I struggles with an idea for the Christmas ATC Swap on AMR too. In the end, time was ticking away. I decided to re-work the Christmas card I made for my co-workers. Melonscraps said that was cheating. I replied that I was just using my own "sketch".

This time around I was able to use Nestabilities Nesting Birds die which made cutting out the birds much easier. (I hand cut them last year) Once I got the sandwich right, they cut though the felt "like bud-dah". These little guys have brads for eyes and feather wings. After attaching the wings and tails last year I swore I'd never work with feathers again and though them away. While I did remember I'd have to buy more feathers, I had completely blocked out the mess a bag of feathers created. Seconds after I opened this bag, it all came back to me. I didn't have to deal with the tails feather this time because these guys are just too little.

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Here is how I make mine. These are the Thanksgiving cards I made for a swap at AMR. I heard paper piecing was back "in", probably largely to do with this card. It's weird how all these other scrappers seem to have a spy in my Scrap Lair. Or maybe there's a sleeper cell at my LSS. (I mean, it couldn't be the other way around, could it? Baaa Baaa Baaa Baaa)
Would you like my recipe? Now, I know brine-ing your turkey is all the rage, but I wouldn't recommend it for this guy. Besides, Mr Alton Brown specifically says to use a frozen young turkey, and this one is an old bird if I ever saw one.

The card base (Bazzill) is embossed with Textile Texture with a BG Mellow insert (from the 6x6 pad.) More Bazzill in rich fall colors of Bazzill die cut with the Scalloped Build A Flower die. Velvet paper was also die cut with BAF and embossed with D'Vine Swirls and traced with gold gel pen. the turkey's body, trimed with Nestabilities Scalloped Circles and pressed in Swiss Dots. The body in made from two Nestabilities Scalloped Circles embossed with Swiss Dots and head, beak and wattle are from a QK digital download, cut on my Silhouette. The card is finished with an American Crafts ribbon knot.

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Happy Thanksgiving

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I signed up for a Grungeboard ATC Swap at AMR. Almost immediately, I question that decision. I was really blocked. My first attempt was hideous. I am typically a bit harsh on my work, but this was awful; truly, truly horrible. I went to re-work it, and ended up completely starting over, but I think it was worth it.

This little froggy is a QuicKutz die. The die wouldn't cut all the way though the grungeboard so I had to go in with my micro point scissors and complete the cuts. I have to say those little toes were a pain in the tokhes. (yes, I looked up the spelling on that!) He is inked and his lower body is embossed with Tiny Bubbles and re-inked in a lighter green. Black Mark-its for eyes and a Glaze smile.

I heat embossed a Studio G stamped image on the back of a piece of MME Oui Oui Handsome and mounted that on the front of the same paper. The frame is a QK digital download for the Silhouette its all on a piece of Mud Pie Bazzil. I like this one a lot, and I'll be proud to swap him with the other Grungeboard girls from AMR.

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Inspired by the Thankful banner at OPSC, I made my very own tigardlilly banner.

I should start this off by suggesting, if you want to make a banner for your scrap room/ nook/ corner/ lab/ lair you should not pick a scrap alias with 11 letters because this puppy is 46” long! I couldn't even get a decent picture on the entire banner. Two more pennants and I could have done my full first and last names! (On a similar note, scrappers should not give their children names that have the same letter three times. There is not enough Bs in any chipboard set on earth. As a mater of fact, if I ever have another child, I’m naming it ZXQ.)

Back on topic…I tried and tried and tried to use some of my border punches to make a fancy pennant to peek out from behind the letter pennant.

These sots of things are very difficult for me because I was born with out any spatial reasoning ability. I’ve spent millions of dollars seeing thousands of doctors in hundreds of countries on all seven continents. Yes, all seven! And they all agree, those of us afflicted with missing spatial reason at birth can never recover and spatial ability cannot be learned. Luckily, there is an organization to that provides Spatial-Ed services in schools and trains service animals (mostly monkeys) that will rotate 3D puzzle pieces into their proper orientation. Please visit NoIDontKnowWhatThatWillFoldInto.org to see how you can help.

