BOM 365 - Day 1 - ME!

This year I have decided that I wanted to mess around with a few new mixed media techniques and Art Journaling. I decided that making bookmark cards for the "Book of Mormon 365 Challenge" would be a good avenue for this So... I give you my first card. 

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.

Just A Pinch of Salt...

At Splitcoast Stampers we started a new Challenge thread entitled "It All Happened In... JUNE!"

Each month this challenge will change, based on the month, to inspire us to celebrate the Month we're in by getting out those pictures for that month, this month it is June....whether we use current, last year or some years ago photos, our goal is to get the month of Scrapped.

This month I choose to have fun on National Donut Day. We celebrated the day with homemade Salted Caramel Donuts.

The second page of the recipe on my layout reads...  

•  Lightly spray pan.And set aside. In bowl shift flour, cocoa , baking soda, and baking powder. Mix in sugar and salt, add in butter using your fingers to blend everything together. In a small bowl, mix egg, buttermilk and vanilla. Then add to flour mix and fold together.
•  Pour batter in donut pan so that it's 1/2 full and bake for 8-10 mins.
•  Once bake take out and cool. After it has cool, drizzle caramel sauce over donuts and sprinkle sea salt and crumbled bacon over the top.

Mini VSN... :)

We had two challenges tonight to kick off our next VSN.

Spring Hats & Tea Parties...

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending and helping my new daughter-in-law Kalee Harris host her first "Hats & Pearls" Tea Party with the ladies and their daughters in her hall at her work. We had so much fun. Great kick start for May and Mother's Day! plus now I can add milliner to my resume'. lol...

Fun Fridays & Super Saturday... FEB VSN!

Today for Fun Friday... I will be hanging out tonight at the February Virtual Stamp Night (VSB) at Splitcoast Stampers. 

Here is the link... "YOU MAKE MY HEART SING" (VSN)

Fun Fridays... Flylady BINGO

I have really gotten into to the "Top of the Hour" Bingo's that the Flybabies play on the Flaylady's Facebook page. I seem to get a lot more accomplished when I am working and hanging out with my Bingo list. And depending on the day of the week it is and how much time I have, determines which Bingo I play. So today for FUN FRIDAY I decided that I would make me a generic Bingo card that will work for any of the Bingos that I choose..

Your Challenge for today is to create a some sort of list or cleaning check off card that works for you and share it here...

KEY WORDS: APFF07,

Fun Fridays... Superbowl Invites

One of our family traditions is to have a big Superbowl party. Some of us are football fans and some of us just hang out for the food and the commercials.  Either way and due to the fact that it is on a Sunday, we hang out together as a family and stuff our faces with lots of goodies. But the one thing that I always do is to send invitations to the boys. Two reasons, #1... to teach they the importance of an RSVP and #2... sometimes, it's just fun to officially be invited to something;

So today we are going to create an invitation. Doesn't matter to what, even if it is just t invite someone over for lunch. Be creative and use your scraps.

I made "Sour Cream" Popout Invites.

Here are a couple of other ideas...

Fun Fridays... Casing an old favorite

After spending the last two days flat in bed with what I thought might be a kidney stone, but finding out that it is a badly hurt hip, I have come to realize how much I value being able to set at my desk and stamp, even if it is only for a few minutes. So today, I have decided that I am going to spend my down time going back through some old Stampin' Success's and find an altered project that I would like to case.

Here is my project:




My challenge for all of you is to go through an old favorite craft magazine and choose a project that you would like to case and share it with us.

KEYWORDS: APFF03

Fun Fridays...

It a great day for a day off and I think it is a great day for some fun...

HOW ABOUT SOME ALTERED FUN?  

but the catch is... you have to keep it contained!

So the challenge for today is to make a box or alter a box... KEYWORD: APFF02

Here's mine

Our 52 Week / Thursday Challenge on SCS this week was to create a page or layout using flowers, but I have been wanting to put my box together for awhile now. So I finished it for the challenge today. The box will be filled with fun little 3x3 snapshot photo cards of fun things our family has done this year. I want to have it setting on my coffee table in my setting room for friends and guests to just pick up and pass around and enjoy some of our favorite times here at the beach. I plan to do a box a month. The project is called "A YEAR IN A BOX".

Fun Fridays...

I want Friday's to be fill with fun and inspirational scrapping, so I have decided to make Friday's FUN FRIDAYS. I want this to be where everyone can share their favorite layouts and or what inspired them today.

"Shining My Sink" was my inspiration today...