Oh Scrap!

I'm back :)

2011-10-23T20:24:00.000-04:00

So I'm back - sorry for the long delay in posts. It's been a great summer of rediscovering myself and I have to say that I am the happiest that I have been in a very long time. I have been on this new journey to rediscovering myself. I have signed up for Brave Girls Club - Soul Restoration 1 and I love it!! Have only done 3 weeks (yes I'm behind) but it feels great. So empowering. I have also discovered this wonderful book called Me Before We by Christine Arylo and it has awakened me and has enabled me to take my life off of autopilot and take control of my own happiness. :) :) I truly feel like I have found my wings :) ... if you have been following my blog you would have recognized a little patterned of how I felt like I just wanted to be free and fly... I am happy to say that I have found my wings and am learning to fly again :) :)

I was inspired to create this page and it came together pretty quickly. I used Rhonna Farrer's Spring Mix digital elements and printed them on transparencies (hence the glossy shine - sorry). I used an old patterned paper for the background and used a doily to stencil white paint onto the page to create texture. Then i watered down some teal paint *heart teal* and got messy :) *so love getting messy* :)

Hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by and I hope to create again soon :)

Fly Away with Me

2011-08-11T15:09:00.000-04:00

Check this out!
life is beautiful today - I hope you are enjoying it!

hello there hand of the maker

2011-07-30T15:11:00.000-04:00

Starting today for two weeks I am the featured artist at the Art Hive as part of their Hand of The Maker series. I had a hard time finding the time to make product but had a blast with these projects. I went with a Fly Away With Me theme - with butterflies, birds, kites and hot air balloons. I have been on a new personal adventure to rediscover who I am (signed up for the Soul Restoration Brave Girls Club and sooo excited!!) and birds/butterflies/kites and hot air balloons mean so much to me as they symbolize freedom - freedom of truth :)

Here are some pics of my items. All proceeds will go towards the JDRF Telus Walk to Cure Diabetes. For more info on hello *there* click here.http://hellothere-jdrf.blogspot.com/

Crop Suey July Challenge

2011-07-05T06:00:00.001-04:00

Crop Suey's July challenge was a great one to spark my creative mojo! This month we challenge you to get dirty with ink, paint or anything that may stain your fingers :)

I was inspired by a digital creation of Rhonna Farrer's and wanted to have lots of little stamped elements peeking from behind the photo mat. Lots of inking, & spraying here. Love the layers to this one!

Don't forget to play along as you have until the 20th to join us!

Bye for now! Happy creating!

Crop Suey July Sneak

2011-06-25T15:28:00.000-04:00

So I have been having a VERY hard time getting my mojo back since I have been in my new place. Trying to scrap in a small space has been tough for me. But I finally got some inspiration and used it to scrap my July Crop Suey page! Love how it turned out and hope you will too! You will have to wait until July 5th to see it so make sure to please come back then!

Have a great day!

for a friend

2011-06-14T08:28:00.000-04:00

Crop Suey's June Challenge!

2011-06-05T05:55:00.008-04:00

It's almost SUMMER and to celebrate this great season we challenge you to do a page/project/card with theme of SUMMER!

Here's my take on the challenge. I did a page of my son last year on a camping trip.

Used a pagemaps sketch as inspiration.

Don't forget to play by the 20th for your chance to win some great goodies!

Check out Crop Suey for details!

hello

2011-04-30T11:51:00.001-04:00

Sorry for the delay in coming back but things have been a little hectic. To sum things up my son and I have moved into an apartment, I am trying to learn how to adjust my schedule as a single parent, trying to recover from a very nasty bug, trying to unpack and fit my extremly downsided scraproom into a closet, trying to make our space fresh and new to make this transition easier for my son, trying to catch up on cyberland as I just got my new laptop this week..... and it's SPRING! Loving this time of year as it is a true sign of renewal!t. I came across this great site and signed up immediately!

Check it out!! The Brave Girls Club is an online community showcasing beautiful workshops, retreats and ideas... Plus they have 'A little bird told me…Daily Truth emails' with beautiful sayings that are just what I need right now.... here's today's email.... So go and sign up and get a little breath of fresh air in your emails everyday!

Well I must go and shower (yes it is 11:47 am and it was my first day in a month to sleep in - and boy did I do that!!!!) and greet the day and try to get my to do list semi crossed off!

Bye for now!

New home inspiration

2011-04-10T21:03:00.002-04:00

As I mentioned I am in the process of moving and thought I would put together a little montage of some inspiration for my new place. Because of the fresh start that I am embarking on I thought that FRESH colours would be where I was heading.... so here's a little inspiration....

Bye for now....

April Crop Suey Challenge

2011-04-05T06:00:00.000-04:00

For Crop Suey's last challenge of this dt term we challenge you to get homemade and scrappy for your scrappy project/layout/card or whatever you choose to do!

*make homemade embellies using scraps!*

Be sure to link your lo up in the comments section on THIS post to be eligible to win the prize from our fabulous sponsor! You have until midnight EST on April 20th to play along!

For my page I decided to use all my bits and pieces of scrap rubons that I have. I have soooo many BG rubons and thought this would be a great challenge for using them! I had these rectangle chip board pieces that came out of some chipboard frames I got at the dollar store and I am just loving grey/yellow/teal so had to work with them. Also had these great rubons from Michaels that had a typewritter on it and the title. Lots of scrap rubon letters, some spray paint, a butterfly and voila!

As mentioned in my last post I am packing and won't be settled until the middle of April and by then I will have purchased my own new laptop! Scared at what is around the corner but know that in time I will be happy again! Will fill you all in soon - I promise!

Thanks for stopping by!

Blog surfing treasures! Pages of My Book!

2011-03-30T20:54:00.000-04:00

*** Scheduled post ****

I was surfing the net and have found this beautiful new challenge blog - Pages of My Book! Check them out!! Just love the DT creations! Some of my favourites from the past few weeks :

Pivot's

Kaori

Waleska

Have a great day!

Gotta love me some more A Creative Mint!

2011-03-24T20:48:00.000-04:00

Whenever I am in a creative funk there are a few sites that I just love to go to to spark the creative juices and one of those is A Creative Mint! Just love how Leslie groups and photographs colour combos! So beautiful! Here are a few of my recent favs!

Have a great day!

Crop Suey's April Challenge Sneak

2011-03-17T20:41:00.000-04:00

Here's a little sneak to Crop Suey's April Challenge.... Hope it's made you curious! Make sure to check back April 5th for the new challenge!

I am in the middle of packing boxes for a move so I won't be doing much posting until the middle or end of April as I will also be minus a computer. I will have my challenge posted April 5 and a few scheduled ones in between.

Bye for now...;) Hopefully spring will be here by the time I get back!

Grown in Love - Crop Suey March Challenge

2011-03-05T07:53:00.000-05:00

Loved this challenge - but had a hard time finding the time to work on it. This challenge has been that one that I couldn't wait to do but then ran out of time! I had so many big ideas..... oh well... move on right!

This month's challenge at Crop Suey is to use tape on your page. So I knew that I couldn't get my hands on some of those amazingly beautiful tapes out there so I thought I would just make my own. So I found this great little tutorial by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer and had to try it. I did this techniqe way back when (2007) on one of my pages and had to try it with pattern paper (black/white polka-dots) and just loved it!

The sponsor this month is Heather from DigiStampCharacters!!! The images are so cute and we got a few to play with and had to go with this one... I just love it!

Thanks for looking and make sure to play along for some great prizes! And yes I used the same paper from the last page I did. Just love this Basic Grey paper with the little planes!

Another inspiration from Jen Johner. ... I *heart* her style!

Bye for now!

March Crop Suey Challenge Sneak!

2011-03-01T20:03:00.000-05:00

This challenge will be super fun and maybe even get a little sticky!!! *hint hint*

Valentine's Day Swap

2011-02-14T07:01:00.000-05:00

I have a few pictures to share with you today. Tara Anderson from the pink couch hosted a Valentine's Day swap and this is what I created. Just used alot of my 'love/xox/kiss' stuff that I have been hoarding. Also made some little embellishments for my swap partner Kristi!

Hope she likes it. I will post pictures of what I get soon!

Have a great day. I think I am going to go and hide under the covers until this day is over :(

Time for change

2011-02-10T07:21:00.000-05:00

2011 is a year for change. Lots happening this year - lots of good and lots of scary. Will fill in you all later - just not ready to share yet.

Loved making this one as I was able to use lots of scraps. Made some white frames and just mounted different pattern scraps behind. Did some white spray paint and used a beautiful butterfly and voila. Layout sketch was inspired by a digital page by Celest Smith.

Thanks for checking in!

Be Ok

2011-02-08T07:15:00.001-05:00

I just love this song by Ingrid Michaelson 'Be Ok'. So I did a page about it. Used some old papers that have been holding onto and some elements from my stash! Love how it turned out.

Here's the song... couldn't find a video about it so here's a photo compilation from youtube.

Smart Cookie - a Craft Yourself Happy first!

2011-02-07T22:20:00.000-05:00

Well tonight I went to the Art Hive's Craft Yourself Happy and for the first time I was able to actually do something! Even with all the roller derby talk and even a friend testing her new red roller skates I was able to do most of this page at the Hive (finished stiching here at home). Good night! Even though I saw the biggest bull moose in the other lane and didn't notice him until I was right beside him!!!! Yikes!

This page is about my son and how goofy he is. He thought that he was super smart to have his marker tucked behind his ear! Gotta love little boys! Used alot of scraps and bits and pieces from past BG kits!

Bye for now!

Crop Suey Feb Challenge

2011-02-06T09:52:00.000-05:00

Oooops, thought I scheduled this one but must of forgot. Make sure to head on over to Crop Suey for our newest challenge - use 9 items (multiples don't count) on your page or project. Here's my take on the challenge! Make sure to post your creation by the 20th for your chance to win some amazing Cosmo Cricket!

I used BG Max & Whisker's papers, elements and alphas. I did print on some transparencies so hybrid vintage text and used some of Martha Stewarts printable doilies that I also printed on transparencies.

