100th Post and Birthday Blog Hop Day #1

It's my 100th post!  Wahoo! 

Now, onto business...

The Birthday Blog Hop Day #1

If you have just hopped on the tour, please go to the first stop on the hop at Samantha's Cricut Creations (www.samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com). If you have arrived from  http://gloriasgoofycraftspot.blogspot.com/ then you are in the right place. Thanks for hopping by!


My Dad's birthday is Monday, August 1st, so I made this special shape card for him!

My parents "full-time" in a motor home and travel all over the country visiting any place they want!  It's quite the life!  So, I though he definitely needed an RV shape card.  Luckily I have the Camping cart, and had one readily available.  I cut the shadow (black), the body (cream) and then the shell (tan).  While I thought this looked good, it needed something else.  I hand cut the windows and headlights to added a little pop of color.  I also added two small mat silver brads for rear tires and one larger one for the front tire.  Lastly, I cut the star from Home Decor (twice) and added it to the back.  I thought the RV needed a little "birthday" pop!

 Thanks for looking and I love comments and new followers!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for another great birthday card!  


Now, head to Courtney at  www.craftingwithcourtney.blogspot.com!  She is so creative!  You will love her project!


Here's the blog list in case you get lost! ;)  

Samantha

http://samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com/

Meighen

http://scrappin3rdeeschik.blogspot.com/

Jenn

http://scraphappensembellishit.blogspot.com/

Ruthie

http://septemberninth.blogspot.com/

Gloria

http://gloriasgoofycraftspot.blogspot.com/

Jen

http://mccalleyhouse.blogspot.com

Courtney

www.craftingwithcourtney.blogspot.com

Momo

http://madebymomo.blogspot.com/

Kim

http://rickettscricuts.blogspot.com/

Scamp Time

What is Scamp?  Scamp is scrapbooking and camping combined!  Every year a couple of Moms get together and bring all the kids camping.  Luckily the kids are getting older and they run off an play and the Moms scrapbook!  This year we were gone 5 days and really only scrapbooked 2.5 days.  I finished 28 2 page layouts, 5 single page and 2 mini albums!  We love it!  We were only interrupted to make meals and snacks and to race the kids to the river after they found a ground wasp nest. (29 stings total on 5 people!)  My daughter "won" with 11 stings. 

We set up a dining fly to keep off any stray rain showers and to slow down the wind gusts.  We then lay down a tarp to catch all our scraps.  I bring a 6 ft. table from Costco and we sit in folding chairs.  We are ultra organized and bring pre-made page kits for all we want to accomplish.  (Basically, the photos, papers we will use, accent items and then whatever I cut from the Cricut for it.)  I found that Costco sells TOMBO adhesive refills really cheap, so I stock up on adhesive and off we go!

Notice the huge pile of scraps on the ground!  We have a "ceremonial" campfire to burn all the paper scraps at the end.  This year they filled an entire brown shopping bag!

Other important scamp terms coined by my husband as he watched us fight the wind to hold down tiny pieces of layouts:

• scramp:  a person who scrapbooks while they camp
• Scruggle:  a person who cannot understand why anyone would EVER try, or want to, scrapbook while camping! 

He pretends he is a Scruggle, but really he supports me in all my scrapping!  Love you!