My Favorite Kit Club

I love my monthly kit club through Transparent Touches and Tags. Monica does a great job packing the kits with awesome papers and embellishments, every month gets better and better! They also have monthly contests which give you a great opportunity to use up your kits. The June contest was to scraplift from their gallery, the most difficult decision was deciding what layout to use for inspiration. I decided to scraplift one of their design team members Anna, I pretty much didn't change a thing! Here's what I came up with:



This is a picture of Catherine riding on her horse, if you look real close you can see a lot of other toys in the background, lol!

Make sure you check out Monica's kits at http://www.transparenttouches.com/index.htm

It's Just Sad....

that I am such a slacker at blogging! This school year really sucked all the energy out of me, I am glad that it is summer. Even though the kids are bickering, whiny, and of course bored, it is great to be able to spend this time with them. And when all else fails, time to go to the pool!

How about a fun pic of the kids

This pic is from January, obviously I'm as good at uploading photos as I am at blogging, lol!

Here are a few LO's I have worked on the past few months for the Club Got Sketch! class I took:

This one is of Lauren when she turned 2 years old (now she's 6!) I'm really glad I took this class, because in the past I have struggled with scrapping more than one photo.

This one is of Matthew on his 6th birthday, which he had to spend at school. When he found out that I got to bring in a birthday treat, all was good!

And this one is of me and the family after I finished my first half-marathon, the City of Oaks. It was such an awesome experience, and it meant the world to me that my husband and children were there at the finish line cheering me on!

Now here are a few layouts I did for the Scrap Our Stash blog:

This LO was for the June Challenge. Because June is the busiest month for weddings, the challenge was to try to incorporate "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue." I decided to scrap this pic of our family right after Catherine was born, she was my something new. ( :


Here I am dating myself showing when I graduated from high school! This was one of the ones I did for the May Challenge, which was to use flowers in our layout.


And lastly, this one was for the April challenge, where the challenge was to use sun or sunshine--nothing captures that better than the beach!

Thanks for stopping by, let's see if I can blog again before school starts up in the fall!

Tammy

Club Got Sketch? Sketch 1

Hold onto your hats, I'm actually posting twice in one month, lol! See, I'm already on the road to improvement.

This past Monday started the 8 week session of Club Got Sketch? The blog is by Valerie Salmon and her sketches are fantastic! This is my first time doing a live Got Sketch, although I did download the GS School Album and love it, my plan is to do school books for all of my nieces and nephews (whew, that's a lot!) Here is my layout for the first sketch:




Lauren and Catherine were having breakfast one day and decided the sun was too bright so they put on their glasses. I think they look so cute in these pics! I had a blast doing this layout. Make sure you check out the Got Sketch blog at http://gotsketch.blogspot.com/, you won't be disappointed.


Well my NCAA March Madness bracket is officially a bust after this weekend's games. I started off with three of my final four left, and now I have nothing. Guess I should have listened to my son and put Butler to go all the way. That'll teach me. Oh well, better luck next year!

Have a great day! Tammy

New Scrap Our Stash Challenge

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I might be one of the world's worst bloggers! I have good intentions, but I guess I should actually follow through on them, huh? Anyway, Scrap out Stash is having a March Dust it Off challenge. The idea is to dust off those scrap items you've accumulated such as tools, paper, embellies, anything, and create something. Here is the layout I created, the deets are on the Scrap Our Stash blog.

And yes, my kids are thrilled with the pics, ha! Check out the blog at http://scrapourstash.blogspot.com/ and give it a try!

Now I'm off to see if I can somehow remove the Southwest region from my NCAA bracket, if it weren't for that region I'd be doing pretty good. Is Morehead State the new Butler? Guess we'll see!

God bless, Tammy

So Excited!

Okay, so I am not so good at this blog thing at all. Since I last posted I have run my first half-marathon (woo hoo, I wore that medal a lot after the race), had a birthday, went to St. Louis for Thanksgiving, and decorated a Christmas tree. But today I thought I would post because I am so excited, I made the Design Team at Scrap Our Stash blog!! It's been almost a year since I've been on a design team, and I did take a much-needed break, but I missed the whole DT thing. I found the blog Scrap Our Stash a few months ago and they have fun challenges and tips, with the goal of using your stash to create. So I figured I'd give it a shot, and I'm so glad I did. I almost didn't get my submission in on time beings that it's the Christmas season and poor Grant still can't lift more than 10 pounds since his surgery, which has left me with a lot of the work. But...I got my submission in just under the wire and was excited to see that I was chosen!! Here are the projects I submitted:

Anyway, I have to go iron an angel costume for Lauren's Christmas concert so I best do that. I just had to share my excitement! Oh, and just one more brag moment, here I am with the kiddies shortly after I finished my half-marathon--you can't see my medal (bummer) but there's my 13.1 magnet the kids got for me to put on my van!

Yay me!!

School is now in session!

It's been way too long since I've blogged, so sorry. Maybe now that school has started I'll get a little better, but who knows!

Speaking of school, Matthew and Lauren went back to school last week. Lauren started kindergarten, and yes I've been crying just about everyday after I drop her off. I'm so thankful though because she has been doing well with no tears, yay! Matthew is now a big first grader and is liking it. Here they are on their first day of school:


And just so we don't leave her out, here's Catherine enjoying the kindergarten classroom. She's looking forward to preschool starting soon.


I'm still doing my Galloway training, we're running ten miles every Saturday. Yesterday after our run we had a huge pancake breakfast, which is an annual event in the Galloway program. It was yummy! Sometimes I can't believe I'm actually running ten miles considering that a year ago I could barely make it a mile (and then I felt like my heart was going to explode.) My half-marathon is in November, and I'm seriously considering running the Myrtle Beach Marathon in March!

That's all for now, the kids are going absolutely crazy (and I'm having trouble uploading pics to blogger) so I'll post some crafty stuff later! : )

Happy Father's Day and some crafty stuff

Happy Father's Day to all those special dads out there, especially my dad, my father-in-law, and of course the father of my children, my husband Grant. They are some of the best dads out there, and I hope they all had wonderful days! This is the card I made for my Dad (I can post it now, since he told me he already received it!)

So much has happened since I last blogged (almost a month ago, yikes!) School is out, dance recitals have been danced, and the first round of summer camps have come and gone. First, I have to post a photo of the alligator cake I made for Matthew's end-of-year party. When I signed on to do the infamous alligator cake, I thought it would be easy--you know, buy one of those cake pans at Michaels and you're good to go. But no, this would require me to bake two eight-inch rounds, then cut and paste (or ice in this case) pieces together to make the cake. I think it turned out great, and the kids in Matthew's class loved it.

Not too bad for a beginner!

As I said earlier, Lauren had her dance recital last week, she was a bunny in the production of Snow White. The show was great, and Lauren loved the recital year because she got to do ballet instead of tap. I think she makes the cutest bunny:
Then the following week she had cheer camp:

On the last day of cheer camp, the NC State Cheerleaders came and taught them some cheers. The coach is going to email us parents some pics, so as soon as I get them I will post them here. Lauren had a great time!


Galloway update: this past Saturday we ran 6 miles on hills and it was a great run, even though the weather is a little on the warm side. Six miles is a record for me, and each run after that will be too, next week we run 8 miles!

One last crafty goodie before I go, this is one of the cards I made for Matthew and Lauren's teachers for the last day of school. I think they turned out cute, so I just have to post:

Have a wonderful day, and I will really try to do better at this blog thing!