It's Winter Alright

Well winter has arrived with a vengence, not only have we had lots of snow, it is also very cold with temps at -16 and below (celsius). It sure feels like it's time to put up the Christmas decorations and Ray and I hit the mall today to take care of the Christmas shopping along with a bunch of other people judging by the traffic in the mall.

Anyways, here is the view on my deck yesterday morning and this snow had been falling since Monday evening:

so with the cold and snow I was very motivated to work on this:

it's our family christmas card photo. Can you see my Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet in the foreground? Wow that is SO much fun to use! I made a couple of samples and enlisted my talented friend Heather to decide on which one to use so stay tuned for the product!

December Daily Ready to Go!

Well I had a very productive weekend completing the foundation pages for Ali Edwards' December Daily project. Thanks to Ali's organizational tips from last year, all my Christmas items were already pulled together in a plastic bin so I was ready to go in mere minutes. I decided to use a 6x6 American Crafts album. Sounds small I know but I want to keep this fairly simple as that will keep me motivated to work on this daily. I still have a title page to do and I did have a little hiccup along the way, let me know if you notice what it is, I didn't catch it until I starting photographing the pages to post. So I decided to dedicate two facing pages per day, one page for journaling, receipts, etc. and the other for photos however I can also easily add another page in between if I need more space for journaling or photos.

All cardstock used for this project is Bazzil unless otherwise noted.
Pattern papers are My Minds Eyes and the leftovers from my Scrapshotz December kit (SEI-Alpine Frost) from last year, nice to finish them up. Chipboard is by DCWV, SEI and Tattered Angels. Red mist is Maya Road all other mist used is Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels. Numerals are Thickers, MM, Doodlebug, Heidi Swapp and Jenni Bowlin. I've also used various accents from Making Memories and Petaloo along with masks from Tattered Angels.

So that's it, 25 pages ready to go. Can't wait for December now!

Hello Winter...

It's official, winter has arrived. The white stuff started falling last night and it's cold outside. Roads are icy too so I'm glad not to have to go anywhere today.

As promised in my last post, here is a photo of my new shelf in my scrap room:

The best part about it is the surface area on the top I have to work on. It sure came in handy when I was working on my December Daily foundation pages. Stay tuned to see what they look like!

Friday Fun!

Last week I installed an Ikea Expedit shelf in my scrap room and I am head over heels in love with it! Here is the shelf in the process of being put together:

Yes, that's my little "helper" !

As I had my back turned while I was putting the camera down, I heard a slight "crreeeak" and turned around to find my "helper" trying to climb on this shelf before it was completely put together. Thankfully I stopped him before he was able to get all his bodyweight on it! It's all together now and I have been enjoying using it. Now I am teasing you because I haven't taken an after shots of the shelf yet! Here is a  "before" shot and tune in tomorrow for the "after".

More Projects

As I mentioned yesterday, I took part in an online crop at Scraphotz this past weekend and here are some more projects.

It certainly was a productive weekend!

Too Long Between Posts

Sorry for the lack of posts. I got caught up in an online over at Scrapshotz Friday until today so I did not get around to posting here until now. A bunch of stuff to share today. This beautiful sunrise captured on Thursday morning:

The little guy did lots of this while I was scrapbooking

Here are a few projects I completed this weekend, I will share more tomorrow too!

Inspired By...

The 2009 Winter Issue of Canadian Scrapbooker magazine showed a layout by editor Katharina Doyle that I wish I could find to show you here but if you have that issue you can find it. I was very inspired by it and came up with this using Bazzil cardstock, The Girls Paperie diecuts & patterned paper and Sassafrass alpha stickers and Basic Grey rub ons.

This layout features The Girls Paperie patterned paper and die cuts, Bazzil kraft cardstock, Basic Grey kraft patterned paper, Sassafrass Lass (green) alphas and Glitz alphas:

I have spent this evening adding a storage piece to my scraproom and I am thrilled with it! It's this in white and placed horizontally:

I've placed my Cricut and Cuttlebug on top so I have easy access to them and have storage for my bible study materials, magazines and monthly scrapbook kits. I am thrilled with it!! I now have more workspace on my table as well some more cube space. Now I am ready to go for the Scrapshotz Heros and Villians Online Crop this upcoming weekend!

Hello November

Can you believe it is November already?? Wow has the time sped by the last few months! The beginning of this month means another DT reveal at my favorite scrappy website/online store Scrapshotz. You can see the DT reveal here of this lovely kit. The photo does not do it justice, it is stunning IRL and in my opinion Sandy at Scrapshotz has the best value for your money in monthly kits!

I was tickled pink to have my layout featured on the Scrapshotz blog today. I would have tried harder for a better photo of the layout if I would have thought it might be featured on the blog. I guess the poor picture wasn't too big a deal ;). So I am going to try and create a better "studio" for photographing my layouts so I can post some better photos and I have a few projects to work with that I completed over the weekend so stayed tuned for those!