Scrap Happens!

Today is awesome :)


If nothing else, watch the last 4 minutes. . . Joe Perry, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page all playing with Metallica . . . Rob Trujillo AND Jason Newsted. . . . .   awesome!!!

What REALLY happened in Roswell?

I have opened my online scrap store at etsy.com!

So far I have listed all of the card kits that did not sell at my last craft fair. I will also be posting soon some finished cards for sale. Stop by and check it out if you like - or wish me luck in my new online storefront! I hope that this works out well. :)

Visit My Store!

x-posted to blogspot :)

It all started the other day when I got a real hankerin' for some of those sugary fruit jelly candies that you can only buy in the candy shop. Don't those sound good???

I also just got the cutest new pad of paper - it's the "Sweet" stack by DCWV and it has a ton of cute papers including these adorable glittery fruity ones.

Then I found some plain chipboard circles - about an inch and a half in diameter. It all went downhill from there :)

I came home and got into my hubby's acrylic paints - he has this whole shoebox full of paints from back in the day when we used to paint those little pewter Dungeons & Dragons and Mechwarrior figurines. (Don't judge me, ok?) So I used BILE GREEN and HOBGOBLIN ORANGE and MANE YELLOW. . . I did save DRAGON SCALE RED and PALADIN BLUE for another day. I am sure that I will find use for them!

I painted the little chipboard circles and used a white Galaxy Marker to make the rinds and the sections. Then I topped them off with some yellow, orange and green sugar glitter - they turned out all sugary and yummy looking - good enough to eat!

Not bad for a weekend's work - we did have to skip the first four-wheeling adventure of the year due to bad weather. But we enjoyed a lovely evening of BBQ and card playing, in four inches of fresh fallen snow tonight! Hooray for spring break!


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*GEEKGASM*   (I think that is totally Mish's word. But sooooooo appropriate. I love this widget.)

The last couple of days has been an absolutely miserable mixture of wind, snow, rain, hail, thunder, lightening and mud. . . bleah. How happy I was that today is card day!

It was my turn to host this month. Rico helped me to get the craft corner ready yesterday. We made our March cards and had some yummy turkey and cranberry sandwiches for lunch. :)

About 20 minutes before the ladies showed up, B.S. the cat brought me a nice live mouse into the kitchen. How sweet! Well better 20 minutes before and not after!  How is it possible, that cats seem to know when it is an important time for you, and they try to do something special. Awesome.

Here is a pic of the takings. . .

Crossposted to my Blogspot! 


I have been secretly watching this show on TV called Scrapbook Memories, or something like that. It's a PBS show, but they show it on the BYU channel every day at noon. Don't judge me. Ok? Anyway, the show features these pretty neat people from scrapbook supply companies - and they always have the latest and coolest scrapbooking techniques and tools. Most of it is pretty interesting. Anyway. One of the things that I keep seeing on the show are these lovely little Souffle pens - they are supposed to have 3-D opaque ink and I have seen them used on metal, acrylic, paper, and lots of other things and they looked pretty danged cool. I decided that these would be my next "save up" item because. . . they cost $19.99 for this pack of ten. HOLY SCRAP.


 

Remember when Dr. Taylor gave us that sweet little video maker for Christmas? Well I just started fiddling around with it tonight and I was messing around with the movie-making program - you can edit and cut and add music and all sorts of fun stuff. I am just getting started with it, but it's a ton of fun. I think that this effort is not bad for a first try. :)

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I guess I just realized that I have been lurking for quite a while - I'm on my days off again until Thursday and have realized that I have become increasingly greedy about my down time. I haven't been up to anything, really. . . just hanging out at home. We just had the nicest weekend punctuated by a big superbowl dinner - Uncle Kevin joined us for most of the game and Rico's mom even stopped by for a little bit. Both of the boys were here all weekend and they had a lot of fun playing and eating and eating and playing and eating. . . lol

AJ hasn't been feeling well today. . . I don't know if he has a little bit of tummy flu or if it is the result of eating an entire crock pot full of mini-sausages last night. I suspect the latter.  He has been growing like a weed too. I can't find any pants that fit him. I bought him new ones the other day and got them home only to find out that they DON'T FIT. He is wearing a size 14. . . omg. . . and is only 9 1/2.  Some days I feel like I just can't keep up.

