Today I am hosting the blog over at ScrapTiffany.com. I have a roundup of my favorite photography resources. The more I play with my big girl camera the more I want to learn how to take better pictures. I am sharing websites you can check out, classes you can take, books you can read, post processing resources and more. Head on over to check it out...ScrapTiffany
Happy Friday!
Sunday was the new challenge at ScrapTiffany. I am a bit tardy getting mine up here. The challenge was to scrap your guilty pleasure. Without a doubt that would be good wine. Having the kiddos has definitely cut into the budget for that, but when we can we love to have a good bottle.
Today I am having foot surgery today. My foot pain started in October when we were on vacation and grew much worse after I started training for the 60 mile 3 day breast cancer walk.
After months of trying everything else, today I am having surgery. My plan to walk this year’s 3 day walk has been derailed, but I am looking forward to healing and getting back on the walking path for 2012.
Looking forward to lots of sleep this afternoon.
I’m a bit late getting my ScrapTiffany challenge up for today. I thought the 1st was tomorrow, oops! I spent most of yesterday doing major cleanup on my laptop. I topped the day off with an upgrade to Windows 7, which took hours to complete. At one point I was certain that my computer was toast. But most things are looking fine now.
Of course it can’t be perfect. When I logged into Lightroom this morning, I needed an update that is downloading now. It looks quite large, so I am guessing I will have another day of computer maintenance ahead.
Today’s challenge at ScrapTiffany is Friendships. I did this layout about me and my best friend. I couldn’t do this crazy life without him. Head on over to ScrapTiffany to see what the rest of the design team ladies did.
I finished up my layouts from CKC last night. I am working on a post with an overview of my classes and my completed layouts. I hope to have it up later in the week.
Have a great Sunday!
The winner of my drawing from last weeks ScrapTiffany blog hop is posted below. I got back from the best CKC scrapbook convention ever Saturday night. The rest of the weekend was super busy too....
Sunday we took the boys to the Garden Railroad Train Tour and came home to have my computer crash on me, Mike had to take it to Best Buy to get it fixed for me.
I had Monday off of work, so after Nicholas got out school we went to see the Easter Bunny (Jackson would not go near him)
Here's a quick recap of the convention. I will have a full review of my classes after I finish up my projects in the next couple of weeks.
This year's convention was....
Having 2 fun filled days with 2 fabulous friends (and another in spirit, who was home with her sick baby)....
Taking 8 awesome classes with 5 fabulous teachers, making 16 fun layouts, a mini book and 2 cards that I love....
Some new Basic Grey. A cute Easter altered project
And some Glitz Design goodies those brown woodgrain mini letters that I had been coveting, circle stamps I was drooling over, and my favorite Glitz line ever....
And finally, I have drawn a winner from last week's ScrapTiffany blog hop.
Mary Ellyn said...
Cute idea
It’s Friday… I have a 4 day weekend…
And I am off to the Creating Keepsakes Convention in Mesa for the next 2 days!
We are staying overnight at the convention hotel . So what could be better….
A girls weekend filled with…
…all things scrapbooking …girl talk …no kids (I’ll though I will miss them terribly) …lots of classes …and LOTS OF SHOPPING.
I call that…nirvana.
Before I head off, I am sharing today’s ScrapTiffany challenge on stamping. I have been dabbling a bit with embossing powders again, American Crafts Zing to be exact. I also have been on a roll scrapping our vacation from last October.
Here is my take on this week’s challenge…
I have been doing a few more two pagers lately and using lots of my favorite photos from our vacation. It’s fun to switch it up a bit.
Nicholas was impressed with the heat gun for embossing. He kept telling me to do it again. I love that one of my boys is already hanging out with me in my craft room. His future wife will sure appreciate me (may she be a scrapbooker or crafter). LOL!
Have a great weekend!
I’ll be back on Sunday to post the winner from the ScrapTiffany Blog Hop!
Welcome to the ScrapTiffany Recycled Blog Hop! I am your first stop and I am so excited you are joining us!
You should be arriving here from the ScrapTiffanyblog. If you have landed here first, head on back to the ScrapTiffany blog to start hopping!
We are all going to have some fun with Recycling today and tomorrow. I used to own a scrapbook kit club, and we would often split products for our kits. One month we used chipboard from My Mind’s Eye that came in these buckets that looked so cute filled with glittered chipboard shapes.
I ended up with tons of these and it seemed so wasteful to just toss them, so for the past 2 years they have been recycled in several different ways for fun little gifts.
This seemed like the perfect item to dress up for Easter with a bit of papers I didn’t plan to use and a few tools from my stash.
