Feeling a little creative these days

I've been inspired by Betsy Veldman with these cards. She has such a beautiful way with texture. And i've loved this paper ever since it came out. We had an assignment at SBO in the latest Newsletter to use Felt Fusion. And there were some awesome projects coming from it! I kept playing with the TI paper, and came up with these.

Are you CRYING?! There's No Crying In Baseball!

I used this quote for the last Karen Foster week at SBO. In our family, we dont play baseball, but we do cry. Lots. For all kinds of reasons. And it makes me think of the frustration Tom Hanks felt when he was coaching in A League of Their Own, and he thought he could yell at the girls and they would do better. But lets be honest. Girls do better when you tell them they're doing great. And of course, their sister is not laying on their hair.

Here is the shot I took and later came to love. I was trying to pose the girls for a fun shot, showing them all goofy and having a good time.
And that lasted about 10 seconds.
Then we had adversity.
Ever have one of those photo shoots?

The journaling says about the same thing i just wrote above. I think i'll always like this page, because most of the time, i don't get to take pictures of one of the girls crying. lol.

Paint!

I got to play with some Pebbles Inc paint for the last SBO newsletter.

And i really like paint, so i kept going. i just made some cute brads that I hope to use on some cards. my list of things to make is getting kind of long, but if i've got a list, i've got a chance of actually doing them.

Fun with Ribbon and Paint

For the latest Newsletter at ScrapbookerOnline.com the design team got to do projects with ribbon. Wow, they came out really great and I love everyone's work. You need to see them! I just love Strano ribbon - beautiful wide ribbon!

Here are a couple of mine -

the Star card is from WorldWin Crafty Creations. I love those shapes and that they are out of craft card stock.

A Challenge!

I'm offering a fun challenge at SBO this month - check it out ->here<-.

and what else have i been doing you ask,

not blogging you say.

.truth.

i so want to be one of those fun blogs that has new and beautiful crafty things each day. but it looks like once a month is gonna be the trend for now. You can see my pages in my gallery - lots of fun stuff coming in the next SBO newsletter!

I did quickly sew a scrappers seat storage thingy for our DT display at Scrapbook Corner.

Sometime in April is earth day - so we all recycled. And i recycled a pair of jeans. Other ideas were to make a gift bottle out of a 1Ltr soda bottle, a gift box made from a recycled Frappucino container, and a very cute newspaper set of fun things for a kids party. I am going to make that hat Shannon!

Happy March!

In honor of me missing an entire month on this blog, i thought i'd stop in and finally figure out how to add a slide show. shew. i've been busy and honestly just avoiding posting anything other than the bare necessities.

We just had a totally amazing weekend at ScrapbookerOnline.com. Its the 3rd anniversary there, and I love it more now than ever. We had lots of challenges and games and prizes. I'm digging stuff out for RAKs today. Here's a page i did for Adora's challenge - we had to cut 1 pic into 3 pcs. i loved that effect - every entry was amazing.

And here's a fun little project i did for the [Some] Assembly Required blog challenge -

the challenge for February was to alter an cigar box. gee, that at least got rid of one of those things sitting around in our bedroom and garage. maybe i should do several and Etsy them. yeh. in my spare time. ha.

well then, until April! ok, i hope to be back. maybe i'll add something interesting and unexpected. i'll have to think what that might be.

A Lay Out A Day challenge

It's the 18th and I've got 17 pages done in January because of this challenge. Since the goal is to do a page a day, fitting it into your schedule and coming up with something fun and quick, I decided to do some pages for my Book of Me. Which usually goes neglected for lack of pictures. So this time, i'm working on baby pictures that Mom gave to me a couple years ago. awwwww. yeh, cute, but after several pages i'm over it. ha. but at least the pictures will be in page protectors and not all scrunched together in a pile. and it has been fun. i'm enjoying looking at the album as it comes together.


You can see most of the pages here


Here are the latest couple..

A Little Basic Cleaning

I admit, this is my attempt at brown-nosing Mary Frances.


I hope it inspires everyone who reads this to try it too - what better way to clean house than with a little scrapbook motivation? And besides that, this vacuum's main job is sweeping up all the bits of scrapbook scraps that fall on the floor. Between 3 young girls and me, it can get pretty bad. So it ties in nicely. :-)

The story of this vacuum is that it is about 25 years old. I think dh inherited it from his mom when he got his first place or something. And it was really ugly. Scratched and faded. But it works good and they still sell bags for it! So I tried to give it some new life. Now, the bag didn't paint too well. I'm working on how to improve that. But still. Who doesn't like a little Basic Grey colors to cheer up their vacuuming time!

I feel like an overgrown kid! :-)

I bought some Prima Paintables. I was going to submit for the contest at 2Peas, but never got around to it. So this weekend I finally got to play and i am having a ball. I have always loved watercolor, so i was all over these.

Here's my take on it - the first one. I've got another in progress and i hope to post it later this week.

My Productive Weekend!

My girlfriend Kristy over at KT Crafts was running a weekend crop and i got motivated and really got some pages done! The number of Disney photos i want to scrap is a little overwhelming, but doing some during a crop seems fun and so I dipped into the box and pulled these out. I like the idea of journaling a lot on one page and then having lots of photos on the following pages.

And you'll be seeing a lot of this Scenic Route line on layouts to come. Why?

I bought it twice. Yeh, I really love it. You'd think that would mean I would remember buying it? No, it seems that what it means is that I knew I really really wanted it. :-)

But these 2 pages, I love them! Nuffing cracks me up because I hear it everyday and I still love how she says it.

And dh had a rough day. I saw this picture of him and knew he needed to be imortalized for the fabulous father he is.