This is my childhood dog - Smaller. He was hit by a car when he was 2 years old and instead of putting him down my parents decided to amputate his front leg. This NEVER stopped him! He ran as fast as the wind and adapted within hours of being home. He would even run with two legs as one of his back legs had arthritis in it from the car accident (and many other accidents).

Thanks for looking!

Crop Suey Feb Sneak

2011-01-25T19:26:00.001-05:00

Here's a little sneak for Crop Suey's February challenge - as usual it's a great one!

Make sure to check out Crop Suey on Feb 5th for the challenge reveal! and yes..... my dog only has three legs!

Stacy

Few pages for this cold blah day

2011-01-17T19:51:00.000-05:00

As my last post mentioned today was a very blah day... bad day at work, at home, son is sick (again), and it's COLD!!!! It was -27C (so -16.6F)! .... anywhooo....

So here are a few pages I have worked on this weekend....

The page above was a lift from Larissa Albernaz. Was a super easy page to do with just some of my scraps. Sorry pics are not great. Just love taking whatever scraps and working with them. I used lots of supplies that I don't play much with such as flocking (on squirrel), embossing powder (behind letters), old rub-ons (letters). I have had this frame forever and it was perfect for this picture!

The page below is tough for me. I have a hard time with bright colours like this. But love how it turned out These are very old papers (probably from 2004), the letters are old, I bought the whale stickers in 2007, and there are a few other little embellies from way back in the day too!

Page Maps Contest

2011-01-17T19:39:00.000-05:00

I haven't entered a challenge in a while and thought it would be fun to do one again. So I headed over to Page Maps blog and there was this perfect sketch challenge! Here's the sketch and then my page below....

I used BG Green at Heart papers, embellishements and alphas, some old rub-ons, and hybrid elements printed on transparencies. Love how it turned out. Ok... I am loving Jen Johner's style and am actually loving using my handwritting on my pages (as you will see!) I also love her little birds that she uses alot (she even got a tattoo of them). The journaling and title were inspired by a post that Ronda Palazzari had - just needed to scrap it as it is exactly how I feel - Thanks Ronda for putting it down and sharing!

Thanks for stopping by! It's COLD here and today was not a great day all around so I need to get back into my space and create some more! Bye for now,

Stacy

Mini Journal - my fundamentals for 2011

2011-01-08T10:28:00.000-05:00

I made this mini journal based on a poster that I blogged about earlier. This was a hybrid project as I designed all the embellishments in PS and then cut them out and made this super easy mini-journal. Every pocket is embellished with one of the top top fundamentals and then there is a tag in the pocket that I can write a small little note to myself.

Thank you Corey of Chasing Light Studio for taking the pictures! I greatly appreciate it!

Bye for now,

Stacy

Crop Suey January Challenge

2011-01-05T06:00:00.001-05:00

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a merry holiday season. January's challenge is up at Crop Suey!!

We challenge you to use the following ad to get your inspiration for your scrappy project/layout/card or whatever you choose to do!

As soon as I saw this ad I knew that I wanted to do something about the future and about hands. Parker's little fingers get so abused day-in and day-out as we check his blood sugar (using a small needle) on average of 8-10 times a day (more when he's sick - which is alot). He never complains and trust me - it hurts! I have tried it and it's worst then smashing your finger in the drawer. So I had to do a page based on that. I am loving Tara Anderson and Jen Johner right now and wanted to use them as inspiration for my page. I love the BG Pyrus papers but they were too busy for this page so I painted the background and of course used some spray paint a-la-debee. LOVE how this page turned out. Even love my handwritting on it! Sorry pics aren't great as usual! The bottom is really even but curled up and didn't secure it down!

Make sure to check out Crop Suey to play along as we have a great sponsor - COSMO CRICKET!!! Just love their products!

Happy New Years! What are your resolutions? I have lots of personal stuff going on right now so my main personal one is strength. I need to find and restore my inner strength as I have to find it within myself to move on after some very big/scary decisions that I have made in the past couple of months. I am scared silly as to what 2011 is going to bring. On a scrappy note - I am going to make the same resolution as last year - I want to make 20 no make that..... 40 projects using my stash and I am not allowed to purchase new items (unless it's adhesive). Shouldn't be too bad as I have been loving making items for hello *there* and using my stash....promise - pics to come - there are lots of goodies to share!

Bye for now!

Top 10 of 2010

2010-12-31T18:19:00.000-05:00

2010 was a crazy year. Not a great year but a crazy one and I have to say that I am glad that it is over. Isn't that awful.... thankful that a year has come and gone. I am looking forward to 2011. It is the year of change. I came across this great poster that will be my inspiration and way of living this upcoming year. If you like it you can follow this link to get to get a copy of your own that you can download and print.

source: idea-obscura

Ok..... so to wrap up 2010 I thought that I would share with you my top 10 of 2010.... So here they are....

So I guess this year I did do a few more about myself - as I think that it's important for Parker to know a different side of me except just 'mom'. Lots of very talented ladies have inspired the above pages such as Tara Anderson, Emma Trout, Debee Campos, and a few were inspired by some digital layouts. I also guess that it's pretty obvious that my fav color is teal.....

Hope you all have a very happy new years! Stay tuned for Crop Suey's next challenge as the page I did will definitely be in my top 10 in 2011! Here's a sneak for you!

Happy New Years!

2 new pages

2010-12-19T19:10:00.000-05:00

Hello, I hope you are all not too stressed with the big day approaching fast. We are taking it very low key. It's all about my son this year and that is what we are focusing on. I hate to say it but I am NOT in the mood this year for the holidays. Has been a sad time for me and just trying to focus on Parker. Not going to see any family (which I desperately need to see) until spring time as my parents live 7 hours away and with the weather.... lets just say I am grateful for skype.

I have had some time scrapping (instead of wrapping and getting ready for xmas - again not in the mood). So I do have two pages to share today.

The first I just love how it turned out. Was inspired by a page by the super talented Emma Trout. I just love all her layering and the different elements she uses. I have so many rubons that I have been trying to use up so this page I did use alot. The 'discover', key, clock, and border under the picture were all rubons I have had for a while now. Used some BG papers and elements and some other little elements that I have had FOREVER! (fern tags, ruler sticker, leaf stamps, title, photo corners) just love using stuff from my stash.

The next one I wanted to do some kind of hybrid with printing some word-art brushes on a piece of letter paper. Did the photo series and put a word on quote on that too. Got to use some scraps and some other little tidbits.

Happy holidays!

Crop Suey December Challenge - Family

2010-12-05T06:00:00.002-05:00

Crop Suey's December challenge is up - and what a great challenge for this holiday season!!

We challenge you to use the following word on your scrappy project/layout/card or whatever you choose to do! *family*

Be sure to link your lo up in the comments section to be eligible to win the prize from our fabulous sponsor! You have until midnight EST on December 20th to play along!

This is my creation. I wanted to do a page about my little brother! And I got to use some fabulous goodies from our December sponsor - Pretty Little Studio

Make sure to check out the design teams creations as they are FABULOUS!!!

December Crop Suey Challenge Sneak

2010-11-25T06:00:00.002-05:00

Are you ready for another Crop Suey challenge? Dec 5 is the day to mark your calendar to go check it out and see the new challenge and to see the amazing projects that the design team created.

Here's a little sneak of my project....

You & Me

2010-11-23T19:25:00.000-05:00

I finally did a page just for me. Love this one! THis picture was taken on my 35th birthday. Just love this pic of my son Parker and I.

Noticing that I am using alot of teal/blue in my pages lately..... must be my fav colour :)

Used some scraps from some BG kits. Thanks for looking. (sorry for not so great pics.... the colours really do pop)

Ribbon Tape Tutorial and Ribbon Storage

2010-11-21T17:08:00.001-05:00

If you haven't checked out my tutorial at Crop Suey here it is:
For my post I decided to do a little tutorial on fabric tape. I thought that since the lucky winner of this month's challenge will receive a huge selection of beautiful ribbon from May Arts that I would do a little tutorial on using your ribbon! I have been seeing so many beautiful fabric tape out there and have been having a hard time finding some in my local stores so I decided to try my hand at making my own. I am showing you a very super easy peasy method and I will link a few other great tutorials for a few other methods.

Supplies Needed:
* ribbon/fabric (dig in your left over stash as this is a great way to use them up)
* a Xyron sticker maker
* scissors
* bone folder (optional but it really helps)

Step 1: Cut strips of fabric or ribbon that will fit in your sticker maker (mine is the 1.5" wide)

Step 2: Place your ribbon/fabric strips into your Xyron and pull the sticker roll out and tear your fabric sticker out

Step 3: Using your bone folder or finger rub the sticker and peel the clear top sticker off

Step 4: Voila! Use it on your projects! Easy peasy!!

Here are a few links to a few different techniques
Annekata
The Red Thread

How do you all organize your ribbons? I know the lucky winner of this month's challenge will be finding herself (or himself) in a pickle as what to do with all that ribbon so I thought I would share how I organize mine (since I have soooo much!).

I have tried many different ways and this way works the best for me. Sorry picture isn't very pretty.

What you will need:
* some kind of rack - I bought mine at Dollarama so super cheap!
* binder rings
* safety pins
* ribbon
* big ziplock bag
* binder clip
* hair straightner or iron

Step 1: organize your ribbon by colour (if you want) and take them off the spool if they are on one.

Step 2: If the piece was shorter than 1' I put them in the ziplock bag and if it was longer I ironed it (using my hair straightner :) Note: for the ziplock bag just open the binder ring and loop on the handle of the binder clip and clip onto ziplock.

Step 3: If they are super long, fold in half a few times and use the safety pin to pin them together or just pin the end if it's not too long

Step 4: put all like colours on one binder ring and hang.

I really love this idea as all my ribbon are sorted by colour which help and they are not wrinkled and stay wrinkle free. And all my little bits and pieces go in the bag.

