A few projects

Helllllo there! Did you all have a nice weekend? I was able to get quite a bit done this w/e, including some scrappy projects as well as more stuff in the garden.
As promised in my last post, here are some pics of projects ~

First some projects I made using the oh-so-glittery-and-faboo May kit Butterfly Skies from Citrus Tree Studio. Here are a few layouts ~







A little mini album was in the kit too, I jazzed up the cover and now it is ready for lots of 4 x 6 pics of our garden ~



several cards ~





and I still have stuff left over. I will be using it at a later date, that is for sure! Cindy has the best kits, you really should check them out. By the way, she is also having a DT call this month! Check out the deets here.

Here is another project I made for a gift. I used boatloads of my homemade flowers, can you tell? ;) ~





here is the double pic~



I also made 3 minis for a project that Jennifer Priest is working on. You can check out the deets here. If you can help out, I am sure she would apreciate it. Here are the 3 minis I made using 3 different Graphic 45 lines ~







Well, that is about it for tonight since tomorrow is a busy day. I will share the June projects I made for Zutter this weekend. Can you believe it is already June tomorrow? WOOOO WEEEEEE this year is flying by!

Have a joyful and creative week ~ Pam

WOOO, sorry to be MIA for a few weeks, but I have been hanging out in the garden!

My word, I can hardly move! The hubs and I just finished planting a ginourmous garden this last weekend, by ourselves. We just have a wee bit more tweaking and planting left to do. We are donating the extra produce to an inner city feed the hungry project our church participates in. We more than doubled our garden from last year to make sure we have lots to donate. Hope we don't kill ourselves taking care of this garden! It will defintely keep us busy this summer. The hubs is even talking about cutting down some out of control apple and pear trees that have storm damage from years before we bought the property and putting in another small bed for just gourds and pumpkins. He feels bad because I whined like crazy that we didn't leave room for any pumpkins for the grandbabies. We were going to wait to cut those tress down until next year, but hey, we are on a planting roll! :0)

I did want to let you know about a sale happening over at Zutter, zip over there and take a peek, loads of covers are on sale and going quick - Bind-It-All
Here is a little blurb from the blog -

Wowie! We need some room in the warehouse! We have a first time EVER sale on Zutter Covers and Inner Pages. 15% Off Site-Wide for a limited time only.


Stock on up on Zutter Acrylic, Clipboard Wood, Canvas Artboard and good ole trusty Chipboard. We also have pre-cut cardstock Inner Pages ready to go for quick album making.

Alrighty, I promise to update with pics of creative projects this weekend when I have a wee bit of free time. I have volunteer commitments several times this week, so I won't be able to do so until then,and I am just starting to feel like my normal self from that dang sinus infection SHEESH. Talk about getting my fanny kicked! Please stop by late this w/e (like Sunday night), and I will have lots of pics to share. If you are going away for the holiday w/e, please be careful and stay safe. Don't forget the sunscreen!

Here are a few pics of the garden so far this year (we started most of those plants indoors, it was a regular green house over here he he) ~

Happy Mother's Day!!!

Happy Mother's Day everybody!!! Hope you all had a lovely day. I did lots and lots of housework, cleaning, and food prep for dinner. It wasn't really a day off, but then again, Mother's Day around here usually is not a day off. :) When I am old and gray I will get my turn to be pampered (something to look forward to in old and gray days he he).

I have been sick as a chicken now for about 3 weeks. Let me tell ya, that makes it hard to get things done! Wooo. I have a dang sinus infection that just won't go away, and it gave me terrible vertigo. I couldn't tell which end was up for a few days there! Yikes, scary. Hopefully this last does of antibiodics will kick it. I wasn't able to create anything this last week, so I will share some of the books I did a few weeks ago. They were a donation for the Peds floor at work. My goal is to make 20 little minis for the patients this year, and so far I have donated 9. I need to get my rear in gear! :)












Next week I will share the projects I did for Citrus Tree Studio using the sparklie delicious May kit - Fancy Flight. My challenge for the month will be posted tomorrow at Citrus Tree Studio, so check it out!

Well, that is it for today, I hope you all have a fab fab week! Happy creating ~ Pam

Oh my word, I am so stinkin' excited!!!!

I just found out that I won the final drawing for Lily Bee's Lovely Collection Contest on their blog!!! Can you hear me screaming with joy? I am sooooooooooooo stinkin' excited!!! I can't wait to get the package and play play play!!! You will all be the first to know when I finish something, promise! All that loveliness coming to my door, wooo, I can't wait. :)



Hope you are all having a fab Sunday. I am working on a challenge right now, I'll post deets later.

Happy creating ~ Pam

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!!!

WOOO HOOOOOO!!! May 1st, National Scrapbooking Day, don't you just love it??? I sure do! What are you doing to celebrate? I have been working on a variety of projects, from my projects for Zutter to a card swap for Citrus Tree Studio, to a challenge for National Scrapbooking Day at Citrus Tree Studio.

I will share a few of my projects.
The first one is my challenge for Citrus Tree Studio's National Scrapbooking Day Crop -



If you would like information on the challenge take a peek at the mb here.

