6 degrees

I hope you enjoy. Last month I had some fun over at Personal Scrapper I did a game/swap that was called six degrees of seperation. I was given a page to case and here is what I came up with.

You Color My World

How many times have we heard that for a scrapbook page title? I imagine quite a few. I have actually never done a page using that title until now.

Earlier this week I had a fun event at my uplines place and she was calling it Chocolate University (more on that later) and she wanted to have a few shoebox swaps.

I love swaps I can't get enough of them so I went ahead and volunteered.

I started out making page elements and I thought I would just call them page candy. My fellow consultant Linda is not a big card maker and the last time we swapped she made a super cute topper. I though oh if I just do some elements then I can show that you can either use them on a card or on a page.

So I set off to do just that. I though this journal box could also be the inside of a card.

I still needed more though and soon I found myself ditching the candy idea, though I do plan to come back to it at a later date. So I ditched the calendar and just decided to do up a whole page!

I had some photo's of my daughter, yes again in 2007, at the end of the school year. I didn't really know what I wanted to do with these pics but I did remember that she was wearting RED. I also knew that the paper I was working with Animal Cookies was full of primary colors.
Yep you see the light bulb over my head nwo don't you. LOL

The photos went perfect with the paper. In the journaling box I talked about how they were painted up until they played all day in the rain.

The kids loved it! As you can see at the end of the day I also mounted the photo and gave it a little side stamping as well. I love the way it turned out! They were drenched and had no more color on their faces or in their hair.

So there is my swap. The stamp set I used is called Priceless Love Word Puzzle I have loved this set since I got it but this was the first time that I actually used it.

Now I am a double page girl pretty much anything I do involves two pages. So here is the companion page that I came up with. Now the swap was only the one page.

I love how this turned out with the jumbo hearts and the top notch die peeking out from under.

I think the journaling on this part is so fun as well.

"Your last week of school - Special"
"Getting to play soccer in the rain on a hot day - Sweet"
"Beating the boys! - Priceless"

I leave you today with a close up of the hearts. These were two whole hearts but I cut them apart so that I could intertwine them.

A little scrapbook story

I have been scrapping a lot and making super cute cards but have I been sharing? No I have just been a big talker! So I thought I would give you a page to prove that I really have been hard at work. Now I would share them all but then I would be right back at mmm I have a blog what do I talk about now. LOL

Without further ado the page.

About a year or two ago...ok ok I am still scrapping in 2007! So a few years ago Danielle and her friend Sara somehow, someway conned Savannah into letting them fix her up.

I was in the other room minding my own business when I got up to go do something. I peeked my head into the girls' bedroom and this is what I saw!

Savannah being practically held down and Danielle and Sara all up in her face giggling and putting make up on Savannah. Savannah doesn't mind dressing up here and there but make up...she is so not interested at all!

Being the best mom in the world I did not say what are you doing to your sister stop it! I instead contained my laughter and ran to get my camera!

I was able to capture the horror and fear on my little Savannah's face and then after I got my shots I could keep composed no more! I laughed and said in a stern voice what do you think you are doing? Haha! Sara and Danielle were very proud of their handy work!

As you can see from a current photo of Savannah she is already super beautiful and doesn't even need make up.

She is off to be a freshman in a few weeks and so I am waiting for the day when I try to get into the bathroom so I can get ready for work only to find her in there putting on make-up.

I know if it bound to happen even is she can go without.

Here is a close up of the journal box. I love how it turned out. I used some white chipboard and took a marker and went around it to give the box an extra jump off the page since it was white on white.

My 10 Studio's

Edited to add my current studio set up: It is a mess but I have a lot of natual sun light and it is my little corner of the world...