Oh yeah, I also can’t see though those dang dolphins hiding in the 3D posters either, not that I’m bitter. I just spent most of the 90s hiding in shame. Since I was financially strapped from seeking experimental spatial cortex re-growth treatments, the I Am Squinting My Eyes and I Still Can’t See the Dolphin Though the Pink and Purple Squiggly Lines Foundation helped with the overcome the PTSD. They were the leading organization behind the movement have these removed from doctors and dentists’ office across the country. If your MD still has one of these devices of torture in their exam room, please alert the officials at IASMEAISCSTDTTPAPSL.org

Meanwhile back on the banner ranch….I really wish I had that pennant die from Stampin’ Up, bit lacking a time machine that would allow me to have ordered the giganto die two weeks ago AND the $40 to pay for it; I had to resort to other means, mainly, trial and error. When I started to worry that six trillion failed templates was quickly becoming the leading cause of deforestation in the world, I decided just to adhere strips of Threading Water cut cardstock to the back of the letter pennants. Actually the scallops line up rather nicely for the 5x4” pennants.

For this banner, I used Basic Grey’s Ambrosia. Melonscraps helped me out with a scrap of Elephant Bazzil and some eyelets. That right girls, I used eyelets, 55 of them! At first I only used 33, but when I started to string it, I decided I needed eyelets in the top scallops too. I actually ran out one color, and didn’t have the color that melonscraps had let me used, so I stole the ten eyelets I needed from her stash when she walked out of the room. (Don’t tell her, OK. Were cool right? Dude, you better not rat me out) I cut the letter on my Silhouette (Pharmacy font) and inked them and pop dotted them to the pennants. I cut and Diamond Glazed eight butterflies from the sheet of Basic Grey Winsome. As the Diamond Glaze dried, the butterflies wings curled a bit and it look great. I stickled their bodies and attached six to the pennants. Then I made eleven little dangles from crystal beads and looped them thought the bottom eyelet and scallop of each pennant. I strung it all on some black hemp cord and spent a day trying to figure out where in my scrap lair I could hang the sucker.

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This weekend I attended OPSC (Our Private Scrapbook Convention) Some of my scrap pals and I were bummed because we couldn’t make the Seattle CKC. So were decided that each of us would teach the others a class CKC –style.

(BTW, I have no idea what my neighbors must of thought when melonscraps came over and unloaded enough stuff to fill a small uhaul, then Kay came with more, and then Inara shows up with a massive box, all of us filling past the "Welcome to OPSC" sign on the door.)

We started off with a challenge. Melonscraps and I made a kit from our existing stashes. We did not have to buy a single thing, that’s right between the two of us, we had enough product on hand to make four identical kits! We had four and a half sheets of BG Urban Prairie, a sheet of card stock, four ribbons, a mirrored butterfly, flowers, buttons, brads and eyelets, gems and pearls and a giant photo corner. We also included pictures of us crops from the past year or so. It was great to see everyone’s take.
Next melonscraps had a flawed plan to hold a contest where the winner got to pick whatever they wanted from my Scrap Lair. I DON’T THINK SO!!!! She changed her tune I suggested we award the prizes from her stuff. (That’s right; I’ve decided to officially dub my space The Scrap Lair. I can just imagine coming home with bags and bags of scrap goodies and announcing to my boys with my arm pointing toward manifest destiny, “To the Scrap Lair!!!” Duh na na na na na na NA NA)

Kay designed an amazing “Thankful” banner for us. It was really involved, but she set up stations and it flowed really nicely we all got to try new techniques and sample some of her Stanpin’ Up goodness. We double stamped (veramark+SU Ink) and embossed the letters and Versamarked and embossed flowers and a berry spray on each flag of the banner. We brayered over the images in two three colors and added an inked ribbon distressed the edges. Then we strung though eyelets in the cardstock background. It was so much fun; it inspired me to make a tigardlilly banner for my scrap room. (Check out my blog tomorrow for that)

Inara taught a card making class which included these amazing paper flowers we distressed so that they looked like they were fabric. She let us all chose our papers from here amazing 6x6 pad collection and we got to used here Sizzix dies. I had never used one before in my Cuttlebug, so it was a great opportunity to try that out. She also gave us some mini envelope templates. The Velcro closure was defiantly one of those, why didn’t I think of that moments. Inara is a teacher and it was great to see her being teacherly.









