the latest

I've been busy, i'll be able to post some pretty cool stuff soon. in the meantime, here's a layout I did for SBO

Sun on Cup

Its officially hot outside, because I had a cup of iced coffee today. i prefer it hot but when the thermometer tops 90 i have to go with ice.

Happyness

Ever have one of those days? Kinda tired, sad days? i think its the change in schedule and not having anything to look forward to. I feel like shopping. When the going gets tough, i go shopping. except thats a really bad idea if you have no money to buy things. So i'm sitting here feeling kind of un-grounded and un-happy.

If i'm to go shopping, I need to think of ways to make money. I just get an email telling about a gas-jacker. It had enough detail I think I could do it and save some money. HA! just kidding! but geez, $50 to fill up takes a bite out of the scrappin supplies.

And that brings me to one of my all-time favorite movies. When you think you got it bad, remember how this man made himself into something through just about all obstacles. I could cry just thinking about this movie. agh.

Here's Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness...

Raindrops on Roses and Whiskers on Kittens

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens

Brown paper packages tied up with strings

These are a few of my favorite things.....

Our challenges this week are a goodbye celebration for the current DT (like me). We are challenging folks to scrap using our favorite things.

My list is to use

• white card stock,
• bright patterned paper,
• journaling tag,
• stitching/faux stitching,
• and flowers.

yep. thats me. :-)

Take a look - i love that i used the Heidi Swapp clear butterfly and made it 3-D by heating it slightly with my heat gun. It wrinkled right up for a fluttery effect. yeh.

a fun card made with vellum. one of the first things i did as a non-CM/non-SU scrapbooker was to make some paper flowers like this. I've always loved the look, and had fun putting this card together. i love the vellum on vellum look.

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!