Some Good Mojo!

I am so happy! I finally got a good dose of creative mojo going today. I wanted to finally finish scrapping our trip to San Diego. I did it! Not only did I just "get er done", I took my time and completely enjoyed scrapping today!
This first one was the last one I completed. I apologize for the poor lighting, but it was after 9 PM when I got it done and I had to take it into the bathroom to get a picture of it. I was just so excited that I had to get it up ASAP! Almost everything I used on it is CTMH. It is about my very favorite glasses (COACH) and the last time I wore them. I am trying to make an effort to journal more on my pages. The journal on this talks about how I was waiting for the elevator at our hotel in San Diego and my glasses fell off my head. I just picked them up and put them back on totally ignoring that my vision was weird. I walked along the boardwalk, sat at the pool, and even met some executives (big wigs at my husband's business meeting) with the glasses on. I could not understand why people would give me funny looks or just look away. I soon discovered that one of the lens must have popped out when I dropped them because I only had one left! I must have looked like a modern day pirate or something with one eye covered!

This LO was also done with CTMH. Only, the main page I used was one of those pages that have slots for your pictures. Well, I HATE those types of pages, but really liked the colors on it so made it work! The green tag is actually glossy CS that I alcohol inked on and then stamped with stazon ink for the image. I really like how this one turned out as well! I love the boardwalk and that is what the journal discuses.

Thanks for looking and laughing! Haha! :-)

A Few New Ones

We had this picture taken in Texas. I did a swap where we made a monthly page in which we left a spot for a photo and journal. I made this page for the swap.

Believe it or not, I have been planing this page for quite some time. I don't know if I like how it has turned out yet...

I love these pictures of Cider (our Golden) and knew Origins Basic Grey would work well with them. I am not a Basic Grey fan, but I am taking a class at my LSS to learn how to use them. This is made with some of the extra stuff from the class.

Ruth, from my swap, actually created this page. I just slapped a picture of my son, Parker, on it and did some journaling. I am HORRIBLE at journaling and trying to improve that. Ironic because I love to use words, but I hate my hand writing. I am really insecure about it. I don't want to type all the journaling because it is important that future generations see the pages as authentic as possible.

I like this LO! The story on it is kind of funny. These are the eggs that we colored this year at my sister's house. She boiled 84 eggs! There were five children and 4 adults supervising, but after the first 60 eggs the kids bailed! It left the adults to do the rest of the coloring. LOL!

This is the LO I made in the BG class. I usually don't do two page LO's, but this turned out good. It is about our family date night to the hockey game!

TFL!

3 Layouts

When we were in San Diego I fell in love with these painted murals all over the streets there! So, I used a Prima Paintable and came up with this LO. I think it is hot.....

Why did I do a LO on a shoe? Well, because I LOVED this shoe! I wanted this shoe, but they were out of it in my size. I have looked all over for one just like it and I can't find any. So, in memory of the shoe I did this LO! I know, I am crazy....truth of the matter is I had the PP an stuff that I wanted to use and the picture matched.

More painted murals. It was late when I got this one done and it really makes no sense.

Thanks Marinka!

I got my second and final swap kit for the month. It came from my friend Marinka. She made this beautiful kit with pinks, browns, and greens. Now, granted this kit would be quite lovely for LOs of my daughter (which I have lots of to do!), but did I do that? Nope! I actually used it with pictures of my youngest son who is all boy and I love the way it turned out! I am even going to use this kit to document him riding his bike for the first time. TFL!

4 New Ones

I went to my LSS and saw this fantastic 7 gypsie stuff and Melody Ross (I think that is the name. It is a new company)and new I had to have it! The CS is Bazil swiss dots from my stash.

The next three LOs are made with the kit Tara sent me. I have done a total of five form her kit and there is still a lot left over. I am really loving playing with suck a colorful collection of goodies. On the prima paintable I used watercolor pencils, water pencil crayons, Glimmer Mist, and Smooches. I had never used Smooches before and did not know what the big deal was about it, but I LOVE it!

Junk to Art

What do you get when you give an artist an old frame, beat up dictionary, a few vintage buttons, and sheet music?




This:


I made this last night in about three hours. Isn't it beautiful? I wanted to make it for my purple scrap studio, but when I finished it my family wanted to see it every day too! I was so touched by how much they liked it! It is now happily hanging on a wall for all to see! :-)

Sweet Time

I am a pretty quick scrapper, but this week I have been so slow. It is like I am taking my sweet time and I don't have a lot of it!

It took me all day to complete this LO and I don't know why so long. I painted the hearts, back stitched them, glimmer misted the page, and used flowers from my flower swap on this.

We had a swap at OSU where we out together a kit from our stash and mailed it to another lady. This LO is made from the kit Tara put together for me. I made the flower on the cricut and used the metallic rubs she sent on the flower and glimmer misted it.

A close up of the flower.

TFL!