Pages from the Heart

challenge 3

2009-06-26T09:43:00.005-06:00

Well it's been a long time since i have blogged on here, we have been super busy. We have just over 1/2 way of our deck all framed out, and the deck goes all the way around the house and is about 10 feet off the ground at the back because of the walk out basement. Also I went to Edmonton last Monday and picked up my nephew off the plane, and he is staying with us for a month, so that is exciting for us to have time with him. But I will not bore you any longer and put my challenge 3 on the web for you. This challenge was hard for me because we were to use stamps and I'm not really into to much stamping. But here it goes:

Materials used on project:
chipboard shapes - 7 Gypsies, Bazzill
pattern paper - WeR Memory Keepers, Cosmo Cricket
stamps - CTMH and Cat's Life
Ink - CTMH
pens - At you Spica, Zig
stickers - Sandylion, Beary Patch
journaling card - WeR Memory Keepers
photo turns - Tim Holz
embossing powder - CTMH

where does all the time go?

2009-06-14T08:47:00.002-06:00

Happy Sunday, thought I would type a quick post to you all to let you know I still exists. We have been so busy with building our decks on Friday we poured 43 out of 44 piles we were short on concrete so now instead of having another truck come we will just mix it ourselves and get it poured. We also have a friend who is losing his wife right now to cancer and we are looking after his place for him, God bless his heart if you have time please say a small prayer for him. Today I have to clean the house and hopefully I can have some time to do some scraping this afternoon. Josh my son had sent me some new pictures of my beautiful granddaughter on her bike going to the park, they live in Calgary so far away from me. Oh well that is OK I know they miss me too(I think anyhow, lol). Well I will let you run and hopefully I will get something posted for you today or tomorrow. Bye :)
Karen

New week

2009-06-07T20:54:00.004-06:00

Here a quick layout I did, my beautiful daughter is not going to like this layout to much but she will get over it. Not to sure on how much I am going to get to scrapbook or blog this week, because Grant is coming home on Wednesday and he is taking one of his weeks of holidays off, so that means he will be home for 3 weeks straight and we are going to be starting to build the decks. I can not wait until we are finished this house I am getting tired of always having to do some sort of finishing or something, I will never build a new home again!!

Material used:
cardstock - Bazzill
patterned paper - Basic Grey
fabric words - 7 gypsies
rub-ons - DCWV
chipboard letters - Crape Paper

Challenge 2

2009-06-06T13:14:00.005-06:00

Well Hello again, I'm not very good at keeping up to my blog page. So sorry about that, the Design team for Lisa's Scrap Shack has received their 2nd challenge, it was to make a monochromatic project so I have finished mine.

the materials I have used for this challenge is as follows:
gems - Peggy's Pretties
patterned paper - Basic Grey
cardstock - Bazzill
ribbon - Cosmo Cricket and unknown
flowers - Prima
brads - Bo Bunny, Bazzill, DCWV
ribbon charm - Queen and Company
stickers - Sticko
acrylic swirl - Bo Bunny
acrylic flowers - Recollections
glitter lace - We R memory keepers
rub-ons - Heidi Grace
Seen you Later
Karen

2009-05-20T20:20:00.007-06:00

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

2009-05-14T19:58:00.002-06:00

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

2009-05-09T19:07:00.004-06:00

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

2009-05-06T13:28:00.009-06:00

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

2009-05-01T20:36:00.002-06:00

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

2009-04-24T20:43:00.000-06:00

2009-04-12T19:01:00.004-06:00

Happy Easter to all!! Hope your all having a hopping good time. Grant and I got home last night from Calgary around 10:30 pm what a long 2 days moving my girl down to Calgary with her brother and his to be wife. Yes I had a few tears happening when I had to drive away, but I know she is OK. On the up side of things got to have lots of fun with my little granddaughter, I just love her to pieces. And yes Gem didn't want Grandma and Grandpa to leave as well, but as Grandma got over it Gem will to. Well here are a couple of new pages for you and I have a new mini book starting to cook, so keep watching it will be done and out soon!!

Karen

cardstock - Bazzill

pattern paper - Cosmo Cricket

rub-ons - My Minds Eye

brads - Close to My Heart

chipboard - unknown

cardstock -Bazzill

pattern paper - Cosmo Cricket

stamp and ink - Cl0se to my Heart

2009-04-07T17:09:00.003-06:00

I think it's finally springtime, there are lots of Canadian Geese flocking this way. I love to hear the geese in the springtime, can not wait to see the flowers coming though. Any how until then here are some more pages for you all to see.

Karen

cardstock - Bazzill

patterned paper, stickers, titles - Cosmo Cricket

cardstock - Bazzill

patterned paper, stickers, ribbon - Cosmo Cricket

letters - Grunge Board (Tim Holz, Advantage)

2009-04-06T20:20:00.003-06:00

Well that was a busy weekend, Sarah and John, Linda and Kai, and Tony all came up for the weekend. Grant and a few others got 5 of the 7 doors put in, in the basement now the floor in the bathroom and the trim. Not to much time to be scrapbooking though here are a few new page

layouts for you to see. Hope ya like them.

Karen

cardstock -Bazzill

pattern paper, tag, rub-on - My Mind's Eye

transparencies - Little yellow Bicycle

ink - Close to my Heart

pen - Gellyroll

staples - unknown

cardstock - Bazzill

pattern paper - Making Memories and Cosmo Cricket

letters- Grunge Board (Tim Holz, Advantage)

2009-04-01T20:00:00.003-06:00

pattern paper - Elsie, My Minds Eye, Making Memories

cardstock - Bazzill

embellishments - Peggie's Pretties, Heidi Swapp, Close to my Heart, Bazzill

chipboard - K and Company

ribbon - Cosmo Cricket, American Crafts, unknown

rub-ons - Close to my Heart, Royal Brush Mfg, My Minds Eye

Here is a little mini album I have designed out of materials that Lisa sent to me for being on her design team. You should check out her web site and on line store at Lisa's scrap shack just google it and it will come up. Hope you like my book.

Karen

2009-03-28T12:00:00.004-06:00

cardstock - Bazzill , Printed Paper - Cosmo Cricket, Brads - Close to my heart and Chatterbox, ink - Close to my Heart, Paint - Making Memories, grunboard - Tim Holz Advantage, flower - Heidi Swapp

cardstock - Bazzill, Patterned paper, stickers - Cosmo Cricket, chipboard letters, rub-ons - unknown, paint - Making Memories, liquid glass - Close to my Heart

cardstock - Bazzill, Patterned paper - Cosmo Cricket, pen - Gellyroll (sakura), button - unknown, embleshments, and ribbon - Close to my Heart

Beautiful day today, the sun is shining and my wonderful husband, daughter and her boyfriend are laying the flooring in the basement today. It is looking really nice. My other daughter and her boyfriend are spreading gravel in the yard, it is starting to become a soup hole with the snow melting. But that means the flowers will soon be here. I have some new layouts for you and I am working on a new mini album that I received from my design team work. So here it goes:

2009-03-26T21:41:00.002-06:00

Well the winners are posted, and I'm one of them. Yayaya, I'm so excited to be a winner and be on a design team for Lisa's Scrap Shack. There are 4 other Ladies as well as myself you will have to check out our projects, layouts, and cards. Congrats to everyone who sent in projects and congrats to the winners, I'm sure we all will have lots of fun scrappin' for Lisa. I will be posting a new project this weekend for you all.

2009-03-22T17:32:00.003-06:00

Well hello, long time since I have wrote to all of you. Grant and I had a very nice visit when we went to Lucky Lake, SK this last weekend. We stop in Delisle, SK. and visited some old friends there on Friday and Saturday we headed south to Lucky Lake and stayed at Grant's parents house. We seen his family and then on Sunday morning we headed over to my Grandmother's home for a bunch and a visit with her, then on Monday afternoon we headed out to Provost, AB and stayed with friends there and had a great time. But I'm glad to be home again and Grant and the girls worked in the basement finishing up on the wainscoting and painting. Now comes the flooring, we are getting closer I'm so excited for the basement to be done. I'm really starting to believe I'm getting older because my little boy has turned 24 this year how time flies, but that is OK because that means I should have some little grandchildren :) I know don't rush them. But I should run and give you some more pages to this mini book, talk to you all later.

Karen

2009-03-13T08:41:00.002-06:00

Good Morning, not to much new in my world we are now painting with color in the basement. I can not wait to start moving into my new craft room. Grant and I are off this weekend to Lucky Lake, SK and it sounds like there will be about another 12-15 cm of snow by the time we get home. Oh well spring is around the corner, and here are some more pages for you to see. :)

2009-03-11T10:05:00.004-06:00

oh my I have to start blogging more often, anyhow we are now on the painting stag of our basement. I so excited to be able to stay cleaning up things and have things in order, yayayayayyaya. But I promised you some more pages the other day and didn't get it done so here they are. Have a good day and I am going to try to post again tomorrow!!

2009-03-04T20:46:00.002-07:00

Hello I've been behind lately here. Back on track, I'm so excited for the weekend to come we get to paint our basement, or I guess I should say prime it but hey that's better one more step ahead to a finished basement. Tomorrow I am going to try and upload the rest of the mini book I have made and I should find some pictures to put in it. Have to run now and we will talk tomorrrow. Bye Karen

2009-03-01T18:19:00.004-07:00

Well that weekend slipped by without me knowing it even happened. Did not get to much of anything done, but my loving husband and youngest daughter got some of the beadboard put up on the basement stairwell today. The basement is coming slowly, it will get there soon I hope. Having supper tonight I looked out the padio doors and there were two deer watching the house, I loving living in the country with all the wildlife, so out came the camera of coarse and took a hundred photos because you can always delete what you don't want. Anyhow more pictures to work with and now I know more about Photoshop it should be good. Well we will be talking to you all tomorrow bye :)

2009-02-28T17:45:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone how are ya all doing? Well today I attended a Photoshop Elements coarse and enjoyed it very much, look out pictures here I come. It is fairly cold up here again I am hoping spring will come soon so we can go out and take pictures of the flowers growing and start the yard work. Anyhow got to run talk to you all later. :) Karen

Introduction

2009-02-27T20:23:00.000-07:00

Hello people, this is the first time I have ever blogged. So I hope you are ready for this. I am hoping to be able to blog twice a week. So keep coming back and see what I have added or what has happened. Here is a little mini album I made I will add the other pages later. So you will have to come and see me if you want more!! So I will be seeing you later:)