Back from PWOC conference

Well, I am back from PWOC's N.E. Regional conference and boy, what a time we had! It was awesome praising God with ladies from as far as Maine all the way down to southern Virginia! Fort Belvoir definitely showed up in full force as you can see from above. There are even some dear friends of mine missing in that picture!!! Our speaker was Linda Dillow (awesome!) and our praise and worship leader was Shannon Wexelburg (truly gifted by God!). I got back into town on Sunday, early evening and it has taken me a few days to get around to catching up with the crafting blogosphere.

In fact I have been so out of it that yesterday, my dear friend, Tessa, had to call me and tell me that a page that I submited to Creating Keepsakes was featured on their blog yesterday! I was floored!!!! Thank you CK! This really was an affirmation for me and I cannot express how much it meant to me. If I felt that happy about being featured on a blog I cannot imagine the thrill of being published in a magazine! Because of this I now know that it isn't impossible!!!!

Well....for some of you out there you know what tonight is............and yes, I will be there at 7pm....


But before that eating here with some girlfriends! Yay!!!!!


I am sooooooooo excited!!!! A real girl's night out! Tomorrow, I will also have some girl time as I help a friend with a project and then later go out on a date with my hubby! What a weekend! Hope all of you have a great weekend too!

xoxo

Starting Early on the Cheer!

Yea, I get to blog twice today!!!!! I was so inspired by this class that Jenni Bowlin is doing that I made these two yummy vintage Christmas ornaments. I just love how cute and festive they are and they are sooooooo easy to make! That's is the best part! Who needs to spend hours making complicated gifts during the holidays????? Not this lady!

Hope you all are getting ready for the season too! I hope you all get to enjoy some of it in between all of preparations!

Blessings to you and your families! xoxo

If you didn't get your SC kit...you're gonna wish you did!

I got my new Studio Calico kit Friday before a Saturday crop we had at Scrapdoodles...yes, I am a lucky girl!!!! After pulling everything out of the kit like a kid going through their loot after Halloween...and showing everything to a husband who was pretending to care....I was good and put everything back so it would be fresh for the crop the next day! I can restrain myself sometimes! =D This is the layout that I did at the crop using the main kit, Marketplace. I love how the patterned paper went perfectly with these gorgeous pictures we took a few weekends ago down at Quantico! There are a few laughs about this page: 1) One friend is convinced that my children will grow up thinking that Mom doesn't know how to spell the word "photo" the correct way...2) The paper used for the title block was part of the SC patterned paper B side that was showing a diagram of a rocket and well... I guess it was the way I cut it but it basically looked like I had a big penis on my title blog. What's a girl to do? Cover it up as best you can with the Thickers!

My friend, Tessa, has been doing this neat DIY embellie flowers lately and they was just what was needed to emphasize the color and feel of my layout. All you need for these gorgeous flowers is some white tissue paper, different sized circle punches or scissors, Glimmer Mists or Maya Mists, and a cute button/brad. First, cut out different sized circles from the tissue paper. I did a few of each size. Next, lay them out and Mist the heck out of em! Then I would dry them with my heat gun...much faster that way! Last, layer them whatever way you want and put something pretty in the middle! There you have it!

This page I did at home last night. This picture of my boys was such a neat picture...and a rare sweet moment between them. I thought the add-on kit, Bazazr, would be perfect for it and boy was it ever! I loved the sheet of wood that I got with the kit....I mean, come on! How neat?! The next thing that I loved about this kit was the stamp set that came with it. This awesome fence border stamp was so fun to work with and I cannot wait to try the other one out...just check in later to see.

I loved how I even got to use the packaging from Sassafras's Whimsy Flowers for my title blocks. It goes to show you that anything in that brown paper bag can be used....hey, even the bag itself!


See what I mean about that fence stamp?? Gotta have one now don't ya?

Well, I will be back much later as it is time for PWOC NE regional conference this week and I leave tomorrow afternoon for Harrisburg, PA for it! God is definitely going to show up and show off as my Belvoir Babes keep saying!

Happy Monday to all of you!

xoxo

What a great idea this is!