Hope you enjoyed this post and will be inspired to try one of these techniques and use them on an up-coming project *wink*.

Bye for now!! Happy Creating!

Crop Suey Tutorial - Fabric Tape & Ribbon Storage

2010-11-20T00:00:00.000-05:00

Make sure to hop on over to Crop Suey for my Fabric Tape and Ribbon Storage tutorial! So excited! And if you haven't played along yet in Crop Suey's challenge make sure to do so ASAP as you have until TODAY to play along!!! So quick - get creating and upload your comment!

Happy Creating!

Hippity Hop Blog Hop is HERE!!!!

2010-11-12T06:01:00.004-05:00

The Blog Hop is finally here! I am so excited! Crop Suey has teamed up with 4 other challenge blogs to bring you an awesome blog hop! Of course, Crop Suey is offering a RAK so make sure you become a follower and leave a comment :)

So make sure to Hop on over to Crop Suey to get this party started. So, essentially, you will receive 1 piece of the recipe at each blog and then you will take the 5 ingredients and create your project - Here is my layout for this super crazy blog hop!

Crop Suey's November Challenge is UP!!!!

2010-11-05T00:00:00.001-04:00

SOOOOOO Excited! The first Crop Suey challenge is up and it was a fun one!

We challenge you to use at least 3 out of the following 5 items on your scrappy project/layout/card or whatever you choose to do!

*white cardstock
*buttons
*stamp
*ink/mist/paint
*distressing

Be sure to link your lo up in the comments section of Crop Suey to be eligible to win the prize from our fabulous sponsor May Arts! You have until midnight EST on November 20th to play along! Here are some pictures of the beautiful ribbon that you can win. Did I mention that you would win 30-3' pieces? That is a wopping 90' of ribbon!!!! All who submit a layout have a chance to win so make sure to play along!

This is my layout. I chose white cardstock, stamping, and ink/mist& paint.

Make sure to check out the other fabulous entries by the DT!

Also make sure to check often as there are some great tutorals coming up and a blog post by me!
Have a great day!

Countdown to the NEW Crop Suey!

2010-11-01T19:09:00.000-04:00

4 days!! 4 days!!! Yipeee! 4 days until the first Crop Suey challenge is up! As you may remember if you follow my blog that Crop Suey has been taken over by Mia and she asked me to help her out and we have come up with an awesome team of designers and some amazing challenges that will keep you creating!!

Here's a sneak peak of my layout! And make sure to jump on over to Crop Suey to check out the first challenge sponsor May Arts! You WANT to play along on this one to win this huge prize!

Also, as promised I would post the winner of my Halloween detash RAK. I only had two ladies participate and the winner is........ Arlene! Please email me and I will send you your package

4 days!!!

Have a great night - I am going in my space to create something!

Can't wait!!! Check this out and my sneak!

2010-10-25T19:03:00.000-04:00

This is going to be a good one!!! And a sneak of my entry..... you MUST play along as there are going to be some fabulous RAKs!

Have a great night!

Crop Suey DT Bio *** Sorry this was suppose to be scheduled for this am!*

2010-10-21T00:00:00.003-04:00

Well it's my turn to be featured on Crop Suey as Mia is introducing the new dynamic DT. I am so excited about the new challenges that will start November so make sure to keep checking the Crop Suey blog as there are alot of things happening before the first challenge will be up!

Now for the goodies! I was organizing (again) my scraproom as I tend to do this once a month as I have alot of stuff and like to see what I have and realized I have a MONSTER pile of Halloween goodies that I will never use so I thought I would put together a little RAK of my destash (extra goodies). I also had some Halloween pipe cleaners and decided to make some little Basic Grey inspried flowers using the pipe cleaners and vintage buttons and of course some bling!

up-close of my flowers and some cool flocked ribbon (12")

some stickers, scalloped titles, little diecuts

some scary rub-on letters and some little skulls. (or scary pirates as my 3year old calls them;)

So how do you get a chance to win this little kit? Well four things and each thing gives you 4 chances to win:

1. Follow my blog if you already don't;

2. Follow Crop Suey if you already don't:

3. Leave a comment on Crop Suey's blog telling us what you are most excited about the new Crop Suey;

4. Leave a comment on this post and tell me about your favourite HOME MADE Halloween costume

Do all this by Halloween and voila! 4 chances to win!!!!! I will post the winner a few days after Halloween!

Thanks for stopping by!

hello there

2010-09-24T19:43:00.002-04:00

Hello,

Sorry I haven't posted in a while but it has been a little crazy around here. So I have some news! I was accepted to be an artist at the Art Hive where I will be selling my goodies from hello *there*!

What is hello *there* you ask? Well my site is still under construction as I am working hard at getting stock made to go to the hive but essentially it's my new venture to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's Walk to Cure Diabetes! I am soooo EXCITED! I have been making stuff like mad to go into the Hive and will be posting pics soon. But for a looksee check out my blog hello *there* and click on Scrapbook Kits. Oh and did I mention that every penny that I make will go towards the walk? So excited!!

I just LOVE the work that Rebecca Sower does and she is constantly inspiring me and I just fell in love with a journal that she did named TELL. I emailed her to see if it would be ok to reproduce the birdcage for a kit that I wanted to make to sell on hello *there* and she said YES! So excited that one - she emailed me and two that I could recreate these little birdcages for my Be Free kit. Here is a look at the kit that I am selling for $20 (CAD) - but quick - I only have 3 kits (as I might just keep the fourth for myself).

Thanks for stopping by and make sure to stop by hello *there* to check out this great kit!

Stacy

The new Crop Suey

2010-09-03T19:50:00.001-04:00

Well Crop Suey is under new management - Mia has taken over and she has asked me to help her be her co-conspirator! So many exciting changes are going to be happening including TWO tutorials per month! Great challenges and some extremely talented new ladies! So keep posted as the challenges will start in the fall!

For now check out Crop Suey and the new design team - you might just know one of them!

elizabeth carney
natalie macdonald
heather leopard
cassie box
mara campbell
norine borys
sarah mullanix

And the two super talented tutorial guru's!!! :) :)

trina kison
sharon bertollino

Have a great long weekend everyone!

I'm back on the computer!

2010-09-03T19:41:00.000-04:00

So what an adventure it has been to get a new computer.... first we were told it was a video card on our laptop so that means $600-700 so we went down again a week later to a town 1.5 hrs away to buy a new computer. We had it at the counter and was going to pay when the tech guy came and said why are we getting a new computer when it was just the harddrive - $90, so bought the harddrive but because we didn't leave the disk behind we had to load it ourselves... well that didn't work.... actually turned out it was the video card!!!! So hubby drove back down and bought the computer that we were going to buy just days before....... anyhoooo got a free bamboo tablet, and a free webcame. So not shabby.... think the monitor is bigger than my tv (hee hee).... so waiting to get photoshop back on......

have lots to share with you so make sure to check the next post!!!

Bye for now!

Stacy

OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-08-25T11:29:00.000-04:00

Stay tuned.........

In the meantime check out this exciting news!

Believe in Angels

2010-08-16T18:21:00.000-04:00

Hello friends. Make sure to scroll down as I finally have a new camera and have I have done 3 posts today!

This is one of my favourite pages. I just love the Basic Grey Cappella papers. So calming with pinks, blues, yellows and greens. The embellishments so pretty. I just knew that I had to do this page with this picture of Parker. I have lots of premade titles from a K&Company when I went nuts at Michaels once and new I had to use one of the words. As soon as I saw believe I knew what I was going to do. It looks like Parker is seeing something (or someone) beyond what we saw that day. So that is the direction I took with this page. Angels. I am not a religious girl but strongly believe that my grandparents are watching over us. Parker never met them and I want him to know how much they would of loved him if they met him.

Used little frames from the dollarstore for the frames of my grandparents. Also wanted to use some of the pattern paper that came in my kit so I punched out the circles and then stiched them together with embroider floss. Also made the flower from ribbon.

Thanks for looking.

Dynamic

2010-08-16T18:09:00.000-04:00

This is another page I worked on while my camera was broken. It was for a Page Maps challenge but I didn't get it photographed in time. Not my favourite page but this was a FANTASTIC day! We ended up raising $5200 for the Telus Walk to Cure Diabetes which I still can't believe! What a whirlwind! Page title is Dynamic because that is what we called the team - Parker's Dynamic team. My aunt (red t-shirt) and her friend (behind my right shoulder) are Co-operators agents and they sponsored the team with t-shirts. We got t-shirts with the team name and Parker got a t-shirt that said 'I'm Parker'. Too cute!

butterfly embellishment I did long time ago one evening - so happy got to use it!

Used some old cards for the buntings. The challenge also had a colour palette.

Got to use some of my Evalicious embellishments and some sassafras las stickers.

Thanks for looking!

Got a new camera!!!! So here you go!

2010-08-16T18:02:00.000-04:00

Finally got a new camera! So here are some pictures and more to come. So this project was created a few nights after I made the 'So Exposed' page. I was going to clean my table and instead I decided to make a project with items ONLY on my table. I love this page! I love how easy it came together and I just love this picture of Parker and I.

I had done a father's day card for hubby and I had this picture left over on my table.

Some stiching, handmade layered embellishments inpired by Christine Middlecamp and voila!

Thanks for looking!

What have I been up to you ask?

2010-08-12T20:41:00.000-04:00

hello *there* friends,

I know I have been m.i.a and I am sorry. I still haven't replaced my camera and time is just flying by. I now understand what my parents ment that time flies by so fast when you have kids. Every day is such a blur lately!

I have been busy in my studio (*sigh*) with a new project that I am soooo excited about! I won't spill all the beans yet but here's a hint -

I also do have two pages to share but you will have to wait. One of them is probably one of my favourite pages to date!

Well must go downstairs and play - Parker is asleep, hubby is gone for a bike ride, dishes are done, ...(well kinda)... so need to go play!

Bye for now,

Stacy

Check this out!! Yahoooo!!

