sketchy thursdays sketch

The sketch I made for this week's Sketchy Thursdays challenge. 

Would love to see you play along with us!!!

♥Heidi

I gave in...

My cool little skater boy. 

I love his hair.

He does not. 

I think the last time I got it cut was last November.  :-O

Think it's about time I let him take control?

OK, so I didn't completely give him control. 

We compromised.   Short on the sides and back, a little longer in the front (for me!).

I had a HARD time watching.

Oh the humanity! The carnage...

For perspective, take a look at the size of the pile of hair compared to the size of the trash can.  We could make a small dog out of it!

Happy boy.

Reasonably happy mommy.

:-)

♥Heidi

Spread Your Wings, WRMK, SRM & SNR August issue

Lots to share today!!!

First, how about a fun ATC?

Originally published in Scrapbook News and Review June 2011

Sooooo totally out of my comfort zone on this one.  I like the look of steampunk but when I tried making it, it was haaaaaarrrrrrdddd for me!  I'm pleased with the results, though. 

Second, it's time for another manufacturer event over on the Scrapbook News and Review forum.  (Actually, the event went live on Saturday...I'm a little late letting you know about it.  Imagine!  Me, late!  Never!) 

This time is is We R Memory Keepers!!  I was lucky enough to get to work with both the Fiesta and the Yankee Doodle lines.  Love them both!!!  

I'm so in love with the layouts I made for Yankee Doodle.  

Be sure to definitely stop by to check out my tutorial on making a 3D pin using a stamp from the Fiesta line.  Trust me, it's cute, cute, cute!  And I made an ATC using the same stamp that is definitely going up on my wall of faves.  Let's just call it Punk-a-Doodle-Doo, LOL!!!

Third, we have THREE manufacturer events coming up this week:  SRM on Wednesday and Nikki Sivils & Prickley Pear stamps on Saturday.   As a teaser, I have a mini tutorial for SRM on the SNR front page that looks good enough to eat.  Check it out!

 Finally, Part 1 of the August issue of Scrapbook News and Review is now available.  Lots of seriously fun and beautiful artwork in there.   The crafty world has some amazing talent out there!

Hope you are having a great week!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

♥Heidi

OMG, I almost forgot!  I also just announced the Sketchy Thursdays Design Team call for our October to March team.  Check it out here! 

Just the 3 of Us + TaDa!

A little bit of fun for this week's Sketchy Thursdays sketch:

Sorry to make this so short & sweet but I'm in the kids' classrooms today.  Fun!  Plus today is picture day so I'm probably more nervous than they are! 

Have you checked out the newest manufacturer event going on over on Scrapbook News and Review? 

TaDa Creative Studio!!!

I have to admit I wasn't familiar with this manufacturer before we started planning for this event.  But I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.  Seriously quality products.  Love their die cut papers.  And I had so much fun working with the Big Top collection.  Check out the event...I have 2 layouts in the "Inspiration" thread and 1 tutorial about making a really cool textured banner.  (I have to say I am super proud of both the banner and my Ferris wheel layout!)  The event will only be live for a week so head on over there!  Check it out!!!!  (Plus there's a chance to win a $150 gift certificate to the scrapping online store of your choice!)

Crate Paper Event

So excited for our first event to be taking place NOW - FREE!!! - in the Scrapbook News and Review forum! 

Our first manufacturer is Crate Paper and wowee wow wow is all I can say!  There are over 100 scrap pages, cards, ATC, canvases, tutorials and classes for your inspiration using four of Crate's paper collections.

Check it out now!  The inspiration will only be available in the forum for 1 week. 


We'll be having many more manufacturer events in the SNR forum over the next few months, every Wednesday and Saturday at 6:00pm EST. 

Please, join us!  Check out the amazing artwork!!!  Aaaaaannnnddddd...don't forget to leave some love or even ask some questions over at the event for a chance to win a $150 gift card to your favorite online scrapbook store!!!!!!!

8.04 Sketchy Thursdays sketch

How cool is this week's Sketchy Thursdays' sketch? 

We'd love to have you play along with us!!!

The September Guest Design Team Challenge is also live. 

Just remember...our sketches are for your inspiration.  They're a spring board.  But the bottom line is...just have FUN with them!!!!!

Have a great weekend!

♥Heidi

Adore

A sweet little layout for my sweet little girlie.  She's beginning her second week of Kindergarten today!  I can't believe how quickly time flies.

This layout is based on this week's Sketchy Thursdays sketch:

We'd love to see you take on our sketch!  Play along with us!

Just trying to get back into the swing of things with school.  So loving the routine again and the kids are properly tired at bedtime.  Woohoo! 

♥Heidi

So Excited

Supplies Cardstock: Best Occasions; Alpha Stickers: American Crafts; Stamps: EK Success, Glitz Design, Studio Calico; Ink: Stampin Up; Paint: Making Memories, Plaid; Pens: Faber-Castell, Sakura; Other: Drywall Tape, Playdoh container, tape

Today is the first day of school for my kids!  Specifically, it's the first day of Kindergarten for my daughter!  Big kid school.  She's so excited.  We went to meet her teacher and explore her classroom on Monday.  Yesterday we got all her school supplies ready (water bottle, backpack and lunchbox - isn't that owl the cutest lunchbox ever??!!) and she did a dry run trying on her first-day-of-school outfit. 

Had bunches of fun playing with paint and ink.

This layout is inspired by a digital ATC made by Katherine Hansen, a fellow Scrapbook News and Review staffer, and uses the sketch I made for this week's Sketchy Thursdays challenge. 

Come play along with us this week!  Our sponsor is October Afternoon!!!!

I'm off to almost FOUR hours of uninterrupted playtime in my scraproom. 

Bliss. 

♥Heidi

Sketchy Thursdays sketch

I am so loving the sketch I made for this week's Sketchy Thursdays challenge.  I'm just bummed I ran out of time before I could make a layout for it myself.  Oh, trust me.  This one is going in my file to be used at a later date.  I love it!  (Modest much?  LOL!)

Anyway, check out what the Sketchy Thursdays DT made for your inspiration HERE.  They did an awesome job!!! 

T-7 days and counting. 

The day my kids go back to school.

I.

Can't.

Wait.

Ever see that Staples commercial at back-to-school time with "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" song playing with the kids trudging up the aisles and dad gleefully going up the aisles?  Yep.  That's me. 

♥Heidi

Artful Mental Synthesis

I don't do it very often but wish I did more.

Working with metal, that is.

I LOVE it and have a giant stash of metal and metal working tools to show for it. 

Originally published in Scrapbook News and Review, April 2011

Here's a fun little pendant I made a few months back for a tutorial I did for Scrapbook News and Review magazine.  The tutorial shows how to age copper chemically.  It's really easy to do, albeit it takes quite a while. 

There are lots of other tutorials in the magazine each month in addition to the average of 400 pieces of eye candy.  That's a TON of inspiration for less than $5 a month!!!   I mean, I average around 8 tutorials a month alone and there are 4 or 5 of us who do tutorials so that's a lot of bang for your buck!  We cover a wide range of topics from scrapbooking to card making to stamping to digi to mixed media, everything from beginner to a little more advanced. 

Speaking of Scrapbook News and Review, the August 2011 calls are up!  Check them out HERE!!  Topics such as summer fun, on stage, paisley & harlequin stamps and more.  SNR's goal is to showcase a wide range of styles from beginner through advanced so never discount your work.  You can't get published if you don't submit!!  Come on!  Give us a try!!! 

♥Heidi

Special LIttle Memories

I don't know how many times I've scrapped this pic of my daughter at her 1st birthday party but I just love it so much. 

I took this week's Sketchy Thursdays sketch and knocked it on its side.

I already had the base of the paper made with the glittered border and thought it looked a lot like the banners on the sketch.

Come play along with us on Sketchy Thursdays!

Hope you are keeping cool this summer. 

♥Heidi

Celebrate

For those of you in the United States tomorrow is the 4th of July, Independence Day, a day to celebrate America and being an American. 

This weekend over on the front page of the Scrapbook News and Review site we're celebrating with some fun projects using the We R Memory Keepers Yankee Doodle line.

Come celebrate with us - all the way down to your toes!

♥Heidi

peeking out from under my rock

~waving hi!~

Yes, I'm still here.  LOL.  Been doing lots of planning and organizing.  Stuff I'll be able to share with you later this month. 

I thought I'd share with you a card I made for the April issue of Scrapbook News and Review.

You may recognize it as the one I shared that I made the cover of the magazine!!!!  This is by far my favorite card I've ever made!!  Lots of misting, pastes, gels, inks and rub-ons.  I'm just so in love with the color combo, too. 

April 2011

The June tutorials are up in Scrapbook News and Review Magazine.  Check it out! 

June 2011

There are lots of fun ones this month including creating textured butterflies, lots of different paper flowers, adding vintage flair to hardware store finds, creating a ceramic stucco background (LOVE it!) and a few from me like stamping with watercolor crayons, using a stamp alignment tool and creating custom ink pads and foam stamps.  I've also done some testing and comparisons of embossing static pouches.  Trust me, you will not be disappointed with June's tutorials section!

Did you know Scrapbook News and Review Magazine published TWO TIMES A MONTH??!!!!!!  There is tons of yummy eye candy published on the second Sunday of the month and then as if that isn't enough we publish oodles of tutorials and primers on the last Sunday of the month.  Can't get that much content in just one print magazine! 

Plus did you know we share lots of tutorials, sketches, eye candy and fonts on our front page every week?  Oftentimes, around holidays (hint hint) we'll also run holiday-related shows. 

AND we have a hopping forum where we share lots of tips.  Check it out!!!

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So, Diana says I must be allergic to double-page layouts because I'm always "too busy" to create a Sketchy Thursdays layout whenever there is a double-page sketch.

