Caren's Corner

new kit new year Count your Blessings. . . . new layout!

2012-01-05T14:24:00.001-05:00

So go get yours!

K so I been a bad blogger but I am allowed it is my blog giggle

2011-07-14T07:53:00.000-04:00

The Viva ladies have this beautiful new kit called Kallah not sure what it means and I guess I could look it up just wait.......I will..........
The word Kallah is always written with ה as in כלה, the Hebrew word for "bride"; but the manner in which this meaning has been connected with a convention of teachers (Levy, Neuhebr. Wörterbuch, ii. 321) has not been satisfactorily explained. (Borrowed from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallah)
But it is really pretty this kit has well let me show you easier that way too LOL

Neutral colors that can be used for anything IMO!! You done great Vanessa and Vivie!! I love this kit!!

here is mine no brides Yet!! in my layout giggle

my beautiful grandaughters Katera Marie and Keeghan Lyn just this month too........

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day all!!

All about him

2011-05-19T08:03:00.000-04:00

Viva has this great manley new kit out at http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/About-Him.html as soon as I seen it I knew i was using hubby car and him. So lets get to the goodies and I will show you
the new kit:

awe-sum stuff right?

here is my layout and yes I got approval from hubby to post him Giggle

so for reminders here is the link for the kit
http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/About-Him.html

thanks for looking!

Lots of stuff to catch up on

2011-05-14T19:21:00.000-04:00

well here I sit as if I have not a thing in this world to do! So lets get started

How about a new fabulous kit from viva Artistry ? Sound good?

Well here yah go!

This is absolutely beautiful colors and WOOO HOO beautiful elements and the papers to die for gorgeous Viva ladies!!

At the digi chick.com and get it right here http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/En-Pointe-Kit.html

and there is more ok

tid bits as I call them but they are sure a beauty!!

http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/En-Pointe-Clusters.html

and the whole kit? oh yes you can get it all right here

http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/En-Pointe-Bundle.html

and I am not finished yet it comes as a collab with Fiddle Dee Dee!

templates

So now all I have to do is show you all what I did with this fabulous work

And I want to thank Julie aka Scrapaholic for the photo and now quit reading and go get yours!!

The kit (click and come and get it) LOL

2011-01-20T15:58:00.000-05:00

You like industrial type really textured kits? Well I got one for you here:
http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/Industrial-Collab-with-Studio-Gypsy-The-Kit.html

Here is the preview and my hubby using it!

Enjoy and have fun!! Step put of your comfort zone and do something differnt!! No scoot! go get yours!!!!

Precious! and yep I am late again but I try how about a collab from Viva ladies and Veronica Spriggs?

2010-12-27T15:06:00.000-05:00

So here is the low down these ladies created this fabulus kit so much to have and so much inside I can't begin to tell you all of it here.... so here it is and what I did with it and where can you get it you might ask? Well of course click on the title it will take you directly to the digi chic! And I used Mish bakers template altered of course and my grandaughter Keeghan photo from Halley @ Go lightly photo! TY love

Dear Keeghan

2010-12-26T13:31:00.000-05:00

Ok so as you can see Red Ivy made this adorable little red cherry kit!! So many beautiful things here I just cant say what I like best!

I am very late and I just finished a layout for the Vivia Girls

2010-12-25T08:51:00.000-05:00

If you like a pretty kit for your loved ones which who does not?
Well here ya go!! On the occasion of Vanessa's anniversary!!! In honor of the love notes between DH and Vanessa, here is a mini kit full of wonderfully lush papers with one being a heart shaped breakout! Grab the elegant elements and put it all together to form your own love notes for your memories of a lifetime. Papers in 300 ppi and saved as jpgs, elements and wordart as pngs for all graphics programs.

Now also stop by Heather's store and grab her templates right here!!
Scrappits 1 Design by Heather T.
http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/Scrappits-1.html

Gina got a new store!!!

2010-12-18T09:08:00.002-05:00

Wahoo girl good for you I am tickled for you hunnie!!

Now go and read all about on the title of this post ok!!

Sound the trumps is in the store!! Wahooo

2010-12-11T13:17:00.000-05:00

First let me say I just love this kit it is so beautiful and pretty and traditional with non traditional colors wihich I think is more WAHOOO!!!! So with no further waiting LMAO!!!

My sweet little Keeghan girl! Now quit looking here and go get your kit now!! TFL!!

I scrapped!!

2010-12-10T10:39:00.000-05:00

Miss Charlee girl aka Keeghan with Santa
I used : this lovely template from Courts aka Buttercup designs from her blog (freebie wahoo) TY girl I love it http://www.studiobuttercup.com/blog/
and Natalie winter dream: Winter Dream By Natali

http://shop.scrapbookgraphics.com/Winter-Dream.html

OKIE DOKE Ready for a really differnt Christmas kit?

2010-11-11T21:19:00.000-05:00

It is really pretty the girls at Viva Artistry created a Scandinavian Crhistmas kit! I have never seen one so this is special. I have a good buddy in Sweden (sp?) and one in Denmark. So click on the title get to the digi chick and get yours!

Here is a preview and my layout!

Now get going!! Go get yours!!! NOW!!!!

Misfits

2010-11-07T08:09:00.001-05:00

We are truely misifts at one time or another so with that said The ladies at Viva Artistrry made this simply put Gorgeous kit Misfits
You can get it here at The digi chick http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/Misfit

Here is a preview of it I just love this kit so fun elegant and well us!

and my little piece of being a misfit

I have one more to put up here but not today LOL!

