Weekly CHallenge #2

Poem:

PERFECT LOVE is rare indeed

for to be a lover REQUIRES the you continually

have the SUBTLETY of very wise,

the FLEXIBILITY of a child,

the SENSITIVITY of the artist,

the UNDERSTANDING of the philosopher,

the ACCEPTANCE of the saint,

the TOLERANCE of the scholar

and the FORTITUDE of the certain

*Leo Buscaglia

Products used in this LO:

SEI Poppy PP

Scenic Route Blue and white grid PP

American Craft thickers red and lime green

Jenni Bowlin brown and cream alpha stickers

Basic Grey Off Beat letter stickers and die cut shape stickers

my own handwritting

K&Co Amy Butler die cut cardstock flower

Used Making Memories shape paper to trace and cut out my own shape paper

(This pic was taken on our 10 year anniversary a couple of years ago.)

Happy Mother's Day!

To all the Mother's I know and love. I hope you all have a great day! I hope you get pampered and spoiled throught out the day.

A poem for my MAMA!

"Mother" is such a simple word,But to me there’s meaning seldom heard.For everything I am today,My mother’s love showed me the way.
I’ll love my mother all my days,For enriching my life in so many ways.She set me straight and then set me free,And that’s what the word "mother" means to me.
Thanks for being a wonderful mother, Mom!

*By Karl Fuchs

*About Me Mini Challenge*

This is not my typical subject to scrap but, I enjoyed it very much this time around. I really took my time creating my page. I spent my whole morning painting and crackling my background pages. I don't know if you can tell but my back ground papers are from Que Sera Sera from K&Co. I then finish my page slowly through out the day when I could. A lil here and a lil there and tonight at 11: something pm I finally got it done. I am proud of my page. I used the vintage book pages to symbolize the book of me type thing. It's my story, so I think it if fitting to use the vintage book pages.
The tittle is something that I truly feel describes me.
A close up pic of the crackling I did with my background papers. That was really fun and I have 2 or 3 more pages with that technique coming up. And I cant wait to finish them up.A close up of the layering of the vintage book pages.
The flower cut out on top of my page is really a tag, disguise as part of the back ground cut out flowers. Worked out really good. Yay!
And here is my tag up close. Journal reads:

Memo

I love w/ a passion

I wear my heart on my sleeve's

I always give 100% of myself

I will act a fool to make you laugh

I don't take myself too seriously

I hate saying "NO" or don't know how

I cry over everything

I don't take anything for granted

from the desk of Michelle M. May 7th 2009

Products used in this LO:

K&Co. Que Sera Sera (green, cream with pink)

Daisy D's Lullaby (Rose and mini roses)

Vintage book pages

Heidi Swapp pink chipboard

Making Memories Paint (Manila)

Delta Cramcoat (Crackle)

Plaid Craft Paint (Rose Chaud)

ColorBox Chalk ink (Chestnut Roan)

Ribbon unknown

Nook Scrap Off Week Challenge #1

Oh man, I had so much fun creating this LO! This is a picture of my daughter when she was only 7 months old. I love this picture of her, it's one of my fave.
Products use in this LO:

Forest Friend blue polka dot PP

Heidi Swapp carefree heart PP

Vintage white Lace from AMM kit

Crate Paper glitter mia collection die cuts

Making Memories paperie poolside

October Afternoon PP

Daisy D's rub ons

Daisy D's Vine Passion Multi PP

Pink bling brad Creative Memories

pink brad and white flower HL

Butterfly cut outs Paper Studio

Adornit Carolees Creation Tiny Etched Natural Alpha

Nook Scrap Off Mini Challenge

So Scrapbook Nook is having this 5 week contest and soooo I thought, WHY NOT? I WILL DO IT! They have some amazing prizes:

Grand Prize: 6 month DT spot

1st runner up: 2 month Guess DT spot

2nd runner up: 1 month Guess DT spot

And every week of the challenges there will be some random RAK. How cool is that right?

I am not done with the first challenge yet (using 2 or more pics in a LO without changing color) so I cant post it yet, but there is the 5 pt. mini challenge that I was able to do. I chose to scraplift

DT member Susan Lui and this is her LO:

Here is take:

I used clear pages (12x12) cut to shape, an old BG paper, lots of bling (zva), flowers(HL), inking (stampin up/black), painting (MM cream), stamps (stampin up) and heat embossing. Tittle letters are from a pack I bought from Big Lots a long time ago so I am not really sure what manu its from. This LO is dedicated to our first ever house in Georgia, at the time we were selling it and wanted to remember it. I will post my other LO when I am done.

SC NSD Self Portrait Challenge

Here's a self portrait of me using candle light as my light source. I know it seems kinda dark but I kinda like it like that. LOL! Hope to finish a LO with it as well to add another chance at winning for Emily's challenge.

