Altered Art Journal

Cait has been talking about an art journal for a while now. She keeps saying she is going to make one and never does. This morning she pulled out some Elsie papers and said she thought she wanted to use those on her art journal but she just didn't know what to do though. I finally took the papers from her and shoo'd her out of my room.

About an hour later along came Lily on the front of Cait's new art journal:



You like??? Cait loved it which made me happy!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Happy Scrappin', over and out ya'll!!!!

I'm in the Mood for fun..............

.........OK, one last post before I head off to bed.

I made this card for the Caardvarks challenge "down on the farm." I used Pink Cat Studios farm stamps along with balloons from dress up Lily. The sentiment I got from my darling friend Cherrie and I am dieing to know where she got it as I would love to have another that I don't have to use on a card as well as if there are any others out there similar to it!!! LOL I so love cows if you couldn't guess!!!!

Anywho, here is my submission for Caardvarks:



Thanks for stopping by and looking at my stuff.

Happy Scrappin'..........over and out ya'll.............

And the winner is..........

I hosted the July 1st through 15th card challenge over at Just Scrappin' and my challenge was to create a card inspired by this magazine cover:



I really loved the feel of this cover!!! My example was inspired by the hat and I just knew my Lily image from Pink Cat Studios was just perfect for it!!! Here is my sample:



Now, the girls really outdid themselves once again!!!! Here are their cards:

And as always, I just couldn't choose a winner so I submitted their names to the random list generator and the winner was chosen this way:

There were 7 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. Cristal
2. Cait
3. Aymee
4. Ally
5. Carol
6. Cherrie
7. Jenny

Timestamp: 2008-07-16 19:36:59 UTC

So, congratulations Cristal!!!!

Now, I am keeping her prize a surprise but I couldn't keep the package I made for it a surprise any longer, I just had to show everyone!!!!

I started out with a bare essentials magnetic hinged box by Creative Imaginations, some Basic Grey Phoebe papers, Pink Cat Studios QT Hooty Stamp, googlie eyes, stickles, Fancy Pants crocheted flower, paper studio glitter brad, hand made flowers and black cristal stickers by Mark Richard.

From the top:



From the side:



And the inside (minus the prize of course:



Thanks for looking!!!

Happy Scrappin'.............and again, Congrats Cristal!!!

Over and out ya'll..............

Shakin' It Up a bit

I completed this card for Aymee's July 15th - July 31st Challenge at JS. I had fun with it as I do love me some shaker boxes. They are so easy to make and so cute when they are done. I tried to host a challenge similar to this a while back on another board but the board owner freaked out saying it was stupid and too hard - well MEH to her and lookie at my shaker box card!!!



Now, I don't like the overall card itself but I love my little shaker box. I filled it with liquid - now that was M-E-S-S-Y!!!!

Oh yeah, see the flowers??? I made 'em myself from a tutorial at Inspirational Techniques and Tutorials!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!  Happy Scrappin'............

Over and out ya'll..................

Let's Go to Luckenbach Texas

with Waylon and Willie and the boys..............

Well, no Waylon and Willie on our recent trip to Luckenbach but some great pictures to scrap!!! So, in response to Ally's challenge called "Don't Forget the Lyrics" at Just Scrappin' here ya go!!!

Materials used:

Patterned Papers, Big Arrow, Small Arrow & Journaling Box = Scenic Route
Texas Sticker = Jet Setters by Reminisce
Bling = Paper Studios, Me & My Big Ideas & Misc Stash

Thanks for looking!!!



Happy Scrappin'!!!

Over and out ya'll......................

A Blog Challenge Completed

OK, my good friend Cristal posted a challenge on her blog with some blog candy as a prize!!! I was working on a fabulous challenge by Ally over at Just Scrappin' and got flustered so I decided to take my frustrations out by going "blooming" crazy with flowers!!!

Thanks for looking!!!



This also fulfilled a challenge from Sisterhood of Scrap so I was thrilled to knock out two challenges with one LO - very efficient tonite!!!

As always, thanks for stopping by and leave me a comment to let me know you are here - so many people stop by but no one chats with me!!!

Happy Scrappin', Over and out ya'll!!!!

Christmas in July at Just Scrappin'

There is still time to jump in on the Christmas in July challenge that I am hosting at Just Scrappin'!!! It is a 3 week long challenge to help us get started on our Christmas cards for the season - yeah I know it is way early but this year is just flying by so fast already, if I don't get started now I will not have cards done by then!!!!

So my week 1 challenge was fairly easy. I wanted the girls to create 2 cards using chipboard - no other restrictions as long as they were Christmas themed and had some chipboard on them somewhere.

Here are the girls submissions:

I decided I was going to do a prize for this round as well as the grand prize. The winner for round 1 was Ziggy - I loaded all the girls names who submitted work for round 1 and let random.org choose the winner for me - there was no way I could judge these!!!!

List Randomizer

There were 8 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. Zig
2. Tracyj
3. Cristal
4. Sandra
5. Cherrie
6. Aymee
7. Ally
8. Carol

Timestamp: 2008-07-15 00:59:12 UTC

So, congrats Zig!!!!

Here is the prize pack I put together for round 1 for Ziggy!!!



Pattern Paper is double sided by Webster, Ribbon and Brads are by Making Memories, Chipboard is by KI Memories and flowers by Bazzill!!!!

I just posted round 2's challenge tonite. Make sure you come on over and play along with us - who knows what random prize will be given away with round 2, well I do but you have to join JS to find out more!!!

