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But back to my project. I decided to make a Christmas ornament with this kit. While browsing around looking for other project ideas I had seen a tutorial for double ball ornaments at Splitcoast Stampers and I had loved it. When I got started I realized that the hatpins I had were larger than what they used in the tutorial so I ended up making it a triple ball ornament. 
What do you think?
If you have followed my blog for a while you may have noticed that down near the bottom of the gadget bar I have a walker tracker widget. I wear a pedometer pretty much every day and try to get in the recommended 10k steps a day. I got lazy about recording it, and have made it one of my new years resolutions to keep better track. To assist me with that I grabbed a weekly planner at the dollar store and decorated it. I used Wendy's Life is a Marathon word art pack that she made up to celebrate her Mom's first Marathon. I also used the paper pack that Jen Davey made up to go with the word art pack. I added the word steps to the 10k element for the cover. It says "at least 10K STEPS a day IS THE GOAL". Then I made up stickers using the 5, 8, 10, 15 and 20k elements. (If I start walking closer to the next amount I will print them out as well) I plan to use the stickers each day below the day of the week and date to mark at a glance which of those amounts I hit on that day. It will leave the lines to the side so I can put in exact numbers and journal some about what I did that day and how I felt.
I have been playing with Wendy's Holiday Cheer kit the last week and had a lot of fun with it. I have done two cards and a layout with it so far. The stocking and the tree on the cards have actually been hand stitched along the elements guidelines, and then the cream layer was mounted to the cardstock with pop dots. I think that really adds so much to the cards. The layout was done for the challenge over on Wendy's blog. Be sure to snag the template and give it a shot! You have until Nov 24th to get it in.
I hope you enjoyed these, and I will have more to share later this week.
nt. I am now CT'ing for Wendy of WM[squared] Designs. She sells exclusively at Scrap Matters. So, on to the projects.
I also did a little more with Wendy's Boo Bash as well. I made some treat bags for the neighborhood kids that are always here to play with my boys. I personalized each one with their names. We are passing them out today since they are more than what the masses will be getting.
e picture. Isn't she just the sweetest? I used Shannon's kit Nadya's Cupcake to make it. Isn't this kit just yummy?
Have you ever felt like your life is right out of a comic book? Yesterday was one of those days for me, so I decided to scrap it. Of course I had to put it in a comic book format. It took a good bit of time, but I had fun doing it, and am rather pleased with how it turned out. (Be sure to notice the stuff under the couch in the strip.) The journaling reads - Don’t get me wrong, I love my boys to death, but I was really annoyed at them today. The basic story is outlined in the comic strip that I created (because it seemed just like it came from a comic strip!) And then they wondered why they were in trouble. To make it even worse when they “cleaned up” that mess, half of it went back under the couch! Under the strip itself is a partial listing of what I found. Among the found items were 18 (dirty) socks! And they couldn't figure out why their sock drawers were empty even after laundry days? Come on guys! I used Charlie's new kit Seabreeze. Love the colors in the kit, great for masculine pages as well as seaside ones. Credits: Word Art and comic strip by me, everything else - Sea Breeze by Charlies Digiscraps
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more kid friendly. For the checker pieces I used the kit's 2 flairs and created backs on my own to match. I used the PSE default crown shape so they had their king's... as easy as a flip of the chip. They were all punched out using a 1 inch circle paper punch and run through my mini xyron so I could easily put them together. These were also mounted to punched out chipboard circles to make them more sturdy. I added an envelope to the back of the board to hold all of the pieces when they are not playing with the game. The boys have been having fun playing it on this nice and rainy afternoon.
gap. So of course I had to get pictures. There was also a quote challenge for July at DSO about toothless grins... Could it possibly have been more perfect? I played around with this one last night and this is what I came up with. All of the smaller type behind the quote is actually just more of the quote, repeated many times and occasionally in red. I have seen that done on other layouts and really liked it so I decided to give it a try. Credits: fonts used : Alder, Courier New and Impact, alphabeads - alphabeads by Ziggle Designs, twill tag - Gunhild Storeide, word art by me, everything else - Apple Delight by Sweet Blossom Designs
that I am a bad blogger again. To my defense I have been out of state for over a third of the month. Then there was the prep for and recovery from the trip to deal with. So anyhow, I finally sat down and "played" with some of my pictures from the trip. I have gotten 4 layouts done so far, and will share 2 of them today. I found that most of the pictures that I took while we were gone were either "texture" pictures or flowers / bugs. I did get a few pictures of kids too and will share those another day soon. On the pink layout all of the pictures except for one were taken in Murfreesboro and Nashville TN. Credits: background paper - Vintage Blush by Creative Dreams, debossing and bows- Lily's Garden by A Work in Progress, date stamp - Shel Belle Scraps, Alpha - Grape Crush by A Work in Progress.
I am really liking the mostly black and white one. I think I am going to make a small photobook with some of my nature shots sometime in the near future. I think I will use similar style across the entire book. As I get more pages for it done I will share them here. Pretty much just the photo, plain black background, and simple type on it. I want the focus of that book to be the photos so keeping things simple.