Melonscraps designed and entire mini album. She gave us ton of product and everyone got to use Nestibilities and bind our books with the Bind it All. It is full of transparencies, Hambly screen prints, lace cardstock, die cut cardstock and ------------------. I have promised I will finish this kit, which will be no chore because see coordinated it so well. Now I just need to print twenty pictures or so and fill ‘er up. It was actually pretty cool to see her competed book, and my stack of pages waiting for pics and embellishments and the difference in the thickness of the two.



My project was what I like to call my scrap swag book. It is a mini book made from badge protectors. I carry this around in my purse with list of my products so I don’t buy doubles. It’s especially helpful items that come in a zillion colors (inks, paints, stickles) or a bazillion styles & sizes (alpha stamps & dies) I also have a coin envelope in there to keeps those scrappy punch cards and 40% off coupons. Inara even shared her Velcro with us so we don't loose our coupons. (I still can believe I never though of a Velcro closure, ingenious!) You could also use it as a nifty brag book. It was really cool to see everyone concentrating so hard while cutting out birds and flowers from Urban Prairie’s Meadow. I should have taken pictures of all the squinting and lip biting. It was a pretty simple project, but I think everyone enjoyed it and the Diamond Glazing went well.

It took me a day or so to recover, just like the the real CKC, but now I'm back. I for one had a blast.

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Some persons have suggested that I may be difficult to buy gifts for me, and since the holidays are nearing, I thought I give them some ideas:

1. Bind It All 2.0, 2. XXL Tote, 3. Cricut Deep Cut Blade, 4. Indie Art, 5. Storybook, 6. Perfectly Paisley, 7. Forest Branches, 8. Border With Love, 9. Just My Type, 10. Border Frills, 11. HP PhotoSmart B8350, 12. Making Memories Slice, 13. Nottinghill Stamps, 14. Sassafrass Lass Mini Fair Maiden Stamps, 15. Clip it Up Top Tier Add-on, 16. Clip it Up, 17. Square Tab Punch, 18. Round Tab Punch, 19. Cricut Wild Card Cartridge, 20. Glue Glider Pro, 21. IKEA Expedit 2x4, 22. iPhone, 23. Red Collapsible Measureing Cups, 24. External Hard Drive

Yesterday was my brother's birthday. (Happy 34th, Eddie!) Here is the card I made for him. The "Happy Birthday is the same Heidi Swapp stamp I used for my dad's birthday card. This time, I used Versa Magic Night Sky and clear embossing powder. I wanted to stitch on the card, I really did, but I didn't want to dig out my sewing machine and try and fiddle with the tension and other knobs for a couple of hours. That, and as is often the case, I was working in a 10 x 10" clearing on my table. So, I used the Double Cutter Bee® Piercing Bugs Rotary Tool and drew in the stitches. Cardstock is Bazzill, of course and the pp is actually velum that has been in my scrap-drawer for a couple of years.

This card is the one my niece and I made for him. (Yes, the very same niece that once and continuously calls me a scrapbooking geek.) It is also on Bazzill. All of the Happy Birthday phrases are on one giant wood mounted Hero Arts stamp. I always saw it as a more feminine stamp, but when Niece asked to use it and in the end, I like the look. It's also clear embossing power over Vera Magic (Red Magic). The "Dad" is Technique Tuesday Eiffel letters and are clear embossing powder over Night Sky from my card. She figured out the ribbon and placement of the "Dad" Oval and really liked that you could read.."Happy Birthday Make A Wish Dad" There a bit hard to see, the those five dots in the upper left are Queen & Co Pearls (Blues)


I'm sure when he reads this blog, he'll get just as misty as my dad did when I describes the blood, sweat, tears and product that went into his card.

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I love, love, love see other people scrap rooms, and I've seen some amazing rooms. When I saw Laura Vagas' on Making Memories' Blog in June, I went absolutely goofy for her "embellishment shelf". Imagine, all of my jars could be neatly faced, on display and within easy reach. Oh it was too much, just the thought made me giddy!

So I felt it out on Craigslist, "How much would it cost for you to make me this..." Wow, the response was overwhelming (I got like 60-70 responses). I was expecting a couple of hobbyits to say, well we could get materials for so much, plus $50 bucks or so to put it together...." and what I got was a lot of professional cabinet makers estimating from 300-$650 before sending it out to be painted. While I am sure their craftsmanship and time were well worth what they were asking, it was out of my price range.
I fell into a deep depression; how could I go on with out an "embellishment shelf"? How could I hold my head up high at the next crop and fain a smile, knowing that some of my jars had yet to see the light of day, hidden behind the first and second row of jars on regular shelf? I shudder at the memory of those times.