Here is the other Misfit layout I created

I also used the talented Courts templete from her new shop!! WAHOO Courts Buttercups Designs at Scrap Book Graphics.com http://shop.scrapbookgraphics.com/Buttercup-Designs/
Here is the link for the template and stuff
Basic Buds Vol2 By Buttercup

http://shop.scrapbookgraphics.com/Basic-Buds-Vol2.html

Red Ivy got a new kit come check it out!

2010-10-16T06:57:00.000-04:00

Red Ivy created a very pretty kit called Sea Whispers
She sells it @ both
http://www.scrappity-doo-dah.com/store/product.php?productid=5530&cat=0&page=1
http://www.twolittlepixels.com/shoppe/product.php?productid=18607&cat=0&page=1
Here is the preview :

And my 2 grandsons who are in the layouts

Renaissance Collab with Laitha

2010-10-07T09:57:00.000-04:00

Need a gorgeous really beautiful kit? Well here yah go!! I am in awe of this kit !!

And what I have done? I am so sure you would ask LOL

Now go and get yours right here at :
http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/product.php?productid=23240&source=newsletter

Everybody has a delicate sweet side

2010-10-03T10:24:00.000-04:00

This kit by Red Ivy Design has it delicate pretty-ness going on
come get yours at
http://www.twolittlepixels.com/shoppe/product.php?productid=18560&cat=0&page=1

http://www.scrappity-doo-dah.com/store/product.php?productid=5416&cat=0&page=1

My twin grandsons a few years ago

Viva InBetweens

2010-09-24T07:16:00.000-04:00

Need any inbetweens? Well get going to the digichick Viva Artistry did it again with some cute neat little doodads just for your inspiration!!

That's what I used them for and I am liking what I see!!

baby shower favors

2010-09-12T09:55:00.000-04:00

In need of a sweet kit? Wel here yah go!!

and this is what I did with it! LOL

I also used Polly and rufus template with it Thanks girls!!

Happy Birthday Anita

2010-09-10T09:59:00.001-04:00

Happy Birthday girlie!! Love you!

I used

Come get yours now!

www.thedigichick.com/shop/product.php?productid=23127

Everyone has a birth sign come get the 1st of the kits for them

2010-09-09T07:32:00.000-04:00

Since we were all born under a 'sign" come get your kit from the Viva Ladies that's shows the 1st signs just beautifully!! I love them. So with no further babbling.......... .............

http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/product.php?productid=23124

http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/product.php?productid=23125

http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/product.php?productid=23122

http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/product.php?productid=23126

http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/product.php?productid=23127

http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/product.php?productid=23123

You should be able to go get your kit from the link if I did it right LOL!! The rest will be out next week! Looking to show what I have done with mine soon!!

And yet another layout from the vivia girls! ViVa Artistry Blocked and Masked

2010-08-29T09:02:00.000-04:00

My daughter Halley at her baby shower Chris's grammie and my parents good time !

don't cry because it is over

2010-08-27T06:22:00.000-04:00

The ladies of Vica Artistry have created some really woo woo alrighty beautiful masks, Very versitle and oh so pretty....Have a look

just click on the title and you will be on your way to the Digichick to get yours!

Ps.......Thanks you ladies for the awesum time in SLC when these photos were taken I truely had a memorable time there and I will never ever forget it! Thanks Mary Mary for the taking the photos too Muah!!!

Sometimes it is just fun to play!

2010-08-18T08:53:00.000-04:00

So played I did today Yay!!! it was fun too I wanted to scrap this picture because it is so stinking cute of Halley that here it is LOL!

This is what I played with too!!:
Cucciola : Find your destination http://www.pickleberrypop.com/shop/product.php?productid=7540&cat=0&page=1

pst :"Beary" Pirates From The Amber Sea http://www.pickleberrypop.com/shop/product.php?productid=7318&cat=0&page=1
Lori Davis: No more monsters kit
http://shop.scrapbookgraphics.com/No-Monsters-Under-My-Bed-with-everything-in-it.html

Vincent's Room by ViVa Artistry

2010-08-12T09:14:00.000-04:00

Do you like sunflowers? Like Vincent Van Gough? then hurray up get going to the Digichick right here click this link http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/product.php?productid=22982 and grab yours it is filled to the brim with awesum stuff some straw or rafia frames paint brush awesum backgrounds clips to hold frames so this is the preview and what I did with the awesum kit!
Ready! LOL

Come and get yours!!! Red Ivy got it out and boy its super dooper pretty!!

2010-08-11T13:20:00.000-04:00

Ok Tell me this is not some good stuff out by Red Ivy Designs!! WOW I like it I have to say!!!

Com and get your ok they are all available @........

http://www.twolittlepixels.com/shoppe/manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=45

http://www.scrappity-doo-dah.com/store/manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=65

Happy Birthday to me

2010-07-30T09:55:00.000-04:00

Happy Birthday to me!! A few years ago of course!! LOL

Now click on the title and run to the store and get your darling kit and show me what you did with it!!

today I am 29 weeks

2010-07-28T06:11:00.000-04:00

Is this not to pretty or what?

Red Ivy came up with a darig beautiful celebrate kit! I love it!!!

Availabe at scrappity-doo-dah.com

Layer cake templates by Viva Artistry!!!

2010-07-15T15:28:00.000-04:00

Come and get your layer templates from non other than Viz Artistry!! Click the title and get going!!

Depth by Paper

2010-07-10T06:55:00.000-04:00

Mish Baker and The Viva Artistry ladies teamed up and make some great templates !

Go get em! click on the title!

Also the Muse kit at Digi Chick for these layouts!

OKIE DOKE CHECK THIS OUT!!! WAhoo!!

