Polk-A-Dot Scrapper

Newest Project - Copic Coloring Book

I finally finished my Copic coloring book. I have been working on this for a while. I got the idea from Michelle at my favorite scrapbook store, Scrapdoodles. The book is a half piece of letter size paper. I used Copic Express It paper for all of the pages. The cover is chipboard. I sprayed it with Dylusions Spray Mists in various colors on the inside and out. The title is cut using a font on the Creative Memories Vacation cartridge. I used a glitter black paper for the title. The binding wire is a purple metallic 1 inch Cinch wire. I used my Cinch machine to bind it together. Super easy book and now I can practice coloring anywhere!!

Eastover Baptist Retreat Center

What a great weekend away.  I spent it with 26 lovely ladies at the Eastover Baptist Retreat Center in Surry, VA.  The drive from my house was 5 hours, but it was well worth it and I think Mom and I have decided that it will be a yearly event.  So for Mom it was camping, for everyone else, not so much.  Yes we were in the woods, all the the way in the woods. No TV, no wifi (unless you had verizon hotspot) and limited cell service.  Thankfully I have Verizon so we were ok.  We rented a mini-van because we thought we needed to bring everything under the sun for 4 days of cropping with no store within 45 minutes of the retreat center, but it was worth all the packing. I finally got started on scrapbooking the pictures from Disney.  I have a bunch but I finished the majority of my Animal Kingdom Pictures.  Here are a few of the layouts.

My Cricut and Silhouette got a workout over the weekend.  I also managed to use up the Zoo paper from Creative Memories, I had 2 packs of that.  I also used up a few packs of old stickers I had laying around in my stash.  My goal over the weekend was to use up a few things and to use some new things that I had purchased.  I did use my new Lawn Fawn Critters on the Savanna stamps and the matching dies.  They were a ton of fun to color with my Copics. I also got to use my Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher that I purchased from Scrapdoodles a few months ago.  The girls in the store were hilarious, they said that having the tiny attacher would be life changing. Well....I LOVE IT!!! I used it a lot over the weekend and it will be a "staple" for sure in my stash now, HA!!!

Gypsy in Linked

WOOHOO!!!! I have linked my Gypsy to my Cricut Craft Room.  Needless to say it took ALL DAY!!!  I had to re-install Cricut Sync and Cricut Craft Room a few times and start over a few times, but it finally worked!!! I am running Windows 7 and had to set both programs to work as if they were in Windows XP.  That seemed to work.  I did have a problem with the Craft Room being able to see my Gypsy but eventually that worked as well.  I'm hoping everything continues to work appropriately.  Tomorrow I'm hoping to updated my Expressions 2 to work with Craft room and if it does, I'll be re-purchasing the Cricut Mini that I returned because I couldn't get it to work on my computer.  I also have a few catridges to load tomorrow so I'm going to check out how that works for me as well.  In other wonderful news, since all of us Cricut Fans have been so patient waiting for the Gypsy linkability to arrive we have received a $20 credit on our Cricut.com accounts.  It Expires in Feburary so get it while ya can!!!  Happy cutting!!!!

Recipe Card

So excited to finally make something, WOOHOO!!! So I'm taking part in a recipe card swap while I'm on a retreat.  So I picked a recipe by Rachel Ray.  I have her new book 365 recipes and drinks by her and her hubby.  Yeah, I love it!!!  So, since the recipe is for crab cakes I went with an underwater theme for the recipe cards.  I used the Cricut for the seaweed.  The tall piece is from the Lifes a Beach Cartridge and the smaller one is from Create a Critter.  The sand came from the Miss Kates Cuttables file Beach Day.  The large crabs came from the Silhouette Design Studio Crabby Word Image Set.  I deleted the word crabby and just kept the crab.  The smaller crabs are a Martha Stewart Crab Punch.  The little sea shells are a punch from the dollar spot in JoAnns.  All of the cardstock is also from JoAnns with the exception of the white.  The cardstock came in a pack called Minty Fresh, I really like all the colors together.  The sand is Krafty cardstock. Oh and I couldn't resist googly eyes on the crabs.

