tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23819346271745074552024-03-13T22:08:07.740-07:00Beauty~from~AshesA place of creativity and passion. Where creation creates and explores purpose in a world placed in motion through devine grace.StaZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00118431786937681919noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2381934627174507455.post-15862888092412538992014-04-04T03:00:00.000-07:002014-04-04T03:00:02.623-07:00Hello Spring and Skrapn'Chat blog hop <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Welcome to SnC's Spring blog hop! You should have arrived here from <a href="http://www.heatherscraftyheart.blogspot.com/">Heather's blog</a>. If you didn't check out the bottom of this post so that you can participate in the full hop. Our theme is Spring Projects and you can hop through all 7 blogs. Be sure to leave comments for your chance to win goodies along the way. The hop will be live from April 4-6. I will be drawing for a little something from all those that leave a comment. And if you haven't checked out our online community please do so at Skrapnchat.com we'd love to see you around!<br />
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It's been a long winter and by that I mean it's been snowing since October and it's now April and the white stuff is still around... Here's what my car looked like the other day, sadly.<br />
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I don't know about anyone else in Canada but I am ready for some SPRING!!! So regardless of it still being Winter here. I am happy to welcome you to my blog for the SkrapnChat spring blog hop. Bringing a little spring to the world even if it's only the virtual world.</div>
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So it's been a month since I ventured into my scrap space so I was really itching to be creative. Instead of doing a traditional layout though I decided I would do some art journaling. I was inspired by a couple pieces of chipboard I had on my table and knew that I wanted to bust out my gelatos and get messy! What's spring without a little mess- mud on the ground etc. </div>
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I first primed my background with gesso and then began to play with gelatos and my water pen. This is the background. </div>
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Then I used my gelatos to color my chipboard. I scribbled the gelatos right on the chipboard and then blended with my finger. I took a picture of the pre-blended gelato. </div>
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And here is the finished result. The journaling on the page reads I am so ready for you to show up! It's been a long winter and we're ready for some fun and warmth" - April "14 I love how the gelatos turned out on the chipboard they blended so nicely! </div>
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Hope you enjoyed my project and thanks for stopping by. You are now off to April's blog! <a href="http://livewelllaughoftenscrapmuch.blogspot.com/">Here</a> Enjoy! </div>
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Here is the master list of participants just incase you ended up here from somewhere else and want to start at the top!</div>
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1. Karen <a href="http://sitscrapandrelax.wordpress.com/">http://sitscrapandrelax.wordpress.com</a></div>
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2. Emily <a href="http://scrappingsomememories.blogspot.ca/">http://scrappingsomememories.blogspot.ca/</a></div>
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3. Dana <a href="http://scrappingtherapy.blogspot.ca/">http://scrappingtherapy.blogspot.ca/</a></div>
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4. Heather <a href="http://www.heatherscraftyheart.blogspot.com/">http://www.heatherscraftyheart.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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5. Stacy <a href="http://creatingbeautyfromashes.blogspot.ca/">http://creatingbeautyfromashes.blogspot.ca/</a></div>
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6. April <a href="http://livewelllaughoftenscrapmuch.blogspot.com/">http://livewelllaughoftenscrapmuch.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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7. Robyn <a href="http://cozienookhomestead.wordpress.com/">http://cozienookhomestead.wordpress.com/</a></div>
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Tonight I spent a bit of time in my scraproom and worked on a page in my art journal. It was a lot of fun. I didn't start with any end in mind other than to have some fun. A song was on my Songsa playlist about the sky so I decided to start with a blue glimmer mist background and build from there.<br />
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I pulled out a couple of stencils that I've had for a while and just started making dots in orange paint and then built up with the three blue stars in paint. I then flicked some orange glimmer mist and sprayed some yellow.<br />
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Black sharpie around the stars along with gold gelato added a lot of depth to the stars. I finished with black gelato around the edge to frame my page. The arrows are acrylic stamps and the destination is an old (like 6 years old) Heidi Swapp Stamp.<br />
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Here's the final product. I am quit happy with how it turned out! Thanks for popping by and have a great day!<br />
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Thank you everyone for playing along with <a href="http://www.skrapnchat.com/">SkrapNChat's</a> first ever blog hop! We had a blast and I hope you did too. If you were inspired why not pop by our little piece of heaven on the internet and play along with us on a regular basis. And I'm not talking out of class when I say that we had so much fun that we'll likely be doing this again in the near future!<br />
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So now time for the big announcement!<br />
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I used a random number generator and the winner of the $10 Michael's gift card is:<br />
