New Kit! Snorkle - Cosmo Cricket

I know I always say the kits from morethanscrapbooking.com are fantastic and I'm going to have to say it again - FANTASTIC new kit at MTS!! I had so much fun with this, how can you not? Look at how happy the papers and embellishments are. It makes you smile. The alterable frame was a lot of fun to me and the chipboard stickers made creating great things easy!




























Here's some more pictures from my trip. I did so many things but I think my favorite thing from the trip was getting to feed the little chipmunks right out of my hand. They aren't quite chipmunks..their tails are much longer than any chipmunks I've seen where I live. They were still adorable and very friendly. The ground around me was covered with sunflower seed shells, fruit loops, crackers.






































Here's a picture from the Garden of Gods - a must go see if ever in Colorado. Very beautiful. I believe this rock is called Balance(d) Rock .
















A beautiful sunset

My husband did a 14,000 ft climb while we were there (I wasn't feeling crazy, so I didn't go, lol) and near the top he came across these ladybugs in the middle of the snow!

Colorado

Hi all!! I'm still on vacation but I woke up pretty early today and thought I'd post a few pictures of my trip so far. We've done a ton of things (it has been an action packed vacation) and I have a ton of pictures to go along with everything! Colorado is simply amazing! I've enjoyed every second of this gorgeous state so much that I'd love to move here. The Rocky Mountains are a sight to behold and there is wildlife everywhere to see.

One of the first things I got to do was actually scrap related. The owners Penny and Heather from MoreThanScrapbooking live right here in Colorado and they are not far at all from where my sister lives. They invited me over to their fourth of July picnic and of course I had to go meet them! I had such a fun time with them and I also got to meet a few other people from the MoreThanScrapbooking website. Paul (he's the man behind it all) and Jen, she's on the Design Team. Everyone was just so sweet to us and really made us feel comfortable and welcomed. Thank you so much Heather and Penny for inviting me over (hopefully we'll get to do it again!)Starting from the left: Heather, Me and Penny.














On Sunday we went to visit Estes Park and along the way we stopped at the Stanley Hotel. Remember the movie the Shining?? This is the famous hotel that of the Shining movi were filmed. I didn't see a ghost, BUT I'll tell you that it creeped me out a little when I put new batteries in my camera right before coming here only to have my camera batteries read low as soon as I turned in on to start taking pictures of the hotel (spooky!!). Luckily I did manage to snap a few before my camera died entirely. The hotel is beautiful and big! There is an amazing view from where it is located (but then again I don't think there is such a thing as a bad view anywhere in Colorado). It was overcast this day so my pictures are a bit ominous here but I think it just added to the allure of this place.


























That's all I'm going to share today, otherwise my post will be five pages long! I can't wait to start posting the pictures of all the wildlife we've seen. Yesterday I got to go feed some chipmunks (whooptie-do right?) except they eat right out of your HAND! I'll try to post more before I leave on Saturday but if not I will be posting when I get home. Thanks for stopping!!

Thank you card and things

From the BG card kit comes another little card! This card kit is great, I really like the results of each card so far. This one is pretty simple but with such gorgeous papers who needs more?














Ok, on to something fun! The other day I was given the award "Your Blog Makes Me Smile" and now I want to pass it around to eight great girls and their blogs that make me smile everytime I visit - truly inspiring work from each and everyone of them! Grab your award and wear it proudly. Thank you for the inspiring work you do.












LG - My Scrapbook World

Mel - Melz Scrappy Junk

Angie - My Scraptastic World

Heather - Rhymes with Magic

Linda - Card Challenges and More

Ginger - Paw Prints and Paper Crafts

Julia - Belle Paper

Darlene - Darlene's Scrapbooking

Thanks for visiting!
Nicole

It's Friday!!

What a long week!! I'm so glad it's Friday.


I wanted to let everyone know that next week starting on July 3rd I will be on vacation visiting family (super excited). I will be gone until the 11th of July. I am going to take my laptop with me but I'm not sure how much time I'll actually get to post anything. I'm hoping to at least post some pictures while I'm there visiting because we're going to Colorado and I hear it's simply gorgeous!! I've never been there but most of my family now lives there. I kept promising my sister I would come visit her but it never seems to work out and this year I just had to make it happen. I can't wait!! We are going to go white water rafting and we're going to do the Skycoaster at the Royal Gorge (yeah crazy!!!). I keep watching videos of this skycoaster thing and I really should stop because I'm not so sure I won't chicken out once we get there but I do know I'm taking TONS of pictures. I need new pictures to scrap so I'm also very excited that I will have lotd of new pictures to scrap.


On another note check this sweet little award out that my pal Jean Marie so generously gave to me. Thank you Jean! You're too sweet and I'm honored to be on your list, cause I know you're on mine. Now I think the idea is that I too need to pick eight ladies that are deserving of this award (not that everyone isn't deserving, which makes it even harder to choose!).,.....so I'm going to take some time to pick out the eight ladies and I'll post who I picked here so check back - you might be on the list!! If

BG card kit

I really don't do card kits often and I don't know why because they are really a lot of fun and a great thing for scrapping slumps. I think I did a BG card kit waaaayyy back for Valentine's and I LOVED that kit! All the cards turned out so great. You don't have to make your cards exactly as they show you in the instructions because they always seem to give you enough elements to put your own flair on them.

