always up for a challenge

I had the day off today and I would like to say that I spent it cleaning but sadly I can't. After staying in bed as long as I could and giving the boys some breakfast I went to the computer and tried to catch up on some blog reading. As always one blog leads to many other blogs and before I know it the boys were hungry for some lunch. After feeding them, which by the way when did Isaiah become a vacuum, I decided to tackle all me little crafty projects that I had been putting off. After all I was freshly inspired and motivated after seeing so much blog candy. I got a frame repainted and made me a new makeup bag, which I still need to take take picture of and I made my layout out for the MME sketch challenge. Here is the sketch

I decided to go with a 8.5x11 layout.

My Mind's Eye: patterned paper, cardstock stickers and twine, American Crafts: thickers, Echo Park: alpha stickers, Crate Paper: label sticker and cardstock

Now if only I could be at my craft table on all my days off.

The boys are back

After a month of having some peace and quite, I again here feet running an mouths yelling through out my house. I am happy to have the boys back but I miss being able to just head out with no agenda with Trey.
Did get lots of scrappin' done just need to find the time to post. Here are some of the ones I have managed to scan.

Crate Paper: patterned paper and cardstock stickers

Basic Grey: patterned paper, chipboard and label stickers, Echo Park: letter stickers, American Crafts: thickers, pearl bling, lace and tulle

MME: patterned paper and cardstock stickers, Jillibean Soup: corrugated letters, Crate Paper: letters, Studio Calico: cardstock sticker, Basic Grey: chipboard sticker and lace

alls quite on the western front

Well summer has rolled around again and that only means one thing in the Posey household. The boys get shipped off to their grandparents. It is something that both I and the boys look forward to. I get to enjoy a quite and semi clean house. They get to spend half the time with my parents where they have tons of cousins to play with, including my brothers kids.

Then they get to spend the other half with my in-laws where they have like 40 acres to run around on.
Now I do miss them, especially when it comes time to wash dishes or take out the trash. But it gives me plenty of time to catch up on my reading and of course scrap. And seeing as I have been trying to get back in the groove of things I decide to make this layout for the Paper Issues blog. It's a very easy challenge seeing as I have tons of guy pictures to choose from.

Basic Grey: patterned paper, cardstock sticker, KI: glitter letters, MME: ribbon, Maya Road: Maya mist & foil star sticker

Enjoy the rest of your week!

so random...

We had a nice little getaway this weekend out to see the family in Texas and I am still trying to recover. But I did say I would try to post more often.... First let me ask (for all my scrappy friends), have you ever started a layout that had so much potential and then it just went no where. Well this is that layout for me. I seriously have been working on it for five months. And since I am not one to start over I finally just decided to plop some journaling on it and call it a day. I was just tired of it sitting on my desk.

Basic Grey: patterned paper, Studio Calico: label sticker, Echo Park: label sticker, Making Memories: tiny alphas, Heidi Swapp: chipboard star & thread

Also today is my friend Carol's birthday so I thought I would post this fun card just for her.

Basic Grey: patterned paper and stickers & kraft cartdstock

Have a great week everyone!

No need to check your eyes

No my friends, your eyes are not deceiving you, I am actually blogging. I realize that it has been months so I apologize to the few people that actually read my blog. The Posey house has been terribly busy plus the new job has taken more out of me then I expected. And so with all the everyday happenings scrapping got sent to the back burner, therefore I had nothing worth posting except for a few lines that facebook could handle. But I just had a great Mother's Day weekend that included a little scrapbook getaway. I must say it took me awhile to get the juices flowing but once I did I was cranking them out!
I will start out with a little George, because lets face it he's a hottie! I can't take credit for the pictures, they were "borrowed" from the Birmingham News website.

Echo Park: patterned paper & stickers, Studio Calico: stickers, cardstock, brad, ribbon

We did take a little time out during spring break and headed out to the Smokies with grandparents and had a blast.

