Some scrapbooking to share

I was able to get some scrapbooking done this past weekend at our local crop. A big thanks to everyone who came to have fun! This layout was done for another layout race at scrapshotz messageboard. I had so much fun playing with these bright bold papers. All the papers are by Cherry Arte.

I recieved my March kit from the Memory Workshop and I had so much fun with these papers from Pink Paislee.

Playing with my gypsy, I used the label from the Songbird cartridge (my favorite so far!) and made it as big as I could. Love how it turned out :)

Same kit, but I added some pearls from the Prima e. collection. I dug out a stamp that I've had for ages and embellished it with some kiwi smooch, very fun stuff!

I ended up dropping a sticker on the right corner of the bottom photo and when I try to peel it up it left a whole lotta yucky behind. So I embellished with some fun word stickers. Accidents are oppunities to embellish ;)

This was made with a kit from Just Cre8. I had fun with the bold colors and design from the WRMK papers, I added some scribblez vinyl butterflies and some chipboard flowers and jilliebean soup journalling spots. Makes for a fun easy page.

Another one from the Memory Workshop kit, I used my new Stampin' Up sellabration punch and a few pearls. I sure put my cricut and my gyspy to work this weekend. Love love love the fact that I can weld the letters together now. Makes placement so much easier.

Another Just Cre8 kit, I really love using kits to pack for crops. I packed up 4 kits with matching photos, a few extra sheets of basic color cardstock, a tool kit and my cricut with my gypsy. My bag wasn't bursting with supplies but I was able to get 7 layouts done (I finished the others when I got home)

Surprisingly a double page layout! I had too many photos for just one so I did a double :)

This was one of my favorites from the weekend. Look! I stamped a title! And its actually straight! Thank goodness for acylic stamps.

This was a quick one, done in only 25 minutes. I kept it simple, using vinyl and stamps for the title, added a sheer ticket journalling spot from Maya Road and voila! An easy peasy page.

It was so good to get away for a bit to get some scrapbooking done. Friday night was the scrapbooking class I taught. I had a lot of fun and I think that everyone else did too. I was so impressed that we got 5 layouts done with some ladies finished 6. It was awesome! Looking forward to the next class :)

Life so far...

So this past December Becky Higgins came out with this new scrapbooking concept called Project Life (www.beckyhiggins.com/projectlife/) I was intrigued. But I waited too long to order the kit from Becky so I ended up having to wait until a Canadian distributer came around. So despite the fact that I wanted to start at the begining of January I only got my kit mid March.

I didn't let that stop me. After I recieved my kit I put the contents together and started the process of updating it. It very handy for me to have my photos organized by date on my computer. I just printed 7 at a time and worked my way through the weeks. I'm caught up to this week as of Sunday. It was a bit of a job but I'm happy I did it. Even though I'm not a chronological scrapbooker I really enjoyed my Dec. Daily this is just a bigger project. I really don't think that it will take away from my regular scrapbooking everyday moments but it takes some of the pressure off to do all those events that happen but I don't like scrapbooking. Its kind of like a snapshot of life for me that I will develop more into stories and pages for my regular scrapbooking.

Some sneek peeks

Scrapbooking time has been very scarce lately. I've been busy with paperwork and just a bunch of stuff. Here are some sneeks of a class that I'm teaching at a crop next Friday.

This was the only layout that I've done for my own enjoyment. It was for a challenge over at scrapshotz.com I'm so excited to get back into teaching again!

Totally making good use of my Martha Stewart punches. Say what you want they are awesome tools!

I got a chance to work with some Heidi Swapp invisibles which are pretty cool.

Don't you just love my daughter's spelling? She's mixing up English and French spelling rules and throwing in a few of her own lol!

breathing in and out

Its been one of those weeks of needing to remind myself to breath in and breath out. Looking forward to a bit of a break in a few days as I haven't had one for a couple weeks again.No scrapbooking to share today, hopefully soon. I've joined a Trash your Stash challenge and my challenge to myself is to complete 45 layouts by the end of April. Good thing that I'm heading to 2 crops before the deadline :)

My poor kitty!

This is our kitty Maxi. We found her abandoned in our bush about 3 years ago nearly starved to death. She has been one of the best pets that we've ever had. She is incredibly gentle even with Owen pulling at her tail and ears. Unfortunately this past weekend she stepped in a trap and broke her leg. After taking her to the vet's she is stuck with a cast for 6 weeks. She's not too impressed.

We're having a hard time keeping her in the house and she wants to be outside more than anything. Poor thing walks around dragging her cast. She reminds me of a pirate with a peg leg, lol!

Here's hoping for a speedy recovery.