2010-07-01T19:55:00.000-04:00

Now are they not to to pretty!!!? I love them this s what I did too

This was lots of fun too!! '

Go get going to the top click on my title and grab your!!!

In Need of some really pretty and super cool Layered Frames?

2010-06-17T09:45:00.000-04:00

http://funkyplaygrounddesigns.com/store/product.php?productid=22895&cat=0&page=1

Go to the Funky Playground and get yours!! Pretty EH? I like thhem alot!!

Yummy Goodness for sure hot soft nut gooey breakfast rolls! Does it get any better than that in the morning? Fresh hot coffee or tea and relax!

I'm late I'm late for a very important date

2010-06-14T09:06:00.000-04:00

Life caught up with me and I am late for the preview at the funky playground for Vva artistry new kit Indigo sky! Here is the link it is a very pretty and elegant kit http://funkyplaygrounddesigns.com/store/product.php?productid=22860&cat=0&page=1

Destination ....................... scrap it go a head I dare you! LOL

2010-06-10T06:28:00.000-04:00

Got your trip all photoed up and sitting there waiting for your creative mind to start? Well click on the title and get going to Digi Chick ...Viva Artistry has this super dooper cool kit out today. Destination.

As Vanessa and Vivie say....
It's full of location stamps, altered skylines, bits and pieces of ephemera, a set of gorgeous papers, and metal tags. You'll love the variety of pieces, enough for doing a complete set of layouts! so this is what I did with it a memory of 2009 Salt Lake City Utah trip!

I did use this kit of course and I used:

[squared] template collection , taylormade designs

http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=24380&cat=299&page=1

Some pretty photo masks by Red Ivy Designs

2010-06-08T09:09:00.000-04:00

Look how pretty!!!

Available at

http://www.twolittlepixels.com/shoppe/manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=45

and

http://www.scrappity-doo-dah.com/store/product.php?productid=4306&cat=0&page=1

Here is my pretty little daisys from my front yard

Swirls Via Artisry style WAHOOO

2010-06-03T06:17:00.000-04:00

Well now are these not to pretty? set of altered and metallic swirls to add to your layouts. 5 newspaper swirls and 5 metallic swirls for a finishing touch! In png files saved at 300 ppi for top quality! Love the work in these ladies they are just so pretty!

Miss Mo Mo find cat nip for the 1st time!

Altered Closet by Viva Artistry!

2010-06-01T06:37:00.000-04:00

So do you like bizar funky crazy clothes? Know someone who does? or do you like the altered look> Well Viva Artistry done it really great this time!come check it out....... click on the title
the elements :
papers,art doll pieces,apple,flowers,dresses, pair of boots, bow brooch, altered crown, trim, altered wing sets face fasteners flower swirl hair comb, hat, jar, key, lace pieces, wire mannequin, mannequin body, mask frames, paper skirt paper, scraps tassle,umbrella, bodice, vine, pocket watch, 8 papers! wooo lots of fun stuff to play with and create a fun crazy if you will layout alter any photo you have just have fun I did here is what I did

now the previews for the kit!

I got Raked!!! Thanks to Mum to Peanuts she raked me the other day with some templates !! Easy Breezy, Part 4 by Busy Bee Design Wahh Thanks so much!!

2010-05-29T17:01:00.000-04:00

So I found a Post on DST and I thought missed it these are some super cute templates.... So I put my name in for the lucky draw. Well I wasn't to late and got a message saying which templates would you like you were the 5th person! So Wahooo!!! and yipp!!!! I had alot of fun these are darling templaetes and please go check them out! Click on the title and go grab them!!

Items used:
Easy Breezy, Part 4 by Busy Bee Designs

http://www.mscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=647&cat=9&page=1
Lauraskathey erica elements

http://www.mscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=355&cat=0&page=1
Joyce dreamy kit elements

http://www.mscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=25&cat=0&page=2
Bren Boone Little peep kit

OK Ladies it is time if you havent got you layout in now is the time! Click on this and get going to Viva Artistr blog and read

2010-05-27T21:31:00.001-04:00

This is how it started By Patty Ann

By Vanessa 1/2 of the Viva Artistry Brilliance

By Eryn

By Sarah

by Me!!

By Courtney!

well this was lots of fun and I really enjoyed it Somehow We will do it again!

And it goes something like this!!! Click here and find out!

2010-05-22T16:53:00.000-04:00

Lately our CT girls, Vivie and I have been talking much about styles and the whole idea that some people don't consider this or that style as "real" scrapbooking. We are a team of varied styles, we take pride on that and we grow from looking at each other's art. That's when our wonderful and oh so talented PattyAnne vented out on the subject and put in writing what all of us in the team would have liked to. Here is what she wrote (thanks PA for letting me use this):

And you have to read the blog post to finish reading the article and then it says:
THE THOUGHT

After reading this I started to think how great it would be to have a place where all types of scrapping artists had a chance to "defend" their art. A place to show the community that whether fantasy, clean, freestyle, altered, extracted, traditional, our art is a reflection of ourselves and of our soul.
Friday, May 21, 2010

A Rant, a Thought and a Challenge

Lately our CT girls, Vivie and I have been talking much about styles and the whole idea that some people don't consider this or that style as "real" scrapbooking. We are a team of varied styles, we take pride on that and we grow from looking at each other's art. That's when our wonderful and oh so talented PattyAnne vented out on the subject and put in writing what all of us in the team would have liked to. Here is what she wrote (thanks PA for letting me use this):

______________________

THE RANT

I used to think that if scrappers ran the world, we wouldn't have the world problems that we do now. The scrapping world felt so open and giving and tolerant and loving.

