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did you catch this fabulous bit of local news this morning? here is the link to the video: Scrapbooking Ideas for the entire family i'm not sure how long that link will work. at least a week i think. i kind of doubt they delete videos...but they must move somewhere on their website as an archive? Lynette was on the CTV Morning Live today, January 30, 2012.  Lynette is a fabulous and

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it snuck up on me! kind of like my next birthday.... on the eve of my milestone birthday....       {  i start a new decade this year! if you say "the thirties"....           i just have to say that i think you are awesome. even if you are wrong.                   ha!!} ....i am going to share how to create a tag like this.... i like to think the snowman is looking ahead....to the

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*edited to add: and my 400th post. oh my. really? i must do something to celebrate. next post! back to routines. again. i completely expected that it would be near impossible to get out of bed before 8am this morning. i also expected that i would be dragging two tired children out of bed at 8:30 and walking them into school late. it is a good thing that i am not always right! especially in

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here is a super quick over view of my 2011 Year in Review Classes. **but still a long post with a ton of photos!** my students signed up once and were automatically registered for the class each month. they chose either the Thursday Option (6:00 pm to 9:00 pm) or the Saturday Option (10:00 am to 1:00pm). the class was held on the last Thursday or Saturday of the month. the only time we made

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this will be a great year! i cannot believe that we have completed two years of classes. wow!! the first year, the layouts were thematic. {you can view them all here} last year i did my best to focus on one major technique each month. {i will show these on the next post} this year i thought it would be fun to base the layouts on sketches. the first month will be a direct interpretation of the

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one more day left in 2011. when i was in grade three i recall writing stories about what the future would be like. if my memory is correct, the dates we often used were something like 2012 or 2025. at the time those dates were so far away and we all thought we would be soooo old! we would also no longer be driving cars....instead we would have personal flying space ships to visit other planets.

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the last week before holidays was busier than i expected. i knew the start of the week would be busy, but i thought it would slow down. i thought the same thing last year. and the year before that. perhaps next year i will be ready?! never mind the last week of school was also the last week before Christmas. we'll just say that Christmas Baking became a low priority. yes. very low. which i am

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i created this little shadowbox for a friend. then taught her friends how to make one just like it. it was the first time in a long time where i taught a class to ladies who were not scrapbookers. one of them shared a cute story with me: she told her young daughter that this frame was what they were going to give to her Grandma. in response, the young girl was not too thrilled and said to

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one item on my scrapbooking agenda last week was to create a tag for our 'tag challenge group'. i think i mentioned it earlier that Jan wanted us to create something that was inspired by the song, "Believe" in the movie The Polar Express. i loved the 'perfect Christmas snowfall' that was illustrated in the movie. as well as the other inspiring pictures throughout. like the massive Christmas tree

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as i said before i cannot believe how quickly this year has sped by. i had my 12th and final Year in Review class today. it was a few weeks early, due to Christmas. but still. that time of the year already?! wow!! as a bonus to the participants who registered in the Year in Review for 2011.....i have two single page layouts for them to complete their album. it is also an exclusive class that is

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the kids are busy gearing up for their school Holiday concerts. i really do not like the political correctness that surrounds the school system. it doesn't matter what type of school it is...public, separate or private. they all have their own degree and type of "correctness". aren't you glad i host a CRAFTING blog and not a SOAPBOX?! ha! just a bit of a sidetrack. Aidan's age groups are

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the Lost & Found Christmas line by My Minds' Eye is yet another set of papers that needs very little to make a beautiful page. the design team really knocked this one out. we all have the same challenge. same papers. sometimes our embellishments are slightly different, but this month we all had the same materials to start with. it always amazes me how our personal styles and creativity sends us

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i'm sure Jan will be thrilled to see her name up there with Martha! wink!! i mentioned a few weeks ago that my kids were involved in a fundraiser for the Stollery Childrens' hospital. their mission was to create as many lovely cards as they possibly could. they did not make a record number of cards this year. although they did put in as much time as they could spare. life is starting to get

