ER Visit

Sorry to have not posted yesterday but I am still not feeling that great. And then ended up taking my hubby to the ER for a hurt foot. He will be fine but we spent most of today waiting there. Sigh...

But I did want to post a few things for anyone out there wanting to see something new on my blog!

I made this banner (my first, so be gentle - ha) for the Sketches4all blog hop (which has ended).

The challenge was to make a banner (obviously ha) and have the main color be pink/red and use lace or lacy ribbon and flowers. Well....I kind of missed reading the second part about the color scheme...ha

I started with the lime green paper and some lime green ribbon and then happened to pick some bright pink paper for my hearts. (luckily)

I had some lace scraps and decided to just cover each of the hearts that I cut out with my Cricut. I added some glittery flowers with bling and some stickles. Then just punched holes and threaded the ribbon and voila....a banner!

I have it hanging by my desk and it is bright and cheery.

My two 5th graders celebrated Valentine's Day at school on Friday. I made them each a card for their teacher. That has a picture of them in the center of a flower and the card says, "Pick me", on the outside and "to be your Valentine", on the inside.

I like how they turned out and their teachers loved them! I also made a couple more of those "sweeties" jars. I might post them tomorrow for you to see.

I hope you are having a great weekend! More later....

I Completed All The Challenges!

I have a couple of cards and an altered item to show you today.

I made them for the Sketches4all Valentine's Decor & Blog Hop.

Nothing like waiting until the last second to enter challenges..right??! ha (The ended 2/10)

First I want to show you one of the jars I got at a thrift store.

I was looking on a Sketches4All DT's blog during the blog hop and noticed this cute idea to make for my kid's teachers.

I've made 3 so far but am only showing you one today. The jar says, "Because of you....I'm a Smartie". And it is filled with Smartie candies. Simple and cute. At least I think so! ha

This jar was kind of short and made decorating it a bit hard. The other two jars I worked on are taller and slimmer. They were easier to work on.

I made this for my kid's teacher but it conveniently worked for Michelle's Altered Item Challenge at S4A.

The next card is one I made for Melissa P's Sketch challenge. I fussy cut the flowers out of some paper from Fancy Pants -Love Birds. The striped paper on the front is actually cut from the cover sheet of the paper pack.

During the blog hop I saw a layout on one of the DT's blogs that had a button heart around the picture....I scraplifted the idea for my card. I think it might have been a bit more difficult to try to get it on a card. And the card is now a bit heavy.

My next card is for Erin' Red & White Challenge. You could only use red and white on your card. It was fun to try to figure that out! I ended up fussy cutting the sentiment and heart out of some DCWV paper I had. The ribbon was from Recollections.

The last one is my cupcake card that I made for Christy's Scraplift/Give some love challenge. I liked the idea of a using a cupcake for a card and saw a fun card made by DT Jessica that had a cute cupcake on it.

I think it turned out pretty cute.

I actually ended up doing all the challenges for this special event at Sketches4all. I had a blast working on them all. And was so happy with all the new faces that showed up and participated!! I had a great turnout on my LOVE SONG Challenge.

I have more creations to show you tomorrow.

But I have made you wait long enough........ I bet you are wondering who the winner of the RAK on my blog for the Sketches4all Valentines Decor & Blog Hop is....

The winner chosen by Random Generator is number 16....Marlene said, " This is a gorgeous layout".

Marlene email me your snail mail address so I can get your goodies out in the mail to you. Scrapwithstacy@gmail.com

Go to Sketches4all and see who won my LOVE SONG challenge!!

Sketches4all Valentines Decor and Blog Hop is Here!!

This Post Will Stay At The Top Until February 11th. Please Scroll Down For New Posts.

Welcome to the Sketches4all Valentines Decor and Blog Hop!

I am the first stop on the way so if you started here you are on the right track!!

You need to find the hearts on each DT's blog. Add them up and then go here and post the number you have found.

Be sure to leave a little love on each blog along the way. After you finish up here your next stop is Michelle H.

Here is a list of all the blogs you have to hop around and visit on this blog hop:

Stacy H-W: http://scrapwithstacy.blogspot.com/ (you are here)

Michelle H: http://iluvscrapping.blogspot.com/

Erin: http://scraps-of-reflections.blogspot.com/

Christy: http://myscrapbookevolution.blogspot.com/

Isadory: http://izadory.blogspot.com/

Melissa: http://isay-creativegenius.blogspot.com/

Jessica: http://myscrappycorner.blogspot.com/

Khristen: http://khristenscraftroom.blogspot.com/

Fia: http://sketchesforyou.blogspot.com/

This Blog Hop starts today Saturday, February 5th and ends on Tuesday, February 8th.

