Scrapbook Daisies "Tickled Pink" Feb kit!

I loved the MME "Fine and Dandy" papers that came with the kit this month!

Green, brown, and light blue color challenge at Scrapbook Daisies

The only boy I have living here is my husband, so its a fun time when I get to do "boy scrapping". Of course you can use these colors for scrapping girls too but it is fun to get to change it up once in awhile.

There are lots of great challenges this month at Scrapbook Daisies! Check this out:

"Crop Your Heart Out" @ Scrapbook Daisies

Come over and join us in our "Crop Your Heart Out" Valentine's Day Crop!
There will be challenges and games...as well as prizes...and lots and lots of fun!

Where? www.scrapbookdaisies.net

When? February 11-13 (all submissions due by Monday the 14th)

How? Just come on over and become a member of our message board and you can play along!

Who? YOU!!! and all your scrappy friends!

The Design Team is hard at work coming up with fun and inspirational ideas for this week-end long crop.
It is sure to bring a smile to your face, love into your heart, and kick your mojo into full speed!
For full details, come on over the the Scrapbook Daisies message board @ www.scrapbookdaisies.net .
You can also participate in the regular monthly challenges for some "pre-crop" inspo!
We hope to see you there!!!!

Bring on the color...

When it gets really REALLY gray here in the central Valley I am always reminded of the gray day that my daughter was born on eight years ago. Nothing was easy about that day- there was a few problems but oh what a miracle she was then and still very much is today (as we spend the majority of the evening dealing with issues related to the fact that she left her homework folder on the schoolbus this afternoon)But hey I said miracle, not PERFECT miracle!

use that stash!

I have a lot of scrapbook supplies, I am not ashamed to admit it! I gave up feeling guilty about this a long time ago, because I only buy what I love. If I loved it in 2006, I still love it today, and that is what happened with this layout. I paired up some old Cherry Arte chipboard flowers with new Basic Grey papers for this beach layout. It was inspired totally by a recent Julie Bonner sketch.

Take my challenge at Scrapbook Daisies and use up that stash! It is still going on until Sept 30!!! You can check me out here:
http://www.scrapbookdaisies.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=5789

those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer

Summer is pretty much over but its not too late for my Aug 15th quote challenge at http://www.scrapbookdeals4u.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=5673

If you are done with summer and want to check out the weekly challnges at Cramfest 2010- you can "crack the books" with us at scrapbookdeals4u.com for more awesome scrapbook giveaways! See you there!

organization is a beautiful thing...

I cleaned out my scraproom. Finally. It wasn't like I threw away a lot of stuff from there. Mostly I changed how things were arranged- I worked really hard to make it a useable space. I just need to be able to get home from work, do what I need to do to keep the house going, then sit down in the scrapspace and have fun!

Take for instance...half used packages of Thickers. OK, those take up a lot of room. Sure, they can be altered, or combined with other Thickers for a funky look. But if they have been sitting around for three years then it was Bub-bye!

Quick kutz 2x2's. Gathering dust. I am way more in love with my sizzix steel rule dies that take up five times more space because they cut chipboard and felt! So Bub-bye little quickutz (my sister in law wants you)

Chipboard nightmares. Oh I cannot resist a pack of raw chipboard, especially the Basic Grey shapes and letters. I was using smaller sterlite bins and it just wasn't working out. So I bought one large bin that fit the same space as the two smaller and it was WAY better. I pulled the chipboard that I adore and set it right next to me. Yes! I want to USE product not wonder where I put it. Bub-bye to containers that are too small! You are worse than no container at all!

Weird ribbon. My ez-pull bag did not work because I overstuffed it (I guess)and there was a weird huge tangle in that bag that scared me.I wouldn't touch it. This summer I bought two cute wire dress forms (a small one from Target, a larger one from the Beverly's store in Bakersfield) and started hanging the best ribbons on those. The weird tangle I put in a drawer that I cleared out especially for that purpose. At least I don't have to look at that tangle on a daily basis. I haven't yet decided what to do with that tangle just yet. I have already started using the ribbons more often that are on the dressforms. So Bub-bye EZ pull bag!

Weird glitter bottle and Stickle storage. I had my MS glitter bottles in a basket that was way to small. I got rid of some 7gypsies punches that were taking up practically a whole drawer and moved glitter plus the glue and sealer in all together. yay! Stickles got one of the sterile bins that was too small for the chipboard. Bub-bye ugly too-small basket. You won't be missed!

Punch confusion. I put them in sterlite bins by brand. Because that's how I was trying to find them before, but they were spread everywhere. Then to my joy I realized that I had more Martha Stewart punch-around-the pages than I thought, so they got their own space. And there were some punches that were just not useful anymore. Bub-bye, punches that need a new owner!

I made this layout with paper I bought because I loved and then forgot about. I really am happy with it. I doubt I will stop buying what I love, but what I did learn was that I need to be more disciplined about cleaning and purging or else my scrap refuge will become a scrap nightmare!

Alter something!!!

Come on over to scrapbookdeals4u.com and check out my challenge! You can alter anything you like! I had a great time making this jewelry box with the Echo Park paper from the Sweet Summertime kit.