Completed January Bossy!

Here is my completed Bossy Scrapper for January:

 Required elements are:
1. metal element:
7 Gypsies brads (I put a little acrylic paint on them to tone the shiny down a bit)
2. distressing:
I distressed the horizontal yellow strip and the outside page edge
3. chevron:
on the pp paper
4. matted photo: 
it is matted!
5. the color yellow: 
My Mind's Eye
6. popped embellishment:
You can't tell in the photo, but the photo is popped, as well as the hexagon shapes
7. four patterned papers: 
My Mind's Eye (Frame is Studio Calico)
8. stitching: 
I stitched a circle under the photo; probably should have hand stitched with floss, as the machine thread is reeaaaalllllyyy light


And here is a photo of Aurora being super duper good and not touching the LO while looking at it:

Jump on over to our Facebook page and play along!!!  It is good inspiration to use elements you maybe wouldn't have thought of (or put together) and get your creative mojo flowing!

BOSSY SCRAPPER: JANUARY

Happy Friday!

Here is the Bossy Scrapper list of items for January:

1. metal element
2. distressing
3. chevron
4. matted photo
5. the color yellow
6. popped embellishment
7. four patterned papers
8. stitching

It is a little delayed due to CHA goodness, however,  better late than never, right?

 HAVE FUN!!!  I'll be working on mine this weekend. yea!

And because a blog post is boring without a photo, here is one of Aurora Playing with her new Jingle (maybe Belle?) and waiting for a phone call.  LOL.

#CHAWINTER2013

Well, back from CHA and into the real world!  It was my first time at CHA, and it was a great time of meeting new people, re-connecting with old friends and seeing lots of beautiful product!!!

Here are some of my faves from the show:

I WON A SILHOUETTE PORTRAIT!!!! WOO!!!! And Stephanie Wheeler won a Cameo. In her words, "LIKE A BOSS". WINNERS!  I can't wait to get it and start using it - I think it will be great for card making.  THANK YOU SILHOUETTE AMERICA!

This photo is from the Elle's Studio Blog (I was in awe of the product and make-n-takes
and forgot to get any photos).  It looked JUST LIKE THIS. ;)

Elle's Studio: Elle's Studio had some of the coolest paper and tags that I saw at the show.  PLUS, they are from the Pacific Northwest and super fun.

Maggie Holmes for Crate Paper: If you've cropped with me in the last few months, you will know my FAVORITE line has been Everyday Eclectic by Maggie Holmes for American Crafts.  She hit it out of the park again!

Amy Tangerine for AC: LOVE LOVE LOVE the piercing templates!  I can't wait to get this in my hands and use them all (especially the feather)!

Failed to photograph any of this with my phone, SO, this
is a stock photo from the BG website.

Basic Grey: I was expecting *bleh*, but fell in love with their Kneehigh, Hipster and most amazing was the Mint Julep (the embellishments and paper are SO pretty in real life!)

Simple Stories: Kim Holmes is on their design team and I love all of their product!  I'm even in a photo that Kim posted on their BLOG for CHA!!!


Other fantastic lines were found at the Allison Kreft for Webster's Pages booth. Her line has beautiful paper, paper tape, and bags.  And she is SUPER nice.  She took an Instax photo with Andrea and me. Chic Tags: Veronica Milan has a fantastic line of tags and an even more fantastic personality!  Also great stuff at the Jillibean Soup, Lilybee and My Mind's Eye booths!

Here in Anaheim...for CHA!

It is almost time for some CHA action! Yikes!  It is my first time here, and I am trying to be cool about it.  You know, "OHMYGODTHEREISHEIDISWAPP!" oh there is Heidi Swapp.  NO BIG DEAL.  "nice to meet you".  I'll let you all know how I'm able to keep it together.  Like a drunk spotting banana runts in a vending machine.

I saw that Sherry Grove may or may not have been scrapping tonight, getting her mojo started for the weekend. Pretty awesome, right?  It is going to be a fantastic sight at 10am Saturday! 

The internet it horrible here at the hotel, so we are going to try and find a way to get better connection and upload some of the great things we are seeing!  Until then, may you never run out of washi.

MERRY {almost} CHRISTMAS!

We chopped our tree down last weekend at Stoney Ridge Farms, just outside of Lynden-proper. 
We got there right at 9am to avoid the mad crush of fellow tree hunters we experienced the year before. 
It worked.  We were the only visitors there. It was us and the wilds of a perfectly manicured tree farm. I guess most families don't wait until the week before Christmas to get a tree.  Ha!  All I gotta say is that all the pine needles are still on our tree.  WIN!

The next step was getting Aurora's photo for the annual Christmas card.  It went great!  As long as she was holding Loren's calculator the mood stayed calm.  The moment I tried to take it away, or exchange it for a pretty Christmas ornament, book, ANYTHING, she had a meltdown.  Loren thought it was great. Proof of a budding scientist, right? :)

May your family know the JOY of Christmas and Calculation

I hope you each have a blessed Christmas!  

Silent night! Holy night!  

All is calm all is bright  

Round yon virgin mother and child  

Holy infant so tender and mild  

Sleep in heavenly peace!  

Sleep in heavenly peace!
Silent night! Holy night!  

Shepherds quake at the sight  

Glories stream from heaven afar

Heavenly hosts sing Hallelujah  

Christ the Saviour is born!  

Christ the Saviour is born!
Silent night! Holy night!  

Son of God love's pure light  

Radiant beams from thy holy face  

With the dawn of redeeming grace,  

Jesus, Lord at thy birth,  

Jesus, Lord at thy birth.

December Dailies

I have committed to doing the December Daily this year.  I received a beautiful album from Christina Clouse, and to NOT use it would be wrong!  The photos are all printed up to today, and I just need to get them into the album.  Here are some of the highlight photos from the last two weeks!

December One: Went to Urban Craft Uprising with some fun friends!

December Three: Hanging with my Love!

December Six: Loren and I went up to New West in Vancouver to support a friend at a comedy gig

December Seven: Aurora being cute on our way to Lacey, WA

December Eleven: Getting some Christmas decorating done!

'tis the season...for sickness...

Well, it is another sick day.  A trip to the doctor later this morning confirmed that she had the foot/hand/mouth disease.  {virus}  I don't know why they call it a disease.  Sounds REALLY bad as a disease.  :D  

Gratefully, she is likely no longer contagious as it started last week, and will be in the clear for Thanksgiving! 

Pushing that back for a moment, how about some thing fun and not sick? 

I found some blog crawls and scrappy contests you may want to check out.

- Echo Park has  blog hop until November 25 - each DT blog will have a winner!

- Jamie Dougherty is a design team member at Shimmerz Paints (with some awesome video tutorials), and I saw that she linked up to their "thankful" blog hop today. There are some beautiful projects you can complete with their products.  Check it out here: Shimmerz Paints

- Paper Issues is giving the chance to win a Reminisce holiday collection of papers.  All you have to do is like them on Facebook!