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Number 5 wins! Congrats Kelsey!!!!!! Thanks for playing along!<br />
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If you are coming directly to my blog you may want to start at the beginning at <a href="http://sitscrapandrelax.wordpress.com/">Karen's</a> blog. Basically the low down is that some of us gals over at <a href="http://www.skrapnchat.com/" target="_blank">SkrapNChat </a> decided to host a blog hop. Our theme for the hop is stencils or masks. I cannot wait to see the other lovely creations the other girls are posting on their blogs and was really excited to play with masks/stencils for my post!<br />
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I LOVE stencils and have amassed quite the collection over the last couple of years! I usually use my glimmer mists or other inks with them although I would like to try some modeling paste one of these days.<br />
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The bird cage image was produced when I used the white paper as a scrap while I was spraying the bird cage resist canvas (from Prima) that ended up on the LO below.<br />
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I loved the stencil image that had been left behind on the scrap paper and decided to keep it thinking that I could use it in the future some time. I think we often think that we have to buy fancy tools to create the effect that we want when really a lot of the time our scrapbooking supplies can do double duty as is the case with my misted image. Now I am sure that I could go out and purchase a bird cage stencil or mask but why not use the image that was created by spraying the resist canvas? I mean the image was completely free! <br />
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I knew as soon as I had lifted the resist canvas off the paper that I wanted to use the left behind image on a card. It was WAY too cute continue using the paper as a scrap paper and or to let the paper go into recycling. So I did exactly that on Sunday night in prep for this blog hop and the image below is what I ended up making.<br />
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As you can see I cut the bird stencil into a rectangle, traced around the white image, backed it on some black polka dot paper and adhered it to my card.<br />
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<b><u>Card details: </u></b><br />
<b>Image: </b>stencil of prima resist canvas sprayed with glimmer mist ink, traced with American Crafts journalling pen, backed on older Costco pack polka dot paper (don't know the brand-sorry!)<br />
<b>Backgound: </b> I used a cuttlebug geometric rings embossing folder like this<a href="http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://dyn-images.hsni.com/is/image/HomeShoppingNetwork/prodzoom/cuttlebug-embossing-folderborder-set-geometric-rings-d-20121030130608227~6995376w.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.hsn.com/products/cuttlebug-5-x-7-embossing-folder-border-set-geometric-rings/6995376&h=800&w=800&sz=150&tbnid=VmZw10n8B6Bp7M:&tbnh=90&tbnw=90&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcuttlebug%2Bgeometric%2Brings%2Bembossing%2Bfolder%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=cuttlebug+geometric+rings+embossing+folder&usg=__eegq9tbibCRlljbYO8b4bkiZAi4=&docid=MJayua6aHXgwzM&sa=X&ei=ZDpiUb__HeiSiALn5IGADw&ved=0CEUQ9QEwAw&dur=472" target="_blank"> one </a> that I recently picked up at Michaels. I inked the embossed image with baha blue Stampin' Up! ink<br />
<b>Embellishments: </b>The doily is actually from the dollar store. I got 32 of these babies for $1.25. Awesome deal. I misted it with glimmer mist and inked the edges with pebbles cream chalk. The sequins are from a the $1.50 bin as Michaels. The flower is prima. The greeting and rinestone in the flower are both from Stampin' Up!<br />
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Thanks for popping by my blog and I hope I inspired you to find shapes around your craft area that you can use to make negative images for your next project!<br />
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Now you can head on over to Kelsey's blog here: <a href="http://scrappinkels.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">HERE </a><br />
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<b>PRIZE INFO: </b><br />
And for everyone that leaves a comment here I will be drawing for a $10 Michaels gift card. So be sure to leave a comment! The winner will be announced on Friday, April 12th.<br />
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Also everyone participating in the blog hop will go into a grande prize draw to be announced on Friday as well.<br />
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</b:if></div>StaZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00118431786937681919noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2381934627174507455.post-62891904244317712122012-05-12T21:28:00.000-07:002012-05-12T21:28:11.180-07:00Double your pleasure....double your fun!I am still scrapbooking, just not posting here as much anymore but thought I had better get back to this blog a little bit.<br />
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Here's my latest LO. I used a challenge on the twisted sketches blog (http://www.twistedsketches.org/2012/05/twisted-sketch-150.html) to inspire me as well as a challenge from Skrapnchat.com (thanks Jess!). I also added in a little twist of my own that I've been wanting to try for some time- using the same picture twice on a LO in two different sizes. I tend to sometimes print a picture in two sizes and then when I'm creating my LO I decide which of the sizes I want to use and which ends up in the recycle bin. This time I used both sizes and I really like the effect that it created.<br />
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Why don't you give it a whirl yourself? Thanks for stopping by!<br />
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</b:if></div>StaZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00118431786937681919noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2381934627174507455.post-62520547395706576482012-01-07T21:51:00.000-08:002012-01-08T19:50:23.054-08:00Getting there.....<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f3o9T-fN4aQ/Twkuzc7xQFI/AAAAAAAAAFc/EZOvmJjWBCQ/s1600/IMG_7288.JPG"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f3o9T-fN4aQ/Twkuzc7xQFI/AAAAAAAAAFc/EZOvmJjWBCQ/s320/IMG_7288.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="clear:both;float:left; margin:0px 10px 10px 0;" /></a>So I am slowly working towards downsizing some of my stuff as I try to live up to the word simplicity for this year......I am thinking that it may take me several years of living with this word to truly get through everything I have to get through YEESH! I wouldn't call myself a packrat by any stretch of the imagination. I do regularly try to get rid of stuff, but we haven't moved in the last 6 years and that has really thrown off my game.<br /><div><br /></div><div>I used to purge our stuff every time we moved and I really did have it down to a managable bit for awhile. Not so now......I have decided that while I am living with the theme simplicity this year, I am going to think as if we are moving so everytime I see something I am going to ask myself- "do I really need this" I hope this will really help me let go of some of the stuff in the house and take a realistic view and our posessions. </div><div><br /></div><div>So as I was cleaning out the office today- I still have a long way to go- I came across these business cards.....they are mine from a former position 6 years ago. I have had 3 position changes since then......I don't know why I felt the need to hang onto a whole pile of them. Maybe I thought that I would scrapbook one of them on a LO, but seriously a WHOLE PILE?!?!?!? what are you thinking woman? I really don't know, that's the sad part. So into the garbage all but one of these went. I will add it to a LO I am working on about the job I had back then. :) </div><div><br /></div><div>So wish me luck as I continue embracing simplicity- this could be a wild year! If I don't burn out from purging exhaustion!- just joking, I hope! </div><div style="clear:both; text-align:LEFT"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><b:if cond='data:post.url'>
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</b:if></div>StaZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00118431786937681919noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2381934627174507455.post-89036103857215135882011-12-01T20:21:00.001-08:002011-12-01T20:32:41.745-08:00December DailyHello Blogging World! I know it's been awhile. I think of you often but haven't made my way to actually posting in a bit. So on <a href="http://www.skrapnchat.com/">Skrap N Chat</a> one of our fabulous ladies has challenged us to do a blogger version of December Daily.<br /><br />The concept is basically this, it started out as an idea that you would scrapbook about each of your days into an album for the month of December. I would love to do that- keep track of grocery lists, outings, receipts, shows, etc. for the month, but somehow I just can never find the time.......so the twist is that we've been challenged to do the blogger version. Basically document our month through our blog- now that I can do. It can be as long or short as you want. Really whatever you are doing that day and would like to look back on at some point.<br /><br />So here it is:<br /><br />Today--> the first day of December. Which is awesome. It's warm with a bit of snow on the ground. It feels like Christmas without the freezing of fingers. The first of the month means new challenges over at scrap n chat and since it was my month for a challenge. I also came up with a December Daily version. I have challenged everyone to create a LO that they will journal on for the month. So instead of doing an entire album you only have to do one single LO. Very EASY PEASY!!! and totally something I can actually accomplish. I have a need to finish what I start otherwise I get frustrated with myself!<br /><br />So here's my LO that I will be writing on throughout the month. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_fjlmXxkrj4/TthUpWEnUtI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/fev9Nhy_yuk/s1600/PC010052.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 315px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_fjlmXxkrj4/TthUpWEnUtI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/fev9Nhy_yuk/s320/PC010052.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5681383999204184786" /></a><br /><br />What do you think???<div class="blogger-post-footer"><b:if cond='data:post.url'>
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<br />So I haven't been around much but I am really hoping to change that. June 28th I went for surgery and as a result I was unable to run for several weeks. That was the hardest part. I would look longingly at my runners and running gear at the bottom of my closet and wish so badly to strap them on and take flight.
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<br />Well this week I went for my 6 week check up and was cleared to start running again!!!! Can you say awesome?!?!? so this week I got back into the groove. I started out wednesday with a short 2 Km walk/run. walking 3 mins then running 2 mins. It was nice. Today I went out for a longer run/walk and made 4Km. Feeling pretty good. I tried to run as much as I could, but man is it difficult to keep going when you muscles and lungs tell you that they do not want to keep going!!
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<br />My second step this week was to sign up for a running group with the local running room. It's a 5Km group- starting slow and steady. I am actually looking forward to working up to running and hoping to pick up some tips along the way as well.
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<br />The big challenge will be this May. I want to run a 1/2 marathon on May 27th. Check the details out <a href="http://www.events.runningroom.com/site/?raceId=7131"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#cc0000;"><b>here</b></span></a>. I am very excited to be working towards this!! I will try to keep you all updated on my progress so watch here!!
