Valentine Cards

9 more days until Valentine's day!!! I can't believe it! 2010 is already flying by!! Here are some Valentine cards that I have made:



Very simple to make. It was a great way to use up some of my Valentine paper scraps from last year. You dont need a lot of supplies to make your own Valentine cards. You would just need Valentine paper, a sentiment stamp, and black ink.
It is Friday!! I hope that you all have a great weekend!!!

Valentine's Day Mailboxes

I love these little mailboxes!! They are perfect for your little Valentine, or fill it with some candy and it makes a great Valentine present for a teacher or friend. I also made some 3x3 Love Notes to go with the mailbox. They fit perfectly inside.



Have you made anything for your Valentine? I would love to see it! Post a link in the comment section. Enjoy the rest of your Thursday!!!

More Handmade cards

Hey everyone!! I haven't been very productive this week!!! SO I am going to continue to show you some cards that I made last week!!
These first 2 cards are for little boys. I just never have enough boy cards!! If a boy's birthday comes up and I need a card, I will go and look through all of my cards and usually discover that all of my cards are "girly"!! So I am trying to make more masculine cards!!


Here is a fun birthday card. You cannot tell by the picture, but I used liquid applique on the cupcake and it looks like real icing! I love using liquid applique.

The last card is a thinking of you card!! I love the butterflies! They look like they are about to fly off the page!!

Enjoy your Wednesday!

etsy treasury

Hi everyone... I hope that you had a great weekend. I am so excited... Someone on Etsy put one of my cards in a "LOVE" treasury. Take a look: LOVE treasury

I will have some more cards to show you tomorrow!! Have a great Monday!

Birthday Cards

Good Morning to all of you. I got some more cards finished yesterday. I am only able to do 2 or 3 cards at a time because of my neck. These are 2 birthday cards using Papertrey Ink stamp set called Everyday Button Bits.



I need some ideas for masculine cards. I really struggle coming up with a male card, unless it is for a little boy. So if you are cardmaker and have made some masculine cards, post a link in my comment section. I would love to see your creativity!!
If you are not a cardmaker and you are interested in buying some of my cards just visit my etsy shop: Beth's Etsy Shop or my online store: Inkredible Creations, Have a great day!

More Papertrey Ink cards: Birthday and Wedding cards

Here are 2 more cards that I made. I used Papertrey Ink paper and stamps. This set is called Big and Bold wishes.


I am hoping that I start feeling better soon so I can get crafting... I need to build my inventory for my etsy shop and my website. Enjoy the rest of your day and hopefully I will have something to show you tomorrow!

I made some cards!! Damask

Sorry I haven't been around... my surgery went well according to my surgeon. However, it has been 2 weeks and I am still in pain. Even went back to the surgeon and he just tells me to be patient... So... a waiting game.... I did get to make a few cards yesterday. I used the damask set from Papertrey Ink.


I will post 2 more cards tomorrow.

More Family Scrapbook

Here are some more pages from that scrapbook that I created for a grade school auction.

Fun in the Sun Layout


4th of July Layout


Halloween Layout


Thanksgiving Layout


Christmas Layout

Well tomorrow morning is my neck surgery!!! I am excited.... I am ready! I will post as soon as I can....

Family Scrapbook

Someone had asked me if I would like to make a donation to a grade school auction. Of course I wanted to help out the school and this would help me to advertise my new "business" I am trying to create. So I decided to donate a family scrapbook and a gift certificate to my website. The family scrapbook album is 8 1/2 x 11 and consists of most of the holidays throughout the year. Today and tomorrow, I will be posting pictures of my layouts. I would love to know what you think.... If you saw this at a grade school auction, would you be interested?

Opening Family Layout



Snow Day Layout



Valentine's Day Layout



Birthday Layout


I will show you some more tomorrow! Have a great Sunday!!

High School Days Scrapbook

Well it has been very snowy here in Cincinnati lately, therefore I have had some time to do more scrapbooking!! I have finished a family scrapbook that I am donating to a grade school auction. I hoping to get some business through my donation!! I will show those pictures throughout the week. Today I am going to show you more from the school days scrapbook that I just finished for somebody. I just shipped the scrapbooks out today, I am so excited to find out her reaction!!!! I will be working on her son's school days scrapbook next.







Enjoy your Saturday!!! I will be having dinner and movie night with my kids! We are watching Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs!!I can't wait! My husband is going to the Bengals game. I decided it was way too cold for me to go..... Go Bengals!

School days scrapbook continued!

I hope that everyone is having a wonderful Tuesday!! Here are some more pages that I have completed from the school days scrapbook. One great way to scrapbook documents is to create a pocket on one page. This way you can slip in report cards, awards, testing documents, or anything else you would like to save.

School Days Scrapbook

Happy New Year!! I hope that all of you had a great holiday season! I had a lot of fun spending time with my husband and kids. I even got some scrapbooking done!! I am working on a school days scrapbook for one of my customers. Her daughter is in college. She wants me to scrapbook her preschool through 12th grade and give it to her for her birthday. At first I thought it would be hard because it is mostly documents. However, once I started, I started to have a lot of fun with it!! Here are a couple of pages so far:


These page protectors were really great. They have 2 flaps that open up. I was the perfect size for report cards.

I will show you more pages tomorrow. My surgery got moved up (I am so happy!). It is now on the 12th. So after that I may be taking another small blogging break! Have a great day!

