I Can't Navigate My Way Out of a Paper Bag.....and BIGI News!!!!

No truer words have been spoken. Seriously. Edmonton confuses the heck out of me and quite honestly, I have no idea why.

Went there on Saturday to help Canada's Scrapbooking Crop for Kids coordinator Trisha and friend Jessi kit Jessi's classes, which I will add are positively fabulous and a must do!

Anyhow...back on topic folks.

Jessi was planning on having hubby drive here, but never fear, good ol' Janine, she'll do it, no problemo. So get into the city, first stop: pick up Anam. Thought I knew how to get there. Yeah, not quite. After that I got royally lost on the way to Trisha's house. Poor Jessi. Stuck in a car with hopelessly lost me!

Photo editing software: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Patterened Paper: Red stripes - Poppy by Tracey Collins (www.retrodiva.net), White paper - Reverie by Weeds & Wildflowers (www.scrapartist.com), green with dots - Boy Zone by Jeannette Gaidecki (www.scrapgirls.com)
Cardboard: Out of A Box by Kate Pertiet (www.designerdigitals.com)
Paper Tear by Traci Sims (www.your-digital-dream.com)
Messy Stitching: by Vendula Sediva aka Natali (www.scrapwithnatali.blogspot.com)
Notebook paper: Curled Journal Spots2 by Kate Pertiet (www.designerdigitals.com)
Twill Tag by Amy Martin
Paper crown: A Different Sort of Fantacy by Fantacy Bryant (www.scrappinhillbilly.blogspot.com)
Flower Border: Color Your World by Rhonna Farrar (www.twopeasinabucket.com)
Staples: Cinnamon Element Pack by Jenn Reed (www.computerscrapbook.com)
Cityscape brush by Hawksmont by (www.hawksmont.com)
Photo action: Retro Vintage (www.atncentral.com)
Fonts: Rough Draft, Harting, Everyday Ghost (www.dafont.com), Onyx (MS Word)

But a trip to Edmonton means a trip to Treasured Memories. That is fast becoming my favorite store. She has EVERYTHING! It is a beautiful store. Bright, well organized, beautifully designed not cluttered and gorgeous sample projects. And she has Hambly!!!!!!!!!! Hard to find up here in Canada, but she's got it and I love it.

Also, I got some great news!!!! You know a few entries ago, I decided to enter Scrapbook.com's Bigi Digi Contest and I won runner up. While was on holidays I managed to sneek in one more entry and that is what did it! So excited and such an honor! Pumped!

I have to admit since setting up My Place there, I have found it a cool place to be. Great gallery and very nice ladies with awesome talent. I always leave there with some inspiration! If you get a chance, I tell ya', go sign up and join in!

Toot-a-loo for now!

Crazy Summer Listening

I caved. About two weeks ago, I bought an RCA Pearl mp3 player. I resisted for the longest time and quite honestly, I can't believe that I bought one sooner. I have no idea why exactly that is because my portable CD player was so cumbersome and tempermental. Not to mention the constant changing and carrying my collection of CDs. But with my Pearl, I can be picky and choosy with songs and easy to load. It fits in my pocket and I wouldn't even know it was there. Pure heaven!

So you must ask, what is on my playlist. Quite a bit of everything, but lately I have really been digging Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse. Both youthful with raw lyrics of love lost and careless times. It brings me back to a time before a child that I experienced angst and a path to find out exactly who I am.

And yes, the lyrics, especially Amy's is well, raunchy. I never quite realized it until I started reading the CD insert. But quite honestly, aside from that, I think the music supercedes it. It really is good stuff. I do suggest you check it out. It might be your cup of tea.

So what esle is on there? Well, here is a page to tell you.

Materials Used
Photo editing software: Adobe Photoshop
Paper: Citrus Sea by Kim Crothers (http://www.creativesnaps.com/ )
Crumpled Paper Circles and stapled label: Trevor by Victoria Feemster (http://www.thedigishoppe.com/ )
Rusted Clip and Brads: Festive by Shabby Princess (http://www.shabbyprincess.com/ )
Funny Stiches: by Vendula Sediva aka Natali (http://www.scrapwithnatali.blogspot.com/ )
Felt Stitched Alpha by Angela Neihaus (www.aniehaus.typepad.com/my_digital_scrapbook_blog/ )
Fonts: Harting ad Downcome (http://www.dafont.com/)

And I'll leave you with a card I did last night for a CHA in Spirit challenge hosted by a pea named Kathy Romack at Two Peas In A Bucket.

Cardstock:Bazzill Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye - Tres Jolie, Junkitz Transparent Overlay: K & Company Rub On: Urban Lily Chipboard Flower and Flower Jewel: Heidi Swapp Brad and Glitter: Making Memories Other: Embroidery Thread

Thanks for looking!

A little inspiration for scrappers and non-scrappers alike.

Lately I have been slacking on my blog reading. I know, I know friends. I am sorry. I am working on getting better at it.

I like to peruse blogs every once and a while and see what everyone is up to. Where they have been what they are working on, and maybe find myself a little inspiration from those I admire.

So, I went cruising over to my friend Anam's blog and when I got there, of course I did a little nosing through her gallery because it's quite pretty, LOL! But I also remembered that Anam had started a spinoff of the sketch challenge blog Pencil Lines, called Altered Pencil Lines. It has a *very* cool concept. Let me explain:

So of course you know that there are many of us scrappers that love to follow sketches for our pages. Kinda like a page map, right? Well, this is the twist; Altered Pencil Lines takes these very same sketches and applies them as inspiration for creating art. Amazing. The thought of taking something 2 dimensional and creating it into a 3D piece of artwork is very cool, not to mention that it would be quite the challenge.

And that art. Blows me away.Those gals are designing are extremely talented. Wow. Makes me want to just go create. That is if I weren't so darn tired right now!

And as for me, I am busy creating. I do have new camping pictures from holidays that I want to get in books. I especially wanted to scrap a page about our friend's wedding. And lately, I received the Blanc Noir digital CD by Tinkering Ink and I couldn't wait to use it in my digital designs.

Psst! Lean in, I have to tell you.........
Quite honestly, I think that they are rather clever. They are the only company I know if that has both paper an digital! There are so many paper companies that I love to use and now that I am digi scrapping more and more, I am finding myself disappointed that they don't branch out into the digi market so that I can enjoy their work on my computer too!

And thanks to Tinkering Ink , I used their designs in this page for friends:

Materials Used
Photo Editing software: Adobe Photoshop
Paper: cream grid and green - Retro by Michelle Coleman (http://www.littledreamerdesigns.com/ ), Blanc Noir - Harlow and Dietrich by Tinkering Ink (http://www.tinkeringink.com/)
Tag and monogram: Blanc Noir by Tinkering Ink (http://www.tinkeringink.com/)
Messy Stitching: by Vendula Sediva aka Natali (http://www.scrapwithnatali.blogspot.com/ )
Glitter Spatters: by Scrappy Pony (http://horseshirts.blogspot.com/ )
Fonts: Porcelin, Harting and Exotica (www.dafont.com)

I love the results!

That be my life in a nutshell. Don't forget to go check out Anam's blog, she has lots of cool stuff going on. See ya!