that includes the box, recipe cards, tags and other digital pieces that you can add digitally.
I typed the recipes, played with all the digital pieces, added a photo of the recipe, and printed it out right on my personal printer including the box. Then, I added ribbon, buttons, a flower, brad and mounted the recipe cards on red cardstock.

You don't even have to do anything digital, you could just print it as is and hand write your recipes and add your cute embellishments.
What a great little hostess gift to give at a holiday party,
or a bride to be gift for the holiday.
The best recipes are the ones that have been tried and
tested by the people close to you.

So we can't have a food/recipe challenge without sharing a favorite recipe...
My family loves these Snicker Doodles. I've tried other recipes and this one tops them all. I promise if you like Snickerdoodles, you won't eat just one.
Enjoy!!!
Go print this kit and get it started on a holiday recipe box before Thursday.
You can whip it up the box and then make the Snickerdoodles to give to your hostess for the holiday, then give decorated blank cards for them to add their favorites.

It really went pretty quick.
Have a great holiday week.
I love it my kids are home with me every day this week.
No School!! Yay!!
Our plans are to decorate for Christmas, watch Christmas movies, bake and snuggle.
Oh yea!! Don't forget to end the week with Black Friday!!
Oh yes..we are headed out very early, so don't eat too much turkey the day before or you won't want to get up.
I love that day, the hustle and bustle starting point.

If you try the recipe box or the cookie recipe,
please let me know what you thought of them.

Til next Time with T!!

Scrap Tiffany Crepe Paper Challenge

The challenge this week at Scrap Tiffany was Crepe Paper.
Well, I have to admit, when I pulled it out and started creating with it, I had a hard time stopping.

The layout I created below is of my latest baby girl, Adoration.
I cannot believe she is almost 8 months old.
It seems like yesterday that I was rushing to the hospital.

We were in the mall shopping with our friends recently.
We saw this coat and boots and couldn't resist putting it on Addi.
She didn't even cry when we zipped her up and propped her up in the kiddie chair. However, it did take a few of us to get the job done.

For some reason I didn't have my camera with me (I know, very strange),
so Nanny Bethany took a picture with her phone.
Whew!! Always saved by an Auntie or Nanny in one way or another.
Anyway, after we took the picture, I remembered the layout I had started at home and I hadn't selected a picture yet.
This one was perfect!!

Here is my Crepe Paper layout for Tiffany this week.

Supplies used:
Polka Dot Transparency: Teresa Collins
"Sweet" Stones: Glitz Designs
Dymo Labeler
Misc: Crepe paper, blue stone brad, ribbon, rub-on


I ruffled and sewed the layers directly on the paper. Then created a few different flowers with the same crepe paper.
This pink flower is the one I decided to use on this layout.
(hint, hint...VERY soon, I will be posting a tutorial on Tiffany's blog and here as well on how to make these crepe paper flowers. But ssshhh!! It's a secret!!).

I added a stone, some ribbon and a few other details and done.
Each one of these colors is one of my favorites.

Thanks for stopping by, leave a comment if you're interested in the flower tutorial.

Til next Time with T!!!!

Hippity Hop Blog Hop!!

I have participated in the Hippity Hop Blog Hop with Scrap Tiffany. Tiffany was asked to participate with her design team for this great hop.

The design team each created a layout based on the sketch and ingredients for the layout "recipe".

You can see the Scrap Tiffany Design Team layouts here.
The first stop on the hop is Sassy Lil Sketches.

This is my contribution to a great hop.
I chose to create a layout of my 6-year old Brooklin.
She loves to create, she loves color and loves rainbows.

Supplies used:
Patterned paper: Cosmo Cricket "Snorkel-Beach Towel;
Pebbles-Downtown Collection"Brooklyn"
Collage Press-DoubleTake "Knave of Hearts"
Little Sprout Collection-"Sunshine"
Letters: Thickers-"Chit Chat"
Glitter Paper Lace: We R Memory Keepers
Mist: Smooch-"Pink Sprinkles"
Token Ticket: My Minds Eye
Green Brad: Bo Bunny
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink "Vintage Photo"
Misc: green trim, buttons, bakers twine

Don't forget to start at the beginning of the hop so you do not miss any inspiration.
That's the fun of blog hops, getting to see all that deliciousness and seeing the way each designer interprets the instructions.
It can get you to think out of your normal design box.
Now get going to the rest of the hop.

Til next Time with T!!!

Holiday Hop Winner!!!

We have a winner from the Scrap Tiffany Holiday Hop!!!

Thanks to everyone that participated in the hop. We had a great time creating. I hope you all got some inspiration to start all those holiday projects early.

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Jen from Texas!!!
(Since my picture of your comment is hard to read, I will identify you by your blog name...www.jennyscards.blogspot.com
Your work is great by the way, your cards are beautiful.
Go visit Jen for some great card ideas.

Congrats Jen!!!
Email your information to me so I can mail out your prize from Santa.
My email is kregle@yahoo.com

Thanks again to everyone who participated.
I just love our Scrap Tiffany Design Team.

Til next Time with T!!!

Scrap Tiffany Holiday Blog Hop

Yay!! The Scrap Tiffany Blog Hop is here!!!!
Thanks for hoppin' in on our fun!!
I promise you won't be disappointed.

If you arrived from Keely's blog, then you are on the right track. If not, then you might want to start at the beginning so you don't miss any holiday inspiration.

I'm excited because there's a ton of blog hop holiday inspiration AND because this is the first Christmas project for me this year.
It will just get the holidays started for me. I must say, I was quite surprised when I heard Christmas music playing on the radio the other day. I hadn't even taken down my Halloween decor yet. Now I have and my mind has started shifting to the holiday season.
On to the blog hop fun...

For my project, I decided to make a card/tag holder out of a file folder.
Just a normal school folder. I got mine at Wal Mart for pocket change.
Here we go...

The front cover.

The inside cover.

The fun cards and tags.

A couple close-ups of the tags and cards.

Supplies used:
Patterned paper: 7Gypsies-"Ville" and "Pays";
Tags:Teresa Collins-"Gift Tags"; "25 Christmas" Teresa Collins- "Countdown til Christmas";
Red Santa Transparency-Creative Imaginations
Embossed paper: Cuttlebug
Metal Strip:Making Memories
Scallop punch
Misc: Red folder (Walmart);Black Cardstock; Ribbon; Velcro

Mini instructions:
Cut the folder 5 1/2 inches down from the top left hand side of the folder.
Score and fold down 1 inch at the top right hand side.
Cover with paper and embellishments.
If you have any other questions about this project, please feel free to email me.

Well, that's my holiday project for this Blog Hop!!
Hope you are hopping away with some inspiration to make this project or
turn it into your own.
Always with Christmas comes presents, so
leave a comment AND become a follower on my blog...
Santa will give away a nice Christmas surprise on Wednesday after the elves have completed all their holiday projects.

I will announce the winner on Wednesday!!

Head on over to Kristina's to check out her project.

You will not be disappointed.
Thanks again for joining us in this hop!!

Til next Time with T!!!