2012 365 #98 - super birthday

The gals over at Shopping our Stash have brought forth a B challenge this week and I grabbed hold...you can use any items starting with the letter B or a Bugaboo image...I did both...I have a Bugaboo image, blue paper, blocking of colours, borders, black brads and bling, a banner all wrapped up in a birthday card...now you don't need to throw that many things together to play along, but why not try and use up some of your stash and play along...all of this card was made using only stash...no new papers were injured during the making of this card....

2102 365 #97 - flourish

the challenge this week over at the Opus Gluei is flourishes...I love them...I use them all the time and was so glad to see that a Poohbah set on this journey...I made this card completely from scraps, cuz that is what I do now...all left overs from other cards and projects...I am determined to use them all up by the end of the year...lets see what makes you flourish this week...

2012 365 #96 - April Showers

This week's challenge over at Shopping our Stash is April Showers...or snow, or anything weather related, or rubber boots or rubber ducks or....you get the picture....I made this card out of all scraps and leftovers from other projects....the papers aren't really old (just bought them a few weekends ago for a crop, but used the scraps from a scrapbook page instead of hoarding them)...the cloud is the last of my weather puffy stickers...sad about that...those are soo cute....so bring out your stash and let's see how the weather gets you.

2012 365 #95 - monster birthday

The challenge this week at Shopping our Stash is masculine colours...this is one of my most difficult challenges...everything that could have a masculine feel always ends up girlie in the end...thought I was successful with this one...it looked boyish to me and then my hubby said why would make those monsters look so girlie and that there is wayyy too much ribbon for a boy card...I didn't even use ribbon...only raffia and that looks like trees and grass to me...what the heck?  Everything on this card is stash...the tickets and starts were make and take leftovers from a crop a few weekends ago...the stamp is one of my favorite ones and the papers are leftovers from a scrapbook page...so let's see your testosterone fly and show us your masculine project...

2012 365 #94 - what else do you know?

The challenge set out by the Poohbahs over at the Opus Gluei this week is "what else do you know?" or a forgotten technique or items in your supply stash...I chose to do watercolour crayons...so forgotten that this tin was freshly opened for this sassy little stamp (my mom picked it up for me in Arizona and I couldn't wait to do something with it...it has only been in my possession for a couple of hours and has already seen ink...wahoozle!!!)...so come on out and join us, will you?

2012 365 #89 Beautiful girls

This week's project challenge over at Shopping our Stash is punch it out...I made this page with several different punches...large butterfly, small butterfly, circles of different sizes and a scalloped punch...this is a picture of my girls at the Seattle Aquarium this summer in Seattle just before we left for Alaska...that album is coming along nicely (yippee...maybe this one won't take me 3 years to finish???)...I also love the buttons on this page...they are so much fun that I bought about 50 of them...the circles were all images already printed on the back of one of these pattern papers and they happened to fit into my circle punch perfect perfectly, like the paper was designed for it...so come one out and throw us some punches...

The literal version of spring break

This is the literal version of "Spring Break" in our house...this was no April Fool's day joke....last night...the last day of spring break...anything to get out of going to school today and make that vacation last just a little bit longer...this is what happens when spring arrives super early in our neck of the woods...bicycles and left over winter road grunge just don't mix.  The only bonus is that the cast should be off before summer holidays start....way to go Emily!!!

2012 365 #93 Carousel on the Wharf

this is the last of the pages I finished this weekend...all in all it was relatively a productive weekend - 6 scrapbook pages and 15 cards done...and no scraps left (except for a bit from this page...about enough to do one more card)...I wanted to get way more done, but I am still happy with what I did finish...but there are still tons of trip pictures to finish off...still in Seattle...haven't really even made it to Alaska yet ;)  but getting there....I am totally into this buying a line of paper and having everything blend together so nicely...think I might just keep buying my supplies that way as I need them...loving the way the cards are turning out with the scraps too...

2012 365 #92 Taffy

I used the sketch from Scrapbook and Cards Today for this page and completed it at the Winnipeg Crop and Create challenge...I followed the something old, something new something borrowed and something Cool challenge to make this page... it was all about the salt water taffy at the market in Seattle...mmm soooo good...the girls and I chowed down on several pieces of this delicious stuff during our trek through Seattle...

