DH & the Sil

Gee, this Sil can get rather addictive!

All those shapes that I can make any size and not have to worry about storing!

The ability to create my own shapes.

Scrapping with DH.

Yes!!! DH is a pretty good artist and is willing to help me create special items for use on my Sil. This is wonderful! Something we can share - and now I can have all the martial arts items I need for his & the kids' books. He actually did a search and found two martial arts figures for free!!! He is going to tweak them so that I can use them. My rant from awhile back on this blog has been answered - and in a totally unexpected way!

I am feeling pretty special - my friend's hubby made a face when he found out that DH is going to work with me on this. Friend's DH likes the finished project, but has no patience or interest in working with her. You should have seen his face when DH & I were discussing which alpha I should use one day! (DH has three favorites - my first three alphas and thinks I should have stopped there! The alphas are Star, Indigo & Marisa (all Classic.))

And I need to get working on my other projects. We are leaving for Disney in two weeks and the autograph books are not even started.

The DT projects are also do! The December release was great, and the January is even better!

Too much to do and so little time!

I am now the proud owner of a Quickutz Silhouette. It is the electronic cutter that I have been on the fence about for nearly two years.

Why did I get it? Well, at first, I was not interested at all. With my history, I was sure that it would only be a matter of time before I broke it. See, the Sil needs a computer and our main computer is downstairs, whereas my scrapping area is upstairs. I know that running up and downstairs would be GREAT exercise, I wouldn't get much scrapping done and that if I moved it, it could fall and break. Then there are the blades. Blades are sharp. They can hurt you. I hate getting cut by my tools.

That then was my argument: too much potential danger involved. Case closed.

Then I began seeing all the wonderful creations made by my SRWMB friends. Envy struck hard. Jason made knights using the Sil.

I could really use knights.

The doubts crept in. DH, a major techie, told me that I could have an electronic cutter, but to make sure I knew which one I wanted. The prices are what freaked him out. I would really have to use it. The Cricut was also interesting since it didn't need a computer, and it cost about the same as a Sil, but it requires $90 cartridges - and really how much Disney scrapping am I going to do?

So, I pushed the thoughts of an eletronic cutter out of my mind. Almost $400 for something I am not sure I am going to use is too much.

Then Sherri had Sils for $140 for Thanksgiving. Frank, a absolute genius, is also giving classes. I almost caved, but I had just received the new camera.

Then QK released a cottage for the Sil. A cottage!!! Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and cards all came to mind. I pouted.

The sale returned. I tried to ignore it.

DH, the kids and I went up to pick up my friend's BD gift and for the kids to learn to snow dance. DH saw the Sil boxes. He asked how much. $140. He said "You have money from your mom." I said "Where would I put it? I'd have to clean my desk!"

We went back and forth. I decided to go for it.

So we brought the Sil home. I opened it on Xmas Eve. I had FUN!!!

To be continued......

2009 Calendar

I feel like I just pulled off a marathon! And it is all due to my procrastination.

Last year I purchased a blank 12x12 calendar with every intention of spreading out the work over several months so that I could send it to my mom in early December 2008.

I pulled it out to work on in sometime in November 2008.

Twelve 12x12 pages to decorate, plus other things on my to-do list.

Then I decided I was going to used dies to cut out the numbers. That - no doubt- was a crazy idea given my time constraints.

A few months stumped me: May and June and November. Most months were scenes with spots for the photos. For May I chose patterned paper and squares to put some flower die cuts on. For June I decided I just had to use my exclusive pirate ship from QK. Worked well with the dock I was assigned from Sherri.

My friend Sandy wanted to know why I had Columbus' ship for June. Hope it was the cold medicine she was taking! I then added an orca. Not sure how Mom will take that month.

For November, I had the brilliant idea of setting up a whole Pilgrim feast. You know Pilgrims, Native Americans, a long table, lots of food, houses, trees, etc.

Then reality in the form of a 2008 calendar hit me like a cold shower. So I put on the basic Thanksgiving Day elements and went on to create the December page and the cover. I think using the exclusive Holly border in pink was definitely different!

More Xmas Cards!

I used scraps, inks, a white pen and a wonderful blue Glaze pen (for the windows, I wanted them shiny.)

This church is so versatile! The Gingerbread house is from another die, though!

Xmas Cards!!!

Okay, so I got to work!

The church card is actually from Saturday. I used RW's QK Church die, the QK $1 tree - and a LOT of white ink! I was putting gold doorknobs on the church and the pen smeared ink onto my finger which I then got on the card. I tried covering it with snowflakes and Diamond Stickles (I think).

The next card utilizes the Frame/Sign from Hobby Lobby's exclusive QK. I used the QK Season's Greetings GB on the frame. The house is QK Gingerbread and the people are from the QK Gingerbread Family.

The Snowman on the card is the one from Archiver's.

As you can tell, I love that tree!

I had to make several what I call secular cards because we have friends who are from other countries and do not want to offend them.

The simple card with just trees is for a friend who tosses my cards. She is not interested in scrapbooking and rarely saves any card anyone gives her. No sense in doing alot of work!

I will post more cards, maybe tomorrow.

Get to Work, Debi!

I am SO behind on everything that I do not know where to begin!

I have to:

-finish my mom's calendar (I have 8 pages to go, plus numbers!)
-a gift for my father (I am thinking a hand-made book for photos of his dog)
-Xmas cards
-Martial arts pages
-more Disney layouts than I want to admit to
-autograph books for Disney (a month away!)

So, instead of sitting here working on my blog, or surfing the Net - I need to get myself over to my desk and GET TO WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Layouts!!! (At Last!)

I cannot believe that it has taken me this long to figure out how to put a photo in my blog, not just on the side! I am psyched! Now I can show what I have been doing while trying to use all my dies.

Above is half of the simple Belle layout that I still feel needs something, but I am not sure what.....





This layout is from our first trip to WDW when DD was chosen to be the co-pilot. It took awhile to decide how to do this. I have a page full Disney characters on this ride, so I made this page to match. Donald came in the back of the book, so I cut him out. I am really proud of this layout.