In an attempt to drag myself out of the despair with a little compulsive shopping, I happened upon a 729 CD/324 DVD Storage Unit in the CD department at Target. I might have missed it if it weren't for the beam of light from heaven and the choir of angels singing. I felt the depression lifting, some of the old giggles were trying to break though. On the way home I hired two handymen to build my new "Embellishment Shelf" and to build my hope. (BTW, my handymen are very affordable, DS1 & DS2 will work for candy bars!)


So, here is my lovely "Embellishment Shelf". Although it is not quite the size of the other Laura's, it works for me.

Across the top my flowers in small Burken jars from IKEA.

Next row: Lg Tab Punch, Doodlebug flock in sm Burken jar, Mini pail w/ shelf pegs, pharmacy jar of mixed buttons, 7 Gypsies Stamps

Next Row: Clip it Up Clips and ribbon clips in mini pails, clear skittles, Bazzill chips, binder rings in mini pail, more skittles

Next row: Whispers inkpads, Giant Jar o' Stickles, Glitter, Flock and Embossing Powders in large Burken jar, ATC album, skittles, ATC Spinner

Next Row: Re-inkers, Journaling tags, Mark-it markers, colored pencils, Copic markers

Next row: Bazzill Just the Edges in a tall Burken jar, my Bind it All goes here too, but it's on my paper rack for some reason, room to grow, large ink pads.

Last couple of rows: foam stamps and more room to grow.

Right now, I working on cleaning my scrap room, so I'm sure I'll be filling in the blank spaces.

It not a widely kept secret that I am a bit of a geek. Even my dear mini-me niece has been know to call me a scrapbooking geek. And in truth, I did have a bit of a breakdown several months ago when the site that collected my blogging stats freaked out, leaving me with no way to "get my nerd on". So this new little lovely has made me a very happy camper.
I like to keep up on scrapbooking news on Scrapbook Update where I came across at great post about Big Huge Labs Palette Generator. It is easy to use and pretty darn cool. Basically, you either upload a picture from your computer, or after granting permission to access your Flicker account. You can also use Photobucket with it, but I don't use Photobucket, so I didn't try that option. It was definitely quicker to get the photo from Flicker, than upload it from my computer. Once you select your photo, click "Create". (This is where the longer wait is involved when using photos from your computer) The page will refresh with your image and a 15 color palette. I tried it with two photos, one of Sea Lions, the other of a couple of picnicking Jedis.

This is the palette BHL Palette Picker produced for my picture of sunbathing sea lions in Newport Bay. I would have never pick some of these more pink and purple colors and I was a bit surprised when they came up.
So I placed each of the palette chips behind my photo and I was really pleased with the effect. I even thinking of slapping a title on this and calling it my first digi-page.

So I tried it with this pic of my boys as we stopped for a picnic on our way to my cousin's wedding a couple of years ago. What rest-stop lunch would be complete without a little light saber fight? Again, it picked some pinks I wouldn't have, but they were really light.
Here's the same treatment with the palette chips. Not quite as stunning as the sea lion pic, but still, I think I could definitely pick some cardstock from the choices.

I love palette tools, and this one is quite fun. My inner geek is doing a happy dance, trust me it's a good think she's confined to my inner! You also might like some of Big Huge Labs other tools, I'm using their Mosaic Maker to make a Christmas Wishlist.

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I wanted to blog last night but my keyboard met an unfortunate accident when flailing arms sent a deluge of water across my desk. I had to pull the batteries out of my keyboard and pray it still worked. (It does, yeah!)

So here is my candy bar wrapper. I actually made this for Cuttlebug Challenge #3 at Cuttlebug Challenges. The challenge was to use your embossing folders on something other than a card.

Still in the Halloween spirit, I made a candy bar wrapper. For this challenge, I used the Swiss Dots, D'vine Swirls and Boo to You. Then I went crazy with the Stickles.

And there's the candy bar poking his head out of his wrap. Sadly, coming out of his protected wrapper proved fatal for this guy, as he was attacked by the apex predator in this house, my teenage boys.

