nice ‘stach

our family does stockings for Christmas every year, and the stuffers range from lottery tickets to candy to little tubes of lotion. many years there have been fun items in the kids’ stockings, like 3-D glasses,  little rubber toys that you pull and shoot to the ceiling, or those glasses and nose combos that “mask” your face. this year there were sticky furry black mustaches. the combination of sticky and furry made them a little difficult to use, but Kathleen and Myles managed to get theirs on.

what a coincidence – i had purchased a mustache shape from the online Silhouette store a while ago. that shape made this layout come together pretty easily.

what was in your stocking?

inspired by the Glitter Girl

i am loving the new weekly series at two peas called Glitter Girl. she reads the message boards and then comes to the rescue by making a page that deals with the topic. the second show {last week} was “Mists of Magnitude” and it inspired me to {gasp} make a layout:

it’s about my word for 2012: discover. mists are tricky to photograph but there are two colors of grey.

do you mist?

right now i am

loving:

 

reading:

inspired by:

you?

Scrappin 4 Keeps Crop

This weekend was another fabulous crop at Scrappin 4 Keeps thanks to Katie, Penny, and Tab. We could play crop bingo for prizes if we wanted so I decided to give it a go.

I had my first page done before the game started, it’s some pretty trees from last fall:

The beginning of the razing of Oakdale Hall, this morning was the day they started with the wrecking ball. These were the first couple of photos I took, and I thought they were sort of spooky because of the fog.

Tearing and Bo Bunny product (the back of the grey double dot cardstock):

I got quite a few squares marked off with this layout: birthday layout, corner rounder, Bazzill, pop dots, rub ons, and Distress ink.

 

Next up is a page about the Donkeyball game the high school had recently as a fundraiser for the sports programs. It was one of the funniest things ever, the senior athletes played against the teachers and the coaches. The donkeys were really well-trained and did things like walking away when riders tried to get on, stop really quickly, and refuse to go at all. The donkeys had on some sort of pads on their hoofs so they wouldn’t scratch the gym floor, but there were a few pauses for clean ups from the scooper crew.

Flocked paper, 6 brads, embossing, and use of a die cut machine:

The background paper made this page really easy. Hey lil fella used Bazzill stitchez, flowers, glimmer mist, and smooch/stickles:

My nephew Tyler is gonna love this last one.  The journaling is the pro and con of Tyler eating cat food. Chipboard, glitter paper, and ribbon:

Thanks ladies for a fun weekend!

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