Layouts I couldn't post yesterday on blogger

Rasbberry Road Fall Festival; Kelly Mize Ad Challenge Template

Tracy Beck Seeing Dogs; Shelley Rae Play It Loud; brushes from Obsidian Dawn

Circle Template by Jen Caputo; Rhonna Ferrar Color My World; CottageArts.net Scrape.Frames 2; Rasberry Road Girl Power

I used another set of the scrap frames from CottageArts.net. I love the way you can use the groupings or use single frames in that kit. I also love the way some are jazzed up and some are plain.

Oh, I have a little secret, but I can't tell. It will be revealed tomorrow. Sssssshh!

Got this question over at Divine Digital: What are the five best crayons in the crayon box? It's a prompt for a Book About Me exercise...
Now my first question is...do you mean the 64 Crayola Crayon box...my favorite as a kid. Remember when the crayons were new and all sharp. Lined up so neatly in the box, ready to be used.
Magenta is number one for me. I just love the name of that color aside from the color itself. It was always one of the ones I used down to a nub.
Cornflower blue. Do you remember that color? Well, my dh has eyes that color. Amazing! So that is my favorite color number 2.
Number 3 is burnt sienna. I'm in an orange phase right now, but not orange orange...burnt sienna. I love it's deep, rich color.
Red is number 4. Who doesn't like red. I have red hair. I used red alot. Plus red is such a great color. It's vibrant, and I love wearing it. It says HELLO. I'm HERE!
Forest green is number 5. I've always liked forest green. I love all shades of green except mint. I can't stand pastel colors. They are like colors without any heart or conviction.

What are your five favorite colors in the crayon box?

Tagged and Scrapping Like A Fiend and DELETE

What shall I talk about first tonight? How about the fact that I was cleaning up my computer to arrange all my kits and get my lo's in order that I wanted to print out and I emptied my recyle bin like a good girl. Take the garbage out right? I should know to always double check because I deleted my downloads file, which was some newer kits I was going to move over to my PSE file. Not that I paid for any of them because as luck would have it, it was all kits that I had from CT's I am on AND that I had used the hound out of on recent lo's. I'm so glad that I had used them, and anyway, the great thing about digi is, most sites let you go back when you bought them and re-download up to like 5 times. So all is not lost or wasted. Whew!

I have done several lo's today, which I will post for your viewing pleasure! LOL!

And finally, Jen, from Scrapstreet tagged me. So I'm playing along cuz it's fun! And who doesn't like fun stuff?
1. Link to the person who tagged you and post the rules on your blog.

2. Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself (on your blog, we all want to know them).

3. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.

4. Let each person know that they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Ok here are my random facts

http://jenthecrazyscrapbooker.blogspot.com/2007/10/alrightso-ive-been-tagged-twice-this.html That's my link to Jen's blog.

Weird facts about me:
1. I do not drink milk out of a plastic cup. I think that is disgusting.
2. I do not like feet.
3. I do not like anyone's feet to touch me because I don't like feet.
4. If you hit your head, I laugh hysterically. Not sure why, but "head injuries" kill me.
5. I drive with my seat straight up not leaned back at all. For some reason, that is what is comfortable to me.
6. I have a bathrobe nicknamed MUMU because it is so big. Apparently my brother thought I was quite a large woman! LOL!
7. I get night sweats. Always have since I've been a kid. How will I know when menopuase hits!

Now, I'm going to tag some of my new CottageArts friends and we'll see how that goes!
Plus if you read this blog and see this tag, consider yourself tagged. HEHEHEHHEHEHE!

Blogger won't let me post my lo's right now. So I will post them when it quits acting strange!

Seeing Dogs by Traci Beck

Digi Credits :
Traci Beck Seeing Dogs @ www.scrappinggarden.com
Royanna Fritschmann Sweetie Pea Label @ Divine Digital
Refresh Word Art Titles @ Scrapgirls
font: Love Ya Like A Sister @ fontologie

My daugher loves this ride. It looks like a pirate ship usually and swings back and forth and goes higher and higher and around...bleh! But isn't that what rides are all about! She loves the state fair and she and her daddy go every year as a special father/daughter treat. He even takes a couple of her friends. They had so much fun at the fair that they all fell asleep on the way home, which was fine with dh because the Gamecocks were playing and he wanted to listen to the game anyway!

