WOYWW #424

My Wednesday Workdesk was filled with Rotary today... I am the New Secretary of our club and today was my first (in-charge) meeting. My program was about "The Importance of Cultural Competency in a Multicultural Community" which we held for another meeting because of a great fund raising idea that come with an awesome discussion. So glad we have such an open forum...

 

WOYWW #423

What's on my Work-desk? Today, you would have found my desk filled with a lot of red, white and blue, plus pictures filed with memories for a life time. This is a paper layout for the inspirational challenge listed in stage 1 of the SCS VSBN "Tour de' France" challenges.

WOYWW#400 - Valentine Birthdays

Happy February Everyone! 
What's on my workdesk? Valentines.... 😍
These, easy to make, old fashioned gems are for this month's Birthdays. Anyone interested in making cards at my house this month, let me know... I have several nights open.

These cards were made for the CC618 challenge using Rose Red, Basic Black and Very Vanilla. 

SCS JAN 2017 VSBN -&- CM's Virtual Crop

Third day snowing here at the canyon... It was a perfect Super Saturday Scrapbook Day. Creative Memories hosted a fantastic virtual crop today and I completed lots of paGes and layouts. I decided to combine our VSBN challenges with the crop challenges and I finally got through my crafters block and finished a few layouts...

VSBN#1 - New Dresses
This one is of my granddaughters in their new dresses. I made this page for grandpa for Valentine's Day. 
(CM Virtual Crop #3 & #5)

VSBN#2 - Birthday Boy
I am playing catch up in my boy's scrapbooks... This DPS is for my son's 4th birthday.
Our VSBN challenge for this page was to use our stash and add elements that work with the word "BEGIN"
                                       B - Birthday, Balloons, Blue 
                         E - Edges, Eyelets
            G - Green, 
       I - Ink, 
                          N- Nice Boys... Lol
(CM's Jan Virtual Crop #4)

VSBN#3 - P's 1st Birthday
I decided to stay with the new/firsts/beginning theme for this layout. Great sketch with easy story flow..(CM's Jan Virtual Crop - Bonus Challenge)

Keeping with the VSBN theme... This my was first time trying Gormet Chicken & Waffles. 

This page is for the inspirational photo challenge and I chose the colors from the photo.
( CM's Jan Virtual Crop #2) 

Princess Purse!

Have you ever had one of those moments when all you want to do is crochet and watch chick flicks but the only yarn you have is a old blend of colors that you bought a long time ago for a purpose and now can't remember what you bought it for... Well then, you make a princess purse! Duh....YaYa!

Valentine Memories

I loved the Scraplift challenge this month, there was so many wonderful layouts and ideas. I chose create a memory box of my granddaughters for Grandpa for Valentine's Day. I took my inspiration from http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/ga...0260?&cat=6631

Smash-Book / Art Journal 2017

HAppy New Year Everyone....

As most everyone knows, over the past few years, I have changed my opinion about making new year resolutions and

how quickly they can become triggers for feelings of failure.
So going forward I would like to focus on a couple of things I have learned over this past year and share positives from this past year:
--- joining the world of working mom's, I learned that it was a great avenue to share my charity events, but I also discovered how easy it is to get caught up in the working world and let the other important things in your life slip into second place.
--- I also learned that even as good as you are at time management, when you are not the only one in charge of your time you have no promise.

Positive Things:
*** Our Pennies for Heaven Jar (Donated to Charity) ~ $13.77
*** Weight Lost over year ~ 16 pounds
*** We added another granddaughter
*** We reached our temple goal
*** We crossed several fun things off our bucket list
*** Joined a bowling league .........lol!!!!!

And as part of my new year make-over I always start the year out with a new SMASH BOOK/ART JOURNAL/THOUGHT CATCHER. This year I am using the YM/YW theme scripture on the front. It is one of my favorites from my seminary days and it goes along with our topics of study this year.

WOYWW #356 - BLINGY THINGY

What's on my Workdesk this week?

That easy.... A little BLINGY THINGY!!! 
Staying with the beach/spa/zen resort theme I having going on in my master bathroom, this is the necklace wall decor piece, that will hopefully become part of a three piece set. The other two pieces will be for my earing and bracelets/watches....

Supplies:
Wooden plaque board
Favorite color of craft paint
White, cream or black craft paint.      
Sponge brush
Hot glue 
Sea shells
Wall hooks

CAS369 - Lucky Birthday

Just had to make-over a few lucky charms as part of our "try a new Technique" challenge. When you use a die cut piece or parts of one as your focal point, try setting it against a solid white background to help make it pop. 

WOYWW # 347 - Valentine Birthday

 It has taken me all day to finish up the the project on my Workdesk.... But for today's challenge I found myself feeling a little country red, white and sandy. These are for our Feburary Relief Society Birthdays. 

Keywords: F4A309,
Stamps: Itty bitty boarders. 
Paper: Crumb cake, white, red, DSP scraps,
Paper Size: A2
Ink: Crumb cake
Accessories : Jute cord, crimper

WOYWW # 344 - Snowman Soup

I am so excited that with the coming of the new year I will have more time to spend at my Workdesk. 

Today...

It took me most of the day to clear the Snowman Soup off my work desk.... I used the color combo challenge (CC564) that was posted on Splitcoast stampers yesterday. These make great hostess gifts or booking incentives. I am going to be using my as my visiting teaching treats for this month. Along with the card tag you will find a bag of goodies which consists of a hot chocolate package, a candy cane and a few marshmallows.

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. 

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.