I was on May Flaum's site Confessions of a Chocoholic and I found this button on her blog that led me to this site. Apparently it is going to be a big blog hop party and it would be so fun if those of you who blog would join. I added the link to my blog so you can just click on it and find the details there. I don't even know what I am going to make yet but I am soooooo excited to participate! Hope you can join in the fun too!!!!!

I've got a raspy boy home from school today and I was unable to make it to PWOC =( I hope I don't get sick too before the crop at Scrapdoodles on Saturday and the PWOC NER conference! Yikes!!!!

xoxo

More Inspiration for the challenge!!!!!

Just this morning while eating a yummy red apple for breakfast I stumbled up (w/o the aid of StumbleUpon.com =D) this blog called Terrible Yellow Eyes that features artists who create work inspired by Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are." This is just a sample of some of the work on there...isn't it absolutely amazing?! I can't even pick which one I like the most....can you???? I have not worked on my project yet but this has now totally lit a fire under my little butt to do something!!!! Can't wait to see what other do too! =)

xoxo

Halloween recap, first class, and playing with Yearbook again

I had a great weekend! We had a blast trick or treating at our friends' house on Halloween. The boys got a TON of candy. Ted and I didn't exactly plan on dressing up but the spirit over took us that night so I brought a black beret I had plus my turtle neck and clown nose and poof...a French clown is born! Our friends had back up costumes so since Sam was Capt. Jack Sparrow we all thought that Daddy should be a pirate too!


On Sunday, I got to teach my first class at Scrapdoodles. It was my Thankful Banner and it was so much fun to do.....so thank you to the ladies that came! Hope we can all do it again! Today was a day off for Sam so the house was a little more busy than usual but I did manage to do some scrapping. I loved these pictures of Ben at the Forsythe Park in Savannah, GA. I loved this kit too! What fun it has been to play with everything in it.

Hope you enjoy the rest of your Monday evening...gotta get off and go workout at the gym. It's been a goal of mine to stay in shape and my husband has been made in charge of me keeping my goal. So off I go!!

xoxo

Happy Halloween...here's a little treat!

Hey everybody! I'm sure you are all looking forward to this evening like my family is. I love taking the boys trick or treating. They they it's so cool that they get dressed up and knock on people's doors to get candy. We will be escorting Captain Jack Sparrow and Stitch around our friend's neighborhood tonight. It will be lots of fun!!!

Yesterday, I made two cards for my boys. For Sammy, I made the mummy card that my friend Tessa had done for one of her Scrapdoodles card classes. He really loves it! For Ben, I took some of the scraps from her class and made the card above. I think it's really cute and friendly card for my little one.

Have fun tonight and be safe!

xoxo

What I am inspired by right now....

I love everything about this movie since the first time I saw the movie poster and when I saw the previews I KNEW I would love it!!!!I love Spike Jonze and I love Kim O who has collaborated on the soundtrack....also they featured the song "Wake Up" by one of my favorite bands The Arcade Fire. I already loved the book which is one of my favorites to read to my boys. In fact I have often called Benjamin a wild thing and I think he should be Max for Halloween next year.

Anyway so this is not only a color challenge but just an inspirational challenge. Interested to see how it is interpreted!

I think we are going to see the movie this weekend so I will let you know if it's any good!

A side project with a friend

I have become hooked on Stumbled Upon...and found a site that had this interesting story of 4 artists who never spoke to each other but passed this book to alter back and forth. It was a neat site and you can check it out here. I showed this site to a friend from PWOC who is big time into altered art and she said we had to do something like this so....this is my first page that I did for our book. We are actually doing two books, which will be exactly the same so we both have a copy when we are done. The title says " Beauty is in the eye of the beholder unless you have optic neuritis." It is a real disease I assure you! I had a lot of fun doing this and using things that I haven't used yet in my crafting like tissue paper and playing with my alcohol inks that I had to dust off!
Off to order pizza for the crew for dinner...Mommy's tooooo tired to cook tonight...hey, I've cooked every other night this week....I can have a night off!

xoxo

Here's my take

Where have I been you may ask??? Well, it seems that life once again got crazy when we got back from Disney World. I wanted to post some pictures from our trip..which I still will do...but I just didn't seem to get around to posting. I haven't even done any thing crafty except last weekend....I met Donna Downey and I took one of her classes! She is an incredible artist and I felt so inspired by her! She is also very very funny too!

