Delayed Projects-The Story of My Life

So I feel really bad I haven't been able to scrap very much lately. We got all of our stuff moved (thanks Russell!!) and it's a total mess around here.
We've decided to have an open house in June, I was thinking that would give us plenty of time to get everything organized..now I'm not so sure. But anyway, I had intended for these invites to go out last week..but they're going out now..which is better than never.

I think the final total was 32 of these..which is A LOT! The stamp is from The Greeting Farm, and it sort of looks like our house.
The edge punch is Martha Stewart. The blue edge we cut by scissors..Jon helped with that part. Some of them have bows, and some don't. It's not because I wanted them to be different, it's because I ran out of ribbon..so sad.

It doesn't look that complicated but it took forever to color all the houses.

Once everything was done gluing them together was a piece of cake.

Also, I have a before and after for today...
I finally got the upstairs bathroom painted, which is so nice because now we can actually use it.

It was a not very nice brown..

And now it's a very dark blue.

With bright green accents..as if you couldn't guess.
It was the color scheme we had at the apartment, just without the wall paint. I really like it. It is really dark, it was suggested that we'll be needing flashlights..it might be the truth.

We're well on our way to unpacking this place. The cabinets are still in limbo..I'm told they'll be up when I get home from work today..not sure if I believe it..but if they are that will be the next round of photos...the white cabinets look so great I can't wait. And I need my kitchen back so I can do some cooking!

Jessica

We Are Weekend Warriors!

Oh my oh my!
We closed on our house Friday morning! I am so ready to be out of this apartment!
We've been busy all weekend getting the new house ready for the move in. So I've got a pretty big post for the day.

Here's the living room, we're not painting it right now. The previous owner left us these chocolate colored curtains..lucky me!

This is our dining roon, we're not painting it either..I love the chandelier, and the doors.

Our basement..it will be unfurnished for a while, our current furniture will go down there eventually. It will be our TV room too.

Now for some Before & After...

This room is my new scrap room (yay!) and it was this very ugly orange..

It has wonderful windows.

And now it is a beautiful Caribbean blue...this is my new happy place and I can't wait to get all my stuff moved in.

So much better.

This is our guest bedroom..it was the nursery.


I don't have a finished shot..but I have one of me working..and one of Katie doing nothing.

Still doing nothing.

This was perhaps the biggest project of the weekend..the ugly ugly kitchen. The counter top is green..and the walls are red..and I'm not really sure what they were thinking.

That space is where my brand new refrigerator is going to go..on Wednesday!

It was a very long process..and we're still not completely done...but we're getting there.

We painted all the cabinets white, Jonathan is still working on the fronts of the doors, but already it looks so much better.

And we painted the walls light green. Next year when we get our tax credit we're going to replace the green counter tops with probably dark gray ones.

It looks 100% better, and we only have 2 rooms left to paint. We couldn't have gotten as far as we did without my mom and sister helping.
I can't say how tired I am, so we're hopefully calling it an early night. More updates soon I hope.

Jessica

Mother's Day Cards 2010

Since we had Mother's Day a week early (both Jonathan and I have to work all weekend), I'll show you the cards I made for our mothers.

This one is for my mom. The paper is from SU! and when I saw it I thought of her.

Both cards are easel cards.

Here's the side..with terrible lighting..but not for much longer I hope.

This one is for Jonathan's mother. I used the Cricut to cut out the front part. He chose all the paper and the design, he did a pretty good job.

Both cards have this stamp. It's shiny because I embossed it. I used green ink and clear powder for his mom, white ink and green powder for my mom.

Here's a shot of the whole card.

Sorry I've been slacking, I didn't even get to make anything for National Scrapbook day! But in my defense we're 2 weeks from closing on our house and we've been packing like crazy.

Soon there will be more house pictures and I can create stuff in my very own scrap studio..I'm very excited!

Jessica

Friday Sketch AMYRTFS7

I had a really good time working on the Friday Sketch from Prairie Paper & Ink.
I've definitely been thinking Spring. I was glad to make a card, since I've been working on scrap book pages lately..and something else that will be coming your way shortly.

Here's the original sketch.

And here's my take on it.
The stamp is from All That Scraps. The paper is from JoAnn's. I used my Cuttlebug on the blue piece.

Ok, I know the yellow-ness is terrible..but I'm dreaming of the light box I want to build..so hopefully soon it will get better. I colored here with Copics and went over her jacket and boots with a glaze pen so it sort of looks like rubber.

Here's the inside. The sentiments came with a very large Spring set over at All That Scraps.

I'm going to try to keep up with some more posts, but our moving day is getting closer and closer..so we find ourselves way too busy most of the time. But my new scrap studio is going to be totally worth it.

Jessica

Wild Card Wednesday-Fun Color Challenge

Sorry it's been so long. I simply have not had enough time to scrap..and this makes me sad. I managed to find a little time tonight and last night. I wanted to participate in a challenge, because it's been so long since I have.
So I chose the Club Anya & Friends challenge blog. It happened to be Wild Card Wednesday, and this week it's a color challenge.


This is the original photo for the color challenge. I really chose to pick up on the pillow, with the green, blue and orange..and I like pink, so I used pink too. The way I ended up cutting my patterned paper hid most of the orange, but you get the idea.

I used a stamp from the Miss Anya Rain, Snow, Shine set..(it's the Shine in case you're falling behind). I colored her with Copics on CC Quality cardstock from ATS. I used my Cuttlebug for the ovals.
Here's a side view, I can't wait for our move because I'm going to build a light box and see if that doesn't help make my photos look better.

Here's the inside, it looks very similar to the outside..I find it to be easier that way.

Mother's Day is approaching quickly, I have to work that weekend, but I've already got my cards made..so look for those in a blog post near you.

Jessica

Fluffles Easter Cards

Easter is almost here, and I've mailed out my cards..so here they are.

I really love this Fluffles image. I colored him with Copics and used SU! paper. The Happy Easter sentiment is from Hobby Lobby. I used my Cuttlebug for the embossing. And a really cute border punch across the bottom.

Hopefully you can see the border better here.

Here's a close-up of the image. He looks like my Bean..but probably doesn't cause as much trouble.

Here's my whole fleet of Easter cards. They all came together really easily once I had the images colored..that took a lot longer than I thought it would.

This is on the inside of some of them..I forgot to take a picture of the other sentiment..but it said something to the effect of having a blessed Easter..

I'm looking forward to Easter. We're planning on going to my mom's for Easter brunch..yum!

Jessica

We bought a House!

We bought a new house, as most people already know. We're set to close in mid-May. We're beyond excited.
For now I'll only post some outside pictures, since once we get in there and start painting/fixing/working I'll want to do before and after pictures.

This is the front..duh. It's a corner house, so we have a fairly big lot for being in the city. This house was built in 1931, it looks pretty damn good for being that old.

The back yard is pretty good sized too. It has this really really awesome stone fence around it. There's a screened in porch as well as a patio on the side of the house. So it will be perfect for our kitties to enjoy the breeze.

If you don't love this archway then you suck. End of story. This is the best part of the outside. It leans a little, but it's really old. If it get's worse we'll have to look into fixing it..but for now it has "character" :-) We also have a 2 car garage.

We just fell in love with this house, and we can't wait for it to be ours. I'm sure I'll have moving pics and things of that nature. We have about 2 weeks after we get the house before we have to be out of our apartment, so we'll be painting some rooms as well as the kitchen cabinets, so look forward to that.

Jessica