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some of my readers will have read THIS post on the URBAN SCRAPBOOK blog.                                                                     i stole the following 2 photos from the blog to share here too...... Thank you! a small group of us were armed with packs of white cardstock and asked to make flowers. usually when i cut paper to create a lot of flowers it goes straight into a ziploc bag

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i cannot believe it is nearly December! the past few months seem to have gained speed and flew by faster than ever. i also realized this last weekend that i have designed 24 two-page layouts as well as 2 bonus single page layouts for classes. i remember wondering how i would ever be creative enough to make 11 more double page layouts after my first class. i've learned so much in the past two

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and i am in a bit of denial! ha! working through my little 'to-do' list. day by day. i enjoyed teaching my first of the almost last class of the Year In Review layout. now that was a complicated sentence!! it was fun to play around with some new and old techniques using tea dye in scrapbooking. i always enjoy it when my students get an opportunity to experiment as well. and it is a bonus when

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homonyms. the greatest literary mystery. or so it seems to a 7 year old. as well as the elusive "t" that often does not get its' pronunciation dues! this boy gets 100% on his spelling tests. regularly. it's the truth!! maybe we ran out of "t" rub-ons? i wanted to share a handful of the cards my kids have been making. you can see that they have made some use of my precious scrapbook

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the house is filled with children's giggles, Christmas music playing in the background, paper and glitter flying around...not to mention the inky fingers. i have had my own projects on the go, but keep getting interrupted by them needing help with their crafty projects. this is the 4th year Aidan and Kiara have been involved with a group of young kids making cards and crafts, then selling them.

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one of the newest papers from Simple Stories: Generations. it is so beautiful. it really did not need to be embellished that much...which was a challenge to figure out what technique would make this a class worth taking! ha! really. just add a photo and make great use of the pre-printed titles and borders and sticker sheet. the only difficulty you will have is deciding which paper to start with!

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this year we got creative with our pumpkins. i grabbed three of them when i first saw them in the stores. then i used them in the display on my front porch. they looked great! this weekend i started to think about them and wondered if they could even be carved...maybe they had frozen a few times?!! instead of going to the trouble to find out the truth...i grabbed some paint, mod podge, loose

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i had a fabulous time last night teaching the first of the October year in review layout classes. i had 3 flower styles that were one of the techniques of the class. flowers are always a challenge to learn and to teach. so many layers...which one goes where?! but we had fun and laughed as we made them. another technique taught was heat embossing. you can never go wrong with purchasing CLEAR

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i find it very ironic that i began scrapbooking {as i know it today} by making cards. it was a great place to try new techniques and always possible to finish. given the size and amount of time they took. for awhile i made cards when i was stumped on a layout. it was like a jump start to my creativity. whether i liked the finished product or not, it seemed to work well for me. now, most of the

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Nicole gave us a good challenge this month for our tag swap. we had to include something that moved....like a hinge or door or slide. as well as something noisy or to feel. what a challenge! i found some rubber spiders and worked from there on my tag. black on black. loving that look for halloween. you can see that rubber spider on top? i hand cut several pumpkins from last years' My

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life slowed down. finally. and then i started to enjoy the slower days, i think! i took a week and read a novel in my free time. it had been awhile. it was a nice break. i feel ready to get back into creating again and not just browsing my favourite blogs to enjoy their creative work. let's start with this project that is long overdue for sharing.... it was a lot of fun this month to be

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and on to October.... this will be the October Year in Review class. the technique will be flower making. 3 different types of flowers are on this layout. i also will review heat embossing, with a new twist! both techniques will be using one colour. black on black. always striking in whichever colour you choose. i hope you have seen the lovely "white" layout Jan posted at the store. a very

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perfect pearls. it is not a brand new product. but it has become more popular in the past few months. i love Jennifer McGuire's use of the product. she has shared a number of techniques with perfect pearls that have inspired me to break them out of the drawer once in a while. the LIQUID PEARLS were very popular when they were introduced a few years ago. you could get them in a variety of

