Day 6 of Valentine swap

Today's word was CONTAINER! I love containers and LOVE to organize so this was RIGHT up my alley! Yes I know I am a dork but that is OK! Makes me unique LOL! Anyways here are my WONDERFUL AMAZING goodies for today!!!

Melissa sent me the coolest thing ever! I have ALWAYS wanted to try to alter those poptop can but never did get any poptop cans LOL! Inside were some SWEET TREAT CUPS with all sort of sweets!!!! I love me some polkadots so those buttons are GREAT! There was some BLING WOOHOO, ribbon, eyelets/brads, lace, and skittles! What a CREATIVE IDEA!!! I love it!!! Thank you hon!!!! And of course I heart the colors!!!!
Sandy made this amazing Birthday tracker for me! I love it!! I will be filling in all the dates soon! So if you want on my birthday list let me know LOL!! She also sent me some yummy yellow glimmer mist, Sentiment stamps (really needed them!) and a cute clear stamp set of fruits with various sayings (very cute!). I love the magnetic clips that she altered, they are super strong, where did you get them from hon? I love them they are on my metal board holding special pictures right now! Do you see that little album at the bottom? That is going to be PERFECT for pictures of my passed on Grandma! Thank you sweetie!!!!! I love it all! You and Melissa are SO talented!!!

This was a good thing to wake up to since little miss was up most of the night then SLEPT until 703 am which she NEVER does for me, but did for Daddy. I was a little upset! LOL! Happy pre Valentines Day!

Spa Sock Cupcake

I scraplifted this idea from the cricut MB. Here is the LINK Mine do NOT look as good as hers but you get the idea. I used the cut file that Rach1fun was kind enough to put up on her blog here. I don't have any cellophane but you get the idea. I topped mine with a dove chocolate YUMMY. One will go out in my snow mailbox for our awesome mail carrier tomorrow and then the other is for a friend. I picked up a pair for me too! I think these would be adorable for ANY girl gift! The socks are super soft too! What do you think?

Our snow mailbox

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So we cannot see our mailbox and our poor mail lady does not have anywhere to deliver it since the front of the house walkway is covered in ice no matter what we do. SO! We came up with this. Jon dug an alcove out and labeled it MAIL and it worked. All the snow from the culdesac is in front of and ontop of our mailbox and it will be WEEKS before it is seen again. What do you think? I bet she was laughing!

Day 5 of Valentine swap

Today's word was FAVORITE. The top two pictures are from Sandy! She did a fantastic job! I love notebooks, and she made me a mini album too! It says "My Dreams" it is GORGEOUS! She sent Caitlyn an activity/sticker book with her favorite character on it! I just got an ITOP and so she sent me some brads for that and who does not love fun ribbon? Thank you sweetie! You are so talented and WAY underestimate yourself!

These are from Melissa! Can we say WOWZERS?!?! I love blue/brown and she rocked that color combo. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the magnets that have Cs face! They are so precious, they made me tear up a bit, she is getting too big too fast! She also made me a cute cute notebook, bookmark (how cute!), card and some alcohol ink tags. I have some alcohol inks but have not used them, I will have to now. Melissa you are so sweet, perfect items and I love them all!! Thank you!!!

Practical Scrappers BRADS

This weeks challenge at practical scrappers is BRADS! You know you have them and probably (if you are like me!) they are tucked away and out of sight out of mind right? WRONG!!! Get those little gems out and check out Practical Scrappers for some inspiration. Let's rock those oldie but goody brads!!! Here is my take, I made this card for my SIL, she turned "over 30" back in January. She is a kid at heart (just like her brother!) So this is what I came up with for this challenge. I used an abundance of brads for the eyes and buttons on the gingerbread man, buttons on the TV and for the chocolate chips on the cookie! What do you think?

8X8 Color book-PINK

I recently hosted and participated in an 8X8 color book for kids. The end product is amazing. I will get pictures up later on when there is some sunshine of all the pages. This is my pink page, and yes this one is crooked, hence why I still have it! LOL! The pig is from Animal Kingdom I think and the title is welded with DS from Base Camp I think. The little poem is something I came up with after asking two other friends my juices got going!

So we dug out the cars today and tried to go out this morning but it was super scary and everything was closed. I hope to get out at least for a little bit with munchkin tomorrow as I hear rumors of another storm coming Sunday-Tuesday UGH! The shoveled snow is taller than my almost six foot hubby! We don't have room for any more!!!! I did get way ahead in Design Team work, I think I am caught up until mid March!!! YAY!

Everyday Valentines for Unscripted Sketches

This is my take on the above sketch from this week. I am not a big card maker and have been snowed in for going on a week now so I was itching to get something done. I am not too thrilled with the buttons (wish I would have randomized them more) but they are stuck. Everything except the base cardstock is from my scrap bin! YAY! ME! Fabric thickers for the title. It is hard to tell but the top white piece is lightly embossed with hearts. I used my labels one nestabilities for the small journaling spot, a Tim Holtz ticket, Target Dollar spot heart brads that were raked to me and a felt heart that I inked that was also raked to me. Hope you like it!

Day 4 of Valentines Swap

Today's word was LOVE. The first picture is from Sandy! She altered an amazing little album of pictures of Caitlyn! I love it! I will carry it always, the colors are fantastic and I have to find out what she used for the inside pages as they are awesome! She also altered a little tin and put love note cards inside for me to write to Caitlyn and Jon, how sweet! She sent Caitlyn a Love kitty book, and another fun Love title all glittered! I love it all thank you!!

The second and third pictures are from Melissa. She sent me two gorgeous cards! I love them! And some awesome stamped images, there are even STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE ones in there! Love that, I have a Strawberry Shortcake doll from the day I was born! LOOK AT THAT FRAME! It looks like canvas and I love it! I Love the picture and the colors are PERFECT for my craft space. Caitlyn will NOT put this down or the duck! She got the Mickey Mouse mini discs taken away since she tried to impale Mommy with them! LOL! I love this frame and Caitlyn keeps saying "Baby Slide!" and then runs and gets her shoes! So cute! Thank you!

Icicles and towers of snow

This icicle is almost touching the snow! It has to be at least three feet long or more! It has started melting already too!
This is the view after a little shoveling out my front door.
My six foot hubby next to the mountain of snow that is taller than him!
Massive icicles in the backyard
Another view of our massive icicle, see I told you it was almost touching the snow!!!!
Well according to the BWI Airport we got 19.5 MORE inches yesterday bringing the total to 89 inches in the last 12 months! HOLY CRUD! I wanted to take a few pictures to show you what we are dealing with. Here you go.

Day 3 of Valentine swap-BLING

Bling was the word for this day!The above is from Melissa! WOOHOO! I love me some glitter glue, pink is always a hit and look at the yummy Christmas bling, I have not started scrapping Christmas yet!
These are from Sandy! I Love me some swirls, and never buy it for myself, the layered title is perfect and very glittery and of course you can never have too many clear rhinestones!

Thank you ladies!