Poop Cookies and Pictures

This layout is for a challenge over at Creative Cookbooking AND at Citrus Tree Studio. Creative Coookbooking GDT Tara challenged to scrap about something your mom cooked for you as a child and that you now cook for your children. Citrus Tree Studio's DT Tammy challenged us to sew. Well, what else other than Poop cookies? Funny thing is, both Chris and my mom have made these FOREVER. They are really chocolate no bake cookies, but take a look at them and you see where their name came from! ;-)

I came across this fun cooking paper from Moxxie at our lss. I've also had a sketch from Stacey I've been wanting to use for a while.
This was Peytons first time helping me make cookies. He wanted to wear a hat (coffee filter) while he helped me cook. Isn't he cute?

We had a garage sale this past weekend. I caught Peyton playing in the baby stuff.....

Yep, enough said there.....

That afternoon we went out to Kah-Nee-Tah for a Chamber event. I made the mistake of not trying on my dress (*ahem* from my Junior Prom) BEFORE we went down there. Come to find out the seem in the rear of the dress was opening up. Chris to the rescue......

This past Sunday we were up at my parents house visiting for a while. My Grandpa happened to be there also. He was taken with Maddy and Maddy with him. At one point she grabbed a hold of his finger and took off for a walk. lol...

Creative Cuts & More Celebration Blog Hop

Hello Blog Hoppers! Wasn't Joy's project great? I'm so glad you stopped by today. If you arrived here and didn't know about the blog hop, make sure to hop over to Die Cut Diva Blog. You won't want to miss what our designers have in store for you!

Today we are celebrating the launch of Creative Cuts and More’s brand NEW website!

I have a fun project to share today. Its a Date Book! I used the Tag #04 - Large in heavy weight black chipboard. I am always forgetting birthdays and anniversaries. I wanted a place to write them all down to help me m remember them. I've seen this idea elsewhere and thought Creative Cuts And More Tag was PERFECT for what I wanted.
Introducing....My Book Of Dates.

A close up of the project.

A close up of the flower I made by distressing different sized circles.

Here is what the inside pages look like. I just typed them up in a word document and printed them off. I layered them on cardstock, then on patterned paper.

My papers and cardstock were from my scrap stash. I know there is a piece of Bo Bunny and of Basic Grey, but not sure what the other pieces are. The alpha stickers are by Adornit and Pink Paislee. The ribbons and pearl are unknown.

Now hop on over to Kendra's blog to see what she has in store for you!

The Celebration Blog Hop starts at Die Cut Diva. If for some reason one of the links is broken along the Hop do not worry, HOP back over to Die Cut Diva where the complete list will be. What would a blog hop be without prizes. There will be 5, yes, is said 5 prizes!!! The prizes are gift certificates to Creative Cuts & More ranging from m$5 up t $25. All the details on how to win are at the beginning, Die Cut Diva Blog.

The Window and Tim Tams

Back on National Scrapbook Day Patti at Citrus Tree Studio challenged us to create a shaped layout! I paired this up with a DT project for Creative Cuts & More.
I just adore the large scallop circle from CC&M. CC&M got a new die that I am quickly falling for too, its the small scalloped oval frame. Isn't it cute? Oh, and can't forget the flowers from CC&M too. Are you starting to notice a trend yet? Yep, I'm addicted to those die cuts. Watch out girls, once you try them, you will be heading back for more! They are SO much fun! Other products used were Basic Grey Paper, American Crafts Thickers, Adornit alphabet stickers and I can't remember who the little rub-ons were by!

When we lived in my parents basement apartment, every morning after Maddy finished her bottle she'd want to stand on the back of the couch. Here, would watch Sedona and jabber to her. This is where she said her first word, Sedona (nice huh...the first word is the dogs name...lol...). Of course Peyton always had to get in on the action cause Sister was having so much fun. I wanted to remember this and was lucky enough to capture a picture of it.

Sarah Lou posted on her blog that she was willing to trade someone Tim Tams for Peeps! She had never tried them and was curious what they were like. Well it just so happens I was curious what Tim Tams tasted like. Lindsay over at Cosmo Cricket raved about them quite a while ago and I've been curious since. As it turns out, I forgot to take a picture. Well, once I had one of those darn things they seemed to disappear! :0) Not sure who would haven eaten them all in such a short period.....*ahem* *cough* *cough* ;-) Anywho, that was a fun swap and Sarah even included some super cute scrappy goodies that made me drool!

I SO wanted to get some great pictures of Maddy in her adorable little outfit and this yellow flower Peyton got for me for my birthday! But the little stinker wouldn't cooperate.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Don't forget to stop back by Monday for the Creative Cuts and More blog hop!

Creative Cookbooking Challenge

I joined Creative Cookbooking a few weeks ago. On National Scrapbooking Day they had a weekend crop. They had an Iron Chef challenge with a secret ingredient. The winner was going to be June's GD! The challenge, to scraplift a layout done by one of the DT and the secret ingredient was chipboard.

