Button Farm Club membership

So, at this year's Anaheim, CA Scrapbook Expo I ran into the Button Farm Club. I had abstained from signing on since it wasn't my usual cup of tea. However, this year, I wanted to step out of my box so I joined. Here is my first shipment.

I am really looking forward to building this mini album!

Have you been to an Expo lately? What did you buy? Join any clubs? Did you tell/ask your significant other?

Live Love Laugh

I saw these layered signs hanging on the rack in Hobby Lobby the last few times I've gone shopping. Each time, I've passed on buying them, this time I bit the bullet and bought them. I knew I wanted to do a black and white coloring on them and knew I had the perfect paper pad to use!

Using sheets from DCWV's "the Bella Armoire stack" I traced, cut, adhered (Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive), sanded and inked up each sign. I used StazOn black ink and Black Soot Distress Ink by Ranger to blacken the exterior and interior of all the letters as well as inking ip the edges of the paper for a cleaner finish. Afterwards, I took Tea Dye Distress Ink and inked up the edges for a more vintage effect. I don't know about you, but I truly love the way these came out! I even got thumbs up from the hubby and my older 2 kids. Not bad.

ScrapBook Expo in Ontario, CA 10/12

It's that time of year again! Scrapbook Expo came to Ontario, CA! I had completely forgotten that it was coming... My daughter's Bday is a week away and our best friend is getting married too. I wasn't planning on going with the multitude of things needing to be done, but hubby convinced me. Here are pictures of everything I bought. There were plenty of booths to visit, some I didn't bother with because the lines were too long.

Enjoy!

(Sorry for the sideways pics, it's been so long since I last posted that I can't remember how to rotate them.)

This set of borders and shapes is from "Kiwi Lane Designs".

These items are from ScrapAce.

These items were purchased from ClearScraps, my favorite place to buy acrylic!

These trendy Washii tapes were purchased from Queen & Co.

These trendy tapes were bought from  the Accent ScrapBooking booth.

These fun jewelry, glue and clear squares & rounds were purchased from Craft Fantastic.

These Glue Dots and Distress pack were purchased from BEE Creative.

I spent a ton of $$$, but I'm excited to play with it all, especially the Kiwi Lane Design items!

Winner Announcement for "Our Favorite Things" Blog Hop

I wanted to announce that the winner of my blog candy is Cathy from "cathyplus5". I will be emailing her/you to get your mailing address and sending you the "Monster Chow" altered notebook.  Congratulations Cathy!