What an unexpected award

I was very surprised to find that Madison over at Funky Cards had given me the stylish blog award. Thank you so much Madison!

Now, this award does come with some rules and I have to pay it forward:

1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this

2. Share 8 things about yourself

3. Pay it forward to 8 bloggers that you have recently discovered

4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their awards

Share 8 things about myself... Lets see....I dont know if there is anything most people dont already know about me.

1. I have a degree in Network Engineering
2. I met my husband when we were both working at Frito Lay
3. I am adopted
4 &5&6. I found my birth mom when I turned 30 and found out I was Jewish (raised southern baptist was pretty interesting)
7. I am a huge Jewel fan
8. I teach scrapbooking classes at Michaels

Here are the 8 bloggers I am passing the award onto. These are bloggers I have recently discovered. They are very talented. Please check out their blogs and see what I mean!

1. Chelsea at Creations of a cluttered mind. Her photos are amazing!
2. Jenn at (from my) paper craft studio
3. Teresa at lil scrap
4. Christina at See Christina Scrapbook
5. Mix on the memories
6. Moria at Live Teach Love Scrap Laugh Life
7. Diane at Our Scrapping Life

8. Jennifer at Scrapping Daze

Check out this yumminess

Wee Memories has some super yummy candy! You should def check it out!

Ally Scraps and Scrapping the music

This week the song from Scrapping the Music is "Upside Down". This is the theme song from the Curious George movie. I thought this would be a good excuse to finally scrap the pics from Universal Studios where the kids met George. I used the sketch from Alley Scraps for this one. I know I have been working on useing my single page stash but I got this paper from my Play day paper pack by SEI. So I guess technically it is still part of my stash. This font for both the title and journaling is called Brody and it is as close to the Curious George font as I could find.

Cooking with Cricut

Cooking with Cricut had a blog hop this past weekend and it ended with a Christmas challenge. I dug into my stash and went to work. Im sorry that I cant tell you about any of it. I don't even know where I got the tree svg file. All I do know is I used a page maps sketch, the title was cut with scal and the font is Christmas card.


This layout also qualifies for:

Lasting memories layout challenges: Use Your Cricut (or any die cuts if you don't have a cricut
Simon says stamp: sparkle
The ABC challenges: H is for Holidays

Chef Mickey's

I am getting around to scrapping more pics from our first trip to Disney in 2008. These are from Chef Mickey's at the Contemporary Resort. I scrap lifted this from one of my favorite blogs... Reddy's Ramblings. She has some great free svg files for Disney. Everything I used was either from my stash or my scrap pile.

8x8 layout

I had to make a small Christmas layout for the classes room window at Michaels because corporate will be visiting the store this week. So I dug through my scraps and some stash and came up with this. I think it came out pretty cute. I used a cut file from Treasure Box.

Halloween layout

I have been working 7 nights a week between Michaels crafts and the Dollar Tree. So on days when I get to stay home I have been all over scrapping. I found this sketch at Stuck Sketches. I know it was a single page but I went a little crazy with it once I started.

These pictures are from 2008 when we went to Universal Studios Orlando. The decorations are fantastic at Halloween time.

Pretty much everything I used for this is from my stash. We are talking about moving so I have decided I need to start using stuff up so I dont have to move as much. Now keep in mind we are talking 3-4 years from now but heaven only knows what I will accumulate by then. Lets see how long with use it up attitude will last....lol.


This layout also qualifies for:

Cooking with the Cricut: Not so scary Halloween