Happy May!

Not only have I been a bad blogger, I've been a bad scrapper. Many of you may have heard about the devastating tornadoes that hit Alabama, and although my immediate family came out unscathed, it has affected many of my friends and family, including my grandbaby and his mom, who live in Tuscaloosa. They are fine, but their belongings are largely gone, as are business and roads and power is not expected to be restored for several weeks.

So, if you've wondered why I haven't been to visit all of your blogs, that is why. Hoping my life will return to some amount of normalcy after next weekends recital.

My shares with you are weather related, if you haven't already seen them on my Facebook. Here was the forecast from weather.com the morning of. The white "greatest risk" area? The forecast was EERILY ACCURATE.



And here is what it looked like over my house, not awful in comparison to the devastation west, north and east of us. :-( It's a miracle we were spared.




Here's hoping for a much calmer May. Scrappy hugs to all of you, thanks for checking in on me. :-)

It's the 15th!

You know what that means! Well, besides being tax day... LOL It's new challenge day in the kitchen! And speaking of the kitchen, exciting news!




Kitchen Keepsake is cookbooking at its finest! Come and find your creative culinary muse!

The designers have cooked up some fun challenges, games, and prizes!

All challenges will be posted on Friday, April 29th and will be due on May 4th.

We hope you'll join us in the kitchen and get those creative juices flowing!

www.kitchenkeepsake.com

Whew, I thought I was broken for awhile there. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't create anything. Photos didn't inspire me. I tried sketches, lifting, even my old standby of trying a new technique didn't work. But then voila! Not sure exactly what happened, but the stars aligned or something and I seem to have gotten it back! WaHOOOO!!!

Laura challenged us to create a funny food foible in honor of April Fools Day. That reminded me of this layout I did several years ago in my Creative Memories Days, thus the corner triangles. LOL



I updated it using Little Yellow Bicycle. I recycled a tag that one of my girls had from a new shirt, it says POOF, which I thought was perfect for this story. :-D



For this one, I tried making my own zipper flower. I dunno, I'm not wild about it, but neither did I want to pitch it. Shrug. The photos aren't great either, they were taken with my iPhone. The story is sweet though. :-)



Thanks for visiting! Hopefully, I'll have more to show you soon. At the very least, I'm amused with my May calendar, which is coming up in a couple of weeks. YIKES! May already! Hope to see you in the kitchen! :-)

Happy April!

No joke, it is!

See those poofy clouds at the top? I'm very amused with them. I dusted off my big red Sizzix machine and punched a couple of clouds from a Christmas card that I had received a few years ago. It was in the shape of a polar bear and wearing a white coat of fuzz and a red scarf. I most definitely didn't have this in mind when I saved it, but I like them! :-D

New techniques have been inspiring me lately. On this next layout, see the green flower? I made it using mulberry paper by wetting a Q-Tip, making circles of various sizes and tearing them, being careful to leave the edges frayed. Important note: They must be fastened with a brad, gluing the circles didn't work. :-P And see that pretty little white crocheted flower? Amy surprised me with a few of these and now the hoarding begins! LOL I will use them sparingly, as I am not as talented as she to replace these in my stash. Thanks Amy!



Lets see, what else... OH, here's one that isn't quite finished. Still needs the journaling, but this cat CRACKS.ME.UP. She's an indoor/outdoor cat, but apparently she prefers stalking squirrels from INSIDE the house. Thanks to my friend Stace for helping with the title. I'd link her up, but she hasn't updated her blog since last year. LOL



Cutting that "frond" was a pain in my patooty, but the flower is something I will try again using double sided paper next time. You can see the technique on the Fiskars site.

There's a new challenge up at Kitchen Keepsake! I LOVE DT member Laura's sense of humor. Lest you thought all things cooking were serious... Come over and check out her April Fools challenge! :-D

Thanks for stopping by! Until next time, happy crafting! :-)

Long time, no see

I know, a bad, bad blogger I have been! It's been a little nuts on the homefront and I haven't scrapped in what seems ages. I hope that I've mostly caught up on my reading! Y'all have been busy too! But I do have a couple of shares. :-)

There was a DT call on Kitchen Keepsakes and we're extremely excited to have added two new uber creative members to the team, Amy Bender and Janet Miller. And we now have a Facebook page, WOOT! If you haven't already, please come over and like us! LOL

Here's a layout I did for Kristie's banner challenge this month.



And just because that was so much fun, I made another. LOL I got the idea for the paper beads from the Cosmo Cricket blog. :-)



And did you know that we now have monthly sketches on Kitchen Keepsake? Yep, we do! Here's my layout using this months sketch.



Umm, yea, there were some bad words flying putting that pineapple together. :-D

I promise I'll be back soon, I have to to show you my April calendar page! Can you believe it? Almost APRIL already! Scrappy hugs! :-)

Happy March!

Moving right along, my friend Denise reminds me that there are only slightly less than 10 shopping months left until Christmas. Seriously? I just would like to enjoy spring for a minute. But for those of you who like to get an early jump on it, yea, slightly less than 10 months. :-D

Today is also the day that we have a new guest designer on Kitchen Keepsake. Come on over and get to know Sarah. :-) Also, the uber talented Kristie has posted a new challenge and wow, did she ever rock it!

How often do y'all back up the photos on your computer? I do it every two months and keep the disks in a binder. I also keep all of my layouts at Photobucket so that they are always accessible. Just wondering if anyone has a better method, as today is backup day. :-)

Have a scrappy week!