Handmade 'Raining Cats & Dogs' Mini Album For Sale!!

New Handmade Raining Cats & Dogs Mini Album!!

I will be posting some mini albums I have finished and will be selling ALL of them!! 

This album was made using the 

Graphic 45 Raining Cats & Dogs paper stack.

Please watch and enjoy!!

View my Etsy Shop, check out more of my videos on YouTube and keep up to date with me on Blogger and Facebook!!

Currently listed for sale on Etsy!

Please email me with any questions or concerns you may have. I also LOVE doing custom orders!

xoxo Charity

Graphic 45 'Mother Goose' Mini Album For Sale!

GRAPHIC 45 MOTHER GOOSE 

MINI ALBUM

Making mini albums are one of my newer favorite crafts to do! So be prepared because there will be more to come! lol

I used Graphic 45 Mother Goose 12"x 12" paper pad. Graphic 45 paper pads are my FAVORITE for making mini albums and altered goodies!!💜💜💜

Check out my video!

Here are some pics!

All photo safe: Acid free/ lignin free paper and acid free adhesive.

Currently listed for sale on Etsy!!

Check out my videos on YouTube and

keep up to date with me on Etsy, Blogger and Facebook!!

Please email me with any questions or concerns you may have.

**I also LOVE doing custom orders!**

xoxo Charity

Handmade Spring mini album 7x7

New Handmade Spring Mini Album!!

I will be posting some mini albums I have finished and will be selling ALL of them!! 

 These albums are constructed with older paperstacks - I need to use up some of these before purchasing new ones! - especially since some of these stacks I purchased more than one of.
Please watch and enjoy!!

COVER

SPINE

BACK

PG'S 1 & 2 

PG'S 3 & 4 

PG'S 5 & 6 

PG'S 7 & 8 

PG'S 9 & 10 

PG'S 11 & 12 

PG'S 13 & 14 

View my Etsy Shop, check out more of my videos on YouTube and keep up to date with me on Blogger and Facebook!!

Currently listed for sale on Etsy!

Please email me with any questions or concerns you may have. 

*I also LOVE doing custom orders!*

xoxo Charity

Cricut Explore Air with Chomas Creations Pen Adapter

Hi everyone!!

Watch the video below on Chomas Creations pen holder I recently purchased!

Published on Apr 17, 2015

I show you how to install the pen adapter from Chomas Creations into the Cricut Explore.
I originally watched the demo of this product on:

Kens Kreations : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLGUV...

and purchased it on

Chomas Creations : http://www.amychomas.com

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Check me out on Blogger:

http://thebookinroom.blogspot.com/

*I am not sponsored, paid, or affiliated with the above in any way. This is just a personal review, tutorial, suggestion for the crafting world.

Snow Layout Challenge #117!!!!

Hello Everyone!!!
Happy Sunday and happy new challenge!! It's all about the snow, snow pics, kids playing in snow, your favorite snow pics, whatever about the snow that inspires you to make a layout of it we want to see it!!!
I did not make a layout with pics because, well, my pics from quite a few months are in the bottom of Lake Erie! Yep, you read that right! I'm one of those procrastinators that never take the time to upload pics from my phone.
Me, my boyfriend and my son sailed to Kelly's Island over the summer, had a fabulous trip, took lots of pics, and welp, we were on our way sailing back and here's me, trying to get one of those uber great shots of the morning sun behind the sail. I tell my boyfriend to move his big head as I started to lean to get the shot..........and..........there it went............bounced off the rim of the boat..........off the second ledge..............PLOP!!!! My HTC 4G Evo sunk with a quickness. The Lake consumed it with a fury like it was tasting a cell phone for the first time and it was a candy like no other!
I watched it for a second, slowly cry for help as it was sucked in by the waves of Lake Erie. Sheer terror on my face, I turned around to face Joe. He was now standing over me, the look of shock had drained the color from both of our faces. He looked at me and said "Honey, I will buy you a new phone cause I love you". (btw, first time he EVER said that 4 letter word!)
My eyes started to burn as I held back the fit of rage and sadness that was welling up. Every cute, funny, weird, hilarious occasion, single moment, planned celebration for the past 6 months was on that phone.................was now sinking hundreds of feet below the surface where we breath..........to thump (if it makes sound under water) (will it? if no one's around to hear it..lol) into the bottom causing a cloud of sand to settle around it, where it will rest for the days of it's life.....
SO! That's why I do not have any 'snow' pics!!!!! How was that for a suspenseful story of a scrap book LO!! hahaha!!

Can't wait to see what you've got!!  

Link up by Saturday 12/8/12 at 6pm EST to be a part or our TOP 3 or Featured throughout the week!! Be sure to come back tomorrow to see our MONDAY MOJO  and check out all of our DT projects up close and personal!!
xoxo Charity

Halloween Goody Bag & Challenge Entry!

Good Afternoon Everyone!!

I have been ill all week, along with my little 4yo man  :(
We have been diligently trying to work on his goody bags for daycare all week! OMG! How daunting is a little task when you feel like your face will blow off your head! Crazy! Anyways, here is a goody bag (yes, I said 'a'--hence we have 19 more!) I made also to enter into a challenge at Decorate To Celebrate. For this challenge you have to make a party supply (invitation, decoration etc.). So here is my entry:

I hope you enjoyed the video! Now get your scrappy juices flowing and enter some challenges!!

xoxo Charity

Challenge Entry

Hey Everyone!!!