My knee is getting better. I can tell. Hopefully a few more days and I'll be good as new! Ah, the benefits of exercise!

Special thanks to Mel, who is a regular visitor and commentor on my blog! Shout out to ya, girl, and your sweet baby, Lillee!

Hope ya have a great day everyone! I plan to be scrappin'! Playing with Traci Beck's Seeing Dogs kit and a new kit from NadlM...she sent me the link, but OOOOPS, forgot to include it...so I'm waiting for her new e-mail! LOL!

I also picked up a few extra hours for work next week, which is good because I need to pay for the scrapping weekend I signed up for in March!

Card for those days when things just happen...kwim

I made this card for a challenge at CottageArts.net. Hope you like it!
Digi credits: Growth Spurts Element Pak & Page Pak www.cottagearts.net; Jackies Hand @ fontologie

Other than that, I hurt my knee in yoga. Think I popped a tendon. RRRRGGGHHH! I'm on an anti-inflammatory. But I'll be back to yoga next Tuesday! I do enjoy it.

I also started my pt job today. It was fun. I was training with a really nice girl named, Tosha. We're learning all about jewelry. There are some beautiful things in this world, girls.

I'm not coveting. I'm not buying. I'm just saying that some creations are just lovely. I do believe that the pearl is such a perfect creation. Think about it...small and round, lovely, irridescent. A thing of beauty taken from an irritant. Tosha said the Greeks call them tears of God. Diamonds are a girl's best friend. I feel ya, Marilyn!

Book Alpha Upper Case & Book Alpha Numbers

Two new sets available at www.angel-dreams-boutique by NadlM! But not until Oct. 21st! I think they are really fun and versatile. I did two lo's with them yesterday. Here they are:

Signs of the Fair - various photos dh took at the state fair this past weekend.
Digi credits: Traci Reed Serene, Obsidian Dawn Scribbles, NadlM Book Alpha Upper Case


DD's best friend, Annie.
Digi credits: O.N. Designs Kit No. 1; NadlM Book Alpha Upper Case

Not much to say today. I have a headache! Bleh!

Scrap.Frames 1 From Cottage Arts

Digi Credits: Hoots & Hallows Page Pak & Scrap.Frames 1 both from www.cottagearts.net! Scrap.Frames 1 is newly released!

The scrap frames are single horizontal and vertical frames, along with sets of 2, 3, 4 and 6 frames, both plain and decorated. What a terrific idea! I loved playing with them and I have another lo in the works where I'm using 3 of the single frames on a lo because you can move them around where you want. Scrap.Frames 2 is also available. I just haven't had a chance to get my hands on it. Michelle and Doris are creating things so quickly now that I can't keep up! I hope you'll check them out!

New at the Scrapping Garden is a praise game like over at Digital Shop Talk. I hope you will check that out! www.thescrappinggarden.com. They are also having a Halloween "party" all next week with lots of challenges and games and prizes! One game that I thought was really cute was dressing your Avatar. Best Halloween one wins! So hop on over and check that out!

Off to yoga! Chat at ya later!

The Kit Runner and No Scrapbooking

Ok. I'm in reading mode. What happens when I'm reading? Absolutely nothing! I'm reading "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini. I've read about 3/4 of it. This book is extremely well written and a very good story. What I like about it, is that it is about an Afghani that comes to America, but leaves behind a terrible memory of a life altering decision he made as a child. He returns to Afghanistan to right this wrong. The book is about his journey.

I don't know much about Afghanistan, except what I see on the news. It is interesting to learn about this country from an insider's point of view. This is not a political book. It never gets political or religous. It is about the young man and his journey.

Aside from that, I didn't scrapbook because I couldn't put my book down. I will today as Michelle at CottageArts.net has released some new frame groupings, and I just have to play!!!

