Weekend's work

i actually did layouts this weekend!

they were all in response to challenges on The Scrapping Nook.

and i have made a few more Christmas cards! 44 made toward my goal of 300!

and i'm using up my stash!! gotta love that. i still have way more than anyone needs - but hey - it's all good!

Phriday Phunny - Ponderisms

Can you cry under water?

How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

Why do you have to "put your two cents in".. But it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going to?

Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?

Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

What disease did cured ham actually have?

How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?

If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

Why are you IN a movie, but you're ON TV?

Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They're going to see you naked anyway.

Why is "bra" singular and "panties" plural?

Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no human Would eat?

If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him?

Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane?

If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?

Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs!

If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why didn't he just buy dinner?

If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?

If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?

Why did you just try singing the two songs above?

Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it's in your butt?

Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?

PSA

Public Service Announcment.

When you are working with distressing inks and glimmer mist - DO NOT spray the glimmer mist on something that you stamped with distressing ink. the ink will run and bleed.

but it's not a failure - it's an opportunity for creativity!

I keep trying to tell myself that. :)

i used crackle paint, paint, distress ink, brillance ink, fancy pants stamp, grunge board, metal charm, ribbon and the new 2 Scoops from Basic Grey. and Glimmer mist. i restamped the heart with brillance ink after. still looks cool but not quite what i had in my mind.

here's hoping that your ooops turn out good on this COLD weekend!

stuff

widgits are cool - i got the "where bloggers come from" one. it's really neat to see where the visitors arrive from - Saucy has it on her blog and it's cool to see where people are from!

i was playing with ink.... modelling after Tim Holtz. that guy is talented!
so the 2 tags on the left are with the embossing resist technique. FUN!
stamp an image, emboss. ink the rest of the paper. that was lots of fun! and then put the tag/paper in between two layers of scrap paper and iron until the embossing bleeds through the scrap paper. that leaves the original image showing through. i like this technique! i then sprayed with glimmer mist - LOVE that stuff!

the tag on the right is stamped stuff with some grungeboard hinges on the side.
i got these scraps of scallops from some other stuff i had die cut at JSI. left overs! it's a great way to use up some scraps!

going to have to make some more into Christmas cards!




So this is my cover for my Faith Journey. It's in response to a Scripture challenge over on Faith Sisters.com. They post a word on Sunday and the challenge is to find a verse that exemplifies the word to you. Lots of digging into the Bible! It's a good thing.

i'm not sure that i'll show the inside at this point. it's more of a journalling thing. maybe someday.

and you know what? - i hate colds. day 3 of it. the worst. can't breathe, and starting to cough. oh well. this too shall pass!

Friday - yippee!

so it's Friday. and i'm here. feeling kinda depressed. just feeling not that great. so to get me outta that slump, i'm going to sort my scraps of paper into Christmas/not Christmas.





my goal for this year is to make 300 cards for the Troops overseas. and i've got a start - 22 so far! but i need to re-organize.





Kim B from London sent me a bag full today - Thanks! it'll go into my collection.
so i altered this clipboard so that i could track my cards. using up old paper again - this time chatterbox. i must have oodles of that...




Your comments are really appreciated. i love reading them and it just blows me away that people actually read my ramblings. so thanks!





i need to follow Leica's lead and pull everything out and then re-sort. or at least clean off my desk. so that's my plan for this weekend - purge and sort. who know's what'll happen?



This layout was in response to 2 challenges - one from The Scrapping Nook crop a while ago: "If you really knew me" and the punctuation challenge from JustCre8.
I used some die cut brackets from JSI and sprayed them with the glimmer mist. Love that stuff. and a wee bit of ribbon, Prima flowers and some really old Basic Grey paper. and Heidi Swapp rub on alphas.

journalling reads:if you really knew me you'd see that i'm like these gooseberries. i start out sour and green andquickly turn to sweet and mush. i've been told that first impression of me is cold and sour. just shy - that's me! just like these berries, i have thorns too but it's worth it to get to know me!

Layouts

hey - i've actually been scrapping - besides cards!

but i've got some cards to make too.... so off i go!

Wishing you all the very best in the new year and many more to come!

Saturday's photos.

some photos i took yesterday with all the frost and snow.

