Spring as arrived!

And everything is looking so beautiful. All the trees are blooming and my daffodils have bloomed (all 4 of them :)) It's the brief time of year that I can enjoy the blooms in our yard without all the weeds (I'm not a gardener). And with the blooms comes the first bouquet gift from Allison.



Updated: As I went back to look at this post I realized I really should paint that electrical cord white. I guess it's never stood out to me like it is right now :)

Calendars for Sale

Anybody want a hip new calendar. If so, head on over to our church/school next weekend. We're having a Boutique and Tea Room fundraiser. We were kinda short of booths for the boutique so last week I asked my sister to join me in a booth. She sells jewelry (mostly Catholic) and since First Communion is coming up, I thought this might be a good place for her to sell stuff.

So what am I going to sell. Well I'm working on it. Probably won't be much. By the time I pay for the booth, and donate a percentage of proceeds, I will be lucky to make a dollar. But it's for a good cause. Really hoping my sis does well, and it won't hurt to go now will it?

So that's where the calendars come in. I've made three of them. All pretty cute if I do say so myself.





These were made out of purchased frames. I just created a background so to speak. You write on the glass with dry erase markers and it wipes clean when you need to change it for the following month. Really, seems to me that writing on glass with these markers is way better than the dry erase boards. The marker wipes right off.

In other news, today I had a layout that was featured on the home page of Create My Keepsake as their Layout of the Day. I love this layout. I used Fancy Pants Key Lime Pie collection.



All right...off to do more creating. Wish me luck next weekend!

April Captured Memories Class

will focus on Spring. The class is scheduled for April 14. Here are the projects:

Finished my 6th & Final Challenge!

Of course I still have to go back and complete the second pages on a couple of them.

This was another ad challenge. I was really drawn to it and thought I could do something great digitally to it. So I did a little hybrid scrapbooking (digital and traditional). I did most of it digitally but then I matted it all on black. I also stamped on it...but the image didn't come out so clear on the photo paper.

I got a lot accomplished today for me. Much more than I'm used to. I've only snacked off and on. Time to get a meal in.

This will go in Allie's Karate Album which tracks her progress to Black Belt. So far I've only done this page and the title page. Hmmm...I have a lot of catching up to do. Maybe I'll do this whole album hybrid. Only problem is that it took me as long to scrap it hybrid than traditional. But oh yeah....I could do the digital part of it at work!

Challenge #5...On time...Yay!!!!

Ok this is challenge #5. It is an ad challenge. I really loved this ad. And I think I like how the layout turned out too. And look...it's a 2 pager!

OK...here is layout #3

I know 3 usually comes before 4. But well I had 3 done but I already missed the cutoff so I didn't photograph until after I got 4 done. And well I think I just got 4 done by the skin of my chinny chin chin. This was another sketch layout using 3 Art Warehouse Products.

Ok....I might have caught up. Here is the fourth challenge.

I'm already so far behind....

but here is the second challenge. It was a sketch challenge...using at least 2 Art Warehouse products. Haaaaa....I got 4 stamps in on this one (and no I'm not counting each letter in the word smile as a stamp...obviously since it's 5 letters). You may have to look hard, but they are all there. And again...I got to use some of my product from Frenzynae!

Gotta go...I'm waaaay behind! Which is bad for a s-l-o-w scrapper!

I'm doing an online crop today. This is the first challenge. It was an ad challenge. And as a bonus, I used my CMK Kit from Frenzynae today. I love how it turned out. I did a really crappy job of photographing it though.