My Easter Gifts for Cute Card Thursday's I Want Candy Challenge

I decided to use Close To My Heart's milk cartons for my candy gift holder for my kids. I made candy boxes to fit the Cute Card Thursday's I Want Candy Challenge. I covered the cartons with card stock in pink, blue, green and yellow. I then used some jelly bean paper that I had and laying around and put it around the lower half. Then I stamped the peeps bunny from my Easter CTMH stamp set called "My Peeps". I love this little set. It comes with 4 stamps, the peeps bunny, the eggs, a SPRING saying and the saying on my cards "Happy Easter to my peeps". It is darling. I used the springs that are also from CTMH and put them under the peeps to raise them up. I cut a hole in the milk cartons and added acetate behind it. I then used stickles in matching colors to edge the circles and the peeps. I added rhinestones to the eyes. I made my kids cards just little 3"x3" cards. (I did it at 3 am, so little is what they got). I used the stame stamps, just pop dotted my bunnies. I hope everyone had a great Easter. I decided to share my table as well. Love to spoil the midgets.
Happy Easter,
Hugs xx
Carolyn

A Long Sabbatical!!

Well hello my long lost bloggers. I have missed everyone. I'm not sure how often I will get to post these days, but will try when I can.

I had to take a long sabbatical recently to try to balance my time better. I have taken on a job at my local Walmart and in the beginning it was just part time. They asked me to put in for full time, and now I'm Department Manager (full time) of Ladies Fashion. It has exhausted me tremendously as I am a stay at home mom who now needs to get everything done between 4:00 pm and midnight when I used to have all day. Needless to say it has cut down the time I can put into my passion of Scrapbooking. It was so bad that I didn't even get my Christmas cards finished and sent out for the first time ever. This led me decide how I could balance my limited scrapbooking time to fit in both cards, that I never give to anyone, just stock pile them in the basement, or my scrapbooks that were getting so far behind because of my new passion of card making. I have come to the conclussion that I must get my layouts caught up and at least feel like the time I'm putting in has a final benefit to me. I will get cards done here and there, but my new goal is to complete 100 layouts this year. I have already completed 20 single page layouts and we're only 3 weeks into January. Yeah to me!!!

This layout is one from a kit that Close To My Heart sells called Miracle. I bought the kit and it was the first 2 double page layouts I did for the year. Everything comes with the kit and the layouts are already given, you just follow the instructions and there you have 2 double page layouts from the same kit. It was my motivator to get me back into the layout swing. I used it for my Daughter's kindergarden graduation pictures. I added the title to it to incorporate the butterflies and graduating to Grade 1. I hope you like it. I will display more of my completed layouts in the next few week.

I hope I don't loose you all as followers, and will try to find time to visit my fabulous card making friends blogs as I can. Have a wonderful Thursday, as usual, I'm off to work.

Hugs xx
Carolyn