I also planted pansies and some mums in Gamecock garnet yesterday! That way I will have some pretty color over the winter. Although, my camellias will give me some lovely pink blossoms as well!

Creations with the New Hoot & Hallows Kit

I made two layouts today using the Hoot and Hallows kit that will be released later this week at CottageArts.net. One layout is of my cat, Bits. I used a gradient adjustment layer to get the darker bottom of the photo so my title would stand out a little more. Plus I wanted to draw out my cat's crazy night eyes! (Additional digi credits: Scrap.Edges Brushes and Overlays 6 www.cottagearts.net & Love Ya Like A Sister @ fontologie)

The other layout uses a template by NadlM at www.angel-dreams-boutique Layout Templates 10. Of course, the Hoots & Hallows kit. I used Jackie's Hand and Jackie's Doodles from fontologie.

I actually made 3 layouts today if you count the fact that my computer locked up when I was nearly done the 2nd one, and I lost the whole thing. I was so mad! AHHHH! But I just went right back and whipped it out since all the thinking had already been done on the first go-round!

Hope you notice that both these layouts have nothing to do with Halloween, yet they use a kit that does have a Halloween tilt to it. However, Michelle wanted to make sure that it was useful in more ways than one, and she definitely did a great job. Don't you agree???

DD and Dh and some of her crew went to the state fair today. Dh took photos for me to scrap. Such a good scrapping husband isn't he! So I'll be doing those this week probably! He also took picture of a giant pumpking, a giant watermelon, rabbits and roosters. His favorite is the pig races. He cracks me up. The highlight of the pig races. The little swimming pig, who took a wee piggy poo-poo before diving off his little piggy platform! Ah yes, caught by dh with my camera!

Another New CT!

Digi Credits: NadlM Template Collection 10 from Angel-Dreams-Boutique; Tracy Beck Boys Like Dirt from The Scrapping Garden; Brushes from Obsidian Dawn; font is Love Ya Like A Sister from Fontologie

I'm just a happy camper. I got an e-mail today from Natalie Reinold at Angel-Dreams-Boutique that she wanted me to join her team! I got to pick from her collection, and I chose a set of lo templates: Template Collection 10. She has alot of great PSD template collections and some fabulous page elements like melted wax and crayon scribbles. I love things like that. Different! And lots of uses!
Anyway, here is my lo I did with one of her templates.

I will definitely be scrapping tomorrow. Cottage Arts has a fun new treat to be announced in their upcoming newsletter that I get to play with! YAY! Hope you're subscribed so you can find out about it! Check out the direct link to subscribe under LINKS.

Also need to do another template lo for Natalie. I have a technique I want to try on a photo of my dog, Harry.

As an aside: I got my eyebrows waxed today. I do not know why my mother insisted on plucking hers all those years. I never knew about waxing your eyebrows until I lived in SC. What a waste of all those years and PAIN! Of course, dd is right in on the waxing. I'm not making her wait 4o some odd years to discover this little beauty luxury!

My first guest CT spot

That is my goofy dog, Runt. I need to do some fixing to this pic, but he is peeking is fat, sausage like body with stumpy legs, up to say hello in the morning. Sometimes he jumps up and down. How can you have a bad day after that! LOL!

I am going to be the guest CT for Jacque Larson at The Digi Chick in December. I'm so excited. I didn't quite make her CT, but I'll take a guest spot! I'm so thrilled! Wahoo!

Audition Lo & Chatter

Ok I made this lo for a CT audition. Oh, I'm so nervous. Gotta wait. I'm not good at waiting. Digi credits: Shelley Rae Play It Loud (paper); Karen Heckathorne School of Arithmetic (elements); Sandy Lion Designs (fish brushes); font: Love Ya Like A Sister @ fontologie

Had my orientation for my seasonal job today. Can't wait to get started. Earn some Christmas money.

Did yoga yesteray. I work out all the time, but my butt is sore. Not sure why. All the stuff I do works my butt! LOL! Back again tomorrow. Hopefully that will release that lactic acid and get rid of my sore butt!

