Giddy up go

I completed another challenge for Scrap Paper Scissors. This time the challenge issued was by Victoria. The challenge was to use music paper or music notes, and to use red and white paper.

I should note that the photos I am using are not my own, I am scrapping for another lady and these are her children. She is obviously quite happy with the job I am doing since I keep getting boxes and boxes of photos. :)

Of course I am continuing with the 12 days of Christmas over at Creative Inspiration, and today I have completed:

Day 5 a gift bag: To create this bag I used a Cameo cut file, they I used a Sizzix die to cut the tag to which I adhered a puffy sticker, a sentiment sticker and a bit of ribbon finished it off.

Day 6 the challenge was to create a card with ribbon. Now I have to admit my card doesn't have a lot of ribbon but it do have ribbon so therefore it counts :)  Now if I had the rectangular dies this would have been much easier but since I didn't I had to do all the measuring and cutting by hand so it took me longer than necessary. ( the dies are on my wish list) I do love the slider cards.  For this card I used a new stamp set from Inkadinkado and I love the font on the sentaments.

Day 7 Challenge to create a card with fussy cutting. Now everyone knows I love a fussy cutting challenge and this one was no different. I have had this paper in my stash for a long time with all these beautiful ornaments on it. So I decided to cut them out to put on the card. First I gave the card a bit of a coating of Pearlescent mixing medium to give it a bit of a shine. Then I added the ornaments.
Some Nuvo drops and a sentiment finished it off.

Well that is it from me today. Please leave a comment to let me know you were here. Thanks for visiting.
Jackie

Welcome to December

The last month of the year has arrived, oh my gosh where as the time gone!!!!

With December comes new challenges of course and boy we have some goodies! At Creative Inspiration we have the "12 days of Christmas" crop challenges but I can't say that they have anything to do with the song. LOL  You really need to hop over there and check them out.  I completed some of them today.. well some of them last night/the wee early morning hours when I couldn't sleep.

Day 1. Challenge by Stephanie was to create a gift card holder. Here is mine. I fussy cut the ornament and the scroll.. was very pleased with the way it turned out.

Day 2 Challenge by our fearless leader, Bev, was to create a shaped Christmas card..

Day 3 Challenge from Sandy to create a mixed media tag... I had a lot of fun creating this tag.  I just cleaned out my drawers and found a bunch of stuff I had forgotten I had and had never used it so I decided to use it on this. I used Inka Gold mixed with Pearlescent mixing medium and love the way it turned out.

Day 10 was my challenge to create a monocromatic embossed Christmas card with one touch of colour. I used white and embossed my card with a tree and touched it off with a touch of gold stickles.

Day 11 Challenge by Sandy to create a tag using Dies. Once again I had fun by pulling out some things from the stuff I had forgotten I had.  I used some Perfect Pearls in Forever Red here. Then I used a new stamp set from Inkadinkado to stamp the bottom of the tag and then embossed it with winter wonderland embossing powder from Stamp-n-swift. Again I love the way this pulled together.

For Day 12 the challenge was once again from Sandy to create a Christmas layout.  I combined this with a challenge from Scrap Paper Scissors  who are having their "December 's Olde Fashioned Christmas" crop.  The challenge I have combined it with is from Linda's challenge. That requires that we use a red base, red and gold embellies, stripes and ribbon.  Here is my layout.

That is it for me for today, I shall be back with more tomorrow. Thank you for visiting, please leave a comment to let me know you were here.

Jackie

Oh my goodness!!

It has been so long since I have posted here.  It's no wonder I don't have any followers, I just neglect this blog so much and when I don't neglect it I don't have much to say LOL

Well, I worked hard from the first part of September up to the first part of November and from then til now I have been very ill.  Caught a bug in my lungs that just wouldn't go away until after a few trips to the Emerg and some Ventolin and oxygen treatments, then some steroid treatments.  Finally I am starting to feel a bit better and can breathe much easier.  Hate that I missed the last months work though.

I really did enjoy working at Pride Seeds though, OMG it was so much fun and I earned myself a wack of money that I wouldn't normally have had so I really enjoyed spending that on things that I really wanted but never thought I would get. :)  Getting up at 6 in the morning was so new to me and I never thought I would be able to do it since I am not a morning person but I really did enjoy it and having Ester to ride with me every morning was just a joy.  I am already looking forward to next year, and planning where I am going to spend that extra money.  I know a lot of it is going toward my scrappy addiction. :)   Working at LaPrise Farms was no fun and I did NOT enjoy that at all, sitting there watching Brussel Sprouts passing by on the conveyor belt for 8 hours was just not my cup of tea at all.  It was extremely cold and the cold cold air did not help my lungs.  I was so very happy when the doctor said "stay home, it is making your lungs worse, working there", I could have kissed him. LOL

The only thing was that while I was working I didn't have any time for my scrappy addiction, heck I didn't have much time for anything.  I left home at 7am, got home about 6 or 6:30pm, made dinner, tried to eat without falling asleep... took some time to relax for a while and was back in bed by 8:30 pm at the latest.  Sunday was my day off and I tried to catch up on my housework and laundry.. to get ready for the next week.  So I am really happy to be finally able to get back to my scrapping again. However, I do need to get out and get some scrap happy supplies which I plan to do on Wednesday. :)

I have been working on DT challenges but I can't post those right now, so you will have to wait to see what I am doing with those.