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This first ATC was for a Splitcoast Stampers Swap. The theme was $1 Halloween stamps. The bats a Studio G Acrylic Stamp and the October 31 is a $1 Wood mounted stamp (maybe Studio G too?) The bats are embossed in black over a gold lame type cardstock, mounted on DCWV purple glitter cardstock. The orange ribon is American Crafts ($1 too, so BONUS!) I stamped the Oct 31 stamp directly on the black cardstock and embossed it in an off-white. Then I stamped and embossed the same image on off white cardstock, punched it out (circle) and pop-dotted it over the base image. All of it is mounted on DCWV orange glitter cardstock. Oh yeah, pop-dotted is a verb too, you can add it right above xyroned in your scrappy dictionary.

This one is for another Splitcoast Stampers' swap, the theme being owls. So here the branches are made from leaf ribbon in red and brown (some are red and orange, some are orange and brown) It the same type of ribbon used here. The owls are inkadinkadoo. The larger one is from one of my sets, and jr was kindly lent melonscraps (she rocks) I cut the owls out and pop-dotted them on the Bo Bunny cardstock. I once again reached for my circle punch to make the moon opening. All that was pop-dotted over DCWV yellow glitter cardstock.

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As I skimmed though the Dollar Tree, I notices some textured mylar foil in the gift wrap section. Too bad you can't emboss that stuff. Or can you...

I tried two methods: First I tried white school glue, applied it to cardstock from my scrap pile and let it dry. The second method, ran the cardstock though my Xyron 510. There no real difference in the results. The glue allowed for more adjustment of the mylar when smoothing it down, but it softened the cardstock which warped while drying.


Above is the silver mylar over orange cardstock, applied with glue. After embossing with the Cuttlebug Boo to You embossing folder. This one I inked over w/ Brilliance Graphite Black.



This one is the back of the blue mylar which is silver over Xyroned (That's right, xyroned is a verb!) orange cardstock. I used the brayer to ink over the embossing.



Here is my favorite result. Xyroned over orange. This time, I inked the folder with a brayer and Brilliance Jumbo Java before I embossed the mylar/cardstock combo. (I would have used black again, but I was getting impatient while inking the brayer and went for my JJ re-inker.



Here is the entire plate mounted on a card. I really like the effect. I can't wait to use it some more.

A couple of things that didn't work: Inking the folder w/ alcohol inks, they dried too quickly and it was difficult to keep the ink in the depressions of the folder. The other failure was sanding. I thought it would be cool to sand of the mylar and expose the cardstock beneath. I looked like it might work at first, then the mylar tore and separated from the cardstock. This happened with both the glue and xyron.

Now, get thee to the Dollar Tree and play!

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You know what's great about Columbus Day? I don't have to work and the kids still have school!

You know what bites about Columbus Day? The kids still have school, so I still have to get up early!

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.....
Here the birthday card I made for my dad's birthday last month. Guess how old he is.

Out of respect for my parents who prefer not to have their pictures on the internet, I cannot post a picture of how misty he got when I told him that I busted out the most precious Basic Grey Boxer paper and rub ons (which I embossed over), and how I hand dyed the acrylic 60 and skittles with Ranger Alcohol ink to match or that since I do not have a ticket corner punch, I used a circle punch to make the corner notches. He even loved when I regaled him about embossing the Happy Birthday from a Heidi Swapp stamp. My mom will say he glazed over for the 45 minute play by play, but I say he was misty, teary-eyed even. It's a matter of opinion.

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It's been brought to my attention that it's been nearly two months since my last post. Yes, I've done scrappy projects, bought a bit o' swag, continued the ongoing quest for organizational perfection and I've even built a new theme for said blog; I just haven't felt like photographing or blogging it. I don't know why, I have even been letting my Google Reader updates slip into three digits.

But I'm back, and here is one of my projects I did, and even photographed at the time; better blogged late than never, right?

Supplies: Doodlebug Glittered Cardstock, Making Memories PP (Crimped w/ Fiskars paper crimper, and punched w/ Martha Stewart Doiley Edge border punch), Brown Felt, A Jolee's Cherry, Fruit Punch Stickles and Grosgrain ribbon from Michael's $1 basket. I packaged them in glassine envelopes with a seal made up of two Bazzil scalloped circles (Nestabilities) and stamped with a Studio G (Series 7) cupcake.

