CHA Winter 2011 is here....

Well the Craft and Hobby Association show is going to start in a week and there are so many new collections coming out that I love.  Today I popped on over to the Glitz Designs web site at:  Glitz It Now
and you should see there new collections!  Lots of vintage yumminess to fall in love with...Check it out!

Its a New Year - 2011!

Well so much has happened that I have not been posting about.  My dear husband was diagnosed with Brain Cancer stage 4 back on July 30th 2010.  It has been a busy half year taking care of him and trying to help him heal from the cancer.  I have not spent much time completing layouts but I did do a few last weekend that I thought I would share.  My son and I spent last Saturday in our scrap room in the basement creating these for a contest at our local scrapbooking store - Urban Scrapbooker in Edmonds, Wa.  The contest was to make some items using at least 75% of the kit.  I only had a few hours to produce my items and ended up making two 12x12 layouts and a card from the kit of Cosmo Cricket - Circa 1934 products. 

Here are some pics:

This LO is of a picture from Christmas Eve 2010 in front of our tree and is the only family photo I got this year at Christmas time.  I love that we were all laughing and having fun and the out-takes of this photo session are hilarious and will probably be added to another layout because they are so funny.  I made the flower by cutting around some of the images in the patterned paper and also handcut the leaves and then crumpled and inked them to give them some texture. The layout title is: "Each Day is a Gift!  Which is our family motto this year!  Here are some additional photos:

This layout is of my sister Diana with my son.  It was taken in October right before halloween and she was giving him butterfly hugs so I titled the LO that way. 

Well hopefully I will take time to make a few more pages this year...that will be my new years resolution.

Happy 2011!  My word for the year is "HOPE" - I am holding hope high for total healing of my husband Stuart!  He is a fighter and I know he can do it!!!!

Gotta check this out: Pink Cat Studio Stamps!!!

I am so excited - yesterday evening I found a link to a stamp company whose products I fell in love with at first sight!  Check out: 

Website – www.pinkcatstudio.com

BLOG – pinkcatstudio.blogspot.com

I ordered some stamps for eveyday and for holidays and will be posting some new cards as soon as the stamps arrive and I have time to play!!!  Yeah! 

Happy Anniversary Honey!

This is my latest page of my husband and I.  We just celebrated our 10 year Anniversary and I wanted to complete a page about us.  I liked a page that Julie Fei-Fan Balzer had done with a button heart in one of my magazines a while back and I thought to do so on this page when I found a bag full of old cream buttons at the thrift store one night while we were searching for halloween costume items for my son Tim's costume.  I like the way this page turned out.  Happy Anniversary my sweet man!  I love you soooo much!

Here are a couple more pictures of this page:

Until next time - happy scrapping!  Create some fun each day and then tell your stories in a scrapbook page!

Sweet Summer Days!

Summer time sipping!



Ahhh...just laying back and letting the spray hit my feet on a hot day!



We are all just lovin' these sweet summer days that are passing by so quickly. On Saturday we go to our first Kindergarten playdate at our son's school. We are looking forward to meeting other families that he will be in school with this year. In the meantime we are soaking up the sun and enjoying these long summer days of swimming, playing and gardening. These summer days seem to just keep slip slidin away.....Fun! Fun! Fun!

Card - "Red Lead" style!

I am always inspired by "Red Lead" artwork and stamps! (If you aren't familiar with their company go to http://www.redleadpaperworks.com ) I just received this stamp and made this card for my girlfriends birthday. You can't see it very well in the picture but I "iced" the cake with some diamond stickles and added some yellow stickles for the candle flames. It turned out so cute! Red Lead has such awesome stamps and paper and charms and....well you get the idea! I always enjoy creating with their awesome products! Plus it is a great way to use up my paper scraps from scrapbooking 12x12 pages! : ) Jill

Graduation Day for Lauren!

My beautiful niece Lauren just graduated from High School this past June! I am so proud of all of her accomplishments and excited for her as she heads off to college. She has a bright future ahead of her and I know she will go far! Here is a page I did as a gift to her. I framed it in a shadow-box and gave it to her so she would always remember this special day! She was so excited to receive it from me and said she was going to hang it up in her room! I am so glad I was able to do something special for her!!!