Memories by Renae

CARD

2012-11-10T19:48:00.000-05:00

This is going to be a quick post I wanted to show you this really cute card I made at the scrapbook expo. It was very quick and easy to do!

Until my next Post.

Renae
Memories by Renae

First time using Vinyl

2012-11-07T19:04:00.000-05:00

I have been wanting to use vinyl for a long time but was afraid on how to use it. Well I was surprised on how easy it was to use it. I was so excited that now i just want to vinyl everything and anything..LOL... Well I found some clear cups with lids and straws and decided this would work great for my daughters and one of their friends. On two of the cups I used Sesame Street Font Cricut Cartridge and on the other one I used Cuttin Up Cricut Cartridge.

They really turned out really cute. I can not wait to vinyl something else!

Ok until my next post!

Renae
Memories by Renae

Look Hoo's 50

2012-11-01T18:39:00.000-04:00

I love watching youtube tutorials on crafting, card making, card folding, new tricks or hot tips. I have really learned alot buy watching them. I highly recommend taking a look at some of the them.

While I was watching them the other day I came across a tutuorial regarding embosing folders and a really hot tip that I want to share with all you. I will list the youtube link below to the actual tutuorial.

But basically embossing a piece of paper is not the only thing you can do with the embossing folders. If you take your ink pad and ink the inside of your embossing folder then place a piece of paper inside of it and run it thru your embossing machine the ink will transfer onto the paper. Depending on which side you ink will depend if the embossed item will be inked or the flat areas will be linked.

I love this tip and will be using it alot. below is a card I did using this technique. I think it turned out pretty cute.

ok here is the link I told you I would add:
http://youtu.be/2w3-QeIAFAM

See you at my next post!

Renae
Memories by Renae

My First Birthday Banner

2012-10-28T18:12:00.000-04:00

So I thought it would be a great surprise to have a birthday banner up and ready for my friend Alana at work. But I had never made a banner to hang on a wall before. The only banner's I have made were in my scrapbooks. And this was going to be on a bigger scale.

I found the banner on Plantin School Book Cricut Cartridge. The ribbon the was placed on each banner was made also from Plantin School Book Cricut Cartridge, but I wanted to have some dimension on the banner so I took the white ribbon I cut and ran it thru my Sizzix Boutique machine using on of my sizzix embossing folders. The letters were also cut form Plantin School Book Cricut Cartridge and I thought it needs something more on the letters so I took my stickels and covered all my letters with them.

After I was finished I thought the banner turned out pretty good and was easier then I thought it would be once I begun. Below are some of the pictures of the banner.

Well until my next post.

Renae

Memories by Renae

My First Canvas Painting

2012-10-22T22:05:00.000-04:00

One of my good friends was getting ready to celebrate her 50th birthday and we all decided that we would have a surprise party for her. She has always wanted to do a painting class so one of the ladies in our group arranged a surprised evening of painting, eating cake and enjoying each other. And enjoying the fact that we were able to pull it off with out the birthday girl finding out what we were up too... So when Alana (birthday girl) got there and after the shock wore off, she got to choose what painting we were all going to do. Alana choose to paint some lilly pads floating in some water...

Alana the Birthday Girl

So we all had to find an empty seat and each empty seat was our blank canvas' where we would be creating our masterpieces.

Once the instructor gave us our directions we were off and creating.. It was alot of fun and really not as hard as I thought it would be originally below you we will see a my painting.

Once we were all completed the Instructor took a picture of the group with our finished paintings. It was really a great time and I might have to take up painting for next hobby...

Thanks for stopping by and reading my latest post. Hope to have you stop back again.

Until the next post.

Renae

Memories by Renae

I'm Back!!!!

2012-10-21T23:32:00.000-04:00

OK, OK, I know that I have been missing in action for sometime. But I have been so busy with life in general. Working Full Time Mom, I am sure alot of you know how life just gets so busy you sometimes don't know if you are coming or going. So I feel things are back on a schedule and I will have more time to spend on my blog and share some of my crafting ideas.
I am very excited to start crafting again and showing you different and fun ideas I have learned over the past couple of months. I am also hoping to show off some of my talented friends crafting ideas with all of you as well.
I have collected a good number of cricut cartridges over the past year but have not had an opportunity to use them and see what all they can do. So the plan is that I am going to do a project a week using one of my cricut cartridges and then share it with all of you.
I also have a good friend that has started selling Stampin Up and I have been enjoying buying all kinds of new things from her. I will be sharing some of her projects as well as sharing her link so you can go to her blog directly and see some of her beautiful work.
I also have a good friend that sells Creative Memories and will be showing off some of her awesome crafting.
So I have alot of great ideas and plans I will be sharing with ya'll and I can not wait to get started. Thank you for sticking around while I was MIA.

