Happy Birthday to Me

I want to share what my wonderful family and friends presented to me for my Big (__) Birthday.  I am so honored and blessed to each of them in my life and is forever grateful to them all.  They all know I love scrapping and it is one of my favorite hobbies, so they presented the number of gifts that represented my life.  They also threw in a few other gifts of my favorites.

Happy Birthday to ME

New Coach Bag and Diamond Studs, Earring and Necklace Set, Smooches and Cheerful Seasons--Thank you to my for my most favorite guys, My husband Hollis and son Antoney

Theresa Collis Stampmaker-Thanks Hollis

Cuttlebugs and Cri-Kits

Beautiful Sister Mug-thanks sis-Athena (Toosie)

BIA Bag filled with Prima flowers and bling and Prima Cork Flowers

New Cricut Carts

Martha Stewart Punches

Now I have to find them a new home in the scraproom.  I can not wait to to used all my special gifts.

Thanks for coming by.

~~Netta~~

Mad About Paper Blog Hop-Day 2

Welcome to the Stampin' Dymonz Scrap Shack's Mad About Paper Blog Hop! Our theme for this hop, besides being Mad About Paper, is Sports -- it is March Madness for the Scrap Shack as well as for basketball after all!!. Some of the divas have creations with a sports theme. Some of them have simply created out of their favorite medium - paper! This hop shows our madness for all things paper! The hop starts at Stampin' Dymonz's blog, which can be found by going to http://www.stampindymonz.com/. It ends with NikkiP's blog, found at http://nikkimopapercrafts.blogspot.com/. Along the way we have Lynetta, Cynta, Jessica, JoAnn, Christina, and Tammy who have beautiful creations to share as well. Don't miss out! If you got to this blog hop from any place other than the beginning, go back to the beginning and work your way through. There's lots of inspiration to share and these divas have created some magnificent projects! Don't forget -- this is a two-day blog hop! Creations will be posted both Saturday, March 19th and Sunday, March 20th. Stop back by both days in order to see all of the beautiful work -- you too will be Mad About Paper!

You should have arrived here from Stampin' Dymonz's blog. Cynta blog is the next one on the line up and you can reach her blog by clicking on her name. If you have problems with the link, her blog's URL is in parentheses after her name

Stampin' Dymonz (http://www.stampindymonz.com/)
Lynetta (CraftyNetta) (http://craftcreationsbynetta.blogspot.com/) <---You are HERE
Cynta (http://cynta.blogspot.com/)
Jessica (http://customcreationsbyjessica.blogspot.com/)
JoAnn (http://thecreatorsworkshop.blogspot.com/)
Christina (http://cg-says.blogspot.com/)
Tammy (http://www.fromme2upapercrafting.blogspot.com/)
NikkiP (http://nikkimopapercrafts.blogspot.com/)

Day 2 of the Mad About Paper Blog Hop, I had to put the paper to work.   I created a Thinking of You Trifold Shutter Card.   I decided to use mostly Prima products for this project,  Can I just say I love Prima’s flowers and lace embellishment

I love this stamp, it holds true to my family and friends

"Some people come into our lives

and quietly stay

Others stay for a while,

leaving footprints in our hearts

and we are never the same"

 Recipe:

Prima's Botanical Collection "Adore" Cardstock

Prima's Sparkling Spring Collection "Rosebud" Cardstock

Prima Flowers (Whisper Collection Sparkling,Dollhouse Marilee and Angeelous Bethor

Hero Arts Stamps "Thinking of You:"

"Leaving Footprints in Our Hearts" Stamp

Spellbinders Nestabilities Big Scalloped Ovals LG

Martha Steward Swirling /Lace Punch

Colorbox Chalk Ete Fluid Orchid

Michaels Ruban Ribbon

I hope you enjoyed my project and the hop so far! Don't stop hopping until you get to the end -- there could be blog candy along the way that you don't want to miss out on! Any of the divas participating in the hop may offer some, but the biggest thing you'll miss are the great creations and the greater inspiration for your creations..   Have fun! 

