Give Me Your Eyes

This is my very first challenge! I did this layout for Scrapping To The Music! The whole challenge is based on a song of the week. This weeks song was Give Me Your Eyes. I loved doing it. I used my cricut for the corner piece, the title and the florish under the title. Also to cut the patterned paper out. The matting for Santino's pics I used Tim Holtz distress inks and then glimmer misted away for a really pretty marbling effect.

Guess what, I missed the deadline, Ha!!! I thought it was mountain time and it was central so I was off by an hour. There I was in my kitchen just creating away and low and behold I made a booboo :p Oh well, I'm going to share this layout along with card I made today. Let me just say, my blood is boiling right now because I messed up and I really would like to scream, but I'll count to 10 and just continue with my posting....Oh and to hear the song, go to my playlist and click on # 72


He really does have some expressive eyes! I have so many photos of him with some of the greatest faces thanks to the eyes he gives. He was still a baby here, my boy is growing fast.

I made a few of these cards as thank you's and the final card swap I needed to get out, sorry Court *wiping egg off of face*. I used my stampin up stamp which I think is very elegant, did some light stickling to enhance and I stamped the inside too. They came nice.

Next week I WILL get my piece in on time!! Hope you like what I did.

On another note, today was Victoria's 29th birthday! Amazing, I have a child that will be 30 next year, and tomorrow is my husband's birthday. We'll be celebrating both on his day. The older kids all went for sushi and I watched the granddaughters. They brought me home some and didn't tell me till I ate it, that I consumed eel!!!! Aaaahhhh, but it was good ;) My 18 yr old son is a wisenhoofer. He kept saying, "Mom ya still have one here, hurry up and eat it." Should of guessed something was up. I also made a cheesecake, since that's what Victoria wanted for her cake, and dinner will be fried shrimp, scallops, and fettucine alfredo, yum yum yummy!

My Three Favorite Book Characters

Ok, so I have finished my layouts and I love it. This was easy for me since these books just rocked my world!! Needless to say the Southern Vampire Series has just swept me off my feet, especially since HBO has made True Blood from it! I had so much fun with this. Eric already is cast so finding a pic of him was easy, but the other characters were fun cause I have thought about and have spoken with others and what they pictured them to look like. Bones from the Night Huntress series I picture like Chris Evans from the Fantastic Four, and Vishous from the Black Dagger Brotherhood is a model named David Gandy who I tweaked with photoshop to resemble what author JR Ward has described him as.

I can't recommend these books enough. I love love love them, and these 3 just top the list for me. I do want to say that Dr. Kay Scarpetta came in very close, I even had Diane Lane's picture already to go, but then just stuck with my boys. I think Patricia Cornwell is off the charts with her character, and the books I've read are wonderful.

Eric Northman from Southern Vamp Series and Bones from Night Huntress I put a little butterfly on the corner there -

Vishous from Black Dagger Brotherhood, yes that is how the author spells it and he has a butterfly too -

JR Ward describes his eyes as the pupils like diamonds, quite haunting

Love the quote



Well I hope you like them. I loved this and can't wait to start on the other cj's!

My sign in page is not done yet, I'll get that going and have it posted by Monday.

I'm adding an addendum here. After posting I thought, "Well gee I should list some of the products I used." So here we go. The paper is from DCWV stack, I glimmer misted the papers. I used Tim Holtz's grunge board wings and heart on my tag, along with my brad and his key on the simply page. There is stickles around several of the elements, I also stickled the photo corner on Vishous' pic. I used my cricut with the home accents cart for the butterfly. The quote and journal papers were cut on my Big Shot using my nestibilty die. I love those things!! I can't remember the name of the stack but when I go upstairs I'll check on it

Thought Provoking

Susan from Susan's Littlte Scraps, a blog I follow and you can check out right on the side there, gave me an honest scrapper award. I need to write 10 honest things about myself and pass it on to 3 other scrappers who have blogs I love.

Well on to the task at hand -

First and foremost, the hardest thing I ever did in my entire life was carry my first child. I was 16 and I hid it till 3 wks before she was born. I gained only 9 lbs, and I used a wire hanger to pull the zipper up on my size 5 jeans. Real rough, hard on my parents, but I did it, and I think if there is one thing I do good in this world, it's being a Mama.

2- I hate, and I mean hate, people who can't drive. Ask my kids, I let the curse words fly even with them in the car and they giggle something fierce at what comes outta my mouth!

3- Sadly, I have no patience at all. Not good but it is a trait I am stuck with. I thank my Dad lovingly for that one ;)

4- I am somewhat anal in the fact that I have to do certain things the same way all the time. Well maybe that's ocdeeish. Like go down the supermarket aisles the same way, if I don't I really feel jacked up.

5- I luuuuuuv to sing, and I can't sing to save my life!!! But I do it and I like to do it loud! The kids will yell, "Mom, puhleeeeease!! Heehee, can't help myself.

6- I am excessively possesive of what I perceive to belong to me. That goes for my Hubby, hands down, don't let me catch you eyeing him or I'll poke em out! My Mother, my brothers, and my friends. My kids, well I have 6, you can have em ;) them I'm happy to share.

7- I hate chipped nail and toe polish! Oh my when I see toes with chipped polish, I wanna run over with a cotten ball and remover!

8- Bugs scare the living crumbs outta me! I hate all insects and will cry at the drop of a dime if I think one is in my hair.

9- Liver makes me sick. I hate liver. My Mom would make it when I was little and it would smell good, and I'd be like "Wow let me give it a shot", uh, no, pasty yukky kaka texture, why does something that smells good while cooked taste so gross?!

10- I have a new found respect for those who have lost a parent, spouse, or heaven forbid, child. I never realized how grief becomes weaved into the fabric of your life till my Dad. I thank God for my Husband and wonderful friends who help me everyday on this difficult journey of mourning.

Well there ya go 10 honest things about me. Now I will pass it on to,get ready for this one, Tim Holtz, I just love him and his designs, Dedra Long, who has Between Us and Jennifer Priest of Hydrangea Hippo. These people are phenomenal scrappers in the industry. You can view all their blogs from the side bar on mine :)