Craft Warehouse LifeStories . . .Layout 2

The second layout had to focus on distressing . . .
I sanded the edges of the photo
inked the edges of almost everything else . . .
I even used my trusty edge distressor on the tags and the bird!
I also inked the flowers and then threw in some handwritten journaling!

Craft Warehouse LifeStories . . .Layout 1

I had to make 2 layouts for the Craft Warehouse project this month . . .
for the the first layout . . . I had to concentrate on using the Prima products . . .hence the reason for all the flowers! I also got to use some of those yummy bling flourishes that I love so much . . . see below:

I loved working on this project and I hope that you like what you see!!

Cards for St. Jude . . .

Well . . . one day about a week ago I was blog hopping around when I came across Winter Sim's blog: http://winterwonderlandcrafter.blogspot.com/

She had this to say:
A year ago this January 14, I started my blog. So for my 'blogversary', I decided to celebrate the whole month of January, and do something for others. My family and I are going on vacation in February and as I was making plans for that, the Lord showed me that St. Jude Hospital was right on our way and He laid on my heart to do what I love and make cards for the patients there! I felt a little overwhelmed at first, because they see about 200 patients a day, but I soon felt that the Lord will provide the cards. I believe if we all pull together, we can make this happen. It is so sad to think of all the sick children there. So I am hoping that it will bring a smile to their face and a little more love in their hearts, when they receive their card on Valentine's Day. My family and I will be dropping off all of the cards to St. Jude Hospital in Tennessee, so please send them to me at the address below.

I was was suddenly inspired to create cards using the Basic Grey Sugar Rush line from Croppin' Paradise and here are the cards that I created:




Thanks for looking . . .
if you're inspired to create . . . check out Winter's blog for more information!
Have a great day!!

One Little Word . . .

So there's this awesome scrapper named Ali Edwards . . . I'm sure none of you have heard of her . . . ya right!! Anyway, she does this activity called One Little Word where you pick one word to focus on over the course of a year . . . it's pretty cool. Check out her blog if you're interested!!
I've chosen my word . . .

PLAY

Heidi Swapp . . . another not so famous scrapper . . . hee hee . . . has this awesome freebie at the House of 3 site that lets you print out a list of 10 and then has a sister page that talks about goals for 2010 and I figured it was a perfect addition to my layout!!

Here are my goals:
1. play more with Em and Soph
2. play more in my scrap space
3. play more with my HONEY
4. play more chess
5. play more exercise DVDs
6. play more music REALLY loud
7. play more in the classroom with my students
( like with science experiments and art projects)
8. play more with fabric
9. play with yarn and my other art stuff
10. play more with Max and Casey & my non-furry friends!

For the goal page, I found the perfect quote: sometimes you have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down- kobi yamada
I love the Hero Arts butterfly . . . I need to use it more often!!
Close-up of my list!! I encourage you to pick a word and make a point to focus on this word for 2010!! Thanks for stopping by!!

Oh and . . . the delicious papers are 7 Gypsies Victoria which I got at Croppin' Paradise!! They have a wonderful, wonderful store!! Check it out!!

Studio 101 Dec. 1 Challenge . ..

Here’s the first December challenge for you to get stuck into. Remember, you don’t have to use all 3 parts, but you get extra brownie points if you do!

1. Your layout should be based on the theme of childhood – it can be your own or someone elses.
2. Use a frame of some kind in the design of your layout
3. Use layers – can be paper, ribbon, whatever you like, but layer it up!

Here's my layout . . . I had so much fun with this challenge:

Whew . . .

Okay for this layout . . . I had to incorporate scalloped edges . . . I don't have very many, but I did find some stickers that I cut up and used on this layout of Andrew!!
For this layout . . . I only had 30 mins and that was to find all of the stuff, the picture and then to scrap it!! Whew!!
Oh this one, I had to use the color pink . . . the word "memories" in the title, as well as use a 5 x 7 picture!!
This is one of my favorites so far . . .I had to use kraft as the background with a pop of color . . . my color came from Basic Grey and the flowers, floss, and butterflies I used!!
For this challenge, we had to scrap our favorite place . . .mine is the coast with my family. I used MME products!! It was soo fun!!


For this layout, I had to incorporate hidden journaling . . .mine is the white sheet of paper that's peeking out from the blue paper!!

Come on over and join me . . . I haven't felt this creative in a LONG, LONG while!!

3 and counting . . .

It has started and I already have 3 layouts done!! I can't wait to post them!! Check it out!!