I chose to scraplift Suzanne's Kahlua Dump Cake layout.
Here is my take on the layout:

My good friend Tammy gave me some fun new scrapbooking goodies for my birthday and I couldn't wait to use them.

I did lots of stitching and used my new border punches. I also layered a couple chipboard frames to create a flower. The bracket is also a frame cut in half.

So there you have it! And I'm excited to say that I won the Iron Chef title! Wahoo! Make sure and come check us out! It is a friendly community!

The little miss is proving to be quite independent. Well that and opinionated. lol...I had tried before but she doesn't like you showing her how to do it. I finally gave in and stripped her down and let her have at it. You can tell, she did pretty good, but I think its because she wasn't getting much on her spoon.

I normally don't feed her baby food. But I was tring to get prunes into her. lol...Any guess why? haha...She's gonna kill me some day for saying that!

Oh, and I drew a name for my give-away here. The winner is miss Paisley Petals, aka Karen! Whoot Whoot! If you could e-mail me your addy Karen, I'll get the goodies off to you soon!

A few things around the house...

First off, I apologize for the bad pictures, I've tried and tried to get better ones and am just giving up. After I picked up Peyton from preschool yesterday I stopped by a second hand store here in town that I found. My bathroom counter was driving me nuts. This is what it looked like....
I found this neat little wooden tray that had three wooden boxes with lift lids. The Dixie cups didn't fit in a box, so I removed the center box. This looks so much better. Now to find a cute little container for my jewelry.

I don't like having the toothpaste, face wash, and that sorta stuff out on the counters, but not sure what to do with it if I don't. It would annoy me to have to take it out from under the cabinet every time I wanted it, but maybe after getting used to it, I wouldn't mind. What do you do with all the bathroom clutter? At my parents house they have cabinets on both sides of the sink. That was really nice. We have double sinks here so it wouldn't work for us.

Next up is my piano! Isn't she pretty? It is the piano my mom grew up with. My mom sewed me a really pretty table runner that fits perfect on the back (I should have gotten a close up). My cousin bought me the wall piece for my birthday and I just LOVE it! Now, I have at least one corner of my house decorated! haha!

I also got this cute little shelf put up and pictures in the frames.

I plan on finding a family or love vinyl quote to put above them. Anyone able to link me up with one or have a favorite quote you want to share with me?

Thats about it for me for now. More scrappy fun coming soon! I have a couple layouts to share!

Baby Mini Album

One of my childhood friends recently had twins. Although I haven't seen her in at least 15 years, I have kept in contact with her throughout the years. I wanted to make her a little something and thought a mini album would be the perfect thing. The mini album and numerous die cuts are from Creative Cuts & More. I had some fun DCWV Baby paper that I thought would be perfect since she has both a boy and girl.

I used the chipboard Tag Mini Album Set from Creative Cuts & More.
I used Tacky Tape to cover all the chipboard pages. Terry has excellent prices on Tacky Tape. On the cover is the Antique Label. I just LOVE this die cut! It is one that I want a couple of every color on hand. :-)

I did a little fussy cutting from the patterned paper.

Here is the Scallop Oval Frame Large. Its not up on there old site, but come Monday, will be on their new site.

Here is a close up.

Here I used Purple SticklesLilac on the butterflies (from a Martha Stewart Punch).
I used the Doodlebug Jewels and the Scallop Oval Frame Rectangle from Creative Cuts and More.

A little close up. The tab pulls out for another picture or journaling.

Speaking of babies...check out this little piece of heaven.

Yep, that would be my nephew born this past Saturday. Isn't he cute? I just want to eat him! :-D My brother is going to be such a good daddy, he had me near tears singing to him on Sunday.

If you missed my last post, I'm having a little give-away. Or should I say giving away a RAK that went unclaimed. You can see it here.

One last thing, the blog hop that was supposed to be this past Monday had to get pushed til next Monday do to some technical issues. So check back Monday (or before! ;-) ).

Scrap A Little May Challenge

Helen has another great challenge up on her site Scrap A Little this month. It is to use 90% Basic Grey! Some Basic Grey goodies are up for grabs so make sure and check it out!

Here is my take on this sketch:

I used the scalloped circle and scallop frame from Creative Cuts & More. The flourish is a revolution die I cut with my Cuttlebug. Then of course I used Thickers for my title.

This beautiful flower came from the very talented Pam. The tab pulls out my hidden journaling. I talk about why I love this picture so much. I love it cause it shows off Maddy's blue eyes and chunky thighs, because it shows her playing with her feet while eating (which she does all the time) and because its a picture of us together.

Popcorn...my family loves it. I freaked out the first couple times Maddy eats it, but she get extremely upset if she is left out. Yep, everyone but me LOVES to eat popcorn! We can't get our couch upstairs into our bonus room, so right now we only have a recliner up there. It makes for quite the cozy time with the kids. :-)

Oh, and one last thing. I offered up a RAK a while back, the gal never claimed it, so its up for grabs again. Leave a comment and I'll draw a winner sometime at the end of the week. Here is a picture of it: