2nd Page of my Scrapbook Challenge

So here are some more pics of Elias as a baby. I was totally loving him doing these pages but boy oh boy is he a teenager sometimes and I just wanna send him to the moon lol! He really knows how to push my buttons and is definitely too much like me haha.

These pics are of him at 4 mos old. Smiling and happy : ), still trying to get some from every stage done and into a book for his graduation next summer, we'll see if it happens.

I bought this owl stamp some time ago at stampin and scrappin time and I just LOVE it, but haven't used it. I embossed it with black embossing powder onto the dot patterned paper and then embossed it again on a piece of cream colored cardstock, I cut the whole thing out of the dot paper then cut just the head out of the cream and glued it on top so that you could see the eyes and stuff more clearly

The owls I cut out of the fabric by hand just trimmed around each owl close to the design. One of the patterned papers in this set was a stripped sheet so I cut 1" strips and made a border around the whole sheet with them. I really like that look. Then one sheet has like 4 die cut squares on the opposite side and I cut 2 of them and trimmed them a little smaller and mounted my photos on those.

First up - My scrapbook Challenge

The last all day Crop that Karen and I went to, I was giving the girls at my table challenges through out the crop. haha I'm crazy like that. So Karen emailed me awhile before this crop and said she had a scrapbook challenge for ME lol. She's so funny. She bought me this adorable owl fabric and my challenge was to use it on a page. So my first thought was that I would use it as a border down one side or something well then I was thinking ...boring, so since I can't cut straight worth crap lol, I took out my creative memories cutters and the square template (it has rounded corners) and attempted to cut out one of the owls. Well low and behold it worked! So I cut out a bunch of them and some of the apples and put them together in a quilt like pattern and frayed the edges some, cause you know how I love everything distressed : )

This is an EK success border punch that I bought and I LOVE it

There's my lil green owl, isn't he cute : ). I just happened to have this paper the coordinated with it perfectly I think it's We R Memory Keepers, it's really bright and cheery!

Hello

Wow, it's been over a week since I last posted. I've been trying to get time to photograph the pages I did at the crop I attended but between being busy and it getting dark so much earlier in the evening it just hasn't happened. I can't seem to get good photos with the lighting in my house so I typically do it outside or in our sun room but that only works if it's day time lol. I will try in the next couple of days.

I had an amazing time at the Donna Downey class. I so wish that it happened on another weekend so that I could have taken a bunch of her classes. It really was amazing and she is such a sweet down to earth person. Was really a lot of fun. And I am now addicted to scrapbooking on canvas I'm going to have a hard time going back to paper. And I may not for awhile. It is just sooooo different and I just really really enjoy it. I had about a 1/2 and hour last night free, between loads of laundry so I was working on another 12 x 12 canvas page, so far basically have done the background and I'm sooo pleased with it, wait till you see it. So now I'm on a mission to find some raw canvas that I can cut my own 12 x 12 pages from because the pre printed sheets that prima sells are like $3.00 each and well that's just a little pricey, on top of the fact that they are printed and I want them plain. So anyways going to find some time in the next couple of days to head out to commercial art supply since I'm sure that they carry what I'm looking for.

The CROP was also a blast. Had a great time with Karen and it was too funny because we both got depressed on Sunday when it was getting time to get packed up to leave. Ha I never new others were like me in that sense. I so hate when I'm having a great time and it has to end! Well we have another crop coming up, that is put on by We B Scrappin at White Eagle the second weekend in October so I've got that to look forward to and definitely am!

Super busy couple of months here for me. Next weekend we need to get up to camp to get the boat and dock out (ugh, I hate this part!) Praying for no rain!! Got the crop at White Eagle coming up, Karen and I are suppose to be working on some things for the Pug Rescue for their big Pug Social (which I have not done anything to help yet, Karen's been doing it all herself, with a sick daughter - have I mentioned how wonderful this lady is??? Amazing!) Then Elias and I are going to be going to Albany for Albany University's Open house at the end of next month. My niece has a wedding to go to coming up so I will be babysitting one weekend, and Elias has been sooo busy with school that I've been helping him with his lawn mowing jobs, ugh. I need this crop next month to relax lol. Going to make sure I bring along some wine that I really enjoy so that I can have a few drinks and unwind! : )

So please check back I'm sure in the next couple of days I will have at least some of my projects posted maybe even tonight.

It's Friday......

