One Little Word - A Start...

Last night I started working on my "One Little Word" mini album. I didn't get very far, but I had a lot of fun! Since I just signed up for the workshop (which started January 1st), I'm already two months behind, but that's okay. I'm just going to take my time.I decided to use a Melissa Frances Chipboard Bingo Card Book that I've had forever. Here's how far I got...I cut...

Project Life - Week of February 20 - 26, 2012

I tried a new experiment this week with my Project Life Layout. I picked a color scheme in advance, and cut background papers. I went with the Clementine colors. Here's how my week started out looking (sorry for the glare - aargh)...It was the first week that I added an insert. First tho, here's how the layout looks without the insert (click to see the details)...Left...

The New Challenge is up at Scrapping The Music!

The fourth Monday of the month is movie week at Scrapping The Music! This month we are paying tribute to the movie "Final Fantasy" by featuring the song "Every Time We Touch" by Cascada! To be honest, I never saw the movie, BUT the song is great for scrapping!!!Here's what I created for the challenge...I was so excited to capture this photo of Willie watching TV with...

Stamp Carving 101 and a Scrappy Weekend Update...

The Stamp Carving 101 Class is over, but I am still plugging away at my lessons and loving it! I'm on Lesson 5 (out of ten). This lesson was all about learning to do points and curves. I've been wanting to carve my own cloud stamps, so I thought this was the perfect time to try it. I had so much fun! Here's how they turned out...I haven't shown you all much of my daily...

A Year In The Life of an Art Journal... "Favorite Things"

The latest prompt at "A Year In The Life of an Art Journal" is as follows:THE PROMPT: My Favorite Thingsie: a few of the things you LOVE about someone you love. Can be alive or dead.THE STUFF: Lists and ephemeraie: have a few tokens from that someone? Maybe the cover of the CD with "your song" or a napkin from the restaurant you both love to eat at...THE TECHNIQUE: Pocketsie:...

Caro Emerald at Scrapping The Music...

I had never heard of Caro Emerald until Design Team Member Frauke suggested we do "That Man" as a Scrapping The Music Challenge. I'm so glad she did cuz it's a super fun, catchy song and great for scrapping! It's our challenge this week, and here's how my layout turned out...This photo was taken on Honeymoon 5 this past October. We were standing in line for the Harry Potter...

Project Life - Week of February 13 - 19, 2012...

Hey there and happy Monday! I hope you had a wonderful weekend! I worked on my Project Life spread a little each day this week, and it worked out great! I can't believe it's already done! Here's how it turned out...Noted this week: Valentines day flowers and date, Michael's computer tower, some art I created, movies on Netflix and other every day things.Left side closeup...The...

A Year In The Life of an Art Journal... "Imagine"

I had so much fun with this page for the "A Year In The Life of an Art Journal" group! The guidelines for the challenge were:THE PROMPT: Imagineie: what's in your imagination or where do you imagine yourselfTHE STUFF: Pictures or words from magazines/newspapers etcie: Words, letters or images that develop your ideaTHE TEChNIQUE: mask/stencilsie: can be anything from flowers,...

Project Life - The Fun Continues!

I finished my Project Life layout for February 6 - 12 last night. The last couple of weeks I've started taping the week's page protectors to my wall, and adding tidbits as the week progresses. It's really been helping to see it evolve that way.Here's how the layout turned out (click the image to see the details)...Please excuse the glare on these photos. I had a particularly...

"Art" at Scrapping The Music - check it out!

The new song at Scrapping The Music is "Art" by Tanya Davis! I am super-excited about this one!!! I love the song AND the video, and of course, the subject matter is so close to my heart.If you're not familiar with the song and video - you've gotta check it out! It's very unique - click here to go to the challenge.I chose to do an art journal page for this one...The lyrics...

Hand-Carved Stamps...

I'm currently on lesson 4 of Stamp Carving 101, and I'm having a blast! Check out my banner stamp set - I just finished it last night...I bought some Speedy Carve to make these, cuz I found out the hard way that the Moo Carve I was using doesn't work well for detail work. It's too soft. I am LOVING the Speedy carve!I still have lessons 5, 6, 7 and 8 to do to catch up -...

New Project Life Setup...

Once again, I've rearranged a few things in the scraproom; and I've created a new Project Life Station that I love, love, love! I'm so excited to share it with you!Here's an overview picture. The red table is from Ikea. (I couldn't find a link-sorry) The big white organizer thingy is from Making Memories (also discontinued, but here's something similar)...I love it because...

Project Life - Week of January 30 - February 5, 2012...

I've decided to quit counting which week it is of Project Life (as in "week 2, week 3, etc") because I already lost track (Ha). I just finished the spread for January 30 - February 5, 2012. I had a lot of fun with this one, but it took an enormous amount of time...I am loving using all the different styles of page protectors! It's like a game figuring out how to fill all...

Hey Soul Sister is at Scrapping The Music...

It's a super fun week at Scrapping The Music! The new challenge just went up and the featured song is "Hey Soul Sister" by Train! Here's how my layout turned out...My favorite lyric in the song is "Ain't that Mister Mister on the radio?" It's just so random and quirky! I thought about incorporating an actual Mister Mister song in my layout, but then I remembered this...

February Collage...

Hi everyone! Gosh it's been a busy week! I've been running full speed ahead all week, with barely any time to create! EEK! Thank heavens, yesterday was my monthly girlfriends crop. It was just what I needed. Time to slow down, spend time with my friends, and create. I finished my February collage and envelope. Here's how it turned out...click on image to enlargeI...