Another Week

Not much happened on the scrapping front this past weekend but Paul and I purged though clothes in our closets and drawers on Sun and man it feels good to lighten the load!!!! Our room is sparkly clean now and we're in negotiations to knock out a wall and build a walk in closet out of the 2nd bedroom...it's really tiny and would give just enough "more" space in our room for a king size bed and a kick butt closet...the more we talk about it the more I like it! Stay tuned for that little project...right after the basement/scrap area/work out room!!!

Softball playoffs start this week so I'll be busy for sure...going to miss volleyball on Thursday, what will I do? ;)

On the scrapping side of life, I'm working on my last DT project for Scrap Shotz and hope to reveal it sometime in the next week or two...before the end of the month if everything goes well! It's the Piggy Tales Draw Bridge album...it's such a cool project, and so fun to work with!!!!

Check out the DT work from September's Kit on the new Scrap Shotz Blog and see the new logo at the same time, it looks GREAT!!!

Till next time!!!

Weekend Rain!!!!

This sounds bad but I'm very much looking forward to the fact that the forcast is calling for RAIN all weekend!!!!! ;) It's been a busy end of week and the plan is to sleep in tomorrow, snuggle into my sweats with a pot of coffee and scrap all day!!!! Wish me luck! ;)

Holy Scrapping Weekend!!!!

It's been so long since I've had the "urge" to scrap, the mojo to actually scrap and the time to sit down and DO IT!!!!! This weekend, I changed all that...I got some great new Pink Paislee pp and the KT2 Kit by American Crafts from Scrap Shotz and knew I had to use them both...NOW!!!! So I did!

Here are the results of my madness - both were inspired by layouts at 2Peas, love that gallery, and I thank the talented members there for giving me my mojo back!!!!!!

I've been singing "It's a Love Thing" since I put the title on last night!!! ;)

This one was done for Nonie's Altered Photo challenge at Scrap Shotz...love how the photo turned out!!

A Dry Summer

Well, aside from all the rain we had here in Eastern Ontario....still managed to be away from my scrap room for the majority of it, though...last night I decided it was time to scrap for ME....Me, Me, Me...so I did! It's a blatant lift of one of Nonie's DT layouts from the Sept Kit, but hey, it worked for me and I loved it!!! :)

For your viewing pleasure...I'm scrapping and working on the new header for the blog today so stay tuned for more fun stuff from me in the next little while...I'll tell ya what I've been doing all summer! :) :)

A Real Update!!!

Okay, here's the deal...with my duties at Scrap Shotz coming to an end, I promise myself that I will have time...(read make time) to scrap and update my blog. Look for a new blog in or around the first of October...Sept is still pretty busy! ;)

Bad Blogger Alert

Update and new look coming soon...I promise!!!

Digital Scrapbooking Day

Was Nov 3rd and I whipped this little ditty up to commerate it! Yum! Kit from Little Dreamers Designs.

I've been Tagged

1. Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.

Kathy T!

2. Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself (on your blog, we all want to know them).

• I can't eat butter with Cheese Whiz but have to have it with peanut butter.
• I'm anal about washing my stamps, acrylic, foam, rubber...it's got to be cleaned!!!!
• I love neat and pretty storage units; in my scrap area and around our house.
• I love to catch my own fish and then have a fish fry...yum!!!
• I work at Bell but dislike talking on the telephone.
• I never sit or lay on the couch, if I do, I fall asleep no matter what time it is.
• I hate cleaning but I love a clean house; anyone wanna be my maid?

3. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.

Joan
Chelsea
Melanie
Wendy
Michy
Nonie
Dorrie

4. Let each person know that they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Done

Nov CT Reveal - Heidi Grace Moonlight Meadow

Moonlight Grace is the kit name!

Have you ever seen anything so yummy? The pp with all it's glitter, the chipboard elements, the glitter blossoms, chipboard and cardstock alphas...oh my!!! I loved the kit on site, had a harder time working with it then I thought I would but I'm rather pleased with the finished results!!!