I am reading the most fantastic book. Bump Oprah's book club. You must read "90 Minute in Heaven" by Don Piper. It's in paperback now. He died. He was dead for 90 minutes at a car wreck. The paramedics didn't believe the man running over to them telling them this man was alive because there was no way anyone could survive his injuries and he was dead as a doorknob. But he was a miracle. An answer to prayer by a preacher who felt compelled to come to pray for him in the car, knowing he was dead. He reached out and put his hand on the dead man's shoulder and began praying and singing hymns. Miracle of miracles after some time had passed, the man started singing with him.

It's a terrific story of recovery, faith, miracles and the power of prayer. I highly recommend it to anyone.

Oh, and I love that new show Cane with Jimmy Smits. Yeah, he's hot, but it has a great storyline! I tivo it because it is on the same time as Boston Legal, my other fav show!

One last book recommendation. I'm reading "The Kit Runner" next.

Humor, CT and Design!

Humor: I was trying to upload a lo to Scrapstreet's gallery and it gave me a bizarre message about my file being to big. I couldn't understand why my file would be too big as I have that file size thing down pat. I tried twice and got the same message.
So I decided to go have a look at my lo and realized that I had sized it to 50 INCHES by 50 INCHES in stead of 500 x 500 pixels! LOL! OMG can you imagine a 50" lo!

Design: So check out my first lo for Tracy Beck's CT at The Scrapping Garden. I"m so excited. I really like this kit. It is called Boys Like Dirt. And frankly, yes they do! The papers went perfect with the photos I had taken of ds playing basketball with his friend. Obviously, friend is not in photos! I love the funky shaped elements and the cool tag, don't you!!!

CT: Ok, so these aren't in the exact same order as my title, but here is the deal. I have an exciting chance at a CT that I would like to be on. She asked me to design a lo using her products and sent me a coupon. I went to the store and couldn't get it to work. I tried several times, but NADA! Then I e-mailed her to let her know it wasn't working. It appears now the whole site is down. OMG! I have this idea in my head floating around, and I just gotta get it out! LOL! Patience is not one of my strong suits. I'm sure things will be back to normal tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed for me for the store being online and me getting a position on her CT!

Web Border Design

Digi credits: Rasberry Road Rasberry

I made this border for my web page. You know that space on the side that we have that is unused? Well, at least I know we have it in blogger, here. I'm not using it becuase it actually is completely the wrong colors and style for my blog. But I did it which was my goal and I even got it on my blog following the directions that were provided in a thread at Digital Shop Talk. Fab directions. They work, of course.

I will make a new border that matches what I have going on right now. I'm always in search of new ways to improve my blog!

Busy Scrapper!

You can see I was a very busy scrapper yesterday. Dh and ds were watching football all day. So I fell if they do that, then I should scrap guilt free! Not that I ever feel guilty scrapping!

I think I am going to work on a new blog header today to showcase some of my digi stuff!

I had fun yesterday playing with some freebie kits from Rasberry Road! She has such a great title to her website and a story to go with it. Wish I had a story to go with my blog title. I don't!

I do need to make a card to day for a ct challenge about things that crop up. I think I'm going to do a "When life gives you lemons, dance!" card. If you watched Arnold, you remember his friend, Harold, saying that.

Cutting out photos

It's so easy to cut out photos in PSE. I love it. I've done two in a row today where I just cut out my subject. This photo of dd had a bunch of clutter in it. So easy, chop/chop!

Then I felt like having a soft look because, let's face it, I've done so many cheerleading layouts, I need some variety! So I went through several options and chose the overlay mode for this pic. It softens that bright gold anyway, but gives my dd a sweet look, too.

I'm not entirely comfortable with the plain look which I was experimenting with because so many scrappers are doing such basic, simple lo's. I'm always one to try something. I'm just used to bright color and lots of elements on my page, whether they be photos, writing, or embellies, shapes, paper...

