The ABC's of me...

I have seen this on several blog's, and I thought I would play along, so you could learn a little more about me ;-).
A. Age:  31
B. Bed size:  Queen-but I so wish we had room for King!
C. Chore that you hate:  Laundry (especially putting it away!)
D. Dogs:  I have mixed feelings on this one-they are so cute, but I don't want to have clean up after anyone/anything else! If I didn't have kids... I would.
E. Essential start to your day:  Cherry Coke Zero-it's my coffee!
F. Favourite colour:  oh I love all of them-but probably blue in all shades
G: Gold or silver:  I like both-but probably gold
H: Height:  5'3 1/2"(gotta add that 1/2, lol!)
I: Instruments you play: None-can't read music, but I like to sing!
J: Job title:  Stay AT Home Mom
K: Kids:  4-Caitlin (12), Evan (10), and the twins, Natalie and Cecilia (7)
L: Live: West Tennessee
M: Mother's name:  Debbie
N: Nick Name:  I have had lots of nicknames-my real name is Margerie, but everyone has always called me Margie. Hubby has been calling my Pooh bear lately (not sure if I like it or not)
O: Overnight hospital stays:  3-every time I had my kids
P: Pet peeves:  blocked phone numbers
Q: Quote from a movie: I love this quote from the Notebook:

I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.

It gives me chills!R: Right or left handed: Right
S: Siblings:  Josh, Elisabeth, and Bethany
T: Tea or coffee:  Coffee-preferably from Starbucks if I have to drink it!
U: Underwear:  Um, yeah
V: Vegetables you hate:  I can't think of any-I love veggies if they are cooked right!
W: What makes you run late:  kids
X: X Rays: Dental
Y: Yummy food that you make:  everyone loves my chili-and I love to bake-cookies, cupcakes
Z: Zoo Animal:  I love to see the big cats-lions, cheetahs, panthers, tigers...they are just so magnificent and powerful!

October Counterfeit Kit

Can you believe that it's October already? I can't! But I am so happy for fall-I truly love the change of seasons! And fall means cooler weather, sweaters, colorful leaves, back to school for the kiddos, and Halloween. With 4 kids, how can I not love all of that? Anyhow, back to the kit!

This month, Beth and Meridy chose these kits from Little Red Scrapbook for our inspiration:
Main Kit:

and a Halloween themed kit:

And since I have as much (if not more) fun making up the kits each month out of my stash, I made up two kits, too!

My Main Kit, "Beautiful Autumn":

For my kit, I tried to stay with similar colors and patterns. Here is the breakdown of the goodies I included in my kit:
Papers:
Heidi Swapp "Groovin" (the green houndstooth-2sheets)
Coordinations Graphic 45 gray embossed dots cardstock
2 sheets from DCWV Lemon Flower Stack (yellow, green and silver glittered floral and the yellow paisley)
Echo Park Life Is Good "Grandma's Quilt"
SEI Chocolat "Framboise"
SEI Chocolat "Papillion"
Crate Paper Emma's Shoppe "Dresses"
Echo Park Life Is Good  Border Strips
The Girl's Paperie Paper Girl "12x12 Cabbage Rose"
American Crafts Play "Paper Dolls"
Heidi Swapp "The Lounge"
Echo Park Life Is Good "Bold Stripes"
American Crafts The Goods "Carriage"
The Girl's Paperie Paper Girl "Die Cut Wallpaper"
SEI Chocolat "Chocolat"

Embellishments:
ribbons: K&Co. scalloped pink felt ribbon, American Crafts light blue velvet scalloped ribbon
Lots of handmade flowers-lollipop flowers,satin burnt edge flowers, and ruffled ribbon flowers, along with a leftover Prima backing card from another pack of flowers that I plan to repurpose
a gorgeous butterfly mini banner that I received from a 2 Peas swap (those girls are SO talented!!)
Graphic 45 Botanicabella punch out butterfly tags
A sheet of sticker paper that I printed out lots of fun digi elements on-some from Echo Park,some from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff, the Graphics Fairy, and Cosmo Cricket, to name a few.
American Crafts Thickers Darling Lipgloss chipboard letter stickers
Jolee's All That Bling large pink gems

My Embellishment Add On:

Echo Park Life Is Good Element and Alpha Stickers
American Crafts Thickers Sprinkles Cucumber glitter chipboard letter stickers
The Girls Paperie Paper Girl Flower Market Paper Route and Vintage Buttons
Shimmerz Bed Of Roses shimmer mist
homemade shimmer mist
assortment of paper and ribbon flowers

My Halloween Kit, "Creepy Creatures":

Papers:
Making Memories Spellbound "Glitter Crow"
American Crafts Moda Bella "Tailored"
Little Yellow Bicycle Frightful Collection "Large Stripe"
Purple spiderwebs from Target $1 Spot paper pack
Cloud 9 Design Halloween Fun "Multi Spiders"
Basic Grey Eerie "Screech"(back side shown)
Basic Grey Eerie "Reaper"
Basic Grey Scarlet's Letter "Pious"
Pink Paislee Vintage Moon "Harvest Moon"
DCWV Lemon Flower gray/silver glitter dot cardstock
K&Co Halloween Whimsy 12x12 Web Flat Paper
Halloween stripes from Target $1 Spot paper pack
SEI Eerie Alley Arachnophobia (back side shown)
Heidi Swapp "Star and Shield"

Embellishments:
American Crafts Thickers Sprinkles black glitter chipboard letters
Target $1 Spot Spooky Collection Chipboard Alpha Stickers
Jenni Bowlin Halloween Bingo Cards
Basic Grey Wholy Cow Rub-ons
Basic Grey Eerie Pops layered stickers, Glazed Brads
Making Memories Spook Alley glitter rub-ons
Target $1 Spot Halloween Rub-ons and Glitter Word Stickers
Marcella by K Halloween Candy Pillow Stickers
American Crafts Remarks Trick Or Treat Phrase Stickers Book
Making Memories Spellbound brads
We R Memories Black Out Halloween flocked lace
awesome halloween mini banners (from the same swap mentioned above)
Adirondack Metallics Paint daubers
assorted halloween Primas
black, purple, and silver glitter
assortment of fall/halloween stamps by: Creative Cafe for Hampton Arts, Scrappy Cat, See-d's for Inque Boutique, and Studio G
leftover black gems and pearls
die cut "wrought-iron" gate (I made it and put it in a kit a couple of months ago, but haven't used it yet)
KI Memories Wicked Glitter Sticker borders
DCWV fall word stickers
EK Success clear Halloween title stickers
Cosmo Cricket Tricks&Treats cardstock stickers
Marcella by K Halloween Glitter Embossed Stickers
7Gypsies 97% Complete Halloween Stickers

Closer look at my Halloween stamps and stickers:

Happy World Cardmaking Day!

How are you celebrating World Cardmaking Day? I have thoroughly enjoyed it!! I spent the morning blog hopping and being inspired! Then I stumbled across this challenge on the Pink Paislee blog, so I decided to pull out some of my Pink Paislee stash and play along!

Here are some of my entries for the challenges:
Challenge #5 was a color challenge, based on this photo from Pinterest:

And here is my card for this challenge:

For this card, I used paper from Pink Paislee's Vintage Moon line, " Night Owl", and a journaling tag from the "Father Christmas" punch outs, a little bit of olive colored chalk ink on the edges, and a few leftover rub-on stitched leaves, paper leaves, flowers, and brads. I used my scallop punch on a scrap of Bazzill Swiss Dots cardstock(which I also edged with my olive chalk ink) , and a "Give Thanks" sticker.

Challenge #6:
Stamping Challenge: Layer stamps (I may have cheated on this one a little, because I chose stamps that were meant to be used together/layered).

Here is my card:

For this card, I used paper from Pink Paislee's Vintage Moon line, "Moon Glade", and a stamped frame and sentiment-I stamped the florally frame first with silver paint from a paint dauber, then after that dried, I stamped "Happy Birthday" with Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass Distress ink, fussy cut and inked the edges with the Tumbled Glass ink, tied some hand dyed gray shabby seam binding, attached the stamped sentiment with pop dots, and added some homemade vintage stick pins, then inked the edges of the whole card with the Tumbled Glass Distress Ink.

