Night shift

Typical... I'm up later than I should be. I was scheduled to work tonight and was cancelled. This is good and bad. Nice to have the night off, but bad after you've spent the afternoon sleeping in anticipation of working. So the house is silent and I found some mojo to scrap.

Here is the page I made tonight. It was fun to scrap with this color scheme - I hardly ever use purple, which is weird, since it's one of my favorite colors.





I'm so happy to announce that I was chosen for the new DT at the kit club, Scrappy Girls Designs. This LO will accompany my bio on the website there. Congrats to Stacey, Tara, Nikki, Sarah, and Origin! I'm excited to design with this group of talented ladies & can't wait to get my first kit. The other cool part of this position is that I'll be designing 8.5 x 11 pages. This is a size I only started working with about 6 months ago, but really enjoy doing. Amber puts together some beautiful kits, so I'm stoked!

More good news since I last posted ...

Debbie at Crop Addict contacted me and asked me to fill a vacant position on the Creative Team there. Woohoo! Of course, I jumped at the opportunity to work with all the talented ladies there. I was inspired to create this card after Creative Team member Kim Hackworth posted a tutorial there on using alcohol inks.

More Projects to share...

Here is a layout I made for Midnight Oil Scrapbook Designs. The title is one of their stackers, which I inked and then layered over a Technique Tuesday tile.
This is little Tommy - who is three now. Where does the time go?

Speaking of MOSD - here is a sneak peek of a mini I made for them - you'll want to get your hands on one of these albums!

Here is the page I made for last week's STM song. I dug into my Bad Girls kit for much of this page:

And finally, here's one I did just for fun the other night - I added some Making Memories Chelsea Place papers to my Bad Girls kit and came up with this:

Mike is always such a goofball and makes silly faces at me when I try to take his picture, so it was a treat to get a few normal shots of him!

Scrapping like crazy!

I've been scrapping a LOT lately. I took the night off tonight, though, and watched a movie with Mike. We watched Mr Brooks, with Kevin Costner & Demi Moore.
What a cool flick - so many subplots and little twists, but not hard to follow. If you haven't seen it - rent it!

Anyway, here's a page I made with the gorgeous Kaiser Crafts papers from Scrapper's Haven. My inspiration was the lyrics to the song, "A Woman's Work" which is this week's challenge at Scrapping the Music.

Speaking of Scrapper's Haven - be sure to sign up to play in the Iron Chef 4 contest, coming soon! The grand prize is...

A Clip It Up by Simply Renee!

You can check them out here:
http://www.clipitup.com/

Isn't that an amazing prize? You can't win if you can't play!

I have more projects to share, but I can't seem to get the insert photo link to work right now, so I suppose tomorrow is another day.

Bad Blogger

Wow, has it really been this long since I've updated here? Time has slipped away from me the past several weeks. Let's see, what's been going on...

Well, first and foremost, good news with Dad today. His MRI last week still shows only one small area in the liver that has not changed since his last scan, and he appears to be cancer free everywhere else. Thank God, it's hard to believe it's been a year already. He is so strong and determined. I'm always amazed by him.

The flu came and descended upon our house for a few weeks - I was the first victim. One by one, the kids became ill. Poor Colin had it the worst. Mike was ill last week, then little Tommy the other day. But I have to say - here's testament to the flu shot. I had one from work, and the youngest two did too, because of their ages. We three were the least ill of the bunch. So next year, be sure to do the right thing!

Winter has been challenging here too - ice storms, power outages and flooded basements, all while Mike was laid up. Hurry up spring!

We picked up our new dog, Harley at the end of January. He is such a good boy, but still very much a pup, who needs lots of time and attention.



Check out this cool guy who came to visit in our yard not too long ago:


Oh, and I did manage to slip some scrapping in here and there...



and some fun Valentine's cards with goodies from Couture Scrapbooking:




and since this is starting to get a bit long, just a couple more...

Love this song - done for Scrapping the Music:



and this one, done for a Love Elsie product challenge: