Coming back soon!

After a much to long absence...I am happy to report I will be returning to my scrap-happy days very soon...all of my scrapping supplies are still boxed up as of today, but I am hopeful of a joyous return very soon...Thank you to all my scrap buddies who have kept me company during my long absence...I look forward to sharing new and wonderful lo's and cards with all of you soon! Blessed Be!

Blog Candy!

I have found another amazing blog candy give away! It's in my sidebar. The link to True's blog is True's name and there's a pic of her blog candy! go to her blog and enter to win this truly wonderful blog candy! Her blog is also a great place to just check out and get wonderful new ideas from!

New site...super fun Great giveaway!

I gotta say people I am soo excited about this new blog site! Check it out! Wow love the blog candy!!
The Next level These ladies are starting off with a BANG this giveaway is awesome!!

A blog award!

The always too fabulous for words...Lindsay has seen fit to present me with a couple of blog awards....she really is to kind for words...so here are the awards and who I'm passing my awards on to! Lindsay's blog is amazing check it out here...warning you to will become an avid fan!! She has truly become my scrapbook guru! Thanks again Lindsay!






Sooo...... here are the rules of the Lemonade Stand award:

Comment on this blog. Cut and paste the award logo and use it in your own blog. Nominate 5 to 10 blogs you feel show great attitude and gratitude. Link to your nominees within your blog post. Comment on their blogs to let them know they've received the award. Link back to the person who gave you the award to show your appreciation.




And here's a little about the Friends award:

These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to five bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.

My awards are going to five amazing friends who are always inspiring, supporting, and encouraging me!

Click on their names to check out their BLOGS:



Tina
Georgina
Kim
Lisa
Noella

Another Challenge

I did this lo for challenge #19 on 52sketches based off of another fabulous sketch by Julie!

My Buds page!

This is a lo I did the first time Julie from 52sketches had a design team call. I didn't end up entering an app for that call, but today as I was putting up my challenge for Scrap whispers I realized I had never taken a pic of it and put it up so here it is! It's based on a 2008 sketch of Julies!

Challenge # 28 from Scrap whisperers!

This is my entry for a challenge on Scrap Whispers. Challenge # 28. The challenge was: "Challenge 28 is slightly unusual. We want you to split your page in two and create one layout but with 2 different sides to it. So for example - heaven and hell (white and angelic side v red and black side); sunshine and darkness; ying and yang; red and blue on one side, yellow and green on the other; maybe soccer or football team supporters; a little girl who loves all things barbie and pink but who also loves rock concerts or cars; different seasons; That kind of thing."

So I chose to do a page on our wedding cake's. The journaling says: Our cakes couln't have been more different. The wedding cake was espresso flavored. The grooms cake was butter creme flavored. Their were real black eyed susans. The image on the grooms cake was from Ted Neugent's spirit of the wild!

Check it out!

Check out this super easy and fabulous Rak give away!! How fun!
thanks for the super fantastic give away Chelsea!http://scraphappychelsey.blogspot.com/2009/05/flowers-ribbon-and-giveaway.html

Here's hoping!

I talked about it last time and never did anything about it. So this time I decided I wouldn't let the opportunity pass me up....nor would I let my sneaking pessimistic attitude get the better of me! So I have entered 52sketches 52weeks design team call. Below is the sample lo I sent in with my app. It's based on Julies #13 sketch! Wish me luck!

Here you go!

Current catalog

Everyone's been asking where the scrap dollar day's sale is so here's the link! I looked today and they have added new stuff....Dang to bad I already spent my budget!

Craft show!

Here are some cards I've been working on for the craft show....the lo is just one I did the other night when Ash came over to scrap!

The card tied together wouldn't stay open so there's no pic of the inside, but I left it pretty simple...just some swirly stamps and the word celebrate!

More, more, more!!

Here are more of my entries for the weekend Birthday Bash over at Lets scrap!!

The bachelorette photos were entered for a recycle challenge....The birthday card was for a recycle card challenge as well!! It really has been an incredible weekend over there ty ladies for all your hard work and uber fun challenges!
The lo of A and I was for a recipe challenge....it was really hard we could only use 3 patterned papers
3 flowers
4 of any other kind of embellie
It wasn't easy, I wasn't thrilled about the way it turner out, but it was a challenge after all!
Okay now about the obvious...for some reason Idk y! Ever pic I took this weekend turned out blurry!! Sorry about that! TFL!

Sketch's, challenges, games Oh my!!

This is another challenge lo I did this weekend for lets scrap's big Birthday Bash weekend! I have to send a huge thank you and muahhhh out to the ladies over there they kept me hopping all weekend with challenges and games and conversation!! I won 2of the games we played and entered in 4 different challenges....This lo was for Kim's recipe challange....it was challenging....and it was inspired by Cheri's bb3 sketch! So thanks again ladies! It really made my snowed in weekend a blast!!

Birthday Card!

Here's a card I made for Lets scrap card challenge 1....in honor of Cheri's birthday!It's also for the lets scrap birthday card challenge!

4th grade concert!

This is another challenge entry for lets scrap based on a sketch by Cheri O'neil (sp) Who btw is celebrating a birthday!! Happy Birthday Cheri!! Many returns of the day!!

Two pages....Two challenges!!

This is my entry for lets scrap challenge #3....although I strayed pretty far from the sketch it was definitely inspired by the sketch! Thank you for encouraging me to do a two page lo! It's been forever! It's also my entry for the march lo challenge on scrapjazz, the challenge was if there was a song playing in the background of your life what would it be....I chose Brown eyed girl by Van Morrison! TFL!

