something funny

watch this

me thinks i have done a few of things shown here.

Have you?

you know what time it is

it's monday.....time for a use your stuff challenge

i had to limber up for this challenge. ms. barb challenged us to keep things in line and stretch them out. 

i made an 8.5x11 layout this week and i think i did a pretty good job 

stretching across the page and keep it all in line

grey, yellow and a bit of teal all on a cream background. love this colour combo!

visit the use your stuff blog to see what the other chicks made and link up your own project.

thanks for stopping by

Joy

photo share sunday

yes i am

happy sunday!

a Liebster blog award

i was surprised yesterday with a very sweet blog award from Bev Code aka Bee cee creativity. thank you Bev!

"Liebster”is a German word meaning dearest, beloved or favorite, and the Liebster Award is sort of a chain letter among bloggers that’s intended to showcase exceptional up-and-coming blogs (typically, those with 200 or fewer followers). There’s no evaluation committee or formal award process for the Liebster, but in a way it’s even nicer – it’s recognition that a peer has noticed and appreciated your hard work.

Here are the rules:

Choose 5 up and coming blogs of fewer than 200 followers to award the Liebster to.

Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them.

Post the award on your blog. Link back to the blogs you have given the Liebster to so everyone else can pay them a visit.

so here are the awesome blogs i would like to award the Liebster blog

dee's paper tree

just another day in my life

mbi origionals

stampy mcstamperson

queen b creative me

there is so much inspiration out there.

Joy

Wordless Wednesday ~ how to spend a pa day

use your stuff + one

this week our newest member at uys, bronwyn, challenged us to use white and one other colour. i'm not sure about you but white is always a challenge for me to use. I tend to use it as an accent colour only. I made a card this week with my + one of brown.

i used the pti set warm happiness and matching dies, pti 

fresh snow ink, some micro beads, twine and the hero arts 

background stamp flower dot pattern.

i forgot to post last mondays uys layout. here it is.....

a colour challenge~ blue, green, orange and brown.

sketch credit

happy monday!

Joy

project life week one

last year i wasn't always happy with the way my pl layouts looked. one thing i am trying to do this time around is to be a little more scrappy with the layouts... you know, adding in the pretty decorative stuff. that includes more stamping. i have collected several stamp sets and some random images to use this year throughout the album. stamping more on my scrapbook pages is a goal this year.

i'm one of those people who likes to use a computer or typewriter to do my journaling, it's so much neater than my handwriting. i promised myself no matter how messy or misspelt my journaling turns out i am not going to rewrite or replace it with typing. the only spots i can type on are those little white labels and tags. i'm already itching to replace some!
this week i used several technique tuesday stamps, washi tape and papers that came with the pl kit.


on a side note...it's so nice a quiet here this weekend, not much is going on. i am lovin' the hours in my craft-room. moving on to week two!


thank you for your kind comments, i really appreciate them.

Joy

project life title page

i thought i would share my project life title page today, i had some pending projects that i wanted to finish before starting. 
the title page is a mix of products from the core kit - turquoise edition and these digital pieces by marcy penner, digi project life - clementine edition, october afternoon stickers and a few things cut on the silhouette.

the hubby isn't much of a smiler. i'll catch some in the album

here's some details

i love that camera!

i'm off to a good start and hope to get the first 3 weeks finished this weekend while the man is working for the next three days. one goal i have this year is to include some ephemera we collect over the weeks like hand written notes, labels, shopping tags and receipts. i'm really thankful that i have a calendar started helping me keep photos and journaling update, it has been pretty painless and very quick.

happy thursday!

Joy

times & seasons

lots of goodness this month in my dt kit from The Scrapping Bug. 

here's what i came up with this month..... 

for the love of typewriters

a canvas inspired by Ms. Regan and her amazing work and this sticker from the EP stickers sheet.

i made the sky with tissue paper and distress inks

We R Memory Keepers pocket pages layout

Some details

check out what the other dt members made this month here

thanks for stopping by

Joy