It Is What It Is

December Daily

2011-12-04T16:32:00.003-05:00

Am caught up with my DD album. Hope I start feeling better and can make this a little happy journal next week

JYC 2011

2011-12-04T16:28:00.003-05:00

Here are my days 2 to 4, just realized I don't have day 1 , will add it later. Up to speed so far

Sketch of the week

2011-12-03T15:21:00.003-05:00

Shimelle is back with her weekly sketches, and I am so happy. So here is mine for this week

This is my grandson in a box that he played with for over a week and it morphed into many different things. Poor child has no toys LOL

JYC so far

2011-11-26T14:16:00.002-05:00

Here is what I have done so far, My cover, struggled with that but am happy how it looks, The page on the right will be my Manifesto, and the one on the left is one from the cropping weekend with Shimelle with the pocket in it and my numbers are all done too. I am useing mostly the Simple Stories, 25 days of Christmas line and just Kraft CS

2011-11-18T20:40:00.002-05:00

I managed to finish this today when I got these two pictures of my grandson, his dad took him to Lowe's today and he made a Santa sleigh so it was a good fit with the LO just changed out a few things

Here is my take on Shimelle's Challenge, Will add a photo and journaling when I get some Christmas pictures of the kids

Shimelle's Challenge Weekend

2011-11-13T14:01:00.003-05:00

This was a Woven Paper Challenge so I made a card with the scraps from the Decorate a Christmas Window challenge

Shimelle's Weekend challenge

2011-11-13T13:56:00.002-05:00

This challenge was to prepare a pocket on a LO so I did one for my JYC, may use this for Christmas day or I can change out the card for another day

Pick a Size

2011-11-13T13:09:00.003-05:00

Another Challenge this weekend was to Choose a Size for our JYC albums this year. I have my favorite 8x8 AC 3 ring binder album and I bought the Simple Stories Christmas line and I am ready to go, I even cut some Kraft card stock for my base. I like this album because I do different size LO and they all fit in this album

Shimelle's Scrapbook Challeng

2011-11-13T13:01:00.004-05:00

I have been adding to my swag all week and love the way it looks now

Shimelle is haveing a scrapbook challenge on her blog this weekend And there was a challenge to Decorate a Window. Well I don't have a window like that but love this idea so I hung it on the door to my scrap room. Put my three grandchildren on the tags in the middle. So my first Christmas decoration is up LOL

Favorite Pumpkins

2011-10-31T10:50:00.000-04:00

I got this weeks Starting point challenge done yesterday.

2011-10-31T10:35:00.003-04:00

Haven't done much with Shimelle's class the past few days because I got into Ali Edwards, December Daily album. I have it all done and ready to go now and am happy how it looks. I have also started on Shimelle's JYC album also,( that is last years link, this years is not up yet)just waiting for my order to get here with a few things I ordered for it. Maybe while I am waiting I will do a few of the LO from last weeks Pretty Paper class

This is my DD cover and how the inside pages look

4 more Lay Outs

2011-10-23T10:27:00.004-04:00

Here are three Lay Outs and one card that I did for Shimelle's class this week i am really enjoying this class and I now I need to get all these LO put in their albums

Pretty Paper Party

2011-10-18T13:42:00.002-04:00

These are the first too LO I have done for Shimelle's Class, Pretty Paper Party. So far I love it and have done a LO a day so I am scrapping

Madi's Pumpkin

2011-10-17T20:01:00.003-04:00

Here is my first LO for Shimelle's new class i just realized there is no title on this LO so I guess that is OK LOL

What kind of paper person I am

2011-10-17T10:53:00.002-04:00

I am not really sure what kind I am but reading the prompt this morning and looking at my stash I have to say I am what Shimelle calls "The Collection Packer" The first Photo is for my JYC and yes I bought the whole line of 'Simple Stories 25 days of Christmas" As soon as I saw it I knew I had to have it. Then Shimelle was working with American Crafts Daydreams collection so I headed right over to 2 peas and bought that whole collection and the same with the pad of Colorbok Parisian Style that I found in WalMart. Maybe I just feel safer if I know everything matches LOL

