Postcards from Paris...

I went to my local scrapbook store, All About Scrapbooks, the other day to drop off my design team projects, and well...decided to do a little shopping while I was there! I happened upon the most fabulous paper from Websters's Pages. They had a bunch of different lines there, but I was most drawn to this "postcards from paris" line....so I bought all they had! I was disappointed they only had one sheet of the paper with the hot air balloons on it, so I figured I better make the most of that sheet. So....I found a picture I LOVE, and used it! (Im actually suprised I didn't hoard that sheet for like a year! LOL!) After 48 hours of working on this, I am finally done! I used a sketch from Simply Scrapping to get this one done (sketch below!)

(the fabulous sketch by Judy at Simply Scrapping!)

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to check out Simply Scrapping to see more fabulous sketches like the one I used!!!

~tracey

Crop weekend at Scrap Queen!

I joined this website a LONG time ago and totally lost track! So glad I was reunited! This weekend they are having a crop (goes thru tomorrow night!) The site is called the Scrap Queen, and is run by the fabulous Miss Sarah! If you haven't been there, and love to scrap and buy fun scrappy stuff, GO THERE NOW! Click me to get there now! Now that THAT is out of the way....on to the fab challenges from the weekend crop (which u still have time on! ) This one was from something called 'paper pinata'. It is like a round robin type thing, were everyone posts different elements and you claim what you want to put on your page. This is my entry in paper pinata. Also, it is a page dedicated to one of my FAV pictures! It is the one of me and Mikey, from my trip to MWR this year. I LOVE this picture! I totally look like crap in it, but still love it! It is motivating me to lose like 40lbs so next time i meet him, I will look ALOT better. There WILL be a next time and i WILL look better, I have dedicated myself to it! Oh, and it actually has input from MW himself...I used his fav color for motivation....red. That was easy, as it is one of my fav colors too!

This next layout was from teh '30 minute layout' challenge. Yes, you heard me right, 30 minutes! No way right! I am so SLOW! BUT, I managed to speed it up, and this is what I came up with! It actually was easy using the fabulous Cosmo Cricket Early Bird line provided by the fab miss Judy at Simply Scrapping. Check out the new June challenge forum for YOUR chance to win the WHOLE LINE! Awesome rigth?? Anyways...here is what I did with it in 30 minutes!

Last but not least, a special note to MW. I know this week sucked, as other weeks have. I hate every week saying "next week will be better! go get em!". It may not be better. I hate sugar coating things. I hate when people sugar coat things for me. I always know when they are! You may end up 43 next week. Such is life right? It is what it is. Just know, I personally don't care if you finish 43 every week. Actually, you aren't even racing next week right? Patrick Carpentier is. BUT. Doesn't matter. I will still think of you and tune in for whatever shows you are on. You are always always #1 in my book. Always. Remember that. You are
#1! Could be worse, you could not even be in nascar right? You got it good MW. <} ya.

Thanks for stopping by!

~tracey

B is for 'Because'

This is the second page in the ABC's of me art journal, from the A Year in the life of Art Blog. The letter B was to stand for the word 'because'. Because what? Because ANYTHING! Whatever I wanted it to be! I focused on things that make me happy, and titled it 'Because it makes me Happy!'. What may you ask makes me happy??? Well, I picked some of my favorite little 'habits' of mine, 1. social networking, 2. Michael Waltrip, and 3. spending mega $ on scrappy stuff! Shocking right? This is also my very first picture-less layout! It was really difficult for me to make a layout without a picture, but thanks to a fabulous sketch on Simply Scrapping, it all came together. The sassafrass patterned paper made it easy as well, so much you can do with that paper! Thanks for stopping by today!!!

~tracey