Cricut Expression

My Expression arrived in the mail today-I think I was out the door before the UPS man had even parked his truck, lol. I didnt really get to play with it today, but I got it all set up on my desk (see pic) to be ready for tomorrow! Im going to scrap with Beka in SWF-go QPMU!

Now I just have to spend sometime researching the easiest way to use it.

Once again, a big thank you to Nikki for the link, and to Danielle for the awesome prize!

Waiting Almost at an End

Only one more day until my Expression will be here! Im soooo excited! Danielle emailed me the tracking number and I look at it a few times a day, watching it get closer and closer to me!

I will be playing with it tomorrow for sure!

My latest scrappy project. I altered this can to put change in. The little 'bags' on it have sayings about shopping on them. It was a fun relatively quick project.

Album Give Away

Check out this adorable scrapbook give away.

http://happypaperblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/mixed-up-holiday-giveaway.html

I just happened to see a post about it on CM-and thought I would share for those of you who are all contesty!

Good luck!

I WON the Cricut Expression Giveaway!

I was introduced to an Expression give away by Nikki. Of course I thought no way would I win anything...but I still figured I should try right? Well guess what! Last night (while my internet was down) the winners got posted and I WON the Expression!

Danielle, the lovely owner of the blog Life, One Layout at a Time. Gives away some awesome prizes...here is the post that has my 'winnings'

Thanks a million to Nikki for posting about it. And a million times a million to Danielle!

Gable Box

Today I was floating around on SCS and found these cute gable boxes to try. I cant believe how fast they were to complete. I learned two things-I need to be less heavy handed with the scoring blade, and READ the directions...lol

I found the directions here

Today I was chatting with Alayna while trying to figure out something to inspire me to work on an actual LO. She 'challenged' me to work on a BOM page and I thought "why not?", and went hunting for pictures. I came up with pictures from my graduation from nursing school. I really need to look at these pictures because I need to remember what Im working towards...and counting down the days until May.

The first picture/page is probably my favorite picture ever of me with my parents. I cant remember how the photographer got us to laugh-but it looks good anyway.


Here is my second try at a 2pg LO. Im happier with this second try I think. In the first picture my mom has a 'real' laugh on her face so I had to scrap it. Its not too often that we get a shot like that.

If you cant tell-Im trying very hard to work on keeping my pages 'simple' cause I get SO unbelievably frustrated otherwise. I have way too much stuff and it takes me forever to get a page layed out, I go back and forth with how I want things to look-and just never get done. So my goal for now is SIMPLE-these help too cause they are only 8x8s so less space to stress about.

Now Im off to clean up my mess