Next is a masculine theme card Swap that I was in at Citrus Tree Studio. Here is a pic of my cards -



A close up of one card (they are all the same) -



Now some of my projects for Zutter. The first is a Mother's Day Card I made for my mom using some vintage themed fabric and my pink BIA (I so love that tool!!!)-



Next is a book I made with lots of things from my stash. This book is not really a mini, it is more of a biggie, since it is sized at 8 x 10 and has 26 pages or something like that :) ~









I also worked on a cheerful little mini ~





I will share more pics later, I have to run. Hope you all have a fabulous National Scrapbooking Day!!! Happy creating! ~ Pam

Butterfly Skies kit from Citrus Tree Studio is FABOO!!!

I really liked the April kit from Citrus Tree Studio ~Butterfly Skies. It is loaded with fun pp, embellies, and some of the faboo Smooch Spray. Trust me, I used to be a die hard Glimmer Mist gal, but after some bad Customer Service by Tattered Angels, and the chance to play with Smooch Spray, I have decided to switch loyalties. The Smooch Spray is so vivid! Go check out the Citrus Tree Studio April kits (2 for the month, hooray!), you will love them. Here are a few of my projects (the fun petal shaped envie and white cardstock card base are part of the kit) -





a few more cards -





I also used the kit to create my product spotlight (Canvas Home Basics 8 x 8 Stretched Canvas)-



I loved playing with that canvas!!! I used some gesso to paint a portion of the canvas. I wanted the fabulous Smooch Spray to really show up well, and be spatter-y looking and it worked out well. I also used some varigated floss I had in my stash to stitch out my title. Easy peasy to do on the natural canvas, it was like working on cross stitch fabric! So fun.

I have a few 12 x 12 layouts posted in the gallery too. This kit is loaded with fun stuff, you can create a lot of projects. I hope you check it out. As I mentioned, there is also an alternate kit for April, and it looks like it would be boatloads of fun to create with.

I am working on a few other projects this week for Zutter. One has taken me a long time to complete. It is a book for a friend's daughter, I hope she likes it. I tried some different things, and am pretty happy with it so far. Can't wait to show it to you all!

Well, that is about it for this week, I made a fun birthday badge last week, but didn't get pics, dang. I'll take some of the next one so I can share it with you though! I am playing some serious catch up from being gone all last week (a convention for work). I returned late last night, so it is time to get busy. :)

Wishing you a joyful and creative week ~ Pam

Happy Easter!

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter. We had a quiet family dinner on Friday, and the weather was beautiful. I took a lot of pics of my grandkids, and will be posting pics of projects soon. :) I have been playing with some kits for Citrus Tree Studio, and I have to tell you they are loaded with fun and fabulous scrappy goodness. Definitely feels like spring........... Can't share anything yet, but make sure you check out the mb tomorrow, as it is reveal day.

I do have two projects I can share that I did for the Zutter site for April. The first is a quote book -





I used journaling tags for the pages, and stamped on the flip side. There is a lot of room to write in favorite quotes now!



I also did another book for the Pediatric floor at work -







I also posted my project for the Altered Art Challenge on Challenge Masters, but I will share a picture with you here too-



I am using it to hold my copic markers -



It began life as this -



I definitely like it better in it's new life. :)

Well, I have a few other things to finish up this evening, so I better get to it. Hope you all have a creative and joyful week ~ Pam

Thanks for hopping with us! We have some winners!

First, the winner of the fabulous new Hang-It-Alls and the setter set (perfect for the Hang-It-Alls, I love my set) is -


Cher~ said...
First...the basket is adorably cute. Second, thank you so much for sharing your flowers and how you made them.

Cher, please email me your addie, and I will get it to Nan, our fearless leader of the Zutter Zisters. She will make sure it is shipped out to you. I'll send you a few flowers too. :)

Next, because there were so many lovely posts, I picked several other names out of a hat of peeps who either were, or signed up as followers on my blog, and who posted on the Blog Hop Thread below.

Here they are -

Rbarakat said...
I love all the flowers girlie! You have been a busy girl! Great projects!


Cathy said...
Wow! that was a lot of flower-makin' goodness all in one blog post! I'm now a follower and I'm bookmarking this post for future inspiration!!


michele hileman said...
I just love all the differant flowers they are so pretty and I just love the basket.

AnItA mArIe said...
"Wow" love all the flowers its spring at your house love the bunny basket cool as ...hugs Anita..


Nancy said...
Oh wow thank you so much for all the inspiration! I love all of your projects they are beautiful and so very creative! I would love to win some of your gorgeous flowers and tags! Thanks for sharing!

ellen s. said...
oh wow...so much awesomeness! i am sooooo glad i hopped!


Please email me your snail mail addies, and I will get a little goodie envie with flowers and tags sent out to you.

Thanks so much for hopping along with the Zutter Zisters everybody!!! I hope you enjoyed the hop, and found the flower making tutorial useful. Don't forget to check back for the tutorial on how to make the basket! :)

Have a fabulous week, and happy creating! ~ Pam