More Iron Chef

So it's Round 2 and all items are due in about 40 mins from now. I got my layout completed this afternoon but had to wait for it to dry before taking some pictures. I've posted some to share. I also added a bit more color to my previous card, (just some pink around the edges of the white piece), and I think that maybe it looks a tad bit better. I'm still not entirely pleased, but it'll do. Fingers crossed that I'll make it on to the next round, but I'm up against some REALLY tough competition!

My Layout is of my niece Amelia. Such a cutie! My little flower :) Remember, my main ingredients to use were stickers, paint and stitching. TFL~

Iron Chef Round 2 - Card

Ok, so it's not the greatest but I was going for a painting type background. I'm really not sure I succeeded, therefore, if I have time before I run out of time to enter my projects, I just may have to redo this one! LOL Maybe it would look better if I inked the edges of the white strip or something....

Our ingredient items are paint, stickers and faux stitching.

Iron Chef IV - Altered Item

Round 2 Menu Ingredients - stickers, paint and faux stitching. Here's what I came up with. I altered a notebook so that I can put in my online scrappy friends addresses and birthdays so that I can send RAK's and cards. I think it turned out pretty good :)

It's here!

My order from ScrappersHaven came today and it included the awesome new papers by Core'dinations!!! I got the black Spell Caster ones and the Vintage set called Reminisce. I LOVE them! I'm happy that they all have a bar at the top so you can tell what the core color is going to be because I'd be tearing them all just to see what's inside! LOL Can't wait to create!

OMG! ANOTHER RAK!!

I think I must be the luckiest girl around this past month or so!!! I had to tell a pay it forward story on a blog of Prima Instructor Trisha Ladouceur and I ended up winning a RAK because of it! I'm so excited to see what comes in the mail!! Prima has some great products!!

Although I may have posted it before, this is the clear acrylic frame I made with Prima paintables paper at her class when I was at Scraptacular at the end of February!

If you're in the Edmonton area, I believe she does different classes at Scrapbook Memories & More in Sherwood Park. It's a great store too! I got to go there for goodies when my sister and I attended their National Scrapbook Day crop last year. It was a lot of fun, in fact, I think the registration for this year's may still be open. I'm not able to attend, but would have loved to!

Iron Chef - Round 1 Items

First round of items are complete! Hooray!! I'm getting really good at leaving things for the last minute I tell ya! LOL

Round 1 Ingredients - glitter, chalks (no chalk stamps) and B&W papers...Donna sure if good at throwing people for a loop...I feel so useless with chalks...I never really use mine at all!

I struggled a bit with my LO...just wasn't sure how I wanted it all to come together but it turned out okay I think. Zane checked it out and told me that it looked kinda plain, but I didn't want it to be overly embellished etc, so I suppose I accomplished what I wanted then! LOL

I chalked the Lacy type cardstock to make it pop against the white paper.
Used glitter on my flowers

This is my altered frame. I colored the picture using chalks and embellished it with glitter, including on the foam thickers letters and the flower I made. I think it really turned out nicely!

And finally, my card...totally not impressed with it, but it has the requirements so I'm pleased with that LOL It just wasn't going where I wanted it to go. I think having the teal/green flowers was throwing me off for a bit, but at least I had teal colored glitter stuff!

I wonder if I'll make it to Round 2...

My March Challenge Prize

Although it's kind of far away, this is the prize I won for doing the March challenges at ScrappersHaven, It's the Basic Grey Archaic Paper Pack!!! I LOVE IT!!!

Aren't these papers awesome?? I love the colors and the dinosaurs!!!

RAK

So imagine my surprise last week when I went to the post office and found this... :) My scrappin' idol Glenda sent me some fun stuff to try out, lots of cool stickers (I know she's challenging me with this one LOL) and some fun chipboard shapes and books. I just adore the little kid one (it's in the middle of the pic). Thanks so much Glenda! Can't wait to use them!

Here I go again! LOL

Okay, I got tagged by Tess so here goes!!