So I have been a slacker blogging lately, actually pretty much ever since I moved. It is hard to get moved because you are so busy and then it just ends and you have to put it all away. Add to that the end of the school year, graduations (8th grade and high school), a toddler, a trip to LA...mix a little summer in with a broken camera and wala you have a neglected blog. Sorry guys I will try to be better. I have been visiting my sister blogs and have been inspired what they put up every day. I have also been organizing and going through photos and trying to get caught up. It is working so yeah me! I have managed to scrap 5 pages and make 3 cards and it is only August 5 so whoo hoo...I even developed some photo's so I am on my way and I will be sharing some pages and cards very soon. In the mean time I thought we would talk about space and where we scrapbook or make cards or sew. Where do you do these things? I don't sew but I used to paint. I thought I would take you down a little studio memory lane.


Studio 1 - My first apartment I had not yet discovered scarpbooking and I was doing a lot of painting and drawing. I loved colored pencils and pen and ink. I had a nice desk in a nook in my dining room. I loved this apartment so much. It was eventually turned into a desk against a wall to make room for toys.


Studio 2 - A corner in my living room. I didn't stay here long but the corner was nice as the living room was huge. I am not even sure I unpacked my craft stuff here.


Studio 3 - A corner in my living room and I used it all the time but it was not very cute. It stayed up on my scrapbooking and went to tons of crops.


Studio 4 - A area in the living room behind my couch. I think it was a good size considering how tiny the apartment was I had a desk a book shelf and a couple tables. I got so much scrapbooking done here! I loved this space because it was a part of the living room but you couldn't see the mess. This is the studio where I really started becoming addicted to stamps!


Studio 5 - The first time I had a private studio it was in my bedroom and my room was shaped in an L so I had part of the L as my studio and it was so nice and so pretty and so so so...lonely. I never got anything done unless the girls were up stairs with me watching TV.


Studio 7 - Now I am back in with the family and into a room that is suppose to be a dinning room. This room was nice it had two doors in it so I could close out the mess or the noise if I wanted and I scrapped on a folding table. It had the best lighting and I got a lot done here.


Studio 8 - Back into the bedroom I go but the house is so tiny and my now husband also has a studio in there a music studio. I know how did it all fit with a bed and all.

It was a challenge and then we got a new bedroom set and boom the studio 8 was moving into the living room and my hubby's into the kitchen which ironically was on the same wall about 6 feet away from each other. LOL it was a small house. I actually got so much done at this tiny little desk.


This desk actually was a part of my daughters bedroom set but again it was so tiny in the house and the girls were sharing a room so I took this to give them more room.


I fell in love with it though it was the first time I had ever faced a wall when scrapping. I love the vertical space though and the drawers are so big!


I was happy to move but I was a little sad to have to give her back her desk.




Studio 9 - Again I had a whole room but this time it was fabulous as it was beautiful and big and right in the heart of the home.
It was a sitting room I suppose once upon a time and I got to use these cool hutches my hubby got at work and we bought a new desk too. I kind of miss him working at the furniture store.

He got two of these and they were only $20 each wow what a steal huh...he got them at different times but one was "damaged" missing glass so they were going to toss it. The other was solo and so he asked if he could buy it too and they said sure.

We decided to purchase a table to match and give me a lot of work space so we went on the hunt and finally found a really cool one that was perfect and two toned.

We put it in between the two hutches and it had a lot of room. I even had a little computer area and still plenty of space to scrapbook and stamp.

I loved it because everything was right at my finger tips. I was facing the living room and I had room for company.

I also had a brilliant idea for my embellishments so I bought these shelves and made it look so fabulous and ease to see...you know if you can see it you can use it!

I will give you an up close cause this was my favorite part. Since it was so perdy and all. ;)


Then we moved again...I move a lot.

Bringing me to Studio 10 - Now we are back in a smaller home but it is enough space...almost. the hubster is in his man-cave a.k.a basement and I was at a loss of where to go. I can't be in the bedroom as it doesn't have so much room and my hubby works 3rd shift. I can't be in the living room becauase the baby will tough everything. The dinning room has a great closet and that is what I chose but then I started moving stuff around and now I ended up in a nook in the kitchen and I am back using my daughters desk...now it is all mine though. She wanted to get rid of it. Got rid of the matching dresser and we got her a new one so now it is all mine! Mine mine mine...LOL I love it. It is a little small but it works for now and I have really been using it a lot. Best part is it is at the very back of the house so if I am in the middle of something it is ok. The baby isn't really allowed in the kitchen alone so that takes care of that too. I am still using the closet and plan to put floor to ceiling shelves in there so I can have everything else at my finger tips.

