Still no scrapping, but high hopes!

I just got the October Sussies kit in the mail and I really am looking forward to digging in to it!  Maybe my mojo will come back if I do something - anything!  And I have 2 cards I need to work on (4 if I apply to the Scrapbook Express DT which my friend Cindy wants me to do!)… 

So, even though I haven’t been creative scrapwise, I did want to share this birthday cake I made for Sadie’s party today

I really need to take Michael’s cake decorating class, but I think she turned out OK.  Sadie loved her and that’s what really matters!

Onto other exciting news, I’m a little nervous but I signed up for the last Phaunt U class for photoshop.  It’s a 6 week course which I’ve heard phenomenal things about (better be with what I’m spending!)…  but I’m really excited about it.

Wish me luck on the scrapping energy tonight!  Hope you are getting some wonderful scrappy-ness done!

So Very Much Going On!!

And sadly, not nearly enough scrapbooking!  But I finally finished my DT layouts for Sussies this month and got them all scanned in!  It was a fun kit to work with I just didn’t have enough time!!

From the LYB side of the kit (I usually don’t do the same topic for both of my layouts but the color in the pictures really did match pretty darn good!  I loved those little Maya Road birds but wasn’t sure how to use them.  I think it works, don’t you? 

Such bright fun colors!  These LYB papers are great for fall layouts!

 And from the My Minds Eye side of the kit - I took pictures of each student in 3rd and 4th grade and a class picture and for all the 1st and 2nd grade and a class picture as well!  I haven’t done kindergarten yet but it’s mainly because two of the students are only there in the morning and (WOOHOO) I’m carpooling this year and Jolene is taking them every morning except Fridays!

The second page is based on the sketch included with this months kit.  I added eyelets to give the scalloped circle a bit more definition.  I will probably add all the students names above or below the picture still and I may add “Grades 1 and 2” as well.

So, a quick rundown on my schedule for the next 6 weeks or so - and why I won’t scrap much :(….

Mondays gymnastics from 6:30-8:00 (A,T)

Tuesdays soccer practice from 4:30-5:30 (A) and 6 to 7(T)

Wednesdays gymnastics from 4:30-5:30 (S)

Thursdays soccer practice from 4:30-5:30 (A) and 6 to 7 (T) and Alexa could do make-up gymnastics classes from 6-7:30

That doesn’t include me helping with computers 2 days a week at school or working all day Tuesday.  And don’t forget that every single one of T’s soccer games is at 8 am on Saturday!  I get tired just thinking about it.  Thankfully it’s only until mid-October.  :)

Hope you’re at least getting some scrapbooking done!  (Oh, and in case you are wondering, I did not make the cut for the third round at TS with my Walmart layout - but I didn’t really expect to and probably didn’t have the time to make another layout for the next round!)….

One last thing, congrats to my sister and her husband who welcomed another baby boy into their family a few weeks ago!

Third Round of The Treasured Hunt

at Treasured Scrapbooking!  I came up with my idea early on (thanks to some back and forth at the Apron Strings Yahoo group!).  I still love my topic, I just wish I could’ve done it better!  The requirements of the challenge were:

Challenge requirements:
- Create a ONE page layout
Layout must include:
- ric-rac
- paint
- at least one hand-made flower
- 1 or 2 photos (no more, no less)
- Include the words “I’d rather…” in your journaling
- must be an original design … check

and this is what I came up with:

I used paint and really old chatterbox stickers to mask the title and painted over it.  It’s not as sharp as I would’ve liked.  I probably should’ve gone more into the why’s of rather paying more but I didn’t want to offend people that do like Walmart.  I’d rather not shop there based on my experiences and the store closest to me :)  So here’s all I did for the journaling:

Was going to try and get some challenges done for the crop at SAS this weekend but so far I’ve done nothing!  Maybe tonight - although I doubt it because tomorrow is the first day of school for the girls!

Just a quick note today

 remind you about the crop next weekend at Scrapattack Scrapbooking!!

 

Hope to see you there!!!

Second Challenge

at Treasured Scrapbooking…  did you know how much I really don’t like challenges with journaling prompts?  I guess the main reason is I feel limited in how to scrap them.  I try to think out of the box and then I go round and round about how to best accomplish that!  Anyways, this week’s challenge was to create a one page layout using only 2 colors of CS, 4 PP, arrows, at least 3 pictures and buttons or beads.  Oh, and it had to include “If I were honest with myself” in the journaling.

So in my mind everyone is doing serious topics so I need to do a non-serious one.  I thought about those emails with the either/or questions you get.  Did I have one?  Could I find one?  Not one I liked.  I finally found a few questions that got me started…  but as I started brainstorming, I thought could I just make it about scrapbooking?  Hmmm….

So this is what I came up with:

It’s only a little bit what I had sketched out!  I was planning on more squares but they didn’t fit and I couldn’t make them too small.  I was planning on having “Right Here, Right Now” in the title but my title space shrunk when my squares became fewer.    I had wanted to sew all around the squares but my sewing machine was causing me fits so I went with this.   So I hope to make it to the next round…

I’m also wanting to scrap some for me now!  I need to print pictures (I have tons) but I need to edit some.  I need to start working with the Sussie September kit.  I looked at it when I got it but haven’t since then!

Scrapattack is having a crop coming up next weekend I think.  Treasured Scrapbooking had one this week and I have yet to get any layouts started.  Sigh.  I obsess to much about what I’m trying to get done.  One more week until school starts!  YEAH!

Happy Scrapping!