31. January 2008 by admin.

Here’s my first LO using Kiki’s Sandy Cove kit. It’s available at SBE. It’s perfect for my Florida photos. I’ve got another one sitting in PSE, but I’m not sure if it’s finished. You know how that goes, don’t ya? So maybe you’ll see it tomorrow or sometime next week.

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30. January 2008 by admin.

Just a short note to say hello.  The blog is slowly coming together and hopefully will be in publication soon.  The sweetest girl in all of digiscapping land is doing a wonderful job with it and I truly appreciate her taking time from her hectic schedule and family life to help me out.  Love ya girl!!!

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30. January 2008 by admin.

I laid down to go to sleep last night and I thought I was about to visit OZ. I couldn’t believe how the wind was whipping and whirling. I wouldn’t be surprised to see several roof shingles on my front lawn. It made for a noisy night. Straight line winds at anywhere from 50-65 mph. I didn’t hear any major crashes which is fortunate cuz there are some big trees down in parts of the city. At least that’s what the morning news is showing. That kept the dogs restless and me waking feeling like I got very little sleep.

I showed you these lovely swirls by Kiki Halbert yesterday. They are available at PDW for only $2. I think they would be an awesome addition to ANY valentine’s day LO. So I’m buying a set to give away to my loyal blog readers.

All you need to do is go to Kiki’s store at either PDW or Scrapbook Elements and pick 1 kit that you really like. Then email that to me at carjaziscraps “at” gmail “dot” com. I’ll do a random drawing of everyone who sends me an email. Just a little something to say thank you for reading my blog every day.

I’ve got another guest CT spot to announce. I’m very excited to be a guest for Cherie Shields for Feb. & March. I have a few of her kits from my time at OAKS and am really looking forward to seeing more of her stuff. She’s getting ready to open at Sophia Sarducci too. So I think between my full time & guest gigs I’ll be pretty busy. I’m taking a page from Cate’s book and spreading the love around as a guest. Somehow I doubt I’ll be able to match her amazing feats with challenges though.

I’m getting itchy to get to Friday so I can leave to go see the girls. The only bummer is they’re calling for snow. Shannon gets nervous when I drive in snow. Actually he gets nervous when I drive up there alone anyway. He just doesn’t realize that I was doing it long before I met him. He’s getting ready for a nice little getaway with his dad. Since he’s laid off for the winter he’s flying down and he & his dad are driving to Florida. He’ll be gone for most likely 3 weeks. Am I bad to think YIPPEE!! I’ll have all the time in the world to scrap. He’s been so touchy lately saying I spend too much time on the damn computer. Anyone else got a DH or SO that doesn’t get it?

A few big announcements on Friday so make sure you check back! Have a great day all.

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29. January 2008 by admin.

Now I haven’t officially started with Kiki’s CT yet, I’m waiting on a few files and Feb. to be here. but I have to pass this along to you. Check out these lovely swirls word art. Are they fab! And wouldn’t they just dress up any Valentine’s layout. You can pick em up at PDW for only $2. At such a great price, I’m thinking of a little contest with em. hmmmmm. Let me think about this. Watch for this tomorrow.

I’m thinking that’s all the news I have for today. Safe travel wishes for Heather as she comes to my state, only to find that I’m not here. Scrap happy all.

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28. January 2008 by admin.

So how was your weekend? Did you lay back or do lots of stuff? Did you get to scrap? Mine was pretty low key. I spent a lot of time at SBB for their 5th birthday celebration. They held several chats and challenges over the weekend, giving out prizes and goodies. I’ll show you more of that in a bit.

Guess what! I got a guest spot for Feb. & March with Kiki Halbert’s CT. I’m so excited about that. I’ve gotten a few of her kits from RAK’s and am looking forward to working with some of her designs. I’ve browsed her stores and don’t know where to start, there are so many great items. So look for some of her designs here soon!