Until my next post,

Renae
Memories by Renae

Refurbished Chandelier

2012-06-26T20:47:00.000-04:00

I have been working at getting Jessica's room finished and so far I refurbished a mirror for her and now Jessica has decided that she would like to have a chandelier for her room. Well I went shopping for one and they were pretty pricey so I thought maybe I could just make her one... So that began the shopping trips I made to garage sales as well as thrift stores and sure enough I found one for $4.00 it was this ugly gold but I did not care because I was giving it a complete remake.

So here is the chandelier after I have sprayed painted it. Just getting it painted black made alot of difference.

Here is the items I used. The pink beads were actually necklaces I found in the party isle at Hobby Lobby for a $1.00 each. I then found the jewels all on clearance at Michaels so that all cost me no more then $5.00.

Ok well now I am starting to make some progress. Starting to look like a chandelier. I had my husband hang it up in Jessica's room so I could finish it while it was hanging up.

Ok so I took some ribbon and wrapped it around the base of the lighting and the remaining of the beads I wrapped around the chains.

Here is the completed project. I think it turned out pretty good.

And here it is with the lights on. Jessica loved it.... Well I hope you all enjoyed and I will see you at my next post.

Senior Graduation 2012

2012-05-27T20:08:00.001-04:00

I am so excited and proud to tell you that my oldest daughter Jessica graduated from high school on Thursday night. It was long hard road for her but my husband Patrick and I could not be more proud of her that she finished. I am also so excited Jessica's grandmas graduation gift us an Alaskan Cruise for seven days. The trip will be Jessica and Grandma and they are going to have the best time every. I also can't wait to scrapbook all their pictures they are going to take. Anyway below is a picture of the happy graduate.

Jessica

Proud Parents

Grandma Shirley and Jessica

Jessica and her proud little sister Kassidy

Refurbish Mirror

2012-05-21T03:00:00.000-04:00

Well I have been looking around at different blogs on how they have taken something that has been used and not wanted any longer and then give it a uplift and then they have a new item. I thought I would give it a try and see if I could turn some used things into something new again. Well my first project was a dresser mirror that I found at a thrift store. It was only $7.00. My oldest daughter has been bugging me for a fun mirror for her room so I thought this would be a perfect opputunity to try giving something an uplift.It was a dingy white color so the first thing I had to do was paint that black . I went to Hobby Lobby and picked up the ruffled pink ribbon (matched Jessica's room perfectly) which I hot glued around the frame of the mirror. After that I decided to put some bling on the mirror which I felt added to the mirror and since there was such a large space on the bottom of the mirror and it was solid black I felt something more had to be put on there so I went to WalMart and sure enough I found some glitter chipboard that said Love with some hearts and I hot glued that to this open area.
I have to say it turned out pretty good and Jessica loved it so that is all that really matters anyway.
Well until my next post.
Have a great day!

Family

2012-05-20T21:29:00.000-04:00

I was rally excityed to do this layout. My best friend Debbie took the photo for us and I really think she did an awesome job. And I found this really cool paper at the Scrapbook Expo I attended last summer. The swirls have a flock feeling to them. I used Home Accents cartridge for the title. I love how elegant it looks. I was going to put this in my scrapbook but I am thinking maybe of putting this in a frame and hanging it in our family room. Well thats it for today. I will see you at my next post. Until then have a great day!

Fasion Layout

2012-05-07T03:00:00.000-04:00

This is such a fun layout I was able to use the Paisley Cartridge and they have so many cute things you can cute out on this cartridge. .

See you in the next post.

Decorate the Letter "J"

2012-05-06T17:00:00.000-04:00

Well I was so excited after finishing the wooden "Q" for my nephew I thought I would do one for my oldest daughter. I went shopping at Michaels again (I love this store) and down the $1 to $3 isle they have all kinds of bins full of different items and sure enough there laid a white J. I am so excited because I don't have to paint this letter and I am thinking I am not going to cover it up with paper either. I can't wait to get started.

Ok so here is the finish product instead of covering the letter with scrapbook paper I decided to use pink jewels and hearts. She also loves Hello Kitty so I used the Hello Kitty cartridge and made one.

Here is a close up of Hello Kitty I also thought since the J had bling so of course I had to put some stickels on the dress and flowers. I think it turned out pretty good.

