Woo Hoo - dollar bin at Micheals

I went to Micheals yesterday and had ooodles of fun. All the $1 goodies from Christmas were marked down to 33 cents. I got a whole bag full of alterables for under 10 bucks. Last week I was making some little note pad holders and needed small pens, I went to the office supply place and they were $1 EACH - crazy, go to Micheals and you can now buy the pad with a pen, ready to alter for 33 cents. They also have thank you cards packs, now I would not send such a thing (gasp) HOWEVER, I love to make sqare cards and sqare envelopes are hard to find and generally expensive. Go to Micheals and you can get 8 of them (no to mention you can reuse the cardstock from the card to stamp on) for....yup....33 cents. I generally stay away from clearance because I figure if you buy something your not going to use, no matter how cheep, your not saving money, but this one I couldn't pass up, and did I mention DP for 14 cents a sheet! Don't walk, RUN to Micheals and stock up! Now off to make some square cards, I'll be back with that later.

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This weeks digital scrapbook challenge was to take a picture of everyday life and quickly scrap it (30 minutes), so here is my quick page - my kids playing with thier favorite toy - LEGO's

Mini Canvas

I was shopping at our local scrapbook store today (hoping to splurge on some nestabilites, but they didn't have any) and I saw these cute little mini canvas /esle sets. What fun! I stamped on a piece of designer paper, glued it on, then inked the edges and VOILA! I wish I would have bought more than one. This one is going to a friend for her birthday, hope she likes it.

Happy Valentines Day Circle punch art

I am totally doing a happy dance today! I have been trying for WEEKS to figure out how to type in a circle in Photoshop so that the bottom half reads upside-right. I have poored over tutorials with no luck, until today! Now I can write in the bottom half and make cute little punchables! This is my first one (hard to tell the xoxox is right side up, but trust me, it is), hope someone can use it. Download .jpg and print as usual (be sure print is set at 8 1/2 by 11 to fit the punch), use a 1 1/4 inch circle punch to punch it out - there are 9 on the sheet.

Valentines Day Circle

Week One of my New Years resolution: SPLASH

My resolution (I rarely make them because I rarely keep them) was to do one scrap page per week. Today is the 7th, so here is my week one scrap page. I used PSE6, papers are from scrapgirls. I chose to do something summery, because its been cold and stormy here, this warms my heart to look at.

What a great way to start my day....

Thank you so much to Susan at Busy with the cricky for sending this fabulous award my way. Now I'm supposed to list 5 obsessions and then pass the award to 5 other fabulous blogs.
I'm a bit of a OCD/type A/whatever you want to call it type person, so I have lots of quirks and obsessions, her is the "shortened to 5" list:

1: Pretty paper

2: All things Photoshop, from processing and scrapping photos of my beautiful little boys to NOW creating jpgs(for svgs) to cut with my cricut! Its so much fun, I have a hard time getting away from my computer.

3: Organizing tools/totes, anything-organizing my craft supplies is almost as much fun as using them

4: Coffee - I live in the Pacific Northwest, its a requirement

5: Hiking (again, its a requirement)

Put it all together and you have a perfect day, a stop at Starbucks on the way to a hike, lots of photos kids and beauty around me, then come home and scrap it with photoshop, cricut, and pretty paper :) Ahhh, that sounds lovely. I can't wait for Spring!

Now 5 other Fabulous blogs, well, there are lots of them...but I'll go with:

Pat
Lindsey

Donna
Linda
Okie

Valentines Day Card, SVG and paper freebie

I can't believe it is the 5th already. I have been spending every spare moment this week either working on my 2008 year in review book (still not done) or reading tutorials on Photoshop. I thought I'd post my first attempt at pattern paper and making an svg in Illustrator. Nothing fancy, but not bad for a first try. The patterned paper is available in dots (I was learning pattern fill) or stripes (I was learning how to make stripes with brushes), the ric rak svg is posted a couple posts down (I cut it in red, then covered it in Dazzling Diamonds) and the Be Mine svg is attached below. If anyone knows some great tutorial sites for changing scanned sketches in svgs, please leave a link in the comments. I have some I'd like to share but I'm having a hard time learning Illustrator well enough to get them from paper to svg. Have a great day!

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