APOS! Inspiration Challenge

The new team is officially now hard at work over at APOS! Tammy has issued the first challenge over at the forum and I think everyone should go check it out and show us what you got! I love where she got the inspiration for the challenge (The Royal Wedding) and I can't wait to get started on my layout. Click here to take you right to the challenge. And be sure to come check out my blog later on this weekend for my take on the challenge.

Until next time Happy Scrapping to you all!

My first all day crop!

Back in April I attended my first all day crop. I spent a couple of days getting stuff ready and as I wasn't sure what I should take and what I would leave at home. I had a blast and I hope I can make some more time to do more crops. The one I attended was a fundraiser for my children's school. I managed to get 3 layouts done in the 8 hours I was there. I of course did some talking and some shopping as well.

My first layout was a scraplift from the April 2011 Scrapbooks Etc magazine. I also found the instructions to do the large flower on the layout. It took me a bit of fiddling with the paper but I finally got it where I was happy with the outcome. I took a closeup picture of the flower.

This layout was inspired by a sketch from the Got Sketch blog by Valerie Salmon. As soon as I saw the sketch I knew what photos I wanted to use. I was able to use my scraps and kraft cardstock and embellished the scallop border with some of my I rock bling.
Lastly I used a sketch from the Scrapbooks Etc magazine for this layout. These pictures were taken last fall of the 2 men in my life playing with my son's new remote control cars. I used paper Echo Parks Little Boy line. It was just so perfect for the pictures.

Until next time Happy Scrapping!

Where does the time go?

Back in February my daughter turned 7. When thinking about what we would do for her party I came across a local company that sends out princesses, spiderman, and Demi Lovato look alikes. As soon as I told her she could have a Camp Rock party there was no going back. I ordered a Rock Princess cricut cartridge to make the invitations, party favour bags and banner and as soon as it arrived Sydney and I started working on everything. She was so excited to help me and I absolutely loved how everything turned out.

So I am finally getting around to posting pictures of everything that we did.

The invitation. I used my cuttlebug embossing folders and used one of the cuts from the Rock Princess cartridge.

The party favour bags. I used the Font from the Rock princess cartridge. It is too adorable with the hearts in it.

Lastly the banner. Again the font is from the Rock Princess Cartridge and I have shown a close-up so you can see that I embossed the letters.

APOS! Inspiration Team!

I am so excited to share my wonderful news! I applied to be on the APOS! Inspiration Team again and I was selected along with 5 other talented ladies. We all have our own style and we hope to inspire everyone on the forum in our own way. If you haven't checked out the forum yet I encourage you to do so. They are a wonderful group over there and I am proud to call all of them my friends. To get to the forum you can click on my APOS! blinkie at the side and it will take you right there. Don't forget to introduce yourself while you are there. No worries we don't bite. :)

Don't forget to check out the other team members blogs.

Diana

Kelsey

Tammy

Michelle

Meg

Online Photoshop class

I have always wanted to learn how to use Photoshop but never found the right online course for me to learn the basics. Then over at A PILE OF SCRAP forum they announced they were going to have an online course to learn the basics of photo editing. One course was using Photoshop and the other one used a free program. I jumped at the chance to learn how to do a few things with photoshop. I had a blast learning and wanted to share a few photos with everyone to see what I can now do. Now these are along a few of the things we did in the class. Even though the class is over you can still head over to the forum and sign up since they have now left it as an open class that you can take at any time. If you are looking to learn the basics in photoshop I highly recommend taking the class. Cori-lyn did the tutorials and she is fantastic at explaining things so you can understand. Click here to go directly to the APOS forum and sign up!

Here is my original photo.

Here is my photo cropped and using an action.

Here is my original photo.

Here is my photo with 2 items cloned out of the picture.

This photo I cropped, changed to black and white and added some test. These are some of the lovely ladies from the APOS forum. I got to meet them last August while we were in New Brunswick visiting family.

Wednesday Wishes

I thought I would try something new on my blog. On Wednesdays I will post an item that I would love to have. Of course it will be scrappy related. To start off I thought I would go big! I have wanted a binding tool for a while now. I can only imagine the mini albums I could make if I had one. I am looking at making mini albums for my kids teachers this year as gifts and it would be awesome if I had the Cinch Bindery tool. As an added bonus it is PINK!

So what is on your scrappy wish list? Please share...perhaps I will learn about something new out there and I can add it on my ever growing wish list :)

Looking forward to Spring!

I really need Spring to arrive. The first official day was yesterday yet tomorrow we are supposed to get more snow and ice pellets. Seriously I am done with winter! It can leave now and make way for lots of sun, flowers and fresh air. So I figured I would start fresh on my blog and hopefully keep up some posts by posting what I love best about spring. Don't forget to leave a comment to let me know what you most enjoy about spring.

1. Going for bike rides with the family. What better exercise and fun with the whole family.

2. Opening my windows and letting in all the fresh air. Airing out my rooms and hopefully all the nasty winter germs.

3. Seeing the flowers start to sprout up. So bright, colourful and cheerful.

4. Just plain old getting outside more. Taking in the sun and feeling more free and not confined to my house.

5. Spring cleaning my house. I don't always manage to get everything I

want done but I always try to get rid of some clutter. This year I think I will come up with a plan.

And I thought I would leave you with a recent layout I did using one of the kits I purchased from Scrapping Great deals. The picture is of my Dad and I when we were in New Brunswick last year. I used my IRock for the bling....love that thing! The sketch is from the Sketch savvy blog. Sorry for the not so great pic. It was taken at night.