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i am so thankful that the weather has been cooperative lately. i love that i could wear shorts today! i remember it being this warm two years ago. although we did not really get a fall that year. so far there are a lot of nice colours on the trees. this week is less crazy than the past few weeks, and the weather is forecast to be nice. i hope to get out and get some photos! i was a bit late on

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some Indian Summer....so it seems! i cannot believe how beautiful the temperatures are. and that we have the AC running in September! no complaints here. autumn can take as long as it wants. the challenge for the Urban Scrapbook design team this month was to do fussy cutting. we were given the stunning papers by Bo Bunny to use. it was tough to decide which papers to cut up! there was no doubt

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the temperature in the air says "fall". the leaves will probably soon be echoing that word as well. we are over half-way complete our Year In Review classes. both groups of ladies i teach are amazing. i feel very fortunate to meet with them each month and be a part of their creative journey. the first year we kept the album very thematic. for the most part. this year it has been technique

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some days i think i could handle a few more weeks of summer holidays and non-schedules. then there is a day where the kids are tired or grumpy.... and i am counting down the days to send them packing! ha! parenthood is definitely a roller coaster. a roller coaster you could never understand until you are in the middle of the ride!! at times i lose my breath seeing how quickly our kids are

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already?! it feels like summer just started. it has been a good summer for all of us. we would all agree that it definitely improved once the summer weather kicked in. wearing jeans, socks and warm shirts was not our definition of summer. Aidan commented that the rain and cold was "not in the spirit of summer"! he cracks me up!! a few weeks ago i was in the mood to try something new. of

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this was another great challenge:     create a tag using only white paper. here is my version of that challenge... i used ink, embossing powder and perfect pearls to change the paper. i stamped the background three times with embossing ink, then heat embossed it with clear powder. then i used distress ink pads to colour the tag background. i kept them brown...antique linen, tea dye,

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August seems to have a theme this month...camping! here is the next class layout i will be teaching at the end of August at Urban Scrapbook. the patterned papers are from American Crafts "Campy Trails" line. i love that the papers work with anything to do with out of doors. fishing. hiking. even for those with kids who have photos of those "imaginary camping trips from the living room". the

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i'm wondering what it would be like to be permanently on holiday. would i ever get tired of it?! the kids and i just returned from almost a week away. we met a good friend and her daughters at their cabin. not far from here. and it was so relaxing. time slows down. we have had 'cabin withdrawal' for a few days! bedtimes and meal times were the only parts of the day that required "work". other

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i would never have guessed it would have been so difficult. it was either too much light...and i had shadows. or not enough and i had to use the flash. it was lower on my priority list....so i didn't take it off the wall and move it to a place with better lighting. so my perfectionist-self had to take the backseat this time! the goal was a photo of a completed project - that i thought i would

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it is still grey and cloudy. i could take the time to take good photos....but don't want to take the time for that right now! this is one of the best photos i was able to get this week. it also happens to be one of my favourite corners in this fairy box. Kiara loves it. which is what matters. it is already on her wall. one thing i LOVE about configuration boxes....you can never fill it with

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here it is! the monthly tag challenge has definitely been a challenge. not complaining, just sayin'! this month the challenge was to create a tag of a specific colour palette. the colours were cream, baby blue, and a light and dark pink. i used an old Prima transparency. some lovely botanical tissue tape from Tim Holtz. a white glassine envelope from Making Memories. lots of little pieces

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we have had a good start to our summer. i am doing what i can to get us to enjoy the outdoors when the weather is cooperating. i had heard that rain was on its way, so we enjoyed as much of the hot weather at the start of the week as we could. even though we had to endure the mosquitos to do so. my poor kids! their skin is glowing....and bumpy!! with the rain, the mosquitos have vanished. but i

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here is the next layout for our July Year in Review Class.... can you believe there is not a single flower here?!! although...you could definitely add some to this layout. it would change it completely. but it would still work! i love that. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined. (Henry David Thoreau) another quote i found...had the perfect technique.

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how did i ever make the cut for this tag swap?! last month (our inaugural month) the challenge was to create a tag with a monochromatic theme and a quote. this month was to use a zipper and have a manly theme. this is my tag. somehow this turned out monochromatic too! definitely not planned. one lesson learned. when using the "word" dies....use a highly contrasting paper underneath. i

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our house is very excited to celebrate another CANADA day! get out the flag tattoos. Canada flags. sing our anthem a few times. celebrate the greatness of our country. love this subway art!go here to print we are going to have BBQ today. i'm bringing this dessert.... i made this for our school staff appreciation. so easy. yummy. and fun for the kids! then hopefully we will be able

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and that means the teacher gift making and appreciation stuff is also done. for a few months! this was a gift Aidan gave his music teacher. later i did find some music paper i could have used. however, this was done in the eleventh hour and all i could do was copy another project i made last year. no time to think and get super creative! the Simple Stories Elementary papers were perfect

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the truth is i am a perfectionist. even when it nearly kills me! the ironic part about being a perfectionist has nothing to do with the finished product being perfect. seriously. you would think i {and the other bazillion perfectionists out there like me} would learn to not stress the small things! ha!! i've been making tissue paper pom-poms. making miniature pinwheels. {yes, i caved and bought

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i'm at the store tonight demonstrating more new products. there have been so many new ones coming in that it is hard to decide which ones "deserve" a special introduction! this is a tag that you could copy into a Fathers' Day card. or just use the tag as part of the card! i'm bringing out the inks and stamps. big surprise. ha! one of my personal favourite border punches: the notebook

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i love making gifts for people. but it is always hard to not have the photo at the same time! i guess i am just one of those people that finds inspiration in the photos while i complete a page. i tried to keep it feminine, just because this teacher has a little daughter. i was thinking it might be nice to add some special photos in of her. the photo mat sizes are not standard either. however

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Kiara is still making flowers. crazy like her momma!! {wink} we were at Costco yesterday and i realized that i spent more on the kit than i said. it was more like $11.99. oops! still worth that price tag. the only problem is that i think i will have to buy her more stems to use as flowers. here are a few more photos of the teacher gift i posted earlier. {last post} by luck Urban had these

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my craft room looked like a bomb hit it this week! i was so thankful for a rainy Friday....a much needed excuse to stay home and hang out in it. Kiara watched some television - always a treat when she is by herself. but she also crafted! during the Costco shopping trip this week i took a look at the kids' book section. this is meant for kids 8 and up, but i figured that Kiara could handle it

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GREEN! the theme for this month is a monochromatic layout. i was hesitant at first. not sure if i could tackle the challenge! i have to say that i am now inspired to try other colours of the rainbow. i'm thinking a little album for the kids....or even canvases for a wall in our home. Jan had created a yellow monochromatic layout awhile back. it was stunning! last year Pink Paislee also had

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i guess last week was the "Week of Kiara". ha! nearly everything she is involved in came to a halting end last week. the last day of preschool wasn't exactly your typical school day. the 2 of us went together and enjoyed a picnic. the weather was sort of hit and miss last week, so it was a miracle to have had sunshine and warmth and dry ground on Friday. aside from having a field of dandelions

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lil' miss K had her last day of creative ballet class yesterday. it was the best program for her age and personality. it was not competitive and relaxed. no BIG ticket rehearsals or programs. i think she has a long way to go before she is the next Karen Kain...ha! yes. now the big decision on enrolment for next year. do we or don't we? and the does she or doesn't she? yes, the big parenting

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here is a sneak of my June layout class..... can you guess what the technique will be? we have had a good rain here today. it was great timing for our lawn. i love how the rain makes the colours more intense. everything has become quite dry. which surprises me considering the amount of snow accumulation we had to melt. oh the ironies. {the 'snow mountain' is still melting. i plan to take a