Please note that the ending date of this event has now been extended until Thursday February 10th. I will now be posting winners on the 11th of February. This gives you a little more time to work on the challenges and try to win some prizes!!

There are going to be fun challenges posted by two of the DTs each day with RAK's for the winners!! So you should really go visit S4A every day!!!!

There is already a Pre-Challenge posted that you can join in on too.

The Valentines Decor & Blog Hop challenge I posted today at Sketches4you is to use your favorite love song as inspiration for making a paper craft.

You can use a love song title as the title of your layout (like I did) or be inspired by lyrics of a love song. Go on over to Sketches4all and join in on my challenge! I would love to see your creations.

I used the love song, At Last by Etta James. One of my all time favorite love songs! It worked perfectly with the feeling of my layout. The picture is of my daughter who we adopted from China after waiting an extremely long time.

Now go hop along and remember there are many different ways you can win.

1. Enter the special event challenges posted by the DT and be in the drawing for a RAK on each one.

2. Some of the DT along the Blog Hop will offer a RAK on their blogs.

3. Complete 4 special event challenges and you will be in a drawing for a paper pad of Nikki Sivils New Collection - Sugar Cookie!!! YUMMY!!

4. Complete ALL the challenges and be in the drawing for the grand prize of a $10 gift certificate to an awesome online scrapbook store!!

5. Find and give the correct number of hearts found on the blog hop and your name will be added to the drawing to win a prize. (my blog has 1 heart)

Remember to leave a comment on each blog along the way and you can follow me if you want. I would love it if you did but it is not a requirement of mine.

I would like you to share your favorite Valentine's Present or Valentine's Date Story. The funnier or crazier the better!!

There will be a drawing for a winner from the comments to win a RAK. Check back here on the Thursday, February 10th to see who won!!

You will find all the information and challenges at Sketches4all in the Forum under Special Events.

Now on to Michelle's blog for the next stop on the blog hop!!

A Little Sick

Hello everyone,

Sorry I haven't posted the cards I promised yet but I have picked up a little cold and really didn't feel like blogging yesterday.

I did want to come on here and let you know that the Sketches4all Decor & Blog Hop (SD&BH) has been extended until tomorrow the 10th of February. So, if you haven't had a chance to join in...you still have a little time left.

There are a bunch of fun challenges and prizes for the winners.

I am going to start by showing you my calendar page for February. I used a picture from my dd's birthday party on Sunday. I got this calendar kit from Basic Grey at CKC in Seattle.

I am having the best time doing the pages each month. I really like how this month's page turned out...how about you?? Like it?

I also made this Tri-Fold card for Michelle's SD & BH Tri-Fold Card challenge. This is the first tri-fold card I have made. I tried to combine it with 2 other challenges (well I actually did combine it with 3 other challenges) but the boss lady over at S4A said NO COMBINING.

I combined it with The Boss Lady, Fia's, color challenge and with Jessica's Hearts & Love Challenge (use at least 14 hearts and the word Love on your project).

It was pretty disappointing but what can you do?

The other card I made I made for the Pre-Challenge which was to use a heart, a stamp, a punch, a flower, bling and a Valentine's Day Theme.

I really really like how this card turned out.

I used DCWV Scrapbook Kit In A Stack (Love & Wedding) paper. I used a Fiskars Heart punch and a Martha Stewart edge punch. My "flower" was the rose paper I used. I stamped Love and used heart shaped brads and fussy cut the big red heart. My bling is the the black rectangle that I added around the Love Stamp.

I used a white gel pen to "stitch" around the heart and to put some dots on my hearts. And I used Crystal Stickles because I always use Crystal Stickles! ha And I inked the edges of some of my paper with some black ink to help make them POP. I also added a Vellum definition of the word LOVE just for fun.

Do you use Vellum very often? What is your favorite way to adhere it to your project??

Yesterday was "picture day" at school for my children. The morning was crazy with them running around trying to get clean and pretty! LOL Hopefully they went to school and smiled... I know my 3 older kids will smile but not so sure about the 2 little ones...ha

Here is a picture of them that I took before they left for school. Enjoy.

