CT - A Day at the Beach Mini - Kathy Winters Designs

A Day at the Beach by Kathy Winters Designs

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CT - Life is Beautiful - Kathy Winters Designs

Kathy Winters Designs has a new kit called Life is Beautiful. Love the little birdie.  So cute. 

here's 2 more layouts using Life is Beautiful.

CT - Kathy Winters Designs - Life is Beautiful

Kathy Winters Designs has a new kit called Life is Beautiful. Love the little birdie.  So cute.

My layout using Life is Beautiful

CT:Kathy Winters Designs: Stamped Days and Defined Days

Kathy Winters Designs released some great wordarts today perfect for project 365 and project life.  I had the opportunity to play with two of them below.  She has more.  Check out her store.

Stamped: Days

I made 2 layouts using Stamped: Days

Defined: Days

Here's my page using Defined: Days

CT - Kathy Winters Designs - Happiness in your Smile

Kathy Winters Designs has made a beautiful kit called Happiness In Your Smile.  It is now the August 2012 Daily Download at Ginger Scraps.  This kit will be released in September 2012.  You can get the daily download at Ginger Scraps Blog.

I have used the above kit to make my September Desktop Challenge page.

CT - Kathy Winters Designs - Summer Lovin' Wordart

This wordart can be found here.

Here is a page I made using the above wordart.

Credits:

Summer Lovin' Wordart by Kathy Winters Designs

A Day at the Beach Mini by Kathy Winters Designs

Exclusive Freebie at Ginger Scraps

Font: Bubblegum Sans

CT: Kathy Winters Designs : Summer Lovin' Wordart

This wordart can be found here.

Here is a page I made using the above wordart.

Credits:

Summer Lovin' Wordart by Kathy Winters Designs

A Day at the Beach Mini by Kathy Winters Designs

Exclusive Freebie at Ginger Scraps

Font: Too Many Secrets

July Mini Challenge

Come join me over at Ginger Scraps for a scrapbooking July mini challenge.   Kathy Winters Designs is hosting this month and she is giving you a kit to play with.  You need to use all the items in the kit.

Here is what the  kit looks like

This is what I made using the above kit.  

CT: Kathy Winters Designs: Away We Go

You are going to love these new kits by Kathy Winters Designs.  They are on sale right now for $1 each too so hurry before the price goes up.  These can be used for so many things besides just vacation photos.  I did a trip to the museum which was a school trip we went on.  You can see my page at the end.

My page I did using all the kits above

CT - Just for Nice by Kathy Winters Designs

Just for Nice Bundle by Kathy Winters Designs can be found here.

My page using her kit.

GingerScraps Welcome Wagon

Kathy Winters Designs has a new free welcome wagon kit for members of Ginger Scraps.

You can find this kit here.

Here is the layout I made using the above kit.

CT - Kathy Winters Designs - Bufferflies in Bloom Bundle

Butterflies in Bloom by Kathy Winters Designs

Layout I made using the above bundle of my beautiful Daughter.

CT - Kathy Winters Designs - A Mighty Rawr Bundle

Kathy Winters Designs is guest designer at Plain Digital Wrapper.  You can find her new kit A Mighty Rawr there.

Here are the two pages I made using her kit

CT - Kathy Winters Designs - Beaver Creek Dinner Jacket Bundle

Beaver Creek Dinner Jacket Bundle Collab by Kathy Winters Designs and Wyld Web Designs

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Mommy's Ransom Box

Where have I been? I've been spending a lot of time at pinterest. Oh my! You thought facebook was addicting this site I can sit for hours at. I now have 42 boards and have pinned 1,171 pins. I have 74 followers and I'm following 73.

I am forever struggling with my kids stuff. They tend to leave stuff all over the house. Worst part is Daisy loves to eat everything so I'm forever trying to save Daisy from choking on something. So when I found this Mommy's Ransom Rubbage box idea from pinterest. I had to try it out. Here's my version of it. Yes, I did spell Ransom wrong on my box which I did fix but after the photo was taken. Also my little box is just too small. I also have a shoprite type bag hanging on the bottom of my steps that I am using for this as well.

