We Scrap

Yes, we do. All of us. The voices in my head. LOL But seriouosly, I have been enjoying "meeting" all of these new scrappy girls at WeScrap. Check out their kits! Very nice!!!!! A rocking gallery at this site too!

Little Dreamer

Do you ever have a layout that you just can't stop adding things to?? This was one for me, wasn't sure how I liked it, but now I am ok with it. I hate trying to get good pics of my LO's with the cameras I have now. It's driving me crazy, actually. It's like trying to hammer a nail with the handle end of a screwdriver. I have tried this and it works, but not particularily well. It's like trying to cut steak with a butter knife. That's how I feel about my cameras right now. I need something MORE. Ok, vent over. I created Little Dreamer at the Scrapbooking at Shelley's crop I was at last weekend. The picture is Jessa at her baptism last year.




Remember, sometimes it pays to sit quiet and let scrappiness come to you.

Shanna

Challenges

Challenges are one of the best things to happen to the scrapbooking world IMO. Just a guideline for inspiration, but everyone's interpretation will be different, which is the ultimate beauty of this craft. Here are some recent challenges I did.


This one was the contest at the Scrapbooking at Shelley's crop I went to in Brandon last weekend. I signed up for the Saturday only, which was so great to have as an option, since Sarah's skating ice show was on Sunday. It was a long day for me, I was up before the kids (Um, seriously, that NEVER HAPPENS EVER) and home after they went to bed. I got to see a few girls I know online: the ever talented and giving Thelma, the "brat' Tracy, the very beautiful and funny Gillian, and I happened to be seated with someone I met at Scrap Camp in November, Karen. I was very happy to see her, and I really enjoyed sitting with her. It was a fun day, with a lot of great and enthusiastic girls to meet and good demos to take in. I only got two layouts done. This one, and another I will show when I get a better picture. This challenge was to use the pattern paper they gave you, and the embellishments. Mine was the paper with the dolls on it, pink flowers and yellow brads.


These next were for challenges over at my home scrap forum, Love is in the Details. This first one is for Chelsea's recipe challenge, which had a bit of a challenging mixture, but i love how it turned out.


And this one is for Lisa's color challenge, red blue and white. My parents with all of their grandkids except Greg. Happy moment.


Well, check back soon, I want to get the other layout I did on the weekend posted, I love it. I have been busy completely rearranging my scraproom, and sorting thru EVERYTHING, and purging. I am setting up a basket of stuff for Sarah only, her own little stash, and I am excited to teach her, and let her use her own creativity. You can't teach scrapbooking as an art, as each person has their own natural creativity, but I will teach her techniques and see what she does with them. :)

Stay scrappy

Shanna

A few more......

Well, I finished all of the challenges from the online crop at LIITD, and kept the mojo going to do a couple of the monthly challenges. My house is a mess, but thankfully Dave doesn't complain. He "gets" it. Last week he was looking thru Jessa's chrono album and he said "Im so glad you do this". :) Me too. :) LOL

This one is for Angele's challenge to use Family Fotos, but not with your own kids! Seriously?? LOL I could have used pics from my wedding I guess, but I had this picture of me with my nephew when he was born in October. :)


This one of my nephew with his Mom (Vicki, my brother's fiance) was done for Chelsea's "You Are my Sunshine" challenge. Roddy and his Mommy the day he was born. I really really really wanted to ink the helk out of this, but I wanted to keep it bright. The edges are sanded.


This picture was taken at the Wedding show, Sarah trying on flowergirl dresses for David and Vicki's wedding. She had so much fun, we tried on 5 dresses. As we were taking off the fifth one she got a little upset because she couldn't decide so she figured she should get them all!!! Uh, no. This was for Amber's recipe challenge, although it ended up with a couple of extra "ingredients".


This one was not for a challenge, I was going to donate a canvas to the hockey club for a tournament, but when I had it almost done, Jessa came in and painted on it , all over the letters, and some on the paper, with the beige paint. I got the paint off of the letters, but there is paint on the paper that I couldn't get off of the Mod Podge, so it didn't get donated. :( It's in my own entryway. :)



I always accomplish so much at this crop, I hope I can continue to scrap. Have to get the house cleaned up this week, we are going to Winnipeg for Disney on Ice, so I want to leave it clean. The biggest mess is here in the scrapbook room though.......but it's the most fun to clean up. sigh, must go, dishes are calling!

