Scissors!

I went looking for a little inspiration yesterday and found a fun one over at the Webster's Pages InspireMe blog. Iris Uy is well known for her whimsy and her cut work. She challenged you to cut out a photo and have it interact with the paper. Definitely one i'll do ... once. I tried it and it was fun. Not my everyday thing but very fun!

Have you cut out a photo lately?

Some of the things i did that i like about this page -
I cut a felt flower into a butterfly shape by trimming off one of the petals.
then it looked kind of plain so I added some distress stickles to it. much better.
I made my own grass and shadowed it with a marker. Simple but fun!
I added lace trim to the cut paper border strip. nice dimension.
and some more paper cutting. it kind of fit the mood.

thanks for looking!

Hey look! I found my camera!

Oh if only that were the reason I have nothing to post. I do have stuff to post, i have not taken any pictures though.

I did take this one below - because i am proud that i think i've fully rediscovered my roots. I've now sewed, gardened, and even canned (as in preserved) green beans. And all for the darling children so they will have roots too. Even though they hate the roots, and complain the whole time I'm making them grow them. ha. I am also planning to refinish a bed. That should be the whole meal deal, because i can't think of anything else mom used to do while raising 4 kids and taking care of the inside and the outside of the house while also feeding dad and visiting 4 grandmothers. Seriously - how did they get that all done?

Here are my beans. I think they will be good.

Photo editing class

Hi again, remember me?

I'm taking a digital editing class from JessicaSprague.com right now, so thought i'd share my fun stuff. I know she is going to give me some great information in this class. Today's lesson was on brushes, so i enhanced a frame with some berry leaves. I took this photo when the girls and I went berry picking with mom. We went to grandma's old pasture-turned-woods. there were lots of berries. YUM!

This picture was from our first day's class. I have to thank my neighbor for sharing the photo. She took it of my dd while they were playing at the park. What a great shot, eh? The frame from the class was perfect for this.

Coming Soon...

to a scrapbook table near... me!
We had so much fun at the zoo this last week and we gathered some pretty awesome photos. I can't wait to get some scrapping done! I'll be able to post soon.

Get inspired

Have you been scrapping lately?

I finally did - last weeekend. One of the things I did was look at a non-scrapbooking picture and try to do a page using it as inspiration. Here's the picture:



And here are the two pages I did, using different elements of the picture as inspiration.

The first, i drew inspiration for the buttons and the underlying design of the page - kind of like the lines in the picture a little?



this second page is inspired by all the white space in the photo and the clean lines.



let me know if you do something with the inspiration too!

Where have i been?

i got a part time job in the evenings.
and isn't it ironic that now i have a little cash to spend, but even if i buy something i'll have no time to use it.

well, thats not entirely true. I have a couple pages to be posted soon, and my motivation is coming back - it was just waiting on spring i guess.

We got my garden beds ready for planting today, and Claire and i went ahead and put in the cabbage she was given at school, and we planted some carrots and beets and snap peas. Lots more peas than the other stuff. its so much fun waiting on those little sprouts to pop up and start growing. can't wait! pictures soon.

in the mean time here is a little gift bag I made for an online crop. how can you not be happy when you see green polka dot ribbon!

One Two Buckle My Shoe

A little challenge in honor of my 5 year old, who loves rhyming poems right now.
Choose a number from 1-5 and then go below and find out what color your number is assigned to.

then create something using that color and link me up. Just a simple thing to do this weekend because I need some motivation and thought maybe my friends do to. :-)

Here's Princess Deter - this was a layout done some time ago at Creatively Yours. I still love it. This was done with My Little Shoebox papers. very fun colors.






Your color choices are...



1.... Blue

2....Green

3.....Yellow

4.....Orange

5....Red or Turquoise, your choice

OK, get going!!!

Easter prep

several days ago (sigh) we had beautiful weather and i talked the girls into putting on their Easter dresses and doing some photos for me. It was the wrong time of day, but it was the only time we had, so i grabbed the camera and took some shots.

And so the last couple days i've been photo shopping them because they needed some adjustments due to the bright sun. Here's one that i think came out really pretty. I used Dave Jasik's Midnight Sepia action on it, then framed it with a Katie Pertiet floral frame.

The scrapping will have to come later. I'll keep you posted.

While we wait, here's a page I just had posted at Creatively Yours -

thanks for looking!

I love them, i love them not... And a RAK

eyelets are a little like that. they can make a very cute effect, but i gave them up in favor of my kids sleeping. Tbe pounding was killing me. But then came the cropodile. and really - why am i not using eyelets again? because there is no noise. and the things you can do with eyelets are so fun!

this month, Use Your Stash is challenging you to use some of those little guys again. And here's a little inspiration for you...


I will RAK someone some fun embellies shown here in my samples if you do a project, send it in to UseYour Stash, and link me up here. How fun is that!!!

2nd Is The Best

I don't think i ever posted this one, and looking at it now, i really still like it a lot.
It was up for a sketch over at Creatively Yours.
This is Steve and I when we had stolen a little time away while our oldest was just about 6 months old. Boy time has flown by.

The title is my way of talking about us both getting a second chance at marraige. We both came from divorces, after young love didn't last. The second time around has been wayyyy better. Even though our circumstances aren't what we had hoped at the time. lol.

This page is made with Kaiser Crafts paper. I love these pages with the lines through them. It makes writing on the page so fun and easy.

As always, thanks for looking, leave me a comment if you want.