The S word

Hi,
I'm a little torn here. We got our first measurable snowfall over night. Usually the only snow I like is the first of the year and Christmas snow. Now when I say measurable, the official prediction is 1 to 3 inches, which in my book is really not much. But let me tell you, at the sign of flurries, people here lose their minds when it comes to driving. I've been watching the news since 6 am and they say the road crews have been out all night. So you'd think that the roads would be in pretty good shape. Well there are already 2 dozen reported accidents on the MAIN roads, highways and such. It's like people's brains freeze when it snows here and their driving is affected. And when I was in school (way back when- well it wasn't the ice age but a while ago) it took like a blizzard or at least more than 6 inches to close the schools. I grew up in Michigan people, lots and lots of snow. I don't remember a whole lot of snow days. The entire Central Ohio area schools are either closed or on a delay. We have maybe 2 inches of snow. For pete's sake, it's not the end of the world. Plus it's not really that cold out. Send the little kiddies off to school.

Well you can tell I'm a scrapper. When I let the dogs out at 5 am I ran and got my camera for my first official photo of the first snow. I'm standing in the doorway, half nekid and freezing but I got a shot. lol
Then at 6, knowing my dogs don't like to take care of business in wet weather, actually put on some clothes and went out with them. Not the best quality of photos, but this is the typical Jazi "I don't like what is going on therefore I refuse to participate" pose. I may try to get them outside again for some more pictures before I take the 15 minutes, but it will take me a half hour to get into work drive.

So have you done any of the challenges that I had listed? Me neither. Didn't get any scrapping done last night. But hopefully tonight. Don't forget to check out the Humpday Hunnies to get your freebies. Start at Kristine's and she'll point you along the way.

Well not much else to add. Enjoy your day and scrap happy.

Is it Friday yet?

Hi there,

I can't believe how fast the year has gone, but why is it only Tuesday? It feels like it should be Friday already and I haven't even gone into work yet. I have a feeling it's going to be a long week. grrr.

Did I tell you that my Shutterfly calendar came in the mail? Well it did and I must say I was pretty pleased with the way it turned out considering it was my first attempt. You can definately tell the difference between the photos taken with my cheap Sony and my brother's almost professional Nikon. Big difference. I'll have to make sure that if I do it again next year, I use pictures from the same camera. Most likely his. I know my mom will be pleased and that's all that matters. I kinda wish I had done another one for me, but oh well. Next year I'll know to hunt up codes on Ebay.

Check out Heather's new kit. Flashy New Year. Isn't it the coolest. I have the perfect picture in mind for this kit, but darned if I can find it. And that is killing me cuz without that photo, I can't scrap this kit. Does that ever happen to you? You see in your head exactly how you want your lo to look but something is missing. Well, when it's the photo, it's bad. I'm hunting for that one and trying to find another but I'm stubborn and can't get past the missing photo. Anyway, go pick up this kit at Plain Digital Wrapper. You'll love it too.

Remember I told you that Fantacy was working on a new Christmas kit too. Well, here's Santa's Vintage Susupenders. You can pick this up at Designing-moments.net. And here is just one of the fabulous layouts that Fantacy did with her new kit. Isn't it awesome! To me it looks like the cover of a store bought Christmas card.

And here is my layout using it and her Feral Faeries kit. That's Em after her first Christmas. Plum tuckered out she was. And just what are Sugarplums anyway?

Well, looks like I've gotta get ready to go into work. Hope you all have a great day!!!

Until next time, scrap happy.

Quite the busy weekend, well maybe

Hi there!

Hope everyone had an awesome weekend. I got lots of scrapping and scrap related stuff done. Thanks to Cate, I finally figured out how to install my fonts on Vista. Yeah!!! And thank you!!!!

I went through my PSE organizer and deleted everything that wasn't a photo or layout. Next it to finish organizing all my files and then back them up on disc. I really don't know how reliable the online back up service is, it came with the computer and I seem to keep getting an error message. Guess I really need to look into that.

Here's one of the many layouts I did this weekend. It's a picture that was taken while I was on vacation last month in Florida. It's me and the aunts doing the famous Ohio State pose. The family is working on getting that in photos for all vacations taken. Well now it seems that we'll get to have it taken in New Orleans at the BCS National Championship Game. Yee Haw!!! It fell into our laps, plain and simple. But like we said before our loss to Illinois, we control our destiny. All the other teams that fell did too. I have no qualms about celebrating this. Ok, enough football.

New month, new challenges! I have a small list of challenges from some of the sites I hang out at. This list is non exclusive and not inclusive of all challenges at these sites or others.

Digital Scrap Garden has several of theirs posted. The quote challenge is "There's no place like home for the holidays". The Photo Challenge is What makes your hometown famous. The Element challenge the layout must include a holiday recipe, paperclip and Christmas flower. Of course there's a color challenge. Stop by and check out the Garden. They're also running a designing contest that just started last week. They've gotten some awesome entries.