Echo Park: patterned paper & stickers, American Crafts: thickers and a ticket

There was plenty more but I can't go showing it all, because then you people will be expecting such updates everytime. But I do promise not to have such a dryspell again, for my mental health sakes. Have a great week!

I hate to see it end

I am sad that Croppin Paradise is not having a DT next year. The rest if the DT girls and I were very dissapointed. So for one last hurrah here is one of my favorite things about being on the dt and some of my favorite layouts.
One of my favorite things about being on the DT was of course getting to know lots of great new people and making great friends. But another thing that I love is the fact that a lot you helped me break out of my box a little and help expand my scrap booking style. For instance I find myself layering more and hand cutting. Simple hand cutting but who knows where that could lead, right!! I will say that it was a great honor to work next to a bunch of talented ladies and to have a great coordinator like Trish. I will miss working with y'all!

Have you been keeping up with all the great holiday ideas featured at the Croppin Paradise Christmas Bazaar. You should go check out if you haven't. I almost hate to see all of it end. So with out further adu...... "On the 12th day of Christmas my scrappy friend gave to me.... a new 2011 calendar!

Crate Paper: patterned paper, die cut stickers and chipboard shapes, Cosmo Cricket: tiny alphas, kraft cardstock

Go check out the forum to see how to make your own!

12 Days of Christmas

Hey so you need some gift ideas or just some holiday inspiration? Well check out Croppin Paradise's Christmas Bazaar . The design team will be posting great project ideas! I will be posting my project on the 12th day so stay tuned.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone is having a great Thanksging hanging out with family and enjoying tons of food! I would just like to say that even though there are many things to be thankful for, I am thankful for the three guys that I share my life with everyday. I consider myself really lucky to be in Trey, Isaiah & Preston's lives. What are you thankful for?

My Mind's Eye: patterned paper and pop embellishment and American Crafts: thickers

I am also thankful to be part of an amazing DT. These ladies are the best. Check out the CP blog to see what they are thankful for.

Where have I been....

It has been a long while since I've posted anything. At least I have a good excuse. About a month and a half ago I started a new job. Even though I am glad to have more hours, seeing as it equals more money, it has really cut into my free time. Not much has happened since I last posted except for the fact that Trey and I celebrated 6th year anniversary and Preston turned 6 years old. For now I leave you with a couple of layouts seeing as I started this blog for scrappy purposes. Enjoy your weekend!

Basic Grey: patterned paper and die cut & letter stickers, Making Memories: felt stickers, American Crafts: thickers

LYB: patterned paper, clear stickers and journaling block, Basic Grey: letter stickers, American Crafts: thickers

school layouts

I know, I know you are putting out all the fall and Haloween decor but here is a couple of more back to school layouts that I have to share.

Bo Bunny: patterned paper, Pink Paislee: chipboard number, KI: glitter stickers, American Crafts: thickers, LYB: epoxy sticker, Basic Grey: letter sticker, Jenni Bowlin: crate paper and ric rack

You can check out what the rest of the Croppin Paradise DT did with Bo Bunny on the blog.

Crate Paper: pattern paper and die cut stickers, KI: glitter stickers, Basic Grey: letters, Cosmo Cricket: tiny alphas, Heidi Swapp: chipboard star

I really think this is one of my favorite Crate Paper line yet!

Cosmo Cricket: patterned paper and label sticker, Making Memory: Design Shop 3D stickers

I know that one is not a school layout but figured another layout wouldn't hurt, right. Now I am ready to go hit the pumpkin patches and Halloween and Fall festivals. Enjoy your week and nice fall weather!

2 hour mini album

This month the DT over at CP starting doing some classes and tutorials. This week was my turn. Headover to the forum to check out how to make a mini album in about two hours.

Nikki Silvis

This month at CP we got to play with some Nikki Silvis. I got to use a the Tree Love line. These paper are very cute.

