Oops! I did it again!

No, I haven't shaved my head or been in and out of rehab so fast you'd think there was a revolving door. I let more than a month slip by without posting anything. I've been caught up in vacation planning and not doing much scrapping. Here's one I did for ScrapLovers using American Crafts products, the technique of paper cutting and the theme of the women in our lives. "Here's to good women. May we know them, may we be them, may we raise them."

Another one that makes me happy!

I made this in response to the challenge at the Autumn Leaves Look Blog http://www.autumnleaves.com/lookBlog/ to use what you love.

"Some things I love Right Now!" are:

great quality smooth white cardstock: SU! whisper white

scalloped cardstock in the perfect shade of blue: Bazzill

black titles and texture: MM velvet alpha stickers

bling: Heidi Swapp bling borders

ribbon: SU! bluebird grosgrain

stamps: Autumn Leaves florishes v.2 by Rhonna Farrer

ink: SU! Ballet Blue Classic pad

handwritten journaing: SU! Stampin' Wrte Journaler in Ballet Blue

A camera that actually records the image I see instead of a blurry mess!: Cannon S3 IS

"Okay, so I'll always love blue!"

Cabin Fever: Part Duex

I had to share this one cuz it was just plain silly fun to make it!

Journaling: Don't you think my son's socks nicely complete my ensemble of t-shirt, flannel pants, and furry robe?

Cabin Fever!

We've been having some nasty weather here making for horrible driving conditions. This is our second day of closed schools and we haven't been out of the house since Friday afternoon. Kacie and I have been passing the time scrapping. :) The girl has found her scrappin' groove. Here's the page I did for the PucCalls Birthday Bash Challenge (Snow Day-check my gallery at ScrapLovers to read the journaling) and a couple of Kacie's Pages (blonde...& Lucas). And speaking of ScrapLovers- mark your calendar for the Sweethearts Cybercrop the weekend of Feb. 16-18.

A Splash of Color

Here's little project I just finshed for ScrapLovers using product from one of our February sponsors Maya Road. I love the splash of happy color it adds to my studio as the landscape outside my window is currently white and gray as several more inches of snow falls.

I'm trying to be a better blogger.

But this freaking site keep locking up on me when I try to add images and I really don't feel like typing out my post for a fourth time!!!

So...

Do three posts in one day make up for not posting for weeks? I just had to share this great mini album project I started this weekend! I've created the cover and five inside pages and plan to add to it next weekend. The instructions are posted here: http://www.shimelle.com/classes/

Pssst! Hey, wanna win somethin'?

If you would like to win a box full of cardmaking supplies check out the Card-A-Day challenges that I have been posting all month at ScrapLovers.com
Every challenge card uploaded to the gallery and linked to the challenge post by the end of January will earn an entry into the prize drawing. :)

I am officially a bad blogger.

You would think with as much time as I spend online that I would remember to update more frequently, wouldn't you? Let's see.....since my last entry I celebrated a quiet Holiday with my family. Santa was good to all of us bringing me some cash to spend on scrappy supplies and a laptop lap desk for those days when all I'm up for is surfing the internet on the couch or in bed. We also celebrated the birthdays of my two oldest "kids" who are now 25 and 23. God, it makes me feel old to have children so old! LOL We saw a new little person enter the world when our friend gave birth to a son. And last, but not least, I got a new camera with twice as many megapixels and four times as much zoom! It remains to be seen whether this actually improves my photography. :D

I've been in a bit of a slump as far as making pages goes but I have been making a ton of cards! Here are a few from this past week.

Havin' Some Fun!

I went to Target this morning hoping to find some of the cool scrapping products others have reported finding there. It was the same ol' same ol' in the scrap aisle but I did score these cool star shaped playing cards in the Dollar Spot that inspired me to create this page of my DH being a goof on our 25th anniversary last August. :)

More Good News!

I have thoroughly enjoyed serving on the Sweethearts DT at ScrapLovers.com this year and am happy to announce that Christina is keeping me on for a second term. Here are a couple of pages I created last month with products from Prism, Recess at Carson Dellosa, and Shoebox Trims.

Sorry to Leave Ya Hangin'!

Sorry that I haven't updated in weeks! My intention for this blog was to have it simply be a place to share my art and to keep my personal life personal. That being said I feel that I do owe an explaination for my absence. The stresses just kind of came to a head during October. Between my health issues, my youngest daughter's health issues, the demise of my Stampin' Up! demonstratorship, and conflict within a design team I was serving on I just didn't have any energy left for blogging. The good news is that the health issues are being worked on, letting go of the business aspect of stamping has freed me to concentrate on the creative expression of it, I am no longer wasting my energy on the afore mentioned design team.

National Cardmaking Day (Weekend)!

Today, October 7, is the first annual National Cardmaking Day! ScrapLovers.com is making a weekend celebration of it with lots of cardmaking ideas posted and contests running through Sunday! Please join us!

When is enough enough?

Giving 110% and honoring commitments is very important to me. But I get very discouraged when it seems that the effort is for nothing. When you are getting strung along and can't make any sense of the chaos and the stress is making you physically ill is it okay to throw in the towel?

More card ideas!

These both use the Stamp of Authenticity set. The brown card is layered with some of the new cardstock colors: true thyme, cranberry crisp, and buckaroo blue and is lifted right from page 5 of the current Stampin' Up! Idea Book. The real red, certainly celery, and buckaroo blue card is my own design.

and more cards!

I've neglected my card making so long that I've gone crazy with it the last few days! I've finally made some cards using a few of the new things form the 2006-2007 Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog. The "Thanks" card uses a new OnBoard Accents chipboard flower covered with new Marigold Morning cardstock, the new Riveting hostess stamp set, and some of the new Ribbon Originals. The "Welcome Little One" card uses the Riveting stamp set again along with one of the papers from the Holiday Thyme *Christmas* paper collection from the Holiday Mini Catalog. "Wishing You the Best " combines the Riveting stamp set with the new It's Snow Time set watercolored and mountd on red and layered on a card in the new Cool Caribbean cardstock (my fave new color combo!) "Warmed by Friendship" again uses the new It's Snow Time set with the real red and cool caribbean combo.

I'm a card makin' fool!

Bad weather and car trouble kept me home all weekend so I passed the time in my studio making a gazillion (okay, 21 to be exact) cards.

Rainy Days

Nasty weather including a tornado in the area around dinner time kept me home yesterday. I spent most of the day making cards. I made a series of Halloween cards for a DT assignment that I will mail out next month to some children I know (you'll have to wait 'til the ScrapLovers DT reveal on 10/20 to see them) then made a set of Christmas cards with some adorable Heidi Grace papers I found at the LSS (check the ScrapLovers Sweethearts reveal for 9/20 to see more Heidi Grace). Do you make and send cards? How do you spend a rainy Saturday?

Puca Project

I just found out about it this morning but I will definitely be participating!
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