Angela Ploegman Designs

Some creativity...kinda

Heres' some projects that I finished up recently...I started the layouts last Friday at a crop, been stewing about the journalling all week, and then decided to add 'just the facts' type journalling today...a bit of a cop out, I know, but needed to clear my scrap table for some other stuff.

Supply List:

Prima Patterned Paper

Bazzill Cardstock

Heidi Swapp Journalling spot

American Crafts alphabet letters

Copic journalling pen

Supply List:

Cardstock: Core-dinations, Prism and Bazzill

Sizzix Embossing Plates

American Crafts Alphabet letters

Copic Journalling pen

Marvy paper crimper

The picture frames below I completed about a week ago, using my Creatopia...the Cutz and Emboss Borderz modules...loving this tool! The frame themselves were inspired by a project on the packaging for the machine...I did a 'his' and 'hers' version for my kiddos! Some of the strips were embossed first, sanded then cut...I ran the entire background through the adhesive module and then laid the strips on top. I filled the 'holes' between the strips with glitter. Voila!

Supply List:

Core-dinations and Prism Cardstock

Xyron Creatopia-Border Emboss, Refillz and Cutz

Frame Target
 
 

Happy Halloween!

Well, Halloween 2009 is one for the books...I loved that it was a weekend, we spent the whole day carving pumpkins, roasting pumpkin seeds and getting ready...a few snaps of the big day...

 
 Hope you all had a great day!! Toodles! 
 

Look who's two!!!

Look who's two!! She's soooo gonna hate this picture later on in life, but I LOVE it!! Such an accidental snap too...Happy 2nd Birthday baby girl!

Today at the Pumpkin Patch...

Today was a beautiful fall day...so off we went to the pumpkin patch...here are some pics...isn't it sad that my children's outfits were chosen on the basis of 'how they complemented the color orange???'...I'm such a scrapbooker!!!

I've been creative this weekend too...cropped on Friday night and fiddled with my Creatopia today...check back later this week for projects!!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Some more Reminisce Projects...

Have you heard? Reminisce has come out with a couple of new lines...MONSTERS and Barnyard Buddies...my layouts are up on their blog and here are my projects....the first is a room sign for my son's room using the Monsters collection:

The white letters are from the Black and White collection (older) and the red letters are from the Santa's Workshop line (2009)....such fun and cuteness, don't you think?

My second project was a chipboard farmhouse (I hand made the house) with a removable lid and stand up 'animals' for my youngest to play with...this line is super cute also...loving the cow print paper (even though it wasn't harmed in the making of this project!!)...enjoy...

 
Toodles! 

Some pics, some catch up and some classes...

Yes, yes, I know...it's been a while since I posted last...but since then, my parents came for a week long visit, my husband celebrated a birhtday AND I put together some classes together....so here's some bits and pieces from my life over the last month...

My parents...Dad working on the flashing around the garage, and my mom doing her 'computing':

I put these lights up MYSELF (well, with my neighbor Sandy's help), but no one was paid in the installation of this light (hubby talked the electrician doing the indoor lights to install the 3rd, but I was COMPLETELY disappointed as I had wanted to do all 3--but he didn't pay him extra, so NO ONE WAS PAID in the exterior lighting exchange).

My hubby celebrated a birthday, while my parents were here...he was SO excited his sister sent him some 'Indian home-cooking'...YUMMY, even I can't wait to dig in...

Here's a pic of his pumpkin cake that Devon picked out:

Here's Maia DEVOURING a cupcake, it's a skill, for sure! And by complete coincidence, she's wearing her 'cupcake shirt'!! I so wish my kitchen had better lighting!

OK, now here's the Craftiness I've been up to...pics of my upcoming classes in November...I'll post the time/place details when they get closer...

A Recipe Mini Album--will hold 10 holiday recipes on unique recipe cards.

A set of Graphic 45 gift boxes--this class is all about ALTERING...learn how to alter paper mache items quickly and easily...

A Graphic 45 seasonal wall hanging with hand made poinsettia flowers:

 Check back later this week as I'll share some Reminisce and Xyron goodness (Creatopia is IN THE HOUSE!!!) YAY!

Toodles...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Creatopia is HERE!!!

The Xyron Creatopia is HERE...Thursday, September on HSN...check out the video...one of my altered houses gets a close up!!!

Scrapfest and American Girl...

Phew...I finally back from Scrapfest...what fun!! The gals from Reminisce ROCK!! Andria, Denise, Robyn, Cindy, Shelly, Jessica and I worked all weekend to make the Reminisce Classes, Crops and Make n Takes the best ones out there this year (in my opinion!). Great new friends, faces and tons of laughs were had by all who visited the booth this year...hope to see everyone back again next year!!

I got to meet the fabu Jing-Jing Nickel!! She cracks me up more in person than online...such a sweetie!

Now, the Reminisce girlies were singing the praises of the American Girl store, so I had to check it out...and buy Maia an early birthday present...a bitty baby and a matching PJ outfit...super cute!! Here's some pics...none of them great, but she's clearly enjoying her new gift!

Some pictures and a {GASP} Christmas project...

Alright, alright...before anyone gets on my case about posting Christmas projects in SEPTEMBER...just remember it's only 102 days until Christmas (at least that's what one website says, the other says 112 and I'm MUCH too LAZY to actually count!)...first, some pics of my kids...my DD finally started running TOWARDS the camera instead of away from it...here's what I got this weekend...

She also ran around with two pacifiers in her mouth at the same time...she really thought she was funny doing this!

Our weekend 'around the house' task (I've been trying to do one bigger project each weekend) was to sort through the mountain of toys inside the house and stored in the garage from when Devon was young. While doing this, we found Devon's FAVORITE toy from before he could crawl...my friend Evelyn bought it for him and within a week he had figured out he could have it make noise WITHOUT pushing it along the ground...he just flipped it over and rolled the track ball with his fingers...his parents (especially his dad) thought he was a GENIUS (we know better now a days!).

Now for the Christmas project...since my basement is torn apart from the water incident last month, I've been hard pressed to get much creating done...well this weekend I went cropping and Monica had a BUNCH of the Bazzill In-stitz templates with her...I borrowed on to hand stitch the page frame (I was going to stich it straight, but who wants straight when there's so many OTHER choices!!), then I went home and machine stitched around the tree and added pen stitching to the rolling hill...LOVE how it turned out!

Supply List:

Cosmo Cricket Jolly by Golly

Doodlebug Sugar Coating

Stickles Crystal Glitter Glue

Prism Cardstock

Xyron Adhesive and EK Success Glitter Glue

Bazzill InStitz stitching template

Cricket Die Cut Machine

Signo Uniball White Pen

Variegated Embroidery Floss

Shadowbox from Target.com

WOW...an SBE blog toot!!

Sorry to brag on myself a bit here...but I was 'browsing' the Scrapbooks Etc. blog and found MY LAYOUT posted as an HM for their August/Sept Make it yours Challenge...Check out the post here:

SBE-Make it Yours

Once I get up the energy to go to my downstairs computer, I'll upload the layout and supply list...laters. For now, consider me excited!