This week's projects

I fussed with this layout off and on all week and then finished it last night while I watched "National Treasure 2" and "P.S. I Love You"-which is very sweet and SAD!!!!! But the good, bittersweet kind of sad, ya know???

This is a gift for my nephew's birthday. It's a sign for his room. I hand painted the paper and the letters, then I mod podged it all onto cardboard that I hand-cut. Think he'll like it???

I've been shopping too, I babysit for my scrapbooking money. That way I am not cutting into the household bill money for my addiction. I had a little extra cash last week too for some other odds and ends that I've done lately, like carpooling and stuff. So I actually bought quite a bit. I totally look for deals, sales, clearance, and I use coupons ALL THE TIME!!!

I bought the new noteworthy line, plus the one journalling pad that I've wanted and been unable to find, yay! Also I got 2 papers from Animal Crackers. I ordered this from 2 peas with babysitting money from 2 weeks ago:

This was sale/clearance at Craft Warehouse (The Basic Grey wasn't on sale), I only spent $22 total!!! (babysitting money again)

This was from my LSS (carpooling money):

Clearance at Jo's!!! I spent $14, I think. (Babysitting $ again)

Mike's, only $10. (I had 2 coupons, carpooling $)


I ordered some stuff last night from a pretty reasonable website:
https://www.croppinparadise.com/

I ordered 6 (2 each) Making Memories Garden Party shaped papers, 3 Basic Grey 6X6 pads ( Lily Kate, Romani, and Scarlet's Letter), and 5 Pink Paislee Office Lingo papers. I will post a pic when I receive my order. With shipping it was only $28.00. Not bad. They have a lot of Basic Grey Clearance. So that's part of this weekend's babysitting money, already spent. The rest will go to Jo's 2 for 1 ribbon sale this weekend, and maybe those wooden KI Memories buttons, if they are on sale of course! And I have a 10% off coupon!!! Ok, shopping for scrapbooking supplies may be almost as exciting as actually scrapbooking, but I think I've written enough about shopping for now!!!
Some experiments:


Dyeing paper with Tea, makes a nice soft brown parchment color.

My ingenious and simple (don't forget cheap!!!) ribbon solution: shishkabob skewers and tape!!! I should have taken a pic before of the tangled spiderweb mountain of ribbon. Since I'm buying ribbon this weekend I wanted to make a nice home for the new ribbon that is coming!!!

Sisterchicks Go Brit!!!

I just love the "Sisterchicks" book series by Robin Jones Gunn. And the newest one just came out!!! Check out this fun, heart-warming series. I would describe it as, "Christian Chick Lit"!!!

Been in an old timey mood...

And I've had lots of ideas percolating inside my imagination for a week or so now, they all just came together on this layout. As always, I will journal later!!!

For a fun website to play with making your photos old timey, visit:

http://labs.wanokoto.jp/olds

It's in Japanese, but it's easy to figure out how to do it. And you can right click and then save the edited photos to your computer and then I'm assuming you can print them.

Just feelin' nostalgic...

Look at Ham! And other news...

This is Ham, our new Hamster. Isn't she too cute??? I am so in love. Her fur is the softest, and I love to snuggle with her in the rare times when she'll actually sit still.

In other news, DH is back and starting a local job on Monday. We are so happy. We hate hate hated having him drive over-the-road. Thank you Jesus!!!

I've been trying to not spend any money on scrapbooking so I've been getting really artsy. I have also been "borrowing" ideas from around the web and blogs, etc. Trying to make my own version of some of the stuff I've seen lately. Like these newspaper flowers...

I may have scraplifted a certain popular brand here for my very own homemade pp and chipboard letters, can anyone guess the brand and the line??? I'm going to make a birthday present for my nephew out of it.

I saw white painted-looking chipboard on someone's blog and decided to paint some ugly old chipboard that I was holding on to white or black and then stamp on it. I love how it turned out.

And last but not least, I stamped on vellum and then cut it out by hand. I thought it turned out nice.

A New Layout

I had a very tough week at work this week, luckily I have tomorrow off. So tonight I came home from work, had Thai food for dinner, and decided to scrapbook.

scrumptious paper

I just love webster's pages patterned papers. So I was pretty excited to find a contest giving some away! Visit http://terriconraddesigns.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/04/feather-your-ne.html?cid=112608816#comment-112608816 for your chance to win too!

Life or something like it...

Saturday, April 19, I went to this awesome class taught by Karen Russell. It was all about interactive scrapbooking, and it was really fun and I learned a lot. These are the 2 layouts that I made in the class:

DH has been home since April 16 so that's why I've been MIA. He's leaving again on April 28. We went out on one last date today, to Claim Jumper's, where we had a scrumptious meal. The waitress took our picture for us, it's a wee bit blurry but I really like how it turned out. (DH likes to play with the Sepia setting on my camera)

Finally, here is one layout that I tweaked around with some to make it better.

And here is one new layout that I had embroidered on, hand cut the felt flowers with my cuttlebug, embroidered on the flowers and then layered them and sewed a button on the middle of them. It was kind of fun and whimsical.

I've gotten some new stamps lately, so I'm going to be playing around with them, I think. Also, I need to catch up on the journaling on the past few layouts that I've done. I have to sit down and write it out first, then I have to think about how I want it to be put on the layout. Handwritten? Typed up on my computer and then printed on patterned paper or journaling sheets? Hmmm...