I'm back and in full swing entering challenges, posting videos and trying to get back in the loop of the crafting world! So here is my first challenge entry in about a year I think!

I am entering this S-fold Halloween card in two challenges:
1. Cardz TV challenge, make an s-fold card and use a cricut cartridge, enter by Oct. 9th
2. My Creative Time challenge, add googly eyes to any project, enter by Oct. 9th

I LOVE both of these blogs! You must check them out, very inspiring!

I hope you like my take on the s-fold card! I also show you how to make one in the video. So get inspired and get crafting to enter some challenges and meet some wonderful people!!

Have a great weekend!

xoxo Charity

Scrappin' Sista Birthday Month!!

Hey everyone!!

I am soooo honored to be part of Christel's Birthday Month! Everyday this month a new Crafter will be featured for Christels birthday. Today is my day and I made her a Flower Birthday Card with all the fixins'! Christel said her favorite colors are purple, orange, turqoise and red, and even though her birthday is in October, nothing Halloween themed. So I tried to incorporate as many of the colors as I could! I really hope she likes her card!

And at last minute, what would a card be without a little charm gift!
I LOVE these! I get these and my stick pins from Denise's Etsy Shop for CHEAP!!
I added tons of flowers I pieced together, some I dyed myself. I cut the rosette out with my Cricut.

I used Tulip Pearl Fabric Paint for the 'pearls'.


The butterflies were also cut with my Cricut and Sure Cuts A Lot.
The 'Happy Birthday' is a stamp from my stash.

If you have never been over to Scrappin Sista's Blog, you are missing out! She does fabulous work and is extremely inspirational. It was such a blessing to be part of her birthday month! Happy Birthday Month!
Thank you Christel!!

xoxo Charity

Lasting Memories Challenge #58

Hey everyone!!

Time for another fabulous challenge from Lasting Memories!! I LOVE these challenges because it's all about layouts, only layouts and nothing but layouts!

Today's challenge is Recipe With A Twist....and the twist is you have to incorporate SONG LYRICS on your layout somewhere! Ok, lets just start with an OMG cause I kept forgetting this little element of the challenge! Here's the recipe part;

• (1) photo
• (2) embellishments of choice
• (3) colors of choice

This part was easy peasy for me. But why would it be a challenge then? Oh no!! Karen has so graciously added the lyrics part to get our creativity flowing! My son and I have a favorite song by Bruno Mars, it's the Lazy song. So I had this song going through my head while choosing a pic and figuring out how in the world to add lyrics. If I did a vintage or grunge look it would be easy, however, that was not what my creative juices were telling me to do! As you can see by the colors!! 

And que the challenge!

I did print the lyrics and just couldn't figure out how to get them on this page and have it still look good. So what I did was write the lyrics along the stems of the flowers!! PHEW! Got them in there! I didn't, however, get that in the video cause when I hit 'record', little did I know I had it on 'pic' mode! So it just took a pic while I was merrily writing away! And here it is:

When we woke up one morning, this is what JaKobe looked like! With tissue and all!!

What scrapbooker wouldn't get a pic of this!

 Can you see the lyrics I wrote in green along the stems?
They're there, just squint a little bit!

 And it continues along the stems for the song.

And here is how I put it all together (minus the part where I wrote the song on the stems!)

Now go check out my Design Team Sisters;  Brenda, Marie, Karen, Caryn, Vicki, Amy, Michelle, Wendy, Joelle and Kim for some uber fab inspiration and get those layouts done!! We just cannot wait to see what you come up with!

xoxo Charity

Lasting Memories Challenge #57

Hey everyone!!

First I want to say my prayers are going out to a fellow Design Team Sister Evanna. Her and her family found out this week that her little girl has leukemia. As a mother to a 3 yo, I just couldn't imagine what she is going through and how strong they have to be right now for her little girl. Please send a prayer her way as we all know it can do wonderful things! My heart goes out to you Evanna.


It's Sunday Sunday Sunday!! We have an awesome challenge for you this week at Lasting Memories!!! It is all about FRAMES & FLOWERS on those layouts! So break out those pics, get some scrappin' goodies and get some layouts done! Do you need some inspiration? Then check out what my Design Team Sisters have cooked up for you! Brenda, Marie, Karen, Caryn, Vicki, Amy, Michelle, Wendy, Joelle and Kim. There are, as usual, awesome layouts to get inspiration from.

This was SUPER easy peasy for me because we all know just how much I love, love, love flower!! I may have a little boy but that sure doesn't stop me from adding those flowers on my layouts!! The frame part was kind of tough cause I apparently don't use frames much! So that part was kind of a challenge for me. So here is my layout:

I added lots of flowers, most I made myself. 

The pic opens like a book with my journaling inside.

 "Grow" "Bloom" wording I had in my stash.

The frame around the page is chipboard I painted.

 Flowers I pieced together and added my uber fav stick pins from

Denise for only $1 each!

 The blue flower I cut with my Cricut Expression, inked and glued together.

I added another gorgeous stick pin.

 And VIOLA!! Lots of flowers and some frames!

Here's a video to see out it was created!

I hope you like my layout and get inspired to get some of your layouts done. Don't forget to check out my Design Team Sisters at Lasting Memories and spread some love. You have until Saturday Oct. 1st to get linked up!

And if you could, please say a prayer for Evanna.

xoxo Charity