croppin!

I went cropping yesterday and had a great time! I didn't get as much done as I would have liked, but I love everything that I made. The only thing I can share right now is this page that I made for the My Little Shoebox January sketch challenge. Thanks to Leslie for gifting me with these fabulous papers!






























Here is the sketch:

wanna be a queen?

I saw this on one of my friends' blogs and thought - this might be biting off more than I can chew right now, or it might be just the thing to get me out of my scrap funk. Check it out

Leah's giving blog candy to Envious followers!

Check it out, Leah is giving away some blog candy to NVS followers, go to her blog HERE to see the deets. and while you are at it, if you haven't done it yet, check out the january challenge. She has the deets on that on her blog too.

in other news, I got my prize from pink paislee at it is AWESOME! I will be sharing the love around in the near future.

check it out - this is it!

and in still other news, and update from my weekend. I thought I was doing better on thursday after learning that I didn't make the webster's pages team on wedneday. But when it came time to scrap, I wasnt so sure. I procrastinated it a little. Then I finally made myself do it because the scrapbook nook was having an online crop. Well that just made it worse. I felt like I had to complete all of these layouts this weekend for the crop, and as I worked on them, not feeling the mojo at all, I was thinking WHAT am I doing this for! I am making layouts that I don't like. I am making myself do my hobby when I don't feel like it, and for what? So I stopped. Then I felt depressed. Then finally I said, 'screw it! I am going to scrap because I wanna scrap, and I am just going to play. I am not 'in it to win it' with

this Nook crop thing, and that's ok.' So I scrapped a little more. I played with my cricut (which I had had for about 6 months and never really took the time to learn how to use.) I played with my texture boutique and did some embossing. I dug through my scraps and pulled out things that I loved even though they weren't current and weren't going to win me anything. and it was good.

Here is a page that I am loving right now, from a sketch that I made for myself last week in anticipation of the crop. I am really into monochromatic and borders and textures right now. can ya tell? lol oh and this is some of the pink paislee stuff that was in that prize pack!

I'm so pretty grey monochromatic card

I made a card for the moxie fab tuesday trigger this week. I always think that I am going to do it, and I always end up not getting time. This time I did! I also combined it with the Grey is the new black challenge.

This is the trigger: Im so pretty



















and here is my card. I think it's pretty easy to see how I was inspired. I combined this trigger with the 'grey is the new black challenge' also from the movie fab blog, and with the monochromatic card challenge from the nook's virtual crop. I didn't have grey flowers, so I took the brand new white ones that I bought today at joann's, I think the trim that I cut these from is simplicity brand. EVERYONE has these ribbon trims now! Anyway, I had 2/3 of a yard and guess how many flowers were on that? 9 - just enough! I used what was left of my grey smooch spritz. I love how these turned out though! they aren't just grey, they are sparkly too! I also used some coredinations cardstock, which I embossed and sanded. Got that at joann 6 for 96c ! can you believe that?! and that silver trim is Webster's Pages.

ACOT Glitz Reveal

This month I got to work with Glitz Hoopla, and I was surprised by how much I LOVED it! I have always liked Glitz, but this line is just amazing! I used every scrap and am seriously considering going back for seconds! See my whole reveal at ACOT HERE.

Here is one page that I just HAD to work on last night after I saw the sketch posted on the Glitz blog. Noel Culbertson made this sketch. So this page was a last minute addition to my reveal, and unfortunately I had to use the scraps that were leftover, but I still kinda adore it! I also found in working with this line, that I had a lot of stuff that matched perfectly! Sassfrass Lass Indie Girl has some greens that match great, and I even had some basic grey felties from an older basic grey line that were perfect as well.

Pagemaps sketch + ACOT Glitz reveal

This month I did a reveal with Glitz Hoopla and boy do I love it! It will go live later today, but for now, here is a page that I made with the pagemaps contest sketch for this month

I won! and some thoughts

Thank you to everyone who voted for me over at Pink Paislee! I did win and I will be sure to let you know when I receive my prize.

In other news, I have most of December's Nook kit to sell. I thought I was going to use it because it's really nice and would be my style, but I really don't do Christmas. So, I have two sheets each of 9 double sided My Mind's Eye Holly Jolly papers (that's a total of 18 sheets!), the coordinating 12x12 chipboard sticker sheet, and a sheet of coordinating letter stickers from Pink Paislee. This would retail for $22. I'm asking for $18 shipped.

and now some thoughts - from Jess's blog challenge prompt list for this week over at ACOT

What are your favorite websites right now? Blogs? Where are you spending your online time? Playing games, barely time for email, scrap challenge sites, news sites, Facebook?

Favorite Websites - ACOT, My Scrapbook Nook, Facebook, Google Reader, Webster's Pages Ning Community, SparkPeople and Pogo.

ACOT - love the community, love the store, love the inspiration. That about sums it up

Nook - pretty much the same. It's a very different group of people at the Nook and I do more lurking than posting, but I really enjoy the variety. And of course the kits are great too.

Facebook - well duh! isn't it obvious? to keep up on news of not just my friends but my old acquaintances, and my favorite scrapbook companies and groups.

Google Reader - because to list my favorite blogs would take FOREVER! I 'read' a ton of blogs - mostly scrapbook related. Tons of challenge blogs, tons of manufacturers and magazines and some of my friends and favorite scrappers' personal blogs. I could never keep up with them all without my google reader.

Webster's Pages Ning - well I haven't really kept it a secret that I applied for the Wesbster's DT, and am anxiously awaiting the results. I know that a TON of people applied and I probably don't have a chance, but that doesnt stop me from being obsessed. I have always checked in with the Webster's community a couple times a month, but now it is a couple times a day.

SparkPeople - a free online community that lets me track my calories and workouts to help with my weight loss. Plus they have groups and boards to help also. LOVE IT!

Pogo - free online site with TONS of games to play. I pay for a subscription so that I can collect badges, but I played for free for a while before I decided to join. Great for when you're bored.

there you have it! that is where you can find me multiple times a day every day - oh and cnn.com