Just Playin' Around

I was looking around the Candy's Treats website with full intentions of grabbing a freebie kit and trying out some of the awesome tag tutorials but I got side tracked and ended up making a Digi Page instead...go figure :P

Anyway, I used the taggers sized "Wicked" Kit and made this page of myself. I'm always loved Oz, and I've always love witches (kinda hard not to love them being from Salem, MA and all), so I snagged the kit and used my photo from Halloween last year and made this page just for fun.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by and checking in on things here. It's been a long week... and I'm ready to lay down and enjoy the rest of the evening before the next week starts.

~Jenn

New Kits To Play With & A new sketch by me too!

Two new kits have been created by Candy's Treats and I got the chance to sit down last night and play around with them. I've got to tell ya, there is so much packed in to the Enchanted & After Dark kits, I had a really hard time not using too much and over doing my pages! LOL So needless to say, I'm definatly going to be using these kits for more creations. :)

These pages I made using pieces from the Enchanted Kit

(the large frame came from the after Dark Kit)

For the next layout I first created a sketch then used the kit to create what I did. So heres my Sketch

and this one I made using pieces from the After Dark Kit and the Freebie Kit.
...AND as if Digi Kits weren't already a steal for their already reasonable prices you can get BOTH of these kits as a Combo for even MORE savings! So head on over to Stargazer Scraps and snag this awesome deal! Don't forget to stop by the Candy's Treats blog, theres a great freebie and some quickpages there too!

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

It's my birthday today! Woohoo, the day I get to travel all over the internet and visit all the different sites I belong to and change my age in all of my profiles....LOL

What will 27 bring me?? I dunno, but I'm gonna start this new year for me off by doing what I love.... SCRAPPING! I invited a friend over and we gonna scrap the day away, or at least the morning, I've also gotta fit baking a cake in the early afternoon, and an early supper along with Soccer practice for Xavier tonight, the work of Mom never takes a break, not even on her birthday! hehe

So with all that said, hopefully I'll be back later and have some creations to show you :)

Happy Scrapin'
~Jenn

********UPDATE********

Well I didn't get nearly as much scrapped as I had hoped, I guess that's what happens when A you don't plan your projects and B you haven't seen your best friend in a while and have tons to talk about and catch up on......LOL

I did complete these two layouts though. I really like how they turned out.


and just showing off my birthday presents I got on my birthday... a balloon flower from hubby, and a balloon mouse the kids picked out for hubby to make.

My birthday ALWAYS falls just before a pay day, so I never get anything on the actual day. It's all good I make sure to get something once pay day rolls around, hehe This year I put some new clothes on layaway to pick up next week, I'm very excited!

I'm part of a Creative Team!!!

A big THANK YOU to Diane over at Candys Treats for inviting me to become a part of her Creative Team! Her new Full Sized Digi Kits are super cute and I am having a lot of fun playing and creating with them :)

This Page I made using Candy's Treats "Playful" Kit. There is so much more to this kit you could get lots of pages done and no two pages would look alike!

I made this Page using Candy's Treats "Moms Day" Kit. Another beautifully put together kit, with loads of goodies to play with. The colors and pattern make for some really nice creations.

and here's a Girly one... The Kit used here is called "Dazzle"

If you like what you see, and would like to see more of these kits you can head over to the Candy's Treats blog or visit her shop over at Stargazer Scraps and purchase them for yourself.

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

A New Hobby

Over the past couple of months, I have discovered I really enjoy creating layout sketches. It started out as just messing around to see if I could really do it, to creating some exclusive sketches for Scrapping Friends (an online scrapping community), and now along with those exclusives I am going to be periodically posting sketches on my blog as well.

Here are previews of some sketches I've created for Scrapping Friends.... I am only showing those that have already been used, but there are plenty more in the sketch vault that will eventually be released and I can share a sneak peek with you. ;)

I am only 1 of many talented sketch designers on site including my friend Sandie who also shares her sketches on her blog Tales of the Steakgoddess. There is a new sketch posted in the group each week and all are left on site as an archive for later reference :) So if you like these sketches and you would like a better view of them, and if you'd like to meet other scrappers you should check out Scrapping Friends.