A few months back I got this great little Basic Grey card kit in the mail from my friends Heather and Penny (cause they know I LOVE BG!!) to enjoy. I finally had the chance to open it up and start working on them. This kit is just as gorgeous as the last BG kit I worked with.

Here's the first card I did from this kit. I believe there are six or more cards that can be made so I will be posting more as I get them done.

Zinnia Kit Cards

Hi all! I have a few cards to share. We were having some of the worse weather here....rain, rain and more rain...weeks of rain....it was making the air in the house very damp. I made these cards one of those damp nights and came down the next day to find them curling! I guess I should have laid them flat or even better yet maybe I need a dehumidifier. The pictures and cards aren't looking the best and I'm blaming it on the sticky damp air! I am happy to announce that the sun has finally made an appearance this week, but I bet the super hot sticky air is now on the way....the kind that hits your chest hard when you walk outside because its so thick. ugh.

Ok, enough of that.

I really did love this kit. The papers and elements are so fun to play with. There's a few kits left so if you haven't had the chance to stop by morethanscrapbooking then you better get movin' before they're all gone! Zinnia by Little Yellow Bicycle.

Zinnia by Little Yellow Bicycle

OoOowee! Check it out! A new rockin' kit at Morethanscrapbooking! This kit was a ton of fun to work with. The papers are double-sided and filled with lots of summery colors and patterns. You get a pack of alpha letter stickers, but wait....they are not only sticker letters (don't pass out, I almost did) they are double-sided sticky. Oh yeah you heard right, double sided sticky letters....do you know how cool this is? Makes adding glitter, flock, gems, even covering them with paper a snap! No need to get the glue out and you get awesome results. What a great idea -I love these alphas. Hang on though there's more. Check out what else is included:

1 - Green Floral Ledger Paper
2 - Sheets Zinnia Orange Dots/ Purple Paisley
2 - Sheets Zinnia Bloom/Orange Lace
2 - Sheets Zinnia Little Garden Stripe/Pink Tulip
1 - Pansy Bazzill Cardstock
1 - Hillary Bazzill Cardstock
1 - Zinnia Flower Embellishment Kit
1 - Zinnia Clear Cuts Shapes
1 - Zinnia Chipboard Stickers
1 - Bottle Stampendous Pearl Glitter-Lavender
1 - Package Doodlebug Design Stick With It Adhesive Transfers

For this kit I actually made a layout! Holy cow, it's been at least a year since I've done a 12x12 paper layout (I hope I haven't lost my touch), but I was so inspired by the cool clear cut shapes that I had to use them on a layout, plus I love this picture of my daughter.



















Thanks for stopping by! Check back tomorrow for the cards I made with this kit! Don't forget to stop by MTS and see all great projects the Design Team did with this kit!
Nicole

Button Balls

Hi everyone!! Whew, things are slowly settling down for me and I am starting to be able to catch up and post again! Thanks so much for all your patience and I'm excited for the things to come this month! I have some great projects planned and ideas to share. I am actually working on a lot of things right now and do not have anything new to post because everything is still "in the works", however, I did find this old project that I never posted and the colors remind me of summer so I thought I'd share this.

Now let me say I was really sick when I made these and I'm not terribly crazy about them now that I see them again, however, they are kind of cool so I'll share em' anyway. I was actually laid up in bed for almost a week with a horrible cold and I was bored out of my mind. I sent Aaron to the store to find me something that I could work on while in bed. He came back with bags full of buttons and some styrofoam balls (that's what I get for sending a guy, right?).....well what the heck am I supposed to do with these I asked him? This is how the button balls came to be.

I'm not sure there is much purpose for these other than display but they really were fun and easy to make. I think this would be really fun for kids too.

The process is not hard. A few styrofoam balls, assorted sizes if you please. Lots of buttons, any color, any size, it's all up to you. Some glue and you're on your way. I did discover upon doing this a few things.

• Do not use a liquid nails type of glue. It will eat away the styrofoam
  
• Do not use a hot glue gun. It will melt the styrofoam.


• Do use a white paste type glue - takes longer to dry but DOES NOT eat away or melt the styrofoam.


• Keep the buttons as tightly together as possible when putting them on.


• Only work on one side of the ball at a time, let that side dry and then finish another side.


• Painting the styrofoam balls before hand will probably make them look much better, I do not like all the little white gaps mine have. I think had I added paint - spray paint is probably a better option then acrylic paints, it would have helped fill in those white gaps and made them look much more glorious.
• You can do this with flowers too!

Thanks for stopping!! Check back soon for new things to come!

Nicole

Update

Hello everyone!! I wanted to let ya all know that I will be returning to regular postings starting in JUNE!! Thank you all very much for your patience and I hope I haven't lost your interest! Please come back to visit in JUNE!!

Sincerely,
Nicole

Taking a Break

Hi everyone! I'm popping in quickly to let ya all know I have to take a break from posting anything new. I have a few personal things going on that will be taking up a lot of my blogging / posting / project time and due to this I will not be able to keep up with posting right now. I hope to be returning soon. Thank you for visiting my blog and I hope to see you back here when I am able to post again!