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<br />Glad to be back and glad to be running again!!!!
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</b:if></div>StaZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00118431786937681919noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2381934627174507455.post-85820423410934220192010-10-03T18:29:00.000-07:002010-10-03T19:19:33.136-07:00Altered Chipboard AlphasI was inspired this morning to start creating a LO and then I thought I would get even more creative and try out something fun with my chipboard letters. Since this was something I hadn't tried before I thought I would take pictures along the way in the event that it turned out so I could share on my blog. Fortunately it did turn out so here it is.<br /><br />I first took my chipboard letters and painted them white.<br /><a href="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff262/Stazy_01/Pages%20for%20Blog/IMG_6433.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 523px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 382px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff262/Stazy_01/Pages%20for%20Blog/IMG_6433.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Then I gathered my versamark stamp pad and my dot stamp. The idea here is that I wanted a polka dot look but you could really use whatever shape you wanted here.<br /><a href="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff262/Stazy_01/Pages%20for%20Blog/IMG_6440.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 523px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 382px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff262/Stazy_01/Pages%20for%20Blog/IMG_6440.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Stamped the alphas with the stamp and then poured on clear embossing powder. I wanted the white to show through.<br /><a href="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff262/Stazy_01/Pages%20for%20Blog/IMG_6441.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 523px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 382px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff262/Stazy_01/Pages%20for%20Blog/IMG_6441.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Heat set the embossing powder. At this stage you will want to let the melted embossing powder set before going on to the next stage.<br /><a href="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff262/Stazy_01/Pages%20for%20Blog/IMG_6444.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 523px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 382px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff262/Stazy_01/Pages%20for%20Blog/IMG_6444.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Then selected an ink, in this case I used brown and just started inking all over the letter.<br /><a href="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff262/Stazy_01/Pages%20for%20Blog/IMG_6452.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 523px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 382px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff262/Stazy_01/Pages%20for%20Blog/IMG_6452.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Once you are done you will notice that you have some ink on the embossing as well. This is easily removed with a kleenex.<br /><a href="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff262/Stazy_01/Pages%20for%20Blog/IMG_6453.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 523px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 382px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff262/Stazy_01/Pages%20for%20Blog/IMG_6453.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff262/Stazy_01/Pages%20for%20Blog/IMG_6454.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 523px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 382px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff262/Stazy_01/Pages%20for%20Blog/IMG_6454.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Keep going until all the letters are inked. and voila a nicely decorated title.<br /><a href="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff262/Stazy_01/Pages%20for%20Blog/IMG_6456.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 523px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 382px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff262/Stazy_01/Pages%20for%20Blog/IMG_6456.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />And then the really fun part- creating the LO to go with these alphas and attaching them!!<br /><br /><a href="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff262/Stazy_01/Not%20for%20slideshow/Play.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 524px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 504px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff262/Stazy_01/Not%20for%20slideshow/Play.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Thanks for looking!!!</span></strong><div class="blogger-post-footer"><b:if cond='data:post.url'>
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</b:if></div>StaZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00118431786937681919noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2381934627174507455.post-19744765959582775362010-04-25T14:44:00.001-07:002010-04-25T14:58:48.689-07:00Crop, Glue, and Paint oh my!So I started the weekend off with a crop with my bestest scrapping friend Jessica! She's a ton of fun and we always laugh our butts off!! So she tends to scrap all night at the crops and then goes home and scraps some more so she gets TONS done the nights we go out....so this time I vowed I would go home and continue to scrap this time. So I did....I only got 3/4 of the way done the LO though b/c I was EXHAUSTED.....so well- I finished up this LO today and here it is! I should also mention that it was inspired by the incredible collage challenge for April over at Nerdy Victorious Scrappers blog. Such a fun blog and you can check it out <a href="http://nvsgirls.blogspot.com/"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>HERE</strong></span></a><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><br /></strong></span> They've partnered with Snobby Walrus for the prize this month!! Super fun goodies up for grabs! <br /><br /><a href="http://www.skrapnchat.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10249/normal_Nerdy_April_Challenge.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 388px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.skrapnchat.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10249/normal_Nerdy_April_Challenge.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />And you might just be saying "why did you list paint in your blog title? This LO has no paint on it!" and you would be right! There is no paint on this LO but there is a first coat of paint on my dinning room walls!! Yes siree, I am determined to finish painting the main floor of my house this summer and I thought today was a better day than any to start. So once these walls are done, they will be done tomorrow night after I go to the store to pick up a can of paint, then I will only have 6- count them- only 6 more walls left to do and then I will be DONE!!!! Ahhhhh-the taste of sweet victory!<br /><br />Thanks for popping by!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><b:if cond='data:post.url'>
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