But I have noticed a change in the past couple of years - a growing segregation and narrow views to 'establish exactly what "real scrapping" is'. I have read harsh comments against women who make fantasy layouts, altered art layouts, art journal pages and those who use stock photography. I have been appalled at the hateful personal comments directed at these women even suggesting that they should be banned and should find a new hobby all together. I expect that these same narrow minded will be pushing for segregation and laws against such layouts being created at all.

Do you remember when Digi-scrapping was just beginning to get popular - and paper scrapping was EVERYWHERE? Many paper scrappers turned their noses up at us and said "That's not REAL scrapbooking" (Those of us who embraced both felt like we had to be in the closet about our 'other side'.

Every winter, all of these spectacularly beautiful winter/snow kits come out. Am I NOT allowed to scrap with these because I happen to now live in an area that MIGHT get one smidgen of snow once every decade? Am I not allowed to voice my memories of snowy days, to voice my dreams of sitting by a blazing fire while the blanket of white makes the world seem virgin again? The fact that I borrowed, by which I mean I asked a friend living in a very snowy region if I could scrap her photos - and gave her credit for the photos, is that NOT the same as using stock photography? I just happen to have a personal relationship with the stock photographer.

That is the scrapbook page that I made when I was 14 years old - planning my wedding. I cut out a picture from a magazine of a lady wearing a Gunne Sax dress looking oh so romantic, I put in a sticker of a cute weeto boy and girl walking holding hands, and I wrote out my plans for my wedding. Isn't that in effect STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY??? Should I, at the age of 14 have been banished from the "art" of scrapbooking??? Should someone write to "Seventeen" magazine and have me arrested on copyright violations because I used an ad of theirs in my scrapbook and NOT written down that the photo appeared in blah blah blah and was taken by blah blah blah? As I look back at that scrapbook I created from my teen years, do you realize how FEW of them have IRL photos???

What about the pages that we scrap that we have NO PHOTOS for? Is that NOT REAL scrapbooking? What about the pages that we scrap using all the wonderful art dollies rather than "real people"? I for one am jumping up on the this bandwagon. I for one feel like a liberated woman gaining this whole other way, this whole other voice, this brand new revolutionary way to express so much of what has been left pent up inside of me - because it didn't fit into other women's narrow views of scrapbooking! I am woman, hear me Roar! and Art Doll! and paint with 5 kinds of paint on the same picture! and glue metal things into my journal! and paste pictures from magazines onto my pages!

Scrapbooking is an art form. It has grown and evolved, like every art form should. Every style of page does not appeal to me, that does not make them any less valid. We can make these same arguments about styles of photography, about styles of music...

Yes, I know I always go back to music since my husband makes his living as a musician... another side of a coin of questions about art...

Beethoven, Bach & Mozart had to bash their heads against lots of narrow minded royalty about what 'real music' was as they tried to evolve and grow in their art.

When someone decided to make the electric guitar, did it quit being REAL music because that's NOT how they USED to do it? (we hear it all the time that my husband's music isn't "the real blues" because it's not this particular style - or that particular style. "The Blues Nazi's" we call 'em --- and even they can't agree on what "the real blues" is. My husband plays MUSIC - and it is touched by every genre that has ever touched his heart and soul, and there's a ton of what God put there in his blood long before he was ever put on this earth and ever picked up a guitar)

God gave us so much variety in life so that he could speak to us in so many different ways. What sings to my soul may not sing to yours. What doesn't touch my heart today may touch it tomorrow. I for one, plan to embrace and try everything I've never tried before... I'm going to taste every food I've never had, walk down a path that I've never been on, try that new technique... and I'm going to applaud you for the things you love - even if they're not my style.

Maybe the narrow minded scrappers need to start a good old fashioned "book burning"!

Burn those pop art pages!

Burn those HDR photography technique pages!

Burn those photos where the moms went in and cleaned up their kids and dressed them real pretty and then went out and re-staged that snapshot moment!

Burn the fantasy layouts that aren't real at all.

Burn those heartfelt pages about relatives that we have no photos of!

Burn every page that was ever created about 9/11 using stock photos!

Burn every remembrance page about the Haiti & Sunami disasters!

Burn every page by a person who's home was burned down & they have no photos at all!

Let's flush those impostors out - burn 'em! burn 'em all!!!

____________________________

THE THOUGHT

After reading this I started to think how great it would be to have a place where all types of scrapping artists had a chance to "defend" their art. A place to show the community that whether fantasy, clean, freestyle, altered, extracted, traditional, our art is a reflection of ourselves and of our soul.

THE CHALLENGE

So here is your challenge. Post one of your pages (it can be new, old, one that you made for this, whatever) and tell us what kind of thought process you put behind it. Tell us why that page is important and why the way you scrapped it the way you did. Show us why your style, no matter what it is, IS a reflection of you and your feeling. Be brave, speak your mind.

rules:

There are no rules, except NO BASHING. We want this challenge to be a celebration of your work, not a bashing of somebody else's style. Let's be inspired by other people's work and thoughts, no matter how different from our own.

prize:

Vivie and I together with our CT girls will be choosing a layout/explanation to be our grand prize winner. Winner will be taking home 2 ViVa products of their choice. We will be also selecting 2 random pages to win a $5 coupon to our store.

Throughout the week our team girls will be posting their layouts as inspiration... I hope you enjoy it!

HUGS!!!

Vanessa and Vivienne

So girls guys alike get over there finishing reading and show us what you got!! Scrapping art scrapping is all good show us your style!!!!

Hugs
Caren!

