Scrapping Christmas past

Hi all!

And so begins the snow days....I scrolled through the posts on FB of moms rejoicing to children sleeping in - Pezza was up at 5:10 today!  She told me yesterday she wants to make craft videos again like she did when she was small - I doubt anyone reading this will remember the days of Pezza Way videos and her guest spot on Tim Holtz's blog at the age of 3...The problem is that she is 8 now so they probably won't be as funny/popular.  Not to mention I have no following left to watch them!  Though I recently signed in to my YouTube account for the first  time in years and was surprised to see people still watch all my videos!  Maybe I will make some too.  I have a hard time thinking of ideas - seems everything has been done to death but then I watched a scrapper's video for the first time who is insanely popular.  It was literally a video of her glueing her stuff to her page and people were falling all over themselves with adoration and appreciation so maybe I am selling myself short?

ANYWAY, I scrapped yesterday!  I have been determined to get back in my studio.  I am currently working on kicking the last of the meds I was prescribed for post partum depression - that shit is NO JOKE!  The withdrawals are scary.  The last one took a total of 1 1/2 years to get through.  This one has more severe withdrawals and should take about a year.  So I am trying to be aware and take care of myself and one of the ways I do that is through being creative in my studio.  AND HEY, catching up on my scrapbooking really would be a great thing!

I have been selected to host one of the scrapbooking challenges over on Splitcoast Stampers so I have been getting myself plugged back in over there, especially with the scrappers.  It is a much smaller community than the card makers so if you are a scrapper PLEASE come join us!  We need more folks!

As I sit here looking at the photo I am realizing the date should actually be 2008 UGH!  Luckily an easy fix....  Pretty sure anyway.  BUT the good news is this is the last 2008 layout I have, then I have 3 for 2009 and I will be on to 2010.  Not terribly bad....  I have quite a number of layouts done for more recent years too so I am not too badly behind.  On Splitcoast there is a goals for 2015 thread where people are talking about how many pages they want to get done this year and most of them number into the hundreds.  I have all my pics sorted so I counted them up and I have 64 mostly 2 page spreads I would like to get done.  (We will not discuss my wedding pics still not in an album....)

The challenge I used for this layout on SCS (Splitcoast Stampers) was the stashbusters challenge.  We had 3 things we had to use - a frame, a die cut and eyelets.  EYELETS!??!?!  ACK!  How old school is that?  I nearly skipped it but then I said NOPE I am doing it.  And I even remembered how to use my crop a dile!  And guess what?  I like the eyelets - can you see them above the holly?  cute right?  The holly came from an SVG cut file from My Scrap Chick and I did the numbers in MTC too.  I use a Black Cat Cutter for my SVGs - love it.

I usually cut all of my stuff out of solid paper and then I see people use patterned paper for their cuts and I think Oh I love that!  Well this time I remembered too!  Actually I couldn't find the solid paper that went with these CTMH patterned ones and THEN I remembered how much I like cuts using patterned paper.

Additional challenges for this layout:

• Clear it Out - Anything Goes
• Crafting When We Can - Anything but a Card

I also have a couple Scrap Wrap albums for sale.  I have been using these for years and they are amazing.  However Pezza does not like the patterns on these two :P

This one has lots of glitter on the fairies which did not show up well in the photo - super cute right!??!  They have 25 pages in them and you can easily order refills too.  The other one I did not take a picture of yet is sports themed - all sorts of small sports balls across it - I can take a photo if anyone is interested.

They pages are held in by super strong velcro and these things are indestructable.  Pez has dragged them around for years!

These are mine so you can see the spine of them - see how totally expandable they are?  Yea the one on the right is a bit full....

They retail for $45 but I am selling them for $30 plus shipping.  Let me know if you want one!

TH tags - tag 1 black cat style

hi all!

the weatherman is talkin' snow!  yay! oh i hope i hope i hope!  i LOVE snow!  maybe not 5' like a couple years ago but enough to blanket the whole area in sparkling white drifts is always nice.  i was watching the weather in my chiropractor's office - i am hoping he can do something to get rid of these headaches.  at this point i don't go one full day without excruciating pain although the issue of my hand going numb has improved since the first visit last week.  i was even able to color some images with no numbness at all!  but those are not in today's post - you have to wait a few more days.  they have videos to go with them that need approval from FaveCrafts first!

i have been watching tim holtz's 12 tags again this year like i have done since the first year he did them. the first year's tags were always my fave until this years - i am really liking them!  i have not been able to do many of them over the years but i do try and get a couple in and it is one of the kinds of things i wanted to have time for again when i gave up all my design team positions.  however, i don't have any of his stuff - no winter distress inks, no xmas embossing folders, no xmas dies, no kraft core paper.....well you get the idea.  it's not that i don't desperately want them but until i win the lottery i have to narrow down my shopping list.  and so i had to make do but i am actually quite happy with the end result for TAG 1:

in case you are not following tim here is his tag 1:

for starters i made a card instead of a tag that i will be sending out.  i did not have the kraft core cardstock so i started with regular blue cardstock and this cool snowflake embossing folder i dug out - no idea when or where it's from.  anyway, i put versamark on the embossing folder, embossed and then added white embossing powder.  my first try i followed tim's directions - some areas were totally covered and others had just speckles of powder and i really liked that so i started over.  this time instead of dumping on the white embossing powder i sprinkled it so i had more of a snow flurry speckled look.

next, the little pine cone cluster and glittered die cut noel.  i did not have any of these items and i wanted it to be flat anyway for mailing.  after considering several options i decided to go with a cute tree branch with a bird house from the Winter Re-Tweet  cut file at My Scrap Chick - cut with my Black Cat of course!

i still wanted a bit of the "cluster" look so i added a stack of die-cut felt, fabric yoyo, glittered skittle and a fabulous flourish by Make It Crafty from SCACD.  i gave the snowy cuts a dose of stickles and the flourish is covered by bundled sage distress ink and bundled sage distress stickles.

i am hoping i get another one done tomorrow!

bubba kitten has been up to no good as most kittens are.  he has quite a vicious battle going on with the roll of paper towels in my studio:

and then there was round 2:

which as you can see thoroughly exhausted him and he had to nap.  luckily these are the paper towels in my art studio so i can still use them - i just pick up some shreds from the pile...good thing he is so stinkin' adorable!