PICTURE CHALLENGE

The 6th Picture Challenge...

I've been challenged by LAINEY!!!! (I {heart} you Lainey!!!!)
These are the challenge instructions:
•Go to your photo folder in your computer.
•Go to the 6th folder of the photos.
•Go to the sixth picture.
•Put the picture on your blog and description of it.
•Invite six friends to join the challenge.
•Link them in your blog and let them know they have been challenged!

Of ALL the places I'd be somewhat 'organized' it WOULD have to be my pictures. UGH. They're all organized by year and then month.....

SO, this is my picture!

It's from a few weeks back when I went ice fishing with Joe. This is him, drilling one of the holes. Good time.

SO....I tag:

* Laurie @ Live, Love, Laugh, Create

* Rachelle @ The Ink Boutique (just because I haven't heard from her in a while)

* Aura @ Aura of Design (because I REALLY haven't heard from HER in a while!!)

* Katrina @ Kindred Thoughts and Things (because I'm wondering if she even REMEMBERS HOW to blog?!?) :)

* Peggy @ Colour du jour

and...........

* Courtney @ Created by Courtney

Or course just because you're name doesn't appear here....FEEL FREE to consider yourself tagged!! :)

Charlene's Birthday Card

This is the birthday card I came up with for one of the girls at work, Charlene. Interestingly enough, I was inspired by one of the other girls' scrub tops.
Charlene was off all week last week, her birthday week, and just returned to work today. She liked it. I was pretty pleased with it too. :)

Materials Used:
Misc black cardstock, Daisy White CS (CTMH), misc hot
pink cardstock
True Black ink (CTMH), Bubblegum ink (CTMH)
Time Well Spent stamp set (SU!),, Birthday Blossoms (Stampendous)
Stickles-Star Dust

Samuel's Valentine's

I SO snagged this idea from

Laurie over at Just Give Me Stamps. If you've never visited her blog....GO!!! OH MY GOSH!! Her artwork is AMAZING!!! Hers are a little more involved. I needed a little simpler and easier. Most of my paper is scraps-which explains the varying colors of pink, for the girls of course. I embossed the cardstock with one of my cuttlebug folders punched the white strip with a MS punch adhered it all and added riboon. I worked on them today at lunch so I didn't have to worry about finishing them all tonight. (Samuel has to have his Valentine's turned in tomorrow....and NO candy this year....why we went for pencils!!) I think they came out pretty cute! I'm pleased. :)

I STILL have a birthday card, or TWO or THREE.....or more......to get done. Maybe tomorrow??? Have a GREAT week!!!

Sympathy Card

A sympathy card for my friend Katrina. Katrina's Aunt passed away last week and the services are today. Please say a prayer for Katrina and her family. She/They were very close to her Aunt Dorothy and I know she will be missed greatly.

Paper: Fancy Pants and CTMH(Twilight, Cranberry, Naturals) Inks: CTMH (Twilight, Cranberry, Golden Ember, Garden Green, Black) Ribbon: CTMH (Ivory) Stickles (XMas Red, Turquoise) Stamps: CTMH ?? Name?? OLD WOODIES set BUT my ALL TIME FAVORITE!!! and With Sympathy by Great Impressions

LOOK at what I got!!!!

First of all........

THANK YOU PEGGY!!!!!

Do I EVER feel SPOILED!!! :)

Peggy dropped this GORGEOUS bag off to me this evening!!!

If you remember I'd won it in Peggy's Comment Contest a while back but it wasn't quite finished....

It was SO WORTH the wait!!!!!!

I CAN'T WAIT to start using it now!!!!!

I ran into Peggy early today at their store here in town, I was buying some ingredients I needed for dinner.

I only wish I'd gotten a picture of Peggy at the door handing it to me now. LOL

Isn't it beautiful??!?!

You should only just see it IN PERSON!!

And the INSIDE!!!!

You MUST go to Peggys blog at Colour de Jour.

She has WAY better pictures posted. You have to scroll down a bit but they're there. I PROMISE!! :)

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You Peggy!!

I LOVE it!!!!

It's been a while. I know, I know......

My friend Korie is having a baby!!! Korie and I went to nursing school together and carpooled many 'a day together. She went with me a few weeks ago to Wenatchee, the day we went LOOKING for a dress for Nikki for Tolo--Oh My Goodness.....I'm thinking Korie won't be forgetting that day for quite some time AND I'm thinking she's REALLY HOPING for a BOY!! :) Don't get me wrong...girls are just fine............when they're BABIES!! Those of you who have, or who HAVE HAD, a teenage girl(s) KNOW what I mean!! Anyways.......

Korie is having a BABY, she went with me shopping for the day....we found this CUTE scrapbook AND matching paper (at Target none the less). She was admiring this book so I told her I'd make her up a scrapbook for the baby. I worked on it last week so thought I'd share what I've come up with. The pages are pretty simple but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

What do you think??

Front of the book. Korie can put a picture of baby in there when he comes. :)

This is the first page.

I THINK I'm going to somehow do 'Welcome (baby's name) or SOMETHING before I give it to her.....I just haven't figured out WHAT for sure yet.....

