Candy Boxes

       Today you can find the last of my altered craft projects on my workdesk... These are my candy boxes for my homemade chocolates. After spending the week getting all blinged up for the holidays and finishing up all the baked goodies, candy and chocolates, I discovered that I am not as young as I use to be and I ran out of crafting energy really early in the week.

       SO my boxes are very simple and plain this year which meets up with our family goal of keeping more of a natural and "CHRIST" centered Christmas, to reflect our Grand Canyon surroundings and our growing love for our new native friends who love and respect the land and all that their Father in Heaven blesses them with.

Christmas Blocks

back at my workdesk today, feeling crafty and so excited.... Here is my new addition to our decorations this year. Hoping everyone has a Merry Christmas!

WOYWW #330 - Fall Fancies

Today, my "What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday" Projects made their way out to the deck, while I enjoyed some wonderful fall sunshine. 

We are getting ready to decorate for Halloween tomorrow and I wanted to add a few new fall colors to the mix. Some new paper pumpkins and hostess gift bags...

WOYWW #326 - Sept. Birthday - SC556

        After spending the last couple of months away from my desk, I was feeling a little crafty today. I was so excited that it is Wednesday and our challenge today was a sketch challenge....

        So as you can see my "What's on Your Workdesk" photo is a mess with the start of fall colors and the feature card of the day is my September Birthday Cards using the splitcoast stampers sketch challenge SC556.

CAS330 - "Anchored In Christ" Girls Camp Journals

Guess where I am going this week....? 

Girl's Camp..... Girl's Camp..... Girl's Camp!!!

So this week for my Monday Makeover Inspirational Card.... We added our theme to the front of our camp journals.

CC533 - Passing Judgement

Have you ever had one of those AHAW moments while studying either the scriptures or class notes, that your mind just opens up to a wonderment of verbal clarity. Every once in a while mine does and if I am lucky I have a piece of paper and pen in the same place at the same time, so that I can jot down my thoughts and inspirational message. 

My "Monday Makeover" inspirational card is the recipient of my Sunday thoughts while reading some of the parables in Mathew.

WOYWW #312 - Celebrating with a ATC Swap!

I love a good celebration, does not matter how large or small, I just love to celebrate! And I can't believe that our little group is celebrating another year milestone.... :)

HAPPY 6th ANNIVERSARY

to Julia & the Gang!  

In celebrating what's on our workdesk today we are having a little ATC swap. I am so excited, I love Artist Teading Cards (ATCs). These little gems are a great way of using up all those left over scraps, so you don't go through the age old crafter's guilt of  "Oh MY Gosh! I threw away the scraps..." Plus, I use my ATCs as gift tags and little RAC notes. My featured ATCs can be found below and if you are interested in swapping with me, please let me know.

                                  I LOVE SWAPPING!!!!!!

My desk today is filled with lots of inspirational and scripture intended Art Journaling tidbits, plus my mess from my May VSBN Social Hour. I have been scrapbooking this month more than I have been crafting or stamping, because I have been helping take care of my mom at her house. So my desk is filling with lots of leftover stuff.

If you are interested in joining our little group please check in with Julia for details at Stamping Ground

May VSBN - Super Saturday 1

Our first Challenge for our May VSBN was to scrap-lift one of my favorite digi-scrappers, Wendy. So in honor of all the hard work she does to sharing the digi world with us, I created my page as a digi page and the layout of her's that I cased can be found here 






This was the second challenge for VSBN and it was an inspirational challenge. I really liked how the bold bright colors of the crayons stood out against the black background and I also like how the tips of the crayons and how they all point to the same direction to help create a focal point. So on my layout you can find bold colors mixed in with black and also points that bring your attention to the focal point of my page.

Our third challenge was designed to be a four picture sketch challenge and I only had three pictures of each boy. So my pages may not count for this challenge, but I really enjoyed using the Simply Scrappin' Kit. It has been awhile since I totally scrapped from a kit.










I loved the openness of our fourth challenge. It was fun to be able to be creative with all the spring colors. This layout was a CASE that I came a crossed in an old SU! Catalog.

Art Journaling... My Start!

MY fascination with "ART JOURNALING" started back in January while I spent the month recovering from the start of CHF... I didn't have anything better to do, I guess. (Lol) 
Anyway, after discovering an awesome online magazine entitled "heART JOURNALING" is discovered a deep seeded interest to peruse this avenue of art, thinking how hard can this be? I love to write, I have been an off and on journal keeper since high school, I live for family histories and as any of my close crafting and scrapbooking friends can tell you, I have failed the "12 step program for Paperahololics" (another lol) so many times that I now give motivational classes on how to craft, stamp and create your way into a balanced household.
So here we are five months later and my Art Journal as created a major "writer's /Artist block" for me! Not sure why, except I think that I am so afraid of it not being perfect, or the overwhelming feeling that I can't doodle the whole page full, that somewhere between my mind and my hands, I am caught up in the stage of the outcome....
But Today was the day that I made it past the glitches of mistakes and was able create a small tidbit of ART to make a..... (You guessed it! )..... a PAPER Card.