2010-07-27T19:14:00.000-04:00

I am so excited!!!! One of my all time favourite artists Debee Campos is giving an online class called Inspire Lovely - which we will learn how to use a can of spray paint and layer like she does! Check it out and sign up!

Debee's Inspire Lovely Class info

Bye for now!

Stacy

Crop Suey's Challenge #14

2010-07-23T19:46:00.000-04:00

The new challenge is up at Crop Suey and this one was a therapeutic one for me. The challenge this time is to pick a date on the calendar. Not a typical date like xmas or vday. So I picked September 10, 2009. Just an ordinary day for most right? Not for us. This is the day that changed our lives forever. It's the day that our son who was just two years old at the time was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

As mentioned in my last post I broke my camera :( and still haven't replaced it so I thought that I would do a digital page for this challenge and then soon - will recreate it onto paper.

So make sure to hop on over to Crop Suey and play along!

Happy Friday!

Made with elements from a kit from Digichicks - A beautiful life by Wendy Page Designs

Bad blogger - but good excuse

2010-07-12T11:47:00.000-04:00

Sorry I haven't put a post up in a bit but I broke my camera! :(

FUnny story actually - my son was having a temper tantrum on the potty and I was recording it - then karma got me because I turned the corner and hit the door frame and my camera went flying and crashed to the ground and broke the lens so no more camera. Hubby has taken a few pics for me but he shoots in raw format and hasn't had the time to process it for me and I have no clue how to do it. So will be needing a new camera!

So check back soon and I promise to have some new pictures up!

Until then here is a picture for some inspiration from over at creative mint

Just love her colour combos! Have a great day!

So Exposed - Crop Suey Challenge

2010-06-25T00:00:00.001-04:00

This was a tough challenge for me. Crop Suey's challenge is a good one - scrap a bad picture. It could be a blurry photo or a bad hair day. I have been working on my album and a big part of my life has been struggling with self-image issues. I know that I don't have a weight issue but in my mind I do. I have never loved my body and slowly I am starting to feel more comfortable with it. I couldn't find a blurry picture as we tend to delete those (bad habit of my photographer hubby). So I found a picture of myself from Costa Rica in 2006 that I thought I had hid but for some reason resurfaced so I had to do it.

For the month of June Crop Suey is being sponsored by this fantastic etsy artist

Blackscrap

and I got these super cute little roses to play with. I backed the rose with some pattern paper to add a little dimension to them.

Make sure to hop on over to Crop Suey to play along as everyone gets a chance to win some wonderful goodies from Blackscrap. You have until July 9th to play along so make sure to dig out those bad pictures and create a project with them.

Thanks for stopping by!

Have to share

2010-06-21T20:31:00.000-04:00

I love to blog surf. We don't have tv so hopping from blog to blog is my tv zone out time. On Scrap Tiffany's blog last week there was a link to this FANTASTIC blog that I must just share with you. You HAVE to check out Christine Middlecamp's blog! She just finished up a series of 16 (yup I said 16!!!) tutorials of these FABULOUS Embellished Paper Doily projects! Make sure you check it out.... Here are a few pics of her AWESOME work!

Have you gone yet??? What are you waiting for???? Go check it out... ;) Make sure to stop by Friday as I am posting my latest project for Crop Suey's next challenge! Have a great week!

PS. Our family raised a total of $5200 for my son's Walk to Cure Diabetes!!! We raised just under 10% of the whole Peterborough, ON Walk!!! So the bar is set to $10,000 for next year. Make sure to keep checking my blog as I am thinking of some fun ways to raise some money - and that included making and selling little goodies for your pages!! Keep posted.... :)

Bye for now,
Stacy

Scrap Tiffany Blog Hop Winner!

2010-06-06T18:38:00.000-04:00

I have a winner of this cute little set made from recycled elements from a Jenni Bowlin wholesale catalogue. I used random generator but couldn't get a picture of it so you will have to trust me that this draw was done randomly ;)

The winner is Janelle! Here's her comment:

Janelle said...

Think the elements with the butterflies were my favorite, they are adorable! I like to use all my different beads i use for jewellery to make shaker boxes, ribbons from gifts and I LOVE using buttons (clothes, handmade, sticker)

June 6, 2010 3:49 AM

So Janelle - please email me with your address and I will send the package off this week!

Thanks to all who stopped by and left your comments!

Stacy

Scrap Tiffany Blog Hop!

2010-06-05T00:00:00.070-04:00

Scrap Tiffany's REcycle Blog Hop is finally here! I knew the instance I saw the post on Scrap Tiffany that this is one Blog Hop I HAD to take part. My middle name is 'REcycle!!!'

I always love coming up with neat little ways to recycle items into fabulous elements for my projects. If you happen to stop here first make sure to start your Blog Hop at ScrapTiffany.com and follow the links from there.

Ok... what did I do? Well I had some old scrap catalogues and some packaging that I had kept from Jenni Bowlin and Melissa Frances. So I just love the Jenni Bowlin catalogue as it was cute little pictures of all her fabulous bingo cards, journaling spots, samples of paper and they are all printed on cardstock! The Melissa Frances catalogue is a glossy one but still had lots of samples of all her beautiful papers. So on a good TV night (Vampire Diaries) I grabbed my catalogues, scissors, my ultimate favourite Martha Stewart butterfly punch, my circle and scalloped punches and I go to town. I punch, cut and punch some more. Then, when I have a little container full I create little embellishments for futur use. I try to colour cordinate them with either scraps of ribbon or other little elements that I keep (as I keep EVERYTHING!). I just love to put together little kits for futur projects with all items coordinating... So here are some samples....

House was made with a scrap square from catalogue and some corrugated cardboard painted white. Lots of stiches, some Jenni Bowlin pieces (HOME, tickets, journaling spot, two centre pattern papers).

The frames were made from corugated cardboard from a box and the little elements were all from Jenni Bowlin catalogue. Little paint, glitter and stiching with the machine...

These two pieces were made from the Jenni Bowlin catalogue (HOME, blue small journaling spots, the big black journaling spot, butterflies, and pattern paper on bottom element)

Every month I am so lucky to get the Basic Grey Page of the Month kit and I just love BG packaging. I always carefully take my buttons, brads or other elements out of package and keep the packaging for journaling tags, etc. To the Kioshi line is too cute. Used it on my last project for Crop Suey and thought I could use it to make a cute journaling block. So I cut out some of the details that had the text and then also used another package (same pattern) and cut them into different sizes for my next project. I glued them randomly and then stiched the grid over the scraps of paper. On the journaling spot I also used some punched out details from my Melissa Frances catalogue and some Jenni Bowlin pieces too.

Ok... Do you want to win this little kit (below)???? All you have to do is leave a comment and tell me what is your favourite recycled element that you have made and make sure that you come back here to see who won on Sunday as it could be you!

So are you ready to check out the next talented lady??

Make sure to go check out Rebecca's Blog - she is very talented and does have two of the cutest little ones that are in alot of her amazing projects!

http://rebeccakeppel.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by and HAVE FUN!!

Use Your Handwriting Challenge - Crop Suey #10

2010-05-28T20:31:00.000-04:00

Crop Suey's 10th challenge is up and as usually it's a GREAT one! You must create a project using as much handwriting as possible. Just to let you know - I am not a fan of my own handwriting and avoid it on my pages. But this one was so much fun. I knew that I wanted to do a Dina Wakley style and use lots of layers over my handwriting. So I just went to town and wrote lots of things that have been bothering me lately on my pattern paper. Then I cut them into squares or scalloped it. Then used some paint dabbers (white) on them to mellow out the text a bit then used some teal (2 shades) around the edges of the papers to unify them. All the papers were from my Kioshi BG kit of the month from my local scrapbooking store The Craft Nook in Bracebridge, ON.

Also got to use the ribbon (not sure if that is what BG calls it) on the squares and the pipe cleaner flower. Then I used that flower as my inspiration to create another one (purple) out of pipe cleaners and buttons. I also painted on some buttons to tie the colours all together.

The picture was taken with my laptop camera and then I applied an artistic filter on it and blurred the background with the smudge tool.

My title is handwritten and then I painted over it and cut it out. Lots of fun!

Make sure to play along as SRM Stickers is hosting this month and anyone who plays gets a chance to win some goodies!

Have a great weekend! We are having a yard sale tomorrow and all the money will go towards my son's fundraising for the TELUS Walk to Cure Diabetes. Can you believe it that to date we have raised $2400!!! I had a goal of $300 so I am pretty excited! To learn more about his walk or to read a bit about him on his diabetes blog please click here.

Thanks!

Sneak for Crop Suey's next challenge

2010-05-22T14:15:00.000-04:00

Here's a little teaser for Crop Suey's next challenge. It's a GOOD one so make sure to check it out on Friday May 28th!

Have a great long weekend (Canada!)

2 new pages

2010-05-14T21:53:00.002-04:00

I have two pages to share with you today. The first one is a page I did of my friend Lisa and I. We met in January and email (almost every day!). Our sons are close in age and were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes within a month of each other. It's so nice to have her in my life as she just gets it. So this page was made using a kit that I had used to teach a class last year. Happy how it turned out.

The next page was a quicky. I wanted to play along at Scrap Tiffany and this week's challenge is to scraplift someones layout. I lifted Kerry Lynn Yeary's layout - 'Twue Wuv'. Used alot of BG Nook & Pantry Papers and a few scraps. This was a very fun layout to do. Of course when you're done you look at it and see things you would change but oh well - go with the flow!

Kerry Lynn's Page:

Here's My Page:

Thanks for looking!

Please check this out

2010-05-09T18:37:00.000-04:00

Hello all my scrapping friends. I don't usually do this. But if you have a chance please check out this link. My son Parker was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes a month after he turned 2. It has been a very rough road and he has been such a brave little man. He gets his sugar checked (finger poke) 8 times a day (sometimes more) and 4 needles a day. So in total he gets 12 pokes a day. He is a human pin cushion. He gives me such strenght as he is the strongest through this. On June 13th we are walking for him and I am raising some funds for the JDRF Walk to Cure diabetes. I don't expect donations from you. I would love it if you could share Parker's story as we do need to tell people that type 1 diabetes is VERY DIFFERENT from type 2. He is constantly getting the stigma that he got diabetes because he ate sweets and that he will outgrow it. He will NOT outgrow this and it was just bad luck that he developed it. It's tough as he does look healthy. But we deal with medical emergencies on a daily basis. Four times a day we as his parents make life threatening decisions about how much insulin to give him. It's not easy.

