Counting Down

There she is, my sweet girl - she's a crafty one allright!  She decided during her quiet time on Wednesday to do a bit of crafting and very quietly, she went into the crafting room and "borrowed" some papers, washi tape and other odds and ends.


Victoria wanted to create a countdown paper chain for the start of school.  I thought that this was just far too adorable!  She was busy in her room for a couple of hours and then came out with the chain looking at all of the walls in the house for a most suitable place to hang it.


Without a doubt, she's crafty, cute and all mine!  I just LOVE her!

Use It Tuesday: Red/White/Blue

Quite obviously, this challenge is to create something that has Red/White/Blue - I've had a chipboard travel log for probably over year now and thought, hey, this is perfect - I am not supposed to use anything new - just stuff from my stash of supplies.  Feast your eyes on this:

We will be traveling later this summer so I'll have time to finish it with photos and items from our trip.  Also - I just loved the stamps that were in here - Seriously - the bicycle - I didn't even know I had it - nor the camera stamp - sheesh!!!

There is a Horder Among Us!

Good morning, its Friday and that means I woke up at 3:30 a.m. today to make breakfast for my honey.  Once a week, usually Friday, I get up extra special early to make bacon, eggs, bagels, and coffee (seems the coffee pot is not awake ... its been "brewing" for an hour and it is still not finished!).  This is a special time for both of us as it really honors my honey who is up at 2:45 each and every workday - poor guy!  Anyway, after said honey left for work, I started tromping around through the blogging world and came upon 

http://useittuesday.blogspot.com/

Here's the challenge ...

Challenge #32: Use Two!

This challenge, please make a project using TWO hoarded supplies!I know, I just felt the air suck out of the room, too.  :)You can do it!!

***REMEMBER: All of our challenges call for you to use your hoarded supplies! A challenge requirement is to tell us in your post what you used!***

I just love it when bloggers are so real (and humorous) - anyway ... I thought, hey I can play along as I have created 5 different layouts this week - one of which was using some of my "hoarded" stash!

So, you ask, what has been hoarded???  The flowers are at least two years old and the red matting cardstock is over a year old.  I think that I have only 75 more of the flowers to use before they are gone ... yes, only.

My name is Deborah, and I am a hoarder.

Scrapbook Steals Blog Hop

My Mind's Eye, Journal Card Kit

I am so EXCITED to be a guest blog hopper with ScrapbookSteals.com today!  Just imagine my excitement when I was contacted by the Mojo Mama herself, Kristy Lee, to be a participant.  My first response was “Yahoo!” and my second was - “Jeepers, what am I going to create?”  I have to admit I was even more excited when I received my package of goodies and saw what line I was lucky enough to be working with - I think that I literally carried the materials around with me for days.  Literally!

I’m a huge My Mind’s Eye fan like so many others of you out there. And their “Journal Card Kit” did not let me down.  As I began to create with the cards, I just couldn’t stop.  So many options!  Anyway - I really do hope that you find some inspiration today, “steal” the MME Journal Card Kit for yourself, and create dozens of fun projects.  

I am so torn between layouts and cards, I really cannot decide which I enjoy creating more, so I had to create both for the hop.

The creativity was just a-flowing and I had a strong desire to try my hand at making a few book marks.  We are a family of readers and I just love seeing my kids walking around with books in their hands - book marks it is!

 

Wanted to show you a close up of the edges on this one - I used a craft knife to "distress" the edges.  Kinda cool, huh?

    

There you have it - a few projects to inspire you to use MME's Journal Card Kit.  Wanna win?  Just become a follower and leave a comment by Sunday, May 13th  at 11:59PM MST.  I will then pick a random winner and you will win the cards and bookmarks featured here as well as a few other scrappy happiness from my “stash”.  ScrapbookSteals.com will also pick a random winner from one of the eight blog postings to  receive a $20.00 gift certificate to ScrapbookSteals.com.

I sure do hope that you find a great deal of inspiration from the rest of my dear gal pals during the hop.  Here’s the order just in case you landed here first:

ScrapbookSteals

Becci Manies

Katrina Hunt

Brett Quinton

Chloe Salerno
Erin Colby

Deborah Johnson     <<<<<you are here

Now don’t forget to become a follower, leave a comment and then head on over to the next stop on the hop:

Michelle King

Happy Scrappin and good luck!