Valentine's Cards for Soldiers

Here are the Valentine's Cards for Soldiers that I made. I was only able to make 16 of them since I spent so much time with a room I couldn't work in and then so much time decorating. I absolutely love the yellow Be Mine ones because sometimes I hate the typical pink and reds on Valentine's cards, I just wish the stamp said "Bee Mine." I was able to use my new Bic Mark-It markers on these, and I love them.

Michael's Sale!!

I went to Michael's this morning, and spent a whopping $68 on all this stuff!!

Here are some AMAZING sale prices:
The clear stamps were on sale for $5.99. The glitter tray and brush were also regular price, but I used a coupon on the tray. The Stickles (the 1oz packs from Christmas) were on clearance for $3.59, the snowflake stamp was $2.69, the 8 1/2 x 11 red wasn't on sale ($3.99), the brown was $0.99, Christmas stack was $2.99. The black Archival Ink wasn't on sale, but again, I used a coupon. The flowers were 50% off so they were $2.49, and the cartridges were $9.99 each. I got Wild Card, Animal Kingdom, and Old West. I've been looking for Old West for a really long time and have had trouble finding it when it was on sale. Just figured I would share since I got it all for less than the regular price of one of the carts!

My Room's Done!!

I finally got finished organizing my scrap area. Here are some pictures. I'll also post some of the rest of the room after I finish getting rid of the trash that's in there. (The garage has alot of trash waiting to go out right now.)
This is a picture of the whole area.

Here are the 2 JetMax cubes to the left of my desk. On the top I have my carousel with my ATGs, scissors, Xacto, and other adhesives.  In the top cube, I have my MS Scoring Board, my paper trimmer, a small file with some papers for the Israel scrapbook I need to get started on, 8x8 and some notes about the trips I'm scrapping.  In the small shelves I have my flowers in the top. Under that are my MS glitters, and the third shelf has some small stacks. The 4 shelf cube on the bottom has paper scraps and 8 1/2x11 solid cardstock.

This is the paper cart under my desk. It holds all of my 12x12 pattern paper and stacks.

  My workspace! I have my inks, ribbons, light, and Gypsy on the desktop (along with my ptouch for now). Above that is my JetMax magnet board with eyelets and brads.

  Here is my Expression with cutting mats and my non-stick craft sheet hanging behind it on the wall).  Underneath that are 2 binders with Cricut handbook pages and my cutting guide.  The 4 drawers: 1. Cricut tools, cords (for my Gypsy), Cricut markers, Cri-Kit pens. 2. Dew drops and rhinestones. 3. Paper towels. The 4th drawer is empty.  Under there is 12x12 cardstock: 1st 2 have regular solid cardstock. Third is Bazzil (stocked up when M's had it on clearance). Last one is glitter and shimmer, and some projects I'm working on.

Left side of the shelves: Cuttlebug and supplies, wood mounted stamps, unmounted stamps in the pink photo box, Stickles, blank cards, embossing powders that has been left over from using colored inks.
Upper shelf: Seasonal supplies, vinyl, extra inserts for the ink storage, empty jars and bins, my Xyron 500 and X.

Right side:  Bic Mark-It markers, punches, iPod in player (gotta have music while I work), small drawers with decorative scissors, glue gun, and distressing supplies, scrapbooks I'm working on and supplies for that in the pink bin.
Upper shelf: stickers, photo boxes with Israel pictures and mementos, unused road trip photos, and random photos from growing up (that one's my mom's).

Top shelf: Cricut, Cuttlebug, and OttLite boxes, empty photo boxes and jars, and behind that are my Cricut cartridges in their boxes. I have a small plastic box up there for my seasonal and solutions carts.

I also had to include a picture of the papsan that I can finally use to relax!

Hope you enjoyed the little tour.

Taking it one step at a time

I've gotten some more work done on the scraproom. Here's a picture of the wall unit completely empty.

 This is what the new Elfa system looks like with nothing on it yet...

 Here it is with my Cricut, ribbon rack, and ink storage... just the beginning.

I'll post some more when it's finished. I'll also include pictures of how the rest of the room looks with all my scrapping supplies organized and not thrown all over the room.

Scraproom Before

I ventured out in the snow today, which turned out to be no problem at all since the roads ended up being fairly clear. I picked up a friend (who is also a scrapbooker) and headed over to the Container Store to pick up the Elfa unit. She had never been there but thought it was really cool. Well, I'll be moving some stuff around to clear out the area where the unit is going. I figured I would post some before pictures now to give you an idea of what I'm working with. I wish I had pictures of the dining room when that was my work area because it's even worse than this.

I hope to get the new unit set up by the end of this week. I'll take some pictures throughout the process as well.

Some updates

Last week, I won a set of Cri-Kits from Creations with Christina. I haven't had a chance to try them out yet, but I can't wait until I do. Since it's winter break this week, and it's the Annual Elfa Sale at the Container Store, I'm going to venture out either later today (after the roads are a little more clear) or tomorrow to pick up my new scraproom system. I will finally have an organized place to create! That will be so great because I went from my dining room table (actually, my parents' dining room table) to my spare bedroom where there's nowhere to work. I'll still be in that room, but I'll have a whole wall of workspace and storage space. My goal is to put all of my supplies on that one wall. I'll post some before and after pictures once I'm finished.

Proud of Myself

I'm really excited because I'm working on organizing the supplies I have currently, and not buying many more to just sit around and junk up my room anymore. I will be able to start buying again soon though since the Annual Elfa Sale at The Container Store starts either Friday or Sunday. I'm going there to get a new scrapbook desk and organizer by creating myself a wall of shelves and drawers and stuff. Hopefully I'll be able to post some pictures of an actual scraproom one of these days!