Fly

About a week ago I was blog-hopping all of my crafty friends blogs, and I found a post on Kristy's blog about picking your one word for 2011, and scrapping it. I really like this idea, especially since late last year, I had started to make some changes in my life. It was pretty easy for me to come up with my word, which is 'fly'. My layout says 'spread your wings and fly'. This is exactly what I intend to do this year. 2010 was a year of great loss in my life, in many ways. Not only did I lose 2 of my grandparents, but turns out, I had been surrounding myself with so much negativity, I was drowning in it. It was all around me, everywhere. I woke up. And now I am putting my wings on and flying away from it all ;) I haven't broken completely free, not by a longshot, but I now know I am strong enough to fly, fly away. Nothing is stopping me, except for me! And I'm not going to hold myself back anymore!
So there is the premise for my word for 2011....FLY!
Now y'all know I made this layout with a few challenges in mind too right??? Wouldnt' be me if I didn't ;) There are two challenges this is for. One is the Outlawz color challenge, colors are orange, cream and gray. ANother is for Artistic Papercrafting Sketch challenge. Jill got permission from this fabulous blog called Creative Scrappers to use their sketches for our challenges (since none of us are talented enough to make our own sketches lol!)
** and i almost forgot! i had stared at the inspiration collage over at Nerdy Victorious Scrapbookers FOREVER! this layout is also my take on their collage. I used the same collage format, and covered it with butterflies!**
So there you have it. Thanks for visiting my blog today ;)
Tracey

thinking of you...

I got so caught up in all the anniversary challenges at Some Odd Girl last week, AND getting fun stuff made for Artistic Papercrafting's weekend crop, that i totally FORGOT to post this card I slipped in for Some Odd Girl's regular challenge!!! I made this for their 'let's get embossed ' challenge. I also entered this in a color challenge at the Outlawz (pink and brown!). Thankfully I'm remembering to actually blog this so I can enter it! I'm famous for makign stuff and saying to myself 'i'll just post it later....' and yeah...then the deadline passes!!! So here it is!



Thanks for visiting my blog today ;) I made a layout this morning I'm pretty proud of, but i'm keeping it under wraps for a few more days...stay tuned!
tracey

Final SOG challenges...AND something NEW!

I'm all done with SOG anniversary week challenges! yay me!!! Here are my final 2 creations. This first one is for the SOG COLOR CHALLENGE, I used the new SOG digi Royal Love:




ANd last but not least is my card for the MINI CHALLENGE. THis card is teeny tiny! I used one of my nestabilities circles to cut it if that tells you anything about the size! I used a digi that i BELIEVE was the very first freebie offered on SOG when they first launched ( I could be wrong, but I think so!)



Well that was fun! I did learn that I am better at coloring people than animals with this one...lol! those frogs....wow they were challenging for me!

On another note! There is a BRAND NEW FORUM in well...forum world! It stems from an old cafe-mom group that was called ARtisitc Papercrafting. Well...the same group is now it's own entity! Check it out!
(i think you can just click the badge and it will take you there!)

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Anyways...Thanks for visiting my blog today, and hope to see some of you at Artistic Papercrafting! (we are cropping today ;)