Special Party

2011-10-11T13:44:00.003-04:00

Shimelle has a new class starting on October 17th, can't wait to start this one

Starting Point LO

2011-10-08T13:51:00.002-04:00

Here is mine for Shimelle's Starting Point for this week

Starting Point

2011-10-02T13:03:00.002-04:00

Here is my LO for this weeks Starting Point Challenge, yes I painted on my LO

4x6 Photo Love--9 Photos

2011-09-30T19:46:00.002-04:00

This is an 8 1/2x11 LO for my September LO for my 2011 Album. Love all the photos on such a small page, there is a little more journaling under the picture of the Chicken pitcher

I am doing Shimelle's 4x6 photo Love challenge this year, 9th month so 9 photos

Starting point

2011-09-30T19:42:00.001-04:00

This is my LO for the starting point challenge

This weeks Sketch

2011-09-30T19:38:00.002-04:00

This is my take on the Sketch of the week

LSNED finished

2011-09-30T19:31:00.005-04:00

I have finished my class with Shimelle and love the way my file holder looks. Always sad to see this class end

2011-09-24T19:26:00.001-04:00

I got this sketch finished today too

This sat on my desk for a week, finally found all the glittery flowers and butterflies that made it work

2011-09-24T19:20:00.001-04:00

Shimelle's sketch for this week. my little granddaughter started Kindergarten.

LSNED Week 3

2011-09-20T14:50:00.007-04:00

This is this weeks cards and how my file holder is looking just a little over half the month done

LSNED week 2

2011-09-11T19:08:00.003-04:00

Got all caught up today on Shimelle's

class. I am rally likeing how my file holder is starting to look getting all filled up

4x6 Photo Love--8 Photos

2011-09-05T16:29:00.001-04:00

This is my LO with 8 photos for Shimelle's 4x6 Photo Love

This was fun to put together

Starting Point

2011-09-05T16:25:00.001-04:00

Here is my LO for this week

LSNED

2011-09-04T20:10:00.005-04:00

Got the first three days done today so will put them all together here starting with the first 'Cover' card

LSNED Starts tomorrow

2011-08-31T19:44:00.002-04:00

And I am ready to roll. Finished up the title card today for Shimelle's class starting tomorrow

And I like the way she is doing hers so will keep that in mind for next year

This weeks sketch

2011-08-31T19:37:00.002-04:00

I got this weeks sketch from Shiimelle done today and love it. She used paint where I used stars that I cut with my Cricut, paint on my LO scares me too much

So happy I got this one done

LSNED 2011

2011-08-29T20:08:00.003-04:00

Starts September 1st. This is my 4th year doing Shimelle's 'Learn Something New Every Day' Class. Love this class and can't wait for it to start

I am going to try really heard to post ALL my entries this year

I am ready so bring it on :)

My Week in the Life

2011-08-21T13:16:00.005-04:00

I did Ali Edward's Week in the Life this year. Someplace I went off base and had less pictures every day. Mine is no where near as organized and put together as Ali's but I think I didn't know what to expect from this so I just let it take over. I will do this again next year and will do a better job.

Starting Point

2011-08-20T19:23:00.004-04:00

Shimelle has come up with another weekly Challenge, Starting Point, this it this weeks and here is mine.

A couple of weeks ago we had company from our home town come visit and it is almost like the Little Bean knew they were coming because she went and sit in front of the door about 10 minutes before they got here

From the Heart

2011-08-15T15:20:00.003-04:00

It took a while but I do love my hair with the color all grown out

Half the page blank

2011-08-15T15:18:00.004-04:00

Just went down the side

Half the page bland

2011-08-15T15:18:00.001-04:00

Grid Challenge

2011-08-15T15:15:00.002-04:00

Photos from a trip to the zoo

3 is the magic number

2011-08-15T15:13:00.003-04:00

Used 3 sets of stars for the 4th July LO of my grand children

Go Retro

2011-08-15T15:11:00.003-04:00

Had to use a photo before 2011, These are pictures of my day when he was about a year old so I am guess they are from about 1920

Starting Point Challenge

2011-08-15T15:06:00.005-04:00

Really loved this challenge

Printable Challenge

2011-08-15T15:01:00.003-04:00

Printable Challenge

I used the journaling card
I did some of Shimelle's Crop Challenges over the weekend