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i spent a great deal of time this past week looking at photos of the kids. Aidan had a project at work that required a few photos and it took a bit of searching to find them. i don't have all of them in iPhoto, so it sure makes it tough. i need to think on a strategy that will work for me. last summer was a bit of a bummer. not so many hot and wonderful days to enjoy. i'm thankful for the photos

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this was a delightful surprise! i feel very honoured to be recognized by a scrapbooker that i admire. hopefully one day we will actually meet in real life?! Susan sent me this award last week. go and check out her blog {Live, Love, Laugh and Create!} to be inspired! she also teaches some classes and i would love to attend them. there is always a lot of detail in her projects....and i LOVE

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i totally forgot to mention that there was a little interview with me on the Urban Scrapbook blog yesterday. you can click here to read all about it! ha! maybe you will learn something new about me? i guess i could write all about me here too. since it is MY blog... but! i think you will have enough of ME if you read the interview. sooo how about something other than me?! i'll make it good,

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dreams are the touchstone of our character. {Henry David Thoreau} nothing happens unless we first dream. {Carl Sandberg} one of my friends recently asked me if i knew of any quotes about mothers. {just one of those questions the "community scrapbook lady" gets!} my advice was to ask 'Google'. if i can choose a key word - like 'mom', then i will type 'mom quotes' or 'mom poems'. i suppose i

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it can't be a coincidence that it also landed on Mother's Day weekend.... just for us scrapbookers! i'm hoping to fit in some bits and pieces of scrapbooking over the weekend. a certain young boy just got a new bike....with gears. then there is this little girl who may want to try to ride her bike without training wheels today. {it is take2 for her....we'll see....} the sky is clear and it looks

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i hinted that the next technique for my class will be SEWING. since the layout was not complete and the way my pages have developed lately....i knew that there was a possibility my "plan" would not work out! i even visited a quilting store to see if i could find some inspiration. here is the sneak peak. you can see that there is sewing....so that idea/plan stuck! ha!! no worries. it is all

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getting back to routine has been a tough one! if i could sum up the month of April....it would be 2 events....holiday and recovering from the holiday. not really a bad theme. we have all found it tough to get ourselves back into a routine again. i think we may have figured it out after this last long weekend. the weather was absolutely incredible and lots of time was spent outdoors. it was just

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so it seems that SPRING may have officially arrived in town. so happy it is here, but now i can't wait for all the snow to disappear. i also can't wait for the first spring rain to wash away the snow mould and dust. last year i was pretty excited to clean my dusty windows and screens {....which the previous owner didn't bother to do when she moved out!} only to have those clean windows covered

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i had some spare time and thought i'd post this earlier. photo editing can be an intimidating process. however if you can stick with it and try something new as you become more comfortable, then you will be editing all your photos. trust me on this! the first part of the tutorial is for beginners to photo editing. if you are wanting to learn how i edited my photos in my Essence of Spring

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we just got back from a perfect vacation in Maui a few days ago. we were gone for 9 days, which included flying time. the flight to Maui was on the fun side for all of us and the time change worked out quite well. {it was the return trip that zapped our enthusiasm!} i'm not sure if it is possible to have a "bad" day in Hawaii. it was overcast or cloudy at times, but still hot! i don't think our

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the past few days have been delightful! the snow has been slowly melting...so ironic to have below zero Celsius temperatures and have trickles of water flowing. but the last few days we have had puddles and THE sun has been shining! in Alberta we have cold winters. despite the coldness of the days, the sun still shines. except this winter. having the sun return has renewed some hope that spring

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i can sometimes get pretty disorganized and lose track of time. however, that is not MY comfort zone! in fact it really agitates me. i prefer life when it goes "according to plan". i would suspect that makes 99% of us! of all the "unplanned" things that could happen, this one was mild. but extremely frustrating! i have a great system for preparing for my classes. works like clockwork. most of

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it has been so fun to read about the weekend from other perspectives.... like Tim. it's so sad to hear that he won't be planning to move to Edmonton anytime soon. the cold weather and snow did not give him a good impression! ha!! i know if i lived where he does...it would be doubtful if i would move too. sunshine and warm air would be a tough thing to give up. and sweet Margie. oh that girl is

