Digital Scrapbooking

Been playing some with the digtal scrapbooking!  it's really addictive! alot of fun to play with though I'm still working through how to organize all my freebies I found!  
Been doing some of my family... first off some of my little brother...

isn't he cute?  all photos Mom has taken from March!  He's such a good kid!


then I'm working on some of my Sister in Law... trying to come up with enough photos to make a small mini of her for my Mother in Law if I can!

Really happy with that last one!  


last page I did today was of my Daddy!  back... oh... 10...20... okok 30ish years ago!  haha!  this had to be around the time him and my Mom got married when he was 21!  really wanted to do a military one of him but couldn't find any scanned in photos of him in his uniform so I went with Farm boy/proud American instead.  

really love how this one turned out!  i like doing these because I don't have to have loads of supplies pitching around... right now infact I'm at my Mother in Law's house watching her dogs as she's out of town.  that's why I haven't had any cards done lately.  don't want to drag all that here.  so instead i'm trying to figure out this digital scrap booking stuff!  my hubby isn't a big fan of it but oh well... I got a great group of ladies on one website that really support me in it!  


oh yeah.  I'm also playing around with doing some photo editing like this: 

and printing them out and framing them for my Mom.  this is my little brother again back when he was... 3?  I think three... or close to it.  print this, add some jewels and bling, frame it, done!  think it would make some great gifts!  


have a great week everyone! 


~Y

182 Day Project

don't know if I have told you all on here yet or not but my husband is in the British Navy.  He's an engineer there and works with pretty much everything from the big diesels to a stopped up toilet.  he's gone alot due to this job unfortunately..... he will be gone from sometimes just a couple days, sometimes a couple weeks, a month... and then every 18 months or so he's gone for a 6 month deployment where my only contact with him is emails that he can't always check and letters and good boxes I can send to him that he only gets about once a month.  


Anyways... where am I going with this?  Well I was playing around with a mini tag the other day and decided to write a note on it to him for him to find in his bag while at work.  from this idea sprung my newest project!  182 days (6 months) of notes for him to read showing him my love for him even when he's so far away so he doesn't forget that I'm thinking of him every single day.  


This is a huge task!  I've made up two tags so far.  the one I was makeing yesterday that caused the idea and one more since then.  I'm putting them all in a shoe box right now, and might use that shoe box only dress it up a bit to send with him.  


so I now have 182 reasons to come up with (harder then you think!  there's reasons... but it's hard not to repeat and to try to put those feelings into words, and I don't want to look up any on the net... these all need to come from ME so alot of thinking to do!), 182 tags to make that can all be thrown in one box and not catch on each other and keep hardy, a box to decorate, and something to make for him to keep the tags in after he reads them.  so... i'm more then likely gonna be busy for 182 days!  haha!  good thing his next trip isn't even on the books yet so I have loads of time still!  


I will try to keep you guys updated with how I'm doing on this as I work on it.  As always any advice or input is most appreciated!  I will try to update you on this once a week.  


God bless!


~Y

random update

getting behind on posting on here so I thought I would tell you a few things I've been working on!  


well.. not alot... I've been busy!  but here are a few more calender magnets!  

out of magnet strips so done doing these for a while!  but just untill I get some more strips!  






I've also been playing around some with bottle caps... but don't have anythign from that to show you yet.  gotta wait for my order of glossy accents comes in!  I've never had any before and am really looking forward to playing with it!  

this is a butter fly I made out of the fabric flowers I got a while back!  been playing with them alot and just had to make this!  after taking this photo I hot glued a mini close pin on the back of it and it's not clipped to the top of the lamp shade on my desk!  no idea what else I could do with it because it's kind of large so it will live there for a while!  


now I'm playing with the little tags I bought recently!  I'm distressing them and think inking them with brown and then stamping cute little black pawprints on them!  no idea what I'm gonna do with them yet... but I want to play with little crafts right now and nothing big!  


~Y

Refrigerator Calender

Saw an idea for these the other day and just HAD do to them!  I'm having a blast makeing these!  will sue them as gifts for the people that are on the line for a Christmas gifts.  you know... those that you are "do I get them a gift or not?  are they that close to me? "

do you guys like them?  I'm having so much fun making them!  luckily I bought 5 fake LARGE flowers yesterday that I can use the petals off of them! 


hum... now to think of more ideas! haha!


~Y

365 card: Day 141

been playing more with shaker cards and made this one to enter in Day 141 of Green Brown and Blue!

wasn't 100% happy with this though I loved the idea... I put too much tea in it though and remade it a bit different, but I forgot about the 365 days so it no longer fit that but I will share it anyways!

Love how this one turned out!  for you non-UK folk that's how you order tea over here!  Tea, white, two.  means you want a mug of tea, with milk and two sugars!  so this card is really for a tea crazy person!  hehe


right got so much more I want to show you but not tonight... I'm at work and though I'm allowed on the computer after the boy i babysit goes to sleep I would rather not use up all their net so that's it for now!  will try to do an update tomorrow of all the cards I've done and show a new project I'm working on!  hope you have a great weekend!


~Y

compleatly HUGE give away!

I found this through anouther bloger I watch and WOW!  what a lot of stuff!  check this out!

http://scrappinforkenzie.blogspot.com/


there are hundreds of pages of paper, so many stickers and goodies that I about fell over just looking at it all!  go take a look!

New card style and OMG a clean desk? no way!

worked out a new card making style!  well... not new new... new to me!  haha been making shaker cards!  


this one was my first try:

really like how it turned out but am changeing some things up next time I make it... make the border around the shaker out of blue not white and only do one layer up not two.  but other then that I'm super happy with it!


see the birds on it?  confetti!  I got so excited when my hubby got me it!  it was in a large pack of birds, hearts, wineglasses, bells, a couple, and the words "just married".  I'm gonna use all but the couple and words easily.  but got plans to cut up some of the words to use in shakers cards!  


I've also done anouther shaker card but wasn't 100% happy with it so will wait and show you the second go around on it! ^^


I've cleaned my desk (kindof) today too!  been about two weeks since I had and stuff was getting lost!  haha!


oh and as a special little somethign wanted to show you a photo of me and my husband!  

it's he cute?  he helps me out so much with my scrapping!  the idea of the card I have yet to show you was his then I took it and I just took it and made it work on a card!  and he cut the circles for the borders for me and taught me how to do it!  he also glued the shells on the card for me in that shaker card!  he's a real help and always gives me good input!  


~Y