Week in the life--day 6

2011-07-30T20:31:00.001-04:00

o not a good photo day for me, I took a total of 3 pictures, I am cheating, the one of my 2 grandchildren in front to the car was taken by my son but I will use it lol

I need to do better tomorrow I hope

Week in the life Day 5

2011-07-30T13:34:00.001-04:00

Here is my Friday. I am not getting many pictures the past couple of days because I feel like I am taking the same pictures over and over again

I made a batch of dog food and biscuits for my dog, he has skin problems and I am trying to treat him with food

week in the Life--Day 4

2011-07-29T10:48:00.002-04:00

Afew pictures from my Thursday, didn't take very many yesterday for some reason, maybe it was all the running around I was doing

Week in the life Day 3

2011-07-27T20:11:00.002-04:00

Some of pictures from today. Road construction, a shopping trip and I made a cake that is so yummy LOL

Week in the Life Day 2

2011-07-27T13:58:00.002-04:00

A few of my pictures from Tuesday

Week in the Life

2011-07-26T11:13:00.002-04:00

I am doing Ali's Week in the Life class this time around

Here are some of my photos from yesterday

Getting ready to go for my morning walk

my tea and snack for reading in the afternoon

My breakfast

Alarm clock when I got up

Sit-Stand-Sleep

2011-07-25T20:06:00.007-04:00

Shimelle's Explore Class this week will focus on Observation. We were to take a photo of where we sit, stand and sleep. Here are mine

This is where I sleep

I feel like I am standing in front of the stove all day sometimes

My chair that I sit in when I am on the computer, when I scrap and even when I read now, the only place I can read and not fall asleep

Circle Lay Out

2011-07-24T16:51:00.004-04:00

I am loving Shimelle's new class It is somthing very different for me and I love the videos she is posting for us.

We had to make circle embellishements for this weeks LO and after I watched her video I got right to it

I guess this would be an Adventure, for the kids any way LOL I used one of the sketches that was in the prompt too

Explore Day One

2011-07-18T15:02:00.006-04:00

Well I got it done the same day as the prompt came out LOL

Shimelle's new class is going really be fun

The self-Portrait was hard for me to do but it is done

ETA: I changed up the letters on this cove, was not liking that brown e, so they are all white letters now only different Thickers

New class Starts Tomorrow

2011-07-17T17:41:00.001-04:00

Can't wait to see what this is all about YAY!!!

This weeks Sketch

2011-07-16T08:05:00.002-04:00

Got another one done, I am just loving Shimelle's Sketches, seems like the only time I scrap

10 Things

2011-07-10T00:00:00.000-04:00

Here is my 10 Things for July. I just love flowers and my gardens are really producing some beauties this year.

This weeks Sketch

2011-07-02T20:18:00.002-04:00

WOW I am on a roll I guess, here is another of Shimelle's sketches

My little granddaughter graduated form pre school and I bought her a little bracelet mad by a local artist and she just loves it

Finally

2011-06-28T10:56:00.003-04:00

I finally got one of Shimelle's Sketches done and posted before the new one gets posted on her blog.

I did another 5K on June 25th with a group of the ladies from Weight Watchers, our Leader Judy put the team together and we had so much fun, this is a group shot that I did a LO with useing the sketch

Thank you Shimelle, you always inspire me.

My Day in Photos

2011-04-26T20:00:00.000-04:00

see more days here:

http://www.shimelle.com/paper/1005/my-day-in-photos/

Beyond Blogging for Scrapbookers

2011-04-20T14:31:00.005-04:00

I finally got to read my first prompt for Shimelle's new class And I have set up google analytics and will wait and see what happens. I am really interested in who reads my blog and where thy are from so don't be shy, post a comment.

New LO

2011-04-02T14:57:00.005-04:00

Shimelle posts a sketch every week on her blog and I try to do them, well this is the one for this week. All this different PP is so not me but as usual Shimelle can get me out of my box to try these things.

