On the 12th day of Christmas....

Joy to the World!  The Lord has come!  I celebrated Epiphany this afternoon by doing a page featuring our Christmas Card.  The idea came from another challenge at two peas. 

 

It has distressing, so it also is my entry to CropChocolate's weekly challenge this week. 2 down, 50 to go... 

 

The girls saw how much fun I was having and they wanted in on the action.  They looked through the stash and both settled on Basic Grey's Lime Rickey Paper pack -

 

 

 

Oh Brads!

I re-discovered Two Peas in A Bucket this week.  Their design team has a video series.  It is really cool to see the creative process.  

I came across a "Use your Stash" challenge.  The challenge is to use up brads.  Brads are something that don't get the respect they deserve in my house, so this was a good challenge for me.   I went walking through my stash and found a whole box of Webster's Pages goodies.  It was from one of their warehouse sale grab bags that I just had to have.  These are beautiful papers and embelishments, but I remember not being inspired much by the goodies when I recieved it.  I challenged myself to use only items from that box.   I ended up outsourcing the brads from other brands ...  and the Thickers...  I found a Becky Fleck Sketch and went to work -

48 brads and a couple sore fingertips later ----

Check it out!  My page of  Bailey's "Home for Christmas"  is featured on The Crop at CropChocolate.com today.  Creative inspiration is everywhere, especially when you look to your friends.   A really great community of crafters has formed there.   I am happy to be welcomed back after taking a break. 

If you're not familiar with CropChocolate.com, it's like a Deal a Day site for Papercrafting, but better.  You're able to save your goodies and build a carte to save on shipping.   Check it out!

Back into it...

To get over the "hump" of  not getting any crafting done, I did this page the other day to close out 2012.   Our last doggie, Ranger got sick and died the same week we brought Nathan home from the hospital 5 years ago.  We promised 4 year old Meghan at the time when Nathan started Kindergarten we would get another doggie.  She didn't let us forget and started counting down the days.   Bailey joined our family in August this year, just weeks after Nathan started Kindergarten.  She is kind, gentle, and patient.    We are happy to have her and she is happy to have a home.   My mom gave her this Santa doll for Christmas.  I think her expression sums it all up.

Hannah helped me place the letters and flowers.   I think she caught the crafting bug, too.  We plan to do some more pages this weekend.  She went through some photos I recently printed has already started planning her page.  

Top 10 of 2012

Happy New Year!

So, I am not a very good blogger.  Lately, I haven't been doing much scrapping, either.   Again, I am inspired by others to dust off this corner of the web and make a post.   I am seeing top 10 lists everywhere, so I thought I would follow suit.  I wasn't sure I even had 10 projects from 2012 to share.  I hope to be much more productive in 2013. Here the my top 10 projects (that I have photos of), in no particular order;

A Scraplift Challenge

This past weekend I got together with a couple of my CC friends for a weekend of scrapping fun. While there I watched Kathy do a layout she had sketched herself . . . using circles to make a heart. I loved it so much that I decided to scraplift.   In fact, I had mine done before Kathy finished her own.

Here's Kathy’s layout:

Here's my scraplift: 

We decided to have a "Scraplift" Challenge. Both of us are offering some  blog candy from our stashes. :)

Here's what you need to do to be eligible - Do a new project (layout, card, altered art, etc) by "scraplifting" my heart layout . . . adding, subtracting, changing or keeping the same, however you are inspired. Once you have your project done, go to Kathy’s blog and link it up Mr. Linky.

You can link up by posting on your blog or any online photo sharing site. Then leave a comment here.  Yes, there are two opportunities to win!

You have till Sept. 1 at 10am Central to post your project.  We can't wait to see what everyone comes up with.

I spent last weekend at Memories on Marshall with 3 other scrappers and managed to get 8 pages done in between the laughing, eating, and a bit of sleeping.  It is a great reatreat house and the hosts really know how to make you feel comfortable.  Home made meals were so yummy!  If you have the opportunity, I highly recommend a visit.  We had so much fun we booked a weekend next March.  Let me know if you are interested in joining us.

Here are a couple of my projects;