A) Four places that I go to over and over: Wal-mart, IGA, Post Office, Drug Store (pretty exciting living in a small town LOL)

B) Four people who e-mail me (regularly ): Kim, Melissa, Ronda, Amber

C) Four of my favorite places to eat: East Side Marios, Quiznos, McDonalds, DQ

D) Four places I would rather be right now: in Hawaii, in bed, on a beach somewhere warm, Disneyland

E) Four people I think will respond: Ronda, Adrienne, Kim, Amber....(consider yourselves TAGGED)

F) Four TV shows I watch over and over: The Office, Desperate Housewives, 30 Rock, American Idol

Iron Chef...

So I was going to put these at the end of my post, but blogger won't let me move them to the bottom (not sure you really even can) so here they are to start with instead. Had to share a couple pics of my kiddo, cuz he's just so sweet sometimes. The first pic is of him helping on laundry day.



This second one is from last week when we were out for a walk.



So I'm in Iron Chef IV over at Scrappers Haven and I am starting to freak out...ok, well just a little :) You see, it's already Wednesday afternoon and I have a few ideas in motion but I have nothing really started yet!!! Oddly enough though, at my Stampin' Up Technique Club last week, we made a card using dry embossing and chalk, so the rusty wheels in my head started turning. I ended up not finishing putting my card together so that I can possibly add the other required elements and have a project completed. But yet, here I sit on the computer (for about the 5th time already today) and I'm not working on anything.

I think I've come to the revelation that I'm an "alone" scrapper somewhat. I think I need to have no real distractions in order to be productive and not get frustrated. I love going to ScrapNite that we have every second Monday night, but I find although I get stuff done, I catch myself looking around and chatting much too much!! LOL I guess that's the point of going though, to see what others are up to and to have a night away...as well as a good visit!!! :D Hopefully tonight my hubby has hockey to watch (now that the Flames are in the playoffs and not my beloved Canucks :( ) and I can put on my iPod, crank the tunes and create away while he has some quality time with our kiddo LOL

I've been tagged!

All righty then, Glenda has tagged me and now I have to answer the following questions. Pay attention because you might be the person tagged at the end!

The rules are as follows:

1. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
2. At the end of the post, the player then tags five people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves a comment letting them know they've been tagged and to ask them to play along and to read your blog.


What I was doing 10 years ago - 1998
1 – I was just getting myself into another bad relationship
2 – I was working at Video Update and enjoying LOTS of new movies!!
3 – I enjoyed going to the bar
4 - I smoked (quit in Jan 2003)
5 - I was starting nursing school

Five things on my to-do list today
1 – do the leftover dishes from my Signature Homestyles party last night
2 – hang out with my kiddo
3 – pay a bill for the Bandits (I’m the treasurer)
4 – start thinking of projects for Iron Chef
5 – think of something decent for supper

Snacks I enjoy
1 – nachos with LOTS of cheese
2 – Cheese and melba toast with an apple
3 - Smarties
4 – Ice cream
5 - brownies

Things I would do if I were a billionaire
1 – build a HUGE house
2 – travel lots
3 – pay off my families debts and give them some extra $$ to play with
4 – buy my own scrapbooking store
5 – Buy a BMW

Five of my bad habits
1 – I bite my nails sometimes (but not like I used to)
2 - I speak without thinking first quite often
3 - I procrastinate about getting things done
4 - Spend way more money on scrap supplies than I should
5 - I'm on the computer waaaay too much


Five places I have lived
1 – Medicine Hat, AB
2 – Fox Creek, AB
3 – Manning, AB
4 – Fairview, AB
5 – Red Deer, AB

Five jobs I've had
1 – Clerk in a video store
2 – IGA deli clerk
3 – Hotel front desk/housekeeping
4 – gas station attendant
5 – Registered Nurse

Okay, I don't really know many people with blogs, so I'm tagging Rebecca, Adrienne, Tess and Jane!

Some recent goodies I've received

This was my prize for winning Chris's Resist Card Challenge over at ScrappersHaven. I thought maybe I was getting a card and some sweet little item, but lo and behold, ALL of this arrived! I was flabbergasted! Chris definitely outdid herself! I look forward to using all of the items on future projects!! Thanks again Chris!!