 For the present time I have been watching a lot of YouTube Videos... Jennifer Mcquire mostly... OMG, she sure does some lovely work and I like that she only promotes stuff that she really likes and not because she gets free stuff to promote.  She has some amazing technique videos on her blog which means a lot to someone like me who has absolutely no talent whatsoever.  I absolutely recommend her blog for anyone who is looking for something new to try.  She mostly works with cards.  Desiree Kuemmeile is also absolutely fabulous, I have watched so many of her videos that I have gone wonky.. she is fabulous!  You really do need to go check her out!  Those are just two that I have been stalking.  I recommend that you keep a notebook open while you are watching because there is so much that you will want to write down while you are watching them.  I have a notebook with each page given a different title, embossing & dies, Stencils, etc so I can make the notes in a place where I can easily find them when I need them. Other wise they would just be jibberish when I need them the most.  The main thing I have learned is that I NEED a lot more dies, stamps and many other supplies.  Oh yes, many many supplies.  I think I am going to have to cut food out of my budget.  I have learned that I am going to have to start drinking wine while crafting... no, I didn't learn that directly from them, I learned that if I want my projects to look as good as their's, I am going to have to be drinking wine ;)  I know that this is only the end of November but I am going to make a resolution to be better at blogging and I am going to find some way to get more followers.  I am going to start making projects that will attract those followers to my blog to see what I am creating.

I am not on a lot of Design Teams, or on Design Teams for any manufacturers, but I do use a lot of supplies from different manufactures and they should be interested in seeing how their products are being used so somehow I am going to drag them to my blog to see.  Yes, this is a big resolution but where there is a will, there is a way so I am told.  So we shall see.

I would like to leave you with an explosion box that I completed but don't have any photos in just yet.

This is what it looks like closed.

When you remove the lid.

When it is fully opened, you can put a photo on each one of the patterned paper squares. It will contain 30 photos, or you can just add journaling on one of the squares or even an embellishment.

Thanks for stopping by, Please leave a comment to let me know you were here.
Jackie

Best Mom Ever

Today's challenge was to use lot's of layers.  I think I pulled that of with this layout of Tammy with her oldest son.  I used Photo Play's  Best Mom Ever papers for this layout. All embellishments are from the same paper line. I love that Photo Play includes such great embellishments with their paper packs.

Thanks for stopping by.
Jackie

New Layouts

Today I did some layouts for challenges at Creative Inspiration  The first one was  for a challenge to use lace on  your project. I used lace under the photo and lace in the flowers.  The papers are from Echo Park's Just be You paper line. The flowers are from Forever in Time.The floral tag is also from Forever in Time. The chippie is from Creative Embellishments.  I used a  My Favourite Things stencil to add a bit of dimension using some blended fibres from Liquitex.  I also did some faux stitching with a Sharpie.

The second challenge was to use a punch or two on a project. On this layout I used a Recollections punch to create the flowers, and an EK punch to create the edges on the vertical piece of paper.  The paper I used here was a brand I had never used or heard of before, Scrapbook Customs. I used the Navy Mustard line. I was rather impressed with the quality of this paper.  The lace is unknown. The pearl centers are Forever in Time.  The heart embellishments are PinkFresh.

I was rather pleased with the way these layouts turned out.
Thanks for visiting please leave a comment to let me know you were here.
Jackie

Happy News

Today I have some wonderful news to report.  I have been accepted to the DT at Creative Inspiration again.  I am pumped to be working with such an awesome group.   I was on the DT there once before and it was a wonderful experience.

I can't wait to start working with these people once again.

Also I am happy to announce that I have finished an album for my BFF.  It was her Parent's 60th anniversary and I was so happy to be the one who got to do it for her.  She was excited over the finished album.

So Neglectful!

Yes, here I am again, I have been so neglectful of my poor blog.  But then very few people ever read it so there is no big problem.

I am kept busy between Creative Inspiration and Scrap, Paper, Scissors.  Always great challenges to keep my going.  I just haven't been posting them here but I will start changing that.

The big news is that I am finally back to my job at Jimmy G's.  It is so good to be back, I have missed it so much.  It's great to see all my customers again and to catch up with all that has been happening.  A few of them has past away :(  Some of them have married, some have divorced.  Some have new kids.  So many changes!

Anyway, just wanted to get this blog moving again.
Have a wonderful day!