ABC's of Cards

For the whole month of October we have been doing an abc card challenge at Scrapdango.  Thought I'd show you what I made for my challenges!  I had the letters A, G, M, S, X, and Y.

A: apples, adjective/adverb, alphabets

G: green, girly, glitter

M: metal, misting, merry

S: silly, stamping, stripes

X: x-stitching, xoxoxo

Y: yellow, you

We also have a new design team!  Congratulations to Laura, Celeste, Sandi and Audra!  Fun things are being planned now...stay tuned!

Tour of Portland

I combined my newest Scrapdango Kit and the Rebel Punky Sprouts album and made this fun little book!  In May of 2009, I took a Big Picture Class that was a walking tour of your neighborhood.  My friend Sta'Cee and I took the kids into downtown Portland and went through the Scavenger Hunt list that they had.  I loved all the photos I got and they've been laying around just waiting for me to get to them!  I loved this Jillibean Soup line with the negatives and cameras!  Perfect for this project!

Come Play!

Hey all!  I am teaching a class in Eugene, Oregon on November 20th.  Would love to see some friendly faces there!  I will be using a super fun album from Punky Sprouts, Crate Paper's Restoration and lots of Glimmer Mist! :)  You can find all the information here!

A Punky Field Day!

I used the Alfalfa Sprout album from Punky Sprouts to make this album of Isaac's first Field Day!  I chose Bo Bunny's Sun-Kissed line for the wonderful colors!  I also had some fun with 3D Crystal Lacquer.  I used some Bazzill chipboard stars, glimmer misted them in different colors and then used the lacquer over the top.  On some I even put the word stickers on first and the lacquer worked great!  I had no problems with bubbles like I have with other similar products!  Loved it!

I will be teaching a class using the Sweetie Sprout in Eugene on November 20th for those of you who are local!  More information is coming soon or you can contact me at lynn.reaney@comcast.net!

Are you ready?

Blockheads

I saw these in my Family Fun magazine a couple months ago and wanted to make them with the kids.  My dad gave us a container of "junk" to use and we saved some lids and things that normally would have gone in the recycling bin.

 

We had a blast making these!  Tadd cut us 4" blocks off an old 2x4 and we were ready!  I wiped each block off with a towel but we didn't sand them or anything although I suppose it wouldn't hurt! :)  We painted one day and then put all the junk on the next.

 The Family Fun site recommends a pretty strong glue but I was afraid it would be too strong for the kids to use so I bought Aleen's Tacky glue...something I knew was safe enough for them to use!  It held everything great!  I put some on a paper plate and gave the kids q-tips to apply it!  Worked like a charm!

 
Here are our Blockheads!
                                             Isaac's "Graduating Darth Vader":  :)

                                              Erin's "Monster with a Top Hat":

 

Isaac's "Luke Skywalker":  (see the light saber?)

 

 Erin's "Pink Princess":

 

I couldn't resist playing along too!  They just looked like they were having so much fun!  So I made a freckled, buck-toothed elephant listening to music! :)

Getting Back into the Swing of Things!

Now that Tadd is back to work and the kids start school in a week, I am officially starting to get back into our normal routine!  I just realized that I have some layouts and cards that haven't been posted so I wanted to get a few up here!  And look for the fun Scrapdango Contest at the bottom of this post!  I'm so excited!

The first one I did just for fun and the rest use the August Scrapdango Kit.

Hope you can join us for School's In!  Last year I participated and it was a blast!  You can sign in here!