The holidays are here

Well, not really.  But if you're anything like me you scrap your holiday photos at any other time but during the holidays.  There's always so much going on that I just don't feel like then sitting down and scrapping moments that just happened about five minutes beforehand!

I really tend to get on a holiday kick in the spring and summer, so just like clockwork as Easter approaches here I find myself scrapping Halloween and Christmas photos!  Hope you enjoy, thanks for stopping by.

 

A ball of nerves

Who ever thought one could be a ball of nerves over applying for a Design Team call, but here I am at home a big nervous wreck, and it'll be quite a bit before we find out who was chosen.  I guess this time around it means so much to me because I've been trying to use my design skills and creativity to become more of a presence in the scrapbook community.  I would love to create my own scrapbooking line of products and papers, and every advance forward helps!  Well, whether I get it or not I know I did my best and I'll always keep trying to move forward in the industry because for me, after working in the design industry, and experiencing first hand the discrimination and sexism that still exist, it would be nice to work in an industry primarily driven by women!

Enough jibber jabber though, it's time to get to a new layout.  One of my goals of 2016 (one of the only ones I've kept so far) was to be in more photos and do more personal layouts.  I would also like to start doing this for my husband too, so when the kids look back on our lives they see us as well as themselves.  In an effort to continue my goal I completed this layout.  I decided to focus on my new commitment to myself to love what I've got to work with, and to not be afraid of what is the proper thing for a girl my age or size to wear.  I want to wear and look how I want from now on, and if people don't like it, then fine, don't look!

Thanks for visiting and taking a look!  Have an awesome day!

My "other" baby!

My newest baby arrived on Monday.  I was, quite honestly, jumping up and down with excitement and anticipation waiting for their arrival.  Now all I have to do is give them a proper name!
What's this you're asking?  Cathy didn't you have a baby in October, how could you have another one?  Well yes I did have a baby in October, and he is a squishy, awesome little man who keeps me up all night, but my latest arrival to the family is a metallic, electronic bundle of joy who will keep me up all night!

I finally have a new computer, and with it comes all new possibilities!  To put why I'm so excited into perspective, I purchased my first Apple laptop in 2007/2008.  That was around 8 years ago, and I never updated any of the specs on it.  For the past year or two I have been completely unable to do any digital artwork due to the age of my laptop.  It simply wasn't able to run the programs anymore.
I felt like I had lost a part of myself.

Now though I couldn't be happier, because I get a chance to jump back into the thick of it with my new to me (refurbished) iMac.  With having it I am now able to start considering expanding my scrappyness too. because now with video editing capabilities I can give serious consideration to making process videos!!!

Thanks for sitting through my ramblings,  now I've got to get back to scrapping!

Gettin' it done!

Phew, it's been a busy little bit since I posted last.  I'm still trying to figure out a way to put up a file that people can download so that I can offer some of the cut files I've been making for my Silhouette Cameo.  Once I can figure that out I'll be sure to make a weekly download feature :)

I'm also brimming with excitement because I just ordered a new computer.  It's a refurbished iMac but it's new to me!  I just know I'll cry when it's delivered.  I can't wait to have a functioning computer with photo and video editing capabilities so that I can get off my husbands laptop.  Once I get my computer I'll be giving some serious thought to doing process videos.  I've been asked in the past about them and now I may be one step closer to getting to make some!

Anyway here are a few pages I've worked on in the past little while.  Eeeeeek! I'm so excited to have a new working computer to call my very own!

a year without scrapping

The last post I made on this blog was in March of 2015.  That was almost a year ago to the day.  In that time much has happened.  My dad became ill in early 2015.  He passed away in May.  I found out my husband and I were expecting again in March as well.  My husband suffered a job loss and we struggled to make ends meet for a while.  We had a little boy born in late October 2015, I then suffered appendicitis a week after having my boy and had surgery and a week long stay in the hospital.  I then found out my mom would need open heart surgery again in December 2015.  I know there were other things, but overall 2015 was a crummy year and I pretty much had stopped scrapping.

Well now it's 2016 and I am back.  I now have 3 little lives to document so I had best get to it.  Here are some projects that I have created in either late 2015 or early 2016.

So here's to a new year and hopefully more projects to come!

A Layout With a Bit of Flair!

Hi everyone, it's Cathy here again with another layout for The Crafty Pickle.  One of my favourite embellishments to use on a layout is flair badges, and since I have so many awesome ones from The Crafty Pickle I figured I'd see how many I could fit on a page!  I mean, what's better than one flair badge?  Well in this case six flair badges!   Now right now Taniesas' wonderful shop is on a short break, but when it's up and running again be sure to check out the awesome collections I used to create my layout!  I also used some stamps from Close To My Heart to round out my design! In order to achieve dimension with my badges I used hot glue for some and foam squares for the others so that I could layer them.  Don't be afraid to grab some of your stash of badges and pile 'em up high!  The more the merrier!

TCP winner and new layouts!

First things first I would like to announce the winner of The Crafty Pickle blog hop!  Congratulations to Kimberly Jaster!!!

Next it's the beginning of the month so it's time for a new sketch from Sketch 'N' Scrap!  Lets take a look at the sketch :)

Here is the layout I created based on the sketch!

Don't forget that you have a chance to win a goodie by popping on over to Sketch N Scrap!

Somehow I also managed to contribute a layout to Scrap Your Scraps for a wonderful post about string art in scrapbooking.  Make sure you check out this terrific post here. Now for the layout I created!