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exactly how does one verbalize one of the best weekends in my life?! when Pat called and told me that they were taking me to the retailers' convention here in town i was thrilled. i thought, wow, that will be so cool!! i heard it was good and now i get to go and see it myself. i'm so lucky! she kept talking. i will never forget the shock of the next information. i mean, i was still accepting

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it was a "surprise" to see more snow falling this morning as i walked Aidan to school. we were ALL thankful that it was not windy and fifty below Celsius for the walk. yes, i am exaggerating....but anything below -20 C just feels cold. and wrong when we have that weather in March. not far away there is a snow storage facility. right now it looks like the perfect sledding or skiing hill. the size

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i finally pulled out the Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology papers this week. so so so fun!!! i decided to match them with the newest Bo Bunny. Gabrielle. and i couldn't help but laugh at myself. until just over a year ago i had not ever bought a single Bo Bunny anything. now it seems like every other layout is Bo Bunny. you will not hear a single complaint from me about it! i started with this

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i am behind in my scrapbooks. and i am not bothered by that fact! i recently finished Kiara's playschool pages from last year. this is my favourite of the set. i suppose i should continue on to this years' photos for the kids and be done with it?! not a whole lot of new technique here. the blue flower is an older one from Prima. it is made of tissue paper, but was flat when i bought it. i

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i was in shock when i saw the temperature this morning. first day of March and the thermometer was below -30 C. nearly -50 C with the windchill. isn't April Fools' Day in April?! if March is coming in like a lion....i sure hope it leaves like a lamb. on to happier topics.... get out those old or vintage photos for this next class! the technique featured this month is RESIST or masking. there

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it's cold. snowing. windy. this does NOT look like spring. where, oh where, is spring?! will it come this year? aside from the falling snow, i taught a couple of classes this past week. we had glitter falling and flying through the air! very messy and a lot of fun. one of our Urban Girls was recently added to the Creative Scrappers design team! congratulations Jody!! it's great to see

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i'm not sure how many other people are thinking this right now.....but i could not be more glad to say good-bye to February!! usually i LOVE this month. lots of fun ways to make a dull winter day more exciting. hearts in sandwiches. hearts in pancakes. we started out great. i even made some home made yummy cinnamon buns at the beginning of the month. then Kristian was away for a week. the same

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i think i mentioned before that i pulled out the valentine projects i had made in previous years. they are some of my most favourites of anything i have made. this year i "cheated" and bought the kids fun valentines for their classmates. Aidan had Lego puzzle valentines and Kiara had little Tinkerbell sticker boxes. they love to craft, but somehow homemade valentines are not one of their things

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i've been doing the single parent thing since early Sunday afternoon this week. fortunately it will come to an end today! early in the week i was completely exhausted, but could not shut off my mind! i also had the itch to do some scrapbooking. but no clarity of thinking {probably due to my sleepy state} to really focus. this is one of my more simple layouts than i've done in a long time. i

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yesterday was a BIG day for the grade ones at our school. each morning they have been at school, they have been counting the days. it is a practical way to help introduce place value...ones, tens, hundreds....yes, the school teacher side in me is coming out! last week we were "warned" of 100's day. the kids needed to bring some supplies from home to help celebrate. 100 food items for their "

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i think this is the greatest trend to ever hit scrapbooking. colour matching. the trend has been around for awhile, but i think that it moved to a new level this year. you used to be able to find matching Bazzill cardstock for most patterned paper lines. although it was a bit difficult. i say that because i never went to the trouble to figure it out. i'm not even sure if it was for the consumer

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some days i am fortunate to sip my coffee while i do some blog hopping. today one of my first stops left my chin laying on the floor.   can you see why..... the designer is Eloise Corr Danch. this was just one window of 23 at Macys' that she decorated. her entire display had 2500 paper flowers. see what i mean by jaw dropping?! stop by her website and do some drooling. so inspiring!! i