Digi credits: Cottage Arts Painted Tapestry Paper Pak
font: Daisy


Digi Credits: Cottage Arts Butterfly Wings 2 font: Jackies Hand @ fontologie

So I had another go at the plain lo with a cluster of photos. You know. I have to keep trying until I get one I really like and then I can move on!

Next subject for tonight is family football tailgating!


Digi credits: Rasberry Road Fall Festival & Rasberry

Fall & Homecoming

Cottage Arts: Naturals 4 Paper Pak, Growth Spurts Element Pak, Butterfly Wings 2 Page Pak at www.cottagearts.net
Font: Love Ya Like A Sister @ Fontologie
Isn't fall a terrific time of year. You get a small break from the heat...well, we're not, but some people do! LOL! I love the way fall smells. Pine needles and such! The colors are so rich and divine, too. Check out this cool thing I spotted on my walk the other day. It was awesome whatever it is...so rich in color and texture. As it is fall, they are falling off the tree. Believe it or not, I took this photo with my camera on my phone. It has a 2.1 megapixel camera. I think they turned out great! So sharp

Homecoming Pep Rally where I sweated my brains out because it was hot as fire outside and there is no air conditioning in the gym. I know the cheerleaders, band, and students were hot, too. I was busy videoing.
Then later on, it was off to the field for the big game. They were womped. I mean like 52-to-who-cares-its-stopped-mattering. The other team scored 49 point by 1/2 time and put in (no lie) there third string. Our boys have heart. Our cheerleaders cheered their hearts out and the band played on!

Here is a pic I took from 15 rows up at the 45 yd. line. Talk about awesome seats! They were so great! This was shot with my camera phone, too. Soon to be scrapped. Look how sharp and detailed this pic is! I just love my phone...LG Env! In orange because I"m going through a love affair with orange right now!

Five Months of Calendar Pages

Ok, so I've been a little fanatic about getting these done. Just sharing the first five months of the year with you. The flower one is the start of another calendar gift for someone else!
These are all from Cottage Arts Calendar Pak 1 available at www.CottageArts.net and featured in their current weekly newsletter. Check it out and subscribe. There is a lovely freebie in the newsletter for you!

Altered Tile Magnets - More Gifts

Okay, I'm posting early today after a late night post last night. I'll probably post some more calendar pages later, too. I have 2 more to do and I am DONE! Yes, done. Since tonight is homecoming, I'm going to take more pics and see if I can get the last two I need! Those girls are so crazy, I'm sure I'll get something!

Look at these altered tile magnets I made! They are tiny tiles. I used StazOn to stamp and SU stamps and then colored with pencil. They are sprayed with Fixatif to seal them so they can be slopped on, but since they are magnets, I don't think that will be a problem! Do you!!!!?

Anyway, now I just need to make a tin to put them in and another gift down! Wahoo!

Pubbed and Blog Train and More Calendars

Well, I knew I was going to be pubbed in Scrapstreet.com's Ezine for Nov. because my recipe page got pushed out from Oct. 'til then. And then, we did that fun scraptag, and that is being pubbed in Nov, although I don't like the lo I did for that in particular. And I got an e-mail from Linds today that they are picking up my Catnap lo which was posted on my blog, but I've had to pull since it is being pubbed! Wahoo!

It's never something I take for granted. It's always a thrill!

Been checking out a new digi site: Digital Scrap Talk. Joined a thread called a Blog Train. You post on the person ahead of you's blog. What fun! I've had some visitors today from there. I posted a Blog Train over a Scrapstreet because I thought it was such a cute idea! So thanks for visiting wherever you came from!

And last, but certainly not least, I took some time out of my insane day to make 2 more calendar pages for my gift calendar. These calendars are just so easy to use. I love the fact that I can add something or not add something. It's my choice. They're fun.

So here are two more from the Cottage Arts Creative Calendar Pak 1, which is the first six months of the year!

Christmas Gifts - A Calendar

Okay, here are the first three pages of the calendar that I am making for the other cheer coach. These are templates. You just put your photos in. You can add journaling and titles like I did! Or shapes like the squares in August. Jazz them up how you want. They come complete, but if you want to add a lil sumpin' sumpin', you can. I think it is a terrific gift idea for friends and family! How 'bout pics of you and your bff or dh or family??? That awesome vacation you want to remember???

