Scraphoria Design Team Apprentice

Scraphoria has allowed me the honour of being a Design Team Apprentice for the Months of July and August! My projects for July are up on the site but here's a little taste:

Check out the site here to see the work from the talented Design Team! July's kit includes product from Cloud 9's Sunrise Smoothie collection... absolutely perfect for summer and so easy to work with! Don't forget to check back in August for my final month as Apprentice!

A Tattoo and Fireworks for Canada Day!

Not that kind of tattoo! The Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo 2008 kind of tattoo! So it's only been going on since before I was born, but just yesterday I made it to my first show... I see what all the fuss has been about all these years! I LOVED it! I am definately making this and annual tradition. The bands, performers and military acts were a-ma-zing! There was this one German Drill Team that totally blew me away... I have never seen unison like that in my life!

Here's the ad for the tattoo on YouTube:

So after the Tattoo, we went to the Halifax Public Gardens which are also pretty darn cool. Of course I took way too many photos but what else is new...

After the Public Gardens, we had time to kill before the fireworks so we had dinner at the Argyle. It was crazy busy, but amazing food very worth the wait. For the fireworks we watched from the Dartmouth side... less people and then you get a view of the city too. I think this is my new favorite place to watch from...

Card Crazy

I have been in card mode the past little while... I don't usually make many cards unless I need them but I figured it's easier to have them all ready to go for when you do need them right?? So here are just a few of 'em!

Not the Brightest Bulb in the Pack!

I think when you don't use it, you most definately lose it! - - - Your mind that is! I've been waiting to go back to work FOREVER (relative term) now, and I am losing IQ points by the day. Last week I was checking my VISA statement and was positive there was a $700 charge that wasn't mine. I was freaking out! I called VISA in a panic and was totally embarrased when the woman told me what he charge was for and I instantly remembered that I HAD paid my car insurance with my VISA... Woops! Yesterday I sent an e-mail that I swear I checked the address on at least 10 times... cause it was an important one... and then this morning I had a reply that it was the wrong address... I looked at it for like 10 minutes before I found the little "r" I had forgotten... CRAP! At least the poor person who received my wayward e-mail was kind enough to tell me so!


Anyway... there are lots more examples I could tell ya but instead here's some stuff I've been working on...

ScrapCentral Summer School

So ScrapCentral is having Summer School this year! Not the boring kind, the kind where SC members get to teach each other some nifty techniques! I got to do the very first class today, so hopefully I didn't let the ladies down. I did a tutorial on using embossing paste with brass stencils that I learned from the ladies at the Scrap Shack in May.

Here's a card using the technique (forgive me, I know it's Christmas... but it's never too early to start making these things!!!). Head on over to SC to check out Summer School, there is lots of great stuff coming up!

My Beautius Scrap Space

OK... I have been a very bad Blogger, but I have a good excuse... I overhauled my scrap space AGAIN! I know I just did that a few months ago but it wasn't the way I wanted it, so I finally got some brackets and shelves and made kind of a built in out of a 5 foot corner in a room. It isn't the most beautiful room I've ever seen but it was pretty cheap to do (about $100.00 for the shelves, brackets etc. and another $100.00 for some additional storage drawers and boxes to add to the ones I already had). I have organized everything as it went back into drawers... everything has a space now and it is so much easier to find things... we'll see how long this lasts!! ;)



Isn't it Beautius?! I love it! And I crammed everything (as neatly as possible of course!) into this one corner, so it takes up waaay less space than it used to!


This is my little stool, it's not ideal but it'll do for now. My ideal seat I think would be something like a piano bench... one because I like to curl up my legs sometimes and there aren't a whole lot of safe ways to do that on this little tiny stool! And two, I would like to add more storage for rarely used items and storage in a bench would be perfect!


I bought those black photo boxes at Walmart and organized all my non-digi photos into categories such as events, travel, people, pets, scenery etc. I also want to replace the pizza boxes on the top shelf with something a little more aesthetic but for now they'll do!


I bought the 3 white sets of drawers at Walmart also. I think Kent Building Supplies sells similar drawers as well. The middle one keeps all my cardstock, the one on the right keeps oversized flowers, adhesives and specialty items like overlays etc., and the set on the left keeps wooden stamps and paper stacks. The black baskets on top of the drawers keep my paints, stickes and glitter glues, pens and markers etc. All of my CTMH sets are bursting out of the one box and my sets that fit in cd holders are in a cd holder that I bought at Staples ( they can also stack vertically). All other stamp sets are in that black binder in heavy duty page protectors (also from Staples) that have a flap at the top so things don't fall out.

This area still needs a little work. I may go looking for a narrow drawer stand and then re-arrange some stuff, not sure yet, it's an odd little space left over, I'll have to think on it for a while.

My clip-it-up is packed to the rafters, so I also have a drawer for this type of stuff that catches the overflow! I keep all my rub-ons, stickers, masks and a wide variety of stuff on here.

Finally, I had to show you my table, because I keep a lot of crap on it! It feels naked if I don't have all this stuff next to me... all my most used adhesives (glue dots always and I am in love with Zip Dry right now... that's me finishing up my very first bottle on the table there and I only bought it in April! Wish I had bought more than 2!). I don't know why I have 4 pairs of scissors, but they are all different and I like them for different things. I have my mini misters, 2 always with water and on with walnut ink mixed up in it (although I can't remember the last time I used walnut ink). My little jar with sponges in it, paintbrushes, glue pens, markers, pencils, sanders etc. You name an essential and it's likely in this mix! Als I ALWAYS keep a nailfile in this area... you wouldn't believe how many times I've broken a nail scrapping! Seriously... it's a dangerous hobby!

I know that was a little long winded but I just love my new space and wanted to share! If anyone has any ideas how to improve anything, I'd love to hear them! Especially about that little odd space! ;)

Scrapping older Photos

I recently sorted some old photos that I'd taken before I had a digi camera... sounds funnynow... I barely remember those days! But... I found some that I really wanted to scrap... most were not fantastic photos but they marked times in my life I wanted to remember... so for the past little while I've been walking down memory lane and getting some pages crossed off my "to do" list.

Here are a few of the ones I've done... I have more but I don't want to overload ya!!