I think she's gone crazy!

Who you ask? Anne of Creative Dreams has gone crazy! Let me tell you why... She has a new kit coming out on Friday (I'll show you something made with it here in a minute) and to celebrate "Black Friday" she is having a HUGE sale. ALL of her kits will be $1!!! And as if that is not enough all of her CU products will be only $2! All weekend long! Talk about an amazing deal. Be sure to run over and take advantage of this deal!

Here is my promised sneak peek of the new kit. It's a fun, retro Christmas kit. Great for you to pull out all of those old pictures of Christmases Past. Here are my niece's waiting anxiously for the adults to be up and ready.

Been busy - step journal

Sorry for the delay between posts. I have been pretty busy making things. A couple I can't share until after the holidays, and the rest I will share over a period of the next few days. Today I will share a project that I have had in mind for a while, and decided how I wanted to do it just recently.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.

So I am hoping that this will help encourage me to keep walking and pushing for better totals. Does anyone want to be a walking buddy?

Speed Scraps just may be addictive...

Ok, I think doing my first speed scrap may have been a bad thing. They are addictive! I am having a blast doing them. I did another one yesterday and had pretty much the basic layout done in that first hour, leaving me nearly an hour to tweak. It let me use some custom shadows, and intertwine my string with my pictures. From what I understand though I have been pretty lucky so far. So far there has not been a late instruction that totally threw me for a loop.


Credits:
Enjoy the Journey Alpha - WM [squared] designs and Dirty Feet Designs
D is for Dog - splatter and staple - WM[squared] Designs
Boys are Trouble (DSD Grab Bag) - everything else -Jennifer Barrette

Happy Birthday Sis & First SS layout!

Happy Birthday Sis! Love ya bunches!

Yesterday I participated in 2 Speed Scraps! They were my first ever attempts at a SS. I failed miserably on the first one, but actually managed to finish the second one! I am rather pleased with how it turned out. What do you think?


Credits:
net, measuring tape - Catch of the Day by Pressed Petals
String, staple - D is for Dog by WM[squared] Designs
template - ttchia 12-23-08
papers - Boy's Club by Sweet Blossom Designs
frames with stitching - Gunhild Storeide
alpha - Rustic Walk by A Work in Progress
Date stamp - Simply Dated v.3 (DSD PU Grab bag) - WM[squared] Designs

DSD goodie

Just posting a quick note for you all. Be sure to hop on over to WM[squared] Designs blog, as there are a couple of freebies available today. Wendy has a QP up and I have a set of Thanksgiving place cards up. Here is what they look like...


So run on over and grab them!

Holiday Cheer

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.

My adorable niece

I have more layouts to share of my niece today. I just love having some girl pictures to play with. I picked Summer Blessings by Charlies Digiscraps to scrap these with.


This first one is one that I had been trying to scrap forever but just couldnt get it to look right. I tried all kinds of things and just didn't like anything I had done with it. Well, today I was browsing galleries and saw this LO. As soon as I saw it I knew what I could do with this picture so this one is a scraplift of Nov_Font by Sexy Eyes.

The next one is of my niece and her friend before they went out trick or treating. I just love the picture, but because her friends costume totally clashed with hers I decided to turn the photo B&W except for my niece. Then I once again used Summer Blessings for the LO, recoloring all of the green items so they would match the photo.

I hope you enjoyed these, and I will have more to share later this week.