Side tracked again...

My grand daughter spent the night last weekend and we rented movies. Twilight just happened to be one of them.  I have seen all the cut files and heard the buzz but had never seen the movies. We enjoyed the movie and  then of course we had to watch New Moon. I find if I enjoy a movie I always end up reading the book as well. Four Twilight books later I am waiting to see the new Eclipse movie in June, go figure.  Well I finally got back to putting together the Alice in Wonderland layout I had spread out on my scrap table for more than a week. I made the White Rabbit about three inches and it was a bit tricky to work with so  many small pieces but he turned out OK after I finished I think.  I want to try a larger one so I can get more detail on it. I did end up removing most of the scrolls on Alice's leaves for the smaller cut version as well. The links for the cut files for the Rabbit and Alice are below for anyone that would care to use them.

Alice

White Rabbit

A Beautiful Sunny Sunday...

It was such a gorgous day out today.  Sunshine always lifts my spirits and I just love the smell of spring.  Today I went to see the Time Burton and Johnny Depp movie, Alice in Wonderland. I went with my one of my daughter's and four of my grand kids. We did the 3D version and it was all I could do not the laugh during the movie looking over at my three year old grandson.  He was wearing those big black plastic 3D glasses trying to keep them up and eat popcorn at the same time. I loved the movie but then I always enjoy Johhny Depp in Tim Burton's movies. The movie gave me an idea for an Alice layout. So I went through my my digital color book pages and pulled out a couple Alice in Wonderland images to break down with Inkscape. I want to cut them in soft colors and use paper from Prima's Nursery Tales stack. I will try to share the cuts in the next couple days.  I just want to make the cuts before I do.  I find sometimes when there are alot of smaller pieces you have to make some adjustments and I want to make sure they cut before I post them.

Staying out of the craft stores…

My challenge to myself this past month is to stay out of the craft stores. It is quite impossible for me not to come out with a roll of ribbon, a paper stack or some little something that caught my eye. I’m like a magpie with shinny objects. I seem to have accumulated more paper and crafty things than I will most likely ever use in my life time LOL.  I have a habit of spending my lunch hour at Tuesday Morning, Michael’s, Joann’s or the LSS that are all five minutes from work. I have come the conclusion that my brain is not wired to just window shop. It has the over whelming desire to buy. In the effort to break this habit I have been bringing my laptop to work and spending my lunch hour creating or cleaning up cut files. So far so good, I have only slipped once last weekend. I found Fisker’s 7x7 inch clear stamp sheets at Dollar Discount; I bought 5 sheets because even I couldn't pass that up. This is today’s lunch hour file, hope someone can use it. The file contains the double heart mat and all the items on it, click here to open the download.

Happy Easter...

Well it's Easter Morning in Michigan and the sun is shinning so it looks like it will be a great day for an egg hunt.  Nothing worse than hunting eggs in the rain, or even the snow LOL.  So I guess I need to get my two most important things done for today. The ham in the oven and my batteries charged for lots and lots of pictures.  Each year around this time my daughters take all the kids to get group pictures, with a theme.  Last year it was madras shorts and polo tops.  This year the theme is going to be preppy boys and the girls are an 80's version of Madonnaesqe outfits.  Can't wait to see how these gems turn out. They always are scrapbook heaven for me.  My daughter deciding she needed over shirts with sparkly cupcakes on them couldn't find the right ones anywhere. We ended up making them ourselves.  I made patterns using cupcake cut files and appliqued them on.  The girls had fun coloring their patterns for test placement.  All and all it was a fun afternoon yesterday and we even had time to make Peep pops from dipped pretzels and marshmallow peeps.

Yo Gabba Gabba...

 I remember when my children were Sesame Street enthusiasts. Then came my youngest (who is thirteen years younger) and it became the Rug Rats.  Well I watch my three year old grandson on Friday's so now it is Yo Gabba Gabba.  Funny how the names and characters change but their enthusiasm for them remains the same.  Now instead of putting in a VHS tape so we can watch anytime it's  push the DVR button.  Time passes but kids remain a constant, LOL. I ran across a request on the message board looking for these characters and I remembered a couple of months ago my grandson and I sat at my computer and I made cut files for him.  He loves to pick characters from his favorite shows and watch me create the cut files to make for him.  I haven't cut these guys yet but did plan to use to make a book to incorporate my grandsons pictures with the characters using my Your Story.  So many projects never enough time in the weeks lately. I thought someone else might enjoy doing a project the these cute little critters so I'd like to share.  I would love to see what anybody does with them. Just click their names for the files.

FOOFA

TOODE

MUMO

PLEX

BROBEE

YO GABBA GABBA