Oh what FUN!

A very good friend of mine has been on me to get back into scrapbooking. It's not like I don't want to, or even that I don't like to. In fact it is just the opposite. I LOVE scrapbooking and making cards. I just never make the time for me. I got to dabble into my scrapbooking room today and made a card for my friends blog over at digi haven you can look her up at http://digihaven.blogspot.ca/ be sure to check it out. what a great way to use up some of your scrapbooking stash. here is a card that i made for her latest challenge. all i had to do was use buttons. the digi stamp is from stuff4scrapbooking.com hmm ok i cant seem to post pictures of it right now. here is the link to it under my photbucket http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/abeta74/null_zpsdcad6fe3.jpg sorry about that. im not sure why the pictures and links are not uploading...i will fix this asap.

Cleaning time.

Last night I had the chance to get into what will be my scrap nook. I cleaned up a little bit and even had the chance to make some cards. Was so much fun. I really need to make more time for me. I say it all the time but never really do it. So from this point on at least once a week I will set time aside to scrap. Now that I have been out of the loop so long I need your help. What cool new techniques are you doing now? What new tool is your must have? I'm going to take. Picture of the cards I made and post them for you all to see tonight.

Got my fingers dirty

I made time for me today. Something i seem to be forgetting to do lately. Im not sure why I dont set this time aside for me, but I dont. After today I remember why I love and need this time. I am going to set time to scrap and make cards for 1 hours once a week. Now i know you are thinking one hour is not much but to me to see 1 hour of free time in my day and get the chance to scrap would be oh so nice. plus we all know that once you are in your scraproom / cave / nook and working away, we neverreally want to stop. Today I made a card for a challenge on a great blog. This blog is called Digi Haven it can be found here... http://digihaven.blogspot.ca/ They use digital images that you print from home in place of stamps and make cards with them. These girls are really good at what they do. i would love for you all to join in the fun too. here is the card i made. the image is from ___________ gotta find her name going to update in a little while.

MY very first Blog Award!!! Im so excited... I want to Thank My dear friend and fellow scrapbooker Joann who's blog you v=can see here for thinking about me and nominating me for the this Liebster Award. Joann is a true inspiration to me. Somehow she is able to fit time in her day to scrap everyday and also post it on her blog along with a sketch for you to join in. her blog is a great place to go to and just get loads of ideas for card making and scrapbooking. When you get a chance you are going to have to check her blog out. I am sure you will love it just as much as i do. Thank you again Joann for nominating me. The origins of the Liebster Award are somewhat unclear,but the general consensus is that it originated in Germany. Liebster meaning "favorite" or "dearest", to showcase bloggers with less then 200 followers. Upon accepting the award the recipient must then pass it on to five more blogs of their choice. Now here is what you do as a presenter of this award: 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 5 blogs of 200 followers or less who you feel deserve it. 5. Let them know they have been chosen by leaving a comment at their blogs Here are the blogs I am presenting to. 1. Denise at Scrappycardsbyd.blogspot.com 2. Jenn at jennjunk.blogspot.com 3. Sue at ngsiosixpack.blogspot.com 4. Sharon at sharonscraps.blogspot.com 5. Tracy at tracyscrapheap.blogspot.com Now ladies please choose 5 blogs you feel deserve this award and thanks for all the inspiration on your blogs! Please pick one of these Liebster awards for your blog!

Summer is just about here. My girls have a week left in school and then it's vacation time. I am so looking forward to being able to just scrap anytime I want. Right now it is hard because all my scrap stuff is in my basement and I can't bring it up because i run a daycare and do not want my daycare kids to get into it all during the day. Now that its summer (I close my home daycare during the summer) I am able to get my scrap on. I just posted this months contest and challenge I hope you all can join in the fun.

What a great month!

It's official... I am back scrapbooking. It only took my youngest to turn two so that I could find the time but I'm back. I had the best time the beginning of the month in Maine. I went to point sebago for a scrapbooking retreat. I used to go every year Now that my little one is old enough I was ale to go back. It was a wonderful time and I got the chance to see some of my great online friends from northwest scrapbook friends. If you live in the northeast part of the US you should Deffinely look us up and join in the fun. My friend Laura got to come along with me. We had a last. We got there around 2:00 Friday afternoon and stayed there until Sunday around 12:00. I was able to get 14 layouts done and 9 cards. Felt so good to be ale to just sit and scrap and not worry about what the kids were doing what I was going to cook. To just sit and scrap. Ahhhhh Anyway I am already registered to go back next year. Although this time we are going to arrive on Thursday instead of Friday. Another whole day to scrap woohoo. I have lots planed for my blog so be on the look out starting in June. Happy scrapping...