I'll be posting the full deal when I get them all done. I'm going to try and do 3 per day. So I will have it done in no time at all. Then I can take it to office depot or wherever and get it bound! I'm going to show it to the girls, too, and see if they want one.

Check out the templates at www.cottagearts.net. http://cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net/208capak2.html is the actual linke to the 2nd set of six. They are sold 6 months per set! Very pretty!

Chat Box

Check out the new box on the side panel. You can leave me a message or just chat! Be nice! LOL! I can delete what I don't like!

If you visit my blog and haven't left a note in my visitor's book or put yourself on my visitor's map, please do! I know some of you visit and don't say anything! I want to know you are here!

Need to get some photos taken. Might go to the farmer's market this weekend. Of course, homecoming. That will be a gazillion photos!

Cottage Arts has some new fab calendar Scrap Over Templates up that would make great Christmas gifts. It's still early (see my countdown calendar on my side panel!) so you have lots of time to get these done. Easy and attractive. What a great personal gift!

Check out www.rasberryroaddesigns.blogspot.com . She is one talented chick and her digi designs are free. I do pay for some, and I do use free ones as well. I like a nice mix of styles, don't you. Of course, I make alot of my own stuff as well. Just depends what I 'm doing and what I need!

Cottage Arts Challenges

Cottage Arts is having some challenges for us. I'm excited. I always like anything that sparks creativity and gets me thinking in a different direction.

This is part of the photo crop challenge. I cropped 3 images out of my main photo as an accent and also to reinforce my journaling. I used a collage style, which is my fav to go along with this lo. This is actually our week 3 challenge, but you know me, I can't do anything in order!

Digi Credits:
Butterfly Wings 2 Pake Pak & frame: Growth Spurts Elements all at www.cottagearts.net
font: Love Ya Like A Sister @ fontologie
scalloped square is my own design!

My church is offering some new small groups. I'm rather excited about one in particular. It is a photography, paint, and drawing group. They are designing everything right now so it won't start until after Christmas. That will be really cool to meet with other folks and see what we all have to offer! I hope they have heard of scrapbooking! I signed up for it. If they have some great lessons, I'll share them with y'all here on my blog!

Ready, Set, Create

The issue I'm in is finally out today. I'm so impatient waiting to see myself! LOL!
I'll post the page here later with my project. It's very exciting!

Cottage Arts Newsletter

OUT FOR PUBLICATION

Cottage Arts newsletter is out. Check it out if you haven't signed up for it. There is a new product featured "Scrap Edges Brushes & Overlays 6". Beautiful brushes and overlays for your layouts. I used it in the first lo above, and lucky me, that lo was also featured in the newsletter along with another great example using these terrific brushes. They are gorgeous! (also featured on the first lo: Naturals 4 Paper Pak...beautiful and deliciously designed papers for your digital and hybrid designs!)

My second lo is one I made from a photo I took with my camera phone! Can you believe it? It was a little blurry, but I used Optik Verve's Glamour filter, which made it soft and really hid the blurry photo. Doesn't my kitty look warm and snuggly? (This lo used the Growth Spurts Page Pak and Elements Pak from Cottage Arts. www.cottagearts.net)

I've been so busy lately. I might go crazy! LOL! Lots going on, but isn't that how it always is in the fall after a great summer?

About Me

So here it is my first assignment for Cottage Arts (www.cottagearts.net). I have to create an about me page that will go out in their upcoming newsletter.

I really love the Painted Tapestry Paper and Elements packs. That is what I used on this layout. The lace overlay is my absolute favorite thing on this page...well, maybe aside from the flourish I put on the photo. It was so hard to pick a kit to use because I had several that I just loved. Gotta pace myself...

If you can't read the journaling, it just says a little about me. My little budding photographer, Caitee, took my picture for me. I think she did a nice job. I used a full body shot because I wanted something different than the usual headshot.