These were for my first swap at Splitcoast Stampers, I'm a bit nervous about them I hope they're up to their standards. I must confess, I was a bit worried because there was no stamping, so I stamped the back (I forgot to take a pic)

Now it's your turn. Leave me a comment about how much you missed me. WOW I usually only hear the crickets chirping after I tell a joke. Hello? Is this thing on?

This past weekend I completed my first ever challenge, which was Crop-a-holic's first ever challenge. I picked the "Lucky" layout from the AMR gallery and scraplifted it. Here my work:

pp: Making Memories, My Mind's Eye; cs: Bazzill (embossed w/ swiss dots); Making Memories Grommets, Dyed Skittles, Chipchatter letters, Inkadinkadoo calendar stamps

And here is my inspiration:

So apparently, in addition to not being able to spell, I als0 cannot follow directions such as;

1. 1. Where is your cell phone? floor
2. Where is your significant other? nonexisitant
3. Your hair color? espresso
4. Your mother? generous
5. Your father? awesome
6. Your favorite thing? directions
7. Your dream last night? I'm not sure I dreamed last night-
8. Your dream/goal? happiness
9. The room you're in? office
10. Your hobby? crapbooking
11. Your fear? yep
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? poolside
13. Where were you last night? Mom's
14. What you're not? perfect
15. One of your wish list items? furniture
16. Where you grew up? Alamoyayakistein
17. The last thing you did? blog
18. What are you wearing? perv!
19. Your TV? off
20. Your pet? fuzzy
21. Your computer? on
22. Your mood? sleepy
23. Missing someone? yes
24. Your car? Buggy
25. Something you're not wearing? sombrero
26. Favorite store? IKEA
27. Your summer? hot
28. Love someone? yes
29. Your favorite color? Pink
30. When is the last time you laughed? 6:08 PM
31. Last time you cried? birthday
32. Who you want to Tag? Kay

melonscraps tagged me, now I'm rethinking that new years resolution to stop mis-typing her name as melsoncraps. Here's my answers

1. Where is your cell phone? on the charger
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2. Where is your significant other? gee, I'd like to know, let me know if you see him
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3. Your hair color? Dark, dark brown with tiny strands of almost colorless blond. Yes they're blond!
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4. Your mother? generous, not just materially
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5. Your father? well, since I'm his princess, he must be a King!
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6. Your favorite thing? seeing other people smile
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7.Your dream last night? I'm not sure I dreamed last night
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8. Your dream/goal? for all my nieces and nephews grow up to be happy, stable and content.
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9. The room you're in? office
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10. Your hobby? Scrapbooking
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11. Your fear? there's not enough space...here's a couple the more odd ones...I terrified to look out windows when I hear noises outside; sometimes I wonder if I'm really profoundly retarded and others are only praising me because I'm doing awesome for a 'special' person and sometimes, when I'm in a large crowd, I have a flashing thought that someone is trying to read my mind? I'm not really crazy or paranoid. Now you have to decide if that means I'm not actually crazy or that I'm not very crazy!
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12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Living a life of leisure on my lottery winnings
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13. Where were you last night? My Mom and Dad's
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14.. What you're not? Perfect. I mean, like Mary Poppins, I am "Practically perfect in every way", but I'm not totally, completely perfect. I'm also not a good speller. That actually probably what keeps me from being completely perfect.
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15. One of your wish list items? New furniture
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16. Where you grew up? Here (Washington/Oregon), There (New Mexico) and Everywhere (Japan and Germany)
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17. The last thing you did? Agree to answer this tag.
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18. What are you wearing? None of your business perv!
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19. Your TV? Is it my TV, or am I the TV's person?
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20. Your pet? 1 atypical laid back border collie, 1 tiny grey princess kitty, 1 pointy-eared lion who afraid of plastic bags (he's actually a snowshoe cat, but he doesn't think so) and two human boys.
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21. Your computer? I don't have a computer, I'm writing this all on notebook paper, then I'm going to go outside and throw it so hard into the sky that it will reach CyberSpace.
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22. Your mood? I can't type that fast, I'll never finish this if I have to keep up with my moods.
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23. Missing someone? My wayward brother and his family
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24. Your car? Her name is Buggy and she's a Kooky Suzuki
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25. Something you're not wearing? a sombrero
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26. Favorite store? the LSS, PZ, Target, IKEA
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27. Your summer? Is it just mine, because if it is, all those kids I saw on the news running though the fountain owe me royalties!
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28. Love someone? Bobby, Jason, Chris, Felicia, Brooke, Rose, Ed, Eddie, Michelle, Lisa, Marilyn, Freddie, Nicky, Lilly, the Man Upstairs
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29. Your favorite color? Pink
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30. When is the last time you laughed? Well that last time I laughed so hard I alsomst peed my pants was when I saw this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoRD1wmvwUc WARNING: Do not watch this with the kids in the room. It's a commercial for a language school.
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31. Last time you cried? My birthday, it just so hard to turn 22. (again)
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32. Who you want to Tag? Kay, and I hope she doesn't revoke my title of "Smartest scrapper ever!!!"

