Also altered this puzzle piece. Mystic Paper in Mesa, AZ had an altered puzzle piece swap recently. I didn't participate but wish I would have. I do have my own puzzle though. It's a 5 ft floor puzzle with 45 pieces. Probably way to many pieces to imagine doing myself, but maybe my friends and my followers - would like to alter one for me to add to my collection. I think at least for now, I'd like to alter each piece individually and then put it together to see how it looks with every piece being so different. I can only imagine what it'll look like. If I weren't so tired, I'd probably go do another piece. Well, for now- here's my 1st of 45 pieces of my puzzle. But let me know if you want to do a piece for me! Thanks! :)

I read over and over about how important it is to have your own handwriting on your scrapbook pages so that later generations can see your style. Honestly, I am not that fond of my penmanship. I would prefer to sit here at my keyboard and type my thoughts and rearrange my words until it's exactly the way I want it. Lucky for me, there is a way to do both! My dear friend Dee showed me this great website "Font Capture" that will create a font based on your handwriting! They make it so simple. You print out their form, write your letters in their boxes, scan and upload to their site. About 20 seconds later, you have your own font of your own writing! The best part... IT'S FREE!!! I know I've downloaded many of the CK fonts of other's writing... maybe someday someone will want to download mine. hmmm, or not. Either way, it's still a great way to get your penmanship on your scrap pages without having to throw away 50 journal tags after you misspell a word. Thanks Dee!

I am so happy to know that someone else's blog has a link to mine!!! I was just checking out my latest visitors, and it showed that someone came to my site via SlinkyCatsPlace. I cliked on the link, out of curiosity and scrolled thru her blog roll and there was a link to my blog! WOW! That just makes me feel so happy inside! Thanks SlinkyCat! :)

I found this neat frame thing at the Dollar store. It was painted some gross combination of powder blue and rust. Thought I could make something cute out of it. I'm pretty happy with the results. I first mixed up some magenta and white paint to create something to cover up the blue and rust. Painted the whole thing. Then I cut out the papers, glued them on with my liquid Tombo (green bottle cap), and embellished. I used a brown ink for distressing the edges after I sanded off the excess paper. I had to decorate both sides of the hanging frame and now I'm not sure which side I like better. I used some of the fancy rounded paper clips to suspend the frame. The rings that came with the frame were pretty chintzy. What do you think?

Catching up from 3 days of scrapping and minimal sleep sure takes it's toll on you! But, as with every week- we're back to work and the days just go by and by and by. Hoping this week goes by quickly. I'm going to try to motivate myself to scrap a little this week. I have some UFO's (un-finished-objects) from my scrap weekend that need to be completed. Have a creative day!

OK I know I didn't tell you I was going on a Scrapbook Retreat... but- in my defense, the last time I told you, I never posted the pics of my creations. SO this time, I thought I'd just surprise you! I had an awesome time and especially loved scrapping into the night with my girlfriends! There are just so many pictures that instead of adding them to this posting, I thought that I would just post them and add it to my blog. Enjoy the little slideshow

Tomorrow, my husband and I are headed to McCall, ID for the weekend (without Ace). We're staying at the Shore Lodge. He has to work in the mornings and then we get to relax in the afternoon. I'm most looking forward to sleeping in! It should be fun. I'll post pics later!

Paris- Las Vegas that is! I wish I could go to Paris, France, but I'll add that to my bucket list. So in the now, I'll settle for Las Vegas. I'm heading there with my hubby & son. Garrick has to work Wed and Thurs so Ace and I will be chillin by the Paris pool, then going to Mirage to see the Dolphin exhibit and then to the Flamingo to their pool so Ace can see the bird exhibit there too. I'll load up some pics when we get back, although it'll probably be next week sometime since we get back Thursday night and head up to Seattle on Friday for the long weekend. Have a good one!

I got busy working on a digital scrapbook page tonight. I like digi-scrapping but it's just not as much fun as sitting with papers and chip board and tape runners and brads... well, you get the idea. So here's my page. It took me about 3 hours. That sounds like so much time when you actually say it... but when you consider most of my other pages take me 2+ anyway, I guess this is no different. OK off to bed.