A little Organization

Since most of us are always looking for ways to transport our scrappy stuff to and from crops I had to tell you about my latest idea. So I own a Cricut and a Silouette. I try to always take both of them with me depending on where I'm going and how long I'll be there. I have a bag for the Silouette and I have a bag for the Cricut. I've decided I'm tired of taking two separate bags for each machine and it's corresponding stuff. I wanted a solution that I could put both machines an all of the stuff that goes with them; Mats, laptop, cords, and whatever else. Well I FOUND IT!!! Singer® Futura Quartet Rolling Sewing Machine Case. I bought mine from HSN on Flexpay. It's perfect.  Here are a few pictures for ya!

Yes there are straps to hold the machines in place.  There are also pockets on each side of the bag.  There is a pocket on the outside as well.

There is a handle that collapses and wheels just like a suitcase.

There is also a bag to hold all of the mats as well and it fits inside the large bag.

Now for a little room organization.  As you can see from the background of my pictures, which I took with my Ipad by the way. I'm in the middle of some reorganization. I finally found the perfect paper solution for myself and I had to share it with everyone.  The Thirty-One Your Way Cubes!!! I had each of them embroidered with what type of paper is in them.  I added tabs between the brands and cardstock colors and labled them.  The Cropper Hopper dividers fit perfectly in the cubes and the cubes themselves fit perfectly in my Ikea Expedit. 

 

My next new organizational thing is the Large Organizer from Close To My Heart.  They will be available for purchase on the 1st of February, yes I'm a consultant so I bought mine already.  I actually bought a second one but it's not here yet.  They hold 40 stamps or so.  I have 44 in mine.  Since I was able to move paper out of my cubes from Michals and into my Expedit I decided I would take the shelves out of the other cubes and put my new stamp holders in them.  I did leave one shelf in a the top for small things.

I hope this post helps someone get ore organized.  I know I'm getting there however very slowly.  Happy Tuesday everyone!!!

Ready for some Football!!!

So I've been home with the flu for the past week.  Thankfully I can work from home at my full time job so I've been able to work get paid and rest.  I'm thankful for that.  In the mean time I came up with this great idea for a Super Bowl party page.  I'm rooting for the 49ers this year since that was my Dad's team, but I'm a Skins fan all the way! 

For the party invitation I used The Greeting Farm Sitting Casual Stamp set and the Authentique 6x6 Paper Pad Free Bird Poised and Warmth.  I colored Ian with copics.  His clothes and the sofa are paper peiced using the Echo Park A Boy's Life paper pack.  The Sentiment is stamped on the Stampin Up key tag punch which has been discontinued.

I also made little flags for cupcakes using a stamp from The Greeting Farm Sitting Casual Stamp set.

Finally I created a scrapbook page because of course as a scrapbooker you take pictures of Everything!!!  All of the stamps are from The Greeting Farm Sitting Casual Stamp Set.  I used the Teddy Bears On Parade Cricut cartridge for the Teddy Bears. I cut everything else with the Silhouette.  The footballs, grass, and goal post are from Miss Kates Cuttables Football MVP.  Miss Kate has the best SVG files and great prices!!  I'm in love with her website.  For the title I used the Porky's Font from Fontspace. For the banner I learned a great trick over the weekend.  I used a paper plate and wax paper.  I poured Modge Podge on the wax paper and dipped twine it it.  I let the twine dry to it would start to harden.  Before it was completely dry I stuck it to the scrapbook page so it looked like the string holding up the banner.  It was so easy and turned out so cute!!! I'm super thankful for that great tip from Michelle and Scrapdoodles in Fredericksburg.

Final Create Your Classroom Design Team Project

So my design team term with Create Your Classroom has ended.  What a great ride this has been.  My first design team and with such a great group of inspirational ladies.  So here goes nothing -

The bag is a standard size ziploc bag.  The cardstock is a retired Stampin Up color.  I cut it at 6 inches and folded it in half so it's 6x3.  I embossed that with a Silhouette Texture Plate.  The paper on top is from the Echo Park 6x6 This and That Graceful paper pad.  I used the Cricut Teddy Bears on Parade cartridge to cut the Cupid Teddy Bear and the Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge to cut the hearts.  I inked the hearts with Close to My Heart Blush Mini Pigment Ink and used the Momento Tear Drop Coco ink for the CYC Sentiment Learning is the Key from the CYC Back to School stamp set. 

I'm not sure I'd give any child that many M&Ms and one time, but making the treat bag was so much fun!! Happy candy eating and scrapping :-)