Love this picture of my granddaughter and I think all that is going on still does not take away from the photo

Blogging for Scrapbookers

2011-03-09T10:04:00.002-05:00

So happy Shimelle is running this class again starting on March 21st and will go into a new class in April getting into it deeper. Can't wait to start

First month and binder

2011-01-10T08:40:00.007-05:00

I have the first month done and my Binder almost done

I think the front needs something more, want to do something with ribbon I think. I am also going to do maybe a 2 page LO every month of the goings on in our world for the month and will add it to this album. Will post the front again when I get done playing with it

JYC 2010 is all done

2011-01-08T10:48:00.008-05:00

I so love my album this year, but I said that last year too and the year before :) It just seems to grow and expand and I love useing this type of album because I can put all different size pages in there. Can't wait for next years .

One Little Word

2011-01-02T13:53:00.003-05:00

I am taking Ali Edwards class "One Little Word" at Big Picture Scrapbooking and am really excited about it. My word for this year is "LESS" as in less of me, less clutter, less food. The good thing is that it is only a once a month class for the whole year so should be easy to keep up with it. I will post January here when I finish it.

2011-01-02T13:25:00.015-05:00

The JYC is up to date as of yesterday, will finish it up and post in a few days

2011-01-02T13:15:00.012-05:00

I finished my DD and love how my album looks and plan to do it again next year

Dec. 20 was 7 years that I lost my mom, Christmas just isn't the same without her and my dad.

Did lots of cooking and a little Baking and way to much eating

This is the finished album it kind of grew over the coarse of the month

2010-12-19T19:44:00.011-05:00

My DD all caught up, the tag on day 18 was made by Kim Dupree for a tag swap we did a few years back, thought it worked good here, day 19 is a card I received in the mail that really touched my heart and made me cry so I want ed to save it here

2010-12-19T19:37:00.011-05:00

I am up to date on my album again. I know I have day 17 twice, blogger won't let me edit this :(

2010-12-12T15:50:00.015-05:00

These are all the LO for my JYC to date

Blogger won't let me label each entry the way I want to.

The Entry for December 12 is a very old picture, I am guess that it is 1953 or 1954. The man with the glasses is my dad, I am next to him and my mom is next to me

My pages are all different sizes and shapes, Day 1 is a piece of chipboard that I have . it is about 3x6

My December Daily to date

2010-12-12T15:26:00.016-05:00

I really do not like the way you need to Load photos in blogger unless I am not doing it right

This is what I have done with my DD up to today

December Daily

2010-11-10T15:28:00.002-05:00

I have decided to do Ali Edwards December Daily Album this year too. I am doing a separete album from my JYC album, hope it works out OK and I can keep up.

This is my DD cover, love how it came out and all the CS is cute and punched and so are the transparencies inside, I do need to get bigger rings but have to find the black ones.

Time for Journal your Christmas

2010-11-10T15:23:00.003-05:00

I am doing this class again this year, I just love it and it is a way for me to celebrate my favorite Holiday. Shimelle already posted the sign-ups for her class,. I have already started working on it, have my cover done and love it.

I am going to try and get my manifesto done this weekend. I have the card stock all cut and my number tags are ready so I feel like I am starting off in good shape

2010-10-24T18:29:00.001-04:00

I am so excited to start this class. I did finish the LSNED Class again this year, just never posted any of it. I really need help with writing so I am sure I will learn a lot from Shimelle and all the others involved
I will try to post more about this class as it goes along

LSND 2010 Cover

2010-08-23T13:55:00.003-04:00

I already have my cover done for Shimelle's Class that starts in September. This is my third year doing this class and I still get excited to start it. I also made up a pizza box of kits useing Shimelle's list from the kits she was selling in the UK so I am good to go

Back to School Time

2010-08-21T07:59:00.003-04:00

Well not really going to school but I am doing Shimelle's class again. This will be the third year I am doing this class and I have finished the first two books and am planning on starting on this one this weekend. I can do my cover and get all the papers and such ready to go
Will post all my pages here

Shimelle's new class

2010-07-03T11:58:00.007-04:00

I am so excited to start this new class with Shimelle. I hope it makes m,e take the time to learn to use my camera the right way. Well that link won't work for some reason.

http://www.shimelle.com/classes/756/a-new-online-scrapbooking-class-love-your-pictures-love-your-pages/

So there is the link to the class

Challenge 7 & 8

2010-04-27T11:04:00.004-04:00

Sadly this class is over now, I got so much done I can't believe it. These are the last 2 challenges, the one on top we had get creative with a border, I cut the pattern in PP and attached buttons and a piece of ribbon, the one on the bottom we had to pick one color and use only that color, I went with the blue because of Ryan's sleeper color.
I think Shimelle is going to be started another class soon, I hope. I used up a ton of stash for this class so it was all good.