If you could share his story maybe as he gets older it will get easier for him and other little heroes to go on and try to live a normal life.

Thank you.

It's May 1st - Check out Scrapbooking.com

2010-05-01T09:57:00.001-04:00

It's May 1st - Yay!!! I was contacted by the editor of Scrapbooking.com Magazine Jami Petersen

to publish my 'Just Me & and My Dad' page that I did back in February. So make sure to check it out! I am pretty excited as the super duper talented Ingvild Bolme also has an article this month!

So excited!!!

Favourite Quote - Crop Suey Challenge

2010-04-30T17:19:00.000-04:00

Hello, HAPPY FRIDAY!!!! I am so happy this week is over. It has been one CRAZY week. With a stressed out boss, Parker sugar's high/lows because of a growth spurt, stress at work, and still fighting a sinus infection I am SOOOOO happy it's Friday!

So with that being said it is also time for a new challenge over at Crop Suey! This challenge is about your favourite quote. I have many and couldn't decide on which one to use so I picked a pic of Parker and went with the quote that best suited the picture. I also wanted to use some new embellishments that I made on this page so this is what I came up with. Not sure if all the elements work with the picture but I like how it turned out.

The flower was so easy to make. I was inspired by Prima's flowers (see picture of blue flower) and thought that I could make my own since they are a little too expensive for my wallet. So I drew out three different sized flowers with thich petals (5 petals) cut them out and then rolled the petals to form the point. Then I used some dimensional foam stickers between each layer and punched a hole in the middle using my crop-o-dile. I had some stamens and taped some together and put them through the hole and adhered the back of the stamens to the flower. Used some stickles for some sparkle and that was it. Easy peasy! Also made some more of the butterlies and love how they turned out. Got to use some old paper I had and lots of scraps.

prima's flower (inspiration for my flower above)

So make sure to hop on over to Crop Suey and play along! You have until May 13th to play. Crop Suey has been working hard at finding some sponsors for some yummy prizes and everyone who plays gets a chance to win!

Have a great weekend!

Scrap Tiffany Blog Hop

2010-04-29T17:12:00.000-04:00

Scrap Tiffany is having another Blog Hop and again I am lucky to get to play along! So make sure to check over on June 5-6th to start your blog hopping fun and for chances to win some goodies. I will also be posting some handmade goodies for you to win. So mark your calendars.

Bye for now,

Handmade goodies for a friend

2010-04-10T21:42:00.000-04:00

I am warning you - these pictures are NOT the best! Grrr.... need to get a little set up as most times able to take pics are at night when Parker is sleeping.....

Parker and I am heading up north to visit my parents and to meet my new friend Lisa and her family. Lisa is an awesome mom to Thomas & Seth. Thomas - who is 3 was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in August of 2009. We were connected by my step-dad in January and I am SOOO thankful to have her in my life! She gets it. Sorry honey but it's different. Lisa and I are so alike it's scary. We are both overthinkers and stress at every decision that we make in regards to our son's diabetes. It's been a tough ride but it's so nice to have her. So we are going to meet next week and I can't wait!!! She is also a scrapper but is very limited by her supplies as she too lives in a small town and the closest city doesn't offer very much. Poor thing is on dial-up so she doesn't even have the internet as a resource. So I have lots of stuff and thougth I would go through my stash and create a little box of goodies for her. I started by just tossing extra stuff in a pizza box. Then I decided to take it a step further and make her some cute little goodies from my huge pad of beautiful K&Company paper. I just love my new Martha Stewart punch so I punched her a bunch of butterflies out of the pattern paper along with some vintage sheet music and some patterened vellum from my scraps and packaged them in a little ziplock. Then I made the fabric flowers with some coordinating fabric and packaged them in a cute little package. Then tonight I used my new Martha Stewart butterfly stamps and stamped using some brown ink on the pattern paper and then cut them out. I then used some stickles and some pearls to bling it up a bit. Also used some stamens I had as antenae. Hope she likes it!

Stay tuned soon as you may have a chance to win some of these butterflies!

I will be taking a blogging break to go on my trip (10hr drive with a toddler by myself - should be interesting)... see you soon!

Self Portrait - Crop Suey Challenge #6

2010-04-02T08:39:00.000-04:00

Ok ladies.... here's a hard one for you! Crop Suey's Challenge this week is Self Portrait. Like many of you you have many other subjects to photograph ie/ kids, pets, loved one - but you never get a shot of yourself - right? So this was a hard one for me too.

I used my goodies from my A Million Memories kit as it has my fav colours - teal & pink mixed together. Plus I just LOVE those prima flowers. So make sure to join Crop Suey and play with this great challenge! The due date is two weeks from yesterday (April 15th).

Have a great Good Friday~ weather is suppose to be just beautiful this weekend!

Hubby birthday gift

2010-03-30T21:04:00.001-04:00

I just got my new BG Page of the Month kit that I purchased through my LSS The Craft Nook and I just LOVE the new Origins papers! I am not one for green but these are fantastic. It was my hubby's 34th birthday last Tuesday so on Monday night I scrambled to get this project done and I just love how it turned out. I wanted to make a frame of our family and this is what I came up with. It didn't take very long and I got to use my new Martha Stewart butterfly punch (can you tell I just love that punch!). I was super easy and quick to do plus I got to use up some items from my stash! Thanks for looking. Don't forget to stop by Friday am as it's Crop Suey's 6th Challenge and it's my turn to play!

Two hybrid layouts

2010-03-28T13:56:00.000-04:00

I just LOVE hybrid projects. I do find it tough sometimes to get that perfect element for my pages as I do live in a small town and access to the new great products is hard. I did get to my LSS the Craft Nook (1.5 hrs away - make sure to sign up for their wonderful newsletter) and did get a few new goodies that I will have to use soon. So I search online for digital elements that I can use on my projects.

My first page was made using my Origins BG Page of The Month kit from my LSS The Craft Nook and a FREE digital kit from Peppermint Creative. I printed the green clover swirl and the 'lucky' definition onto transparency and the clovers, Bingo card, and title onto cardstock. I wanted a pop of colour and the purple in the title was the inspiration for the purple. I bought a Martha Stewart punch that I have been wanting since xmas and used some pearls from the dollar store. Happy on how it turned out.

I have been wanting to scrap this picture (and many more from this photoshoot) for a long time now but never had the right combo of papers and elements. I dug out this paper that I have had for a VERY long time and all the pattern paper is from my scrap box. Again I printed some digital elements onto transparency paper for inkjet printers. I found the doilies on Martha Stewarts site (click on link) and the vintage elements were from Gypsy Chic that I purchased from scrapartist.com. The title cherish is a word art file I got from houseof3.com http://www.houseof3.com/digital-warehouse/words/handwritten-brush-kit.html I love how this page turned out as I wasn't sure when I was piecing it together.

I do have a few more projects to upload so make sure to check back soon! Have a wonderful spring day!

Crop Suey Challenge #5 Embrase the White Space

2010-03-19T18:31:00.000-04:00

Crop Suey's 5th challenge is up and it was a tough one for me. 'Embrase the White Space' is the challenge this round. I had a very hard time and ended up with two other attempts with no luck (see Why So Serious, and Just Me & My Dad), then it doned on me to go to Sweet Shoppe Designs for some inspiration and this is what I came up with and I LOVE it! I had printed up a bunch of images on some transparencies and used a few on this layout (See 'Love', swirl in botom corner and floral frame behind picture). This picture is of my grandmother and I in 1975. I used a digital frame around the pic and did try some photo editing as it was an old picture. I also printed up a digital Bingo card from a free image I found on line. I made the flower from fabric. Used some papers from my BG kit.

So make sure to head on over to Crop Suey and make sure to play along! Thanks for stopping by and have a great spring day!

Done all my projects!!! Yipee...

2010-03-14T17:23:00.011-04:00

So.... what am I going to buy now that my 20 projects are done? I do have a few things on my list and will be picking them up on Thursday. Will post pics later. I LOVED this challenge! Some of the final projects I can't post yet but will as soon as I can so keep posted. The three that I can show you are as follows.

The first is one of my favourites! It was done very quickly and I got to make some cool fabric flowers. Don't you just love the pink one? I will post a tutorial soon on how to make these.

The next was my last project. I am happy it turned out. Got to do some embroidery on it and used up a few transparencies I printed on my computer.

The last one.... Don't love it but it was just one of those fun ones I did with no computer use as hubby was on laptop so i had to handwrite my journaling (I hate my handwriting)..... I think I just have a hard time with the bright colours.

Have a great March break - I am working so not much of a break ;) but going on holidays in April. Bye for now

Snow Much Fun - Project #15

2010-03-06T13:32:00.003-05:00

This page was done using some of my goodies that I won from The Next Step. I received an amazing kit from A Million Memories and what a kit it was! So lovely! This picture was perfect for the wintery pages that came in the kit. I used alot of sparkles - stickles, sequins, sparkly ribbon, my own glimmer mist..... so much fun. I used an old snowflake wood piece for behind the journaling that I painted with lots of layers of teal, blue and white. Also used some rubons that I have been wanting to use for some time and some old snowmen buttons that came with the snow metal letters. I lost the O while making this page so used one of the snowmen. This was a fun day!

Thanks for looking!