Still not packed for the crop this weekend, but I did manage to get my stuff together last night for the Donna Downey workshop I'm doing tonight. Can't wait for that, then it's off to the crop. I have a bunch of things I've been working on but nothing finished so hopefully after a whole weekend of scrapbooking I will have some finished things to share. In the mean time I leave you with a few pics of my puggies I wanted to share. Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Budha

Pooh Bear looking out from the blinds and Budha sitting on the rug.

Peachy taking a rest.

Senior Year

Well today was Elias' first day of his senior year. Yeah I still had to get a pic even though he's 17. I warned him the night before that I would be taking some pictures, I told him I might even cry lol (but I didn't, at least not till after he left, then I shed a few "my baby's all grown up", mama tears). He came up the stairs at like 6:15am and was out of the house by 6:30am as him and a bunch of his buddies were heading to Denny's for breakfast before their first day of school. So he was like come on mom get the camera lets get the photo shoot outta the way I gotta get going lol, gotta love teenagers : ).

Super Awesome Exciting Weekend Coming up

Okay so I'm a little excited it's Wednesday ALREADY, and I've got this fantastic weekend coming up.

Friday evening DONNA DOWNEY is coming to Stampin and Scrappin Time, well actually she will be there thru Saturday as well teaching classes. If you are local and are interested in attending you can still sign up here is the link http://stampinscrappintimeny.blogspot.com/

This is the class I'm attending: http://stampinscrappintimeny.blogspot.com/2010/08/donna-downey-workshop-schedule.html the life inspired workshop. I would have really liked to do the inspiration journal but won't be able to this time BECAUSE..........................

The rest of my exciting Weekend planned, I will be at CROP-A-LOT, with the greatest scrappin Buddy of all time, my friend Karen. We always have sooooo much fun together and we haven't spent nearly enough time together this summer so it is going to be so wonderful to be able to spend a whole weekend together just catching up. Karen is such a sweet and caring person I'm lucky to have her in my life. And the fact that she loves to scrapbook as much as I do is just an added bonus! We actually met at a crop held by Karen Barber, CTMH consultant a few years back, and I'm so glad that we did!

Going to take a nap Friday so that I can stay up late Friday night to scrapbook at our crop!! : )

Tags

Okay a couple weeks ago I was lucky enough to be the winner of some great scrapbooking items on Vicki Chrisman's blog here: http://vickichrisman.blogspot.com/2010/08/and-winner-are.html

So last night I took a few minutes to use some of my new goodies. I was a little tired to embark on a whole layout so I decided to just make a couple tags that I will later put on a couple layouts.

These tags were in my goodie box, they are from Tattered Angels. I'm trying to work on some of Elias' basketball photos and articles so I decided to make this tag to put on a layout. It seems that everything we have is always so girly with flowers and lacy etc. So I took some raw canvas and cut it to fit over the tag. Then frayed the edges a little. I distressed the edges of the card and the canvas with walnut distress ink. I took my orange and espresso acrylic paint dabbers and dabbed all over the canvas. I sprayed it with some crushed shells GM and candle light GM and then spritzed it with water to make it all run. I heat dried glued it to the tag, then stamped this basketball boarder all over it, stamped "basketball" at the bottom. Added the basketball stickers I've been hoarding for years (lol), and the 3 large eyelets.

Here I started with stamping the white heart with embossing ink then using white embossing powder. The sprayed viva pink and ripetide blue GM and sprayed the whole tag in different areas with both colors. Then I took a script stamp and used my walnut distress ink and stamped over the entire tag. Used the walnut to distress the edges of the tag a little as well. Then took a piece of the blue pink paisley paper from the 6x6 paper pack that I won, embossed with white embossing powder the key stamp from my tattered angels set and cut it out.

Here I took a page from an old book and used my walnut and vintage pink GM to give it an old look, then stamped my saying on it, masking off the "you". I kinda crinkled it up as I glued it to the page and curled the corner down.

Here I took the heart from the stamp set I won, made a mask for the inside of the heart and stamped 2 hearts over lapping on a piece of canvas, I cut them out then I took some acrylic paints and added some paint tot he heart, sprayed it with water and let it run. Dabbed it off and dried it then stamped the same script over the hearts. Used my distress ink on the edges and again kinda crumpled it up some when gluing it on. Added the U from my Prima stash and glued on the key. Thanks so much Vicki for all the wonderful items!!!