I finally did one!

I created a paper page! I have been doing digital pages for over over a month, my scrap room was a mess, couldn't even tell I had a desk actually, and I wasn't managing my time properly either. I started cleaning my area Monday night and was suddenly inspired. I did my layout for Sketch This and HMITM. The HMITM challenge was to use the whole alphabet on your layout, so I did mine like this:




sigh.....kindergarten.....Jabran....in kindergarten this fall... wow.


Have a great Wednesday!
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All rolled into one...

I haven't blogged in a while, computer woes, hope you all had a great Mother's Day!

We went down to Pennsylvania and toured the Crayola Factory then shopped at the Crayola Store. I had to buy the big tower of 150 crayons. Cute, the most I ever had was 64, remember those?

Just realized I have to unload the camera so I will post some pics later.

Do visit us at Color Combos Galore, play along and you can win a RAK from me!!! Janine Langer from Pencil Lines is our Guest Designer this week. She suggested a green with a ledger and so I sent her this combo:

yellowhammer - green anjou - bistre - lemon chiffon

We are also celebrating Janelle's 50th sketch on the Sketch This! blog. Post your layout or card designs and you could win a RAK!

I combined the two with the HMITM challenge. Another RAK giveaway!!! I LOVE to play this challenge because it helps me add more to my pages and that is something I am a little afraid to do, but then I love how my layouts turn out each time I play!!! Francine's recipe this week was 10 stamps, 10 flowers, 10 buttons and 10 pieces of chipboard. So I hardly ever stamp and rarely use flowers but I gave it a shot!

and made this:





Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!

My second son is turning FIVE tomorrow.

Note to self: need to buy Kleenex. COMMENTS:
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Scrapjack! and some tea!

So now that I found my new favorite challenge, I played again. It was Kelly Purkey's turn to be Scrapjacked!. Also played How Much Is Too Much where Elizabeth's recipe was 7 rub-ons, 3 photos, 7 stickers, 5 flowers, 0 buttons, 0 ribbons, and The Journaler's Junction where Heather had said to use only adjectives in the journaling. Well, when I created the layout, I remembered the gist, but not the specifics and ended up with extra journaling. Oh well, got a little mixed up.

Again, working with old photos that printed horribly on my old (and long time ditched) HP printer. And because these were printed long before I knew about dpi and resolutions and levels, they are very dark and not crisp at all. But I still haven't bought ink (which will cost me over $50 for several cartridges) so it will have to do.

The story behind these photos is that Zayn always asked me for some of my tea. I am not a tea drinker by habit, prefer the coffee, and don't drink decaf unless I am pregnant. So he has never had it at this point. When I did make some decaf tea for him, he was, well, the photo says it all!


Patterned paper: Sassafras Lass, Scenic Route; Cardstock: Bazzill; Letter stickers: Sassafras Lass; Rub-ons: Doodlebug Designs (stitches); Fontwerks (rub-ons); Epoxy sticker: SEI; Flowers: American Crafts; Prima COMMENTS:
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Friday? Already?

So again another week has flown by.

Out of all the challenges I bookmarked this week to do I only got two layouts done this week. But I managed to cram seven of those challenges into this one!!

My main focus was HMITM #75 where we had to use 5 patterned papers, stamps, brads/eyelets, and 5 other embellishments. This is a Debbi Gaydos sketch. Some of the other blogs I played for were Double Dog Dare Ya (create your own embellishment with paper and brads) and Creative Therapy where we were asked where do you go to find your center? Unfortunately I don't go on vacations, or have a sitting chair or a sun porch to relax in so I chose my Mother's cooking because of what I feel whenever I take a bite. Brings me back to growing up and living a stress-free life. And that's enough therapy for me!


SUPPLIES: Patterned paper: Cosmo Cricket, My Mind's Eye, Creative Imaginations; Cardstock: Bazzill Kraft; Brads: Making Memories, Queen & Co; Rub-ons: American Crafts, K&Co; Stamps: Autumn Leaves (flourishes), Art Impressions (dots), Savvy Stamps (flowers on chipboard); Letter stickers: American Crafts; Chipboard circle: Maya Road; Button: Foof-a-la; Tab sticker: Creative Imaginations; Paper ribbon: K&Co COMMENTS:
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Too Many Challenges

I LOVE challenges!

All of my layouts are created based on at least one challenge. So yesterday I bookmarked 16 challenges that I want to play with this week. I then planned out how I was going to incorporate different ones onto each layout. So it's actually 17+ challenges since that is a challenge in itself!!

I was excited to find a new one with some girls from A Million Memories called Creative Therapy and this is their first challenge, though the preferred word is catalyst: Something that you lost. It could be something good like weightloss, or terrible like a person, or heartbreaking like a friendship.

I did lose something, or thought I did at the time.

I had a best friend in high school who I never kept in touch with after I started college. She had left for Europe. I regretted not maintaining the friendship because I really missed her all these years.

At the time I was contacting classmates for a possible HS reunion. I had found several of my friends as well as my one other best friend and it was so great talking to them, but I couldn't find her.
So in my depression, I made a layout.
The day I posted the layout to Two Peas, someone told me I should Google her name.

OH, DUH!

I did so immediately and found a comment she left on a website. I emailed the owner of the site and she told me that Christine was a very good friend of hers. Christine was in Italy.

Imagine my surprise!!!! I was THRILLED and told the the woman she must contact Christine and forward my number and email. The next day of posting that layout there was an email from my long lost best friend.


I found her!

And it was GREAT!!!


So this was the layout I made at the time. I used Color Combo #42 and combined it with HMITM #54 (4 PP, 11 embellies), OLW #11 (Gone) and a couple of other Two Peas challenges.

SUPPLIES: Pattern paper: Sassafras Lass, Around the Block; Cardstock: Bazzill (Java, Green Tea); Chipboard letters: Creative Imaginations; Fabric letter, brad, oval metal tag: Making Memories; Alphabet stickers: K&Co; Chipboard phrase: Scenic Route; Journaling card: 7 Gypsies; Transparency frame: My Mind's Eye; Chipboard square: Imagination Project (Gin-X); Felt flower: American Crafts; Decorative tape: Heidi Swapp; Elmer's Paint Pen; hole punch COMMENTS:
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