Christmas 2002

Here is another trivia ?  Do you know what paper this is??  Cloud 9-you guessed it!!  I just had to use ribbon and then I went Stickle crazy--how amazing the l/0 looks after using the differ color Stickles.  Now I see I will have to have all the colors!!  Alexis was so little in this l/0-she is only 2 yrs old.  Oh, how time flies--she is 7 yrs old 

Christmas 2004

Do you recognize this paper??  It's Basic Grey Dasher line!! Yes, I hand cut again--I think I am addicted.  I used 4 differ papers from that line-yes, hand cut those too!!  Love IT!!

Almost the last day of the year

Hey bloggers, it's Tuesday night, Dec 30--OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!  Can you believe it??  I am wondering where the time went to and already starting thinking of what I have planned for next year.  Well, I am off to a good start.  I just changed my blog--by myself--thank you very much!!!  HA!!!  I even added the map and counter all by myself!!  Wendy, Monica and Connie--aren't you proud!!  

I have another 2 l/o's to share and getting more organizing done--wait till you see what I did with my Stickles!!  Lisa G, now I know why you are so addicted to Stickles!!!!   

I wish everyone a safe and happy new year and may you scrap till you drop!!  

Happy Scrappin'

Powder Pink Christmas 2003

It is Saturday evening and it is storming outside and I am thinking how relaxing the sound of raindrops are with my Barbara Streisand playing on my computer and I finished another l/o.   Oh, how great life is right now!!  I am on a mission to catch up on pics of Alexis with Santa and her dancing @ Acadiana Village the past 2 years.  

She was so cute all in pink with her pink puffy muffler in these pics-she was only 2 yrs old.  I used some old Scenic Route paper, Hambly rub ons, Fancy Pants chipboard, Prima bling and journaling card.  

Alexis's first touch of snow

good evening scrappers!!Monday has come and gone and with all the things it did today-- I am really in a fabulous mood to stay up late again (till 1:30 every night since Friday).  My mom, Alexis (the only neice) and myself.  We continued our cookie baking tradition at my house.  I lit the fireplace to make it warm and toasty while we were like elves in the Fournet bakery. Alexis even was able to use her x-mas cookie cuter to make just enough for all the guests coming to my house on Christmas day.  

Here is another l/o I completed today--- oh, a l/0 in one day must be a new record!  I only had 3 pics which were NOT taken by me so this is what I had to work with!!  My sister new that she had to have pics taken-she now knows the importance of Nanny taking pics of any event!!  I used a new way to work with riboon, and got to love those basic gray rub ons.  I put them on my title ghost letters, Prima flowers and Techinque Tuesday chipboard.  I inked some with Versamagic Coffee bean and LAST but not least ----bling and the Robin's Nest pebbles for the center of the flowers.  Did you notice that  I HANDCUT another scroll from the Bohemian line from MME and used Prima bling to pizzazzzzzzz it some more.  Hope you like it!  

Alexis and Nanny

Alex's First Hair Cut

Well, I have finally completed this l/0.  Yes, look very carefully, I HAND CUT (no exacto knife) the scrolls!!!  This was Bizous paper and I have been dying to use it so here it is.  I do love hand cutting--did you know that???  I used some old flower brads, flowers, ribbon and Robin's Nest pebbles for the inside of the flowers and added dimension on the polka dot ribbon.  Do you recognize the puzzle pieces?   I told Connie that this was going to be my first l/0 with "white space"  HA!!!! DIDN'T HAPPEN, oh well, I guess I will have to do it on another l/o.   Treasured Memories received some of the Tim Holtz tools that I have been waiting forever for--yes, I bought all 3 and LOVE, LOVE, LOVE them.  thanks, janet!!

I have been on an organizing extravaganza--Monica, you will be so proud but I think I am out of control!!  I have another day off tomorrow so after my mom, Alexis and I finish baking syrup cookies--yum, yum, I will begin another l/o unless I found something else to organize!  I will take more pics of my room soon --since I have already done more stuff.

Have a fabulous week and may every scrapper have a great holiday and take many pics.  

I also want to send out a special thank you to all of you who have taken my classes this year.  I really love teaching and really appreciate you taking my classes.  I hope to bring you some really cool stuff in the new year!

Project for my scrapbook room

I used a 12 x12 frame to put together the "M" project.  I just love it and it was a great way to use some of the many alphabets I have "in stock"! Ha! Ha!  It is now hanging in my new scrapbook room.

Organizing my new Circuit Cartiridges

Yet, here is another organizing tip.  This idea comes from Lori in Monroe!  She was ever so nice to share this great idea!  Since I am a new owner of a Circuit Expression, I just had to "scraplift" her idea!!  I handmade the folder to separate each cartridge and store the cartridges in the bottom part of the container!  Of Course, I have not made the tabs for the folders yet but that is my last step! Of course, they will be in alphabetical order and will match the pink divider folders!     

Organizing my inks!

I have been in an organizing mode all weekend and here is another little option.  If you are like me--how aggravated do you get searching for the right color ink??  I printed all the names of my Tim Holtz Distress Inks, inked the tags and glued them onto the case so that I can read what color each case is, know what the color looks like and find it with ease! Yipee!!!!!!!!!!!    I am so excited I did this!!  