Where did the year go?

I feel like this year went by way to fast. It's sad to say but I did not get many scrapbook pages done this year. It was just this month that I was able to pull out my scrap stuff and make a new space to be able to scrap. Now that I have this I really need to get myself back into the swing of things. I also made sure to get back into my fiskateer grove. They always help inspire me.

What are some ways that you get inspired? How do you get yourself out of a funk?

What are your wishes for 2012 (scrapbook / craft related)?

A great start to July!

July is Starting off with a bang!

I got to take my girls to New Hampshire and spend a week with my mother. We went to the beach and got to see a great Beatles band called Help. be sure to check them out here
so you can see where they are playing next.

My girls joined a new colorguard. They are just in love with this guard. Their team mates are all so nice as well as the staff and other parents. looks like its going to be a great year for them.

Now as for scrapbooking I have not got as much done so far this month as I would like to. I do have 1 two page LO that I finished. I am in the process of doing this months LO challenge on here as well as the card challenge.

ok so i know thats a really bad picture. i will have to get a better one on here for u. In the meantime I can not wait to see what you all come up with.

Been way to long

It really has been way to long since I had a chance to scrap. Having a new baby in the house and trying to run a home daycare just put a stop to all my scrapbooking. I am now on my summer break and will be going back to teaching this fall. This I hope will give me some more free time to scrap once again. With the new addition to the family i have lost my scrap room. I now have all my scrap stuff in big totes. So my question to all of you is this... how do you store your scrapbooking supplies so that you are able to find all of your different papers and embilshments with ease. I will also be posting a sketch challenge for the month of July as well as a card Challenge. Can not wait to hear what you all have to say about storage.

Summer is coming to an end

I can not believe that summer is now coming to an end. I feel like it just flew bye and that i really didn't get half done of what I wanted to get done. The girls are all doing great. The older two just came home from a vacation on the cape with yiayia. I was going crazy while they were gone. When they were away i painted on of their bedrooms. i will have to post some pictures for you all to see. Now i have to do the other bedroom and then the playroom. With having a baby and trying to entertain my girls for the summer i didnt get to do any scrapbooking. I am however going to try to make it a point to set time aside to scrap. With this said, i would like some help from all of you. How do you make sure to have time to scrapbook? How much time do you set aside to scrapbook? Do you have a room just for scrapbooking or pull stuff out as you go? If you do not have a scrapbooking room where do you scrap? I am giving my scraproom to my older daughter so she can have her own room and really need ideas on how to keep up with my scrapbooking without a room to keep all my stuff out.

It's summer

I feel like the school year went by so fast. Things have been a little crazy here with Stavroula being born on April 10th. I am still trying to learn how to do things with the kids. it's kinda hard finding stuff to do with the older girls and being able to bring the baby along too. If any of you have any ideas that would be great. the older girls are 10 and 8. I Have not yet found the time to scrap and really really need to. Stavroula is now almost 3 months old and the only lo i have of her is one i did of her ultrasound before she even came. so u all need to help me out. i need to get my scrapping mojo back!

I got to do some scrapping today!

This means that so far i have kept my new years resolution of scrapping once a week. I know it's only been two weeks but i don't think i scrapped two weeks in a row all last year. so, so far I am off to a good start.

I decided to scrap the challenges on here. so here are my takes on the card and Layout sketch challenge/contest.. I can not wait to see what you all can come up with

the card challenge






the sketch contest

Organization tip January week 2

OK so lets start the new year off right. It's time we go through our supplies and see what we will use and what we will not. Maybe you have some baby stuff left over from a album you made for a friend or paper that you had to have and never did use. well lets gather that stuff up and clear it out. You could do several things with it.
1. put them together in themes and sell it as a package on ebay.. then you can use the money from that and get something that you really need or want.
2. send a rak to a friend. we all love getting them and they are just as much fun to send.
3. host a challenge or a contest and give it to a person who joins in. this not only will get you scrapping but it will help others get their scrapping mojo back too.

So with that all in mind. lets set some time aside this week to clean out PART of our scraproom. I would love to hear or see what you get accomplished

January week 1 organization tip

this is a tip that both a scrapbooker and non scrapbooker could use / do..

Digital Picture Storage - Every 3-4 months I save my photos onto CD to make more room on my hard drive. (ok - I also have an external hard drive copy just in case) I generally organize my photos in monthly photos by shooting date (since the camera downloads them that way). I get rid of "bad" photos and then save several months onto a CD. I make a backup CD which I store and I put the other copy in a CD holder glued to the back of my scrapbooks for the same time period. They sell self stick CD envelopes in many scrapbooking stores for this purpose.