I was chatting with Cate on Hello on Friday night and she was showing me her newest layouts with blending. I love how she does it, especially with landscape & nature shots. So I sent her a few of my pictures from my trip to Florida and look what she did for me. Isn’t it gorgeous!!! I need to see if she’s put it on her blog yet so I can link the credits.

I’m still playing with blending. Hopefully I’ll have something to show you soon.

Here are my layouts for some of the challenges from SBB this weekend. The one above I combined 3 challenges into 1 layout; quote, 5 items (were given) and 5 designers. Credits: papers ~ Nicole Pols (windgefluester) from her grab bag - elegance papersRibbon - Paint the Moon (Annie Manning)Frame~ Deacon’s Closet by FlergsButtons ~ Holly Jolly Christmas by Doreen StolzStitching ~ Sew What by Melissa Bennett
This is for Amy Bleser’s template challenge. The kit is Lindsay Jane’s Magical Christmas.
This one was a recipe layout. Raechel gave us the ingredients and here’s what I came up with. Credits: Template~ Andrea Gold from her blog1 Photo ~ my old man & the dogs2 Patterned papers~ Heather Manning Con Amor kit1 Solid paper~ Heather Manning Con Amor Kit 2 Ribbons ~ Color Revolution Ravishing Red by Connie Prince 1 Tag ~ Flergs from Deacon’s Closet Stitching ~ Heart by Ztampf! from SBB collab For the Love of it Alpha for Title ~ Faith True Chrome AlphaFont for Title ~ KissMe KissMe KissMe Extra embellishment ~ Chocolate Heart from Designs by Shelle Be Mine

Don’t forget about the Now & Then challenge over at Heather’s CT blog. And watch for a new one from yours truly on Friday. Also I need to go and work on my new blog. I’ve been slacking this weekend and not getting things together, but I really just wanted the person putting it together for me to spend the weekend with her DH and DS’s. I’ll be by to read blogs after I get off work.

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26. January 2008 by admin.

But first I need to go and visit everyone’s blogs. I feel that I’ve missed so much in the past 3 days. But I also haven’t done any pages either. So I’ll balance it out going from PSE to blogger and back and forth.

Did you know that this weekend is Scrapbook Bytes 5th anniversary? They’re having a big sale and party. Spent a few hours last night at the chats and going through the store to see what I just can’t live without (too much) and what I can afford. They have a terrific Collab that you get for free if you spend $10. And a lot of the designers are running sales right now. Unfortunately they are having some issues with the store and now I have to wait to get my goodies. But that’s ok cuz I can spend time with you all.

Did you grab Heather’s Grab Bag yet? What are you waiting for? Lots of goodies for a ridiculously low price. Plus you can use those goodies in the CT Blog challenge Now & Then, not to mention the Valentine’s Day Challenge that I’m getting ready to post on Friday.

Guess I’m off to scrap. Hope you can get some good quality scrap time in too. Enjoy your Saturday.

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25. January 2008 by admin.

Good morning. It’s early here still. I got up to let the dogs out and decided to sit down at the computer and get some work done. Never fails. So I figured I’d come by and leave a happy TGIF message here. I am soooooooo glad it’s Friday. ‘nough said!

Last night Shannon and I went to see his niece play basketball. It’s the first game of the season we’ve gotten to see and just about the last game of the season. It was a good defensive game, but they lost. It’s her Senior season and it hasn’t been a good one. The first 3 years she played on this team they had a 6 foot 3 guard who they parked under the basket. They won titles all 3 years, so this year is a big disappointment to her. And she sprained her ankle but tried to play through the pain. She wasn’t in a good mood by the time I got to talk to her. And all she really wanted was some sympathy from her uncle and the blockhead didn’t realize it. Men are so dense sometimes.

