Layouts 36-40

The craft fair is finished and for my first I consider it a success.  I look forward to doing another one next year only this time I will start preparing in January and not October :)

Still trying to catch up on this challenge so here is another bulk set of layouts.

More K & Company...finshed off Halloween for 2008.  Woo Hoo! 

I now know the there is only one O in Hokey and Pokey but I was trying to use old CM letters up and now they are stuck.  I hate that I cannot fix it without ruining the layout.  Any tips out there...The paper is either Little Yellow Bicycle or Fancy Pants...it is called Traditions but that is all I remember. 

My love for Memory works continues!

This was the second layout from CTMH Sweetheart WOTG.  My brother had a close friend do the wedding pictures and she let me tag along with her and take pics as well.  I got alot of experience without the pressure of messing up someones wedding photos!

5.  The is an old CTMH paper pack I ordered when it went on sale and it has been great for the Kingston leg of our 2010 trip.  I did 4 layouts for the 1000 islands with it...but cannot remember what it is called.  Magificient or something along those lines I think. 

Thanks for looking!

Missing in Action...

Hi everyone!  Sorry for the long absence and very sorry I have missed so many of your wonderful posts!  I hope to catch up after my craft sale is complete.  I thought I would share a few of the many projects I have been working on!

I found this idea on Nona Davenport's blog http://nonapearl.blogspot.com/ this summer.  She did a series on recycling objects for crafts.  Nona used mass market books for her wreaths and hot glued them.  I despise my hot glue gun so I used pearl pins...lots and lots of pins.  I thought this was a great way to use up surplus paper.  The idea is though the you make fortune tellers (like when we were kids) using 4x4 squares and pin them upside down to get the flower shape.  It takes about 144 squares (12 sheets of b&t).  So a huge shout out to Nona because I am in love with these...if they don't sell they will make great Christmas gifts!

and yes I had a lot of surplus b&t lol! 

I have several canvas pieces completed...this one is my favorite.

 and of course washer necklaces (which once I got them loaded on my gypsy so I didn't have to cut them by hand) were alot of fun!

I have completed pencil boxes, coaster post it note holders, Christmas cards and tags, dry erase boards and 12x12 frames with completed scrapbook pages.  I hope to post more later but I better get back to work :) 

Layouts 30-35

I'm posting quite a few just so I can feel a bit caught up.  We just got back from a week in Canmore to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary.  We were married in Lake Louise and it felt wonderful to be back for our first big anniversary milestone :)  I am going to try to get caught up on everyone's blogs asap.  I'm sure like everyone this month has just been crazy!  Craft sale prep, Christmas card workshops to plan, regular classes and then there's all the regular stuff like family, work and the house.  I guess it will be like this until Christmas is over :)  I wouldn't trade it for anything!


1. I actually bought paper (from Tina's :) made 2 layouts and used all the product I bought.  It felt so good! My kids were pretending to be bad guys.  They look fearsome don't they :)  Used Kaiser Crafts paper, chipboard and tags.

2.  Yay, the first layout of my Disney Album completed.  This was the 3rd layout we completed for the Wicked Wotg from CTMH.

3.  Do you have a box of uncompleted layouts that sit until you finally figure out what to do with them.  That was this layout, I think I have put it in the box 3 years ago...well it was worth the wait because I love the results.   All products CTMH.

4. This trip had to be scrapped simply for the hidden journalling (behind a flip flap not shown) but we had moved back to Regina and had a month were we had no house.  We were supposed to rent the top floor of my Dad's friends house, we then had to share it with his 2 teenage daughters.  It was the longest month of my life!  This was our escape trip.  It was so nice to be alone in that little room!  All products used CTMH

5.  I am a sucker for the discounted K & Company at Michaels so I have a collection that was begging to be used.  Josh will be wearing this costume this year!

Thanks for looking!!!!

Layouts 27, 28 & 29

I'm so behind in posting...I think the "challenge" is posting the layouts not creating them :)   Sorry the picture quality is a little scary.

I love this kit and my beautiful nieces :)

Tina helped me with the title on this one.  I love the expression on Josh's face.  He was so annoyed with all the picture taking :)  

More Josh, at this rate I will finish his 1st year album before I finish his older brother's.

I have signed up to be a vendor in a craft show this November.  I'm a little stressed but glad I challenged myself to do it.  You never know until you try right :)

Layouts 24, 25 & 26

This first 2 layouts are from my new stuff from Tina's store :)  I have a new love and it's the Simple Stories company.  I had all horizontal pics for this layout and needed 2 vertical ones...no problem one sheet from the collection has all 6x4 journalling cards.This is the happy day line...I also have the back to school and baby steps lines as well...I love how it works with the CTMH books.

This layout was fun to do...the pics themselves didn't turn out so well but this kaiser craft paper made it easy to finish

Of course we have to enjoy the old with the new so I used some dcwv baby paper from my stash to do this layout of Nate when he was 3 months old (he's now 4).  I hate scrapping chronologically!  My sister completes one album at a time and I can't stand it.  I love the freedom...sometimes the perfect paper is worth waiting for!  What do you think?

Layouts 22 & 23

Well the summer has flown by and the kids went back to school today.  I can't believe it.  My middle son started kindergarten today.  He was so adorable walking to school with his brother.  I ordered the pics tonight...can't wait to scrap them!  I have actually been pretty busy in my craft room lately...could be my new ctmh goodies or all the fabulous paper I have picked up at Tina's new store Scrappin Happins!  I hope she posts pics for everyone soon as she really has a great space!  She's been working hard and it's really paid off.  Of course I don't have those layouts photographed yet so I'll share these ones for now :)

This layout was the first time I have ever embossed chipboard.  I really like the effect and it tied it together.  I still have stardust paper left :)  I need to stop buying retired papers on clearance.  Do you hoard papers?  I'm really getting much better at not collecting but using!!

This was a promo last year...Felicity I think.  I love fall and we always have a ton of pics!  I only got 2 of these kits...that's an improvement right? LOL!

 I inked and stamped our colour ready alpha's with the flourish from stamps set that came with the kit.  I didn't do a whole lot with this layout in terms of embellishment. Sometimes I really like a simple clean layout.   I took Tresa Black's class at convention and picked up some great tips for clustering embellishments that I can't wait to try.  Might help me jazz things up a bit :)

Layouts 20 & 21

 First I have to say that CTMH convention was incredible!!!  Tina and I had so much fun, we were going from 7 am until midnight at least...sometimes later (there was a midnight showing of HP 7 thrown in for fun).

I need to get moving on the layout challenge as now more than 1/2 the year is gone and I am not yet 1/2 done.  Yikes!

These are just a couple of Echo Park layouts I completed back in June.  I love Echo Park...they are so good for bright fun papers!

A pic of Tina and I at convention