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I joined an Alphabet ATC Swap at AMR. I asked for the letter G, so I needed to make 26 ATC for the letter G. I kind of struggled designing it, but I finally figure it out. The background is a glossy photo, and I pop-dotted the Hambly transparency. I painted the "G" back of the Hambly in pink and stamped the "G" on the front. The "G" stamp is from Technique Tuesday (Gee Whiz). And since on of the works around the outside was glitz, I added a couple of gems.

I also stamped another Technique Tuesday (Tall Big Timber Meadow) "G" on the glassine envelope. One of things I like most about this is that the screen print texture shows thought the stamping (Ranger Inks Archival - Jet Black)

Oh yeah, why did I chose "G"? Because I like the shape of lowercase Gs, that's why!

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I did layout tonight too! I'm on a roll. Two in one week! Holly cow. This one is pretty simple, that why it only took a couple of hours. Actually I worked on it the other night for a couple of hours too, but I couldn't get the right feel. I was trying to use Crate Paper's Static line (which I love!), but it just wasn't coming together.

On the way home tonight, it hit me, I have that apple paper. They're fall, they're school, they're perfect! It's actuality Fruit Stand by October Afternoon. I threw in a little Freshly Mowed Lawn (also October Afternoon) and Bazzill. The woven tag is from the Dollar Tree, the rims are Making Memories the chipboard came from the super huge kit I got from Christmas (Costco) This layout is pretty simple, but I like it.

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Today, I scrapped. Yes, for most of the day and here is the fruit of my labor. One one of, but THE fruit of my labor. This is a picture of my 9yo newphew getting ready to fly his pirate kite at the beach. Here's what I used:

All of the pp is Autumn Leaves from the Red, Black and Cream kit at Target. (I also usd an awsome rub on from thast kit, but I mispelled a word on it and ruined trying to fix it.) Bazzill cardstock. Rub-ons: KaiserCrafts, American Crafts Mini Marks; Thickers. Imaginisce Slider, Deja Views Framed Jewels, Grungeboard



Here is the grungboard skull that I painted, glittered, sepia glazed, daubed pearl mixatives, painted, glitterd and glossy accented. (That doesn't include the eyes)

And here's the slider, because I think it's cute!

BTW, do you know why my kids couldn't get in to see the pirate movie?

Beucase it was rated Arrrrr!

The boys talked me into going to the Dollar Tree tonight, while there, I noticed these little trading card albums. Do you know what else is the size of a trading card? Yep, ATCs!



Of course, the funky little design on the front wasn't quite cutting it, so I covered it in MM Noteworthy. And what doesn't look better covered in Noteworthy? And I've been dying actually use my new Zutter Round-it-All corner rounder.




Then, I inked the edges and in lieu of my AWOL slot punch, I punched three large crop-a-dile holes and cleaned them up with t BG file set. I covered the new slots with a Noteworthy die cut and tied a twill not in front. (I stole the twill from my oldest, it part of the packaging from his new blanket.)




the ATC letter are actually bright green Thickers that I inked. The felt flowers also came in the Noteworthy kit, and the center is a blue skittle, au natural.




And voila! A lovely ATC Album. It'll hold 16 ATC, perfect for the Four Seasons swap!




Thank you melonscraps for giving me this lovely ATC. (Also, once you glue the paper on the album, it's harder to tell which side is up which is why this lovely album is bottom loading :)