Happy Scrapping!

Shanna

Online crop

Here is what I accomplished yesterday. It was a very slow start. I only had one done by 4:30. the rest just came to me over the course of the evening.

This first one is for Amber's challenge to use 5 different pieces from your scrap stash. Well, I have a lot of junk in that trunk too, so it wasn't hard to find 5 scraps. Still love those BG frogs, I couldn't believe I still had some! I found another piece too. Wonder how long it will be before I use it. LOL


This one is also for a challenge by Amber, to use a banner (which I love but have never attempted) The banner had to have hearts. I am going to work on my banners a little more, I think.


Here is my favorite of them all. My little nephew, when he was born in October. So much fun to do a little boy, but definately challenging. No flowers?? Limited bling??? HUH????? This Fancy Pants paper is so cute though. :) The sketch from Lisa was a little challenging at first, I almost flipped it and did something else, but I really love how it turned out.


Ah, pixie cut. Nola challenged us to use hearts on our LO, but they had to be used to make something else. I use FP felt hearts to make the flower. I am wondering if I need something else under the border at the bottom, but I like the white space on this one.


And here is the first one I made, the one that took me the longest. Chelsea challenged us to create a LO that used the colors red, pink, and white. Right up my alley! Look at how much red is there compared to pink though! I find red difficult to work with, but that paper is so pretty. Those pink and white flowers were at one time, a pink flower and a white flower. Very pretty, but I had to take them apart to make them work. Dave was changing the hot water tank when I was working on this, so that might have had something to do with how long it took me.



I am hoping to get at least 5 more done today or tonight! Wanna join me??

I have booked off

Saturday on my calendar for cropping! And I get to do it from the comfort of my own home! Join us at Love is in the Details for an online crop. Never "attended" an online crop before?? Jump right in, we'll give you a hand. Start with whichever challenge calls out to you first! I'll be getting pics printed today, and I have some of my nephew to work on. That's going to be different, I usually go girly layouts. I don't have a whole lot of boy stuff, so it will be a challenge!

Here is my second canvas. Now that I finally have a bedroom comforter set, I need to make some artwork for the walls. I started with this one, I'll be making some bigger ones for the bigger wall soon. I think this still needs "something" but whatever it is, I don't have it in my stash so I'll have to keep my eye out. One thing I have noticed is I am all of a sudden all about the clouds. But I don't really have a whole lot of clouds available to me. Gonna have to get on that. Nothing like being a couple of years behind the trend, hey?


Here is the comforter


Speaking of trends in scrapbooking, CHA was last week. Lots of new reveals. What are you looking forward to?? I was impressed to see that FINALLY the scrapbooking world caught up with the Vampire craze. DCWV had this amazing display at CHA. I was thinking the other day that I wish there was a more burlesque type paper out, and I think this could be used for that. No, not for burlesque pics of me, just a thought I had. ;)

Scrap Happy!
Shanna

Update on acrylic storage

So at Scrap Camp in November, Jewel brought to our attention that the Bargain Shop in Roblin had these scrapbook binders. From what she described, I knew it would be perfect for my acrylic stamps. I ran out and bought the last two they had, and we both got one. Here is what I did with it:




Much better for my stamps!


I haven't been doing a lot of scrapping, but I did order some new albums in the after Christmas sales. Here they are with the layouts I had waiting to be put away!



I am having picture problems. Not enough good pictures, no camera for a while, now my new camera isn't what i would like it to be. Then there is the whole Jessa-doesn't-stand-still-so-the-pictures-are-always-blurred-and-Sarah-always-makes-a-silly-face-or-goofy-smile issue. I need about 2 solid uninterupted days to go thru my pictures. THEN I have to find a place to print them. I hate Walmart's online service. Where do you order from online and do they have a n easy editing system???? Once I get those things figured out maybe the scrapping will come more easily.

Scrap Happy!
Shanna