Uggh. It's almost May. Why is the flu still here????

I have been sick with the flu or something that's been going around.

Got it on Friday.

It's still here.

Not happy.

I miss my craft room but would rather cuddle up in bed or on the sofa.

My kids however, have been busy. They made some Easter crafts. They wanted to enter them in the kids' contest at Sketches for all. The criteria was that it had to contain a bunny and eggs.

Let me just tell you that this bothered me. So much. What does a bunny have to do with Easter??? It really bugs me when people don't recognize what Easter really is.

But my son knows what it is and his younger brother has an idea. And they really wanted to enter the contest.

Oh, I forgot to say why they were excited to enter.

Remember this?

My 7-year-old entered this in his first online challenge. AND HE WON!!!! We don't have the goodies yet as they are coming from overseas and will take awhile. But he was eager to enter again!

Here is his Easter entry:

 He cut the bunny, chick and egg on my Cricut! Yep, he knows how to use it. It's so cute to watch him!

He added egg stickers and some grass he cut with shaped scissors and he wrote his sentiment.

I think it's so cute!

And my 4-year-old wanted to play too!

Um, yeah. Okay. So there is a bunny on this one on one of the square stickers. That orange thing is supposed to be a chick. And it is saying "Happy Trick or Treat!". Well, that's what it's supposed to say but it's spelled all wrong! Now. On the left side. Is a water buffalo. He insisted it have a water buffalo! I have no idea why. But it had to have one. So it has a blue body and huge yellow horns. And no face.

Oh, this makes me laugh every time I look at it! =D

brothers

Here is a layout I did awhile back and never posted. I just wanted to share since I think the photo of the boys is so cute. Plus, it was one of my first ever layouts.

I did this with a sketch from ScrapbookSteals.com for MidWeek Mojo #1 (they are now on #26, so I'm a  little late posting!!).

The paper and embellishments are from My Mind's Eye Breaking Free kit.

Title is chipboard that I inked.

I just love the way those boys are hugging! It almost makes me forget all the other times they are fighting and kicking and biting each other. Almost.

Scraptastic

Whew! Just in the nick of time I completed a few more of the challenges from http://www.scrapbooksteals.com/. In the last 36 hours I've done two double layouts, one single layout and a card. The card was a piece of cake (or cupcake) since I make those all the time but the scrapbooking really kicked my butt.

My favorite is the layout of Noah. I love the way the blue and green turned and I love all the circles too. I used this for 2 different challenges. The first was to use at least 6 different patterned papers. I  think I have nine: 1 in the background, 1 in the photo mat, 1 in the alpha chipboard, and 5 more in the circles. Wait, that's only 8. And the second challenge was to use at least 12 elements on a page. I have 1 photo, 1 mat, 7 pieces of chipboard, and 8 circles. I love that cute little face.

The second layout was to use a sketch they provided. Again I used photos of Noah so it could be a double layout for his book. I need to add some journaling and re-align the photos! The sort of slant upwards! And the word sweet doesn't stand out enough. I need to fix it. But considering I did this in less than 15 minutes, it's not too bad.

There will be another page for Wyatt's kindergarten layout making it a double, just haven't gotten to it yet. This was also a sketch challenge. I think it's a little awkward and I don't quite like it yet. Its not how I would normally lay things out. I'll have to figure out how to make it so I like it.

The last challenge I did was a birthday card. I really rushed through this one too. I used a roller stamp on the blue card to create a pattern. I cut pink glitter cardstock with a trim punch and embossed the green paper with polka dots and layered everything. I used chalks on the white cardstock around the cupcake and the sentiment and then finished it off with a couple brads.

The card won me a prize! It wasn't based on talent. Winners were picked randomly. But it was still cool. AND I won two other prizes from participating in the online crop! I love free stuff! I'm still waiting on the prizes to arrive so I don't know what they are yet. The suspense is torture!

...In the Craft Room - 4th of July layout

I actually scrapped pages with current events! This is from last week and not 6 years ago! Wow, this feels good. : ) This is actually for a July 4th challenge from http://www.scrapbooksteals.com/ that is due by tomorrow. So not only did I get to scrap my 2nd layout ever and use current events but I was forced to do it digitally because I couldn't have gotten prints in time for this. It was really fun though, not as fun as traditional scrapping, but still good.

I wish I could get them to fit side by side on here. I worked really hard to get the ribbon lined up and now you can't tell. : (

...In my craft room

I finally scrapped my first two pages and put them in an album! I can now officially say I am a scrapbooker!!

These are the newborn pages of my oldest son (who is now 6 - hey, better late than never right?) At this rate I may get to his kindergarten pics by the time he's in college. Oh well. At least it's a start.

The first page:

Second page:

And together in the book:

Yay! So I'm feeling proud of myself and can't wait to get more pages done and eventually get caught up! Then I realize I have THREE kids and need to do this TWO more times AND do my wedding album.

I think I can, I think I can...