I won an award!

WOW!  Judy Bagwell from the ...just being Judy blog.  Thank you Judy!! This "award" is given to bloggers with fewer than 200 followers.  It is really just a nice way to recognize "up and coming" bloggers and help them get noticed.

The rules of this award are:
1.Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog.
2. Link back to the blogger who presented the award to you.
3. Copy and paste the blog award on your blog.
4. Present the Liebster Blog Award to 3-5 blogs with 200 followers or less that you feel deserve to be noticed.
5. Let them know they have been chosen.

It's time for me to nominate the blogs that I feel should be noticed and mine are all crafty blogs:

Lynn Murphy

Cindy

Jen Chapin 

Stacy Rodriquez 

Woohoo...check them out! 

Scrap 'N Chat DT call

Yep...we need a few more chatty scrapers that are willing to post a challenge or two for us.

We are a simple, stress free, supportive, and fun site!  And we need your help!

If you love to scrap and you love to chat, then you have what it takes.
The requirements for our Chatty Challenge Chicks are the following:
***Post your challenge on its assigned day....1st or 15th.
***Acknowledge the members that participate in your challenge with a little love.
***Participate on the boards.   We don't have a post count requirement.  But we don't want you to post your challenge and the disappear until next month.

Come check out the site...Scrap 'N Chat

So if you are willing to commit to the above and wish to share your love for this hobby (therapy) then let us know.  Send an email to scrapnchat12@gmail.com.  Please include:
***your vitals -- name, email, blog addy.
***2 of your favorite projects
*** and why you'd like to be a Chatty Challenge Chick.

We will be accepting applications now through the 15th.
Woohoo!  Can't wait to hear from you!

August 1st challenges

Yep..it is the first which means a bunch of new challenges over at Scrap 'N Chat!  Oh yeah.  I'm challenging you all with One Little Word...OLW.  I chose another easy one this month.  Celebrate/Celebration.  We all do it.  We all take pictures at these events.  So bust them out, scrap about them and link them up over at Scrap 'N Chat (link on the side of my blog)

And to get your creative juices flowing...Here is a sample.  I used the word Celebration.

 Also...I was using celebration papers, so it was easy to bust out a couple of birthday cards!  I love having these in my stash.  Oh Yeah!

 

Pinterest inspiration

So...I'm a big fan of pinterest.  It is such a beautiful thing.  What a great way to save all the scrappy inspiration I see on the net.  The problem is that I pin more than I create...seems that way.  But this weekend, I actually created.  

I found this on the AC blog and thought I'd make one for each of the kids.

Totally cool, right?

So I was packing up for The Scrapbooking Studio's Christmas in July crop and found these absolutely adorable BoBunny papers and I knew they would be perfect for Max's.  Of course, I had to make one for Kelly also.

So check out what I created from my pin!  Woohoo!!!

Slip and Slide

Lynn challenged us to use those transparencies and I was all over it!  I have a bunch of Fancy Pants ones and knew these slip and slide photos would work with them.  I love the movement I created with the photos.  And who knew you could get 8 photos on a one page layout!

And thanks to Diana for the card/layout challenge.  She has challenged us to create at least 2 cards from the scraps of our layouts!  What a great challenge.  I had been in the habit of this a while ago and for some reason stopped.  I'm so glad Diana gave me the nudge to get it started again!

House Split

I had these really cute photos of Kelly in a Bears cheer outfit and Max decked out in Browns gear.  How perfect is it that he is not happy about that!  LOL!!  Check it out...I used a Simple Stories boy line.  Very fun papers!

I also put together a couple of masculine birthday cards from the scraps.

Happy Birthday and July Challenges

Sheesh!  I haven't posted since June 15th!  What a crazy month it has been for me.  From vacation, to BBQ's, to my birthday...crazy busy.  So here I am to catch up.

Today is my Mother In Law's birthday.  Happy Birthday Jackie...I hope you have a wonderful day.  This card will make it into the mail tomorrow!

Next is my July 1st OLW challenge.  The word I chose was VACATION.  I thought it was a great word since I had these old photos and we were about to leave on one.

And finally, my July 15th challenge... Choose a layout from your past and lift it.  It could be one you love or one that was in the "Thank goodness it is done" category.  I chose one from the latter category.  I had wanted to try the SU! watercolor crayons and I thought these coloring egg photos would be perfect.  I had fun creating the swirls and coloring, but in the end I thought the layout ended up too heavy on the right.  I should have done something on the left to balance it out.  (created June 19, 2009)

So I thought I'd try again.  I used water color pencils this time.