I'm back, My blogging and Scrapping friends!

First I want to apologize  to all my followers, that have come to my blog and found me missing in action for more then a month (don't know where the time went). I have been helping my little guy with his studies so he can pass the standardize tests in April  (He's having a hard time with math). Anywho, we'll see what happens with that.  Secondly, I have been trying to arrange a more productive way for me to work. And anyone with a tiny space can vouch for me that it is not easy finding a place to cram all the artsy stuff. I was especially having a hard time finding a way to organize my copics and prismacolor markers and the various ink pads and distress ink pads I have. I wanted it all in front of me because of the limited space I have to work with. Well I could not find anything suitable, but I had seen in various blogs and  on YouTube how to create your own out of foam board. So being the crafty person that I am, I hunted down the instructions and with a few modifications I made one of my own (and the rest is history).Oh I even made one for my little guy and its on the last photo. I  posted a few photos of  the process involve ( It was harder then it looks) and the end results are not perfect (some may even laugh at it) but I'm okay with that because I accomplished something and it suits my way of crafting and anyone wanting to make one can easily find the instructions online. Lastly I want to thank the many crafter's that posted their instructions on their blogs and the videos on YouTube to share with us all. Thanks for viewing! Now without further ado photos  below.

I started by preparing all the side pieces, I took a straight edge blade and gently scraped half inch from the edge.
Please don't scrape to deep because it weakens the edges and might break through the foam board.

I fitted  and Hot glued all four sides in place then I hot glued the  back piece to the four sides.  You just have to try to make the box as straight as possible. (pretty easy up until now).

I started playing around with the shelves to see the placement and dimension I wanted them to be.

Here I cut all the shelves and tried to be as precised as  I could,  I was worried they would not fit together  properly. It is not that hard you just need to  be  very sure of the measurements.  you know the old saying (measure twice and cut once).   

I made shorter shelves on top so I could put the ink pads  and distressed ink pads on them. The  shelves  look  crooked but I fixed the shelves as best I could and they  don't look so bad.

After  all the shelves are in there place, and I was sure they were as straight as possible ( I could not get them lined up perfectly)  I hot  glue  some edges  here and there  and I was done !  YAY 

Here is the finished  cubbie all filled up with my goodies.

 Every crafter should have a peg board, it holds so  much and keeps the items withen easy reach. 

Over here is where I keep my cartridges, I don't buy many just the ones I feel I will get a lot  of use out  of.  I have a lot more ribbon but it is elsewhere.

Here you see how I keep my word stamps and other small  wooden stamps.

This is the cubbie I made for my little guy, He loves it and filled it up with all his  goodies.

I Print my digital images in duplicate, because if I make a mistake I Have more left to color with out having to print again. The little guy is from the online store (Spesh Designer stamps) and it was by Max design.I messed up on his face skin coloring but I'm still learning.,Now the sweet infants are digi stamps from Sugar Nellie online store and they are called so adorable they are partly shaded so it makes it easier to see the high lights when you color them up.

This is a little  Pip image I have been working with , I have colored it up and will fussy cut it. I purchased it at Funky Kits. I might turn it into a Easter card or layout.

Card using Cricut cartridge

I made this simple card using the cricut cartridge  (straight from the nest). This cartridge has the cutest birds and lots of words and sayings for cards or layouts. I really like it and i think I will use it alot especially with Easter coming up. I took an already embossed card and after cutting the bird with the cricut and Pasting it to the card I colored the embossed raised edges with my markers, it came out so cute. Thanks for viewing

Here are the 3 cards I made for Sebastian

Love this bicycle image

            I like taking embossed cards and coloring the raised designs with my markers. I still need a long way to go in learning how to color with copic markers,. but I'm just having fun coloring with them.

I sure can make a mess when I'm scrapping!

    

         Anyway  for the cards I cut up some of the pattern paper suitable for a boy and  I chose some of the boy images and I punched out some simple shapes out of colored cardstock . I also colored the raised embossing with the markers.The  bicycle, airplane and car are from  some old  booklets called hot off the press. I have had them forever and they have  sheets and pattern paper with cute images in them, but nothing like the beautiful designs available today.

Cards for Sebastian

                 This past weekend, I took some time to make a few cards for a darling and sick little boy named Sebastian. I found out about him when I paid a visit to the blog of a very nice lady named Ana, from Scrappy Pink Corner. She had told a little about him and put the link on her blog.  I read the story of Sebastian over at ginger's house ( the blog belongs to his teacher) and she tells his story with the parents permission.

                 This little boy has a condition called Arthrogryposis, it means that this little boy's bones stiffen and he has abnormally developed muscles. Sebastian's arms, hands, legs and feet are affected by this condition. He has many scars over his little body, from all the surgeries and still more to come. He will soon have to endure another surgery and his teacher just had one wish, for his hospital room to be filled with cards so that when he wakes up he can see how much people care and to show him how special he is.


                    His teacher (God bless her) says that she has actually learned what the quote "You are as happy as you choose to be" really means, this little boy who has every right to be angry at the world, isn't angry at all.

He has chosen to be happy and that happiness is contagious.  Thanks for viewing

Happy Valentine's Day to all my bogger friends

My sweet hubby came home with a pound of my favorite chocalates. He also gave me the go ahead to order the Cameo Silhouette last week as a Valentine's gift for me, and it should arrive later on today ( very happy to have a new toy to play with).  I love digi stamps and have purchase  some, and others I have downloaded for free. I found this one laying around my table. I had colored and cut it out a while ago and thought it went perfect with the heart my husband gave me (this is what usually happens when I eat  what I shouldn't) LOL.

I WON, I WON I won a prize for turning in this layout over at The Scrap Beach

This is the second layout I made for the challenge over at Kathryn from the scrap beach. It had to have the colors red white and blue.  I did a very simple layout because the boy paper I chose, from K and Company is a very busy one. I just did a little  guy in the team colors. I  cut the little boy with the cricut on white paper, so I could color him with my copics. ( It was not pretty he came out looking like he has a bad tan). I guess I'm going to have to Utube copic lessons. I did cut the white and yellow card stock trimmed them all around  I cut his outfit also with the cricut using the cartridge (every day paper dolls). I had plans to do a lot to this layout ( who am I kidding) being new and slow at this I couldn't come up with anything else. I'm still learning and having a lot of fun. Thanks for viewing

First challenge layout I ever made

This is the first layout I made  for Kathryn's (from the scrap beach) challenge. We had to make a layout or card of any size with layers. So being in the month of love, I used a new cricut cartridge called Victorian romance. It has beautiful images suitable for the month of February, or for making love and romance layouts or cards. From this cartridge I cut the 2 bottom hearts in deep red card stock from Wausau  and I could not resist blinging them with red rhinestones. I also cut the true love fonts from the same cartridge as well as the kissing couple (so cute) the couple required 3 layers and the tiny pieces were a bit tricky, but they turned out okay. The frame was from the cartridge fancy frames. The enchanted heart is from a Martha S. punch and the side edge is cut from a page from the immortal love paper stack from DCWV, I used a fiskers punch called lace to detail the edge. I added the little red bird to finish the page. The back ground page is from Wausau  card stock called shades and the color I chose is Astroparche, Its a beautiful sand color marble looking paper.(the picture does not show the detail very good).I think I did good for a first try.I'm happy with the out come. Thanks for viewing