Via Artistry is at it agan a anew kit some new / old frames and alot of goodies in side them

2010-05-21T15:46:00.000-04:00

http://thedigichick.com/shop/product.php?productid=22527

Used Frames ViVa Artistry
http://thedigichick.com/shop/product.php?productid=22528
Chrysanthemum ViVa Artistry

There is the links: now let me get started:

The kit looks fabulous here it is :

Chrysanthemum ViVa Artistry

Here is the frames:

Here is how I play with stuff:

So As you can see there is possiblities beyond belief! So click on the link and go get yours now!!!

OK Check it out!! V&V has done it !! They are the designer spot light at The Digi Chick

2010-05-12T11:31:00.000-04:00

Click on the title you will find out all abou these 2 very talented ladies!!
Or I can cheat and show you!
ViVa Artistry is Vivienne and Vanessa. We are two friends who met on a CT team and ended up loving the design process so much and became ViVa. We have never met in real life as we are on two seperate continents but we communicate on a daily basis. Vanessa just had her twins recently (making it 4 girls total) and Vivienne has 2 girls of her own. We both love the idea of combining art, photos, memories, journaling, and Photoshop and turning it into Digital Scrapbooking.

Here’s how you can keep up with the latest news and info from ViVa:

Vivienne and Vanessa’s Blog: ViVa Artistry
http://vivaartistry.blogspot.com/2010/05/30-off-special-today.html

Facebook: ViVa Fan Page
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100000709085400&ref=ts

Stop by either place and say HI!!

Ok I been sorta playing and having a great time doing not much of anything

2010-05-08T20:47:00.000-04:00

But I did create some cool bean layouts. Here they are!!

For the Mscrap challenge scrap lift of this from

Just Chill and Relax kit by Joyce Paul My photos

                             Scrap lift challenge of : SMI may lift challenge
                 http://www.mscraps.com/galleri/showphoto.php?photo=3203
                                          Next up? LOL

And what I did with 2 differnt photos creating 1 and here is my results!

the flower is from our trip to Lewisberg PA with some ScrapGirl.com friends in

April! Had a blast catching up with some new friends and learned to do some things with my camera. We had no rain thru the window when this was taken this is actually 2 photos my rain photo from my car windshield LOL and a lewisburg westeria photo that I just adored! Created with:

Joyce Paul Designs www.mscraps.com

Color pop kit
viva artistry gold glitter from the digi chick.com

                            A speed scrap challenge on ISD at Mscraps.com
                    Had a blast that day and thanks Suzie for the challenge and fun!!
                      My poor fading floors from TY Haley Lyn and Chris!!
                           Kit from Heather T Empheral kit available @ Mscraps.com

Scrap Girls Doris Castle Love so soft kit @ Scrapgirls and Amanda Taylor Taylor made pg 5 template available at Oscraps.com the ladies from the MAD scrapping weekend in April 2010 Lewisburg PA Having fun!! Ü

Little miss Cynthia my daughters friend baby is she not to sweet? 4.5 months old and

just way to pretty!! I used:

Cheyang aka Che from Mscraps (recolored) tender moments available @ Mscraps.com
I hope everyone has a fabulous day and enjoys what ever life throws at you!!

VIVA ARTISTRY IS HAVING A SALE shhhhh till they announce it lol

2010-04-30T10:04:00.001-04:00

IT'S OFFICIAL I CAN SPILL THE BEANS!!!

OK The talented ladies of Viva Artistry are having a sale this weekend!! WAHOO!!!
Shhhhhhhh Vivie isn't telling everyone till later so here is a inside scoop:

50 % off sale for Sat and Sun of NSD...using a coupon...ViVaNSDFun

Get to the DIGICHICK and get your goodies but don't let noone know I told yah so LOL.....

I am sneeking out a realy darling kit

2010-04-30T07:03:00.000-04:00

Vivie and Vanessa did it again..It comes to DIgi chick on May 1st so gotta wait LOL But it is really a awesum birthday celebraton kit!

New stuff for Viva Artistry Come check it the Motherhood kit!

2010-04-30T07:01:00.000-04:00

Pretty Pretty colors and even more pretty elements and papers! Go get yours at the digi chick and make your pretty preggos or mothers special pages. Here is mine for my preggo baby girl.

You can click on the title and go directly to the place to get yours!!!!

Blue Eyes kit by Red Ivy esign

2010-04-26T06:42:00.000-04:00

What a pretty kit lovely colors and great design don't ya think? There are 18 papers and 52 various elements: paper, fabric and real flowers, hand drawn elements, tags, one photo mask, word arts and many more. Lots of stuff to play with!! So click on the title and get moving...to Scrap Insider and Scrappity Doo Dah (soon) and get yours!

Come see this fun springy kit by Gabs -Art!.... Click here!!

2010-04-17T19:12:00.000-04:00

10 papers, 39 elements (if I counted correctly) LOL fun springy and well I used it for my Easter photos!!

Timeless Fall by Hazel Olive

2010-04-16T07:36:00.001-04:00

Very pretty and so versitile kit from Halzel Olive. As the preview looks many elements and many cute sequence (oo I love them!!) And sa pair of gloves and many elements and a brick back drop Wahoo!! and lots of papers! GO check it out! Click on the title and grab yours today!!

the kit? Dance & Movement: Bundle ViVa Artistry click here for it

2010-04-15T17:33:00.000-04:00

OK OK check out the dancers kit from Vanessa and Vivvie! Darling for those who dance like ballerinas or tap or any other kind of dance! I love it all!! Come and get yours! Here is a preview and what I did with it!!

The dancer in my kit is my frend Julie aka Scrapaholic her daughter Sam Ty so much for the use of your photos Julie!! I so appreciate it!