Crop Suey Challenge #4 - Use Your Scraps Challenge

2010-03-05T06:51:00.004-05:00

Good morning! Crop Suey's challenge #4 is up so make sure to check it out! It's my turn to play and what a fun challenge this one is! You can only use scraps to make your project. All scraps should by rule be smaller than 4"! I keep everything so this was a perfect project for me! I have been inspired by Kate Mason lately and decided to try my hand at her style. I piled all my neutral scraps and cut them into smaller pieces ranging in many sizes. Then I used my oil pastel and coloured the sides of each piece then adhered them onto a piece of scrap piece of printer paper that I had (this was the only piece that was bigger than the rule :). Lots of piecing and the house was the same. I stiched zig zag stiches on the roof to mimic shingles and did lots of layering on the house. I painted the sky and grass with watered down acrylic paints and then used my charcoal pencil to outline. I also used scraps for the free hand scalloped border and just duplicated them to create the full border. The rub on is by Melissa Francis. This project is the cover of one of my family photo albums.

Make sure to hop on over and play! Have a great day - it's Friday and the weather is beautiful! Spring is on it's way!

Friend Birthday Box and Card (Lisa please don't read)

2010-02-27T09:34:00.002-05:00

I wanted to post these pictures of a present I made for a new friend's birthday - so please don't continue Lisa :)

I am not happy lately with my pictures of my projects as I never get to photograph them during the day which is ideal. I work full time during the week and by the time I leave or come back it's not the optimal time to photograph. My hubby has set up a little studio downstairs but we are still lacking the right lighting. I have a great link for a tutorial that Studio Calico did on photographing your projects but they suggest daytime is best - which I know is true but hard to do. So please bear with me with these two pictures as they are not the best :(

I have sent off the present and these are the best pics I was able to get. I did a similar box for my mom for xmas and never did photograph it. So these two projects are number 12 and 13 of my 20 use your stash projects. Have one more to photograph - will do today if it's sunny as it's snowing here and it's pretty over cast.

Have a great day everyone and happy crafting!

Stacy

Project #10 - 10 Years Together

2010-02-15T19:33:00.003-05:00

Ok... I missed 2 projects on my project roll as I counted the medallion, and the two banners for Scrap Tiffany's blog as one project when in reality they are 3!

This page was done with more of the K&Company papers (can you tell I LOVE those papers!). This is not usual for me to use the same papers back to back but they are soooo lovely! This picture is an old one and we have been together 12 years but I don't have any recent pics! I guess that's what happens when your hubby is a photographer. No pictures of ourselves! I was inspired by Camille's page that she did for Crop Suey's 2nd Challenge by using the playing cards. I distressed it a bit and used the red as my accent colour. One another page from this paper pack there is this beautiful hydrangea and I wanted to recreate it out of paper. Love paper flowers! It was super easy. Just cut a circle then scalloped it and cut down a bit into the circle for the base. Then I cute a bunch of petals and punched a hole on the end of it and fed it onto a brad that came from the back of the base flower. Curled the petals a bit, folded the shorter center ones and put some stamens in.

Thanks for looking! Don't forget to check out the previous post to see who won the friends magnet clips!

134 Comments + 23 New Followers!!! Yahoo!!!

2010-02-15T08:24:00.003-05:00

Wow oh Wow!!!!!!!!!!! I did not believe it! I played in the morning on Saturday as I had company coming so when I checked that evening I couldn't believe my eyes! Thank you all who commented and who joined my blog!

I have always wanted to use Random.Org and here it is:

Comment 93 won my friendship pins! So Pam (prcusberg) please email me with your address! This is her comment:

pcrusberg said...
Oh, your projects are so pretty. What am I doing for V-day? Going to my MIL's for dinner. Woo-hoo! Thanks, Pam

Thank you all again for the wonderful comments!

Scrap Tiffany Blog Hop

2010-02-12T18:58:00.005-05:00

It's here! Scrap Tiffany's Blog Hop! Scrap Tiffany is celebrating her one year anniversary with a Celebrations theme blog hop! Make sure to start at ScrapTiffany.com and follow the hopping fun! As soon as I saw that she was doing a blog hop I wanted to play along. I have been wanting to make some party favour type items for a while now. The first thing I did was the paper wreath and garland. Still only using products that I have on hand I managed to use an old wreath frame that I had bought years ago and some old vintage pages. I used my handmade spray inks and inked the vintage paper. I did a collage of elements from various elements I had on hand as well. For the garland I used doilies that I cut in half and some vintage paper that I also cut circles and then inked and cut in half. All of the garland was then sewed togehter. I also punched out some circles and adhered some chipboard letters to spell out celebrate. The picture isn't that great as the only good wall we have in the house is our bedroom wall that is this dark green. I wanted to use some teal and PINK (Tiffany's favourite colour!).

I had so many ideas but was only able to do a few of them. I wanted to make some favours so I took some old clothespins, covered with pattern paper, stamped Friends on it and then using some flowers and pearls made the magnet clips. ****Stay tuned to the end of this post for your chance to win these friends clips!*****

I used old scrabble tiles for the wine charms. I did glue varied pattern paper on the backs (sorry hubby forgot to take picture of backs :( ) and then using my glossy accents glued the front and back of the tiles to give them an epoxied look. I used little eye hooks on the tops of the tiles to secure my loops that I had from years ago of an old wine charm set I bought at good old Dollarama.

Now make sure to continue your blog hop by clicking on this link to go to Rebecca's blog! I just love Rebecca's style! Her kids are the cutest! Have fun!

*****To win the Friends magnet clips - please leave a comment on my blog by Sunday at 10pm and tell me what you did (or plan on doing) on Valentine's Day or Family Day (here in Ontario)******

Thanks for stopping by!

I adore you - project #8

2010-02-07T15:55:00.009-05:00

Here is my 8th project of my 20 Use Your Stash Challenge! (#5,6,7) will be revealed next Saturday. This page is a scraplift of a digital layout I saw on Sweet Shoppe Designs that I just fell in love with! I was able to use more of the K&Company papers (I just love them!) and some elements from my A Million Memories kit I won from The Next Step in November. I also got to use some vintage text paper. Old picture of Parker but a cute one! I think the title is self-explanatory and I didn't need to journal on this one. I will be busy making some tags for an upcoming Creative Packaging class I am doing for a local Sew Resourceful program. So I will be MIA for projects - only tags. Bye for now.

Crop Suey Challenge #2

2010-02-05T07:15:00.005-05:00

Crop Suey's 2nd challenge is up and it's my turn to play! This challenge is about a special man in your life. You can make anything you want - a card, layout, mixed media, tag, gift.... anything goes! Make sure to check out what the other fabulous Crop Chicks have created!

Here's my take on the challenge. I decided since Valentine's Day is just around the corner I wanted to make a Vday card for my hubby from Parker and I. I used three envelopes to make the card/mini album. I have been wanting to do one of these ever since I saw the how-to's on Heather Nichols blog (click on link to see tutorial). I used mostly BG Bittersweet papers and some vintage papers. I used regular shipping tags and my Distress Inks. Lots of stiching as usual and I used some old stickers from my stash from many years ago (hearts and fabric tags). I also used some vintage buttons that I used on the front cover to keep the 'book' closed.
Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to play along at Crop Suey!

Inside Flap

Inside Opened Up

Close Up of Inside

Photo of Parker & I that goes in middle envelope

My Valentine letter to hubby

Parker's Valentine to Daddy

Want a chance to get some goodies?

2010-01-29T18:39:00.004-05:00

Mia, a very talented scrapper and a Crop Chick as well has entered a contest at Purple Cows for a chance to win some amazing prizes and she needs our help! If you go to her blog and then follow the instructions to vote for her (and leave a comment doing so) you can win some awesome RAK that she is giving to her supporters! Make sure to go over and help her out! Here are some of her goodies she is giving away.... I am drooling over these flowers!

It is VERY cold here today and we are still pretty sick! Parker has been home for the past three days but at least this time it's not affecting his sugar levels too much!

Keep warm!

Vintage Love

2010-01-27T08:53:00.002-05:00

Ok... Here it is! My Vintage Love Page. So by posting this that means I didn't get the page call but that's ok.... I LOVE this page! The pictures are not the best as I had to take them at night.. Need to learn more about flash.. Maybe DH could teach me some tricks :)

I think what makes it special to me are all the little elements that I used from my grandmother's craft box I inherited when she passed. I handmade the paper roses and the hat pin. This picture is from 1951 and the picture (under my grandparents) is a picutre of a love poetry book that my grandmother started the year she was married (in 1944). The picture behind the title is also from her book. The leaves are vintage lace that I got from her box, along with the bits of costume jewelry in the roses. The lace and binding tape is also from her. I also used vintage music sheet and text paper in my 'quilted' pattern paper that I made. I also did do alot of distressing on this one.

Thanks for looking! We are all at home today sick... :( So I think movies and cuddling on the couch will be the plan for today!

amazing inspiration!

2010-01-26T19:25:00.004-05:00

Among some blog hopping today I stumbled upon this beautiful blog called 'A Creative Mint'! You NEED, or should I say - MUST check it out! She puts together the most beautiful inspiring colour combinations that she will then create vignettes or photo collections with the colours and photograph them...... GORGEOUS!!!! So much inspiration! Here are some of her pictures....

I think one of my next projects will be based on one of her colour combos!

Crop Suey Challenge

2010-01-22T18:34:00.006-05:00

Here it is! Crop Suey's first challenge is FRIENDSHIP! Make sure to hop on over to Crop Suey for more details but basically anything goes. Cards, jewelry, mixed media, ATC's, tags, layouts or anythings with this theme. You have two weeks to get your page up on either flickr or on the Crop Suey blog for your chance to win some fabulous BoBunny goodies!

As soon as I saw the challenge a few things jumped into my head... friendship pins, laces and facebook. And then Bree from Crop Suey challenged me to use 20 pins.... was a little challenging as I had to go digging to find some pins as I am also challenging myself to not buy anything until my 20 projects are done. Once I found the 20 pins I had fun creating these old school pins. What would friendship pins be without a pair of shoe laces to attach them to? So I used some laces on my page. Also wanted to try my hand at some canvas so I painted it with teal paint (my fav colour!). I am sooo loving these papers from K&Company and have used them on a couple of projects that I can't just share yet. By joining facebook in 2007 I have reconnected with so many friends that I thought I had lost forever. The pictures aren't the best but beside every picture it says: Friend (name), Met: (date met), Lost touch: (when we lost touch). I had lots of fun with this one.