WOYWW #308 - Grandma's Desk

My "What's on my Workdesk" Wednesday's took on a whole new
meaning a couple of weeks ago when my hubby and I went to see his brother and pick up a few family things that have been in storage. To our wonderful surprise, his grandmother's desk was included among the things that were left to him. I fell in love with this desk the first time I saw it. I am so excited to add it to our memories....



Here is the scrapbook page I have been working on today.

Farm Colored Birthday

Our Teapot Tuesday Challenge was to create a card that reminded us of being down on the Farm. for me growing up and being down on the farm reminds me of all the rich fall colors and the beautiful wild daisies that grow in the fields and along the ditch banks.
I also used this card as my sample card for my Relief Society Personal Enrichment Class this evening.

Celebrating International PI day...

Always love a good excuse to celebrate with PIE... And every year we choose a new pie recipe to feature. This year we chose totally homemade WHITE CHOCOLATE SHAMROCK PIE. And of course it wouldn't be a celebration if you don't make a card to go with it.... 

You can find the recipe for the pie on our blog at www.thepantrylife.blogspot.com

WOYWW #301

This week... I am pretty sure a lucky little leprechaun barrowed my "Workdesk" because I woke up to lots of green and white. Not to spoil the moment... Here is one of the birthday cards that came out of the clutter. If anyone is interested in learning more about "What's on your Workdesk? Wednesday" challenge, you can check it out at... Stamping-ground.blogspot.com

IC483 - Dr.Suess Invites

These are invites that we are working on for a fun Relief Society Birthday/Spring Bookclub kickoff Party we are having in a couple of weeks. I took my inspiration from the colors in one of my favorite Dr. Suess' book cover painting at
 http://www.greatbigcanvas.com/view/o...ZaftoG8HqUrpOv

Rockin' The Disney Boat - March's Progressive Page

 

Here is my take for March - Task 1 

Note: Although dimensions stated are for a 12x12 page, feel free to make any size you prefer. We'll be using one photo for this layout.

-Start with a base paper (paper #1). It can be plain or have a light pattern.

-Add paper #2 (approx.6"x12") on top of base layer (paper #1). Offset it so it is about 2"-2 ½" up from bottom edge.

-Add a photo (approx. 4"x6") on upper left area of the page, that's mostly on paper #2, but overlaps up onto paper #1 a little. Mat the photo, making mat a bit larger than the photo (1/2"-3/4") and offset the mat a little to one side. (Don't forget shadows where applicable.)











Task 2 - This is my take on step 2 of this months progressive page challenge. I chose a solid accent strip, because I still want the primary focus to be the photo. 

MSC#1 - Beach Fun

This is for my mini album that I am doing of the first year of my granddaughter's life. The album will be for my mom on Mother's Day. This is her first great grandchild. 

This layout is also for this months first Stashbusters challenge... I choose option B. The white space around the large photo is where my journaling will go.

WOYWW#300 - Work Desk Mania

Today you will find me at my "Workdesk" with my hands in several projects...

On the left----- Young Women / Girls Camp Book Marks
Blue Envelopes ---- Relief Society Birthday Party Invitations

Small Pics ---- Finishing up my mini beach album
Great Couple photo in the center ---- Starting my son's wedding scrapbook

WOYWW #299 - Sorting Scraps

This morning I woke up totally full of energy and yet feeling lazy at the same time... I had three things on my agenda: 1- finish cleaning and re-organizing my spare bedrooms from two sets of kids moving out and waiting for another set to move in this weekend. 2- to use my "What's on my Workdesk" challenge time sort all my scraps and to create my layout for "Throwback Thursday" tomorrow and 3- make Marty's Valentine Cinnamon Rolls. Even though I cleared my list, I become a whiner... Thus the need for a "Calgone" moment...

WOYWW#298 - Still Sulking!

My poor desk has seen better days, spent time unpacking more craft boxes, so as you can see for this week"s "What's on your Workdesk" photo reflects that and the fact that I am still being sulky about not being able to go be with the princess for her birthday.

Valentine Inspiration

       

       Posting my "Throwback Thursday" layout for my Valentine today.... I love this picture of us and
I fell in love with the color combo found in the inspirational challenge this month, so here is my Valentine take on the whole affair... :) 

       The day we took this selfie was the day I received full conformation in my heart and soul that we were being sent here to the Grand Canyon for a reason and I needed to trust my in my best friend with all my heart.

WOYWW#297- Valentine Inspiration

My take on "What's on Your Work-desk" challenge for this week features a scrapbook page and cards that I am working on for Valentines Day. 

A Yellowstone Scraplift

Since I am getting myself organized and feeling a little crafty, I decided that my "Throwback Thursdays" this month will feature some new scrapbook pages that I am working on. So for this week... Let's turn back the clock to 1989, this layout features some of Brady's favorite spots in Yellowstone. 


This is my Scraplift for Feb. And I took my inspiration from Wendy's "Granite Dells" page found at http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/ga...0&ppuser=63080.

WOYWW#296 - New Craft Corner

I had a very productive "What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday" today... I was able to go through some more of my boxes and create my new crafting corner. feels good to have an organized spot to gell. smile emoticon