A way back layout!

2010-04-12T10:14:00.000-04:00

Way back in the 1980's as young adults family we used to go on pinics all the time here is my my hubbys family back in 1981 LOL at one! Thanks so much for the rack Scrap Originals !! This kit is just lovely!!
It can be purchased at 2 peas here: http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/shop/scrap-originals/95740-digikit-the-summers-edge/?filters=scrap-originals%2Fdigital-kits

Sew Lovely by Hazel Olive

2010-04-12T07:52:00.000-04:00

Ok every one sews sometimes in their lives. LOL But for the avid sewers come check out this really cool beans kit by Hazel olive! it is absolutely darling and so versitile. Click on the title to grab it at Mscraps.com. The kit features 19 soft & shabby papers and over 50 original elements. I love sewing and have for years and even went to school for it when I was in High school. Learned how to make patterns and alter clothes and all that great stuff. I was not all that great at it but I have made lots of summer clothes for my kids when the were growing up. I also love to quilt, but I have not done that in a long time (since I started digi scrapping that is LOL) So here is what I di wth this kit! Don't look closely at my sewingmachine it is really dirty and I will be embarrassed. LOL

Hope for the future!

2010-04-02T15:19:00.000-04:00

OK first the good stuff...Giggle!! This is my all time favoirte type of scrapping take bunches of photos from differnt years and times and places fix them all up and add till you can't add or subtract anything ! Merge it all together and hopefull it will turn out just the way you planned!!
So click MSCRAPS.COM and get to Hazel Olives store and get the GrungyMEVolume1 brushes! Let you imagination run !!
this is what they look like in the package

Come and get it!! Altered Stoked

2010-04-01T08:34:00.001-04:00

New fun masculine kit by the ladies Viva Artistry at the Digi chick. click the title to get to the shop!

And what I did with it!! Really go get it ! has lots of masculine stuff and dirty looking fun papers and as you can see I used it for a rain layout!! So you can use it for many things! TFL!!!!

Hazel Olives portions of the collabs @ Mscrap.com

2010-03-29T10:16:00.001-04:00

Halley my daughter being just her self falling and getting hurt and I just had to document it LOL

Collabs pieces
Hazel Olive Ready for spring
dry paintwet paint bird
New Beginings paper checkered
fortunate stitching
fortunate frosted flower
painted flower

And Halley Lyn!

Eclectic Primavera by Viva Artistry!

2010-03-25T17:14:00.000-04:00

OKIE DOKE not to many times I will ever do a Me layout!! But boy this is pretty go run to DIgichick and grab your Electic primavera kit !! It's so pretty!!! Click on the title and Crossing my fingers I will get you right to the right place to get it!!

Come and get your pretty neat and spring alphas at Viva Artistry

2010-03-18T13:48:00.000-04:00

I am playing imaginary fun hereand if I could move I would move to the water and this is the card I would send to my guest when they left!

ViVa Artistry:

Quilled Alpha
http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/product.php?productid=22164
Quilled: 365 http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/product.php?productid=22187
Quilled: Spring
http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/product.php?productid=22188
Tuscan Orchard...blue paper
http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/product.php?productid=22023
Painted Pastels Paper Pack
http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/product.php?productid=20952
papers behind the photos they are Polly&Rufus from a templatepage masking 1 #2
ANd that's all the stuff I played with!!

Us....and just because we are togthere and the sun is shinning!

2010-03-12T11:53:00.001-05:00

Hazel Olive came out with a great kit for your favorite little darlings. Here is mine she might not be that little but she is still my girl!! Go check it out it has 16 papers & over 40 elements. It's on sale too!!

The love of my life

2010-03-09T12:59:00.000-05:00

I am such a bozo at times so with no further adoo her is a layout I made with this wonderful word art and kit from RedIvyDesigns.
available at
http://www.scrappity-doo-dah.com/store/product.php?productid=3698&cat=0&page=1

{Good Times} Full Kit by Red Ivy Design
http://www.scrappity-doo-dah.com/store/product.php?productid=3117&cat=0&page=1
GRUNGY LOVE WORD ART PACK@scrapinsider:
http://www.scrapinsider.com/grungy-love-word-pack-p-231.html?
GOODTIMES@ scrapinsider
http://www.scrapinsider.com/good-times-p-142.html?

Go check out her marvelous stuff! I love it!

CHECK IT OUT!!

2010-03-05T20:27:00.000-05:00

Click on the link and go check out the stuff here on Viva artistry blog ! Get your applications in!!!!!

A fun challenge I had to do! LOL

2010-02-27T11:41:00.000-05:00

Go ahead check it out it is easy simple and very clean! (well um sorta ) (mine is LOL)

items used:

Brandy Murray view kit

Leaf PNG turned into a brush

Catherine Designs Noel chic volin

Viva Artistry violin

Lily Designs violin

Come and make a jpurnal page with us from Viva Artistry!

2010-02-25T07:03:00.000-05:00

The ladies got some new stuff out today @ The digi chick and I made my GrandChildren some wall art for remembering this special trip.

this is yep all the stuff I used too to make them!

Viva artistry Sailaway landscape paper,boat

Viva artistry Light kit Sparkle frame
Viva artistry tomboy peach glitter,blue glitter
Viva artistry illum acrylic page png, cover right png, rings, tattered papercardboard paper png,old page png,
KPertiet OlympicInspired 021410 template (altered)
Viva artistry princess tomboytomboy flowers x5,lable with tule,tape,tattered tule
adobe brush dual colored for background

TFL!!!!!!