OMG I'm so excited about my ribbons I've won so far at the county fair! I submitted 2 - 2 page layouts into the horticulture scrapbook category and won 2 blue ribbons there.... 5- 2 page layouts into the arts scrapbook category and I haven't found out about those ribbons yet, or the 2 altered items I've submitted which you've seen here on my blog- the altered mirror and the CD tin album I made for my mom's birthday earlier this year. Those ended up in the handicrafts category so I am not sure how those did. I can't wait to go to the fair (or at least have somone report back to me about my ribbon status)!!! OK that's all for now. I'll post pictures of my layouts with the ribbons later when I actually get to the fair. Enjoy your day!

8/28 Ribbon update- Went to the fair on 8/26 and found that I received 1st place Blue ribbons on ALL 9 of my entries!!!! That's so cool! Now I didn't win best of show this year, but that's okay. Gotta share the wealth sometimes. Plus, there's always the "Central Washington State Fair" at the end of Sept. I've never entered (or even been to) that fair, so it'll be a fun conclusion to summer!

I had so much fun this weekend on my quick Weekend Get-Away with my girlfriend Tracy. We went to the family cabin in Spokane and scrapped and laughed tons. I can't wait to take pictures of all my work for you to see!!!

Here's a quick post for today. I bought these cute plain acrylic rings from a LSS. I had seen a finished one on Teresa Collins blog and of course I had to have one. Well... 3 months later, I've finally completed my ring! It went from this...

For the Scrap Happens design team, I was given the My Minds Eye "Boo to you" collection. These papers are so cute. I had tons of ideas right out of the shoot. I started working on these last weekend, and got 2 done, and finished the other two on Friday night. I opted for 4- 1 page lo's . Sometimes you really don't want a 2 page lo. So here's what I've come up with. Hope it inspires you to scrap the past years Halloween pics, or better yet, prepare you for the upcoming holiday!
On both lo's with the bloack spiderweb, the spider is actually dangling on a piece of embroidery thread so he can move around.

The stars are glittered with stickles, the orange photo mats are raised on foam, and the little bottles are glue down, then foam mounted a 2nd set on top of them for more dimension.

Last night I started scrapping but ended up crafting this new frame! I just loved the papers and knew it would make an awesome frame... Love how it turned out!

Now for those of you who have seen the "little monsters" album by Tami Sanders for Daisy Bucket- you'll follow my thought process on this one. Looking at this other new Bo Bunny line called "Little Boo Crew" paper- I'm picturing a "little monsters" type book, covered with felt and all and maybe even cut chipboard shaped... we'll see- but don't you agree- it'd be SO DARLING!

Oh- just one more thought for the day- Bo Bunny is having their first ever Design Team call! I'm on a design team at my LSS Scrap Happens and love it! It's so much fun designing things every month! You should give it a shot too! Entries are due by July 25th so get scrapping!

When I got into work on Monday, a co-worker said "I thought you weren't going to be here Monday-Wednesday". That got me thinking... hmmm well I can't take the whole week off of work, but I could take 1 day off. I thought about it off and on and realized that I am pretty slow at work. (Slow as in, 0 emails in my in box-- weird). SO I checked with my new manager and he was all for it. Yesterday was so relaxing! Ace and I slept in, when we got up, I got him ready and took him to Montessori and then I went to have coffee with my good friend Bethany. It was so nice sitting in my morning 70 degree sun. After, I went home and started Scrapping! Fair entries are due at the end of August, but I wanted to get working on my projects. I've been working on this altered tin for about 2 weeks, so I got that finished. The picture is from my camera phone so it's not the best, but you get the idea.



Then I moved on to my 2-pg LO. I continued to use this Bo Bunny- Alyssa paper, which I just love. Made it more of a blue theme and created a "My Favorite Things" page. Only thing it's missing now is the pictures. As of right now, I would have to say that the "My Favorite Things" LO is going to win BEST OF SHOW at the fair! I won last year which was an amazing feeling since I've only been scrapping for about 2 years, and it was the first time I'd ever entered the fair. Well- once my LO is done, I'll post it here for your enjoyment. I'll even post my inspiration. I know everyone gets their inspiration from different places. Me- well I get my inspiration mostly from other peoples LO's. But I always try to give credit where credit is due... Enjoy your Thursday! (oops, was about to type Wednesday!- hahaha)