So while I was playing at DST with the grab Heather’s grab bag game, I got myself some goodies too. Look.
This adorable Valentine’s kit from Designs by Shelle
And this cute alpha by Tangie Baxter. There were quite a few others that I would have loved to have gotten, but can’t get greedy. I find that a bit of Karma is good for the soul. Whenever Heather lets me give away her goodies, I get goodies in return. The other thing I’ve learned is that up to yesterday, everyone I’ve rak’d had done a turn on Heather’s CT as a guest. We’ll see if the trend continues.

I got the nicest Thank You card in the mail yesterday from my SIL parents. I changed a few of the photos on the calendar I did for my mom and my SIL ordered one for her parents. They are major paper scrappers and I am so in awe of what they can do. For her to be impressed with my digiscrapping skills (as basic as they are) and to say so really made my day.

Don’t forget Heather’s grab bag is on sale at her store until the 29th. I hope to get to play with it just a little bit more this weekend. Working on a great challenge for her CT blog for the beginning of Feb. Hope you’ll keep an eye out for it.

Enjoy your weekend all. Happy scrapping!

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24. January 2008 by admin.

So I’m trying to get back on track with my Christmas book. I’ve still got at least 10 pages to go. And I’ve really lost the Christmas feeling. I wanted to try to get away from traditional colors but I still used a Christmas kit. I’ve got mixed feelings about it. I have decided that I need to journal more on these pages. So I’m really struggling with that. Credits: Jingle Jangle from Melissa Bennett, gift boxes by Mary Fran & template by Andrea Gold.

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24. January 2008 by admin.

You Are A Blue Girl

Relationships and feelings are the most important things to you. You are empathetic and accepting - and good at avoiding conflict. If someone close to you is in pain, it makes you hurt as well. You try to heal the ones you love with your kind and open heart.

You Are Marcia Brady

Confident yet kind. Popular yet down to earth. You’re a total dream girl. You’ve got the total package - no wonder everyone’s a little jealous of you.

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23. January 2008 by admin.

So I’ve been having issues at work with my computer the past few days. When the IT guy called yesterday to go over things and reinstall and remove etc.. stuff, I just happened to have the site for my new blog host up. Well, later this afternoon I found that IT has blocked all Blogger based sites from my access at work. I have a feeling that forums will be next. I tried to clear out my history and stuff, but I know they have an exact printout of where I’ve been and such. Now I don’t know why they feel that scrapping blogs are so dangerous to the server but I’m pretty sure that I’ve ruined it for everyone else in the company. However I doubt that anyone else is a ticked off about it as I am. I have a boring job and the only thing that makes it even remotely tolerable is my Internet access. So while I’ll continue to blog I won’t be by to read your during the day. I will however continue to visit my friends, nothing will stop me from my appointed rounds, lol. I just wanted to let everyone know what was up and why I’m not traveling the blog train during the day. (or at least until I figure out a way around this). I did get a domain name and started to set up a new blog. I’ll let you know if I can access that one at work, not that it will matter, cuz I won’t be able to read yours at work.

So it was very nice to see this from Yen yesterday on her blog. I truly adore all my regular readers and am an avid reader myself. It’s nice to get to know what it going on in peoples lives. I am so majorly bummed out about this IT issue. Anyway, I would like to once again recognize Heather, Kristine & Cate. These girls are just such a part of my daily life. I can’t repeat what Kristine said about my IT issue, but it at least made me chuckle. Which I believe has become her main focus in life. Cate is my lifeline on trying to figure out my Vista and PSE issues. I don’t understand something, one email screaming help and the problems fixed. Heather believes in me, even when I don’t believe in myself. Love ya girls~Mwah!

I thought I’d play around with Kim B’s color challenge over at DSO. I don’t know when it started to become a design challenge, but it seems that everyone is trying their hand at that. I think I’ll stick to word art. But here is my very first attempt at papers.

Don’t forget to stop by Heather’s CT blog & leave a comment to be in the running for her newest grab bag. I’ll be randomly drawing a name of everyone who leaves a comment. At least I’m getting all those at my email. lol. Ok, I know shut up and do your job.

Have a great day! I’ll be missing you.

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