My top 10 cards of 2010

I posted my top 10 layouts the other day, now I would like to share my top 10 cards from this year:

Thanks for stopping by and sharing your day with me.

I wish everyone a healthy and happy new year!

Hugs! Lisa

Top 10 from 2010

My scrappy friend, Nik, encouraged me to post my top 10 layouts from 2010. Here they are in no certain order:

Thanks for stopping by and I would love to see your top 10 too! Happy New Year!

Hugs! Lisa

It's been a scrappy morning!

2 posts in one day, WOW!

Christmas break, Greg is back to work, the kids are playing with their new gadgets and Mama is SCRAPPIN'!!! Just wanted to post a layout I did this morning and then I NEED to go get something done, LOL.

I did this layout for Wendi's challenge at MSW. There's still time to join in on the fun challeges there, go check out the forum!

and here is a card I created for Bev's challenge:

Thank you gifts for the kids that help me at work

With the budget cuts in the kitchen at school this year, I have 2 kids, part of triplets, that help me every day. I wanted to make them something and wanted to include a gift card to their fav place. This is what I came up with:

For Justin:

For Ali:

Thanks Justin and Ali! I really appreciate all you do!

Hustle & Bustle

In between hustlin' and bustlin' to get ready for Christmas, I found my sanity by taking a little time out of every day to relax and scrap, even if it was for 30 minutes.

At MSW I took Scarlett's challenge and made an ornament and added it to my card:

I recently joined a new message board, The Moments, and have been having fun with their challenges. I made my first mini album in years, but it was only the shell of it. I am going to be putting all my Christmas cards from 2010 in it:

Thanks for visiting and hope you find sometime during this busy holiday season for some stress-free time!

Imaginisce

I have been following the Imaginisce blog for a few weeks now and loving all the projects they are posting! Check out the new Garden Party goodies!

A little time for scrappin'

Between making Christmas cards and shopping for Christmas, I found a little time to play with the Imaginisce December sketch. The minute I saw this sketch, I knew I had to use it! Here is what I came up with. (I used the Jolly By Golly line from Cosmo Cricket)

Photo shoot!

Got the kids outside a few weeks ago for a few fall pics, the burning bushes in front of the house were almost in full bloom. Love the results!

MSW Reveal

It's November already! (Where did October go?) Which means, time for a new sketch or two at MSW. I chose to do both the card sketch and the layout sketch this month and had a blast with them! Lucy's sketches are really the best!

Here is the card sketch:

My take on it:

and the layout sketch:

Here is what I did with it:

We have some great challenges going on this month with some awesome prizes! Stop on over and check it out!

Gettin' scrappy!

I have had some scrappy time here and there and have been participating in the World Card Making Crop at My Sketch World and the ABC's of Cards crop at Scrapdango. I have been a card making fool! Here are a few of my favs:

At MSW:

This one was a tutorial Nik posted for birthday candles: check it out here

and Suzann's Back to Basics technique was so fun! Check out the tutorial here

At Scrapdango:

G is for green, girly and glitter:

H is for any h sentiment and houses:

K is for kid and kite:

Thanks for stopping by to see what I have been up to!

September 1st layout sketch at MSW

WOW! It's been a whole 2 months since I have been here! Where did the summer go?! I guess being gone on our family vacation to California for 3 weeks really took a chunck out of the being off work thing. Hoping to post pics from that soon!

Any way, the September 1st sketch is up at MSW and the new DT did an awesome job! There are also some new challenges to try too! Go check it out!

Here is my take on Lucy's wonderful sketch:

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to be posting again soon!

Finally!

I have been wanting a new family picture of us for quite some time and had Theresa take this one at Jim and Nicki's wedding! Thanks Theresa!

A Few Photos from Jim and Nicki's wedding

My brother, Jim got married last Saturday and had a beautiful wedding! A fun time was had by all!

Congrats and welcome to the family Nicki!

I DID IT!

I actually completed the LOAD contest at ScrapDango! That means I did a layout or 2 cards a day for the month of June! Now I need to clean my house, I have ignored it the last few days trying to play catch up! Here are a few things I did later in the contest.