~~Netta~~

Mad About Paper Blog Hop-Day 1

Welcome to the Stampin' Dymonz Scrap Shack's Mad About Paper Blog Hop! Our theme for this hop, besides being Mad About Paper, is Sports -- it is March Madness for the Scrap Shack as well as for basketball after all!!. Some of the divas have creations with a sports theme. Some of them have simply created out of their favorite medium - paper! This hop shows our madness for all things paper! The hop starts at Stampin' Dymonz's blog, which can be found by going to http://www.stampindymonz.com/. It ends with NikkiP's blog, found at http://nikkimopapercrafts.blogspot.com/. Along the way we have Lynetta, Cynta, Jessica, JoAnn, Christina, and Tammy who have beautiful creations to share as well. Don't miss out! If you got to this blog hop from any place other than the beginning, go back to the beginning and work your way through. There's lots of inspiration to share and these divas have created some magnificent projects! Don't forget -- this is a two-day blog hop! Creations will be posted both Saturday, March 19th and Sunday, March 20th. Stop back by both days in order to see all of the beautiful work -- you too will be Mad About Paper!


You should have arrived here from Stampin' Dymonz's blog. Cynta blog is the next one on the line up and you can reach her blog by clicking on her name. If you have problems with the link, her blog's URL is in parentheses after her name


Stampin' Dymonz (http://www.stampindymonz.com/)
Lynetta (CraftyNetta) (http://craftcreationsbynetta.blogspot.com/) <---You are HERE
Cynta (http://cynta.blogspot.com/)
Jessica (http://customcreationsbyjessica.blogspot.com/)
JoAnn (http://thecreatorsworkshop.blogspot.com/)
Christina (http://cg-says.blogspot.com/)
Tammy (http://www.fromme2upapercrafting.blogspot.com/)
NikkiP (http://nikkimopapercrafts.blogspot.com/)


In honor of March Madness I want to pay respect to my home town teams, Boston's Finest-The Boston Celtics, New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox, (not forgetting to mention Boston Bruins and New England Revolutions).  I created  a Boston Finest mini album with the teams logos. 

 When you open the banner the Almight Red Sox will be the first stop on the journey.

 Second stop is the Unshakeable Boston Celtics.

Last stop in the the Unstopable New England Patriots (we should have won the SuperBowl)

This is the sports mini opened, can you believe these used to be old CD's.

Recipe used:

Chipboard

Cricut Sports Mania Cart

3 Old CD

Reminisce Real Sports Basketbal Paper

Reminisce Real Sports Football Paper

Reminisce Real Sports BaseballPaper

Jolee's Embelishments

Bind-It-All

3/8 Owires

Ink Spray:Tattered Angel Mel's Diner, Sprout, CornFlower and Bottom Jeans

I hope you enjoyed my project and the hop so far! Don't stop hopping until you get to the end -- there could be blog candy along the way that you don't want to miss out on! Any of the divas participating in the hop may offer some, but the biggest thing you'll miss are the great creations and the greater inspiration for your creations.Stay tune for part 2 tomorrow.   Have fun!

~~Netta~~

Class in Session…

I never thought I would be saving paper towel or toilet paper rolls, old gift cards, CD and coffee holders until I took the Bind-It-Class.   Now I am saving anything and everything I can find to bind.  I have a few projects  I would like to share, a 4x4 Friendship mini album, 4x4 Post It Mini, Paper towel mini, 12 month Calendar journal and a Scrap Receipt journal (this one should interesting at the end of the year.

 For my 4X4 Friendship Mini Album, I used a 4x4 acrylic cover, 4x4 chipboardd,   black, pink and pearl paper and embellishments.  I plan to add photos of my close friends and make them a copy of the album.

For the Post-It Mini, I used 4x4 acrylic piece and chipboard, cardstock , prima butterfly, sage ribbon and pen.

For the Paper Towel Mini Album, I used shades of brown, pink and orange cardstock , embellishments  and prima flowers.  I added cream and pink tattered mist tags that I will add some journaling to.

For the 12 month Journal Book,  I used  6X6 Coverall and painted it with acrylic paint, Me &My Big Ideas specialty cardstock, Fiskar’s  Memory stamps and Footprints poem, prima flowers, ACM shimmer ribbon and glitter binder clips and clearsnaps chalk inks. **only a few months showing**

For the Scrap Receipt Album, I used 6X9 sealed envelopes, chipboard, DCWV Mi Casa  Stack, prima flowers and letters, brown and sage ribbon, tattered mist mask Color Me Crazy 24” Velvet Butterflies,  spellbinders labels eight  and aged receipts.

Here is a sneak peak at another class Magical Inky Techniques with Donna Salazar, stay tune to see more on this project.

This is my birthday eve and the family has pampered me today, I am soo looking for to the birthday celebration tomorrow.

Enjoy and come back soon.

~~Netta~~