Nikki Silvis: patterned paper, letters and cardstock labels; Jennie Bowlin: button; My Mind's Eye: brad; American Crafts: chipboard and Kraft cardstock

Go check out what the rest of the design team did on the CP blog!

back to real life

Well we are one month into school and things are beginning to settle down. We are getting back into some sort of routine. Which is good because it gave me some time to do this weeks sketch challenge over at Croppin Paradise. Also, if you play along with the challenges each month you get a chance to win a $15 GC and be a guest designer!

My Mind's Eye: patterned paper and die cut sticker, Jillibean Soup: corrugated alphas, BoBunny alpha stickers, Echo Park: alpha stickers, Making Memories: brad, Me & My Big Ideas: chipboard star and Kraft Paper

my boys are back!

After being gone for 4 weeks the boys are finally back. Even though I loved the quite, it is nice to hear the footsteps running around upstairs.

So have you been playing around with us over a camp paradise? You still have time to join us if you haven't. This is the layout I made for last weeks challenge.

October Afternoon: patterned paper and label stickers, American Crafts: thickers, My Little Shoebox: transparency, Making Memories: ribbon, Bo Bunny: rub-on, and floss

This is the layout I made for this weeks challenge.

Everything is Bo Bunny

Well I am off to bed. Tax free weekend in Alabama starts tomorrow. Wish me luck!

We are now at week two at Camp Paradise and it has been a blast so far. This week the layout I made for my wildlife challenge.

Basic Grey: paptterned paper, die cut sticker, label sticker and letters, Jenni Bowlin: journaling card, MME: chipboard star

Go to the CP camp forum to check out the details from mine and the other DT challenges as well. You have until Wednesday at midnight to post your layout.

Camp Paradise

Camp started today so don't forget to join us in all the fun! My first weeks challenge was about camplife.

The challenge is for you to make a layout using a letter as your journaling.

Little Yellow Bicycle: patterned paper, stickers and ticket, Studio Calico: label sticker, Basic Grey: letters, American Crafts: thickers, notebook paper and staples

Go check out the other counselors camp challenges!

CP weekly sketch

This weeks was my turn to do the sketch challenge. I have still to master my sketch making skills so you will again have to settle my hand drawn sketch.

Here is the layout I made.

Little Yellow Bicycle: patterned paper & die cut stickers, Pink Paislee: patterned paper and die cut stickers, American Crafts: thickers, Basic Grey: letters, Jennie Bowin: label sticker

Don't forget to play along with all our weekly challenges through the month!

I miss him

Isaiah left Sunday for a week long camp with boy scouts.

I felt really weird last night because I found my self really missing him. But I couldn't figure out why seeing as they are usually gone for weeks at a time during the summer.
Then it hit me. The fact that I have no contact with him is what is killing me. I don't know how he is doing or if he is having fun or learning anything. When they are with their grandparents at least I can call and check up on them. But they are out in the middle of the woods, with shotly cell service I'm sure, not that he has a phone or could take it anyways.


Now don't get me wrong I know he is safe and having loads of fun but not being able to contact him just makes me feel a little empty. I am always checking my email seeing if there are any updates from the leaders and counting down the days till Saturday.
You wanna hear something funny, though. The day after he gets back both him and Preston will be on a plane to Dallas to spend time with my in-laws.... I know! I am beginning to see an advantage to keeping your children in your house till they are forty. Ha, just kidding.

On a brighter note I believe the 2 page bug hit me because I managed to make another one. Crazy, huh.

Pink Paislee: patterned paper, cardstock stickers, kraft paper, unknown: tickets, ribbon and tag

Oh and I am way excited about Eclipse coming out this week. I have to wait till Friday to see it so I am considering boycotting all media till then.
Have a great week!

check out the crate paper love

The girls and I over at Croppin Paradise got to play with Crate Paper this last month. I loved playing with Pink Plum line, especially since I had some girl pictures to use!


Check out the blog to see what the other girls did with Crate Paper. And don't forget to swing by the CP store to pick some of your own!