This little man makes me laugh!

One of my favourite things about scrapbooking is recording the everyday moments.  I feel the little things are what all add up to give us an overall feeling of contentment.  

This particular layout captures my nephew and I playing together last Halloween right before he left to go trick or treating with his brother.  One of the joys in life is hearing babies, toddlers and kids laugh.

I tucked the journaling on card in a pocket behind the photos.  It reads: 

M loves to be tossed around and I love the joy and giggles it brings. 

Halloween 2010 visiting R and M before they went out trick or treating.

One last thing, can I get a HOLY COW!! (heehee) as I finally completed a scrapbook layout after months and months of having no mojo.  I'm still on the card-making bandwagon though.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Which Witch is Which?

This cute little witch is a digi stamp courtesy of Your Next Stamp a company I recently found at my LSS.  I have a couple of their stamps that I love.  They are cling rubber in the funkiest purple colour & they're a Canadian company, which is a bonus.  I decided to play along with the current YNSC #53 - Halloween challenge and made this card. 
As this week's theme over at the Simon Says Stamp challenge is Halloween/Goth and the Basic Grey challenge is Autumn/Fall/Halloween I am entering this card in these challenges as well.

We are planning a very low-key weekend as the previous weekend included an out of town wedding, Thanksgiving & my hubby's birthday.  It was a fun but very tiring weekend.   ;-)
Thanks for looking! 


Products used: Basic Grey 6x6 Origins Paper Pad, Echo Park Wicked Potions PP, Neenah White Cardstock, YNS Digi Stamp, American Crafts Enchanted PP, Copic Markers, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, American Crafts Apricot Zing, Penny Black Spooky Collection Stamp, Twine - Twinery, Black Inkssentials Enamel Accents, Black Soot Distress Ink, Ranger Stickles, Taylored Expressions Twinkles Crystals

In Honour of World Card Making Day

I was busy card making this weekend as Oct 1 (aka World Card Making Day) fell on Saturday. I will share a few of my card creations below.

I was also fortunate to attend The Great Canadian Scrapbook Carnival put on by the great folks from the magazine publication Canadian Scrapbooker.  I went with both my mom & younger sister.  The Carnival took up most of my Saturday & Sunday as there was shopping/displays from local vendors plus a make & take bar.  

There was also a 2 day crop event that you had to preregister for. I think I may give it a try next year.  In all the time I have been paper crafting I've never been to a crop.  It will make a great goal for this upcoming year.  

Without further ado I present 3 of my cards...

*Please note this 1st card is my entry into the Simon Says Stamp Challenge this week where "Anything Goes".

The close-up shot.

My 1st card ever using the Glitter Ritz product. I love the outcome but I will warn you there was glitter all over me, my table, the floor and my dog ;-)

My 2nd attempt with the Glitter Ritz... much cleaner this time I'm happy to say.

Below are the products I used for each card:

1. Happy Birthday

Taylored Expressions - Belated Birthday Stand Out
Basic Grey - Life of the Party 6X6 Paper Pad
Copic Sketch Markers ~ Basic Grey Brads ~ American Crafts Zing (Chestnut) ~ Distress Ink (Broken China) ~ Diamond Glaze ~ Pop Dots (dimensional adhesive)

2. Happy

Basic Grey - Eva 6X6 Paper Pad & Kioshi 6X6 Paper Pad

Recollections Kraft Cardstock ~ KI Scribbles -Glitter Borders ~ Elizabeth Craft Designs - Peel-Off Sticker
Glitter Ritz ~ Sookwang Tape ~ Uni-Ball Signo White Gel Pen

3. Flower

Basic Grey - Kioshi 6X6 Paper Pad
Color Mates - Light Terrific Teal Cardstock
Elizabeth Craft Designs - Peel-Off Sticker ~ Glitter Ritz ~Sookwang Tape ~ Distress Stickles (Spiced Marmalade) ~ Distress Ink (Pumice Stone)

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Cheers!

The ABC's of Me

I struggle a lot with what to put on my blog. Part of me would like to share my creative endeavours, however, I am often intimidated to do so after perusing the blogs of other papercrafters. There are so many talented people in the blogosphere and I have a hard time not comparing my work to theirs. (I'm working on this.) 
Sharing personal info is another struggle and in general I tend toward being private. I realized recently many of my favourite "crafty" blogs have a nice mix of crafty goodness plus some personal tidbits. 


Soooo..... this morning after reading THIS blog post by the delightful Krista Wells (her blog - Confessions of a Twenty Something Artist) I decided to add a dash of personalilty to my blog. I decided to play along in the following exercise. 

note: Wacky is my default setting for pics - "normal" is very hard for me.

The ABC's of Me

A bit of me in a nutshell...

A. Age: 35
B. Bed size: Queen - it's a little squishy with me, my hubby and our basset hound ~ we like to cuddle ;-)
C. Chore that you hate: scrubbing the bath tub - it's 60+ yrs old & the enamel has worn off
D. Dogs: Our sweet babies - Rosco (8 year old) Basset Hound and Daisy (6 year old) Beagle 
E. Essential start to your day: a great cup of coffee, mmmm, or 2 maybe 3
F. Favourite colour: grey ~ I love many colours but always gravitate to a shade with a grey undertone. 
G. Gold or Silver: silver for now but I can see with the change in trends eventually adding some gold to the mix
H. Height: 5'6"
I. Instruments you play: none but I do like to sing around the house making up wacky songs for the dogs or my hubby
J. Job title: making the most of my life and being the best person I can
K. Kids: the 2 fur babies mentioned in item D
L. Live: Alberta, Canada
M. Mother’s name: Debbie
N. Nicknames: when I was little my Grandpa used to call me Fleecy and Duckie (I miss him)
O. Overnight hospital stays: not a one, knock on wood
P. Pet peeves: people who are rude to sales staff at stores (urgghh) 
Q. Quote from a movie: I am forever trying to remember movie quotes but I have some sort of mental block.  I could hear the quote and not be able to repeat it verbatim 2 seconds later, haha, it's a quirk of mine.
R. Right or left handed: I'm a lefty!!
S. Siblings: 2 brothers, 1 sister - the difference in age between us ranges from 13-17 years
U. Underwear: under there
V. Vegetable you hate: hate is a strong word but I dislike cucumbers
W. What makes you run late: I get extremely anxious arriving somewhere early
X. X-Rays you’ve had: dental, back
Y. Yummy food that you make: scones, apple turkey burgers
Z. Zoo animal: gorillas and tigers

Our kids :-)

If you made it this far I thank you.  If you decided to give this a try please link you post in my comments.
Have a great weekend!

Stamptember Fun

I still have the card making bug & decided to put forth the following card as my entry into the Simon Says Stamp Stamptember Blog Hop.

Supplies Used:
Harmonie Stamp
American Crafts Chestnut Zing
Vintage Photo Distress Ink
Copic Sketch Markers
Spellbinders Nestabilities - Scallop Oval
Basic Grey PP

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