Happy Fall

Well once again i'm not keeping up well here.......but i had an awesome weekend participating in 3 online crops at Scrap Fanatics, Life Preservers and Savvy N Sassy (which goes all week long so lots of time to join in and play). I've been having fun stamping and making cards too and using up old patterned papers from my stash (after removing it all from the zip bags and placing into upright jumbo magazine file holders which takes up way less space and is easy to flip through).
Here are some recent creations and i must mention the RED flower layered on the green, the bottom is punched from acrylic packaging, alcohol inked and stamped and then heated with my embossing gun.... is this a cool element and great way to recycle !!







well thats all for today but i really am going to try and post at least once a week if not more often......enjoy the last days of september.

Wishes......

love making cards, they are so quick and fun and use up scraps and small pieces of paper and ribbon etc... discovered this great sketch blog through Lil Scrappers (a new 'local" site i discovered). Anyway, here are the two cards i made based on the weeks sketch and bonus sketches. So many possibilities. And a few layouts from our wedding album that i finished this week (just need a nice album to put the layouts and the pocket pages in to finish)

Where did it go?

the summer, can't believe its Sept 1st and time to go back to school and work tomorrow. ugh. and where has the past 20 years gone.....Greg and i have been married 20 years this wednesday and its so hard to imagine - that's a long time yet looking through our wedding photos makes it seem like just yesterday we said our vows. I was THRILLED when i was cropping at the lss and discovered this Beautiful K and Co paper line, bought some, and when i came home it hit me that it was perfect for our wedding pictures. Royal blue is not an easy color to scrap and thats why its taken me 8 years to get at it. So here is my first acrylic album, using K and Co papers and Hambly (mostly) transperencies as well as various rub ons.

Camp time...

The past 10 days have flown by since the family reunion.......and after doing the basement reorganizing and seeing the new cupboards/shelves all in place and beautiful i found some time to scrap (between trips to town for a lil surgery and dental and chiro etc etc) so here are a few projects from July....and THANKS Jayme for asking me to be guest designer at Scrapbook Fanatics for the next 3 months......her kits ROCK and i had great fun with this one that included soft red colors, embossed flower paper and foil and beads.

and a few others i did with the june Life Preservers month kit.....yummy colors and pattern, perfect for summer photos.

And Mitchell's Driving and doing well so i had to document his getting his license.

Ahhhhhhhhhhh

Work for me is done........breathing a sigh of relief....so glad that warm weather is here, the pool is set up and warming, the kids have a few days of school left.....the big 4-H achievement day is behind us and was successful and I am proud to say that my photo shoot of the event went well and i made some money even :). I have barely had the time or energy to scrap but here are a few layouts from the past month. The crop at Life Preservers was fun, just sad i couldnt be there for the whole thing. I'm guest DT for the month at Savvy N Sassy and am just finishing up my projects with the ribbon kit i received. I won a gift cert. at Scrapbook Fanatics for using their May Kit and I'm anxious to work with the June one i just got.... Jayme puts together some fab kits i tell ya.

I'll admit that my spare moments have been spent with camera in hand or visiting this site
to learn and improve my photos, and i've just started a photo blog for your enjoyment and to keep this blog more scrap related :)

Happy Fathers Day Greg, i know we will all enjoy your new BBQ , the kids and I love ya, you're the best.

Happy Mothers Day!!

Hope today finds you celebrating with your family, celebrating your mom, being a mom, thankful for the one who raised you and has done so much for you, Love you Mom!!! I'm sharing a few pics of our herd, spring really is here when the calves come and start jumping and playing in the pasture, and the trees pop, a few days and we'll see a green hue over the valley, already the grass is looking sooo nice and green, i hope it stays warm, i really do. Kids started soccer last week, I'm down to 2 days a week at work which is really nice, more me time, and of course i've added a few layouts from the past while that i created with Scrapbook Fanatics and Life Preservers monthly Kits.

Soooooo much for spring

What is with the weather, yuck, cold and windy and snow in a bit, just when i thought i could start wearing my sandals and capri's old man winter returns... but hopefully not for long. Anyway, i've had time to scrap, staying inside and warm, long weekend.... so not all is lost. Poor dd and her classmates (along with dh/chaperone) had to turn around on their way to jasper for an environmental seminar thing due to bad roads) so i'm sure they are disappointed but better safe than sorry.

Can i tell you how much i LOVE the april Scrapbook Fanatics monthly kit, unfortunately its sold out but be sure to tune in May 1 for the next kit, they get better every time. some lo's i did with it. Been cropping along with Savvy N Sassy for their Olympic crop and got lots done!! Anxiously awaiting my life Preservers kits to arrive, they never disappoint, and in just 6 days i'll be enjoying Em's hospitality and cropping with 10 other gals for the weekend and i can't wait. So enjoy your weekend and hope you aren't getting hit with another winter blast like we are.

Spring......

wants to be here and is trying hard despite a few freak snowfalls, some chilly nights and still a fair bit of white when i look outside over the valley, but it is changing and i'm glad to hear the birds singing, saw at least a dozen hawks yesterday on the way into town which must mean the mice are easy pickings with less snow around, and the pussy willows are popping (and i must wander outside and pick a bunch for the table). Busy, yep, as usual, we had a wonderful Easter break though, at Mom's in Kelowna, visiting with my brother and his adorable busy little (almost 3 yr old) guy, what fun. He loved to play chase and cars and have mitchell bounce him on the bed and our time was too short but better than nothing. lots of pics and lo's to follow of course since there were camera's in his face all the time!!! We did an egg hunt which he understood AFTER trying a chocolate egg and realizing what it was all about. The flu bug invaded and hindered our time there but we managed to do some junking and visiting friends/family and so it was well worth the drive.

Now its the final stretch before summer, counting down the days till i'm done my job as are the kids i'm sure. They wrote some midterms last week and got their report cards yesterday and did an excellent job once again, lots to be proud of!!! I'm playing in my scraproom when i have time, looking forward to a girls scrappy weekend coming up soon and can hardly wait to meet up with these ladies again. Here are a few of my latest projects to make you smile and think spring.