And this loot came from Deborah at ScrappersHaven from the February crop. I did her card challenge and she sent me all these stamping goodies for winning it! Yup, I was shocked at this one too! I have yet to use these stamps, but I plan on it once I get around to making some more cards. All of these stamps are too cute! Thanks Deborah!!

Ok, so truth be told, I'm becoming quite competitive when it comes to this scrapbooking stuff and these challenges, but I do like that they are getting me to be more creative and that I am getting projects completed! I'm pretty sure I've done more LO's and cards this year already than I did in all of last year (and yeah, I know I had a baby in there LOL)

So after chatting with a few people over the past month and actually seeing someone do it, I'm now tempted to unmount all of my rubber stamps. Question is...am I really, seriously, brave enough to take the plunge and go for it??? Has anyone out there tried this? I would love to get some feedback!

My friend is starting to do hers and she is leaving the squishy foam stuff on the backs of the stamps and then attaching them to this vinyl cling stuff that she picked up at the local hardware store. She says that there this enough 'tack' on the cling stuff that it should stick no problem to her clear stamping blocks. I'm not sure that I'm all to keen on that method myself, but I'm not sure what else I want to do. I did read somewhere I'm sure that there would be enough sticky goo on the foam stuff to stick to the inside of the CD case and that it should stick to the clear blocks too. This seems to me like a fairly good idea considering how infrequently I use my stamps. It's not like they'd be going back and forth numerous times to have the stickiness wear out. Hmmm...just can't decide!!!!

Anyone know of people who may be looking to buy some used sets of Stampin' Up stamps? I have quite a few that are collecting dust and I'm looking to offload them. I will get around to posting their names etc tomorrow hopefully (it's after 2am now and I'm finally starting to get tired, NO more caffeineated pop for me! Especially in the evening! LOL) If you know of anyone, please contact me in the comments section! If I can't sell them this way, I will probably post them on Splitcoast Stampers in the near future. I wouldn't mind trying the ebay route, but I'm chicken to try that too LOL

Some of my latest

So I've been working like a mad woman the past while to get the projects completed for the March challenges at ScrappersHaven and thanks to a wonderful, supportive husband who went over and beyond with his fatherly duties, I managed to get them all finished!! Yes, you heard right, ALL 13 of them!! Isn't that insane??? I've never worked so darn hard in my scrappin' life before LOL

Here's a few samples...

Glenda's Word Challenge - Find

Rebecca's Scrap-A-Round Challenge

(you had to take something from the previous LO posted and build your own)

I took the stamping from Tess's layout and stamped Amelia's name on mine.

Marcie's Monochromatic Layout Challenge

I wasn't able to participate in the online crop this past Friday due to a family matter that arose, but I did check in later and tried out Chris's step by step resist technique card and I loved it!!! Unfortunately my picture took on a blue tinge but it looks kinda cool in real life! Everyone who participated in the technique got their name entered in a draw and I found out yesterday that I'd won!!! :D It made my day and I can't wait to see what sweet gift Chris is putting in the mail!

Glenda's Step by step was a lot of fun as well. It was to learn how to make homemade posies. These are how mine turned out! Please message me if you'd like to learn how and I'll get you the correct link. I'm having problems posting it properly in here for some reason. I may come back and try again later.

Definitely have to post that I am LOVING my new cricut Expressions! I have used it a lot already for some titles and accents and I'm feeling much more comfortable with it (and more creative too!) My only complaint is that my papers seem to really stick to the cutting mat and when I lift the paper, it leaves paper fuzzies behind on the mat and the backside of my papers look terrible. It kind of upsets me because it ruins any paper that wasn't cut. Not sure what to do about this...if anyone has any suggestions PLEASE let me know in the comments!

I do know that I want to get another cutting blade and another cutting mat though, so at least I can rotate the mats to make them last longer, cuz at the rate I'm using it, it won't last long! LOL