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thanks, Krista! how could i forget BASIC GREY?! information overload gone bad, i think! {does this mean i am mopping the floor on Friday?! ha!!} i've always liked the fun graphics they market their collections with. quite a selection of colour here too. great for spring and summer layouts. can't you see butterflies?! they still have their stickers, rub-ons, ribbon doilies, felties, epoxy

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i knew the other list was lacking. just trying to figure out how i missed some of these. i know i had seen a few products before... but had already forgotten about them when i saw another new product. see? that totally did not take long!! just to help me try to keep my head above all the new stuff. only because i know i will get all excited when the first order arrives and i'll forget about all

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i lived out one of dreams on Saturday. i opened Urban at 10am by teaching. then closed it around 6pm still teaching. on paper and in my head 2 three hour scrapbooking classes would be a piece of cake. looking at the faces of 3 of my students who joined me in the scrapbook class marathon...we lived to tell the tale! talk about brain mush. ha! i would much rather achieve that level of exhaustion

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....like you for always..... i can now reveal my next class! the bad news is that it is a very difficult layout to photograph properly. the technique for this month is GLITTER and it sparkles when i try to capture it close up. you get the general idea in the photo, but you really have to see it and touch it (laugh!) to see all the details. what layout about love would be complete without

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just a teaser.... a little sneak peak of my February layout class. can you guess what the technique will be? i can't wait to show you the details!

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pink gold! our challenge at Urban Scrapbook for February is GLITTER. i did play with a new technique, but could not make it work with my layout. darn! i have some leftover supplies.....so perhaps i can work it into a card? i used my border punches, sookwang tape and glitter on my banner at the top. Craft Glitter is fine, like pixie dust (yes, i have a preschool girl in my house...why do you

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the technique of the month for January is ALCOHOL INKS. with a twist! i am gearing up for my first layout of my 2011 Year in Review classes. you can see last years' layouts here. in 2010 it was the first time i had been involved in a year-long class. i loved the challenge. this year we chose to mix it up even more. the focus each month will be on a new technique. each participant will have a

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this year the Urban Scrapbook Design Team will be featuring a new technique in each of our monthly layouts. for January, the layouts are all about using GLIMMER MIST! i hate it when we have so many gorgeous papers in our kits (both sides) and i can't decide which one to use as my background. it's terrible isn't it? we really do have it sooo rough! ha! a 'must-buy' is the package of lavish

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this post from Work in Progress was very helpful to me last year. Photographing Your Christmas Tree! i got my first great photos of our lit tree using these tips. here are some other links for great tips on capturing good photos of lights: Strobist BetterPhoto.com Rebecca White for myself, i found that using a tripod was perfect for me. but i've also used tables, chairs and counters to keep

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it was crazy to think that i have been designing and teaching layouts every month for a year! i remember sitting down at my kitchen table designing the first one. working past midnight. finishing it and feeling soooo nervous. it was done to my satisfaction....but what if it wasn't approved....or what if no one liked it enough to sign up.... then i got thinking that i would have to do this at

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it was crazy to think that i have been designing and teaching layouts every month for a year! i remember sitting down at my kitchen table designing the first one. working past midnight. finishing it and feeling soooo nervous. it was done to my satisfaction....but what if it wasn't approved....or what if no one liked it enough to sign up.... then i got thinking that i would have to do this at

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as i mentioned in my last post, i wanted to make 2 additional pages for my Year in Review class group. we all have double page layouts for each month of the year....but our front and back pages don't look so nice (since they are the back of the paper...) the good news is that i completed the pages!! i will bring them to show my class on Thursday....so if you are there, you will get that first

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i am in disbelief that i have been designing and teaching a layout a month for a year! i love to look through my album and see the whole year right there like a summary. there are still more photos to scrapbook...what else is new?! however, it feels awesome to have an entire year pretty much in one spot. some months you have to really think about what photos to use, and others could easily become

