Saskatoon at -43 Degrees c

I mentioned on one of my earlier blogs that our weather has turned downright ugly. So, after checking the Weather Network (which my children and I do often) and seeing that it is -29 with an extreme windchill warning of -43 c, I decided to take a picture out of the livingroom window. The wind has blown snow into every vacant crevice, covered sidewalks, clung to the sides of parked cars, causing drifts a few feet deep. People are getting stuck everywhere. To make matters worse, there is ice under the snow, causing very dangerous winter driving conditions. In other words, we should shut down the city until the snow subsides, the winds diminish and the temperature returns to somewhat safe levels. Brrrrrrr! And to those who left this morning to warmer temperatures . . . I wish I were on that plane with you! Enjoy, we will hold down the fort for you!

Remember . . . I Love You

One of those cute pictures that just has to be scrapbooked alone because back then . . . I wasn't a scrapbooker . . . and apparently wasn't a great photographer either. There is only one shot of Jade on this grasshopper. She was being so sweet and looked so cute with her lopsided pigtails. I used some old and some new product on this page and had a lot of fun with it.

I Love My New Cell

I believe this line of paper is My Mind's Eye. I traced a chipboard heart, used a diecut "I", used our new die to make the corner and the bottom patterned paper, some ribbon, the circle from the diecut machine, old "MY" embellishments, old "NEW" tag embellishments, some chalk and sandpaper to soften the whole page. Quick, easy, fun and I used up some old stuff I had laying around.

Two More Pages of Cars . . . A Beautiful Rainbow

Call me crazy. It is the middle of winter . . . the weather station said that tonight (with the windchill) the temperature will be around -42 c. These car pictures made me feel both warm inside and depressed that I couldn't be out driving something gorgeous in the hot summer sun. Simple and to the point -- just the way I like car pages to be.

Cadillac

This page has been sitting in the back room for quite some time. I didn't know what was missing, then yesterday, I simply rounded the two corners, matted it on a lighter color and I was satisfied with it. Again, nothing spectacular; but what I want to see is the cars. Old stickers, newer paper -- Basic Grey. It is amazing that this line really works for almost all of the car colors that were at Cruise Night.

Last Cruise of 2007

Some old, some new. The car is old, the paper is fairly new. The tag is old, the page is new. Simple, as is with the car pages I did this weekend.

Joy

It is time for me to work on Rhea and Mike's Wedding Album. I worked on this page yesterday. I want the layouts to be simple and elegant . . . but worthy of wedding photographs. Rhea looks so happy in this picture that I journalled with a verse from the Bible: "A twinkle in the eye means joy in the heart." It is from Proverbs. I used some new dies with some older paper, some acrylic stamps, ribbon and an old sticker (the metal heart). The JOY was a royal pain in that "Lovely Laura" thought it should twinkle because of the verse. Well, so I added some glitter to the black paint. Laura told me to seal it . . . it dried looking like dandruff. Then I added some of her glitter spray paint . . . not much help. So, I ended up putting Glossy Accents on it and covered the whole thing with black micro beads. What a headache. Fortunately, I like the outcome.

ORCHID

Nathan bought Jade this Orchid "just because". It is a plant, not a cut flower that has continued to bloom. It is so pretty. So, when Faith had to do some "stills" in her photography class, we set it up for a photo shoot. I used some newer S.E.I paper, cardstock, page pebbles, random flowers and crushed velvet ribbon. The title was "raw chipboard" which I used an acrylic dauber on and sprinkled glitter on when it was still wet. Simple . . . but pretty!

Silly

I used some Basic Grey paper and some scraps from my "scrap stash" for this page. The title was made from a scrap of paper which I had previously journalled on but didn't use. The silly, silly, silly paper on the left side is vellum. The pencils were just cut out of the BG paper. This is one of Jade's favorite pictures of her and Nathan the "amblee-ants" man. What a crazy couple of kids to hang around with. Their "funfullness" is contagious . . . and "yes" that is a ponytail in Nathan's hair.

I tried and tried and tried! I could not upload any pictures to my blog tonight. I did two new layouts my last two nights at the store. The scrapbooking therapy helped again. I have been attempting using old paper and scraps and have been having some fun matching patterns. Hope to get these pages up as soon as the blog allows me to. Hope everyone is well -- it seems the flu season has hit like a hurricane. Keep warm, Sharon

tobaggan DIEFENBAKER

I did this today at work. We went tobogganing on Saturday Nite and I got the page done right away. FUN FUN FUN!

Pink Christmas

I used up some old stuff and some new dies on this page. I put the bling on one by one for the pink circle and journalled around the edge. There is some stickles on the corner die and and some doodling. It was a fun page to do and worked for a Christmas page for Jade. She is definately not a red and green person -- the patterned paper worked perfectly and I had been wanting to use it for awhile.

Dream the Dream

Yet another attempt at using up some old product: ribbon, rub-ons, flowers, brads and patterned paper. I have found more pictures of my babies growing up and am really enjoying doing a layout here and there of them when they were super young. This is Jade . . . she loved her Belle sleeping bag.

I Am Thankful for My Beautiful Daughters

I found this page in the store today and wasn't sure if I had put it on my blog. So, it is a bit late but up now. It isn't too often that you see all of us girls in dresses. I used a bit of everything on this page. I have so much product, that I have decided to try to use it all up. That is really hard though with new product arriving in the store.

Shopping

Okay, so it's 2008 . . . HAPPY NEW YEAR! Another year ahead of us. Out with the old, in with the new. So, along with that saying, I am going to attempt to do something new with my layouts. Ralna has inspired me as of late, so I may be scraplifting some of her ideas to get me on my way to the new age of scrapbooking. Things have changed over the past nine years. I went from a cardstockaholic matting pictures a few hundred times and using lettering templates cut out by hand and matted at least three times c/w a few BearyPatch cut-outs to a vellum and mulberry girl within a few short years. Then the collage years set in. Lo and behold patterned paper became the rage and clutter was "in". . . the more the merrier. Metal, fibres, buttons, flowers, chipboard, diecuts, stickers, pebbles, bling, paint, ink, heat embossing, dry embossing, chalk, altering, brads, eyelets, ribbon, stickles, mist, distressing, sanding, gel pens, ZIG, Heidi, Rebecca, Tim, Elsie . . . whew . . . I have missed a million things, but you get the idea right? I can't help but wonder what is in store for us this year. I hope to see you all throughout 2008. I will try to keep blogging and scrapbooking . . . after all, it is my therapy and everyone needs therapy.