Crop Night At Michaels....Come join me!!!

Hello, everyone!!  As you probably already know, I am now a Certified Scrapbook Instructor at Michael's on Hwy 49 in Gulfport.  I am very excited to offer Crop Night.  I would love to get lots of sign ups and meet new people so, come on.....sign up.  The first Crop Night is on March 31, 2012 from 2pm til 8:30 pm.  You will be able to use the store's Cricut Expression but feel free to bring your machine if you would like.  Dont forget to bring lots of pictures and scrapbook paper.  I will be there to assist you with any questions and to show you some scrapbooking techniques.  There will be a few door prizes.  I would love to see you there!!! 

"Our Week" dry erase board....

Someone on the Cricut message board made one of these and I loved the idea.  I am sorry I don't remember the name of the person who came up with the idea but, you know who you are so....thank you for such a great idea. 

I used my Cricut Expression to cut the days of the week out of vinyl.  Here are the items I used...

Brown Cricut vinyl
4x6 collage picture frame from Tuesday Morning (I LOVE Tuesday Mornings!!!)
Cricut Lite Chore Chart cartridge for the days of the week
Cricut Jasmine cartridge for the word "week"
Cricut Cuttin' Up cartridge for the word "our"
Cloud Nine scrapbooking paper

I hung this on the side of my kitchen cabinet.  The dry erase pen is sitting on top of one of the frames.  I am going to add a velcro dot to the pen and to the side of the frame. 

This is very simple to make and very affordable.  Walmart has the frames in oak and black for $10.  If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. 

Brenda Z.

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.