Ideas????

(TRY not to look at my HUGE MESS in the background). HOLY COW if you only saw my work area right now.......

I tried to couple these pages together BUT they're each separate so she can take them out and rearrange them how she likes.

As you can see.......

I didn't get too crazy embellishing these pages. I know Korie bought a matching sticker pack for this paper so she can use those if she likes.

I AM going to stamp some images from a stamp set or two for baby's weight, date etc....

The page on the left, and the wanna look like quilted pages are my favorites!! I don't know why.....

just are.

I think this is the ONLY page I did photo mats for....why?? Who knows?!

You never know how someone else is going to want to put their pages in.....

Another one of my favorites.

The square in the middle says:

"Life affords no greater responsiblity, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation. -C. Everett Koop"

Isn't it the truth.

This is the last page.

It's a pocket page. I actually cut the page protector so the top will be protected and she can still put little momento's in the pocket. That little silver baby clip there kind of holds the page protector to the paper.

By the way......

This paper (Monkey Around Paper Pad), also from Target, to match the book is by K Marcella. There were 12 designs, 36 sheets for like eight and change in the pack and let me tell you it is a NICE paper. Not too thin not TOO heavy--a NICE weight! I'll definately buy more of this brand paper---LOL--silly me! I did!!

That's all for now.....

I'm off tonight so I'm HOPING to MAYBE get some creating done today. We'll see. I moved MORE stuff up from my other room last week and it's kind of a mess up here so I guess I REALLY should TRY to get some organizing done. We'll see what I feel like doing later on but right now I'm off to pick up Salvador!

Enjoy your Sunday!!!

SheetLoads Blog Candy Blow Out

GO HERE---> SheetLoad of Cards to enter to win THIS:

I WON! I WON!!!

WOOHOO!!!!! I can't believe it myself!! I WON!!! TWICE in ONE week!!!! You know what they say about 3's!!! Should I try for the lottery this week??? :)

Okay, okay....so WHAT did I win????? Well, do you remember the post about the blog candy over at Colour de Jour?? I was one, of the 3, winners!!! Yippeee!! I can't WAIT to see my new bag!!! Oh, you can be SURE I'll share pics when I get it!!! :)

THEN, today I went to a scrapbooking event. It was a scrapbooking retreat from Friday thru Sunday. I wasn't able to go Friday or Saturday (Friday I was working and Saturday, originally I had other plans but ended up being SO tired--this cold is just diggin' in with both feet so to speak--I slept ALL DAY, and I mean ALL DAY into Sunday morning---but I went down today and this is what I WON!!!

This bag with all these goodies inside!!

LUCKY ME! LUCKY ME!!!

I swear I think each of the pockets had SOMETHING in it!!!

I got a few pages done for a friend's book that I've been TRYING to work on and get back to her but I didn't bring enough of the 'right' paper so I started working on my Christmas book for, ahem.....2005....yes, thats right......SHHHHH!

I got my mom's done that year, before they left I think, or at least shortly there after....I just haven't worked on mine. I am now. That's all that matters. Right??

I brought minimal, and I mean MINIMAL supplies so I still need to do my journaling and add embellishments BUT I'm started!! :)

AND the BEST thing is......I'm getting the scrapbooking 'feeling' back!!!!

I've ALMOST completed the baby book (last post), although I DID give it to her. I owe her, I think, three Holidays. You know what my mom says??? 'I'd rather owe it to ya than cheat ya out of it.' Fresh huh?!

Anyways, she liked it.. Yeaaaahhhh!!! I took pics before I brought it in so here goes:

(I know, some of these are repeats but this is how they look IN the book.)


1 Month Old

2 Months Old

3 Months Old

4 Months Old

(and my least favorite page). I was trying to stay with the 'theme' of each sticker...this one had blue, red and yellow rainbows with clouds.

5 Months Old

6 Months Old

(and a REAL crappy picture! But it's the only one I've got. Sorry)

7 Months Old

8 Months Old

9 Months Old

10 Months Old

11 Months Old

FIRST BIRTHDAY!!

First Halloween-

I don't know that they actually dressed her up but figured I'd do it anyways.

These last pages (Holidays) are SUPER simple. All I did was use a paper pack I got from JoAnn Fabric, a Debbie Mumm Harvest & Holiday pack, and cut them up to fit where I needed. QUICK and EASY!!

First Thanksgiving

REALLY simple. I was SERIOUSLY losing steam by this point. Can you tell?!

....and finally First Christmas. I'll probably cut a green square or rectangle for her to add to this page.

So there you have it. I'm SO DONE with this post. It took FOREVER for the pics to download. UGH. It's alright though...I've been reorganizing my work space and putting paper scraps (from this album) away!!

Leave a comment, let me know what you think. Suggestions and ideas are ALWAYS welcome!!

Thanks for stopping by!

-S

I used a variety of papers for this project. I TRIED to use as many scraps as I could but also used newer paperes too. Some are CTMH, SU!, My Minds Eye, Debbie Mumm etc...