Cards

Ok - so here's a few thing's i've been working on...

the redish one was lots of fun. i inked the background. poured on clear embossing powder, flicked it off. heat set. which left lots of holes. re-inked with a couple of colors. then i stamped my image on. if you're doing this - use staz on type ink for the image. i didn't and it's smudging off. then i used crackle paint on the chipboard frame and then chalk inked on top of that. lots of colours and layers of colour. fun.

the thinking of you card is actually about 5x7. quite a bit larger than the scan. it was fun to do to. i followed a sketch from somewhere. sketches are fun - not too much thought required on the part of the design - just pick your paper and go!

I got this idea from Amanda - thank you!

JSI has a diecut that is a 4" square scallop. fold the paper in half, put in the die so that your fold isn't going to be cut and cut away. bing - a really cool scallop edged card.

i was playing with the die machine yesterday and have a few ideas for cards now. i've got to go back today for a few minutes and cut a few more. They got in a few new dies and hmmm... nice!

On the 12thday

On the 12th day until Christmas... it's snowing! and more snow....

Check out Leica Forrest's blog. She's got some great challenges going on.

Tim Holtz was doing the 12 tags of Christmas and oh my. Those are fantastic tags. wow. he's a really creative person. i'm glad he's posting techniques - it's a great learning tool.

i've been playing with some of those techniques. i just have to put the scans on my photobucket and then i'll upload here. no where near the caliber of Tim Holtz but i had fun. it's really fun experiementing! gotta get me some more distress inks and crackle and dabber paints. fun fun fun! or at least update the paints i have. my MM paints are drying out and can't get the tops off! and i really need to get a stazon black ink. it really would work better ontop of embossed stuff. the ink i have is just smudging off.

and Paper Trails has the grunge board in. i'm so there on Friday to check it out!

Tomorrow night is our section Christmas supper. That's going to be nice. Semi-formal. iek. gotta find a nice dress in my collection. i don't think i've worn a dresss for a long time! it's the nylon things. hate them. and i'm not about to go without. not when it's theres snow out there!
Then on Friday is the Det luncheon. all 160 of us. that'll be interesting. should be noisy and fairly good food. at least it was last year.

and that's my ramblings on a Wednesday night.

oh - you gotta check out the Ali Edwards book - Life ARtist. seriously. great book. very inspiring and liberating!

The Nook Rocks!

I forgot to post this!!!

cool eh?

I get to be Guest Design Team member for the Scrapping Nook this month! What a hoot!

I've posted a Bingo game and a challenge so far... maybe one challenge a week?

dentists and ramblings

Yeah - i'm still here!

i just wish dentist's visit's weren't so painful. My teeth are nice and straight, not that great of white but hey - that's ok. but they're really soft. i had to get one pulled on Wednesday and my mouth is still sore. so i'm having yogurt and banana and a wee bit of muslix for breakfast this morning and then there's a hard lump in my mouth - again. a different tooth broke. ARG! doesn't hurt - but it's really sharp. and a wee bit sensitive to cold. so i have to make another appointment. i HATE going to the dentist. She's a really nice person, but it's just the whole thing. stems from when i was a kid and had a really really bad experience. anyhoo. that's my story today.

um - haven't created much that i've taken pictures of.

I've got 4 circle journals i'm working on. and some Christmas presents, actually i've been sorta in a slump. but last night i worked on the CJ's and it was good.

Paper Trails celebrated their 2nd anniversary yesterday and i spent some time there showing make/takes! that was fun and HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

I'm really glad to be part of that team and really enjoy the company there! Deb and Marion are awesome and very creative!

Then in the evening went out to Vonda and spent time with the gals out there scrapping. great stuff.

now to get my clothes out of the laundry, and get ready to go to Brenda's staff Christmas party. It's always a good time at the Saskatoon Golf & Country club - if you get a chance to go there for a meal - do it! great meals!

ramblings

so - why is it that we go in spurts?

growth spurts as children, and now as adults, it's spurts of interests. we jump on the bandwagon for something and do it for a while and then get tired of it and jump on a different bandwagon? hmmm?

sometimes that's how i feel about things. i do them because they are "hip" and then oh well - time for something different. remember those decorative scissors? or further back - pet rocks?

but hey - it all comes around again. and maybe that's the scary part. it's back....(in my best scary voice).

and that's my thoughts today.

and oh - something i created over the weekend. used a shape out of wood that i got at Michaels, some paper from Cloud 9 Design and a few Magenta stickers. oh and some thickers. whacha think? not your typical Christmas colours!

carpe the week!