2012 365 #91 - Seattle Skyline

a great picture of the Seattle sky line...cloudy the whole time we were there, but very little rain...

2012 365 #90 - been there, done that

a picture of the Seattle Space Needle...we went up to the top twice while we were in Seattle...once in daylight and once at night...

2012 365 #88 - Glorious Glaciers

This is the Mendenhahl glacier in Alaska...sooooo pretty...the intense teal blue in the glaciers is phenomenal...wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes...

2012 365 #87 merci butterfly card

this card was done with all scraps from one of my scrapbook pages...love using scraps to make cards...that is my new paper crafting addiction....I am joining in at the 52 card pickup this week...

2012 365 #86 Thank you butterfly card

This butterfly gave me nightmares...I couldn't get it to look pretty for the life of me...it is better now, but still not great...the paine helped it out a bit though...

2012 3365 #85 crop cards

these are the cards that I made at the Crop and Create crop this weekend...the first pic is from some make and takes from Scrapbooking by Design and with Vicki Boutin...the second and third pictures are from the two card classes I took with Kimber McGray...tweaked a couple of them, but they are mostly her designs (at least 99%)...kind of wished I had learned some new techniques this weekend, but alas I already knew everything taught in the classes I chose to take... :(  but the projects looked nice when they were done anyway, so that is a bonus :) 

2012 365 #84 - Cirlcle of thanks card

The challenge at Shopping our Stash this week is circles and round things...I made this card at a crop this weekend...the design was from a make and take, but then I went back to the table and blasted a few of these babies out...they were trying to sell these circles (6 little circles - the ones in the centre for around $6) as part of their sponsor type goodies in the stores...I already had the paper so I whipped them up at my table and put them on the cards...why pay for what you can make, especially at those prices...yikes...they were just circles for crying out loud...no bling or anything...and people were just scooping them up...people what is wrong with you...make them yourselves!!!  Scrap stash is perfect for this kind of card and I know I will be doing tons more for birthdays etc cuz it was just sooo easy...so instead of listening to me go around in circles in this post, run out and make a circle project...let's see what you can come up with!

2012 365 # 78 - In like a lion

The challenge over at the Opus Gluei this week is "In like a lion or out like a lamb"...I set this challenge thinking it would be a great spring challenge...our weather did come in like a lion with some wicked winds and tons of snow (to be fair, we did have the nicest winter in the history of winters here...very unusual!)...and the rest of the month has been a lamb (or whatever would be better than a lamb in this saying)...we have broke tons of records for heat and there is no snow left at all....at this time of year the day time highs are usually around 0 C...we have hit in the 20 C range on more than 5 occasions this month...broke every record ever put out there since record keeping began by at least 5 C...insane...let's hope it continues into the summer and we don't end up with a blizzard in April and swarms of mosquitos!  Come on out and show us your animalistic side over at the Opus Gluei this week!

2012 365 #83 - what could be more perfect???

What could be more perfect than one of the warmest spring days in history...with perfectly blue skies and sunshine?  I can tell you...a broken washing machine so I have no guilt at all about going to the Crop and Create at the Delta tomorrow and Saturday...can't wait...I am sooooooo excited and have sooooo many projects planned...going to try to get the majority of my Alaska album done and make cards with all the scraps...plus I am taking 3 classes, so it should be a good time all around...it should be such a fun weekend...the cards and projects are the ones we did at our last stamp club...it is over now until next year, but all my goodies came in (and I was the hostess this month, so I got lots of stuff...) and I packed them all up for tomorrow too...for those of you going, can't to see you there!

2012 365 #82 - congrats on your new gnome

This week's challenge over at Shopping our Stash is buttons and or bows...I did a bit of both on my card...I had won these papers earlier in the month and this stamp set is sort of new, but even though it is not old stash, I am trying to use the stuff up as it comes into my house as well as pulling out the old stuff, so I am using all stash for this card....plus the gnomes are just so cute!  Why don't you come out and join us this week and show us what you can do?

Canada's got talent

Canada has talent...and it starts at home in our neighbourhood!  Congrats to all the girls at our dance studio who made it through on the first round of the show this week...you gals are awesome!  Keep up the good work!  Picture sucks, but they were great!