Let it snow

2010-02-16T21:20:00.000-05:00

My sweet Bell playing in our 3+feet of snow in our yard

Vinnie P Page maskx2, Adobe shapes with Amanda Rockwell acrylic, Viva Artistry new kit coming soon to Digi Chick Princess tomboy and amazingly good time in the snow!

OK OK Lets get to Digi Chick and get Viva Artistry newest kit OK!!!

2010-02-11T07:52:00.000-05:00

This is what I did with it !! We went to the Pittsburgh Zoo it was scorching hot and to arrive at the aquarium was sucha relief I didn't want to leave. So I attempted to make a note floating in the water and some sea creatures and this lovely kit! How did I do?

Got new choppers coming in? OK how about your children LOL?

2010-02-10T08:06:00.000-05:00

Here is a super sweet fun kit for new choooper ok ok teeth (we call them choopers at our house LOL) But it is a sweet sweet kit! The elements are gorgeous and the papers are awesum!! Come check it out at Scrap Book Graphics !!

2010-02-02T05:43:00.000-05:00

My most favorite memories made right here with the people I honestly love the most in the world! Template by Arisu and black paper by Lauraskathy sammy kit I dd add a extra photo because there is more than 4 of us LOL but I just love the way this turned out! template can be gotten if you follow the blog train at Memory Scrap http://www.mscraps.com/forum/showthread.php?t=287 follow it thru tons of goodies!

Going Home Layout Viva Artistry newest stuff at the Digi Chick!

2010-01-22T09:53:00.001-05:00

Ok Ok Went to Virginia Beach 10 of us in 1 van and had a blast this is the ending of the trip I have a bad way of doing anything I do it backwards and some people (my family claim I am a "person who tryies to put a square peg in a round hole and make it fil well" So I did it again the end of the trip is here. Driving home had to snap photos going 50+ mies a hour and this is what we all saw.
items used: and I should say thanks so much Vivie and Vanessa these are great stuff you created!!
Illuminated Journal ....http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/pro...roductid=21749

Destroyed by Glitter II ....http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/pro...roductid=21748
Winged Alpha ...http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/pro...roductid=21694

Wendy Zine did it this time!!

2010-01-20T08:40:00.000-05:00

This is one totally slick action, afraid you can not put a cluster together? Fear no more, this will put it together step by step for you!
Go check it out click on the Wendy did it this time!!
Hee Hee!!

And this is what I did with it! and who and what's I used to create it!
Wendy Zine cluster action
Schrift Journaler

Jen U window
Natalie Designs autum PNG
Kittychen alpha hanger
Gpsy Coulture free by the sea kit
Krystal Hartley get a date transparent bracket

front cover 2010

2010-01-03T10:32:00.001-05:00

front cover 2010
Originally uploaded by andielmcc

Don't know for sure if I will finish but here is my front cover for my book 2010:
items used for this is:
Tasty Tatts Brush (no idea the maker sorry)
Mst SSLYOY Tea bag staple (colored with vra woodgrain)
BMU SS Paper BGBlendersII
BMU Christmas chronicals special snowflake (recolored)
STI Promise Embell Special frame
Fonts:
Scriptina
Suzies hand writing

My Hope My Inspiration

2009-12-31T20:28:00.001-05:00

http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/pro...roductid=21577
Everything here is Viva Artistry the puzzle pieces are recolored and so is the back ground paper the frame are just resized

My hope and Inspiration for the future is the inside of computers!!

Here is what I did this morning playing I really like this web site check it out!!

2009-12-27T13:12:00.002-05:00

I did change the Merry Chrhistmas word art to Thinking of you!

12-18=09 Friday challenge at Pixel canvas and what I did! lol

2009-12-25T10:07:00.004-05:00

Placid Vinnie Pearce-swirls,staples,flower,stitches,
(recolored most)
word promts Vinnie (recolored)

Believe

2009-12-25T09:57:00.004-05:00

Vinnie Pearce Jingle kit

my grandson Aiden at our Christmas celebration 12-24-09

I had to show my grand son Christian he is sooo stinkin cute here

2009-12-24T19:21:00.004-05:00

I used I heart faces light 2 Jpg Holiday bokeh with Christian here!

Free classes !!!!!!! great stuff!!!

2009-11-23T11:54:00.000-05:00

http://creativetechs.com/training

When it happens .. they start falling fast

2009-11-16T13:22:00.001-05:00

A mix of stuff from pixel canvas Vinnie Pearce and Heather T

You mean the world to me!

2009-11-15T18:12:00.003-05:00

Scrap girls had a lift challenge of Elisha today I cholse this:

Everything I used is from :

Please note My hubby is not hapy with this photo he thinks he looks to old...I don't!

2009-11-06T19:30:00.003-05:00

And this is the template it was made from how cool is this !! Go to the dollar store get a small tumber and do one up for all the kids teachers I did for my grand childrens teacher for Christmas this year!!

My 10 dollar macro lens

2009-10-23T21:29:00.001-04:00

#4
Originally uploaded by andielmcc

Salt lke city

Reflections and Name masks by Viva Artistry

2009-07-16T08:03:00.002-04:00

Skin to Skin

2009-07-14T19:03:00.002-04:00

Some ok well 2 new layouts from Viva Artistry 's new kit Skin to Skin @ Pixils Canvas!!

A new kit in Sunshine Studios Scrap by Viva Artistry

2009-07-11T07:35:00.005-04:00

Very easy kit to change the direction of a layout! This has it magic mystery and art. There is some fancy borders and a glitter pack both available separtely but well worth the price! TFL!!

The Breeze by Randi OH and Peta Boardman

2009-07-04T05:11:00.001-04:00

My Bell!!