Hmmm...maybe she's right, LOL.  Of course, I'm aware I can use only one side of the sketch if I want (and you can, too) .  LOL!!!

I hope you have lots of awesome, fun plans for the weekend and if you are in the States, hopefully you have a 3-day weekend! 

♥Heidi

Mwah!

I love catching these adorable moments.  It's something hard to remember amist all the sibling animosity that at the end of the day they really, truly do love each other.

This layout is based on the sketch I made this week for Sketchy Thursdays:

I'm so loving the rhinestone designs on my layout.  I made them with the Imaginisce i-rock. 

Seriously, this is a fabulous tool!  Sooooo easy to use and I sure do love my bling so the i-rock is a dream come true.   Check it out on the Imaginisce site.

And speaking of Imaginisce, they're this week's sponsor on Sketchy Thursdays and the lucky winner of the challenge will win an Imaginisce i-top tool!  Very cool!!!!

Hope you are having a great start to the summer (or winter). 

Me?  I'm just trying not to melt.  113 today.  Woohoo!!   

♥Heidi

U (Sketchy Thursdays)

Yes, it's true!  An honest to goodness traditional paper layout for Sketchy Thursdays this week!!!  LOL! 

I took weekly pictures of the boy every week at the minute of his birth for over a year.  Sometimes I'd get really cute pics like these, sometimes he'd be sleeping.  But it's a great record of his growth over a year.  

I'm such a hoarder.  The painted tape used on this layout was some I'd used as a mask on another layout a few months ago.  The colors go perfectly!  See!  There's a good reason to be a hoarder sometimes.  LOL!



My layout is based on the sketch I made for Sketchy Thursdays this week.  Come play along with us for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to E.A.D Designs!  Very cool.

Hope you are having an awesome last week of spring!!!

Heidi

Peeny Peenoes

What??!!

You don't know what peeny peenoes are?

Originally published in Scrapbook News and Review, February 2011, Fussy Cutting tutorial

Why, they're pigtails!!!

At least that's what The Girl has called them ever since she could talk. 

We've never been able to figure out where she got the name for them but to this day we still call them peeny peenoes. 

:oD

Hope you're having a great weekend!

♥Heidi

Sketchy Thursdays

So loving this sketch Diana made for us over on Sketchy Thursdays today! 

C'mon, you know you want to play along!

Smile

Originally published in Scrapbook News and Review, March 2011

Just a fun, bright little card for a sunny weekend. 

I'm frantically reorganizing and purging several different areas of my house right now.  I have to do all these areas at once as they all have stuff that's interrelated.  I need to move this stuff there and that stuff here, know what I mean?  My house has been horribly disorganized since the birth of my son (he's 7-1/2 now) and I'm at my limit.  I mean, I'm a slob but there's even a point at which a slob yells "Enough!" 

I'm bushed.  And more to look forward to tomorrow.  But it's a good exhaustion!

♥Heidi

Last Day

Credits Kit: Paisley Pop by Karen Funk; Font: Century Gothic, Alba Super

My baby on her last day of preschool.  She looks so grown up!

Come play along with us on Sketchy Thursdays.

Today is the boy's last day of first grade.  Didn't he just start Kindergarten??!!!!! 

What do you do to keep your kids occupied over the summer?

Heidi

Did you know?

You may know that Scrapbook News and Review packs tons of amazing eye candy into each monthly issue which comes out the 2nd Sunday of each month. 

But did you know on the 4th Sunday of each month we publish a "Part 2" which includes amazing scrapbooking, cards, stamping and multi-media tutorials?????

Just look what's in store for you in the recently released May Part 2:

Scrapbooking Tutorials


Anglaise Pretties
Coloring Trim
Fabric Butterfly
Fabric Paper
Twisted Fabric Blooms
Adding a 3-D Effect to a Photo
Adding Text to Fabric
Coloring Black-and-White Photos with Chalk
Coloring Black-and-White Photos with Copic Markers
Curly Fabric
DIY Photo Overlays
Fibers Fabric Paper
Fabric Shapes
Ribbon Curling
Twisted Fabric Flowers
Using Dryer Sheets to Make Embellishments & Create Interest


Cards & Stamping Tutorials

Faux Stitching
Fork Bows
Heat Embossing on Fabric
Heat Embossing on Photos
How Do I Attach That? - Ribbon
Stamping on Velvet


Mixed Media Tutorials

An Introduction to Gels, Mediums & Pastes
Adding Cardboard to Your Project
Baby Wipe Background
Canvas Breakdown: A Home
Crinkled Cardstock Background
Gels, Mediums & Pastes Primer
Paper Towel Background
 
These run the gamut from quick 4-step tutorials to really involved tutorials to informative, sample-heavy articles to amazingly in-depth primers. 
 
I feel so blessed to be a part of the amazing Education team and love bringing. 
 
You are going to LOVE everything you see.  Check it out!