....and I'm Back!

Thank you for all of your kind comments on my last post. With time things are slowly getting better. I am learning to take care of myself better. I will get through it.

Today, I spent a lot of time purging my supplies and cleaning up my scraproom area. Finally it is finished, and I even managed to finish a layout that I started in March.

My clean room:

And the layout:

I started this layout during our stay at Steve's family's house in Edmonton. I just uncovered it today and decided to finish it. The colour blocking was inspired by Stephanie Dagan at Studio Calico, and the Silhouette cuts are from the Cut it Out class also at SC.

TFL!

Lift the Layout Above You

Every once in a while, someone over at Studio Calico posts a "Lift the Layout Above You" thread. You reply with "I'm in" or something similar, and then whoever posted below you chooses one of your layouts to "lift" (use some or all of the elements to make a layout of your own). You do the same with the person who posted above you.

I posted under Kimber-Leigh
I chose the layout "At Night" to lift, first of all because it is very pretty and I felt the elements worked really well with the Daydream Believer kit from Studio Calico. It was also a fairly straight forward design, and as I totally forgot about this challenge until today (the due date) I needed to get it done in a hurry.

Here is Kimber-Leigh's layout:

And here is what I pulled together:

You can see it at Studio Calico here

I also thought I would share Just g's lift of my layout
She chose this layout to lift:

Home Alone

And she took inspiration from the loopy twine and came up with this:

Loopy

What a fun challenge :)
 TFL!

PageMaps Sketch Contest 13.02.12

Another sketch...another layout

This one is for the latest sketch contest on the PageMaps blog

I knew as soon as I saw this sketch what pictures I wanted to use. The puppies are German Shepherd x Golden Lab and they are at the SPCA where Steve and I volunteer walking dogs. We had walked their mama on a previous week before they knew she was pregnant and we really liked her, and what is not to like about these adorable puppies! This and kittens are one of the perks volunteering at the SPCA, I love cuddling them :)

Anyways...

 Here is the sketch from Becky Fleck

And here is my take on it

PS. This is from the February kit "Daydream Believer" from Studio Calico. I am loving the kits and all the inspiration from the message boards!

As always....TFL!

Sunday Sketch 19.02.12

Here is the next Sunday Sketch from the Studio Calico Blog

Here is the sketch

And here is my take on it

TFL!

Sunday Sketch - 12.02.12

I've been really loving all the challenges over at Studio Calico

Here is the Feb 12/12 Sunday Sketch from their blog

And here is my take on it

TFL!

What I've Been Up To

....ok so I haven't stopped scrapbooking all of a sudden, I have just been very lazy with blogging. I have recently become a subscriber to Studio Calico kits and so far am loving it. I have just received my second kit and am looking forward to getting a clean desk so I can break into it.

Here are some of my layouts from the past month:

For the Sunday Sketch challenge on the Studio Calico blog.  P.S. I won a 5 dollar gift card in the draw :)

Scraplift the person above you challenge. I scraplifted this layout by Tara LeClair

For a few of the CHAllenges over at Studio Calico. I used up some old supplies

For a few of the CHAllenges - my favourite this year :)

For another few CHAllenges and the Sunday Sketch- This is a text convo between me and Steve.

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School's In

Come join us over at Scrapdango for a great back to school event!
There is going to be an awesome prize!

Scrapdango July Reveal, June Reveal, Project 12, and Kittens......

I have been REALLY bad about updating my blog lately!! This post is going to be big, and very picture heavy, as I am just going to throw everything I have missed all into one.

First of all, the most recent, my Scrapdango July Reveal:

This kit was awesome, and I loved the Simple Stories paper a lot more than I expected.

Here are my layouts:

Project 12 - June 2011

This is for my inspiration challenge over at Scrapdango - you can check it out here

My favourite new puppy!

And my cards:

Next is my Scrapdango June Reveal:

This Jillibean Soup kit was awesome!!  I never realized how well Jillibean papers went with my scrapbooking style.