Well I will see you at the next post.

Layout of the girls

2012-05-06T03:00:00.000-04:00

So my girls decided it would be a great idea to get some new piercings.Jessica my oldest decided on a nose piercing and Kassidy my youngest daughter decided on a belly piercing. Of course I was not exactly happy about it but it turned out pretty cute. So I decided I wanted them remember this so I did take some pictures and did a layout for them.

Decorating the Letter "Q"

2012-05-04T20:59:00.000-04:00

So went to Michaels the other day and walking down the clearence isle I came across some of the wood letters marked down to .50 and so the search began. My youngest nephew's name is Quinton and so I thought to myself I will never find the letter "Q" but wouldn't you know it they did not just have one they had five "Q's". I was so excited and so I picked up one.

Ok so Quinton loves to hunt, fish, swim, hike, basically anything he can do outside with his Daddy he is doing it. So of course I had to get camouflouge paper for the base of the "Q" and they after sanding the edges I took my creative memories brown ink stamp and went around the edges of the letter.

Now it was time for me to pick out the embellishments to put on the "Q". I had some 3-D stickers that consisted of fishing, and hunting items.

Well I finished and I think it turned out pretty good. I will be sending it to Quinton on Monday I can not wait to hear how he likes it.

See you at my next post.

Girls Rule

2012-05-01T22:52:00.002-04:00

Well I was able to go to a Spring Retreat a couple of weeks ago. It was really nice and I got more down this retreat then I have in a long time so that made it even better. So here is the layout I did using Paper DollDress up cartridge and Paisley cartridge. The flowers are made out of felt that already had the adhesive already on the back so all I had to do was peal the paper back and place it on my page. This ended up being a fun layout to do.

Ok so the rest of the week I am going to get my other projects posted for you. So you can see how much progress I have made.

Until my next post.

Provo Craft on the Gypsy

2012-03-24T22:41:00.000-04:00

OK today I am going to tell you how much I enjoy working with Provo Craft. I received the Gypsy for Christmas and have been enjoying it very much. I went to update my gypsy when I attempted to plug it the USB cord to the gypsy the connector on my gypsy broke. I freaked out!!! So I thought I would call Provo Craft to see if there was anything that they could do to help me. With all my cartridges loaded on this gypsy and not having the gypsy less then a year I was in a panic. Well I ended up talking to a really nice, informative customer service person on the phone and since the gypsy was still in the one of purchase they were able to exchange my gypsy and I was able to reload all my cartridges and still get all the free ones I had downloaded during their special when Provo Craft was having when I received my gypsy. Once I mailed in my gypsy and they sent me a new gypsy it all took about one week and I was back in business in my crafting. Thank you Provo Craft for your great customer service and your guarantee on your product.

Wii Rock Band Layout

2012-03-23T22:28:00.000-04:00

Ok my family is so silly, they got the Wii Rock Band for Christmas and decided they would give me a little concert. It was very entertaining to watch them play in time with the Wii program.. So of course I had to a layout for these great pictures. I used Rock Princess Cartridge and I also used the Martha Stewarts Punch to make the stars. Hope you enjoy and see you soon...

Birthday Card

2012-03-22T07:30:00.000-04:00

My brother is a big hunter, this year I decided to use one of my newer cartridges Wildlife. I really like this cartridge. Well I hope you enjoy it and Happy Birthday Duane!

Happy Valentine's Day Cards

2012-02-14T08:00:00.000-05:00

Archivers had a make and take during the weekend and my daughter Kassidy and I went and made these great cards for Valentine's Day. Hope you enjoy....

HAPPY VALENTINE' DAY!!!

2012-02-14T04:00:00.000-05:00

Oh Christmas Tree Layout

2012-02-13T05:30:00.000-05:00

Yes another Christmas Layout but I love making them.

Relax and Unwind Layout

2012-02-12T07:30:00.000-05:00

Taking a mini vacation with Grandma. I used the cricut cartridge from Creative Memories Travelers.

Simple Layout

2012-02-11T22:11:00.000-05:00

Love the simply layouts as much as I do the layouts that take you hours to finish.

Birthday Locker Layout

2012-02-10T07:30:00.000-05:00

My younger daughter, Kassidy and I went to the high school were Jessica (my older daughter) goes to school and decorated her locker for her as a surprise for her birthday.

Happy 17th Birthday Layout

2012-02-09T06:00:00.000-05:00

Well I am really behind in my scrapbooking but I just finished my oldest daughters 17th birthday layout. Hope you enjoy...