Have Stress?? Must Distress!!

I have been a bad blogger the last 2 weeks...LOL!!! Too many things going on all at once, I guess! I have been trying to come up with some ideas for Christmas presents for the extended family, ones that I don't have to spend a lot of money on and ones that will be unique to the person getting it! I've decided to do some mini-albums for the nieces and nephews and a 8x8 calendar for the MIL/FIL. The calendar was coming along ok, until I ran out of ink in my printer!! I don't have the extra cash right now to buy the color cartridges, but hopefully in the next month I can get it ordered!

Anywhoo....This weeks challenge over at The Shoe was to Distress!! It can be inking, tearing, etc....whatever you do to distress!! I've done my "Cherish" page using all CTMH products and inking my colonial white paper with brown ink. Not my best work, but it's still cute!!

So, stop on by The Shoe and enter your project. No back-linking please, only new projects.


This project I did for the week before over at The Shoe. It was to use orange in your project. I LOVED how this one turned out. Unfortunately, the pic I took here isn't the best, but the photo in the LO was of my 2 daughters, my Uncle and my Aunt riding the Griffon at Busch Gardens. It was my Aunt's first time riding it and the look on her face is so totally hysterical!! I just love it!!

Around We Go!

Here lately I've been getting a lot scrapped, you just haven't seen most of it yet (they are for challenges that haven't posted just yet!!) But I have the day off today and have been "lurking" on a website called ScrapyLand. Their gal Susan is just the funniest lady and I just LOVE her Starting Blox! Plus they have a store that I've been dying to shop at, just don't have the luxury of any extra scrapping money right now...LOL!! If you are into QuicKutz, you have to check them out!!

So today, I decided to do her current one, Starting Blox #17 and I knew I had the perfect pics to do! This is my oldest daughter and her grandma riding the ferris wheel at Knotts Berry Farm last year. I fussy cut a couple of images (the "send 25 cents and the red 2 card) from the scrap side of the paper and used for embellies.


Supplies:
CS: Bazzill; PP: Sassafrass Lass; Ink/Spray: Shimmerz in Cotton Candy and Red-y or Not; Gel Writer Pen; Adhesive: ATG and EK Success Pop Dots.

Thanks for looking! Have a great day!

The Shoe Challenge - Flowers!!

The challenge over at The Shoe this week is.....are you ready for it?.....FLOWERS!! Super easy right? We use flowers on almost all of our projects anyways, so this is simple!

I've been trying to do all my girls' school pictures, but it's so hard to decide what to scrap and how with them. However, once this challenge came up I knew I had the perfect picture to scrap of my youngest daughter from her school pic last year. I just LOVE how it turned out!!

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. And stop on by The Shoe and get your project turned in for a chance to win our Shoe Blinkie to post on your blog!

Supplies below!
CS, PP, INK - CTMH; Flowers - Handmade by Lorinda (Etsy store, AtwaterMoon); Gel Pen - Sakura; Ribbon - American Crafts; Adhesive - Xyron X and ATG gun.

The Shoe Color Challenge - Sept. 3

This weeks challenge over at The Shoe is another Color Challenge. Again using the Copic colors as inspiration (this will be an ongoing thing...LOL!!)

The colors this week are: Coral Sea, Coral and Copper.

And here is my take on the colors. This is my oldest daughter getting her braces on (top pic before, bottom pic after, and little pics while she was "getting wired").

Supplies used:

CS: DCWV; PP: unknown; Flowers: Sizzix and Burlap fabric; Alphas: American Crafts & Making Memories; Paint: Adirondack; Chipboard: Unknown.

The Shoe Color Challenge - Aug. 27th

This week's challenge over at The Shoe is to use the following Copic colors on your LO. Now, you don't have to actually use Copic's, we just thought that there are a lot of Copic users out there and what better way to get them inspired too!


The colors this week are: Ocean Green, Nile Green and Nile Blue. I hope you enjoy my take on these beautiful colors!

These are pictures from last summer (09) on our vacation to San Diego.

Supplies used:

CS: DCWV; PP: K&Co; Alpha: American Crafts; Punch: Fiskers; Adhesive: ATG Gun; Pen: Gelly Roll; Paper Piercer: CTMH; Thread: Unknown.

Come Here Little Birdie!

Here is a LO I did based on a sketch provided by Scrapbook Chicks Facebook Page. They have a fantastic store (Click Here to visit) that I've ordered some cute and reasonably priced goodies from, so be sure to check out their Facebook Page!

Supplies used:

CS: DCWV; PP: Pink Paislee; Stamps & Ink: CTMH; Cork Embellies: Pink Paislee; Alphas: American Crafts & Making Memories; Punch: Martha Stewart; Adhesive; Adtech, Zots & Scotch; Flowers & Bling: Unknown.

Blog Giveaway - Wait until you see it!

So I was perusing the PageMaps blog and came across her list of "must read" blogs. One of them is Simply Tiffany's blog and she is having an amazing giveaway!! CLICK HERE for the details!

Now, I had never even heard of this, but I went to their website and it sounds like a great product! You can draw sketches (right to your computer), mark-up documents in your own handwriting and it even INLUDES Photoshop Elements!! This might be one of my "if I ever have any 'extra' money laying around, I need to purchase this item" kind of things....LOL! Or, here's to hoping to win this awesome prize!