Heather is running a challenge over at Plain Digital Wrapper. It's called I wanta scrap about me. This months challenge is your favorite holiday tradition. (I have mine all worked out in my head, just need to figure out how to get the pics).

Andrea has 3 that she's running over at DSO. She has chosen my favorite Christmas song as a part of her Lyric challenge. But I think she's partial to the Beatles anyway. Actually she's given 2 choices, either Happy Xmas (War is Over) by John Lennon or Wonderful Christmas by Paul McCartney. She also has the Font challenge and this months font is VTKS Easy Way. The final challenge she's hosting is the Book of Me challenge with the best Christmas gift ever gotten as the theme.

DSO has a ton of other challenges including Kristine's recipe challenge. Of course Kim B's color challenge, the sketch and template challenge as usual. The Element challenge is to have snow in your layout. (Easy enough for me, in the Midwest). The Numbers challenge is one that could be harder - 5 photos, 2 elements and 1 journal only!! The Quote challenge gives several quotes, but my favorite (and the one 1 did) is "Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eye of a child, they are all 30 feet tall". And then there's a new challenge there. It's called I can't believe you scrapped that?!? You guessed it, your subject needs to have people wondering why. Plus at DSO if you complete all the challenges, you get a really cool kit.

One of a Kind Scrapz (OAKS) also has their challenges posted. They run a little bit differently, but I think it's kinds cool. They run bi-monthly. Instead of a posting bonus, you accumulate points which are good towards a store gift certificate. That way you can earn what you want. Come on now, you have to admit it. You've done a challenge cuz you like that challenge but aren't all that thrilled about the posting bonus. Or is that the entire reason for doing the challenge? Quite curious about that. Anyway OAKS has an Ad challenge, font challenge, scraplift challenge and a brag book page exchange. The exchange is really cool. You get the kit for 1/2 off, create up to 5 pages and then get an entire brag book link at mid/end of the month. Last one had 34 pages and the first one had 40. The kit that's being used for the first half of the month is Faith True/Victoria Feemster collab Star Struck.
Here are 2 of my pages. I haven't uploaded or zipped them yet, so it's a little preview.

Here are some other challenge layouts that I got done. click on lo to be taken to credits.

This one was for an impromptu challenge over at OAKS.

This one is for the DSO Quote challenge.
This is the desktop challenge from the OAKS blog.
This little cutie is my niece Em. This is for the lift and font challenge over at OAKS.

And these 3 are just ones that I had been working on or wanted to do just because.

Well, I've checked Yen's blog everyday to see if there's any news. She's continuing to stay in my thoughts and prayers. I hope we hear some happy news soon.

Well, off to finish my organizing. Until next time, scrap happy.

Not much to report today!

Hi there,

Not much going on here in my little corner of the scrapping world. Can't believe it's the last day of November already. Where did the time go?

Tomorrow starts a whole new bunch of challenges. This time I'm gonna get them done. I figure that since I skunked out on Andrea this month, I'll do all of hers over at DSO for Dec. Hope that makes it up to her.

I'm really hoping to take either Sat. or Sun. to lock myself in with the computer and scrap all day. I may have to send the old man out of the house to watch football to get it done. Big games for college football on Sat. These games will decide where Ohio State goes to play their bowl game. It's bad that we're not controlling our own destiny and having to wait to see if another team loses.

Enjoy your weekend. No news on Yen and her little peanut yet. So excited for her. Dawne's still waiting on her grandson too. Keep us up to date Dawne.

Until next time, scrap happy!

How many Christmas kits are too many?

Hi there!

How many Christmas kits do you have? This is my first holiday season scrapping, so I've gone nuts grabbing new holiday kits. I've been blessed to be on Heather's CT and have 3 terrific kits that I've featured here, 2 kits from Kelli Tallula Moon and Fantacy is currently putting the finishing touches on hers. I also grabbed several from my OAKS gigs. You would think that would be enough, but NOOOOO. I grabbed 4 from SBB so I could get their Black Friday collab and yesterday I grabbed 2 more from Brigit Kerr at Digital Scrapbook Artisans Guild (or something like that). They are having a 50% sale on some items. I'm a sucker for a sale. I may not really need it but if it's 50% off, It's mine. I can justify it. lol I'm bad. I don't even have photos to scrap half of the stuff I have. I bought a new computer in Sept., 288 gb memory and I only have about 100 gb left. Those are kits that I've used maybe once. But they were on sale!


So this is the lo I was working on this morning. I need some help with title work or word art. If you have any ideas to help me out, leave em in the comments. This is from Brigit Kerr's Peace on Earth and Bursting corners.

Speaking of Christmas, have you seen Heather's new Holiday Silk. It's on sale at PDW through the end of the week. Go and grab them, add to your growing Christmas stuff.

Ok, I'm off to check on Yen to see if little peanut is here and then to see if Dawne's new Grandbaby has arrived. Enjoy your day.

