Jan 4, 2010

First ScrapTiffany Challenge of 2010!

Is it really already January 4th? Yikes, if the rest of the month goes this fast it will be February before we know it! I think February is my favorite time of year in Arizona. The days start getting longer and the days are warm and sunny while the nights are still cool.

Anyway, it is Monday and you know what that means....the first official ScrapTiffany challenge with the new Design Team has been posted. The challenge was to scrap about, "I couldnt live without..." I chose to do a 2009 year in review of some of the things I couldnt live without (other than family and friends of course!!).


[Supplies]: I used mainly American Crafts products here, including patterned paper (from Blue Skies and Letterbox), Thickers, heart sticker, Flair, pen and I am loving their glitter buttons...


Go on over to ScrapTiffany and check out all the new designers and their takes on this fun challenge. And if you take the challenge be sure to email it to Tiffany before Friday. And keep coming back each Monday--this is going to be a term of fun challenges, there is a new forum to chat on, a blog hop and other fun surprises. We would love to see you there.
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Jan 2, 2010

The Deluge after the Drought

There was a week or so there where I did no scrapbooking or cardmaking. I know, I was shocked too :) The holiday preparations just kept me running in circles, so once I got back into my schedule and creative zone I couldn't wait to get back to work. Fortunately, this month is my month to design at Color Me Daisy so I had an amazing kit to work with...
The January kit for Color Me Daisy is now available. It's called Homemade Treats and features some of Basic Grey's Nook and Pantry as well as We R Memory Keepers Twirl. As always there is a delicious assortment of colorful and wonderfully coordinated buttons, alphas and fabric. The bright and happy colors in this kit will quickly get you out of any winter doldrums. Here are a few layouts I made with Homemade Treats main kit and Alpha add ons:






My challenge at the CMD forum this month is to find a new use for buttons. In this layout I took a handful of colorful buttons, put them in a ziploc bag and hammered them to bits. I then used those colorful bits as sprinkles on cupcakes:


If you take the challenge, be sure to load your layout up to the CMD gallery and post it in this THREAD.

I also made several general "Hi" cards from Homemade Treats:









I know I probably say this for every month that I get to design at CMD, but this kit is awesome and so easy to work with.

In other news, be sure to check out the Posh blog today, I have these holiday thank you cards posted. I used October Afternoon's Very Merry for these cards. Anyone else giddy with excitement to see what new lines they come out with in a few weeks?










Hope your all enjoying this nice long weekend. At first I wasn't sure what we were going to do during all this time off, but the time has really flown by quickly! Be sure to come back on Monday for the first ScrapTiffany challenge of 2010.

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Jan 1, 2010

Top 10 Favs of 2009

I really wanted to get this post out BEFORE 2010, but it didnt happen. Better late than never right? I was cleaning up my files of layouts and putting all the 2009 layout photos into one neat file. And as I flipped through, I picked out my top 10 favorites. It's always hard for me to pick favorites. I usually like the one I did most recently the best lol! But I gave it a go...

This one tells a story I really want to remember about Little Man not being able to pronounce the letter V and how I almost didn't want to teach him ;)


This one is a fav because it has pics of Scott and I from when we lived in San Francisco. I didnt have a great camera back then and so I havent scrapped a lot of those pictures, and this was fun to do.



I loved all the ledger stitching I saw this year. Here's my take on it and this was a big day for Little Miss--her first day of Pre K.


Love a simple design and that look.... Need I say more??

I love everything about this one...an old pic of Scott and I (before we had kids), the Road Map collection from October Afternoon was one of my favorites from this year, the fact that I had  circle punch exactly the same size as the circles on the patterned paper. It was just fun to really enjoy a layout about us.


This one made it onto the Cosmo Cricket blog:


This one made it onto the Jillibean Soup blog:


This one made it onto the Sassafras blog:


I love these pictures of the boys with the woodgrain background:


and this one was from my Guest Designer month at Coordinates Collections


Wow, was that really ten already?? How about a few bonus ones?

This was one of my first layouts from 2009. I just LOVE these pictures. They crack me up.


This one was an American Crafts challenge winner--I won the whole Craft Fair line!


This one won me a Guest Design spot at Create My Keepsake. Miss that place :(


And this card won me an honorable mention on the Hero Arts blog:



Alright, I could keep doing this all night long. It is so fun to look back! What I love about this is I can SEE my progression in just a year. Learning more about photography, design, different techniques, sewing etc. Then add the fun of seeing the kids growing up and remembering the stories from the past year. All in all, I am so grateful to have found this craft, have amazing beautiful kids for subjects and a generally supportive (if a bit grumbling at times) husband who tries to understand my need for creative time and space. 


Thanks for stopping by and taking this trip down memory lane with me. I have some exciting new things to share within the next few months so 2010 will be starting with a bang around here!
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