Belated Valentines!!!

I figured that come February I would finally get back to scrapping, but here it is with only a week left in the month and I haven't touched my stuff yet again.....just too busy lately! I need a crop to inspire me!

I DID, however, manage to create a Valentine's Heart Wreath....late, but at least I did it! I got the idea from http://flowerpatchfarmgirl.blogspot.com/. It was very simple and took little time and I made it from a book that I found at the Take-it-or-Leave-it.

Log Your Memories

I came across this book online before Christmas and I got really excited because I scrapbook chronologically and I am, right now, about 4 years behind! When I saw Kristen Rutten's Log Your Memory book, I knew it was the perfect thing for me!!!! Based on the idea of a daytimer, this book helps you record your daily memories for scrapping later. You can write down what photos you took, what events happened, how you felt, etc. Also, it has great little photo ideas, memory joggers and scrapping ideas!!!

I highly recommend this to anyone who has trouble remembering any details or importance of the photos you took by the time you scrap them!

http://stores.lulu.com/logyourmemory

First Creations of 2010

Good day everyone! Here are my first creations for 2010. I LOVE to crochet baby blankets and lucky me has a dear friend who just had a baby girl! This is the first time I knew the sex of the baby when I started the blanket and I really enjoyed making a PINK blanet. :D

This is the card I made to go with it. Didn't turn out the way it looked in my head, but oh well....it's still pretty cute! Have a great day!

Dirty Girl

Yesterday I became a Dirty Girl! LOL This is not as bad as it sounds!!! I just subscribed to a new challenge blog called Dirty Scraps. I am very excited about the idea behind this blog and wanted to share it with you all!

Check out Dirty Scraps blog here:

http://dirtyscraps.blogspot.com/

52 Pick Me Up

Happy New Year everyone! Glad to be back to regularly scheduled programming. I seem to be way more productive now than I was prior to Christmas, so for that, I am grateful.

For those wondering, my parents are doing well. There are still broken bones to heal, but for the most part they are feeling much better and the insurance claim is moving along.

I see that I have a couple followers now! YAY! Thank you for supporting me. :)

Today I want to talk about something called 52 Pick Me Up.

This was an idea that I originally heard about from Andrea Wiebe.

Her blog can be found here: http://ajourneysofar.blogspot.com/

The idea behind 52 Pick Me Up is to challenge yourself. Set a goal. As you are achieving your goal, reward yourself by scrapping a little momento or reminder each week, hence, 52 cards will be created throughout the year.

My goal in 2009 was just to live and not take life too seriously. As I learned more about myself I worked on my Pick Me Up cards, and though I fell behind and never did finish 52 of them, I am going to start again in 2010 and continue on to hopefully complete my set!

Here are some of my favorite lessons from 2009:

Christmas Day 2009

We opened gifts yesterday because hubby had to work today. But today I baked my heart out to help out my family. My parents were in a car accident on Christmas Eve and lost all the baking my mom had done. So today I took on the task of replacing the lost treats. I made toffee squares (our family's all-time favorite, but I forgot to take a photo of!) and shortbread. I had made the chocolate covered cherries and peanut butter cups a few days ago and I also made fudge today that hubby took to work to give to his coworkers. Then just as the baking was finishing I whipped up Caramel Apple Porkchops and Lemon Butter Pasta for Christmas supper. Aren't I a good wife??? :D

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! Blessings and peace to you and your family.

Merry Christmas Eve!!!

Merry Christmas Eve everyone! We celebrated our little family's Christmas this morning as we will be quite busy the next few days. Santa was very good to all of us. :D


I saw this on the internet this morning and just had to share it with you all! I love this paper wreath and think I will try to make one...maybe several in different themes....Easter, Summer, Fall..... Oh, how I love paper!!! I've included the link to the tutorial on how to make this in case you are interested yourself!

http://theredthreadblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/paper-christmas-wreath-tutorial.html

A Few Christmas Items

I made a few gift bags this year for the teachers and the bus driver. I put homemade jams and jellies in the bags. The tags are made with stamps and heat embossing. The "Merry Christmas" is stamped and then heat embossed on some and glittered on others.

Here is a small sampling of the cards I made this Christmas season. Enjoy!

I really love that deer stamp that I got from Stampin' Up!!! :)

Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas

I completed the following versions of Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas. (http://www.timholtz.typepad.com/) I had to improvise A LOT as I have only a few of the products required, but I think the final results aren't too shabby. Have a look:

Day 1

I ended up using a resist technique on the snowman as I discovered

that I don't have any black embossing powder. What's up with that???

Day 2

Day 3

Apparently I don't have an evergreen tree stamp either....oh well....

this tree worked fine.

Day 4

This tag has glitter on the star and the tree but it's hard to see in the photo.

Day 5

Again, no evergreen tree stamp....I see I need to make a purchase

in the new year! ;)

Day 6

So far, this is the favorite of the ones I have created.

Though I again had to improvise on products, it turned out rather

vintage and I really love that!

Probably the coolest thing about this is that Tim used a stamp for the truck.

I had a stamp but mine was miniture and facing the wrong way. So I stamped it in black archival ink.

I photocopied and enlarged it to the size I wanted.

Then I cut it out and temporarily adhered it to cardstock.

I cut it out, flipped it over, covered the cardstock in black archival ink,

let that dry, covered it in Versamark, then heat embossed clear powder on it.

Voila!

More tags to come as I complete them.......

Welcome

Today I did the thing I said I would never do.....I started a blog.

I want a place to share my artwork with friends, family and followers, so here I am!!! Enjoy!