Little blue Box

I used Inspired blueprints sketch # 46 to create this LO.

Hidden jouranling:

A few summers ago while visiting my parents, I told my mom tht I wanted a cross necklace from dad. We went home for Christmas, like we do every year. While saying good night to my mom, my dad handed me a little blue box. With mom and I already crying, I opened the box and there sitting in a little bag, was a cross necklace with a note telling me that the cross belonged to my Great grandmother and when he joined the Army, my grandmother gave it to him. My dad told me he used to wear the cross on his dog tags for the longest time. He was afraid that he was going to lose the cross, so he taped it to the inside of his jewelry box.

A couple of weeks after my dad gave me the necklace, he became sick and things just started going wrong. I told him that it was because I had the necklace. That great grandma wasn't done "protecting" him. The following Christmas again we went home and that night as we were saying good night, I handed my dad the little blue box. I enclosed a note with the cross telling him taht this cross protected him through his life adventures and wasn't done protecting him. I told him that I wanted him to keep the cross until he had gotten a clean bill of health from his doctor. After giving it back, my dads health improved. Chris had to go to a school down at Fort Bragg and stayed with my parents for that week. When Chris came hime, he handed me the little blue box. For a whole week, I called my dad every night making sure he was well. This cross means the world to me and I will always cherish it forever.

Thanks for looking. =)

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Stay tune, I will be posting one today!! =)

Sketches! {by tamara} Challenge

Tamara from Sketches! {by tamara} asked fans to help out with this challenge, I posted that I would love to help out. The challenge was to create a layout using this BINGO card.

I picked the second line across to create my layout. (a circle, journaling strips, buttons, inking and chipboard)

Thanks Tamara for this fun challenge!!

Thanks for looking. =)

It's been a long time ...

WOW almost a year since I posted anything here. Lets see ... whats new ... lol LOTS!!

but not to put you to sleep with all my new things going on, lets just jump in and look at the fun layouts I've done!! =)

Thanks for taking a peek. more Layout will be posted soon. =)

Give away

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All you need to do is leave a comment here (making sure you leave your contact details) and link this giveaway at your blog (if you have one).
We will use a number generator to pick the lucky winner on May 10th, 2009
You've gotta be in it to win it!!!
PS: Yes this giveaway is open to International people also!!!

Prom 2009

I know this isn't scrapbooking related, but they will be once I add these pictures to my layouts. lol

More will be posted soon.

A few scrappy things

I know it's been a few days since I've posted. So here is a LO& card.
Sketch for LO is from scrapstreet MichMC.

Scrapstreets Saturday Challenge (4/4)

Saturdays challenge was to create a LO using paint. But ... the kicker ... no brushes! Fingers only! :)

Saturday I went and got my nose pierced so I used that picture for my LO.

Thanks for looking :)

Aprils scrapstreet ezine

Is now out!!

Click here to read all the great articles and all the great scrappy projects!!
Another great month!!

Scrapstreet challenge

Last week challenge was to find a CD cover and scrap a LO.

Here is the CD cover I picked:

And my LO:Thanks for looking :)

A few scrappy projects

I've been bad about getting my scrappy projects posted here. So here are a few things I have done these past few weeks.

Thanks for stopping by!

Scrapstreet ezine

March Magazine is posted. Click here to read all the great articles, tips & ideas. Ohhh and don't forget to check out all the great LOs, cards and altered projects that many talented scrappers submitted.

Want to submit one your creations? Check out the calls for April's magazine.

Scrapstreet Star #3

Will be starting March 27. Come on over to scrapstreet and check out the info.

Try it out, I can tell you it's a fun month long contest. This will be my 3rd year playing. You could win a spot on the pit crew or win the big prize of $100. worth of scrappy yummies!

Scrapstreet Star #3 (click it, you know you want to)

Mafia scrap wars results

The last standing gang ... THE STICKY FINGERS!! (Congrats girls)

The scores are in and Scrapranos lost to The Sticky Fingers.

Click here to check it all out.

Final Mafia scrap wars week

Scrapranos made it to the final week!! Wooo Hooo GO US!!

The final week challenge was to put a "hit" on another gang member and give them a challenge.

I put a "hit" on Michmc. Her challenge:

Everyone knows what a big Rachael Ray Fan I am and love to see her double duty tips and what an altering fool I can be.So for your challenge ... Alter something you wouldn't normally alter. (must be something very different. hint ... Shop at Lowes ) Alter this item and find a creative use for it. Share your altered item (must post pic before altering and after picture) and share the double duty use.

I was "hit" by Lynda. Her challenge to me:

Your layout must be paper..no digital stuff here...You need at least three photos...only one can be colorPhotos have to be both vertical and horizontal in orientation....Your page must have at least one "working" component; so must open, pull out....you get the idea...Your page has to have a one word title...There must be flowers on your page somewhere...afterall it's almost spring...and speaking of Spring...lets see some pastel colors on this baby...I want to see some buttons too....

Here's what I came up with. Thanks for looking :)

This is showing my working component. (pull out tag)

Week 3 Mafia scrap wars bonus layout

For bonus points this week, we had to create a LO using "This thing of ours" as a title.

Week 3 Mafia scrap wars challenge Mini album

Here is what I came up with. The front of the album is a light switch cover from Lowes.
Thanks for looking. Stop by this weekend to see if the scrapranos made it another week and to see what week 4 challenge is. :)

Week 2 Mafia scrap wars results

Scrapranos made it to another week!! Woo hooo Go girls!

Week 3 challenge is to create a mini album. Come back in a few days to see what I scrapped.

Week 2 scrap mafia war Myspace ... clueless?

Scrapranos made it through week 1!!

Week 2 we had to create a controversial layout. Click here to read about it.

Jouranling:

Many parents have no clue what their teens have or put on their Myspace pages. I was one of them, until I heard on the news the horrible things that were happening with Myspace. They talked about how sex predators were requesting to be friends with teens; they would get to know them and ask to meet. The teen would meet this stranger and boom trouble! The news also talked about internet bulling and how a mom signed up as a teen and bullied her (because she didn't like this teenager) to the point that this teen committed suicide. The news mentioned that porn Myspace pages were going around asking teenage boys to be on their friends list. That's when I said enough and I signed up. I had Jenn help me create my very own Myspace. Once I got my page up and running, I friend requested the kids and took a look at their page. There were a couple of things I had them remove or change. Nothing to big, but I explained my reasoning. I had them take off the town that we lived in and had them put "Somewhere in WV",I also asked about a couple friends that they had and if they didn't know them I had them delete them as their friends.
At one time, all of my friends on my page were my children's friends.
It's too easy now a day for weirdo's to get your child's information. Or request them as a friend and have this stranger tell a bunch of lies about them.
Some parents (and teens) would see this as an invasion of their teen's privacy. I don't, I see it keeping my children safe. (Just for the record, I don't go onto their page everyday)
As you can see all 3 of my teens have a Myspace page. I highlighted my picture with the arrow pointing to it showing that I wasn't clueless anymore. Computers can be a dangerous thing. We are teaching our children that they can't believe everything they read and how to protect themselves while being on their Myspace page.

Scrapstreet challenge club

Challenge 1/31 was to do LOs using clip Art, a sign or symbol.

Here's mine. (I used a Steeler sign)



If you're insterested in joining the fun over at Scrapstreet. Click here to join the fun.