Shimelle's Challenge #6

2010-04-18T16:53:00.003-04:00

We had to pick a shape and use it many times on a LO. Kelly sent me these pictures last summer and I just thought they would work with my butterfly punch Happy how it turned out

Stamp Challenge

2010-04-18T16:43:00.003-04:00

OK so I AM NOT A STAMPER, really not, but I had this little princess stamp that I bought and thought it would work with this, so I am still using up my stash so i stamped it on a piece of chipboard Love thes pictures of my grabdaughter looking at all the things I sent her for Easter

Hapiness Chalenge

2010-04-18T16:40:00.003-04:00

The LO had to have the words 'happiness is' on it and this is what it is to me, these three beautiful little faces

Shimelle's Cup Cake challenge

2010-04-18T16:35:00.002-04:00

This is one of the challenges for the crop, Had to have cup cakes on the LO I used my cupcake punch and sprayed a ton of glimmer mist on the 'frosting' then use red stickles to make a cherry on the top.

LO I love

2010-04-17T19:33:00.007-04:00

This is for a challenge Shimelle posted For tonight for her crop.
My favorite LO's at this time.
Well the first one was for a Circle Journal I am doing, the theme was 'Ladies who Lunch' Who would you like to have a your lunc, it is digital and took me way out of my comfort zone but I love how it turned out.
The rest wher all for Shimelle's class 'Something from almost nothing' loved that class and will back to the prompts again and again. I really hope I can do more of her challenges tomorrow

Chasllenge #4 & #5

2010-04-12T10:08:00.005-04:00

Shimelle is giveing a challenges every Thursday until the end of April, so I am still scrapping.
#4 was 'Extend your Reach" use something from the class and somthing we did not cover in class.
So my Easter Egg Hunt LO has ribbon, buttons and scrap of CS and I used Rub Ons for the new item.
Funny Face was #5, we had to use the colors of the Rainbow Red, blue, green, orange,purple and yellow

And Shimelle has announced her very first crop happening this weekend. Can't wait for this

Shimelle's 3 challenges

2010-04-03T13:33:00.005-04:00

Shimelle gave us three challenges the other day and I really didn't think I would get them done by Monday but I managed to finish them this morning

For the Lucky LO we had to lft someone's LO who is doing the class, so this is mine
Challenge #2, Coloring Eggs, we needed to pick a challenge from here I did #127, had to have Metal, Arrow, Red, Chipboard, happy, I also added 3 buttons.
Challenge # 3 was to bust our stash but we had to like it when it was done, so 'Pants on the Ground" is loaded with CB letters, scraps of ribbon, 2 different PP scraps, a metal tag and 2 paper tags
I am so sorry to see this class end, but this morning Shimelles said she would send us a challenge every Thursday for the rest of April. I love taking her classes, you get more than your money's worth from her

Prompt 9

2010-04-03T13:29:00.005-04:00

this one was to used Chip Board, I don't have a lot because I don't like useing it, especially if it needs to be painted or something, I need to get instant gratification, don't want to wait for paint to dry LOL For the album LO I used 3 small squares with hearts in them and the 12x12 LO the center picture has a frame around it and a small tag, they are all from the same set that I have had forever.

Prompt 8

2010-04-03T13:25:00.004-04:00

OK we needed to bust our button stash for this prompt, the buttons I used on the LO cleaned out the jar they were in, GOOD, right? Nope I bought some mor brown ones the other day to replace them. LOL

For the album page I just used buttons in the middle of the flowers and put gems in the center of 2 of them

Prompt Seven

2010-03-28T13:12:00.005-04:00

This prompt was to use flowers, which I have a ton of and love useing them
The LO with the flower picture I took last September, I never planted those flowers in that bed, they must have re-seeded themselves from the year before. I am curious to see if it happens again.
For my Celebrate Life album Shimelle suggested doing a LO about something that is local that we look forward too so that is my Apple Festival, I can already taste the funnel cakes. LOL