My Baby Halley years ago

My Girls and me

Viva artistry Cirque Noveau kit available at Pixil canvas

2009-06-26T10:10:00.003-04:00

A man named John He impacted my visit to Salt lake city!

Playmates

2009-06-16T10:37:00.003-04:00

Christy Haig white square templates
Heather Manning A sparkle here and there2 png (altered added a few extras ribbons)
Heather T 3-d word play png
adam Wing heart pngs (2 of them differnt colors)
KPertiet All you need overlays no 4 playmates png
Amanda rockwell CUKrafty prints (6) png used as overlay
njr paint strokes brush

Herbarium Kit whata good one here!!

2009-06-14T13:18:00.004-04:00

My we little garden bits lady bug and all !! I have to have the sweet basil thou. I love it!!

Stinker

2009-06-10T13:20:00.002-04:00

My Grand Son I think this one is Christian

I used here Viva Artistry Nature papers and Heather T sun and frame and Faith True 3-d alpha maker

madmame wing and sya's blue print survivor kit

2009-06-06T11:13:00.004-04:00

Aiden and Christian after a bath with some wild wild hair!

Ok this kit is just way cute!! here is some little pictures and of course my layout from this kit!!

Don't worry Halley & Patrick were NOT hurt during this fun quiet time!! Was all in fun for us being Parents and a tad of totrure for the kids back in 1988!
TFL!!

Halley Lyn

2009-06-04T14:44:00.004-04:00

Viva Artistry kit Contemplation and my daughter Halley Lyn, This is sure a fun kit to play with come & get it here:
http://www.pixelcanvas.co.nz/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=158

its about me! I love this kit

2009-06-03T15:35:00.003-04:00

Imagine me doing a layout about me lol I did here is proof!! The best part is thou this kit from viva artistry is well short of being a kiss butt ..this kit is just fabulous! It forced me to step out of my comfort zone and show me as I really am! down to the stitching I have stitched me up way to many times and I am still standing I love the flowers and the rays of light and I have to have a pair of wings on my back somewhere to make it this far in life. Now shoot go out get this kit!! link is in the title! TFL!!

Aiden cuttig grass

2009-06-01T16:28:00.002-04:00

This little boy is a busy busy busy critter he looks busy when he is sitting still!! everything here is from Viva Artistry & I recolored the wave template paper green it is from the new sail away kit:

I hope you like!

Brand new kit Sail away by Viva Artistry

2009-06-01T08:30:00.004-04:00

My layouts using this kit.... we were at the Allegheny river for Memorial day had a blast and now off to print for my grandkids!!

2009-05-30T08:42:00.003-04:00

I love how these turned out!! This is a day that began raining like hell in the morning once we got into Kennywood Park, I said some serious thoughts to the guyupstairs to please make it stop raining
it did just got muggy as can be the sun tried to come out all day but it just lurked around the clouds LOL our luck
we did have a good time thou and the kids just absolutely loved it!! That was the main thing anyways.
Items used here are Christy Haig
Christy Haig templates:Basic Templates 3: Square

http://www.sunshinestudioscraps.com/...t=0&page=1

Somewhere over the Rainbow by Martencja Designs
http://www.afterfivedesigns.com/shoppe/product.php?productid=596&cat=0&page=1

thanks for looking

I found this picture of bell I never seen before!

2009-05-29T11:36:00.001-04:00

Now is this too sweet or what?!! I think so but I am really partical to this little girl!! LOL
this is what I used to make it:
Madame wing Saturday night fever kit
http://www.sunshinestudioscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=1997&cat=0&page=1
A rockwell CU overlay 7 over the bottem solid green layer
Catherine design spring retreat birdie

some new stuff!! Ok layouts

2009-05-28T12:53:00.002-04:00

Madame wing saturday night fever kit

http://www.sunshinestudioscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=1997&cat=0&page=1

Christy Haig variety template:

http://www.sunshinestudioscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=2056&cat=0&page=1

Madame wing week 2 stuff its great!!

2009-05-24T09:18:00.002-04:00

After the storm you see the clouds just slowley moving away the area just starts to heal. enjjoy

[url=http://digiscrapaddicts.com/products/showphoto.php?photo=928][img]http://digiscrapaddicts.com/products/data/557/mw_mdml_preview.jpg[/img][/url]

check out this kit!

2009-05-23T20:57:00.002-04:00

The colors are great the ellies are fabulous!! Now check out his link:

http://www.sunshinestudioscraps.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4991

to get it FREE!!!

SYTYCD contest & Madame wings kit

2009-05-23T09:19:00.003-04:00

So You Think You Can Design is going on at Digiscrap Addicts and I have to say this was a really fun fun kit to play with. Madame Wing did just fabulous here!! here is one of my 1st layouts for her & Thanks! Ale!

Some new layouts and

2009-05-16T18:48:00.003-04:00

Gypsy Couture:
Free by the sea and extras
Gypsy Couture
Happy kit
Just a layout of my thoughts nothing more & nothing less I hope you enjoy the view
Bsilvia hair brushes
maelia designs monpetitjardin
Agnieszkae word art dream and hope (colored)
fruit loop sally resize for web
ellie hansen frame on ground

new stuff at Digi Chick tommorrow

2009-05-13T06:56:00.001-04:00

My sweet Bell 2002 isn't she just adorable!

my hubby walking to the lake in Pymatuming PA

2009-05-10T10:26:00.003-04:00

amy stoffel scrappers block set1 3http://inspiration-lane.com/boutique/product.php?productid=17520&cat=0&page=1
dreams of summer kithttp://inspiration-lane.com/boutique/product.php?productid=17336&cat=0&page=1