Happy New years!!

Wishing you all a happy and healthy new year! 2009 seemed to go by so fast! The one thing that I wish I did do more was scrap! So with this in mind I have set my new years resolution for 2010... I would like to scrap or do some form of paper craft once a week. and to kick it off i am starting up my challenges once again. Please be sure to check them out and join in with me. another thing i want to do is to get more organized. I fell that this past year I just lost it. to help me do this i am going to post 1 organization tip a week. to try to help me and anyone else who might want to give this a try. these tips will be both scrapbook and non scrapbook tips so anyone could give them a try. I am going to start the LO contest once again starting tomorrow. So be sure to be on the look out for that... I have to upload a ton of pics, so as soon as i do that i will be able to post some new ones on here of what I have been up to this past month... Have a fun and safe new years eve my friends... wishing you all the best.

I really need to get better at this

It has been 2 months sense the last time that I got on here and updated. There has been lots going on here. unfortunately there has been no scrapping. That's right i have not had a chance to scrap in 2 months. So what have I been up to? Well work started up in September and my class has been keeping me busy. My girls are in 4th and 2nd grade now and lets just say OMG whats up with all the homework! Lexi just finished up her fall soccer. Once again she had a blast. They are also now both in colorguard. So far they seem to really like it.
Now to the big news. We are expecting our third daughter on April 8th. the girls can not wait. I have to say that this one is kicking my butt. I can not wait for her to come. although I have alot to do to get ready for her.
Have any of you had a chance to do any Holiday crafts? I want to try to make something for my mother and my mil again this year. I am just out of ideas. So grab a seat and sit down and share your homemade craft ideas...

September already!

really I just feel like Aug. went by way to fast. Spent alot of time in Nh visiting my family, at the beach and at yiayia and papous house. The girls start school tomorrow! Christina will be in the 4th grade and Lexi will be in the 2nd. they really do grow up way to fast.

As for scrapbooking. well that just is something that i have not had a chance to do. I do have a birthday online crop coming up this week so i hope to be able to get some done this week. we shall see.. wish me luck.

Be sure to check out the challenge for this month. I would love to have some more people give them a try.

here are a few pics from last month...

I am home!

I spent the first half of the month in NH with my mother and my girls. even with all the rain that we got, we ended up having so much fun. One of my favorite things to do when I go to NH is to go to yard sales. I love finding new things for my classroom and am always looking for scrapbooking stuff. this past weekend I found some buttons, ribbon and a heat gun for my friend.

We had the opportunity to go to a few concerts. one was called 60's invasion, one was called together again a band that plays all Beatles and then we also got to see an old strings concert. all where very nice. I have to say that i liked the 60's invasion the most because it was on the beach.




We also went to a small wild animal zoo, a fair and got to see fireworks 1 and a half times lol. I say half because the second time we started leaving when they started because it started to rain. We watched some in the car but it was poring outside. The forth of July fireworks we so good. although I have to say it was a tad bit cold out.






As for scrapping I have yet to do any this month. I now have plenty to scrap though. I am going to leave the card challenge up for the month. It seems as though we are all very busy and need the month to get to our challenges. As soon as you get it done don't forget to send it to me! I can not wait to see them. (because I am making it for the month you can make it any theme. It does not have to be 4th of July.

Well It is Saturday.

Today I have some more housework to do. That's just something that never seems to end. The dreded laundry! You ever notice how you keep doing it and doing it and the pile never seems to get smaller? Guess that's just part of having 3 girls in the house. The puppy is doing great he is such a gental pup. He is doing so good with his house traning. THANK GOD!

We have my brother in law coming over today with his daughter for the girls to all play. Then we are off to a birthday Party. looks like There will be no time for scrapping today. Thanks ok there is always tomorrow.

Lets hope the sun can find it's way out today.... my garden is not doing so good. things are starting to turn a littlw yellow from all the rain. aughhhhh.

got to do some scrapping.!!!

ok guys so i finally got to do some scrapbooking. wooohoo. it really has been way to long. anyway i got to finish the challenge i had up here for may. sorry so late. i also have one that i got from Sherry. and because she is the only one who joined in on this one i will have a little something in the mail to you. Congrats and THANK YOU for participating on my blog. here arethe items i made yesterday.


Sherry's entry from the may challenge. this came out 2 cute.


A dog frame I made. (just have to add the pic of my puppy. my printer broke augh)


Cards that i made for a challenge on SNC





This was my take on the May challenge. This was lots of fun. who knew that a TP roll could be so fun!