Now on to my first Blog Sketch. When it comes to creating sketches I work a little backwards. I usualy make the layout first THEN the sketch....LOL Theres just something about my approach of setting a certain amount of things in from of me and telling myself see what you can do with that... and I do. When I'm done, if I like how things turned out, I eventually make a sketch of it. So MOST times when I post a new sketch I'll have a sample layout to show you a possible end result to give you even MORE inspiration, or at least I hope so :)

Layout Sketch #1


Sample Layout

I also have this sketch in Digital template form, I haven't uploaded it yet since I' not sure if anyone would want it, but if you do send me an e-mail and I'd be happy to upload it and share with you Digi scrappers out there. :)

Hope you can get some ideas from this sketch and if you do I'd LOVE to see your results :)

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

A couple of cards

I thought I'd show off a couple of cards I've made reciently. These are all fairly simple but I had fun doing something I don't normally get to do.... play with the color PINK! Since I have all boys and don't normally have a chance to use pink I decided I could use it on cards so I bought the DCWV Sweet Mat Stack since it was so cute, and I'm just crazy about the cupcake trend so this paper is perfect for that also.

Speaking of the cupcake trend, how much do I LOVE the Studio G series 27 cupcake stamps?!!? Wel let's just say I almost wish they were real cause they look good enough to eat! They are soooo darn cute! So I have the whole set and have been having fun playing with them too, and of course they are perfect to go with the sweet stack!

Other than that I've used my usual favorites on these cards, stickles, dew drops, or skittles which ever you call them, ribbon, flock, glitter, primas, they're all here.

and this is just a card I did up trying to follow a T!m Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas tut... (Day 1 ~ 2007). I did manage to get all the techniques on to this cards, I did not have some of the materials on hand like the blending tool which really made inking the way he did a challenge. This card is far from perfect, and I call it my "Ugly Card", and still say if T!m saw this he might actually come to my house and take away all my TH products so I can't reproduce this! LOL

I give credit to a friend of mine, Nancy for the over all look of this card since I followed a sketch of hers. If you like the layout of this card, and are thinking "hmm, I'd like to see more sketches by this Nancy lady" there is a way. This sketch and many more are available exclusively to Scrapping Friends, a terrific online scrapbooking community (I go in to more detail of this place further down my blog if you are interested) ;)

Once again thanks for stopping by my blog, I hope you have a wonderful and creative day!

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn

NAME CHANGE ALERT

If you haven't already heard Everything Cricut has changed it's name. It is now being called Imagine That. So don't fear it's not gone, head on over and check out what's new! :)

http://everythingcricut.blogspot.com

~Jenn

SCRAPPING FRIENDS

So, I'm a part of this group, an awesome group, an amazingly awesome group of super talented scrappers who enjoy each others company, and who enjoy sharring their work, tips, tricks and ideas..... sound good so far? What if I said that this group had nearly 100 paper crafting lessons, places to chat and get to know others, has fun games to participate in, and lots of different activities where you can win prizes, grant a fellow scrappers wish, and even make a wish of your own.... sound like even more good stuff?? What if I also told you there was a swapping area, with new swaps posted each month, and that there are weekly challenges to get you motivated to scrap and is a place where Traditional Scrappers and Digital Scrappers can be together?
Does this sound like a great place for a scrapper to be or what? ALL this wonderful stuff and I still haven't even mentioned the crops yet! Every year Scrapping Friends (or SF as the locals call it), holds quarterly crops each season. Each crop lasts approximatly 2 weeks and in that time there are lots of games to play, loads of challenges to keep you busy the entire time, and in the end, there are lots of great prizes to be won!

Well I'll tell ya first hand it is a wonderful place to be, and that place is http://www.scrappingfriends.yuku.com/ ! I have been a member of Scrapping Friends for a little over 3 years now and I have to say it's been the best experience in my life (well next to having my kids of course...lol). The talent of the group is beyond amazing, the kindness, support, and encouragement from the friends that you make is unbelievable! It really keeps your Scrappy Mojo going and if you do run in to Scrapper's Block, it isn't long before you are inspired by something to give a try.

So if this sounds like your kind of place then head on over to http://www.yuku.com/ and make an account and join us! Hope to see you there!

Happy Scrappin'
~Jenn