Cowgirl Tough Layout....

Here is the scrapbook layout that I did of the girls "riding" the bull at the PCA Rodeo Finals in January....

Sorry about the quality of the picture.  I took it with my cell phone because it was easier.  I was too lazy to walk to the other side of the house to get the good camera.  Now I have to decide if I am going to frame this one and hang it up or make a second page with other rodeo pictures and put them in an album.  I will update when I finally make up my mind. 
Thank you for looking!! 
Brenda Z.

Hot Air Balloon layout...

For the month of January Alexis' preschool is learning about the different types of transportation.  On Family Day, January 16, the parents were invited to visit the class.  We helped the kids make hot air balloons out of craft paper, pipe cleaners, and milk cartons.  It was a great experience for the parents and for the kids.  Alexis had so much fun that I decided to do a two page scrapbook layout.  I forgot to bring my camera but, took pictures with my cell phone.  They're not the greatest but worked fine for scrapbooking. 

I got my inspiration for this layout from Jennifer of Creative Cricut Designs.  Here is a link to her blog and the layout that inspired me... http://www.creativecricutdesigns.blogspot.com/2011/08/balloon-rally-scrapbook-layout.html. 

Here are my layouts...

These pictures were also taken with my cell phone so, I hope you can  see them.  I have a bad habit of not journaling on my scrapbook layouts.  I decided that I would start attempting to do journaling this year.  It was actually easier than I thought it would be. 

Thank you for checking it out and don't forget to go check out Jennifer's blog.  She is very talented and has some great layouts on her blog. 

Brenda Z.

PCA Finals 2012 Rodeo....

I won tickets to the rodeo for this weekend.  Alexis was so excited that she talked about it all week.  She wanted to wear her cowgirl outfit and she wanted to rope the bull, LOL.  Well, she did get to wear her cowgirl outfit.  She didn't get to rope the bull but, she got to "ride" the bull!!  When we arrived at the coliseum they were taking pictures of fans "riding" the bull.  Alexis HAD to do it, LOL.  Here she is...

Isn't she cute?!?!  I think that was the highlight of her day.  Her favorite part was the bull riding, LOL.  The bad thing is that it was the last performance of the evening!! 

Olivia didn't want to even go to the rodeo but, given other choices she decided to tag along.  We couldn't leave her out, LOL.  We had to have a picture of her riding the bull too (I can't wait to do a scrapbook page on these!)  The guy made her yell, "Yeee Haaa" to take the picture.  Here she is....

She had fun as well, especially when one of her friends from school showed up.  Sorry for the quality of these pictures.  These are actually pictures of pictures.  I took a picture of each of the actual pictures with my cell phone so that I could picture text them to my sister.  I thought I would do a quick blog post about it so I used the same pictures instead of scanning the originals.  I so want to do scrapbook pages on them...I guess I should do that instead of being lazy.

Thanks for taking the time to read my post.  I hope you enjoyed it.  Don't forget to leave a comment.  My girls would really enjoy reading your comments.

Teacher Christmas Gifts From Alexis

Linda from the Cricut message board gave me the idea for Santa-tizer.  I love this idea and it is an inexpensive gift when you have more than one teacher.  I purchased the sanitizer on sale for 69 cents and decorated it with scrapbook paper that I already had in my scraproom. 

I also made spa sock cupcakes.  There are several people making these so, I am not sure who the original creator is.  I downloaded the cut file for the cupcake wraper from this blog...  http://rachiesscrapspot.blogspot.com/2010/02/cupcake-socks.html.  Thank you, Rachie for posting your cut file. 

Alexis enjoyed giving these to her teachers and to the admin people at her school.  Thank you for looking.  Don't forget to leave me a comment.

Yudu Weekend Project

Alexis' pre-school class is going on a field trip Tuesday, September 20th.  I thought it would be nice for them to have matching shirts with their school name on them so, we worked on the project over the weekend.  It was a family effort.  John designed the lettering, I cut out the stick boy and girl with the cricut, Alexis approved the design and Olivia helped John and I while printing them.

We used the Yudu that I got for Mother's Day.  There is definitely a learning curve but, once you figure it out it is actually a fun project.  The emulsion has to be right, you have to know how much pressure to use when flooding the screen and when printing. 

We did 21 shirts.  It took a total of about eight hours to do all of the work.  We didn't do it all in eight hours straight.  We did it in two to three hour increments.  I am not sure if I will take on another project like that but, the final product made me proud.

Alexis and I brought them to school this morning to give to the teacher.  She liked them and I can't wait to see the kids wear them.  I know they will be proud to wear their shirts with their school name on them.  Here is a picture one of the shirts....

Thank you for looking and don't forget to leave me a comment.  I love to hear my follower's comments or questions.  If you have any questions about the project comment here or send me an email.  I am happy to answer any questions.

Brenda Z
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Stork Bundle and Diaper Cake...

Here is a baby boy stork bundle and a diaper cake that I made for someone at my husband's work.

Thank you for looking.  If you have any question, please don't hesitate to ask by leaving a comment below and I will answer as soon as I can. 

More Yudu projects and baby shower gifts....

My co-worker had a baby shower this past weekend.  I wanted to make something special so, I used the Yudu to make some special items.  Here they are....

As you can see, Daddy is a Cubs fan, lol.  Then I made a stork bundle.  It has diapers and two more wipe cases.  I used my cricut and the New Arrival cartridge to make the baby, the stork and the gift tag.  This is only my second stork bundle and probably the best one of the two I made.

Not sure if you can see them, but there are baby's feet sticking out of the diapers.

I plan to make more of these in the future.  They make perfect gifts and they are fun to make.  I hope you enjoyed looking.