Fun With Basic Grey

I had a little mini retreat with some great friends last week. I did so many projects and completed tons of LOs. These are a few that I made with Basic Grey. I love the wild colors. I really think that this paper was made for Sam's little Mad Hatter escapade last year.

Since I bought the whole paper pack, I thought I would use it all. So here is Val and Luke.

This "Faboo" LO is a little personal joke between me and Cody.

And of course, Sam is the coolest kid in my family. On the strips are written the things that Sam was thinking about that day.

I will post more of the projects later. TFL!

Summer is Here

Summer is here and I couldn't be more ready for some rest and relaxation. We now have electricity and internet access so I am happy.

These are some LOs that I made last night while I was basking in the glow of my new found freedom.

This first LO is a new kit from Dawn Inskip called "Misty" and "Psychedelic Alphabet" that will be coming out at GottaPixel on July 1st. So glad I could get it early. I love the beautiful summer colors. Since my boys and I go to the Botanical gardens so much, I can see that I will be using it a lot.

This next lay out is by Kari Q using her new "Infinity and Beyond" kit at Plain Digital Wrapper. I believe it will be coming out on Wednesday.

If you are in the Fort Worth area, you may not know that there is a small museum in Firestation Number One that has the history of Fort Worth. My boys love going there. That is where we got the shots from the LO above.

I have tons of paper projects that I have to get uploaded. It just felt so good to get some digi projects done, that I had to share.

Best in Show

Well....I can't post all the picts from this 78 plus page album, but I can post picts of my beautiful ribbons. I just can't tell you how excited I was about this.

To tell you the truth, I didn't even think that I was going to turn the album in for judging, but since I am probably not going to be at my school next year, I wanted the last thing I did for them to be really special.

I didn't think that I had enough points for even a blue ribbon because our PTA is small and doesn't have some of the activities that others do, so I made some pages explaining what we had and what we didn't.

The theme this year was heroes. So I made sure that all of my journaling had to do with that theme. It was tough tying heroes in with the Zoo....but I managed it. It all paid off. I don't get to keep the ribbons or the historian book, but I have a picture.

A Bee's Habitat and Another Goody

After Carolyn from The Crafty Scrapper came back from CHA, she issued a canvas challenge to make a habitat. Well....after a false start, this is what I have come up with. I'm not sure that this is what anyone had in mind, but it is what I have.

There is a lot of dimension. The beehive has three layers and the top layer does curve.

The bottom grass layer curves as well.

I'm wondering if I need to do anything else to it.

I did make a LO using a photo that Marie Q made of my boys. I was very nervous about doing this because of the monotary investment. But I really wanted to make a LO for my scrapping area if it ever gets completed.

Been Busy

I realize I need to make a new blog header....I will probably get around to that this summer.

I do have picts of the LOs that I made with my Wesleyan gal pals when we retreated to Cedar Creek Lake- Melissa thanks so much for inviting me! It was a very welcomed break. Here are some of the things I did.

Some of you may remember that last summer I took the boys to Dinosaur National Park and Dino World so I would have an excuse to buy that really cute Basic Grey Paper. Well I did finally scrap. My problem is that I have a really hard time scrapping tons of pictures on a paper. But, I did it.

Tune in next time when I show you what happened when I was brave enough to scrap a Marie Q photo.

BTW....Here is a little LO that Sam and I made yesterday using Dawn Inksips Brand New Day and her new Clay Buttons. Sam thought they looked like Easter Eggs. So I did the extraction and he placed the elements. We had a fun time! Happy Easter Everyone.

Some LOs

Contrary to popular belief, I have made some LO lately.... I just haven't posted them. So I'll post some of my digi ones. Maybe later I will post some of my paper.

The first one is with Kris Myers' Natural Beauty Add on Kit.

The next one is kinda funny because it is Kari Q's Alyssa kit which is a baby kit. So I used it on the biggest baby I have. It really has some cool not so baby colors.

This was done with Kari Q.'s Natalie Kit. It is fun- just right for those Tweens. She does have another daughter, so I will be doing the other kit tonight.

I'm very excited to be a guest creative team member of Dawn Inskip for the month of April. I have been internet buddies with Dawn for a while. I have always lover her kits. The girl just has a way with a copic marker. I love her style. It is very unique.

The first LO is one of her older kits- Weather Station. I did this for a white space challenge at PickleBerryPop.

The next two kits used her Brand New Day kit. The first one also incorporates her Dates, Borders element kit and Paper Layers.

The colors are just awesome.

Oh....I forgot. Sweet Melissa from PBP gave me a nice award. Her blog Remember to Breathe is found here: http://mgstebbins.blogspot.com

"The Dardos Award is given for recognition of cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values transmitted in the form of creative and original writing. These stamps were created with the intention of promoting fraternization between bloggers, a way of showing affection and gratitude for work that adds value to the Web."“Premio Dardos” means “prize darts” in Italian. This award acknowledges the values that every blogger shows in his/her effort to transmit cultural, ethical, literary and personal values every day.
The rules are:
1. Accept the award, post it in your blog together with the name of person granted the award and his or her blog link.
2. Past the award to 15 other blogs that are worthy of this acknowledgement. Remember to contact them to let them know they have been chosen for this award'

Well I have several people that I think really promote cultural awareness, ethical and literary awareness.

My friend Monkey at Hi! Monkey is always educating the public on cultural holidays, good will to his fellow man and just having fun. I feel like the world is a better place because of him. I know my tea time has certainly been enhanced.

Sara, a dear friend of mine from Kerrville, inspires me with her charm and whit and elegant taste. She is a straight shooter and always tells me what she thinks is true and is faithful to her beliefs and convictions.

Sherri http://www.tiedupinribbons.blogspot.com/ has been known to let loose with some great literature from time to time makes me happy everytime I go to her blog.

Cindy at Yappin Cat is always educating me. Enjoy your awards!

Luke's Poetry

A Pencil’s Life

Life isn’t pointless
Measured by a thin black line
Dying for my art.

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Life

Life, churning, changing

Never knowing what will come

Imagination

Striving, craving to be free

Wondering what I will be.

I will have to make some LO's to go with these.