Scrap Room Re-do

I am in the process of re-doing my scrap room. The first thing I had to do was change the color. I loved the color, but it was too dark to and was squashing my creativity. Yes, color can actually help or hinder your creativity. So here's what the room looked like before:











And here's a shot of the room after having painted right after I moved the furniture back in. I'll post more pics as I finish organizing and decorating.

Ribbon Flower Tutorial

Here's a tutorial I posted on the SBKC blog last week. I wanted to share it here as well. So I know this technique isn't new, but it's so much fun and such a great way to use up the fabulous ribbons included in the November kit. I also want to apologize ahead of time for the lousy pictures. It was a rainy day and I was having a hard time getting enough lighting and the flash washed out the ribbon. Anyway, I think you'll get the idea.

Step 1: Sew some basting stitches acros the bottom of a strip of ribbon.




Step 2: Gather the ribbon in a spiral by holding onto one end of the top string and pushing the ribbon to the other side.




Step 3: Once you've got the flower the way you like it stitch through the middle to sew things in place.






Step 4: Add a jewel to the middle.

Embossed Handcut Flowers

Today I'm going to show you a trick for making the most of pattern paper with large designs. I hate covering over a large design so I like to hand cut out pieces of the design and use it as an embellishment. For today's project I used the Jenni Bowlin Black Vine pattern paper from the SBKC November kit.

Step 1: Cut out the two large flowers and one of the buds.
Step 2: Grab some embossing ink, clear embossing powder, and a damask stamp



Step 3: Stamp each flower with your damask stamp.
Step 4: Coat with clear embossing powder.


Step 5: Heat


Step 6: Add bling.

SBKC November LO's

Here are the LO's I created using the Scrapbook Kit Club November kit. The ribbons, tags and Pink Paislee pixi stick were a lot of fun to work with.

It's my turn to host the SBKC blog for the week and we are going to get messy and have some fun. For today I want to show you two techniques I used with the Making Memories Red Wagon paint included in the November kit.

For this first LO I decided I didn't want an all white background so I dabbed some paint on a tooth brush and ran my finger over the tooth brush to get a very light splatter effect.





For this next LO I marked where I wanted my photo, watered down the paint and then used a foam brush to lightly sweep the paint over the area where I wanted my photo. I then finished it off by adding some glimmer mist.





Here's a sneak of what we will work on tomorrow.

Austin's Halloween Pic

Halloween Pics and Tricks

So, today the kids were supposed to have a Halloween party at AWANA tonight and it's supposed to be super cold on Halloween so I thought that it would be the perfect day to take the kids pictures in their Halloween costumes. I was taking their pics near a bridge in a nearby neighbor hood and the kids busied themselves by throwing rocks into the creek and running back and forth on the path under the bridge. Heather fell and scrapped her knees and elbow and then I noticed tha the kids wer playing at the top of the bridge. I yelled for them to come back down and took a few more pics.

For one of the pictures of Nathan I thought it might be kind of cool to get a pic of him looking down from the top of the bridge. When I went up a car started honking and yelling. I didn't realize she was yelling at me and then she finally said "Hey, are those your kids." I said yes and she said "Well they've been throwing rocks at the cars that drive by." I told her I would take care of it and then I hurded the kids into the car and headed home.

It turns out that all of them but Heather had been throwing rocks into the street and at least two of them admited that they were trying to hit the cars. One of them succeeded. Needless to say the four that were throwing rocks were grounded and were unable to attend the AWANA Halloween party. The boys got over it pretty quickly but it took Emily some time.

She had been sitting at the counter crying and mumbling something under her breath and I told her that if she was going to continue to cry she needed to do it in her room. She yelled at me "He's not answering my prayer." I asked her who wasn't answering her prayer and she said "God, I asked Him to please let me go to the party and He's not answering me." I told her that he had in fact answered her and his answer was simply "No." I explained that God wouldn't answer "yes" to a prayer that was clearly against His will and that His will is for her to learn the difference between right and wrong and that when we do things wrong we need to face the consequences. She said she understood and got over it.

So anyway, here are pics of four of the five. We didn't get around to taking Austin's picture so I hope to get back there tomorrow to get it taken.

Zach


Emily


Nathan


Heather

Fall Fair Pictures

Last Saturday the youth from our church put on a fantastic Fall Fair. They had a bounce castle and inflatable jousting, a hay ride and tons of games. The kids made a killing on candy and prizes so I had to cut them off after a while. The cake walk was my favorite. Instead of handing out whole cakes they handed out cupcakes. I had Zach do the cake walk for me so I could get a spider cupcake. It was the best cupcake I've ever had, although Bo tried to shove it in my face. LOL. Here are the pics I got. I had to use my camera sparingly because the battery was running low and I can't find my adapter to charge it back up.