Oct DT Layouts - Before it's Nov! ;)

Yeah, yeah, I've been neglectful, I know. Things have been crazy busy around here but hopefully it will start slowing down soon. This weekend we'll close the outside for winter, store the lawn furniture, build the new tempo for the boat to get it out of my parking spot for the winter ;) trim back the bushes in the gardens and make sure all the Christmas lights still work (yes, we leave them up all year, you can't see them though when you're not looking, I promise! ;)) and plan what we're going to do with the new railing on the deck, I'm envisioning spruce boughs with lights wound around and maybe a wreath or two, Hubby, not so impressed. ;)

Sometime soon it's time to go through the clothes in our house, hubby and both have so many, at least half that neither of us wear...it's all going to Sally Ann. Hopefully this weekend, too!

Last but not least, here are my Oct DT layouts..better late than never, right? :) October's DT kit was Basic Grey Peripery - oh my, I loved it!!!! The colors are gorgeous and really, can you go wrong with Basic Grey? I don't think so! :)

This photo has been hanging on my parents wall for years, it's a picture of my dad and his parents back when he was just a little tyke...this pp is perfect for heritage type photos!

We had a challenge this month to use 10 photos on a layout...after most of us grumbled about using 10 photos, we all got down to business and I'm extremely happy with what I turned out - and I even did a 2 pager, something I rarely do these days! :)

For fun, I did a little card with the rubs and scraps that I had left over...yummy!

Last but not least was my Catch Phrase challenge for this month. Eye on the Prize was the phrase to use as your inspiration. I took photos of my uncle when I was in Nova Scotia in Sept and couldn't wait to use them on a layout. He's been wanting a "real" cowboy hat for years and finally got one this year when they went to the Calgary Stampede, he's looking very cowboy'ish to me! :)

Online Crop at Scrap Shotz

Come and join us at Scrap Shotz the weekend of Sept 14-16th. We've got challenges, games and prizes...you won't regret dropping by!!

Here's a sneak peek of one of my challenges:

September DT Layouts

Can you say YUMMY? September's kit choice is one of my favorites so far...the layouts all came together so easily and the elements that came with it were fabulous!!!! If you haven't tried the Roll on Stitches, you do not know what you are missing!!!

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Paul's Aunt sent us some pictures of her granddaughter's first visit to the strawberry patch...sooo cute. Of course they had to end up on a layouts...Elise, you are too cute!!!

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This is my mom - silly, serious, fun-loving all rolled into one amazing woman. She called me last Fall to tell me that she played ball at the family reunion...once my Aunt sent me the pictures, I could only laugh...she looks so professional...then as I went through the photos I see the real her coming through...the glove on the head is SO my MOM!!!! :) :) Love ya, mom!

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Here's another fun project that Fancy Pants put out for Summer CHA 2007. These Wordblooms are so fun and easy to alter...I can't wait to try out more words!!

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Here's my Catch Phrase challenge for September. I had a few pictures from the "photo shoot" of the kids last summer and decided to use them all on one layout (notice a trend this month...no one photo layouts!!! wow). Here's Looking at U, Kid! seemed to fit these pictures perfectly.

August Scrappy Hour

Please join us on Thursday, Aug 23rd at Scrap Shotz for our monthly Scrappy Hour. I'll be hosting the class and we're making a Ribbon Spool Mini Album.

Here's a sneak peak of mine - hope you'll all join us! :)

And here's the finished project!!! I love how this turned out. Basic Grey Scarlett's Letter was perfect for these NYE pictures from 1994!!! Ahh, the good ole days!!!

I'm on a Roll!!

Carla challenged everyone to create a card from a sketch that she posted on her blog...I love the style of it and it helps that she just taught me a few weeks ago how to make this cool scalloped edge!!! So, since I need some birthday cards for next weekend I decided to take her challenge!