As I mentioned in my last post...my friend Tessa had a challenge for me and I FINALLY got to do it! I have to be honest I did it in such a hurry that I could have been a little more thoughtful about it. I used the water color crayons from my Donna Downey class...those are so much fun...and I used some of the Nutmeg from Cosmo Cricket...also I used the Crackle Accents on the tree trunk and leaves. The stamp set is from Stampin' Up. The message on the inside says "thinking of you" but I can't show it to you because I gave this card to my husband and put a "private" message in there.

I promise to post more as time allows but as I said things are getting busy with PWOC and the Northeast Regional conference we are doing in a couple of weeks. I will be teaching a class this Sunday at Scrapdoodles...it's the Thankful Banner class. It should be lots of fun so check out their site if interested!

Oh, and check out Studio Calico's new kits that just went live! Marketplace is sooo awesome and so are the add on kits! Get em' while ya can!!

hugs

Have to wait till next weekend!

My friend Tessa who's blog is Crafty Girl Designs has posted a super cute color challenge with these Gymboree rain boots as inspiration! Check out her blog to see her take on it. You'll have to wait for mine because as I said earlier...my family has a date with a mouse!

This is really it for now! Wink wink!

One More Before the Road....Guess Where I'm Going!

I finally got my Studio Calico kit yesterday! It has to be one of my favorites!!! I had printed this picture of Ted and the boys in Savannah, GA to crop at the ScrapPink last weekend but didn't get a chance to do it. Well, with good ol' Yearbook in my hands it was the first picture I grabbed. Inside the envelope is a love letter to my husband telling him why I love him so much. This has to be one of my favorite pictures of him. Usually he poses too much for pictures but for some reason in this moment he was completely himself and that is why it is the sexiest picture of him....sorry for digressing! Do I need a cold shower now?

On a more G rated note.....


Here is where we will be next week. In fact we leave bright and early tomorrow morning!!!!! What am I still doing on here?.....I don't know but anyway....have a great weekend and a great next week. I check in with you later!

Getting Ready...the story of my life!

Do you ever have days were you feel like all you are doing every morning is getting ready for something??? I know that since I have opted to take my kindergartner to school every day that of course that means I have to get all of us ready every morning but don't you ever want to like maybe...drive your kid up to the school in your pajamas, bathrobe, and fuzzy slippers?? Maybe that's just me! I am digressing! So, after such a creative weekend at ScrapPink I thought I had zapped out all of my creative energy for a few days but it really made me hungry for more and I surprisingly was able to squeeze out this layout with my little cutie getting ready for his first day of school. I am so proud of him because he really has enjoyed school. My husband and I thought that he would be emotional for a while because he is our home body...he loves to snuggle and watch movies all day but he really enjoys school and making friends.

Anyways, I hope all of you are having a good week so far! Looking forward to getting the first season of Mad Men from Netflix. Never really watched it before and I've heard good things about it so...let's hope it's as good as the hype!

Catch ya later!
drea

ScrapPink was this weekend and here are the Layouts

Scrapdoodles in Fredericksburg, VA hosted ScrapPink this weekend and it was a blast! It was so much fun to crop for hours and really take time with my layouts. I used Studio Calico kits Fortune Cookie, Documentary, and Cotillion for 3 of the layouts. The sushi layout made me so hungry while I was doing it. If you love sushi as much as I do I suggest getting your hands on those Maya Road stamps soon. They were lots of fun to work with!!!

If your LSS is hosting a ScrapPink I highly recommend it! What a great way to get together with girlfriends and support a great cause!

Oh yeah, and it was World Card Making Day yesterday but I only made one little card that was rather simple. Since he didn't get proper attention yesterday I will give the poor little fellow his own post tomorrow!

Thanks for stopping by!

Thankful Banner Class @ Scrapdoodles!!!

I love Fall and I love using natural elements in my crafting when I can. I hope you do too!
I will be teaching this class on Sunday, November 1, 2009 at Scrapdoodles at 12:30pm. The cost is $19.

Call to sign up and please bring the following:
Paper Trimmer
Brown Ink
Adhesive
Scissors

See you this Saturday at the Scrapdoodles Teacher Meet and Greet from 3-6pm. We will be having some fun Make and Takes and some yummy treats too.

Until Then!