Hey guys,I want to apologize for not being around the last few days. Life swooped in and knocked me on my butt. There are reasons for that, and I might share them at a later date, but for now I’ll just say I’m sorry and move forward.I’ll be back tomorrow with Tune in Tuesday – Wednesday Edition as well as announcing our GIVEAWAY!Thanks for being patient.Christina aka The Scrappy Housewife
Hey Baby Cakes!
Last Friday, I put together a baby shower gift for some of our dear friends Chris and Jeneane in honor of their first baby. I absolutely love the opportunity to let my creativity shine when creating unique gifts for friends and this baby shower was no exception.I’m sure we’ve all seen diaper cakes at showers, but I thought I would do a quick tutorial showing you how to construct the bulk of it (the hardest part) so you can get creative during your decorating too!First off, gather all your supplies (this is the fun part! Shopping!). I opted for three packages of diapers, 150 in total. I used baby socks, scratch mittens, pacifiers, washcloths and onesies for decoration as well as some travel sized baby supplies. You’ll need to make sure you purchase some sort of cake board or foam core to put your cake on and act as the…
Day 3 Abbreviated
Hey y’all. I’m not posting pics today because I got ambitious and decided to start an entire album…yes, really. I found the me & my BIG ideas Off to School Specialty Cardstock stack (I’m looking for an image) at Michael’s last week. It is perfect to just pull the cardstock, place in album and add some pictures and embellishments. So what I’ve done today is just that. I’ve started working on albums for my DH and I. We have a ton of old pictures and I’ve been meaning to start scrapbooks for them so this stack was perfect!I’ll show off a couple of layouts tomorrow! :)Anyone out there with me? How’s it going so far?
Tune In Tuesday # 1 – Saving $$$
So this week marks a new feature here at The Scrappy Housewife. I read so many awesome blogs each week (and I’m still behind! Yikes!) and want to spread the blog love. Which brings us to my new weekly feature:TUNE IN TUESDAY!Each week I will feature some of my favorite blogs, projects, and ideas from my blog roll. I’m tossing around the idea of having a theme each week for these but we’ll see how that goes.This week, I’d like to share with you some of my favorite savings blogs. Since I became a housewife (read: we went from two incomes to one) I’ve been hyper-conscious about saving money – not because we’re desperate, but because I feel that if I can’t make any money, then it’s my job to save us money. In my quest to improve our savings and pay off and pay down debt, I’ve found the following blogs…
Day 2
Today’s Details:Paper (and yesterday’s as a matter of fact) DCWV Pet Stack Size 8x8Title and Chihuahua cut out are from Cricut Four Legged Friends CartridgeSimple, but sweet. I love my boys!Only 98 more days ladies, we can do this!!!
Day 1
OK today I took the easy route and did a page for my dog’s album. Yes, my dog has an album. Here’s my page:The “Spoiled” embellishment is Jolee’s. Album size is 8×8. I’m not sure the brand of paper, but I’m still looking. 🙂
100 Scraps Challenge Is On!
If you’re interested and want to participate or just offer encouragement to those of us taking the challenge:Click Here To Be Taken To The Challenge Site!You can also find more information under the tab at the top of the page. I’m going to try my best not to spam you guys too much over here because I know some of you don’t scrapbook and I want this blog to remain as it is for y’all. I will add highlights from the Challenge here and there and feature some of the participants here too though. Keep an eye out!Also, coming up this week here at The Scrappy Housewife:Our First Giveaway!!! (I’m so excited about this!)A New Weekly Feature!Stay Tuned. 🙂
Here We Go!
May 1st begins National Scrapbooking Month and also the beginning of our challenge.100 Scraps in 100 Days – Here are the rules:1. Friend this blog…yes, even if you are a follower of my other blog, “The Scrappy Housewife”. I want you to do this so A) I can tell who is following in case there are prizes or giveaways along the way (yes, really!) and B) because I’m not going to be cross-posting often and you’ll miss something. I know that everyone who reads The Scrappy Housewife isn’t a scrapbooking enthusiast and I don’t want to spam their blog rolls.2. You must complete 1 scrapbook page per day for 100 days. However, I am not naive enough to believe that for 100 days the following will happen: Everyone will be 100% healthy, nothing will go wrong and we will all have spare time in the day. SO – if you can’t do…
RePost from The Scrappy Housewife
100 Scraps in 100 Days ChallengeI have a confession to make. My name is Christina aka The Scrappy Housewife and I am a Scrapbook Supplies Hoarder. If you’ve been here since January, you probably remember my Office Decrapification. During that clean up I showed you this little area here:All of what you see there is scrapbook supplies. See the smaller white containers on the bottom left and mid-right? That’s paper. Scrapbook paper. There’s more on top of the mid-right bin and middle set of drawers. And I just bought two new stacks two days ago. Yes, really. Wanna know the sad part of all this? I don’t scrapbook. Well, that’s not entirely true. I do scrapbook. I have lots of pictures organized and ready to go in archival bins, labeled, cataloged, scanned, etc, etc. Heck I even have scrapbooks started. You can kinda see my scrapbook shelf on the bookcase in the top…
100 Scraps in 100 Days Challenge
I have a confession to make. My name is Christina aka The Scrappy Housewife and I am a Scrapbook Supplies Hoarder. If you’ve been here since January, you probably remember my Office Decrapification. During that clean up I showed you this little area here:All of what you see there is scrapbook supplies. See the smaller white containers on the bottom left and mid-right? That’s paper. Scrapbook paper. There’s more on top of the mid-right bin and middle set of drawers. And I just bought two new stacks two days ago. Yes, really. Wanna know the sad part of all this? I don’t scrapbook. Well, that’s not entirely true. I do scrapbook. I have lots of pictures organized and ready to go in archival bins, labeled, cataloged, scanned, etc, etc. Heck I even have scrapbooks started. You can kinda see my scrapbook shelf on the bookcase in the top right. I do…