Happy Halloween!!

Hope you are having an awesome day!  After our huge snowstorm, the weather is nice and sunny out!  We still have snow but it’s melting fast!  We were snowed in Thursday.  Can you believe I didn’t even go outside once?  It was cold and blowing and icky out.  The girls had fun though!  I didn’t take any pictures at all!

So it’s a day early but I thought I’d post my November Sussies layouts!  The Sussies gallery wasn’t up earlier today but I’m sure it will be soon and then you can check out what everyone else has done!  These pictures are all from our trip this year to Anderson Farms!

This layout is based on the exclusive Sussies sketch (page 1) - I left the paper off the edge for now but I’ll have to see how bad it is in the album.  It may get chopped!

I used my new Epic Six to cut the letters out on this one!

So I’ve finished up the second week (well, almost!) of my photoshop course.  I have to say I’ve learned alot and played with a lot of pictures.  I’m not comfortable with what to use when necessarily but I’m learning!  I still have my end-of-the week assignments to do for this week which combines what we learned the last two weeks!

I have yet to take pictures of the girls in their costumes.  Michael was going to buy some straw bales so I hope he gets home soon!  I might have to have them re-put their costumes on tomorrow if it gets too late (and dark!).

Happy Halloween! 

Where does the time go?

It seems like it was Saturday just yesterday!  Well, except for the weather.  Saturday was beautiful.  Today it is snowy and icky out.  Well, I guess technically the snow was yesterday but it’s still cold and icky out!

It’s been a whirlwind around here!  Talia’s birthday was Monday so we went out to dinner Sunday.  Where she got sick.  :(  Not a great birthday dinner!  So I rushed through some work stuff because I didn’t know if I was going to be able to go in on Monday.  Luckily she was fine on her birthday so I did get to go to work (yippee).  And then I subbed at school on Tuesday.  And went back to work on Wednesday (OK, I really just went for the massage from my SIL) but then lunch and such and I was gone the rest of the day!  And it was cold and icky out!

So that brings me to today.  And I get to stay home all day except to pick the kids up at school.  So I’m going to shower, get breakfast and clean the kitchen.  Start laundry and then unpack my scrappy goods and work on some pre-crop challenges for Scrapattack Scrapbooking!  Did I mention they are having a crop this weekend?  You should stop by for some fun and games!  Lauri gives out great prizes to the winners!

And now for the rest of my Apron Strings Bigger than a Breadbox reveal!  That I was supposed to finish doing much earlier this week!

I made a few cards (no, I’m not a card person)…  but I really love the Halloween cat!

And then I realized how much paper I still had left.  And I remembered a post someone had made at willowtraders about a paper pumpkin…  so I made one from my memory because as much as I looked, I could not find the post again (so if someone knows, please tell me so I can give the proper credit for the inspiration!).  Thanks!

Isn’t it cute?  I used about 20 strips of paper to make it. 

Have a great day!

Apron Strings October Kit

Hey there!  Hope you’ve been feeling well and getting some scrapping done!  I’m going to Archiver’s thsi afternoon and I can’t wait.  I went to the pumpkin patch yesterday and took pictures and then edited (minor) and printed them last night!  Talk about hot off the press :)

So I worked with the bigger than a bread box kit this month and the pressure was on to get as many done before my trip to Vegas as I could - since I wasn’t going to be back until the 3rd and they were due the 5th!  I managed to get 3 finished and pictures printed for the last one so all was good with the world.

Here are a my layouts.  I’ll post cards and another item later this week (I have to give you a reason to come back, don’t I?).  You can always check out the newsletter here if you just can’t wait.  Or to see what the other designers did with the same kit!

Here are some Halloween pics from 2007.  It’s lucky I hadn’t scrapped them yet!  My pictures from last Halloween (and the pumpkin carving) were lost when my hard drive went.  I should be glad that I only lost a few pics, but I was really disappointed.  Remember to back your pics up!!

On that last one, the green was just too bright for me and the pictures so I toned it down using distress ink.  I had thought I was going to have to change the background paper after I scanned it in but now I kinda like the distressed look!

And from the other half of the kit…  I used the exclusive Becky Fleck sketch for the first layout.

Pretty simple layout but it just worked for me!  I inked the paisley chipboards instead of painting or covering them.  I have always had trouble with the paisely chipboard pieces (I have a ton of them!) but I think they worked for me this month!

I’m off to get ready to scrap.  Be sure and check out the Apron Strings yahoo group and blog for more challenges this month!  We’re doing APRON Bingo and a photo scavenger hunt all month long on the yahoo messageboard!  And several weekly challenges on the blog!

ASD Crop

Well, as luck would have it, I have not been very productive this weekend!!  But I did get one 2-page layout finished based on a sketch challenge.  I think the sketch was from Nuts About Sketches (I’ll doublecheck and post the link!)….

Because I already had the pictures printed out and they needed to go more or less in the opposite order, I rotated the sketch 180 degrees.  I have searched for a long time for pattern paper to use with these photos and just never found any.  So I went with CS only!  Very unusual for me!

I used eyelets and these cool new flowers that my SIL got me for my birthday.  I love them!  I will need to order another package of those when I get a chance!

Apron Strings Croptober!

For the entire month of October, Apron Strings Designs is having Croptober-Fest!  First, there are a ton of great challenges coming your way this month, along with an online crop during the weekend of October 10th — so block out some time for yourself now because it’ll be here before you know it!  You can read more about the details and the challenges on the Apron Strings Blog with some details about the actual Croptober-Fest here.

In addition to the challenges on the blog, we’re playing several games throughout the month and next weekend!  To find information on our photo scavenger hunt and APRON scrapbingo, check out the yahoo group here!

I have a few more cards to wrap up with my Apron Strings Bigger than a Breadbox October kit (which can be seen and ordered here), and then I can start some of the challenges!  Hope you’ll come play with us!