Happy Scrappin'...........over and out ya'll!!!





PS The grand prize for the challenge is a set of clear, Christmas stamps I picked up at Hobby Lobby:

Week 2 Challenge at Just Scrappin'

So, we are on to week 2 for the sponsored challenge at Just Scrappin'. The prize is a kit specially put together for JS by Kelly with Keep In Touch. The challenge was:

The Recipe
DUE By 10:00pm July 20th!

This theme is 2! Read carefully!!! You want to get this right!

Using ONLY TWO colors!

You may choose from these Color Combinations.
The ONLY other color allowed is Black OR white...NOT black AND white.. ONLY one or the other!

Yellow/Orange

Blue/Yellow

Green/PINK

Brown/Blue - Check - My color combo choice.

Pink/Orange

You must use TWO pieces of non-flower Chipboard No more no less Check - Two pieces of non flower chipboard are on the corners of the pictures

You must use either 2 pieces of felt OR 2 paint colors Not BOTH No more no less Check - I painted the chipboard blue then painted brown dots on them.

You must use 2 Flower OR Pieces of Ribbon No more no less Check - 2 ribbons threaded on the side by using the Leave it to Weaver punch I won from Just Scrappin',

OH AND 2 Pictures!!!!! Check - Used 2 pictures from our recent road trip of the beautifully majestic old churches in Fredricksburg.

OK, I did it!!! After two disasters I walked away last night and woke up fresh this morning. Rob had to go pick up some cables from the electronics store which happened to be near Archiver's so he dropped me off and I went in to find my inspiration. As soon as I saw the brown butterfly paper (by Chatterbox) I knew instantly what I would be doing!!!

OK, so mats are:

Blue Cardstock - Bazzill Bling
Brown PP - Chatterbox Flutter Woods
Chipboard - Making Memories exclusively for Archivers
Paint - Making Memories
Bling - Imaginisce
Brad - Misc Stash
Ribbon - Making Memories Cosmo Ribbon in Blue/Brown
Title - Cosmo Cricket Rub-ons
Stamped Journaling Box - Autumn Leaves Doodle Tagged & ColorBox Chestnut Roan Chalk Ink

Thanks for looking and Cristal, thanks for putting me outside of my box!!!



Happy Scrappin' all!!!

Over and out..............

Couple Things

First off, remember back in March I think it was that Cait was one of the top 5 in the Adornit Teen Chix teen challenge??? Well, she got her prize pack in mid May and got to work on it. Cait sent her work in a couple weeks ago and they updated the blog with some of it. Check out the Adornit Teen Chix site when you get a chance. I'm so proud of her - she is such a blooming scrapper and to think - this month will be exactly one year since I converted her to a crafter!!!! Great job darling!!!

This layout is an entry for the Just Scrappin' July Monthly Challenge. Cristal challenged us to use shaped paper but NOT store bought shaped papers. So, I broke out my Little Yellow Bicycle papers in Vita Bella along with my new Threading Water punch by Fiskars and got started. The colors of the paper really made me think that I needed a water picture. But Cait used one of the awesome ones we got from our road trip and I didn't feel like using it again so soon so I decided I'd do my Diva Daisy in another LO - heck she's gonna need her own album before too long!!! LOL Anywho the bling is from Me and My Big Ideas Icon sets, the white lace is from Making Memories Fresh Anthology Sydney set, the flowers are Prima and the quote is from the Vita Bella CS quote set that matches the papers. It is hard to see but I also used Tim Holtz Distressing ink in Weathered Wood on the photo mat. It is kind of hard to read but the title is Daisy Paddlin' (ya know, doggie paddlin'.....LOL, I'm corny I know!!!).

This LO was based off the sketch over at Sisterhood of Scrap. As I started working on my LO I remembered seeing the sketch this evening when I was doing my normal blog trolling and thought it would work perfect for this LO. So, without further delay:



For all you lurkers out there leave me a comment to let me know you've been here!!! I see so many states and countries on my tracker in the sidebar but you are all so shy!!! Speak up and say hi - I love to chat!!!

Thanks for stopping by again.........happy scrappin' and over and out ya'll!!!

July's Sponsored Challenge at Just Scrappin'

Over at Just Scrappin' we are having a 3 week long contest for a kit supplied by Kelly at Keep In Touch. Week one had some really simple requirements:

Challenge requirements:
- Create a ONE page layout
Layout must include:
- a ONE word title
- ONE picture
- patterned paper from only ONE manufacturer
- ONE arrow
- the word "ONE" or the number "1" must be included somewhere on the layout (in the journaling, title, or elsewhere on the layout)
- Use ONE (and only one) technique from the following list:
* sewing
* inking
* sanding
* doodling
You may use other techniques in addition to these but you must use ONE and only ONE from the above list. (ex. if you sew, you can't also ink)

Everything else is up to you.

So, here is my LO for week 1's challenge:



Material listing:

PP = American Crafts
CS = Bazzill
Flower = Heidi Grace
Ribbon = TS Kit
Flower Center = TS Kit
Gems = Doodlebug Designs
Fiber = EK Success

Journaling:

Mom,

You are my princess!!! Do you know how important you are to me?

I know I wasn’t the easiest child to raise – I have always been a little stubborn and ornery but you never gave up on me.

I want you to know that I love you dearly and am proud to call you
MOM!!! You always have been and always will be #1 in my book!!

I love you Mom!!!

Thanks for looking!!!! This one was fun!!!

Happy Scrappin'..........over and out ya'll!!!