Olivia's 9 Years Old!!

Yesterday was my dd's 9th birthday yesterday (Sunday) and we had a "Super Bowl" party for her.

She is a tomboy and was super excited. We made tons of fun snacks, decorated to the max and tried to watch the game with a bunch little kids! They think they want to watch but they really just want to play! ha

She was so cute running around in the football jersey and pads she got as a present. The jersey is a Steelers jersey and she was for the Packers but she was still thrilled!!!!!!!!! LOL (I couldn't find a Packers Jersey anywhere)

She put in an order for Strawberry cake...so she got strawberry cake! ha

My 3 year old daughter unfortunately was left sitting at the table with the cake in front of her and decided to eat as much of the icing off of it as she could possible get before anyone noticed her! She did this after we had all eaten a piece but still....LOL OMG!

It was a pretty fun day and Olivia had a ball.

I plan to do a layout or two with the pictures but I thought I would share a few with you first.

I made a couple of cards on Saturday for the Valentine's Decor and Blog Hop which ends tomorrow. So if you haven't already hopped along get to hopping!! And there are 9 fun challenges and great prizes to be won. GO check it out.

I will post the pictures of the cards tomorrow. Hope your weekend was as fun as ours. Happy Monday!!

So EXCITED!!

Has anyone been missing me? ha I didn't really have anything good to show or share so I took a little break.

But I am getting very excited because Sketches4all is having it's first blog hop of the year!!!

The Valentine Decor and Blog Hop!~!

The actual blog hop goes from Saturday, February 5th and ends on Tuesday, February 8th. So come back tomorrow and start hopping along. It is going to be a blast!!

There are 5 ways to win!!

1. 8 DT will be giving away a RAK for their challenges.

2. Some of the DT will be giving away a RAK on their blogs as you hop along on the blog hop.

3. If you complete 4 of the special event challenges you will be in a drawing for Nikki Sivils New Collection Paper Pad- Sugar Cookie!!!! YUM!!!!

4. If you complete all the special event challenges your name will go in a drawing for the grand prize - a $10 gift certificate to an awesome online scrapbook store!!

5. Find all the hearts on each of the blogs along the way. Add them up and post the total of hearts found and your name will be added in a drawing for a prize!

There will be a ton of fun challenges!!!

Head on over to Sketches4all NOW for the Pre-Challenge that Fia has posted for all you guys who are eager to get started!!!!

Be sure to check out Sketches4all every day during the event for all the new challenges posted each day!!

I also wanted to tell everyone that Marlene at Disguised As A Grownup is giving away a free (!!!) digi. So go over to her blog and check it out. You want to go there anyway because she is super talented and hilarious!!

Welcome to February!!

Welcome to February!!

So I wanted to share how well I did last month on Project 2011 Scrap Our Stash. I did not buy any scrap stuff at all!!
Woo Hoo!!

Of course, it didn't hurt that I was on a spending freeze for January and that I had 2 surgeries and really couldn't go out and spend!! LOL

If you don't already know about it Project 2011 SoS is a challenge that Denise at Lala's World has started to help encourage us to use our stash.

I think she is planning to do it for 6 months (not sure) but I am doing it month by month. And really I am just using it as a way to be more conscious of using my stash instead of buying new all the time.

Go check out her blog and see what you think. You can sign up for this challenge too!!

I thought I would start you out with a cute photo my baby girl, G. I took this picture yesterday while we were outside and she was playing.

I feel kind of bad because the weather has been really pretty nice here in Las Vegas and it seems like the rest of the US is getting pounded by snow.

My brother is here helping me out while I recover from my surgeries and he loves the snow. And it is blizzard conditions right now where he lives. So he is really missing it.

It is pretty funny to watch him glued to the weather channel hoping for a glimpse of the snow at home! lol

Are you getting pounded by snow where you live??? Or is the weather nice?

I actually scrapped for the first time since my surgery.

Yippee!! ha

I made a card for my February 1st Card challenge at Sketches4you. All you have to do is use this gorgeous sketch from Pagemaps and the colors Pink and Gray.

Go over and join in!!

I also wanted to give you a heads up....starting February 4th until February 8th - Sketches4you is having Valentine Decor and Blog Hop. There will be tons of fun challenges and RAKS. Come and be inspired, have fun and maybe win something!!

Thanks for stopping by!!