More and more organization

I created this bulletin board for my new scraproom.  I painted it black and added ribbon, flowers and bling! I hung it under my cabinets! I just love it! I almost hated to put things on it!!

Hey Scrapbook world!!!  it's been awhile since I blogged--I just seem to find other things to do or organizing my large  inventory of scrapbooking things!!!!  Maybe one day-I will be talented like Monica and Wendy and have blogs fancy like theirs!!! Monica i have some more organizing tips to share!!!! 

I want to send out a very special holiday cheer to everyone and may you have less stress, take great pics and don't over eat and be miserable!!  Yes, you know I had to add that little health piece of advice!!  So here is another tip---think twice, eat once!!!  Ask yourself do you really NEED that second serving???

Thanks to everyone who views my blog.  I have been working on another l/o and can you believe it is an intricate piece of hand cutting???? Imagine that????????I should be posting it soon!

Hello Scrapbook World, well, I have just gotten home for our last D.T. meeting of 2008. The night ends with mixed emotions.  I am filled with sadness, joy and excitement.  The sadness that the year has come to a close and it seems it went by soooo very fast.  The joy and anticipation of the next team.  The excitement is to watch the 2008 D.T. blogs and see how they continue to grow as great scrapbookers.

I want to send out a big thank you to the girls for the beautiful gift of flowers (which I love and they are already in my scraproom!!) and the beautiful Fleur de Leis necklace. Just love it.  Thanks so much for a great year we had. Everyone grew sooooo much as a scrapper and we had our share of stories and laughter!!  Keep scrapping, blogging and always remember to "Think Outside The Box!"

Keep your ears and eyes open for the announcement of the new 2009 D.T for T.M. coming soon!!

It's Sunday evening and another weekend has flown by wayyyyyyyy too fast! Completed two l/0's this weekend and even taught a HDYDT class!  This is a big accomplishment for me since I take FOREVER to complete a l/o!  Hope you enjoy the l/o's and keep on scrapping.

Look for dates for another HDYDT class and my new Dec Glimmer Mist book!

Have a fabulous week!

1st Grade School Picture

Another l/0 in one weekend! yipee! This is Alexis school pic from 1st grade.  I just add to use flower and ribbon, with a touch of bling from Glitz and Hambly Rub-ons

Imagine that! HA!

Fun Times @ Nannys

Does this l/o look familiar to anyone???  I have had this l/0 waiting to be finished for maybe 2 years now--OMG!!  It is a Connie D.E. l/o and I was determined to add pics and finish it this weekend!  I used some alphabets I have had FOREVER!!  I do have a problem of adding to many pics but she is so cute and we were having fun on one of our "Nanny Friday nights in 2004!  Oh how much had she grown!  She wanted to be a scrapbook and aerobics teacher-- I wonder where she gets that from??!!! 

Monday evening and getting ready for bed but had to blog about the Karen Russell photography class yesterday at T.M.  If you missed it, you really missed out on some great, fabulous info. Karen was funny and made everything easy to understand.  Maybe now I will really know how to use my digital camera.  I read an article in Creating Keepsakes magazine today and I knew what the article was talking about and really understood it.  Thank you Karen!!  It was 9 hours of some intense information but I think I will start a support group for Photography dummies like me and go out and practice what we learned yesterday!  Thank you Janet for brining her to the store. 

Yeah!  Now, I can't wait for Jenny Bowlin to come to the Mega Crop!  Don't forget we are still accepting l/o's for the T.M. Design Team 2009.  

Hope you have a fabulous week!

m

ps. heather, you really did put that title on your blog- you are so funny!!

New Scrapbook Room

Here are some pics of my new decorated scrapbook room!  I JUST LOVE IT!  I went with a black, white and of course pink room.  I am out of control with ribbons and flowers as you can well see but don't they look Fabulous!   Did you notice I found the word Fabulous and just had to have it.  It was originally blue so I painted it and I can't decide whether or not to add bling to it! I am still working on a cool bulletin board-those pics coming soon! Hope you enjoy the pics!

Dec Glimmer Mist Book

Here is a sneak peak of my new Glimmer Mist Book with a Winter Theme!!  Just finished it today and I am so excited.  Lots of techniques from glitter, stickles, distressing and flocking!!  OMG! Had so much fun creating it.  Look for my e-mail when the dates will be announced!

It's Monday evening and I can't decide should I stay up late and finish taking pics of my new scraproom!! NOTTTTTT. I will be getting up early to go vote so I need my beauty sleep. 

Love the time change with the extra hour of sleep but not the getting dark so early thing!!  Look for pics of my new scraproom coming real soon and see why they call me the Ribbon Queen!  I just love my new room and really have a hard time not wanting to leave my room especially when i have the Polyester Power Hour Music blaring on my iTunes!!!  HA!!!  

I am really excited to teach my HDYDT #6 class this weekend.  Don't worry, if you would like to take it, I will be opening some more classes in Dec along with my new Winter Glimmer Mist book.  I am working on it now and I hope you will like it too!