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the first time i learned about scrapbooking, i learned about decorative edged scissors. yes. my favourite to this day is the 'deckle edge'. looks just like the edge on the vintage photographs. it was so long ago that they had scissors designed to cut corners. i haven't seen them on store shelves for years. my guess is that they have been replaced by punches. my set of scissors were finicky. the

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if the calendar was not convincing enough that winter is here...then the weather is making it completely apparent! very cold walks to and from school these days. i have heard predictions that it will be a harsh winter. one of those predictions you always hope is wrong.... we are all starting to feel more comfortable in the new space Urban Scrapbook is at. have you come to check it out yet? i

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...even down to the snow flurries today. yesterday my kids were asking WHEN we were going to be putting up the Christmas tree. as in, how much longer will i make them endure waiting! i have been tempted to put up the decorations. but, i think i will put them up slowly this year. here is another class coming up in a few weeks. the paper is from one of my very favourite Christmas lines this

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snowflakes. snowmen. icicles. ice skates. sleds. touques. {i'm Canadian, eh?!} those are my favourite winter symbols or pictures. for years i only chose Christmas cards with snowmen. then i only made Christmas cards with snowmen. or snowflakes. as much as i dream about laying on a beach, with hot sand, splashing waves and palm trees....i think i would actually miss Canadian winters. eek! i

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this week has been a blur! the store grand re-opening was spectacular i heard. i had hoped to pop in for a bit, but that day was pretty hectic around our house. suddenly it was 6pm and the day was nearly done. i finally got the parcel sent off and it has already arrived at the magazine. relief! i seem to have missing mail issues....so it is nice when mail goes where it is supposed to go. i have

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Urban ScrapbookGrand Re-Opening Celebration#130, 14315 - 118 avenue Saturday, November 610:00 am to 5:30 pm Here's the scoop on the goods: today and all day tomorrow.....there is a 'pick your discount' specialsave between 20 to 40% off your entire purchase (remember just 1 discount...can't bring in your birthday coupon and add that to your special discount!!) and the really, really cool part?!

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have you visited the new Urban Scrapbook store yet? it was a lot of work to move it over, but so worth it. i heard some customers comment that it felt "more like Urban Scrapbook" in the new site. the staff have also felt the same. Pat and Lori deserve a giant pat on the back for pulling it off. (could my elementary teaching background be more apparent in that comment?!)  i am excited to teach

Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07289781463865923405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4944195858679978943.post-38570503632376037852010-10-28T12:17:00.000-06:002010-10-28T12:17:39.695-06:00

the challenge: use 'happy' in your title i am so thankful that this could have gone many ways for me! so many things make me happy. but Kristian and i had just come back from our weekend alone in Jasper. we had this photo. the colours in the kit could not have worked more perfectly. sometimes i will google 'happy quotes' or 'happy poems'. or even just phrases i thought up. this was a tough one

Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07289781463865923405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4944195858679978943.post-53971334590073002892010-10-21T15:07:00.000-06:002010-10-21T15:08:50.755-06:00

i was really needing to put together another layout just for me. secretly i always hope that one layout actually means 3 or 5! but i know i can't put them together that fast. one is always better than zero. for me. i was so inspired by the deep colours Jan got on her Pink Paislee artisan elements. one day i got out a few of my own elements and tested out other methods of getting colour. i did

Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07289781463865923405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4944195858679978943.post-63821822786288259092010-10-18T22:13:00.000-06:002010-10-18T22:15:41.204-06:00

of the BAKING kind! i came across this cake through a Twitter post Becky Higgins shared. i am baker. great blog. amazing work isn't it? but it gets better.... she even goes through all the steps so that we can all make it. i am tempted to give it a try. we'll see how the end of the month goes! but, i know right now that my icing job will not look nearly as clean and amazing as hers. to get

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our plans for the day had us all in high anticipation for an Oil Kings hockey game today. the youth group at our church sold tickets to the game as a fundraiser. part of the deal was an hour of ice time after the game. how awesome is that!! Kiara has never worn skates and Aidan needed a new pair. off we went to suit them up. but. last night was one of those brutal nights that kept Aidan awake

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