The Layouts:

Project 12 - May 2011

For my fabulously frugal challenge over at Scrapdango (closed) - For paper I used only one piece of cardstock and one piece of patterned paper for this layout.

The Cards:

And now for the reason I have been so bad about blogging:

Kittens!!!! (8 of them, plus their mom)

We have been fostering Calliope and her 7 kittens + 1 orphan for the SPCA. The last one goes to her home today, and the mom is back at the SPCA "drying out". It has been an awesome experience and Steve has been off work due to breaking his knee - so he has been taking really good care of them. And of course, we couldn't bring them all back. We are keeping two of the kittens Seamus - the big black one, and Rosie - the one with the orange face and pink nose. My mom is also keeping two, and my aunt and uncle have one, so we can visit them still :D

Here are some pics:

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LOAD

Hey Guys,
I have been so busy with fostering kittens for the SPCA I haven't had much time to blog.
But hopefully us girls at Scrapdango can get your scrappy mojo going for July, because we are having LOAD!!  (layout a day)

The poster says it all. Hope to see you there :)

Scrapdango's Totally Excellent Crop!

Come join us over at Scrapdango for like lots of fun! It's going to be totally awesome!

Scrapdango Blog Hop

 

See you then!!

Owlie

Here is a layout I scrapbooked this weekend, based on Audra's April sketch challenge over at Scrapdango.

Owlie

 

 

 

The longer story on Owlie - Every year around the time of our anniversary (Nov 10) Steve and I buy a Christmas ornament, or ornaments. The first year we got ornaments from Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer. The second year we got a set of mini nutcrackers. This past year we got Owlie. We got him a little late, I spotted him in the store, and remembered we had forgotten to get an ornament, and thought Owlie would be perfect, Steve agreed. So we brought him home and went to hang him up, and the string came off his back. I tried to glue it back on, but it just took more "feathers" out of his back. So I decided we would play a game with him, take turns hiding him around the house. The rules were you had to hide him in plain view (not behind anything, not under anything, not in a drawer...etc.), and the person looking had 3 days to find him, if not, the hider could hide him again. I don't think either of us hid him a second time in a row, because after a few days we would give each other clues. His final spot was as the tree topper on our Christmas tree. He is now waiting on top of our bookshelf for next December to come around, and for the game to start again.

 

Project 12

Is anyone doing Project 12 this year??

I am!  2 years ago I tried Project 365 and it became too much, and last year I printed calendar pages, and wrote notes and stuck pictures on it for each month. This year I am going to attempt to do a whole year of this, with a 2 page layout every month.

What is Project 12?  Check out the explanation here and here
The sketches by Becky Higgins are awesome and easy to follow, I think I will be able to do this :)


Here is my first layout...for January of course!

Next order of business - make myself a new blog header, the one right now is kind of a place holder.

TFL!

CROWNED 2011

Ok....so I haven't posted for over a month now, but to be honest, I  haven't really scrapbooked.
I started up again with Scrapdango's library crop last weekend.  Now that that is over, there is an even bigger thing going on over at Scrapdango, and I am hoping it will kickstart my scrapbooking even more.  I had so much fun participating last year, and made some of my favorite layouts.  So with out further adieu, here are the details:

Sketch Challenge

Hey Ladies,

My second sketch challenge is up at Scrapping the Moments.  I had so much fun creating this sketch and layout.  I even broke out a needle and thread.

I would love for some new people to this site to come and check out my challenge.  And as an incentive I will be offering a RAK.  I will be posting a picture of it as soon as I get it organized.  But lemme just say there is going to be lots of Cosmo Cricket yumminess.

In order to be entered to win, you need to complete the challenge by Dec 15 and post it in the Sketch Challenges gallery.

Hope you have as much fun as I did :)

December 1st Sketch

My Example (Wonderfall)