Remove packaging
Punch 3” scallop circle to cover lid
Adhere punched borders to pail
Break out the embossing powder, versamark and stamps
Start Zinging….
Cut out a cute chick and layer eggs around the pail with pop dots
Tie with ribbons, fill with jelly beans and give them to your favorite Easter Bunny.
I am going to the CKC Mesa Scrapbook Convention this weekend. I will be bringing some goodies back to give away to a commenter from this post.
So follow me and leave a comment for a chance to win. (I will pay for US postage, and would be happy to give away to an international winner if you help out with the postage and cover the difference).
Winner will be posted when I get back on Sunday.
Thanks for hopping by!
Next stop on the Blog Hop is Katie.
Happy Hopping!
Even when it means Saturday morning I must get up early and get our taxes done. I am sure we will get a refund, and even knowing that I always put it off as long as possible. I guess I just don’t like to spend a weekend that way. Today is a layout challenge at ScrapTiffany. Sassy Lil Sketches provided this cute sketch for us to use:
The ladies over at ScrapTiffany have lots of fun takes on it. Here was mine:
I loved these pictures from our vacation last year at Disneyland, and was happy to finally get them on a page.
And here is another layout I did recently, my little man is a bit messy most the time. Maybe one day he won’t be and then we can just remember when he was “into everything”
I can dream anyway.
Well, I am off to get some routine blood work before finishing out the work week.
Have a great weekend!
Today’s challenge at ScrapTiffany is about Beauty.
It’s weird really. Today’s post was going to be about how we celebrated Mike’s 45th birthday this weekend. I will have to save that for another day. Because, I can’t stop thinking about my Mom right now, and that she will never again experience a beautiful Arizona sunset with us.
I guess it is because I worked on the design for her headstone this weekend. We had been putting it off, but it needed to be done. I sometimes wonder if I am putting the flowers in the right spot when I visit the cemetary. So I guess we need to have that to make sure, right?
I have been disconnecting from my online world a lot lately on purpose. I have been spending time doing a few things I want to do; rather than a little of everything. I am purposefully choosing to do less online.
Last year I finally scanned all the pictures I had and those that my mom had given to me as well. I am now organizing and tagging them in Lightroom. It is forcing me to spend a lot of time with my family and my childhood. That is a good thing. It is interesting the observations I make from this exercise.
I have a category called Who’s That? I don’t know who these people are. and with my mom gone, I am not sure if I will ever find out. I am happy that there aren’t many. I hope to give my children the gift of knowing who the people in the old photos are when I am not here to tell them anymore. I meant to ask my mom, but I didn’t.
One thing that really struck me…the last picture I had with my mom and me was from Thanksgiving 2009. Really? A year before she passed. I should be able to do better than that. I have a camera around at all times, how did that happen.
The other thing that struck me is the last pictures I have of my mom were from early October 2010. She looked really good. It was just a couple of weeks before we found out the cancer had spread...That our days with her were numbered and we didn’t even know it.
I zoomed in on this picture yesterday to see that the light still sparkled in her eyes. It made me realize that I watched it dim the last 2 weeks of her life. The last couple of days they were dark. The light was gone.
Thanks for letting me remember her today. I miss her.
Happy March to you! In Arizona that means one thing…..Spring Training baseball. Mike and I grew up Angels fans, and when we moved from California to Arizona one thing he didn’t like was that we couldn’t go to Angel’s games anymore. But, we have the next best thing here, Spring Training. Tempe Stadium is a great place to see a game, especially when you have little ones. The big grassy area is perfect for lounging and watching the games.
And of course we are raising our boys right….Angels babies!
So what better way to meet today’s ScrapTiffany Sports Challenge than to celebrate our Angel’s and Spring Training Baseball…..
Head on over to ScrapTiffany and check out the other ladies take on the challenge. And if you take the challenge e-mail your work to Tiffany (tiffany(at)scrapbooktiffany(dot)com), we would love to see it.
I also have a few more layouts to share. I was looking through my layout pictures and I still have a lot more to share. Here are a few….
New Shoes – using Studio Calico Candy Shoppe January 2011. Doing some shoe shopping.
Fall 2010 using October 2010 Back 40. Celebrating fall decorations around the house.
From a past Sunday Sketch at Studio Calico using Elementary. Nicholas Fall school picture.
And finally Happy Halloween using the Color Me Daisy October 2009 Halloween kit. My favorite Halloween picture from 2009.
Have a great week. It is quarter end for me at work and it will be a busy one for me.
