How's That Hope And Change Working Out For YOU?

Well, tomorrow I am starting another job. I'm not a happy camper about it, either, but it's a necessity as there is barely any building going on around here. Taking into consideration what is happening in our country, I guess I should be happy that I even found a job. I have worked for our family business for 13 years at home, so this is going to be a BIG change for me. And an even BIGGER change for the rest of the family. I will still continue with my job for our business in addition to this new full-time job. I'm really anxious and worried about it. I know the house won't fall apart if I'm not here, but things just won't get done the way I would do them... I've actually got myself sick over the whole thing. And the worst part is that I won't have as much time to scrapbook and paper craft...

I'm so terribly worried about the direction that this country is going. I sure hope we can hold on until we're able to vote these Bozo's out of office. I just have one thing to say. Educate yourself on what is happening in our country! Don't just listen to what you hear on the 30 second blurb you see on your evening news. It is not fair and balanced coverage and it's not the WHOLE story. Tell your senators and congress people what you want and tell them over and over that they work for you, not the other way around. If we don't, we have no one to blame but ourselves...

Until next time...

A Little Pick-Up Card

Just finished another card for several challenges. This one qualifies for these challenges:

1. Cute Card Thursday challenge #66 - use wheels on your creation.

2. Copic Colour Challenge challenge #19 - use specified Copic marker colors.

3. Delightful Sketches - Sketch #1.

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Another Challenge Card

This one was super fun to color with my Copic markers! It's all digi stamps from Dustin Pike. This card qualifies for several blog challenges. My 4 year old nephew is just gonna flip when he sees this card! I can hardly wait to give it to him.

1. Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog challenge #7 - use the Pirate Dragon Background
2. Copic Creations challenge #6 - coloring techniques for wood
3. Corrosive Challenge Blog #17 - unique folding
4. Lili of Valley Challenge Blog challenge #30 - paper piecing

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The Pink Elephant Challenge #20

It's been a while since I've sat down to actually make some cards. I did this one for The Pink Elephant challenge for this week. Once again, I've waited until the last minute! It was a sketch challenge this week.





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Bragging Rights!

OK. I've got to do it. I've got to show off the graduation card my daughter made for one of her friends graduating tomorrow. They played volleyball together. She used the Sports Mania cartridge for the volleyball and then she designed the cap and tassel herself. I think it turned out just awesome! Don't you think?



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Some More Layouts!

Here's a few more layouts I've completed.

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What I Did On My Vacation at Tall Oaks...

This past weekend I went to an awesome scrapbook retreat owned by my friend, Casie, called Tall Oaks Retreat which happens to be practically in my own backyard. It's located only 20 minutes away from me! I was there with 15 other wonderful scrappers and stampers. I swear all we did was eat and drink! I got to see several girls I had met before like Casie, Kim R., Kim B., Kathy, Nicole, Angi, Juli, Lisa, Robin, Jess and Kari and got to meet some new girls, Heather, Cathy and Carla. It was a good time! I truly did get some scrapping done. Here's what I accomplished. There's another 2 page layout I did, but my daughter said it needed something more on it so I'm tweeking on it a bit more. I got 11 pages done! For me, that's about average. I'm a slow scrapper, but that's OK because for me, it's my creative outlet and I'm not interested in volume.

Until next time...