I got my get_a_journal  pages off in time today . . . should have mailed them Saturday but I missed the mailman by being just plain lazy.

Tomorrow, I will post pics of the thingies I have been working on. . . it's all storage for my scrap area. I am so excited. :)

Can I just say this. . . I am tired of winter and I can't wait for a nice warm spring day so that I can open all of the windows and let the air in and clean the house with the sun shining in . . . we have still been living in the sub-zero weather and all of the ice is starting to really get on my nerves. . . I have decided that maybe the best thing I could do would be to go buy a tanning package so that I can get a little bit of (fake) sun. . . maybe that will cheer me up a little or at least, thaw me out.

Card Day at Stephanie's house turned out great - here is a quick pic of the takings. . . it works like this - everyone brings a card that they made and enough kits for everyone to make one of the same card. So you come home with tons of different cards all designed by different people. The theme for January was "Thanks" and "Valentines" and they are all so fun and cute. . . it was a great day. . .

Last week's random neurological head injury asshattery gave me the opportunity to do some 1:1 time with a comatose patient. Let me tell you, nothing is longer than a 12 hour night shift when you have nothing to do but sit at the bedside and watch someone sleep.

In between cares for this lovely fellow, I was able to do some sketch plans and designing of some new cards inspired by that favorite new paper of mine by Imaginisce. I love their stuff. LOVE IT.

It seems there is something in the water as of late and we have several adorable roly-poly little preggo momma's waddling around the surg unit in the last weeks of their pregnancy - so cute! One of them doesn't know if she is having a boy or a girl yet. So rare that is - it seems like everybody always has the ultrasound ahead of time to find out. I do love suprises!

And so, here are a few to add to the stash, two of each in fact, so that I will be well prepared! The papers and chipboard stickers are by imaginisce and I did throw in a few coordinating random ribbons and a big glittery pink flower by Doodlebug. Bring on the babies! I is ready!

Express the Moment has these really awesome little card kits that you can buy each month. SO WORTH IT! Every month you get this collection of matching. . . STUFF. . . paper and embelishments and ribbons and stickers and and and. . . :) You get the idea. This is an awesome idea for a new scrapper, or an old scrapper like me. Ha. . . the reason why I love it is because I might never choose the things that actually come in the kit. Let me explain that. . . sometimes when I am in the scrapbook store or shopping online, I walk right past something that might be a really cute idea waiting to happen. I have my "blinders" on because maybe I am looking for one thing in particular. With the ETM kit. . . it's kinda like a box of chocolates. (*best Forrest Gump voice here) You never know what you're gonna get!

This month I got this really cute collection of teal and purple goodies and things for making cute Christmas cards. Well honestly, after fifty some odd Christmas cards, I am all Christmassed out. So I made Thank you cards instead because, you know, I do need those for all of the great Christmas gifts we got!

Lemme just add another story here from the archives. When I was in the 10th grade, my Aunt Ginger got married in Atlanta. I was so excited because not only did we get to GO to the wedding, I got to be in her line. I remember all of the wedding primping and fluffing and going to try on the bridesmades' dresses. The dress wasn't that hideous at all. But I remember my mom's reaction well. Her colors are teal and purple??? O.o

Yes, mom really went. . . O.o. . . way back in the 80's.

To this day, my Aunt and I probably still share a love of teal and purple. When I got my ETM Expressions kit I had to have a little *squee moment because of the colors alone. Here's my this month's cards. . . and thanks ETM ladies for the awesome picks!!!

I decided to participate in a challenge thrown by angry_amy 

The challenge was to make a page using the following items:

1 die cut or punch
2 photos
3 different cardstock
4 different patterned paper
5 buttons
6 bling
7 staples
8 inches ribbon
9 stamps
10 brads

And here it is. . . it took me all morning but it was fabulous therapy. Besides, it is a really crappy day outside and I didn't want to go ANYWHERE. :)

crossposted to scrapbookers 

( This Year's Top Ten Projects )

Here is a layout that I finished yesterday with some of my favorite photos of 2008. I used some rub-ons by daisyd's that I just fell in love with and a few chipboard embelishments and I used the last of my blue ribbon that I liked so much. I also added a few random plastic flowers with brads by Making Memories. The background pattern paper is by k&i.



( Two more altered projects here! )

The holidays are over and I finally have found some time to put aside the baking and the wrapping and the shopping and get back to business as usual! I got some fun new scrap things for Christmas. Of course that means that now I have to reorganize again. . . ha ha . . . but that can wait. The weather outside is truly dreadful and I am staying in to make a few pages before I have to go work tonight!!!
Pretty soon I have more days off - I simply can't wait to get to work on some really fun things. I have so many fun ideas. . .

I made this page today using some paper from a new pack that I got for Christmas, it's called the Rockstar pack by DCWV. I got it to make some cute Guitar Hero pages but I thought that I would give it a little practice by making a few pages about the concert  that Sarah and Nicolle and I went to last summer. He he.

The cool thing about the Rockstar pack is that it perfectly compliments the Indie Art Cricut cartridge . . . in fact it looks like they could have been designed by the very same people! I am loving how these products work together.



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And also, a project that I made for Dr. Taylor's office - I used Photoshop to alter one of the photos that I took of him and the office staff. I made it look like a USA Today page and stuck it to a 12x12x1 canvas and added some Cricut trees - the outdoor theme will match the office decor (the waiting area is full of fishing memorabilia and themed stuff) and a lot of the little details on the news page are inside jokes that you mostly had to "be there" for - Dr. Taylor and the office staff loved this gift and it was quick and easy to put together. :)

x-posted to cynical_nurse 

Somebody puts these up at work every year but they are so pricless they are worth passing around every time. Enjoy!

 Christmas Carols for the Psych Unit

Schizophrenia: "Do You Hear What I Hear?"

Multiple Personality Disorder: "We Three Queens, Disoriented Are"

Amnesia: "I Don't Know If I'll Be Home For Christmas?"

Narcissistic: "Hark The Herald Angels Sing About Me"

Manic: "Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Stores and Office and . . . "

Paranoid: "Santa Claus is Coming to Get Me"

Borderline Personality Disorder: "Thoughts of Roasting on an Open Fire"

Personality Disorder: "You Better Watch Out, I'm Gonna Cry, I'm Gonna Pout, Maybe I'll Tell You Why"

Social Anxiety Disorder: "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas While I Sit Here And Hyperventilate"

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells. . . "

Agoraphobia: "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day But Wouldn't Leave My House"

Senile Dementia: "Walking in a Winter Wonderland Miles From My House In My Slippers and a Robe"

Oppositional Defiant Disorder: "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus So I Burned Down The House"

Happy Holidays!!!!

Work was full to the gills last night.  At midnight, we needed to flex down. Our new staffing matrix calls for only 7 on a full unit, and 9 were scheduled. I went home on call. WOOT FOR ON CALL!!!!!!

SO. . . I came home and got to play with my BRAND NEW EXPRESSIONS KIT! This is a kit that I get every month from Express the Moment which used to be a local scrapbook store. The store went under, but the owner still sells these kits online.  The kits are awesome!!! For $15 a month, they send you all this stuff to make cards. The stuff is adorable, and there is WAY more stuff than you need to make just a few cards. . . and you can use what's left over to make. . . whatever you want! This month's kit was just full of stuff by Cosmo Cricket. I tried my hand at some chipboard letters and I sat at the kitchen table until 3am in glittery, gluey, stampy, papery on-call bliss. I stickled everything. I have been on a huge stickle kick. Whoever invented stickles needs the nobel peace prize. Glitter. In the glue. Perfect.

And now, since I got to be on call, I can stay up for a little bit and finish some other projects that I am needing to finish badly.



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