ramblings on Sunday

I got some good news this week.... :)

Creative Escape 2008 is in Phoenix, AZ in Sept 08. LONG time away. anyway, they had a lottery draw of 600 names to be able to go to this HUGE event. last year they had 550 seats and 1200+ on the waiting list so this year they had a lottery to draw the names. and I got drawn! how cool is that?
Anita was the one who wanted to go and so we both put our names in for ourselves plus one. so if she got drawn, we both go and vise-versa. i got this cool email last monday and yippee skippy!
and then she got an email too!!!! what are the odds? great stuff! so we're both going and Janice (anita's friend and co-worker) and Dawn G (a scrapping buddy of mine!) are all going! how cool is that?
now to work out the rest of the details - like coming up with the $

AND on Friday, the CO called me into his office and offered me CR04 until end of the year! I'm to be doing more fin management stuff, so it's all good! CR04 is a step up from CR03, which i am, and it's a wee bit more $. so that'll help with the expenses for CE.
it's all good.

AND yesterday was Leica's cruise crop - so i stopped in to say hi... wonderful work being done and Leica is an awesome hostess! She's worked so hard for what she's doing and I really admire her! and am a wee bit green with envy....
she so deserves all the recognition! Awesome work and an awesome mommy and a great friend! some day, i'll be able to say, i knew her when..... pretty much that's now.... You go my friend!

AND - since i didn't have THAT much to do yesterday, i was in a card making mood.
so i followed the challenges from Angelosity - i've made 14 of her challenges so far, maybe more today.... hopefully i'll get the cards scanned and into my photobucket soon (like this week). and get this - i've haven't even used up 5 sheets of my Christmas paper. rats. i was hoping for a LOT more.... i made 6 cards with one set of the papers - Dream Street - Act Naturally - Elemets - it's all red and white and blue & green - not the traditional colors but cool. and the other 6 cards were with Paper Adventures - red stripe and the blue dotted one. i'm so tired of those papers!
so now onto the other collections of Christmas papers. i'm saving the "good" - read that new - paper for my own cards!
i've got 10 to make for a swap and then my family ones
6 sympathy cards to make for another swap .... those are hard... so off i go!

a few layouts

a couple of the layouts i managed to complete this weekend at Scrapping Camp.

It was an awesome weekend - lots of fun, laughter and great people and great food.

i managed to complete 9 layouts, 14 cards and most of a CJ page!

haven't done that in a LONG time!

more later!

photos of me by Karen P - she's awesome!

eh

bad bad blogger - that's me!

time - where does it go? i mean really - i have the same amount of time as anyone, but i seem to waste it. oh well.
I did spend Thanksgiving with my parents. which was really relaxing. and then Dad turned 70. wow.
i remember when my grandparents were 70 - that was OLD. now - not so much.
maybe because i officially hit middle age myself. and I don't feel THAT old. 32 maybe.

deep thougts hey?

i've been doing some scrapping. mostly layouts for Scrapable Moments Scrapolooza.... quite enjoying that!

and Karen P. did a photo shoot for me. just me. OMG! I love her photos!

so i'm scrapping those. got 2 of the 60ish done. i have to upload some more to print out! i had the whole batch printed out in 2x3 size so i can do some mini albums. but i'm thinking of doing some Christmas cards this year...

and I'm off to Scrapping Camp, as organized by Dawn G, LoriAnn and Tracy out at Rosthern this weekend. looking forward to that!

carpe the week!

Sunday, Sunday....

Hey - i've FINALLY got something to post! I was at a crop all day yesterday... great time spent laughing and enjoying the art.

And i made a few cards...

This one is only 4.25 by 2.5. and I cut all those shutter pieces indivi*duh*ly. duh. DawnH said i should have pleatted them. i think that would have taken more brain power than i have. but it looks really cool. I *may* make more.

and I used some of the tea bag medallions i've made. and a lot of scraps of paper, as well as some transparencies.

and I did a layout for Scrapable Moments Palooza.... which is posted in that gallery - when the challenge is over i'll post them here.

have a great week!

cards and more cards....

and some more cards I've made recently.... two are sketches from Tamara and the other two are just whatever.... I'm still not quite sure about this one.

my apologies....

I totally forgot to give credit where credit is due.

TAMARA - I used the card you sent me as a pattern for that red card in the last post. Her idea and i just stole it. I apologize!