For my last card (today, anyway), I followed Challenge # 7: Use more than one type of medium.

Here is my card:

For this card, I started with paper from Pink Paislee's Butterfly Gardens line, "Dew Drops". I took some AWESOME Mistable scalloped trim in 2 different widths, and on the one I stamped with a script stamp and some homemade violet colored shimmer mist, and on the wider trim, I did some random messy paint stamping with a polka dot stamp and a silver paint dauber. On top of the muslin Mistables scallops, I tied some lilac colored hand dyed shabby seam binding, and added a flower that I made by layering flowers from Prima and Petaloo which I inked lightly with Tim Holtz Dusty Concord Distress Ink, and leaves from Precocious Paper, and inked all of the edges with Dusty Concord and attached it to a white cardstock card base.

What a fun day I had creating-I hope you got to play a little, too!!

Challenge Submission

Last weekend was the big Birthday Bash celebration at Artful Delight.  Artful Delight celebrated Leeanne's birthday, hosted a great blog hop, introduced the new design team and also offered three great challenges that give you the chance to win AWESOME prizes! The Grand Prize is a 6 month subscription to Artful Delight monthly kits!!

The first challenge was this sketch:

My layout for the sketch:

A Closer look at my Coffee Filter Flower:

The Second Challenge Was This Tic Tac Toe Board:

I used light pink, made a layout, and used a border punch for this page:

(this page needs something, I am just not sure what... I am open to any suggestions!)

and the third challenge:
Use kraft, light pink, and white on a project.

And here is my card:

Fun challenge!

Awesome Dusty Attic Giveaway

Do you like chipboard? (I love what it adds to my pages!) Have you seen this awesome chipboard by Dusty Attic? It's so scrolly and intricate, just gorgeous! Simply Paper is giving some away at her blog, and she sells it in her shop too, check out this awesome chipboard now!

Master Forger's Blog Hop

This month is all about stamping over at the CKCB Challenge Blog, since we are being sponsored by the fantastic Ippity Chick (and a fellow DT member) Sherri . So Beth and Meridy gave us this challenge for the blog hop:

Blog Hop Challenge: Use a stamping technique to create a project. Make sure you make a link to that technique so we can give it a try, too! (Or, if you feel adventurous...make your own tutorial for your favorite stamping technique!)

This is a good challenge for me, since I have tons of stamps that sit around collecting dust most of the time. The technique that I decided to try was Heat Embossed Resist with mists.
Here are some tutorials on how to do it:
http://ideasforscrapbookers.blogspot.com/2011/05/heat-embossing-with-mists.html

http://plkomara.blogspot.com/2010/09/annoucement-and-some-tattered-tags.html

I used this week's fantastic sketch from Sketchy Thursdays:

Here is my layout:

And a closer look at the embossed resist embellie:

I did have stray little bits of embossing powder which I could have brushed off with a paintbrush, but I kind of liked the droplet effect that it gave it, so I left them and heated it with my heat gun as it was.

Supplies used:
Red cardstock with a distressed pattern from GCD Studios, cherry patterned paper from Jenni Bowlin Studios, scraps of leftover papers that I punched into border strips-Basic Grey, Teresa Collins, navy Bazzill, a paper doily that I misted for my September kit,  a file folder cut from kraft cardstock with my Cricut and one of the fabulous Penny Duncan's svg files, Making Memories hinges, Tim Holtz tissue tape, a scrap of red Bazzill Swiss Dots cardstock that I cut into a scalloped shape with an svg file from Susan Blue Robot, and DCWV rub-on Stitching. I used 2 different stamps for my circle embellishment, a grungy dotted circle from a christmas stamp set by Danielle Johnson for Art Warehouse, and the "baby shower" with the umbrella are from a Doodlebug stamp set. I decided to put the other photos in the file folder, because I have put off scrapping them forever-they are all pastelly (what was I thinking, wearing red to a girly baby shower?), so they clashed with my photo- so I hid them ;-p .

Thank you for hopping by my blog! Here is the line-up, be sure to check out the other designers for tons of crafty, stamping inspiration!

                                Guest Designer: Lisa H.

