Forgive My Absence

I know I have a post most everyday, but my daughter is in the hospital and even though she's 19 I don't want to leave her alone for too long at a time. I just came home to email her instructors at college. I don't think is any thing serious, seems like a really bad stomach virus, but they are going to run some tests. I hope to be back scrapping soon!

A Day At The Park

This layout was done for Noel's challenge this week. I had so many pictures from this day, I decided to do another page. This was based loosely on Noel's sketch and with paper from her March kit. The monkeys were stamped on white cardstock and I used colored pencils to fill them in.

Week 3 of the 8 week challenge at Kits & Pieces, this week's challenge was to create a layout with circles. If you signed up on their site when I had the RAK, please log on and vote for me this week. This is the first week they are allowing members to vote for their favorite layout.

This was the first really nice day we had had in a long time and Logen had a ball at our new neighborhood park. I took a ton of pictures, until he finally told me not to take anymore! I think this is the most photographs that I have ever put in a layout.

Ben

March layout challenge at SoCal Scrap. It had to be green, mine is definately green!

Where I Live

This picture is for the week 3 blitz at Kits and Pieces. The challenge was to create a layout showing where you live. I have lived in Memphis for over 20 years and I have been to Graceland once! But it is still what we are best know for, Elvis.

Wedding Album

I finished the wedding album, I added two pocket pages for cards. I sewed 3 layers of tulle to the black cardstock and then covered the stitches with ribbon.

I Love the Postman!

Thank you Deanna and Julie for filling my mailbox with scrappy goodies!

Wedding Album

I am making a wedding album as a gift. It was hard to get started on this because I am not putting pictures in the album. I am creating a 20 page album and I am doing repetitive pages, so once I get one layout done I just do the same thing over again. I got 10 pages done yesterday here is a sample of some of the pages.

What A Mess!

Here's a picture of the mess I am making working on the ATCs for our swap hosted by Amy. I am not going to show the finished product, that would be no fun! This is my first real try at these little pieces of art, I have no idea what the finished product should look like, I do know I made one mell of hess!

Crafts on a Whim

Check out Crafts on a Whim, Andi was kind enough to make me the featured crafter of the week.

Honeymoon

We don't have many wedding or honeymoon pictures, we eloped to Lake Tahoe and my best friend flew in from Alaska to be the Best Woman/Maid of Honor, this picture is really dark but since I don't have many of us together I wanted to scrap it anyway.

I usually paint raw chipboard, but I left these squares the way they were and inked the edges, the color matched my sweater. I stitched the squares together with rickrack and the heart with ribbon. I did paint the heart and the arrow. I didn't need much journaling, so just wrote around the heart.

Crappy Flowers

The challenge over at Scrap Your Crap this week was flowers. I have had these flowers forever and I don't like them. They came in a kit I bought at Costco and there were thousands of the these little paper flowers in the kit. So thanks for the challenge and helping me use up some these crappy flowers!

Do you want the rest of these flowers? Be the first person to ask for them and they are yours!

Winner

My daughter drew a name and the winner is Patty. I sent a message to you if need some info. Again thank you all for helping. I will have another RAK soon.

RAK

I will have a random drawing for anyone who subscribes to Kits & Pieces newsletter. I am in an 8 week challenge and this week I get extra points if I have the most people sign up for the newsletter. Please leave a comment after you have signed up and send me an email at scrappycatz@gmail.com (I have to have your email address to get the points). This is a great site and I think you will enjoy the gallery and message board. Robin, Judy and Deanna I already have you in the drawing. Sorry no international RAK, please sign up for the newsletter, but I can't ship internationally. I appreciate you doing this for me.

I HAVE TO GIVE THEM THE INFORMATION BY EARLY FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SO YOU HAVE TO ACT FAST!

Today's Creativity

I signed up for an ATC swap that Amy started. I have made only one of these before. Today I was just trying to get started, come up with an idea and get the supplies together. Here's a before picture. The magnet set is my inspiration for the ATCs.




Here's one more card I made this morning.

Cards from Scraps

I made these cards with the leftover paper from my "hugs" layout. This is the easiest way for me to make cards, I am more of scrapper than cardmaker but when you have the scraps already out and have a color scheme it's easy to make the cards. It's hard to tell from the photo, but the cards with owls on them, I cut a circle out of the front of the card and stamped the owl on the inside.

Kits and Pieces

Please go to Kit and Pieces and sign up for their newsletter. I will get extra points for getting people to subscribe. I am in an 8 week challenge over there and I am loving the challenges, the message board and gallery. If you sign up please let me know by posting a comment here. Thanks for doing this for me and I wouldn't even ask you to sign up if I didn't think you would enjoy the projects and information.

Hugs

This is my layout of the day, I think I am still one behind on getting one uploaded a day. This took longer to finish than I anticipated, if just wasn't coming together the way I wanted.

Vinyl Record

This certainly isn't the prettiest layout I've ever done. But probably the most journaling that I've ever done. I hope my future generations get a kick out of seeing a real vinyl record and learning how much I love music. I don't have a turntable anymore so the record was useless sitting in a drawer.

The Easter Dress

I managed to finish one layout this evening, I think I still need to complete one more to catch up on goal of finishing one a day in March.



This layout is of my daughter when she was six. I mainly used Noel's Hopscotch kit. I know I've said this before, but I love the paper in this kit! The photo is not that great, I hate to take the pic at night with the flash on.

I'm Back!

I took the scenic route on my trip to the lake on Friday and for now I want to share a couple photos.

My faithful companion Casey settled in for the ride on a Sponge Bob blankie.


I saw this establishment in Huntingdon, Tennessee and had to stop and take a picture. The Redneck Supply House seems to have everything any Tennessee Redneck would need!


I hope to get a layout done this afternoon, I will post later.