Easter Swap

I know, I know, Easter was LAST week. However, the swap I signed up for didn't require that the items be postmarked until March 31 - thank God! I finished these up on Thursday and am getting them packaged up to be mailed on Monday - March 31. Each of the ten participants in the swap will receive the two slide mounts pictured below, yes, I decorated the eggs on each one with my markers so they would look like they were dyed (for you non-scrapbooking type people, these could be affixed to a scrapbook page as embellishments and you can put a small photo in the frame or another type of embellishment). In turn, I will get back ten other items all with the Easter theme. I'm looking forward to seeing what arrives!

If you've never participated in a swap, they can be lots of fun if you don't overcommit. :-) Keep your contribution simple while still following the guidelines. I've got two more swaps in line for April and May. One is a papercrafting swap, the other is just with one person (whose name I received via e-mail today) for a Sister Shoebox Swap. We answered a short list of questions and submitted them to the swap hostess and were matched with another person who signed up. It's going to be fun to brighten someone's day with a box of goodies all related to Spring.



I hope you all had a blessed Easter!

Finally . . . Pictures!

I've been meaning to post these for at least a few weeks. So, for your viewing pleasure . . . :-)


The banner I made for our church (unfortunately, I had to take three pictures to capture all of it with my pathetic little digital camera, one of these days we need to upgrade). All the images on the banner were made using the Paper Doll Dress Up, Stamped, and Zooballoo cartridges for the Cricut.





This is the mobile I made for the swap. It will be on its way to my swap partner tomorrow. It gets to go all the way across country to Portland, Oregon!

I received an order for another counting book (which led to another order for a counting book). This one is all girly and in pretty, sparkly paper.

I managed to get nearly eleven 12 x 12 pages done at the scrapbooking marathon last weekend. It was so much fun! It is amazing to see how much my daughter has changed in the last year. The photos I scrapped were mostly from before her first birthday. She is looking more like a little girl everyday and less like a baby. That's ok, though. She is very sweet and affectionate and loves to wave at people when we're shopping . . . or in the drive-through lane at the bank. :-)

A very happy birthday to my friend Snow White today! She doesn't blog, but I know she reads here on occasion. ;-)


I have received an order for some more baby's first year scrapbooks so I'll be keeping busy in the next few weeks as those get underway. I'll try to be better at posting here and keeping up with everyone.

Happy last week of February!

I'm back!

The last couple of weeks have been a little crazy to say the least. I need to get pictures posted of projects I've been working on and my mobile for the swap. I think it turned out really cool. I hope I can keep it from tangling during shipping. I was also asked to create a banner for an upcoming event at our church and it took up a lot of my crafting time last week. Thank goodness for my Cricut!

I'm off to an 18-hour crop this weekend with friends. It's Friday night and Saturday so I will hopefully be getting some serious scrapping (and chatting) done. I need to get caught up on my daughter's book.

Have a wonderful weekend and stay warm!

Doesn't this sound like fun?!

I just signed up to participate in this swap at Elsie Marley's blog. I can't wait to start creating - and to see what I get! :-) Go check it out and join in!