Taking a break!!

Hey everyone. I am so sorry that I haven't posted in awhile.. I have been sick all week with a sinus infection. Still am not 100%.. now my stomach is upset. I think it is from the antibiotics... so overall just not feeling too good. I still have to finish 11 scrapbooks for all the cousins on my husband's side of the family. Other than that, I won't be doing too much creating before Christmas. My husband is taking 2 weeks off of work and the kids will be off of school... so there will be a lot of family time which I am looking forward to! If I do create something... I will make sure that I post it!! Happy Holidays to each and everyone of you!! I appreciate you reading my blog!!! I leave you with the Christmas photo of my kids: Sydney and Robbie

Inside the Christmas scrapbooks....

Well... we did it!! We finished all of the kids shopping last night!! What a relief. I am just about finished... just have to buy for my dad who is impossible to buy for... so if you have any ideas for the man who has it all, let me know!!
Here are a few of the pages that are inside the scrapbooks that my husband is giving to his team members for Christmas. I made every album different... It took some time, but I enjoyed doing it.





Now I just have to finish the 11 scrapbooks for all the cousins on my husband's side of the family. My sister-in-law came up with the idea of me making scrapbooks for all the cousins (most live out of town). So I decided to make a 2 page layout for each kid. I have to do this 11 times. We are doing this instead of a gift exchange between the kids. I have started the albums, but I am still waiting on picutres from 2 families.... I just hope they will be finished on time to be delivered for Christmas!!!

Christmas Scrapbooks

Every year, my husband likes for me to make gifts for him to give to his team members at work for Christmas. I have been doing this for 4 years. I try to come up with something different every year. This year, I decided on Christmas scrapbooks. I bought these adorable 6x6 scrapbooks from American crafts at Archivers. Aren't these so cute? I had to make 9 this year..... so it has been an extremely busy week!! I finally finished them this morning!! I really hope they enjoy them!! Here are the outsides of the albums.




Tomorrow, I will post a few of the pages from inside the album.
Tonight, my husband and I are going Christmas shopping for the kids.. I really hope that we get it all done tonight. Are you finished with your holiday shopping yet?

Memo Board for a Boy and Merry SITSmas

Hey everyone, I hope that you had a great weekend. I met with the surgeon yesterday. Surgery is scheduled for January 28th. I will have 2 discs in my neck removed and then cadaver bone will be fused in... I wish it wasn't so far away... 7 more weeks of pain. But that is the earliest they could get me in!!!
Here is a memo board that I made for my neighbor. She is going to give this to her son for Christmas. His room is all Cincinnati Bengals, so she wanted me to make it Bengals. He will be able to slide pictures, notes, or whatever in between the ribbons. What do you think? Does it look girly?
Have a great day....

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all SITStas from the Secret is in the Sauce...I hope that 2010 is even better than 2009 for everyone!!

Friends Scrapbook Album

Well I survived the discogram... it was pretty painful and scary.I am still really sore. They stuck the needle in the front of my neck... that was scary... anyway one of the tests caused pain, so they now know which disc is bad. We are at the hospital for 6 hours and then I came home and slept all day!! I meet with the surgeon on Monday to discuss what to do... probably will have surgery.
My sisterinlaw also asked me to make a scrapbook for their dear friends that live in another state. They used to be neighbors, but still remain great friends. She wanted the scrapbook to be all about her boys. Here are some sample pages.







I hope that enjoy your Friday and the rest of your weekend!!

Grandparents Scrapbook Album

Hey everyone.... So sorry that it has been so long since I have posted. I returned from Hilton Head on Saturday night and just have been trying to get all the laundry finished, decorating for Christmas (a little bit), starting some Christmas scrapbook orders, and stuff like that... busy time of year. I was supposed to have my discogram today... but they rescheduled it for Thursday... I have to be at the hospital at 5:30 AM... not looking forward to it!!
My sister in law wanted to give her in laws a scrapbook of her kids for Christmas. I created an alphabet scrapbook that spells out "Grandchildren" Each page represents a letter in the word Grandchildren. Since there are 20 pages, I added layouts of just the kids and a poem about grandparents on the opening page. Here are some sample pages:







This would make a great Christmas present for any grandparent!!! What are you doing to get ready for the holiday season?

Home Sweet Home Scrapbook

One good thing about the craft show last week was that I got a custom scrapbook order. This young woman had just moved into her 1st house. She wanted to thank her parents for all that they did for her to help her get her house ready and the way that she wanted it. She came up with the idea of a thank you album for her parents using pictures they took as she moved in and decorated her house. I thought it was a brilliant idea!! So here are a few of the layouts in the 6x6 album:





This will probably be my last post for about a week. Tomorrow, my family and I are headed to Hilton Head, SC for the week. Therefore, I won't be creating anything and won't have anything to post!! I want to wish each and everyone of you and your families a Happy and safe Thanksgiving!!!

Craft show results....

well... the craft show was alright... not much traffic. The biggest hit was the grinch pills!! Everyone thought they were so funny and they all knew at least one person they could give them to!! All those Hershey bars that I decorated on Friday.. didnt sell any!! People thought they were cute... but no one bought. Oh well!! I probably won't do that craft show next year.
I am finished with the craft shows this year... now on to custom scrapbooks that people have ordered! I hope that everyone had a great weekend....