Love these Tiles!!

I have seen these tiles on the cricut mb for awhile and finally decided to give it a try. I love them! They are so easy to make and so inexpensive! The tiles are from Home Depot - 9 for $4. I printed pictures on my printer. Taped tissue paper over the pic and reran through printer. Let dry. Cover tile with thin coat of modge podge, place tissue pic down, cover with another thin coat on mod pod. I let it dry and then added another coat the opposite direction. Let dry. Spray with Decopoage Hi-Gloss Finish. Let dry. I added craft foam to the bottom of tile to keep from scratching table. I can't believe how easy! My kids even loved them - Michael made the Yoda coaster himself! I have made many more, unfortunately I can not post them - Christmas gifts - don't want to ruin their surprise!

Breast Cancer 5K

Here we are before the walk/run. Karin, Chris, Andie, Derreck, Maddie and myself. We walked as Team Mackk - the hair salon that my nieces own. I have never participated in a walk and did nothing to prepare for it. We finished in 55 minutes. Maddie decided to run with Andie. I believe Andie finished in 29 minutes and Maddie ran it in 33 minutes! She really amazed me! We all had a great time. Since it was my birthday weekend, I then treated myself to a massage. I think I found a new tradition.

Maddie and I after the race. It was great to share this experience with her!

National Card Making Day!

I am good or what? I took some time yesterday to make some cards. I had no idea it was National Card Making Day until I went on the message boards last night. This is my design for this years Christmas card. It is extremely simple, but sometimes simple works. This idea came to me this summer with the idea of using a sentiment that wished warm wishes. (Get it - warm? LOL) Well, I was at the Scrap Expo in August and came across a stamp that read Warm Winter Wishes - it was meant to be!!

This card is for my new card patient. I written before about being a card angel at chemoangels.com. My past patient went into remission and graduated from the program. My new patient is an 11 year old girl that has a brain tumor. If you would like to experience the unbreakable spirit of this girl, please visit her journal on http://www.caringbridges.com/. Type in emilywilson. This little girl has an outlook on life that we could all learn from. She always includes a joke or riddle in her journal entry, so I like to send her a card filled with jokes. This card includes dog jokes. What kind of dog does dracula own? A Bloodhound! LOL



This next card is a thank you that I made for some of the ladies that attended our ScrapPink event. The inside reads - Thanks for saving the Hooters! I have to admit that I lifted the idea from Archivers, but put my own spin on it. The owl is from the Happily Ever After cricut cartridge. It is hard to see, but I stamped a ribbon on her chest with versamark. I think that she turned out adorable.





I even got a layout done! I love these pictures. Before my kids were in school we would take pictures in November (between the October and December birthdays). Once the school pictures started we went less for the "family" shoots. I think it is time to make an appointment for pictures. :)

ScrapPink

Well, this past weekend my friend Gina and I held our ScrapPink Event and I must say it was a huge success. We had 15 people attend and raised $1,170 for the Susan G. Komen foundation!!! A great time was had by all. We had tons of food, raffle prizes, goodie boxes and lots of fun! We had over 60 raffle prizes donated by local retailers, some of our guests and some scrapbooking vendors. We hope to make this an annual event!

Time? Where does it go? Last post July - how does that happen? LOL

Well, the kids are back in school. They are both at the top of the food chain at school this year - Michael 8th grade - Maddie 5th grade. Back to school for me means back to crazy. Early mornings, helping at school, lots of homework, working at the karate school (both Michael and I), student council (both kids), chorus for Maddie, basketball for Maddie, did I mention LOTS of homework? I do miss the lazy days of summer.

I have been extremely busy putting together a ScrapPink Event with a friend of mine. For those of you who don't know about this cause - it is sponsered by Scrapbook Etc. It is a scrapbook event with proceeds going to Susan G. Komen. I have planned this event twice before for local scrapbook stores. This year we decide to hold it at my friend's scraproom that we use once a month. We have been planning for sometime and this upcoming Saturday is the big day. We have so many raffle prizes that have been donated by local business that it is almost crazy!! I am humbled by the amount of places that have come through for this event. I can not wait! Even Maddie is going with me! I will update with the amount that we collect. Wish us luck!

Layouts!!

Finally some layouts!! We had a great time as always and as you can see I got some layouts done! Some I created from scratch and some I had from past classes and was finally able to add pictures and finishing touches to. Either way I came home feeling great about the work I got done. Yeah me! I must send out a thank you to Gina for the Brush Lettering on my Halloween layout and Carrie for the awesome winter and 4th of July 2 page layouts!

More cards...I just can't seem to find time to get much crafting done. It seems that the garden, grass or the swimming pool is always calling my name.

Hopefully all of that will change this weekend. I am headed to my "girls" weekend. A group of us try to get together once a month. We meet up at one of the girls businesses which also houses her scraproom. It is a great room above the business that has been converted to a large scraproom that can fit approx 8 - 8 foot tables. We all bring food, drinks and snacks to share. We even sleep there! We always have a great time and hopefully I will have layouts to post!