ACOT crop challenge...Ablum cover inspiration...

My crop challenge for the ACOT crop was to use an album cover or cd cover (boy am I aging myself by calling it an album..LOL) I chose this album to use for my inspiratation. I used ink for the first time...yay me!

Come and Crop with us this weekend!

For those of you who have been to one before you know just how much fun there will to be had this weekend! For those of you who haven't...there will be plenty of fun and games...challenges...bingo...points and prizes! So don't be shy...we want to see you at A Cherry on Top for this fun filled weekend!

Happy Anniversary to me!

10 years ago I married my best friend and 10 years later he is still my best friend! I love you more today and I can't wait to see what the next 10 years has for us!

So excited!

I know you all hear me talk about A Cherry on Top ALL the time...well... I am excited and honored to say that they have invited me to be on their Creative Team! I am so honored to be able to work with such wonderful and talented women. I now proudly wear this badge....

I need to be better organized!

I am on a real tight budget right now, so to satisfy my scrapping hobby I have been entering a lot of contests. The only thing is...is that I am entering so many of them, I have forgotten which ones! Some of them are straight forward with leaving comments on the blog or doing a layout, card or project...but then you get to the ones that send you all over the place leaving comments here and there. I just recently found out that I won a contest over at Prima like 3 days ago! I know now what I have to do...I am going to make an altered journal so I can log all the contests I enter WITH the website so I can remember to go back and check them....the trick will be to remember to look in the book!

January Card Challenge at ACOT...

A Cherry on Top has an interesting card challenge right now for the month of January. Scraplift a CT Member's layout in the form of a card. I figured since I need all the help I can with cards I would give this one a try. I used a layout from the very talented Egle. You can see her layout I lifted here. In the meantime, here is my take on her layout!

Summer on the brain and a bit of jibber jabber!

Okay, so I started to do this "super couponing" thing and let me tell you...it is CRAZY ADDICTING! It is such a rush to get to the checkout line and see your total...freak out...and then see all the $$$$ coming off that total. I still have a lot to learn but this is how I have been doing so far:
My first trip was to Target..my total was $33.83 and after coupons it was $14.29=a savings of $19.54!
My second trip was to CVS...my total was $73.14 and after coupons it was $22.31=a savings of $50.83!
Then I tried Target again with a few more coupons...my total was $105.53 and after coupons it was $65.56= a savings of $39.37!
All together in these 3 trips alone I have saved $109.74! See how crazy that is...why would you buy things without a coupon anymore when the savings are out there?
With all this saving, I figured I would reward myself with some scrapbooking time. I am still so over winter I just had to do another sunny summer layout....