Cottage Arts Creative Team

OMG! I just got an e-mail from Cottage Arts inviting me to be a member of their creative team. I'm so excited. Digital scrappers, you gotta check them out. I'll be talking more about my adventure with them as it goes along and sharing with you cool stuff that they have and all that.

Oh, I was so excited. I ran around the house screaming, much to my two teenagers horror! hehehehe Love it when I can embarrass them a little bit.

Birthday Card

I made this card today when my cousin, Margot, told me that her Papa is having his 60th birthday in two weeks. I will mail it Monday. I hope he will be surprised!
digital credits: Miss Mint at Peppermint Creative.

Holiday Wishes and Little Candy Boxes

Candy box pattern courtesy of Mirkwood Desingns. All stamps are SU and inks are PSX.
Card made with Tracy Reed Vibrant and brush from Obsidian Dawn.

A New Me

Holiday Hoedown

Scrapstreet is hosting some holiday challenges to get us done with all our cards and gifts in time for the ever approaching holiday season. And you know how fast Christmas gets here!

Part of that challenge is creating a box to keep those cards in. I used the box my Bare Escentuals makeup came in. That's a darn nice box! Decorated it festivly I think! Non-traditional colors because I like to do that for holidays. It gives it a certain je ne sais quois!

So here is a sample of some recent cards and also a Halloween card I did last night in digi! (Digi paper credit: Scrapgirls, rest my own design)

Ah the joys of siblings

Just a rant as my two fight upstairs over cleaning their rooms and whose stuff goes where and where is my laundry basket and don't touch my stuff and get out and blah blah blah...

I swear they are up to something. What are they asking for? It will come.

I'm suspicious.

It's too good to be true.

Do you think it will spill over into cleaning their bathroom. Nah, let's not get excited.

Another lo for tonight

Geez, I got another lo done. After last month, well it is the current issue of Scrapstreet's e-zine...September...I have 5 things in there. That is the most ever, and I am tickled to death. But, I'm only going to have one thing in October. Which, how can I complain about that? Measure where you've come from not against others...I read that somewhere. I'm such an overachiever sometimes!
Let me say, HOORAY, for being picked to be pubbed in October. It is a recipe so that is a completely new category that I have not been pubbed in before. Very excited!
I need to think about submitting some things for the November issue. We'll see what I come up with!

Saturday Night Scrap

I'm over at one of my fav scrapbook spots on the net doing the Saturday Night Scrap. I made this Halloween card using the sketch posted by Janneke (Digi credits include: Traci Reed Joyful & Serene; Miss Mint Foxy Lady; pumpkin my own design).

I'm sure I'll have some more things to post. I"m toying with buying this Halloween kit I saw online, but I don't even like Halloween. I have already made two cards to send to my nephews. This is one. The other one is posted in an earlier blog.

I haven't done very much scrapping this week because I have been very busy since school has started again.

O.N. Designs Template Contest

This lo is made from a template designed by O.N. Designs. They are having a contest. This is my entry. Other kit credits include: Foxy Lady by Miss Mint at Peppermint Creative. http://ondesigns.blogspot.com/ check out the contest!

My Final Lo

For Digitals Next Top Scrapper at www.peppermintcreative.com. We'll see what happens. I have no concept of where I am or anything. I wish they would eliminate or rate or something. I am particularly fond of this lo. Maybe it is the subject matter, my mother's childhood doll. I really like the colors I used, though, too and the sepia filter form Optik Verve! I've been scrapping like crazy and even skipped the college football game yesterday to stay at home and scrap. I had alot of fun watching chick flicks and digi scrapping. I'm trying to work on my Christmas card photo insert. I have two done, but in one I look like a frumpy housewife. I'm not sure which I'll use or maybe I'll use both. One is just of the kids. I've uploaded a little video of basically nothing the other night...the team running on the field, but it took a little longer than I expected. They have this new feature on blogger where you can directly upload videos so I had to try it out. It's kind of fun to be out on the field while all this is going on. I had this experience in high school, but it has been a while!