Hello everyone, how has the snow been treating you all? The way I look at it, it's moisture and we need it badly. Spring will finally be here to stay soon, I hope! I have done a double page layout in Close to My Heart products, one of my daughters sell it I think Mom is her best customer!! Oh well, I also have been working on a day planner I will give you a peek at it not totally done it as yet but it is coming. My old planner follows the school year, I know all my kids are done school now old habits die hard ya know, hope you like the pictures and hopefully helps you all to make something. Bye for now.
Karen

Hello everyone how are you all doing? I am fine just about frozen with this silly weather we are having, I think I seen summer as it passed by in two days, I am hoping for more warm days. We don't mind the rain but the snow can go away now this is getting to be rediulous. Anyhow, I just bought a cuttlebug and a couple of the embossing folders off of e-bay, so I should be able to do some funky things for scrapbooking hopefully. I do have a coulpe of new pages done but I still have to take pictures of them to put them on here and I am patiently waiting for a package from Lisa's Scrap Shack, it should be here any day now. So I will have more for you then. Also I am working on a project right now it probably take a couple of weeks for me to finish it's a bigger one. Anyways I should run and get ready for bed have to work tommorow see ya soon.
Karen

Early Happy Mother's Day to all of you who are mothers. Well Jessica and I went to a local greenhouse today and bought some flowers for my pots. She surprised me with a beautiful pot of flowers from her and the other 3 children I have. I love flowers, I guess it goes along with the love of colors, because I wanted to buy all of the hanging baskets it was hard to pick with one I loved the most. And how here are a couple of new pages of my cute little granddaughter, my supplies came from Lisa's Scrap Shack and have you noticed that she has her cardstock on 20% off!! That a good deal check it out at http://www.lisasscrapshack.com see ya all.
Karen


Materials: Cardstock, brads - Bazzill: patterned paper - Three Bugs in a Rug, Basic Grey: gems - Peggy's pretties: rub-ons - Daisy D's: transparencies - Hambly Screen Prints: ribbon - American Crafts: words - unknown

Materials: cardstock - Bazzill: patterned paper - Fancy Pants Designs, 7 Gypsies: rub-ons - Fancy Pants Designs: snap - We R Memory Keepers: paint - Making Memories: letters - Heidi Swapp: pen - White Gellyroll(sakura)

Lisa's Scrap shack challegne

Well Hello everyone I'm late on my blogging again but I'm here now. Lisa sent us some questions to answer and a challenge to do here is mine:
1.Family Status?
I have been married for 21 years to my loving devoted husband Grant. We have 4 beautiful children:
- Josh who is 24 and is engaged to be married Aug 1, 2010 to Candace and their little girl Gem.
- Sarah who is 20 and lives with her boyfriend John
- Amanda who is going to be 19 soon and is living with her brother and his family right now to go to college in the fall, she has a boyfriend named Kyle.
- Jessica who is going to be 19 soon (yes they are twins) and she lives at home still and is going out with Tony.
- Duchess our loving puppy of 5 years. Yes she is my baby!

2.What inspires you?
Many things inspire me, I love colors, shapes, and putting all different things together. I get ideas from looking at magazines, quilt patterns and just sitting with a paper and pencil watching and thinking as the birds and bugs fly by.

3.What time of day are you most creative?
I would have to say morning because I have my coffee in my hand and the juices are flowing through my head after a good nights sleep dreaming about what a page needs to finish it.

4.What three tool can you not live without?
I could not live without my:
a) paper piercer - I just hate when you go to put in a brad or something and the tabs bend back without a hole punched out for them.
b) circut machine - I love how I can make all my letters. I LOVE letters!!
c) making memories paper cutter - I love how big it is and it is self sharping. Never have a dull blade, love it.

5.What came first the chicken or the egg?
I have to say the chicken because God created all living creatures, which in turn laid a egg.

How that for ya and here is my project for you to see hope you like it and it helps you all to have inspirations for a layout or project of your own :)





Materials used:
canvas - Canvas Concepts
paint - making memories and Ranger
felt accents and flowers and pebbles - Prima
cardstock - Bazzill
Pattern paper - Crate Paper
glittler - SparkleNSprinkle
bookplate - Cose to my Heart
ribbon - American Craft and unknown
trinket pins - Tim Holz
journaling notes - 7 gypsies and Creative Imaginations
big brads and chipboard letters - unknown

April showers bring May flowers

Happy May to everyone, well the snow is finally gone (I hope) and the flowers that are planted up here at Lac La Biche that I had transplanted from Calmar, are starting to pop up. Hopefully this year is dryer than last year so we can get some landscaping done before the snow falls again. Anyhow enjoy the summer coming and the birds chirping and flowers blooming, I have some new layouts done but I have been so busy at work that I have not got pictures taken of them yet. I will get them posted by Monday. As well I will have a Design Team challenge done and posted by then as well, so you all come back by Monday and see whats new.
Karen