Thanks for looking and make sure to go play over at Crop Suey!

Mark your calendars

2010-01-20T18:15:00.003-05:00

Just a few days and Crop Suey will be post it's first challenge! So excited!

Also, if you haven't checked out Scrap Tiffany's blog yet make sure to hop over. She's celebrating her blog anniversary with a blog hop on Feb 13.

Also don't forget to come back here as you will see my page that I did for Crop Suey! Bye for now!

2010-01-14T09:30:00.002-05:00

Check this out.

I think I might just have to give it a try!

Few projects and a sneak peak!

2010-01-12T20:19:00.004-05:00

I have a few pictures to show you of one page (this is my first towards my 'Use Your Stash Challenge') and my bib necklace that I finally took pictures of. I have also included a sneak peak of a page I just finished (all old stash but won't count towards my 20 as I started it before the challenge).

The layout 'Come Play' is about how my son LOVES to play with his Grandpa (or Grandmas as he calls him). When we went up north in October my hubby got this shot of Parker on his Grandpa's tractor. I just love this picture of the two of them!

ALL old stash on this one! I actually even used stuff that I was going to give away as I didn't think I was going to use it. I did some stamping on this page (the border of cars/trucks/planes) on a border sticker that I have had for EVER! I mounted some ribbon on the back of the strip as well to give it a little dimension. I also stamped the stars on the half circle to mimic some Pink Paislee paper I saw and loved. I also used my Prima Bingo stamp on that paper to give it a vintage look. The ticket by the picture is Melissa Francis, the green circle with the alphabet is from the packaging from a stamp set I got in October. 'PLAY' is BG, the vintage border at the top left is from my score from Crop Suey when I won the vintage challenge last spring. Of course I had to use vintage sheet music for the stars and I hand cut the swirlies. The buttons are from BG as well. The 'come', letters, sweet sticker and the circle paper is from a 6x6 kit I bought from Dollarama years ago.

The bib necklace was lots of fun to do. I kept seeing them on etsy made from fabric and I wanted to make one out of paper for the Art Hive's fashion fallies but ran out of time to finish it. I used BG papers (sorry can't remember what papers) and some pearls from Dollarama.

And here's a sneak peak at my Page Maps page call entry. I can't post the page so I hope I won't be disqualified for posting this little snipet! This one is my absolute favourite page to date! So many vintage goodies from my grandma's craft box and even got a scan of her love poem book she wrote in 1944! I love it! So if I don't get picked I will post it.

Thanks for looking!

Use what you have challenge!

2010-01-10T19:35:00.003-05:00

Ok.... I am not as brave as Bree but I will try to do 20 projects with items I have before I purchase more (which needs to be by the end of March as I have some new BG Page of the Months kits coming!)

This will be hard especially with CHA just around the corner and all the new cool products hitting the shelves soon! I figure I should tackle my other resolutions sooner rather than later!

I have a new page that I will post early this week and some sneak peaks to a project I am working on for the Page Maps page call that is due on the 15th!

If you are wanting to join Bree and myself to make x number of projects (this could be anything) before you buy more please leave me a comment! And keep checking in to make sure I am on target!

If you haven't already joined make sure to join Crop Suey's forum! It's a great place to meet other scrapping ladies and to be inspired by the many amazing projects in the gallery!

Just click here to join!

I better go make something if I am going to reach my goal!

Yah Baby!! I'm a Crop Chick!

2010-01-08T18:09:00.003-05:00

Yahoo!!!!!!!!! I accomplished my first resolution of 2010! I made Crop Suey's new challenge blog design team!!!!! I am SOOO excited! Check it out!!!!

So make sure to mark your calendars as the first challenge will be posted on January 22nd so make sure to come and play!

Yipee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010 Resolutions

2010-01-01T10:52:00.003-05:00

Happy New Years! Wow can you believe it's 2010?

Over at Scrap Tiffany her last challenge of the year was Resolutions. I would of love to have played but I am under the weather and running out of time, so instead I thought I would just do a post on my resolutions for 2010. I am HORRIBLE at keeping resolutions so this year instead of the usual (loose weight, be happier etc...) I thougth I would try some that were more scrap focused. So here are mine:

1. To get onto a design team. I would just LOVE to be on a team. One that has great challenges that get you to think outside the box, shows great techniques and has a great team of talented women (and men)!

2. To use my pazzle more! I got my Pazzle Inspiration a couple of years ago and I think I've used it 3 times! Sad - I know! It's such an awesome tool with soooo many possiblities. So my hubby said that he would like to have it out by the laptop and he would make something to house it (as it does take up alot of real estate!).

3. To meet and get to know other scrapping gals! This is sad but I don't have too many friends :( as we are pretty busy and I don't get out much! (pretty pathetic isn't it???) I would love to either start a scrap club or something that gets other crafty women together once a month to talk scrap, scrap and learn from each other! I need this! So this is going to be the hardest one for me this year :)

4. To use supplies that I have! I have soooo much! And need to use up those supplies before I buy more. I try to not get too wrapped up in what is 'in' as like all fads, they get 'out' too fast. So I would like to use my stash and go back to my way of using on each project ' something old, something new (as I always have something new), and try a new technique'.

5. Scrap, scrap and scrap!!!

What are your resolutions? I would love to hear them?

Here's to 2010 and reaching your resolutions!

Happy Holidays!

2009-12-24T09:57:00.005-05:00

One last post before we leave for our family xmas. I wanted to post a picture of my mom's jewelry box but wrapped it before I took some pics so will do so after she opens it. I have been having brain farts alot lately :)

Every year since my son was born I have been making these little cd calendars for family. My mom and brother received one last year that I had put magnets on the back so they could mount it on the fridge as the cd case I used did not open like the jewel cases. I like this better as they can store the other months in the case. This year I made one for my inlaws as well. This year I ran out of time to design my own so I bought a template from Sweet Shoppe Designs- 2010 CD Calendar by Dani Mogstad . Easy to do and a great gift. I had to swap out a few of the months with a kit I bought last year from Shabby Miss Jenn Designs.

Thanks for looking and Happy Holidays!

Keep your fingers crossed for me as Crop Suey still haven't picked their design team yet - so I still have a chance!

Yipee!

2009-12-14T13:20:00.002-05:00

I am so excited! Check this out! I am the winner of The Next Step's November RAK! I entered my Good Night page for their 'around the kitchen' theme as I did this layout out of paper towels. Yipee! Hope everyone is keeping warm out west and everyone around here have found their way out of the massive amounts of snow!

Stacy

Stationary Sets

2009-12-11T19:59:00.004-05:00

I had sooooo much fun making these! I am soooo inspired by Tara Anderson - I just love her work. I had this kit from My Minds Eye that I had purchased for a class I was teaching and cut the pattern paper into strips along with some vintage sheet music and text paper. I adhered teh strips to some cardstock and then cut them lenghtwise into strips, stiched the edges and made some note cards, a bookmark and for one of the gifts I made a birthday book with some chipboard, binding ribbon and some old ledger paper (insde of book). I also used the pattern paper and adhered some pebbles on them and then stuck some magnets on the backs. I hope they like their cute little stationary sets! Thanks for looking. And wish me luck as Crop Suey will be announcing their design team this weekend!

If you haven't been here in a while keep reading as I have done 4 posts tonight! :)

Bye for now... have a few more things on my craft table - a jewelry box and some craft carry-alls for 13 little kiddies!

Snowmen Ornaments - Family members do not read further

2009-12-11T19:54:00.003-05:00

Ok... post number 3 today! I had SOOOOO much fun with these! I have been so inspired by Linda Albrecht's snowmen that I wanted to try my hand at them. I had bought some paper mache clay a while ago and with some styrofoam balls I was able to make the heads. I was a little scared they looked like scary old men with no teeth, but after painting them and glittering them up I just love them! I had some left over blocks from last year's ornaments and again using scraps from my Martha Stewart xmas pack I made the blocks, accordian collars and hats. I hope the recipients enjoy them as much as I did making them! Thanks for looking!

Gift card holders - family members do not read further!

2009-12-11T19:45:00.002-05:00

As per my usual self, I try to make most of my gifts and I LOVE to make nice packaging for my store bought gifts. This year I am giving some giftcards and thought it would be nice to make some nice holders for them. I also have a collection of toilet paper rolls for my son to craft and thought that I would use them myself. So by using some new stamps I bought, some staz-0n, fabric, scraps of music paper, lace, and some old holly I could make some pretty nice gift card holders.

I took the toilet paper rolls and using my decorative cutters I cut the ends then stiched the one end closed. I then stamped some fabric with some staz-on and my Prima bingo stampo. Then I stiched that onto some Martha Stewart xmas papers. I had also stamped my new xmas stamps onto some tags then stiched around the edges. I also then stiched on some lace and music sheet paper onto the paper then adhered the stamp and holly on. The gift cards (still have to purchase - yes I am a last minute xmas shopper!) are then wrapped with tissue paper and adorned with ribbon and glitter stars. Easy peasy! I did do it like a factory line and it went by so quick. Also used some Making Memories little letter stickers for the recipients name. Hope they like it. Think that next year I will make an advent calendar out of these with numbers on the front and using wire or pipe cleaners will make little 'buckets' out of them!

Happy holiday crafting!

Christmas Ornament

2009-12-11T19:41:00.003-05:00

Hello,

Sorry it has been a bit since my last post. Been busy doing xmas presents and dealing with the massive amount of snowfall in the last three days! Our area has been called a state of emergency! Crazy! So happy we live in town now and not in the bush!

This picture is of the ornament I made for my son this year. It was done at the Art Hive's Crafty Girls night. It's a family tradition to do ornaments so this is my son's this year. Lots of fun, something I have never done before. Minus the few jabs to the fingers it was so much fun to make!

Hope you are having fun making all your xmas pressies this year!

Stacy

It's here!

2009-11-28T10:05:00.003-05:00

It's here!!!! My copy of the winter Canadian Scrapbooker came to my door and there it is on page 29! So excited! My first time being published! Then what was even more cool is that I am sharing the page with the super talented Jessi Lute! Jessi is another Canadian girl who was on the One Little Word design team as well as Kenner Road's, don't you just love her page! So don't forget to grab your copy Dec 1! Also resubmitted the layout at Two Peas and Scrapbooks.com and I was in the top Ten By Views and Top Ten by Votes!

Getting started on some xmas presents - at the moment working on some gift card holders made of good old toilet paper rolls :) Will post some pics when done. I get the day today to scrap as my hubby is watching Parker :)

Don't forget to put in your submission for Crop Suey's design team call for their new challenge blog! Hope all our friends below the border had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Sorry the pics are not the best.... Raining outside like crazy!

Bye for now,

Stacy

Bows

2009-11-15T09:39:00.001-05:00

I just wanted to do a quick post of these super cute little Christmas bows. I first saw these on Scrapbook.com and left a comment asking if Mandee would do a tutorial and within a few days she sent me an email with a link to her fabulous site here with the tutorial. Thanks Mandee! So I have Tuesday set to make some with a friend and thougth I would try to make a few first. But instead of using old magazines I used some scrap paper (Martha Stewart Christmas paper). I did do a few little changes to her tutorial. The piece that gets cut off for the shorter piece I punched two holes with my cropodile on each end (see second last picture) and then made a loop and put the brad inside it to form a loop within the bows! Also used cropodile to pre-punch holes on each end and in middle. I was also thinking of printing some smaller pictures side by side (1" high) on the back of some patterned xmas paper so that you would see the little pictures on the bows. Thanks for looking and have fun making all your xmas presents! I would love to see your bows if you make any! :)

Stacy

Check this out

2009-11-12T12:26:00.003-05:00

I am so excited that Crop Suey is starting a new challenge blog! I just love their blog and the creative ideas that they come up with. They are also looking for a new design team so if you think you are the one of the four lucky ladies they will chose hop on over and send in your application. I did.

Working on a new page that will be up soon! Also don't forget to mark your calendars for Dec 1 as the new Canadian Scrapbooker magazine will be on shelves and somewhere will be one of my layouts! I am soooooo excited!

Along with Crop Suey, I also applied for Two Peas in A Bucket's design team call for hybrid scrappers. I love using hybrid elements and thought I would try my luck and apply. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Bye for now,

Stacy

Two new pages - Crafty Ladies

2009-11-08T14:29:00.003-05:00

Make sure to check the previous post as well if you are just stopping in :)

This page is about my mom, grandmother and great-grandmother. They were very involved with crafting with me when I was little and I thank them for taking the time to craft with me. My grandmother used to teach me to sew, and I remember many summers with my great-grandmother crafting. Both grandmothers are passed and I miss them very much! The lemonade papers from BG were perfect for this picture taken in 1976. I also used some hybrid images I got from a Shabby Miss Jenn Designs kit. The title is also from the same kits. I also used some vintage sewing pattern as the ruffle around the circle and some items from my grandmother's craft box I inherited (lace, trimmings, and the smaller buttons). Also used a few elements from a My-Minds-Eye kit I bought for a class I was teaching (teal paper and transparency frame). Thanks for looking,

Stacy

Two new pages - Puppy Love

2009-11-08T13:42:00.006-05:00

Well I was able to get some crafting in this weekend - yah! The first one I did (in this post) is a picture from last fall. I have been wanting to scrap this one for a while as I have so much dog and cat products that I haven't used in so long. They are outdated a bit so I tried to make them a little more current with some new techniques - my spray mist, strips, stiching.... Most of the products are from Deja Views - Dog Days 8x8 paper and punch out tablet. The background paper is from Costco (I think) - and is again old stock. I even got to use some old ribbon I got years ago from a scrapbook shop in Oshawa when I was just starting out and had no child - except for the four legged kind :). Also used some old (I mean old as didn't even peel off sheet -old) of Sticko dog classified stickers on the swirls and then spray misted them green and stiched on it. Thanks for looking,

Stacy

Falling for You

2009-10-17T14:22:00.002-04:00

I have to admit that fall is my favourite time of year and I just love all the fall related products out there. The colours are so beautiful. I had this digital word out that I printed on transparency paper - but it didn't turn out as crisp as I would of liked so I also printed it out a few times on paper and cut it out to add dimension to the transparency. Used some more of my cosmo cricket leaves, the cutest little owls I got at Michaels. I made the 'vine' from stamping hearts on some paper. The cloud was made from fun foam, the corner rubons are from BG. Also used some ribbon from my grandma's lace box I inherited, and some scrap paper. I am on this little kick that I love the look of some digital pages and try to make it non-digital and frames are big right now in digital pages so I thought I would try my hand at it. (Also did it for my Grateful page). Printed my journaling on some transparency and also the circle word art.

Thanks for looking!

Stacy

At Last

2009-10-17T14:17:00.003-04:00

Finally able to upload this page. This page is about how my son finally met my dad - at last. My dad lives in Peru and doesn't come up very often so I was happy to finally have a picture to scrap from Parker's first birthday party. This shot captures the first few minutes when my dad finally saw Parker. Lots of different papers here. Some BG, some from the dollar store and some old pieces I have had around for a long time. Distress the papers and picture a bit, some more stiching, a sticker of a vintage plane from the dollar store, I sprayed the flowers to match the colours on the page, used some of my evalicious flowers I won from OLW, and some dollarstore lace stickers. Also used one of my new stamps on the BG paper.

Thanks for looking!

Stacy

OLW - Gratitude

2009-10-16T21:33:00.003-04:00

Just under the wire! I tried alot of new things on this page. I used my own handwritting for the title, crushed beads as well and glued them on the title, used some of my many brads and some hemp, also printed up some hybrid leaves and cut them out, more stiching, some handmade flowers, distressing and I got to use some of my evalicious goodies that I won with my Sweet as Pie album from OLW!

This is my first page about my son's recent diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. It's been a rough month and we are still learning. The journaling reads:

Even in these dark times of your recent diabetes diagnosis, I am grateful. I am grateful you are young and won't remember a life without diabetes. I am grateful that you have an amazing daycare provider (Jenni) who loves you and has been so involved with meal planning and taking care of you. I am grateful that you will grow up with Teagan, who also has type 1 diabetes and that you will be there for each other as you grow up. I am grateful for the diabetic clinic and all they support they have given. I am grateful for all the people who love you and who will be there for you. But most of all I am grateful for you. You have been such a strong little man and I am so proud of you!

Thanks for looking!

Stacy

Be back soon!

2009-10-15T13:50:00.004-04:00

Hello everyone! Wow... 24 followers and I haven't posted in over a month. I am sorry in the delay in posts lately but we have had a busy 6 weeks. My son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes on Sept 10th and we have been trying to learn a whole bunch of information and it's been a little crazy. I do have 3 new pages to show you and will do one of them tomorrow as the deadline for the OLW is tomorrow night! Please come back soon!

Thanks for your patience :)

Stacy

Man oh Man! Good things happen in 3s!!!

2009-08-12T08:47:00.001-04:00

I am the winner over at One Little Word for the word up Sweet!!! Yipeeeee!!! Check it out!

Thanks to everyone for all the wonderful comments!

Stacy

Pretty Cool!!!

2009-08-11T21:28:00.003-04:00

Just wanted to share with you something exciting! My Sweet as Pie album is featured on Scrapbook Crazy for Mini Albums blog! Check it out! Also, I have some exciting news but you will all have to wait until December 1st, 2009!

Stacy

Oh Scrap!

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Fly Away with Me

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Crop Suey July Challenge

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for a friend

Crop Suey's June Challenge!

hello

New home inspiration

April Crop Suey Challenge

Blog surfing treasures! Pages of My Book!

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Crop Suey's April Challenge Sneak

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March Crop Suey Challenge Sneak!

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Be Ok

Smart Cookie - a Craft Yourself Happy first!

Crop Suey Feb Challenge

Crop Suey Feb Sneak

Few pages for this cold blah day

Page Maps Contest

Mini Journal - my fundamentals for 2011

Crop Suey January Challenge

Top 10 of 2010

2 new pages

Crop Suey December Challenge - *Family*

December Crop Suey Challenge Sneak

You & Me

Ribbon Tape Tutorial and Ribbon Storage

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Hippity Hop Blog Hop is HERE!!!!

Crop Suey's November Challenge is UP!!!!

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Can't wait!!! Check this out and my sneak!

Crop Suey DT Bio *** Sorry this was suppose to be scheduled for this am!*

hello *there*

The new Crop Suey

I'm back on the computer!

OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Believe in Angels

Dynamic

Got a new camera!!!! So here you go!

What have I been up to you ask?

Check this out!! Yahoooo!!

Crop Suey's Challenge #14

Bad blogger - but good excuse

So Exposed - Crop Suey Challenge

Have to share

Scrap Tiffany Blog Hop Winner!

Scrap Tiffany Blog Hop!

Use Your Handwriting Challenge - Crop Suey #10

Sneak for Crop Suey's next challenge

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Please check this out

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Scrap Tiffany Blog Hop

Handmade goodies for a friend

Self Portrait - Crop Suey Challenge #6

Hubby birthday gift

Two hybrid layouts

Crop Suey Challenge #5 Embrase the White Space

Done all my projects!!! Yipee...

Snow Much Fun - Project #15

Crop Suey Challenge #4 - Use Your Scraps Challenge

Friend Birthday Box and Card (Lisa please don't read)

Project #10 - 10 Years Together

134 Comments + 23 New Followers!!! Yahoo!!!

Scrap Tiffany Blog Hop

I adore you - project #8

Crop Suey Challenge #2

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Vintage Love

amazing inspiration!

Crop Suey Challenge

Mark your calendars

Few projects and a sneak peak!

hello there hand of the maker

Crop Suey December Challenge - Family

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