Tamara's cards are FANTASTIC - she's got some posted at The Scrapping Nook - check them out! and if you should be so lucky, like to me to get one or two....WOW!
when i grow up i want to make cards like Tamara..... sigh.... maybe some day....

ttfn!

Sooooo

Scrapbook Fanatics had a Friday Night Crop - they usually have one a month at least - great stuff. lots of great challenges.

And ScrapShotz had a crop this weekend too.

So here's ONE layout i got done. with apologies to Andrea Wiebe - I lifted her layout.

I did work at Paper Trails on Saturday - nice day! and i quite enjoy hanging out there....

Here's a peek at one of the cards for one of the classes I'm teaching - it's part of an intermediate class. 3 cards that aren't your typical fold over cards.

Deb's got the classes listed here.

Another card I made this weekend - it was scraps from another project i'm working on. Daisy D's & 7Gypsies portfolio.

I actually worked on a lot this weekend! I got my Circle Journal ready for the next round of CJ at Scrapbook Fanatics - and Kellie (whom I send too) is going to be in town at the end of the month so I can just hand over!

This CJ topic is Scavenger Hunt - i've enclosed enough sealed envelopes - one for each - the idea is to get a photo of the word in the sealed envelope and scrap it. hopefully it'll work out.

i've gotten that done, and started working on a mini album for my auntie Sue. i found a few photos of her at age 8-9ish. so i'm going to do them up for her. I'm using this and Urban Lily Just Add Color collection. so far. got some more to work to do on it.

Oh - I was at Leica Forrest's place on Thursday night and we managed to work up 44 cards - her, Sasha and I - Thanks Leica!

I think i have 228 cards. THANK YOU! They're off to the troops this week.

And i'll keep collecting for next year - because i think they'll still be overseas for a while yet!

Challenge anyone?

So - i'm wondering if anyone out there is interested in doing some swaps or challenges.

I'd love to swap ATC's with ya... or cards or whatever!

let me know!

how about some sketch challenges or progressive card layout challenges? exchanging ideas?

let me know!

Cards and more!

Thank you again.
I counted the cards I've collected so far - as of today (Thanks Julie, Dale Anne & Laura!), there's 200. That's just amazing!

If you're still interested in sending some, they have to be here by the 15th of Sept.

and if i get some after i've sent these ones away - i'm going to keep on going for next year, and i'm going to start all over!

With lots of gratitude from me!

Thank YOU

Thank YOU everyone who's sent a card or two for Op Christmas Card.

I've gathered 130 cards so far. That's WAY more than I thought I'd have. It's outstanding!

and I know there's a few more to come. :)

One of the guys at work was overseas last year, and he said "you don't know how much that means.... getting something from someone you don't know... who is supporting us." and he went on about how the Padre hands out the cards and the guys kinda fight for them. cool eh?

SO, THANKS!!

The Men and Women of the Canadian Forces will have a wee bit of cheer this coming holiday season.

I'll eventually take a photo of the box going out.... but in the meantime. Thank you very much.

Wednesday wierdness

The woman in the photo is my grandmother. She was about 25 or so when that was taken. I only ever saw her with white hair. but she was really pretty. and the paper is Polar Bear Press, with some Maya Road ribbon and We Are Memory Keepers rubons and a few Prima flowers.

I'd love to get some more of that paper! It's nice quality with a bit of a sheen to it.





So i'm back at the job. i was gone for 2 weeks and i'm caught up already. how sad is that?


so


i'm hoping to upload some of the layouts from last week.... yippee it's working!
This layout is from a photo of Anita's (Thanks!)
She takes awesome photos. anyway.
i cut 5 of the same photo progressively smaller and stacked them with glue dots and foam squares.
Luxe paper, ink and Thickers. and call it a day.
love the effect of it.






i made some cards too, but they're scanned but i'm not sure where the cd is. still have a bit of stuff to unpack....

off to have a snack and some swishing....

Saturday ramblings

Just a small sampling of what i've been playing with this week.... along with some cards, layouts and not much else. it's been grand!

Drips & Drabs

so i'm trying to post some photos and it won't let me!

oh well. here i am in Lethbridge, just hanging out and doing not that much. it's nice.
but i do miss my space in 'toon.
I got to meet Mel G, Tammy & Kari from Embellished Memories. WHAT A HOOT!
Those are spectacular people and i really enjoyed cropping with them!

i've gotten quite a few cards made and even - gasp - 3 layouts! i'll post photos when i can....

cuz i really really like how they turned out....

