Pins to Creation Post - Snowman Door

Hi all!  For today's post I decided to go with something totally FUN!  We have been decorating our house slowly but surely the last few days, getting it ready for Christmas.  While I was going through pinterest thinking of what I wanted to do for this post, I saw this and remembered how much I wanted to do it last year.  Unfortunately, we do not have a white fridge, opting to go with stainless steel in our house but we do have WHITE DOOR!  WOOHOO!

Here is the website where I pinned the idea from, http://craftingmytalents.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-snowman-fridge.html, and here is a copy of the photo she had on her blog:-).  isn't it too cute?

Here is my version, my kids are in LOVE with this snowman:-).  It was SO simple to make!  I just used my Creative Memories Circle maker and cut out the eyes at the biggest circle I had.  Then I cut out 9 more little circles, 5 for the mouth and 4 for the buttons (I had some kid help putting those on the door:-)), Then I free hand cut the scarf using some 12x24 Christmas paper I had, I love the candy cane paper that came in the pack.  The nose was cut using a 8 1/2x 11 piece of orange paper from Stampin UP!

 Here's another photo from higher up on my stairs.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  If you would, please head over to the Pins to Creation blog and check us out.  We are a fun group of girls making projects from pinterest!

Project Life Softball Pages

This morning I was able to get a little scrapbooking done.  We actually didn't have anything going on until the afternoon and the kids were playing so nicely so I thought I'd sneak in a little time in my scrapbooking room.  A few hours later and I had done a bunch of project life pages and then worked on these pages from Ava's softball this summer.  She participated in softball for the first time over the summer and had a blast!

I used the Teresa Collins Sports Edition II stamps for everything but the title on these pages.  I love this stamps for anything sports related.  The colors I used were Stampin UP Marina Mist and Regal Rose, along with some gray for the strip on the page and Stampin UP Whisper White to stamp on.

 Each of these 12x12 pages were next to a Project Life page in my album.  I love how it all coordinates!

Thanks for stopping by today!

DCWV Scrapaholic Challenge for November

Hi all!  It's been so busy these last few weeks.  I have been working a lot at my new job and I also got to take a trip to Vegas with my husband to help him out with his job at a trade show.  It was a lot of fun getting to spend so much time alone with my husband.  We were able to go to dinners by ourself, see some shows, and even went horseback riding!  We did miss the kids terribly and were happy to get home to them.  Then before we left last week for Thanksgiving break to spend with our families in Michigan I made some time to get into my scrapbooking room and create a few layouts.  I had printed out some photos of my son on his first day of school and I really wanted to get those into his album and our family album.  I just recently purchased two new school stacks from DCWV and I was itching to use those!  I took the most recent sketch from DCWV and used it to create my pages.  Here is what I came up with:

I just love the Edumacation stack from DCWV.  I used only that stack to create this page.  

 I also used the Edumacation stack for this page.  I created two pages with the same photos for the two different books.  I just love these pages.   My little boy is getting so big!

 My pages were based on this sketch from the DCWV blog.

I LOVE banners!  Here is the banner that came right out of the stack.  So cute!

 This banner I made on my own from the paper in the stock.  I loved the crayon paper.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Pins to Creation

Hi everyone!! Welcome to our first Pins to Creation blog hop!  Hopefully you have arrived here from Jamie, the Scrap Queen, if not and you want to start at the begining head over to the Pins to Creation blog at http://pinstocreations.blogspot.com.    I am soooo excited to be a part of this team!  I have been addicted to Pinterest for over a year now and only made a handful of items that I've seen on there.  I LOVE Pinterest!  It is so much fun and so fun to look at all the gorgeous photos and craft items I can make.   But there are only so many hours in the day right?  It would be difficult to make everything so we do what we can:-).  I found some time to make something with my kids and I want to share with you some Halloween treats inspired by Pinterest.
I gave my daughter two options for what we could make for Halloween treats.  In true "Ava" fashion she said "..well, let's make these for the girls and these for the boys."  So off I went to the craft store to find some material to make these two items.
The first item I attempted was this cute little pumpkin, looks easy right?  This is what my daughter wanted to make for the girls:-).  http://www.parenting.com/gallery/witchy-ways-96936?pnid=101727

This is my version, not quite the same is it?  I got the tulle from the store, thought ooooh, glitter tulle is so much better.  It didn't quite come out as I imagined it.  oh and I couldn't find orange jelly beans either so I used reese's pieces.

Okay, it's not that bad right?  I added the McDonald's treat as I thought that would be fun for the kids to get.  I made most of these without the kids help as I thought it was a little too hard for a 6 yr old and a 3  yr old.

The second project I chose to do was to make these cute little ghosts out of white fabric with googly eyes. The kids were able to help with these by adhering the eyes. This was inspired by this photo from http://onecharmingparty.com:

The kids were so excited to put googly eyes on the ghosts!  They loved making these and I thought they came out super cute!  I used white fabric and rubber bands to hold them together.  I think napkins would have been much easier:-)!

Thanks so much for stopping by today, you're next stop is Scrappin Madge at the Scrappin Lounge.

Winner of the My Memories Software

Congratulations to Michelle for winning the My Memories Suite Software!  Here is what Michelle had to say about about the software.

Hey Jessica!! Thanks for posting this on FB....I had not seen it before. OMG I so need this! I have a bazillion pictures and not enough time so QUICK is what I need!! Your layouts are so very cute and I love the dimensional look of the photos! The button and leaf look so real! I would love to try MyMemories software! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!!

If you get a chance, visit Michelle over at her blog: http://michelescraftroom.blogspot.com.  She has some very cute stuff on there!  Thanks everyone!!