Turtle Cyber Crop Friday night!

Before the 14 hour card fest I played along in the Scrapping Turtle Cyber Crop. I was a cyber crop virgin, but it was pretty cool. I felt a little guilty cropping along on a Friday night though - that is usually our family chill time.

There were 4 challenges. My pictures turned out horribly but here they are:

#1 6pm - Sketch challenge... Trust me, this one matches the sketch posted by Selena. LOVE the sketch - very cool!


7pm - Next was Dea's challenge to complete a LO using orange and black as the dominant colours and it did not have to be Halloween themed. Well that sounded like an extra fun challenge so I came up with this one "Funky and Fresh" (bad pic!)



730pm - Stop and unscramble some crazy scrapping words and send to Selena - CHECK!

8pm - Martina's challenge to scrap a LO using a pic or pics of someone dressed up. But now DON'T use black or orange or Halloween paper... YIKES!


And finally 9pm - Jasmine's challenge to do a LO where the subject whole face cannot show, only partial faces... This one was really tough to find pics to match!


It really was a lot of fun. Next time hopefully more people are able to play along!
Great challenges!!!

14 Hours in One Day Scrapping!!!! A new personal best...

Kandace and I will be selling some cards and different scrapped items at the company craft show in November... so in order to make some stock we scrapped for 14+ hours on Saturday and this is just some of what we were able to complete!!
My butt dozed off for a few naps and my neck is completely stiff today but I think the toughest part will be actually letting people buy the cards now. They really turned out awesome and it will be hard to sell them!

We definitely need to make more stuff - but there are a few weekends left! I got some more stuff today at the craft store to work on some more in the evenings!

Here is my LO from the Thanksgiving dare on the Circle. Just posting it after that fact is all... It was tough. I am not in love with it - but it's ok. I printed my pic on textured cardstock. Looks way better IRL.

Circle of Scrapping Friends - Posted My First Dare!

Posted my first dare since being asked to join the team on Circle of Scrapping friends.
It was really fun to come up with it - so it's up.

I dared everyone to create a LO using NONE of their faves - so my fave paper product is Scenic Route, my fave tool is my Crop-adile and my fave embellie (? at least I hope it is considered an embellie) is stamping.

So my LO has none of these elements.

Here is my dare:

I kinda just LOVE this one

I prepared this LO while at the Pirate Princess crop at the Turtle and I just love it.
It is such a cool and funny memory of Rui on his 1st day of JK. I don't think I will ever forget this day.



Love those THICKERS!

Here is my 1st Dare LO for the Circle of Scrapping Friends

Joined the team on the circle with Jenn, Kelly and Amanda. So fun!
The first dare was to leave "white space" on a LO. This is super challenging for me because I am a free-styler and I love to fill up every inch with tons of pics and embellies. It's like when I am talking, I can't shut up - same thing applies to scrapping for me. So this was tough but once I started it just came together. I am pretty pleased with the end product. What a great memory. I will never forget Rui saying "That bug is a friends. My name is Rui Silva and I am a great boy. I have lots of answers." It's not like he waited patiently with his hand up. Nope. He just yelled it out as soon as the question was asked.

And I thought he would be scared and shy at school.
I guess I was wrong.

There once was Princess Jasmine
You have probably heard her name
She will go to great lengths
And show all of her strength
To win is the name of her game!

Now Our Jas, she has no fear
So listen, lend me your ear
To sparkle her eye
She used Zip-Dry
And the crowd did give a big cheer

Jasmine - inspired use of adhesive. It was a very proud moment!

Ok I am definitely going to get an adapter or something for the camera to the computer! Gonna hit The Source tomorrow I think!
I have done tons of scrapping and I can't upload anything! Plus I have some wicked pics on the camera that I want to alter/picasa/photoshop whatev...
I tried to do my 1st digital LO. I got as far as download a bunch of free stuff to make the LO and then I got stuck. I tried to download a trial of photoshop so I could get it done but it didn't work...
Will persevere and someday be victorious!
I went to a visitation today - so sad. I hate cancer. Cancer can go straight to hell. That's all I will say about it.

Trying to keep up with the Circle of Scrapping Friends - So far I am loving all the dares...! Very inspiring.

I am making tons of stuff because I am supposed to have a bunch of thingys ready for a craft show at work where my aunt will be selling her cards and I wanted to add to her stock and sell some of mine too. I made a grand total of (yippee) one card and one bookmark today but I was working on some stuff for the Turtle recipe swap so I say I still did good.

We went to the awesome Oktoberfest/Thanksgiving Parade today. Perfect weather again! I love parades. My mom gets so totally jazzed - she has so much fun! Her fave is the bands I think! They did not have any pipe bands in this year - those are my faves and I love the ladies who stand on the back of the horses and all the kids in the parade. They get so excited waving to the crowds.

I hope our kids get to be in a parade sometime. I was in them when I was a kid and it is a kick for sure.

Love my new Pirate Princess bra I won at the crop and yes ladies - it was indeed my size. Wore it to work this week even me hearties! Hee hee...

Circle of Scrapping Friends - Team Member Kim!!!

So excited to join the new team on the Circle of Scrapping Friends blog! Amanda set up a great new place for us to "dare" out scrappy friends to push the limits of their creativity and talents! So cool...
Thanks Amanda for all your hard work.

I have my next dare completed but have to get the camera working to upload it and stuff.. Maybe I can get Laura's camera again just for the night to upload everything! Hmmm... Better butter her up since I kept it so long last time!



I can't wait to show my "white space". Mine is red but now looking at the Ali Edwards LO I am not sure I left enough blank to qualify - LOL. That is what happens to a free-styler - I can't help filling all the space!