Saturday sum up

So - I was going to meet my folks and we were going to go camping in AB. but. didn't work out.
they went to the campground. totally full. cuz AB forest services has/is not allowing public access to the forests because of extreme fire hazard. they even told people with seasonal trailers in the forest to get them out. eek! so i'm really glad we're not camping there! i think the campground they went to was the closest one to that banned area so everyone headed there. and so my folks headed back home.

we're at home just hanging out. it'd been nice to go camping and we may head off on monday when most go back to work. cuz i'm off work until the 20th! Yippee - not that i don't enjoy my job but it's been slow.

eating fresh cukes out of the garden. yummmy... LOVE fresh cukes. and it rained here last night so the cukes are mostly washed off and taste soooo yummy for breakfast!

now to go and check out Photoworks in the Swift Current Mall - they've got some lovely 7Gypsies paper and a LOT of scrapbooking stuff (for the size of Swift - it's a LOT) not like JSI or Scrapbookers' Paradise lot - but enough!
and maybe some other shopping....
have a great long weekend!

Op Christmas Card

to answer those questions...

Cards can be any size, shape or color. As long as they fit in an envelope. Please leave the envelope unsealed. I'm suggesting no metal (brads, bookplates,etc) cuz that can caused some problems with security. As big as you want - well within reason :D - cards that are 2 feet across maybe harder to mail.
you can go bulkier if you want, flowers & gems are great!

If you want to write a note inside go for it! It can say anything from "happy holidays" to "thanks for being overseas" or "season's greetings" - it's up to you. you don't have to sign it, if you don't want to. it can be totally anonymous. You can address the card to "any soldier" or "any CF member" if you want - you don't have to either.
I'll collect them and send them in one big bundle to Ontario to be bundled with lots more from folks across this big country who are doing the same.

Thanks to Leica Forrest who's doing a crop at her home for the purpose of making cards for the troops. Now that's a great thing! Hey - even if i get 5 cards out there - that's five more smiles.
Thanks everyone!
If you want more info, please let me know....

Op Christmas Card

for those of you who are interested in donating cards for Op Christmas Card - I'll need them by the end of August/middle of September. I'll be bundling the lotof them together and sending them off in September.

Thank you all for your interest and support. If you need my address, please email me at braunc13 at hotmail dot com.

and that's all i know for now - except that's it's nice and cool today. love that. but tomorrow i hear it's back into the oven. sigh.

have a great one!

More cards

The layout is for a CJ that i'm in. the theme was about our favourite photos.

The Christmas card is one of the many i've made and am making to send to the troops overseas. Using up stickers and patterned paper. simple cards, but hey - at least they're made!

The other two cards were for challenges - one was a kit challenge from ScrapShotz and the other was a fold challenge from The Scrapping Nook.

and that's it for this week. Anita's got a challenge for me that i'm working on - Thanks! i've got a bit more work on it before i post them. Her challenge to me, was to make file cards - one for each color. 6 in total. that's a wee bit hard to do! :) but it's getting there.

plus i have all these ideas in my head for mini albums that just aren't getting out. and now i've discovered tea bag folding. oheyvey. i've got a few made but not mounted on cards yet. so that's a project for this week too.

carpe the weekend!

Just a couple of cards i've made recently. Mo & Jo had disappeared for a while, but seem to be lurking around once in a while.

so this is my thing right now...

As you may or may not know, I work for DND. It's a great job and there's always lots of stuff going on.... and I've gotten to know the troops. There's a few people I know that are overseas, and more going soon and some coming home. Some will be overseas for Christmas.

And this is where I'm leading with this.... My challenge to you - create a Christmas Card for someone serving overseas. AKA Op Christmas Card. (Op stands for Operation) I know it's early. but here's the thing. The cards get collected early and sent to a distribution point. they wait there until there's room on the plane going over. That maybe later than you think!

Make a card for someone overseas. I'll collect them and get them to the Family Resource centre for distribution - or you can drop them off at your nearest base too! It doesn't have to be fancy (more generic Christmas ones please, not overtly religious) - it doesn't have to say much inside - just that you're thinking of them at the holiday season. i KNOW they'll appreciate ANY indication that some one cares.

Please don't include anything with the card and leave the envelope addressed to the or any soldier unsealed.

Anyone interested?