Merry Christmas!

12 Artsy Ornaments Class

Inspired from Junelle - love her work! It's all so cute!! My first paper pieced hats ;-)
Love this! My house will be full of these little guys!
Have a Merry Christmas
God Bless

I hope this link works....

Yahoo video of year in review... it's good... but you will need a tissue! It all got to me, but seeing the dog laying on the flour mourning the loss of his master was what really done me in.  This shows how we have strength in our weakness....
http://yearinreview.yahoo.com/
Have a blessed day!
Lisa

It's Beginning To Look A lot Like Christmas

Spooky Day!

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Sent from my iPhone

Beautiful Day

Blogging from my front the front porch!!

Lookie what came for me!

I've been wanting to do one of these for awhile. Becky Higgins' Project Life. My binder won't be here until Monday and the inserts won't be available until next month, but I can wait. Oh I love this! It takes the hard stuff out of scrapbooking. Simply beautiful.

More Halloween decorations

I made this big wall art from inspiration found on Pinterest. It was so much fun and SO easy! Foam core - large piece, smaller pieces are covered in book text and i cut vinyl for the die cuts. I hot glued all pieces to hold them to the big piece of foam core. See, EASY!

Instagramed, is that a word?

Roses got a dusting too!

31 degrees this mornin'

Jack Frost came to visit early in Arkansas! It's so pretty! Looks like he was throwing glitter everywhere. More pictures to come.

Autumn Splendor

Love decorating for this Season!

Scenes from my country life

Enjoying the Fall weather

About to roast hot dogs on the fire!

Inspired from Pinterest

I found something similar to this on Pinterest tonight. I decided to give it a whirl and I do like my results. It's the same concept but different size. The direct link to the Pinterest page is http://pinterest.com/pin/259246352/
Maybe that will work. Blogging on my phone does prevent a few easy clicks that I could do on my desktop.
Happy October! Can't wait to finish my other projects! And this project can be adapted to all holidays! More details later on how I made it.

Dream.

She is painted on a 4X4 piece of chipboard. Inspiration came from an online class. I am trying SO HARD to learn this!!! Ugh, I wish I could just snap my fingers and get it! Practice, practice, practice....

All the pretty horses

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happy.

Very happy.

Bread, homemade!

So my sis is on a health food kick, so I guess I've got one leg up on that band wagon and tryin my best to get on. She gave me the recipe for bread and I thought surely I can't do that... But I did! I used my stand mixer and it would not turn in to a dough ball. Well, she said it took ALOT of flour and it did! It finally made it's way into a ball and I was able to get it out and knead it. I let it rise, but it wasn't poofing up. I was so discouraged! After all that work I just knew it wasn't going to turn out. My hubs told me to have patience, something I've never had too much of. After about an hour it "poofed" but the bowl it was in was so big that the poofing went out instead of up! So when i punched it down it was like punching a PILLOW! To my surprise-again- it was soft, warm, and doughy just like she said it would be! I cooked it and was amazed that with just a little of this and a lot of that I could make 2 loaves of bread for my family to enjoy. It was a lot of work but now I know why they say a lot of love went in to making something. Hard work= love.
Have a great day and God Bless!
Make something creative today and enjoy life!

And some more of the crazies!

Gracie and Bella... Having too much fun!

New phone, new app!!

upgraded to an iPhone 4 today and love it!!! Found this new app called Labelbox. You have got to go get it!! Great for scrapbookers!!! Yep this is me "natural" been a long day so the makeup is long gone!

More Roses!

He also brought these to me... They smell so yummy! Yes two dozen roses. He can be sweet "sometimes"!

Pretty Roses

My hubby brought these home tonight! They smell so so good! I also got some pretty pink ones that smell even better than these. Love my hubs!

Can you find my lil doggie?

I found her hiding in the curtains... She was napping and raised up in time for the perfect pose! Love my Bella!