Prompt Six

2010-03-24T15:07:00.005-04:00

Shimelle must have been here because I needed this one bad. It is Stickers. And I have enough to start a store The LO is just a sheet of CS and the stickers are all BG two scoops. The letter are from a sheet of Oh Baby Girl by BG.
The letters (except for the 's') are BG Black Tie that I have had forever

Prompt Five

2010-03-24T15:03:00.004-04:00

We had to use a Page protector in a different way
I did Ryan's Brithday Album pages, I staple a 6x6 PP to the 8x8 page protector and slid the invitation his Birthday photo in the the PP. I do this for all three of the babies
Shimelle didn't really give a challenge for out album so I just did another page for it that I wanted

Sunday Challenge

2010-03-21T12:48:00.003-04:00

Tod ay we were challenged to use 10 of something from the four prompts So there are 12 circles cut from scraps behind the pictures and 13 brads for the metal. I have had these pictures on my desk for about a month just couldn't figure out how to do what I wanted to do and now it is done.

Shimelle's Saturday Challenge

2010-03-21T12:46:00.003-04:00

This challenge was to use something from your stash that would be considered a relic LOL. I used my embossing powders, they have not been touched in years and some almost as old chip board. Got these pictures of Michael yesterday so I figured it was a good fit.

Friday Bonus from Shimelle

2010-03-21T12:42:00.003-04:00

The challenge was to use each of the 4 prompts on one LO so I have cardstock, pattern paper, ribbon and metal

This class has got to finally scrap again and it feels so good. Thanks Shimelle.

Prompt 4

2010-03-19T11:26:00.004-04:00

Prompt 4 was to use only CS and there was an example of a tone on tone LO that I fell in love with, but I thought it was too much light so I added the black and grey flowers to it
For my Celebrate life Album I used all CS and the challenge was to combine all 4 prompts and I think I did that. Scraps, metal, ribbon and all CS
I am loving this class so much

Prompt 3

2010-03-19T11:19:00.003-04:00

For this one we had to use ribbon from our stash so this is what I came up with.
My granddaughter's 4th Birthday picture. I used Shimelle's idea and put ribbons down the side, I pulled the colors from her shirt

And My Celebrate Life Album page I again used Shimelle's idea to fold the ribbon and just glue it or sew the pleats. Neat idea.

Useing scraps

2010-03-15T13:59:00.004-04:00

The second prompt for Shimelle's class Was to use scraps in our stash. I did 2 LO, One of madi and one of Ryan, they went to the beach on a some what warmer January day just to play.
I punched the circles from scraps for Ryans and cut strips of PP to put in back of the pictures on Madi's
I have also done the 2nd page of my Celebrate Life Album.

Prompt 1

2010-03-13T10:22:00.006-05:00

I have got the first prompt for Shimelles class done. We needed to use up some metal from our stash, so I did a LO and the title page for my celebrate life album

The LO is my granddaughter's 4th birthday, I used some brads down the side in the holes and the little metal heart in the corner
The title page for the album has meat eyelets in the holes on top.
I really don't have much metal in my stash I guess. thought I had more than I did.

I didn't realize the "e" had fallen off the title until I looked at the picture, all fixed now

Shimelle's Challenge

2010-03-08T14:27:00.004-05:00

I will be starting Shimelle's new class On Wednesday, she gave us a challenge last week, to take pictures of our stash and post them some where, so here is mine.
Why do I have all this stuff and I don't use any where near enough of it. Hope this class helps a lot.
Can't wait to start.

2010-01-21T19:23:00.003-05:00

This is just a side view of the album, it has all different size pages in it and I worked totally from my stash
The entire album is made with chip board that I had. All the papers are SEI Chocolat except for one page of BGSultry. ll embellishments were from my stash and bite and pieces that were laying around

2010-01-21T19:22:00.002-05:00

And it is finished. Love this album and how it turned out
Shimelle thank you so much AGAIN for getting me thinking and motivated

2010-01-21T19:20:00.002-05:00

And this is the very last page on the other side of the transparency. Bottom line after doing the album is that I really do Scrapbook for myself but it is because I want to share what is in my heart and in my head with my children and grandchildren and the rest of my family. I want them to know my story

2010-01-21T19:16:00.002-05:00

The last page is a tranzparency, it is sitting on the inside of the back cover but not attached to it