HAPPY NATIONAL SCRAPBOOKING WEEKEND!

Woo hooo! Is anyone else out there excited or what? I am playing along with a couple of hand full of blogs out there and my mind is going CRAAAZY! I'm loving all the challenges by far. I have so much to do and really need to get in gear if I want to have any kind of chance of winning anything. With so many of them going on I hope to at least win one thing.

Here are some of the place's I will be at online:
Studio Calico
Vintage Plum
My Scrapbook Nook
Magestical Memories
A Million Memories
Two Peas in a bucket

Don't really know how much I will be able to do, but I will sure try and if there are more out there that you think is fun please let me know. My whole weekend is dedicated to scrapping and playing along. Woot woot! Hope you all have fun too. I will be posting everything I am doing since I will have to post on the corresponding blog anyway. Now I just hope my computer wont die on me. It's been a real pain in the butt-ocks!

Forest Friends

Bought the forest friends paper pack a couple of months ago and have finally started playing with it. Now I am challenging myself to use it and use it all. I am really having fun just using up all the paper and nic nacs that come with it. That's my new motto just get it done and use it up!

Lay out 1:

LA Zoo pictures of my kids 4 years ago.

Using some more of my rub on stitching. Finally getting to use them after hoarding them for so long.

My own hand writing for the journaling spot.

Lay out 2:

These pics are so old but I really love them and wanted to scrap them. Perfect for my forest friends paper pack. Just happy I am getting it done and scrapping again.

Used some more of my old stitching rub ons. Been holding on to that stuff for so many years now. So glad I am finding ways to use it on my LO's.
Trying really hard to use up all those little journaling, letters and little add ons on that paper pack. I have 3 more LO's I finished last night from a last minute crop at a friends house. I still need to take some pics, so I will post those once I get the pics done.

My Little Shoebox Stuff!

A few of the stuff I have done this past couple of weeks that I have been too lazy to post. Nothing much, just simple stuff I created using some old stuff and freebies. I have been really challenging myself to use a lot of old stuff, old pics and things that I have purchased or hoarded. So as to not feel bad that I spent the money in the first place.

Cards:
Lay Out 1:

By far my fave PP they have. A Little Birdie Told Me. I had so much fun playing with this PP. I thought I was not gonna be able to play with this at all but ended up loving it the most.

cut up the paper and used the saying for my journaling

Cut out all the birds in the cages and rearranged them in my page to use as accent or totally different look to the PP.

Lay out 2:

used my own hand writing for the journaling.

Lay out 3:

This LO is about Isabella's first time eating baby food (peas). I love these pics of her, she looked sooo little! Aaw my baby!

layered MLS sheers and buttons.

cut out PP and created a border effect on one side of LO. I used the same paper in different ways. I hate wasting paper so I try to use as much of it as I can.

I really challenged myself, making these pages. I wanted to layer them and use as much of the stuff as I can. Finding ways to use all the stuff was a fun and challenging. I am doing this to all my products now. To see how much of it I can use up so I wont end up hoarding it or holding on to it. Just getting stuff done. Fun!

Seriously?

Has it really been that long ago since I posted? Holy crap, where does time go?

I do have to admit that it's been really nice not to be attached to my computer. I find that I get to do a lot more things...... or not a thing at all and not feel bad. So computer time is at a premium so I have to maximize and really just look at or do what I need to do when I do get on. It's sad too, cuz I have really not been able to talk to friends or hang out at sites which I used to do everyday and now I don't at all! But I do try and make it up and log on here in there to say hello when I can. ; )

It's been pretty crazy here as far as our family schedule. Our normal routine is totally OFF and out of whack! It's nothing like Georgia. First off Isaac heads to school a lil early and gets home way too early for me. Like 2:30 pm instead of the 4:30 pm I am used to in Ga. I cant really do anything and if I head out at all I find that I don't have enough time to get to and get back without cutting it close and stressing about it so I choose to stay home. Jorge is getting up at 5:00 am and out the door 5:30 and 5:45 am and I usually get up with him to make his coffee and make sure he remembers to bring everything. (yea I know, he will forget everything if I don't remind him) LOL! But really besides helping him get ready....it is the only time I have with him through out the whole week. So I choose to get up and have that time with him. He has been working late and when he gets home he is too tired and then have to get online to do homework for the 2 classes he has taken. UGH! Hopefully we will get a more suitable and comfortable routine so its not too crazy. I have to bring my hubby dinner tonight at work since he has a 24 hour duty so it sucks...but he should be off tomorrow. I doubt he will take it tho since he is swamped at work and I bet he will go in anyway. ACK!

Anyway just checking in, cant really post any of the stuff I have been doing since my computer is acting up on me and I am having to use the laptop to get online. I have so many projects going on or I have taken on its killing me. But at least I have some stuff to show as soon as I can get my computer to stay on long enough to download some pics. See ya!