Melissa

Sherri

Kim

Jemma

Margie (you are here)

Susanne (go here next)

Lisa

Gabrielle

Meridy

Sketchy Fun

As you may or may not have noticed, I love sketches!! It takes alot of the "work" and thinking out of scrapping for me, and just allows me to focus on the pictures, the memories,and having fun!  Here are a few more layouts that I made this week using sketches:

Sketch 173 for Creative Scrappers:

My Layout, "Take Time To Smell The Daisies":



Supplies Used (mostly from September Counterfeit Kit):
DCWV yellow grid print from Lemon Flower Stack, scrap of kraft cardstock, Fancy Pants Its The Little Things Border Strips, Sassafrass Lass star sticker,American Crafts Thickers, Cosmo Cricker Tiny Type Letter Stickers

Sketch from Stuck Sketches:

My Layout, "Treasures Of The Heart":

 Close Up Of My Embellishment Cluster:

Supplies Used:
Fores green cardstock, hand punched peach paper lace, Colorbok rose print paper, brown crochet lace ribon, peachy pink Prima flowers, Bazzill button blooms, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, die cut kraft swirl, K&Co rub on

Journaling reads:
"It's hard to believe it's been two years that she's been gone now- and I still miss just calling her with a question, or seeing the way her face lit up when she saw her "Precious", Evan. Photos-September 2010, journaled September 2011."

Sketch from Sassy Lil' Sketches:

My Layout, "Signs Of Spring"

Close Up of the flower cluster:

Supplies Used:
Pink Paislee Vintage Moon patterned cardstock, yellow polka dot leftover scrap from DCWV Lemon Flower Stack, scrap of Teresa Collins black damask, Lily Bee stickers and banner, "Registered" label from Counterfeit Digi Kit (Echo Park For The Record), American Crafts Thickers, Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type, yellow Primas

A Sketch And Inspiration from Stuck On You Sketches (use die cut flowers-the 2 bigger flowers were die cut, the smaller ones were Primas that I layered):

 My Layout, "Blue Eyed Beauty"

Die Cut Flowers:

 Primas:

Supplies Used:
Teresa Collins black and cream damask print, Lily Bee This & That "Milk Bottle"-reverse side, cream shimmer cardstock, American Crafts Thickers, cream Primas, Making Memories rhinestone brad, Echo Park little letter stickers, patterned paper flower, black felt and tulle glittered flower, a tag for journaling tucked away behind the photo, tied with black and white baker's twine, and fastened with a Making Memories vintage brad.

If you made it this far, I commend you!!  Thanks for visiting me today!

Remember This...

One of the layouts that I made the other day is based on this FANTASTIC sketch by Becky Fleck, for this month's Express The Moments Contest:

My Layout:

A Close Up Peek at The Embellies:

Supplies I used:
Cream DCWV cardstock, Basic Grey Origins Patterned papers, kraft cardstock, my coffee filter flower (faux "Bella Bloom"), a decorated fall doily that I recieved in a swap, part of a Colorbok bling circle, American Crafts clear/brown journaling sticker attached to cream cardstock, black AC Thickers, Cosmo Cricket cream and black Tiny Type alpha stickers, tiny green Making Memories painted brads. I cut the title block and mat out with my Cricut and Once Upon A Princess cartridge.

The journaling reads:
"Moments like these are what makes life special! Thank you for this precious memory of my two handsome men! I love to see the love and trust as Evan holds Eric's hand.  St Louis 7/21/2007"

Petal Pick-Up Layout

I was inspired by this awesome sketch from Artful Delight:

Here is my layout:

A Close up Of My Embellishment Cluster:

Supplies I used:

Black And Yellow floral print from DCWV's Lemon Flower Stack (this paper is so gorgeous in person, it has the loveliest glossy/debossed texture), yellow polka dot print from the DCWV Lemon Flower Stack also, black sequined sheer ribbon, Making Memories cream with tiny black polka dot vinyl, Making Memories tiny alphas, silver American Crafts Thickers, yellow Primas, black and white twine-most supplies are taken from my September "Gran's Kitchen"  kit that I put together (you can see it here).

The journaling reads:

"Two of the prettiest flower girls around-picking up the petals from a dropped basket. 8/7/2010"

Thanks for dropping by today-come back tomorrow for another crafty share!