Have a fabulous week:)

Witchy Cute

Okay, here is last years Halloween and I could not NOT use all of these pics!!  SO, i just did a large collage and added lost of differ paper including some Michael Miller fabric paper!!  I used my Click It to punch the holes in the pinked paper to create the ribbon holes to mimick her dress. If you look close she is riding her broom backwards!!

LadyBug

I just love this l/o I did for Alexis in her cute Ladybug costume.  I had some of those "Pre-fab wooden Ladybugs and added raindots and buttons for dimension.  I used Some of the Luxe paper and cut out the circle's and tore and rolled the edges of paper -taken from one of Connie's l/o's and added brads to continue the circle theme!

Just Ducky

How much is white space for me?  This is white space for me--isn't that funny???  Alexis was on 1yrs old and her mother and I wore Goofy Halloween hats.  I used The Fancy Pants transparencies, Prima Flowers and some expoy stickers. The center of some of the flowers are some old snaps which I smashed with my Crop-A-Dile.  

Purrr...fect Kitty

Purrrr...fect Kitty.  How cute is she??  REALLY cute and can't believe that she was only 3yrs old.  I played catch on past Halloween pics this weekend.  I used a combo of Technique Tuesday, chipboard, ribbon, Karen Foster Halloween chipboard and the Fabulous metal letter.  Even dug out some old metal buttons from K.F.

Hello Scrapbook World,

well, here is a peak at my next HDYDT class.  For those of you who don't know what that means--How Do You Do That!!  I teach quite a few techniques in the class and you go home with a completed l/o!  We do have fun while learning new techniques or remembering "How Do You Do That"!

Have a great day

Beautiful Flowers in my Garden

Hello World,

I am winding down from a day of obsessive complusivness of my two favorite things to do--Scrapping and Gardening!!!  

I spent several hours today painting my scrapbook room.  I didn't realize how much stuff I have until I had to move it all-- OMG!!!  I am converting the walls to white.  I will be adding a touch of black and pink accents---imagine that!!  HA!!   I painted my cabinets white and they look soooo much better than the "light pine" kitchen color cabinets they were before! I have painted one coat of white on the walls and whew it is going to look FABULOUS if I say so myself!!

I will have to put pics of my room when it is completed! Then I moved to my other obsession--my yard!!!!!  I worked for another 3 hours of obsessive work and starting thinking of where I am going to plant my new plants I bought this weekend at the Master Gardner Show.

I am working on my next HDYDT class for November and I will put a sneak peek in the next few weeks.  I am almost done!!  Colors will be "fallish"  yes, I made it to be boy or girl l/o!!!  YEAH!!!!

Nature book

It's Monday already. Oh, how the weekend goes by so fast.  Can you believe it, I am blogging again!!  I completed another l/o this weekend and it was a sports l/o.  My first ever and it was fun and can't wait to finish her actual "action shots" in a l/o.  It didn't bother Alexis in the least that she was the only girl on her team and usually there was only one girl on her opposing teams too.  It was quite funny to watch!  

For all of you who were able to take my Tattered Angels book class--I have another one and it is filled with butterflies!!  Oh, how I just love those beautiful insects.  I have included a sneak peak of the cover and 2 pages.  I will be teaching the class at Treasured Memories in October--look for my e-mail to see the upcoming dates!!  

Going to bed now, since I have to get up and teach a class at Red's at 5:45am!!!  

Have a fabulous week and talk to ya soon

Basketball Group picture

This is my first sports l/o!!  Oh, what fun it was and look what I added to make it "girly"!!  I just had to add ribbon somewhere.  Again, I am using some of my old stuff--can you guess what they are: rain dots, Boshers, Scrapworks brads and o rings and snaps!!   

Tomorrow is back to reality ----work!!  I guess I had a blast these last few days!!  Completed 4 layouts in 4 days--new record for me.  I am still in shock that I completed them and posted them to my blog.  Monica, Wendy, Heather and Charlotte aren't you proud of me.  I still need help with all of the blog terminology.

Being the multi-tasker that I am --as I was waiting for the images to upload, I was putting together pics and paper to work on for another l/o!!  Watch out scrapbook world--I'm on fire!! HA! HA!  I hope you enjoy looking at the l/o's as much as I had fun creating them this hurricane weekend!  Watch out--members at Red's, I now have had 4 days of REST!!  

Have a fabulous rest of the week and be safe and don't forget to exercise so that your brain is fresh with creativeness!

see ya

Baby Dolls

This l/0 is a collage of pics when Alexis decided to play with my collection of ceramic dolls but she still wanted to be the baby--notice her in the baby doll bed!!  I used My Minds Eye papers, ribbon, metal frames and scroll chipboard and Technique Tuesday chipboard photo corners

Mother's Day

First Mother's Day and her mom is so proud of her adorable daughter!  I used a combination of "wedding papers", ribbon, felt, brads, flowers and bling

Raggedy Cute

Alexis used to love climbing in and out of boxes when she was little and this day she decided to bring Raggedy Ann to the box party!! How cute!  This l/o is a mix of ribbon, brads (from way back), Technique Tuesday, rub ons and arcylic words