EDIT: There's a little layout on Yen's blog saying she's off to have the baby! Stop by to wish her the best.

Til next time, scrap happy.

Grey & Dreary all week

Hi there,
If you hadn't guessed from my title, the weather here is less than perfect. I guess I really shouldn't complain too much. It's not snow. Ok, the first snowfall of the year and snow on Christmas is about all the snow I like. And the first snowfall is only pretty if one can stay indoors and off the roads. Cuz let me tell you, people can NOT drive here in the snow. They barely can in the rain and that's a stretch. Anyway, grey & dreary is in my forecast and almost always affects my mood.

I was kinda disappointed in the cyber Monday sales in the real world yesterday. I really thought that more retailers would have good deals, especially given the economy and their fears of a bad holiday season. We'll I was able to find a free shipping on Amazon.com and got the Disney tent for my niece. And I got an email from Shutterfly saying my calendar has shipped. Surprise! I'm guessing that they had so many to do that they aren't checking for copyright photos. Yes, we do have the rights to those, my brother always buys them cuz they end up printing more off. He learned that with his wedding photos.







Have you been over to Heather's shop at Plain Digital Wrapper yet? Their cyber Monday sale is lasting all week. Plus if you buy Grungy fun Christmas, Heather is giving you Blue Christmas FREE. I think she's lost her mind, lol. 2 kits for the price of 1. And at 40% off. How can you pass up that deal?

I checked in on Yen this morning and she checked in her already since there's such a time diff. Still no little peanut. Stop by her blog and leave her some lovin. Especially you moms, you know what she's going through in these last days of her pregnancy.

Today is my SIL birthday. I did the lo below for her. It started out as a regular card, but quickly grew into a full sized lo. The journaling says "If only they were really sleeping instead of
just recharging." Fantacy came up with that quote and it truly fits these girls to a T. Poor Chris only gets peace when they're sleeping. I love that photo, so I'm sure that you'll see it again and again.

This is my fave from the calendar. I wasn't sure how it was gonna turn out, but I ended up lovin it. There's no way I could have ever done that calendar without Amy Bleser's calendar toppers templates. If you're looking for one, stop by her shop at SBB.

Ok, time to make the donuts. We'll get ready for work that is. Until next time, scrap happy.

Did you survive the long holiday weekend?

Hi there,

Well, all the turkey is gone, the shopping is half done, the house is still in the same mess as it was before. But the calender is done and ordered. Yeah!!! Now I just need Shutterfly not to give me a hard time with one set of photos. The copyright issue. My brother always makes arrangements to get a release for the photos that the family gets taken, but it would take me awhile to get it from him and such. I may need to redo that page. I should have done that before I sent it in, but I was so darn tired of this thing. I think it'll turn out pretty good. Here, what do you think?

The cover.These are just some of my favorite pages. It'll be a gift for my mom. It's all pages of my nieces and nephew, with one page of my dogs.

I also made sure I did some CT work and played around with Heather's new Christmas kits.

That's my niece first Christmas.This is a great kit!! I love all the color and the elements are awesome. There's lots of word art in there too.

This one was done with Icy Sparkles, but I don't have the preview on the puter here right now, so I'll show you Blue Christmas. I love the frame she has in this one. You can see it on the lo with my niece. Lots of fun stuff to play with in all 3 kits that will make the winter holiday and months great to scrap. It'll be interesting to see what she comes up with for New Years.

Cyber Monday is today. I'm really hoping that the retailers all see that free shipping is the most important part of this day. I went to Toys R Us looking for the Disney Princess Castle, only to be told you have to order it online. We'll they want 8 dollars to ship it. Now the warehouse is here in the area. Go figure. I may have to adjust and get a different one from Walmart, where you can ship it to their store for pick up.

If you're in for the card exchange, email me at carjaziscraps at gmail dot com. (you know the routine) and we'll get email addresses for everyone who wants to participate. With the economy in the tank, I think this is better than trying to do a secret Santa.

Don't forget that this is the last week for this months challenges. I know that I slacked off this month big time but hopefully you didn't. Check out Digital Scrap Garden for their great challenges and if you haven't joined, do so. They've got a terrific new members kit. For the challenges at DSO, check Kristine's blog out. She's got a link for them all a few days back. Plus today is the official first day for Andrea over there!! I'll just bet she's got something cooking for this terrific event. I know there's a chat tonight too. Stop by OAKS to check out their challenges. Super easy and they're running a point system so you can shop at the store and get what you want. You accumulate points based on completing challenges.

Make sure you stop by and say hi to Yen. She's anxiously awaiting the arrival of her new little one. I'm sure that she's much more excited, but I can't wait for her to have her baby. She's really included her pregnancy in her blog and it's been fun to watch. Plus she takes the most awesome photos. Can't wait to see the ones she'll take of her little one.

Ok, time to get ready for work. If you know of any terrific Cyber Monday sales in the scrappin world, post em in the comment section.

Until next time, scrap happy!