Waiting on Winter

I used to hate winter, snow, cold weather in general. But now I love it!
I pass by this old barn every time I go out to get to town. I've taken a ton of photos of it and I think this is my favorite one. This Camera + App is also my favorite one EVER! You can take a plain ole picture and make it beautiful with just one or two filters/frames. Can't wait to take more. Maybe they will come up with a bigger program for regular computer usage- that is this easy to use?

He wanted to ride the bus....

He didn't want me to take him today. He wanted to ride the bus instead. He was running late (the bus) and I offered to take him and said no he'd wait. I remember when he was little and would cry when I had to leave him at daycare.... Where have those days gone?

Playing with more iPhone apps

This is my son Hunter and his girlfriend Becca. I took a ton of pictures yesterday and wanted to see if I could combine two apps and it worked! I used the camera + app first then Instagram. I really like how it turned out.
Today is our first day of school and it feels so fresh and new! I'm sure il be back later with more Picts.
Have a great scrappy day!
Lisa

A new iPhone app

I found this app from some "chatter" on Facebook. It's called Camera + It was .99 and worth every penny Very cool app!

Slow progress

Still working on .... Gotta name here... How bout Gwen, my "fwend"!!

My next project

This one is in the works... Painted the background and drew the gal then scanned her onto some tissue paper. Next I gotta paint her and that's what I'm worried about because I can't seem to get my colors right. Any suggestions??

My new gal

Watcha think? Took me about three times and five days to get her to this point.

I've been playing!

THIS....

 

.... is what I made today! I was playing around and liked what happened.  I posted it on Facebook... and someone asked me about a price. So I've decided to make them for $25 with the frame and $22 if you provide your frame.  The frame will be different than the one shown here as it is one I "stole" from the wall in the bathroom :-)  The name can be changed to anything you wish as long as it is 14 (or less) letters. I can't fit more than that in and get the size needed.  Also, it could be anyword you choose. The letter will also be different as the font I used has different decoration around each different letter.

This one is 8X10 and can hold up to 14 letters. It is made of vinyl attached to cardstock and both colors can be changed. If anyone out there is interested in one of these drop me an email and I'll get you the details.

luvtoscrap1972@yahoo.com

Hope all is well with you, where ever you might be in the world tonight. 

Have a good night!

Happy Scrappin' and God Bless,

Lisa

 

I'm still trying!

I've still got a ways to go but maybe now I'm at least on the right track! Liking the one on the left side better than the one on the right. Off to get some housework done so I can paint some more!!!

WHERE BLOGGERS CREATE 2011

 Where Bloggers Create 2011

Karen from My Desert Cottage is hosting again this year... Click HERE to go see all the attendees and their rooms!

 

Welcome to my blog!

Won't you come in to my room... a room for scrapbooking, painting, mixed media, and whatever else I might dabble in.

 Make yourself at home and look around.

When you come into my room this is the view to the left side of the room...

 and this is looking to the right side of the room (ignore the white stuff down there in the lower left corner... was editing with brushes in PSE and missed that... so it's an "oops")

 This is Bella, one of my precious Fur Baby Poms. Gracie was snoozing somewhere else at the time. Love my "girls"!!!!!!!

My computer where you can find me most of the time :-)

 I have a 10' long piece of cabinet top that I use as my computer desk (above) the other half is where I do my scrapbooking. You can see my Making Memories spinning organizer which holds a TON of my stuff I use frequently.  I also have a Cropper Hopper paper holder which I store my things I currently working on. This helps to "contain the mess" somewhat.  I have my Tim Holtz Distress Inks out and ready to use.  My Cricut Expression is at the end of the workspace.

 This shelf holds all of my "good paint". I hadn't ever used Golden products until a couple of months ago. Let me tell you... they are the BEST!! You definitely get for what you pay for!! They are just fantastic!!

 I love my angel. I found her at the Dollar Tree and she is just so pretty! She keeps me company my "crafty angel".  You can see the scallops on the shelf here just a bit. I took an old ugly shelf and painted it pink, then whitewashed over that. Next added some die cut scallops cut from old music paper. To finish it off I give it a heavy coating of glitter!

My Cricut Imagine and all of my cartridges.

Next to my Imagine is this shelf... bought at Home Depot. It was a 2 pack and I just love 'em!

You can see inside the drawers in the next couple of pictures.

 

  This drawer is some CTMH stamps, chipboard mini albums and some burlap canvases that I have big plans for.

This one holds stickers, rubons and anything I want close at hand for my mixed media endeavors.

 At the bottom of the shelf I have my Teresa Collins Stamp maker and the supplies needed for it. I love that thing!!!!! Why didn't someone come up with it long before now??? Thank you Teresa!!!!!!

 Moving on around the room... This is another Home Depot shelf. It is really tall and holds a ton of my "garbage" as I call it ( NO, I know it is NOT garbage) 

I have more mixed media supplies on the smaller shelf  and you can see all my paper on the next 2 shelves. On the top I keep my cigar boxes full of ephemera and my jewelry making things.

 Oh my! Oh my! My paper stash is OUT OF CONTROL!! ... and this ain't even all!!

 A tisket, a tasket a paintbrush basket! My journals are next to that along with my cropadile .. the big bite.

This is looking to the right side of the room.... That big ole desk there cost me a grand total of $25 at an estate sale! It holds all my other mixed media and painting supplies... below are photos of the contents of all those LONNNNGGGG drawers. Sorry for the blurriness...

 The top of my desk holds my TV, more mixed media things( the painting I'm working on now... practicing.. just can't get it right though so I've got a LONG way to go), drawing pencils, watercolor pencils, pens and that cabinet holds some smaller things such as buttons, wooden spools, dominoes... etc.

 

This is my drawer for all the stamp rollers and brayers.

 

 This one holds my Pan Pastels and their applicators, Perfect Pearls and a few other little things

 This one is my smaller paper pads and things for art journaling and my She Art things.

 This one speaks for itself! I can see them all and so that makes using them so much easier!

 More mixed media! My Beeswax, Utee small jars, Distress Crackle paint, alcohol inks, Faber Castell Gelatos, Watercolor crayons...

 Another one that can speak LOUDLY for itself! Some of my paint. ... most of it anyways. Again, I can see it so it makes use a  breeze! I love those deep drawers! They just keep going, and going, and going......

 I have another taller shelf (Walmart) that holds my Where Women Create magazines, the tall glass bowl holds my Cats Eye ink pads, then there are jars of Glitter... love the way it looks in the antique jars!

 This is the other shelf bought at Home Depot (the one that was a set). I have all of my other Stampington and Company magazines here, along with some other books on the bottom shelf.

 Oh this makes me happy! I love those antique white buttons!

 Something new... I'm crazy about old bottles and that antique tape measure was my dad's.

 This room was my son's bedroom and when it came open I moved on it... this is inside the closet. I have a shelf that sits below that big ole blue one. the shelf is where I can hide "junk" and the blue one has my Christmas things inside, some tissue and crepe paper and some other things( don't tell anyone but I'm not real sure what IS in there)....

 Another desk inside my closet... holds more stuff, type writer, Your Story, printer... just stuff. storage.

 A dresser in the closet ... the top is my die cutting things.

 Shelves in the top hold my canvases and other things. Thankful for the storage!

 Inside the dresser drawers... crochet thread,

 ephemera, things from swaps,

 stickers and rubons,

 more stickers and rubons.

 I have a shoe organizer hanging on the back of my door. This is where I store all of my punches. I love how it works! I saw this idea on another blog (sorry don't know where) but it was such a GREAT idea so I tried it!

I hope you enjoyed looking around in my studio. It's a little different than last year as I've moved from my little Scrap Shack outside back in to the house.. .conveniences of running water (bathroom right around the corner from my room) , a bathroom in the house (that is a good thing .. hee hee) Food and drinks... it is just better. I'm in the process of turning my little scrap shack into a living room... an escape for me to go to read, or sew or just do whatever. Taking a while, but it is coming along slowly.  

Have a great day and God Bless,

Lisa