Catching up!

It has been a month to the day since I scrapped and added to any of my galleries....It has been a crazy month, but I'm back to it....I wanted to share my newest lo's all based on Julies sketches. Btw....Julie chose her first DT! I can't wait to see what the DT has in store for us! It's an incredible team so I know it will be worth the wait and amazing!! I did a lo to use in my app for the DT, but between a funeral and going back to work for two weeks, not to mention my dd being out of town and Spring break....whew! like I said it's been a crazy month!



This is my entry for Julies #11 sketch!




I entered two lo's for Julies #12 sketch!
Hope everyone is well!

So here's my entry for last weeks #7 sketch on 52 sketches! I was a little worried about the colors, but it turned out pretty well!
I have decided to enter an app for the dt! I did a lo I'll post a pic after g.s. meeting tonight. Wish me luck!!

A design team...

Julie from 52 sketches is putting together a design team...I am totally considering sending an app.... I'm slightly hesitant, only because I'm not sure my lo's are good enough for a design team...but also because I'm not sure I understand all that is required. So I'm gonna make a lo to add to my app.... and depending on how it turns out I'll decide. If you wanna try for the dt...click the link above!

Scrap whisper's challenge!

This is my enty for scrap whisper's challenge #17. The challenge this week was to scrap about your best friend, using lyrics from Queens my best friend, and the colors red, white, and pink. I used the little part about sunshine and did a page of me and my girl! TFL!

Blog award!

Lindsay...who is a doll and as fabulous as fabulous gets has seen fit to give my little blog a blog award!! I am super excited about this! Thank you Lindsay for your thoughtfulness....now I feel I must pass on the wonderful feeling of pride and joy to others! So I give a blog award to....Kim, Jodi, and I gotta send one right back to Lindsay These ladies keep me striving to be a better scrapbooker! It doesn't hurt at all that they are FABULOUS!!

Colorado!

This lo was inspired by a sketch on creatively yours! It was sketch #48 by Noella! This is the first time I have tried a sketch from any place other than 52 sketches. I will most certainly be looking again at Creatively yours for insperation!

New challenge!

This is a lo I did for challenge #6 on 52 sketches....it is my first attempt at stitching...I will keep trying it's not the quality I had hoped for but I will work on it!

new page!

I was in total dd mode this week. This is another page I did of her this one for, 52sketches and 3 scrappy boys!

The tab on the right side is a hidden note from me to her, it's the first time I've ever "hidden" a note in a lo! I have always love the look and the idea of it, just never tried it! The quote is one of my many favorites by Shel Silverstein! TFL!

Blog candy

Blog candy Check it out!


http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=35327973538289413

A truly emotional page.

This was such an emotional page to do. It is the first of many on this subject. It just literally took me 9 yrs to be able to make the first one....and I'm still balling!

The journaling says....

My sister,
How do I say Thank You?
It seems to fall short of my true feelings about this subject.
How do you thank a woman
who trusted you with the most
perfect event of her entire life?
A woman who gave you something
you couldn't have and wouldn't have
without her, I am reminded of your
gentle, kind, and loving spirit everyday.
It lives in the complete emodiment
of the most amazing human being I
have ever met. I see your face in her
smile. I feel you warmth in her hugs.
You and I will forever be connected,
you were connected to her for nine months.
I have been connected with her since
the day you placed her in my arms.
I made you a promise, the promise she
would have a better life than we did.
I have lived and worked every day
to make that promise a reality.
When one day you, her, and I meet
again I hope you see in her the joy,
hope, and innocence we lost so long
ago. I will never be able to repay you
for what you did. I can't imagine the
sacrifice you made. I could never ask
a woman to just give up her heart and
soul. To just release her life's biggest
accomplishment and joy. I will forever
be grateful that you did. Though I know
I will never fully understand the pain and
heartache you must have felt and still feel.
I will never know how a woman can be that
loving, giving, kind and selfless. I can
only strive to show her the example you
have set. As weak and little as it may
seem I can only say Thank You.
Thank you for the Greatest Gift.

Love your sister,
Monica

Whooo Hoooo!!

Thank You Thank You Thank You
Giant Thanks go out to lindsay, she ran a contest for a superbowl recipe, in which her dh choose a winner. I won!!! I am so super excited to recieve the beautiful prize she is awarding. Shes sending me....

5 Heidi Grace patterned papers and a matching alpha (2 glittered papers, 1 embossed, paper, 2 double sided cardstock papers and a flocked cardstock alpha set).


I will be posting the finished pages here on my blog! hope I do the papers justice!! Thanks again lindsay!

RAK Giveaway!!

Valentine's Day Giveaway!



Wouldn't you LOVE to win this!?
Just re-post this giveaway & add a link to your post in a comment here.
Earn extra entries by posting on more than one site too!
We will pick a winner on Valentine's Day.



http://socalscrap.blogspot.com/2009/01/valentines-day-giveaway.html

Just 4 scrapping!!

I have noticed the more time I spend on scrap sites, and the more blogs I look at of other scrapper that their sites are simply dedicated to their scrapping. So I'm making a blog site just for my scrapping....I will post pics, and news....if I ever win anything...lol....and that kinda stuff. Thanks for the idea ladies....and to my hard core blog readers...don't worry my other scrap site is still just my personal take on the world at large.