Yep this is working good...well until the kids start moving out ;)

A short story about the closet!

My oldest daughter Danielle is such a girly girl. A few years ago after I got married we moved into a teeny tiny house. I mean itty bitty. She went from her own room with a good size closet to sharing a room with her sister and a small closet. She was forever complaining about not having room and so she came up with a solution! She added another row and instead of a small closet with no room she had a small closet with plenty of room. I thought it was a very clever solution.

I also thought it was so funny how obsessed she was about her closet and the clothes. She would spend hours organizing her clothes and even more hours dreaming about how to get more clothes. Since it was so funny around the house when my husband finally put the bar up I snapped some photos of the stack of clothes on her bed and then of how nice and color coordinated they were after she put them away. Honestly I am pretty girly myself but I have never seen one girl have 5 pink shirts in the same style but when I tease her about it she says…”but mom they are different”

I am happy to report that she again has her very own room. A girl needs her space right?

All materials for this papge are Stampin' Up! oh wait...cept the flowers.

Just you...

So I've had these photo's of my daughter laying around for a few years and I never really knew what to do with them.

Over at PS they are always doing fun crops and whatnot and this month we are doing a scrap-it-forward crop it is fun we do a challenge and then who ever finishes and posts first gets to post the next one.

This one was to use a sketch by Becky Fleck over at Page Maps. I had some more of my Feb 2008 kit left featuring scenic route. Haha you may have seen this paper in what my last two posts. I am almost all out of it but you can see how stinking cute it is I just can't help myself.

Here is a close up of the title and the journaling. Chipboard letters I love them as they are so red and shiny. I love the heart as an "o" I normally journal freehand but since this is obviously Dani I just cut apart some stickers and used some descritpive lovey dovey words to talk her up.

I also love how the embelished layers turned out. Here is another view of them. Dani is my girly girl too so all the pink and all the hearts fit perfect. Not to mention she is making a heart in the bottom photo!

I also used a Marth Stewart punch to make the frame and was pleased that it turned out the first try and that it all matched up in the corners. It must have been my lucky day!

Showing more love...t-ball style

I heart t-ball :)

So todays post is all about t-ball. My middle daughter has always been in love with sports. First t-ball and then onto softball, soccer, basketball, more softball...but never a big fan of volleyball.

Anyway back to the beginning. T-ball. She started asking when she could play when she was about 3 or so. I called when she was 4 to ask when she could sign up and they said next year she was so sad I think there were even real tears involved. Well the summer of 2000 she finally go her wish and was on her way to t-ball bliss. At one of her first games, grandparents everywhere of course, she finally got her turn to bat. She went up to the T and turned her head and actually spit over her shoulder. My dad was like...huh...then she went tap tap tap with her bat and swung her little behing to get into position. Again my dad was like huh...then he said the funniest thing "if she grabs her shorts I'm outta here" she didn't and he stayed for her game. Now he goes around telling this funny story whenever there is another grandparent or friend around. I always chuckle because I can picture it in my head like it was yesterday.

Here are the journaling spots telling the story that I just told you up above. I have never journaled like this but let me tell you it was fun and I loved it! The pink flower is popped up and the green one is a little under it. I will use it again for sure. It turned out so cute.

These papers are from a scenic route line actaully they are the leftover from the band aid project. Seriously one of my favorite kits over at PersonalScrapper.

Another favorite part of my layout is the arrows. I adore the way this turned out and the three little chipboard peices mimic 1st 2nd and 3rd base! It also makes it look like her ball went up up and away and it draws your eyes up to the first base she is rounding.