I copied MadsMemories chores and edited mine as follows:

Clean out the car

Clean out pantry
Clean out fridge
Pull weeds in back yard for 10 minutes
Pull weeds in front yard for 10 minutes
Rub dad’s feet for 10 minutes and do, ‘this little piggy’ to him.
Clean a sibling’s room
Wipe down kitchen
Wipe bathroom toilet
Clean a bathroom mirror while singing any song.
Clean out silverware drawer
Wipe down outside of fridge and have a treat afterwards.
You are free but this is a WARNING!
Scrub upstairs bathtub
Give mom and dad a hug and say, “I will never leave my stuff out again.”
Wipe down walls by garage door
Wipe down garage door inside and out
Empty all garbage’s
Write a letter to someone who has done a service for you and tell them thank you.
Dust the 2 tvs and piano
Match 10 pairs of socks
Rub dad’s head for 10 minutes while telling him how thankful you are for him working so hard.
Rub mom’s head for 10 minutes while telling her how thankful you are she picks up after you all day.
Sweep kitchen floor
Feed and water Daisy
Walk Daisy in backyard for 10 minutes
Clean out junk drawer
Empty Dishwasher and put dishes away

Clean front glass door
You are free but this is a WARNING!
You are free but this is a WARNING!
Tell all of your siblings 3 things you love about them.
Write 50 times “I will not leave my things out.”
Do 25 jumping jacks while singing, “I am a cleaning machine.”
Run around the house for 1 minute and see how many things you can pick up and put away.
Draw a picture of you picking up things and your mom and dad smiling BIG!
Make up a song about a clean house and perform it in front of your family.
Make your bed blindfolded.
While hopping on one foot, wipe the kitchen counters off.
Choose 2 items of yours to donate to Goodwill.
Vacuum the living room.
Vacuum the computer room.
Vacuum the fish room.
Hand wash 3 dishes
Scrub your toilet while singing, ‘whistle while you work’.
Beg your mother for forgiveness.
Design a machine on paper that cleans the whole house and gets you ready for the day.
Water mommy’s plant in kitchen.
Tell us the story, ‘The Little Red Hen.”
Organize mom and dad’s shoes.
Vacuum one set of stairs
Read a book.
Play with Daisy 10 minutes
help cook dinner
In Conclusion:

Victoria picked clean pantry. This job took a long time to do but she did help Mommy and we managed to get it done.

Here's Justin doing jumping jacks while saying, "I'm a cleaning machine." He loved that one.

The kids loved this new concept so much so they kept pulling out more and more strips just to see what's next and doing them. Yes, they did pull out the Daddy toes one which they thought was so funny. In one day I got more jobs done than any other day plus Daisy got played with more and walked more.

Penpal Journals With My Kids

I saw this Mama and Me Journal idea on pinterest. My kids are in 2nd grade and I thought this was a fantastic idea to get them to write more. When I was younger I loved to penpal. At one point I had about 50 or so penpals. I really enjoyed receiving letters in the mail. To this day I still am in contact with 2 of my penpals from when I was a teenager but we now are facebook friends and send cards to each other during the holidays.

I started each book with the same thing:

Dear _____,

Would you like to be pen pals? I thought it would be fun to be pen pals, but instead of sending letters through the mail, we’ll keep them in this notebook. I will write to you, and leave the notebook on your bed. Then, when you want to write me back, you write on the next page and leave the notebook on my bed.

You can write anything you like. It can be funny or serious or anything you want to write. Sound like fun?

Love,

Mom

P.S. Write back soon! XOXOX!”

I bought composition notebooks and covered them with some fancy scrapbooking papers which I have been hoarding for years now. Here is what their books look like.

Naomi's book I went with a pink color and dance paper. She's going to love this.

Justin's book I just loved the colors of this paper. I wanted his book to look more in boy colors.

Victoria loves purple like I do. I found this gorgeous purple flowery paper in my stash. It looks beautiful in person. The camera doesn't do it much justice.

Here are all 3 books.

I can't wait till they see these books in person. I think I will wait till they go to school to plant them in their rooms. Tomorrow is Friday so it will be nice surprise.

CT - Kathy Winters Designs - Pet Shop - My Dog

GingerScraps Pet Shop My Dog Papers by Kathy Winters Designs
GingerScraps Pet Shop Embellishments by Kathy Winters Designs

My layouts:

CT Call

CT - Kathy Winters Designs - Hop into Spring

Hop into Spring Collab Bundle by Kathy Winters Designs and Craft-tastrophic Designs

My layout