guest post at clearsnap!

my last guest post is up at clearsnap today. I had so much fun with this page. It was kind of funny because I wasn't feeling like scrapbooking, and was not at all inspired, until I grabbed the rollagraph and some circle stamps, then this page just flew together. Hop over to the clearsnap blog to check out a little tutorial that I created.

Card for a couple of challenges

This past weekend was VERY busy! (hence the lack of activity on the blog so far this week) I only managed to create two cards and one page (which I can't show yet). And unfortunately, the photos leave a little to be desired too. BUT I took a photography class last night (and didn't get home until after midnight) so hopefully my photography skills will benefit from that!

Anyway, this card is for the Coredinations and Clearsnap color challenges. I just loved the clearsnap colors - green, blue and purple. And the coredinations challenge was to use part or all of the rainbow, and green blue and purple are the tail end of the rainbow.

Oh yes, I am getting WELL acquainted with the rainbow since Ellie is having a rainbow birthday party. I wish I had a little more time (and a little more coredinations cardstock) because I have a ton of FULL rainbow ideas rolling around in my head. But don't worry, you will all be seeing them sometime soon. At least, as soon as I come up for air! lol! I won't bore you with the details but suffice it to say that I must have walked out the front door of my house to run an errand at least 10 times this weekend. It was to the point where I was laughing. Grabbing my keys and running to the next appointment was like deja vu!

Ok and also the newest Cards blog challenge gallery topic was announced - use three border punches. So I alternated the punched strips, and also alternated sanding the wonderful coredinations cardstock, to give a subtle differentiation between the strips.

Coredinations cardstock, Clearsnap inks, MME stamps, SRM stickers sticker, Fiskars and Martha Stewart punches, the twinery twine.

Fall issue of Scrapbook Cards Today is up!

and my page is in it! on page 45! Ellie (ok and me too) was so excited when it arrived at our house last night! She even read the text next to the page all by herself (ok with a little bit of help) and said - 'they said I'm adorable!' lol! it was so cute!

You can read the issue online - just click on the image below.

Sept Scrapdango Reveal and a Free Digi stamp

The Scrapdango kit is available now - featuring Crate Paper's Farmhouse line! Oh, I just adored this line! Unfortunately I didnt have a lot of time, and what time I had, I was sick. So I didn't get as much done as I normally would have with this kit. But I can't wait to get back to it!

Check out the rest of my reveal HERE.

I made this card as part of the reveal. I was inspired by the Create Cards magazine challenge to make a card with a Fox. I didn't have a fox, and I wanted a cute/sexy kinda spunky one, so I drew it myself and made it into a digi stamp. Feel free to grab it, just give me credit if you use it please. It's a .png file, so there is a blank background.

Guest Designer post at Clearsnap

I have another post up on the Clearsnap blog today. This time I made a scrapbook page using some fun products and techniques. Here is the page, pop on over to the clearsnap blog to find out how I made the yellow diamond background and the ruffled muslin border!

My Mind's Eye Sketch and Scrapdango Challenge

Today it's my turn to post the Core Class for the School's In contest over at Scrapdango. I chose Science because I have always loved science. The requirements for this challenge are: Use green as a major color on your layout, use something botanical (like a flower) and use one or more hexagons (like bee hives or molecules).

I also happened to be working on the My Mind's Eye monthly sketch challenge, so I used that sketch and added in my challenge requirements to create this example.

The My Mind's Eye sketch featured lots of journaling, and a prompt of "Back to ____". I took this as a great opportunity to tell the story of how Ellie acts when I take her picture. Sometimes, if Im lucky, I get one decent picture, then it's right back to being silly! She has the most adorable poses, which is great, but sometimes I would like a more 'normal' picture. Oh, well. I guess this way the photos convey her personality more anyway.

I used Lime Twist papers, featuring a lot of green. For the hexagons, I used a honeycomb texture stamp to create a mat behind the photo. Then I added an American Crafts Details flower which I doodled a little bit on. I also added some leaves and a vine to the flower. Since I was using a lot of journaling, I broke out of my handwritten journaling rut, and used my computer to print out the journaling, which I then cut into strips as shown in the sketch.

Some awesome news!

Check it out! I was featured on paper issues today! For this project that I created as part of my guest design team stint at clearsnap.

I also got some really awesome news that I am going to be published! Still can't believe this one!

What else is new? Hmm, it's just one thing after another isn't it? Don't get me wrong, I'm too much on cloud nine about the publication to be whining, but man - my list just keeps growing! Tonight after work, you will find me:

• catching crickets to feed Queen Julia (ellie's lizard) - it's actually much easier than you would think to catch crickets as long as you have a net it would take me just as long and cost a lot more, to go buy them
• making dinner - going to have to be plain pasta tonight since we have no food in the house and no time to cook anyway
• taking the dog to the vet - she hopefully just has arthritis, but it has come on so fast that we are worried it might be lyme disease or something

This (thankfully three day) weekend I will be

• waiting for the plumber
• working on 6 scrapbook DT assignments (and hopefully some stuff for fun too)
• probably catching more crickets
• possibly picking apples
• going out to dinner for a date night with DH for restaurant week on Sunday
• going out with a girlfriend to see her brother's band play on Saturday night (no idea how I am going to stay up that late! I will probably be drinking coffee instead of beer or wine)
• laundry laundry and more laundry
• grocery shopping
• cooking and dishes
• taking ellie to soccer
• paying bills/mailing things etc.

Im tired just thinking about it