First Scrapbook Page Workshop

I like to scrapbook, like is the key word. So when a friend of my sister called and wanted to host two scrapbook workshops, I was less than enthusiastic. (Not to her, just on the inside.) Well, it went very well and I so enjoyed getting back into scrapbook. I have so many pictures that are just being stored in photo boxes that need to be put into albums. It has really inspired me to get off my butt! Here are the two different layouts that I did for the workshops. I wanted to do one layout and use it for both classes but she had some of the same people attending both nights. I loved how each one turned out . I love stamping combined with my pages. It makes them more "me". I hope that you like them.

I love this new set from the SU Summer Mini. This is a buckle card (tutorial) that we made at my last class. I was concerned that it had too much white but they all really liked it so . . . As I'm designing cards for upcoming classes I get so nervous that no one will like them. I have to get over it and enjoy the creative process. This is the card that I am giving my father for Father's Day tomorrow. I have so few masculine stamp sets and when I find one that I really like it retires. Go figure?!

It is much to early to be awake on a weekend morning!!!

I'm sure that I'm not alone with this problem but do you ever just wake up in the middle of the night for no reason and cannot fall back asleep? Didn't have to go pee, wasn't thirsty, no bad dreams and I definitely didn't have enough sleep. Oh well, it has given me time to do some stamping and peruse the internet for undiscovered stamping sites. Here is a card that will be part of my "Retirement " Class. I love this set and am so sorry to see it go. The first time I saw the stamp with three topiaries I knew that I had to have it. It is created using Always Artichoke, Very Vanilla and the watercolor paper (which I absolutely LOVE).

2006 Stampin' Up© Retirement List

Here's the official list of stamp sets that are going to retire from Stampin' Up this year. The ones in red are the ones that I'm sad to see go. Aged to Perfection Ageless Adornment All Around Alpha All Around Numbers Ancient Asia Angler Aquaria At the races Back Nine, The Bamboo II Birthday Banter Bitty Blossoms Bloomin' Wonderful Bold Alphabet Bold Numbers Border Builders Borders Mini Buds & Blossoms Build a Blossom Business Memos Buttons, Bows & Twinkletoes By Definition Charming Children Classic Caps Close to Nature Crayon Kids Crazy Alpha Crazy Numbers Daisy Delicate Dandelions Delightful Doodles Elegant Beginnings Espress Yourself Fantastic Foliage Favorite Friends Fine Print, The Fintastic Fire Brigade Flora & Fauna Flower Garden Frame & Flourishes Framed Greetings Fresh Fruits Gentler Times Geometric Gladsome Garden Going Buggy Good Sign, A Good Sport Good Times Great Shapes Handmade with Love Handmade with Love II Happy Birthday Greetings Heavenly Heralds Houndstooth I Like Your Style It's a Party Jazzed Up Journaling Fun Just Beakause Just Jeans Just Journaling 1 Just Journaling 2 L'Chayim Ladybug Picnic Let's Party Linograph Little Layers Little Layers II Little Layers Plus Maternal Instincts Memory of the Heart Merry Minstrals Mini Medleys Mini Messages Metherlands Newsprint Alpha Newsprint Numbers Office Ephemera Oh so Sweet On Safari On the Edge Alpha lover On the Edge Alpha upper On the Edge numbers Oriental Brushstrokes Ornament Elements Paris in the Spring Perfect Party Perfect Petals Phrase Starters II Please be Seated Pure & Simple Accents Pure & Simple Alpha lower Pure & Simple Alpha upper Pure & Simple numbers Quick and Cute Quiet Life, A Renaissance Angels Sassy Sayings I Sassy Sayings II Say Something Mice Season's Greetings See with the Heart Set Sail Shapes & Shadows Shape-ups Simple Florals Simple Somethings Simple Stripes Simple Type Accents Simple Type alpha Simple Type numbers Simply Sweet Sketch an Event Smile Smile Some More Smitten Smorgasborders Soft Swirls Something to Celebrate Sparkling Season Special Day Spring Fling Stardust Star Spangled Banner Stencil Alpha Stencil numbers Stipple Celebrations Stipple Rose Surprise! Sweet of You Sweet Seasons Sweet Songbirds Sweet Treats Terrific Tulips Thinking of Father Tidy Alpha Tidy Numbers Time for Fun Toile Blossoms Toucan of my Love Toy Box Travel Post Versatile Verses Very Merry Vogue Verses Wanda's Wit and Wisdom Welcome, Little One Wild Fowl Word Play

Can you say procrastinator?

Lately I have become such a procrastinator!! I wait until the last minute to design projects for my classes and then wait until the last minute to set up for the classes themselves. This leads to me stressing myself out and then getting cranky at my DH who feels that it is his obligation to tell me that I shouldn't have waited until the last minute. Does he not know that this is not the time to share those words of wisdom. Just a little vent . . . lol.