Here it is, Carla, hope you like it! :)

I Scrapped, I Scrapped!!!

Look at me go!! haha

I actually did some scrapping last night...this layout has been on the go for at least 2 months...so unlike me!!!! I finally tried a couple (okay, more than a couple) colors of card stock and once I found one I like, it just came together. I asked some advice from my scrapping guru friend Wendy and she agreed that I should outline the flowers to make them pop, so I did it. Love the finished product!!!

Products:
Fancy Pants Aged Floral PP
AL Journal and Flourish stamps
AC Felt Thickers
MM Tiny Alphas
BG rubs from the Blush Card Kit
Stickles - Fruit Punch
Black Zig Pen

Another Week

and it's not over yet! Ugh, tomorrow is my Saturday to work...it's been 9 weeks, so I guess I can't complain but hey, still would be nice to have a 2 day weekend...the week after a Sat shift is always so long!!!! We've been training this week to do a special project in the office - to add to the special assignment I've already been doing for 4 years and my brain is fried...so much to learn, totally different process yet similar to what I do already...talk about confusing! We're also crazy busy this time of year with students going back to university so that doesn't help...oh the joy of the job I have to pay for my scrapping hobby!!!! ;)

It seems like forever since I've scrapped anything. I've got a lot that needs to be done before Sept 1st but our DT kits were delayed (new CHA releases!!!! :)) so we're hanging out waiting for them to arrive. While we're waiting, I have been working on a new project for Scrap Shotz that will be revealed on Sept 1st...shhhhhhhh, it's a secret!!!! I think it's going to be so cool and you'll love it! I've also been working on new blinkies for the DT team and will do one for the new focus group we have, too...fun, fun!!! For even more fun, check out Scrap Shotz for Scrappy Hour....I'll be hosting it this month on Thursday the 23rd...come check it out, it's a sweet little mini album, great little gifts! Here's the materials list; have it on hand and you can join me on Thursday!!! :)

Scrap wise, I have been working on an 8x8 album for the newlyweds from the wedding we went to in Punta Cana in April...I took the best photos that I took of the actual wedding and started putting together an album for their wedding present! I'm using a Maya Road raw chipboard album and now that I'm more than half way finished, it's starting to look like an actual album!!!!! Their colors were pink and brown...so IN right now....the MME papers I chose work perfectly...yum!!!! I hope they love it!! Once I give it to them, I'll share it here!

That's all for now folks, check back soon for the Sept 1st reveals and pray for sunshine tomorrow, hubby is going to stain our front deck finally!!!! :) :)

My To Do List is Getting Smaller

Had today off so I set myself down and worked on the two Circle Journals that I've had sitting here for 3+ weeks. Yikes! Well, I'm pleased to say that they are done, packaged and gone on to their next destination!! Yay me!

On Friday I created this little number. Based on a sketch from Getting Sketchy, love that blog!!!

Aug 1st DT Layouts

Well, it's not quite Aug 1st but since my blog hasn't been updated in eons, I'm hoping no one will be snooping tonight! ;)

Here are my creations for Aug! The kit? KI Memories Love, Elsie Toby line.







And the Catch Phrase this month is just that...a catch phrase. Pick one, find one you like and use it as your title or sub title. Here's mine - done with none other than the yummy Basic Grey Infuse!!!

Random Layouts June/July

July DT Layouts

Creative Imaginations was the flavor of the month for July...YUM!!!! It went perfectly with my Punta Cana pictures. (are you sick of these layouts yet? whew, good to know cuz there's lots more to come! LOL) The elements were so bright and fun and fit with a lot of different photos! :)





For July we did a member scraplift and I lifted MelissaM from NFLD; a member of our board at Scrap Shotz...loved her layout.

And mine:



For July's Catch Phrase I provided a list of catch phrases from popular TV shows or sitcoms. Here's mine: