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Went To The Crop And Here's What I Worked On (for the most part)

I only got 3 layouts done at the crop Friday night and then I started playing with chipboard and started making snowflakes. I learned a couple of new techniques and I think they came out looking alright.

I really want to go but...

There's a crop tomorrow. I soooo want to go but my friend isn't going. (sobs) Maybe I'll see how many are going to be there and then decide. I hate going to a crop where it's too crowded. I need roooooooooom! LOL We'll see, I guess.

Blog Award

Thanks so much to Jacque for this cute award! She's so sweet!

Now I would like to pass on this award to: (it really was difficult to pick only 5 cuz I wouldn't follow your blog if I didn't think you were fantastic!)

Pam at http://scrap-ements.blogspot.com/
Shirley at http://acraftyspot.blogspot.com/
Lynn at http://prettypaperswirls.blogspot.com/
Tessa at http://craftygrl.blogspot.com/
Delaina at http://delainas.blogspot.com/

Croppin' Time!

Well it looks likes I get to crop with my bestest buddy on Friday! I'm very excited. I have soooo many Christmas pics to put into layouts. I'll post a few this weekend. I might even have time to do some cropping at home since I'm off on Mon (MLK Day) and Tues (Inauguration Day). We'll see what happens! I've gathered as much Holiday embellies, paper, ribbon, etc., as I can so that I can be prepared. Wow, I might even be able to get it all done. I know, I know, calm down. LOL

Some of the Pages I've Done

The picture above was for a challenge in my scrapbooking group. We were supposed to incorporate arrows in our layout.

The picture below was for a black and white challenge.

This is a page out of Rachel's 8x8 album that I actually completed during one of my 11 hour crops at Scrapdoodles (my local scrapbooking store). I used Glimmer Mists and distressing ink on the flowers and took the back off of some brads to use for the center of the flowers. I tore paper and inked the edges with distressing ink and added some embellishments.

I did this page a while back. This was my first attempt with buttons and a fancy corner punch.

This layout is also from a while back. I used two different types of textured papers and added some metal embellies. Nothing fancy with this at all but I was so pleased with the way it turned out.


This layout is from my first challenge. We were to use a bunch of different types of alphas to create the titling on the page. Some of the letters were predone chipboard and some of the chipboard I inked and/or embossed and added a little bling to some.

Well, my first Christmas card was a hit this year. I glued this card to the front of a small frame and then I used a piece of ribbon and tied a gift card to the front of it. I also made two others but forgot to take pics of them. My cousin was funny, he didn't understand and was trying to take the card off of the frame to see what else was inside. It was good for a laugh, and we managed to stop him before he tore it up. So I think I'll be making more Christmas cards during the year to give out next Christmas!

Just The Beginning...

I was just thinking about all of the pictures I have been collecting from family members (plus the pics I already have) and just got the biggest sense of being overwhelmed! I probably should stop thinking about scrapbooking and get back to doing my real job, no? ~ Ha ~ Our office just finished up the holiday party and I just was so not in the mood, so I snuck back into my office and created this blog for myself. I saw one of my friends had done this so I think I'm going to give it a shot and see if I can keep myself straight this coming year with all the scrappin' I'm going to try to do. I'm going to try to do posts of what I've accomplished, but definitely not all of it! Just one or two pages I'm particularly proud of from each batch that I work on. We'll see how all of this plays out.