Still Creating!

I am feeling good today. The day started with a run on my DUSTY treadmill. The nice weather certainly has inspired me to try to exercise and be healthier. It is something about the change in seasons that just transforms my whole outlook. Love love spring. In fact, spring and fall are my favorite seasons. I love the change -- it inspires me to change also. Funny, huh?

Well, I have been inspired to create. On Tuesday I made another scrappy page and a video of my process. I hope it inspires you too. Enjoy and hugs!

Spring is in the air

We have had wonderful weather the last few days and I am so thankful. Most of the snow is gone (hallelujah!) and the sun is shinning bright. With spring in the air, I am inspired to create. Join me on my latest scrapbooking journey as I create a page about my son slurping a slushy at Universal Studios. This past Christmas we took the kids to Disney and Universal Studios and they had a blast. The last few days, I have been creating pages about our Christmas vacation and having a total blast. It is so wonderful to feel so inspired by life -- and I hope you are too!

See my latest scrapbooking tutorial here!
Hope you are having great weather also.
Hugs,
W-

Happy 2010!!!!!!!

I will not make any promises about being a better blogger. I will just do my best. No more -- No less. I hope that I evolve a little more this year as an artist and scrapbooker. I hope that I make more time to CREATE and enjoy the process of creating.

So today I thought I would share a few photographs that I took in October and a few pics of the mega snowstorm that hit our area a few weeks ago. I can't wait to scrap the photographs and will try to share the new pages with you.

It has been a very long time -- but that is life!

It has been a very long time since I have been around to post. The semester is winding down for me and I am thrilled to have a little bit of "creative time" during my winter break. This weekend I decided that I deserved some well deserved scrapping time and I just PLAYED. Here are a few of my recent creations.

Hope you have a great holiday season. Be well!

New layout and a new scrapbooking tutorial

I purchased some canvas at the craft store the other day and it inspired me to get in my little craft studio to create something fun. In the page below added a painted canvas swatch to a scrapbook layout. It was fun to play with a new product and to stretch my creative muscles a tad. Check out the page below and the tutorial.

Hope you have a great weekend. It is rainy in my neck of the woods and there is a fall chill in the air. I love it! It is the perfect day to hang out at home and just relax. My kind of Saturday afternoon.

HUGS

Feeling in the mood to scrap again!

Hey Yall! What's Up? It has been awhile but I am still breathing. We made a few changes around our home, starting with me taking over my boys' playroom. The folks that owned the home before us had two girls and transformed one of the spare rooms in a princess house. So we painted the pink princess room grey for our boys and moved in their trains, cars and legos. Well, over the last three years I have -- quite simply -- outgrown my scrap closet. I needed more space and the former "princess house" was the perfect room for me. SO I CLAIMED IT AS MY OWN. The boys have a new spot for their toys and I have my own studio/office. LOVE IT! So, come on in and take a look.

I found my table at Target (love them) and hubby found me the leather chair out the Pottery Barn outlet. Yes, the outlet is just 5 minutes from my home and very dangerous.


We have had the white shelving unit from IKEA for at least 4 years. It used to house the boys' toys and now it is home to all my craft goodies. YEA!
Initially, I was not sure how I was going to fit the sewing machine in the room but hubby found this white table/shelf at the CRATE AND BARREL outlet store. Yes, just minutes from the house. It was so perfect that it just had to come home with us.
Love my little painting corner and I confiscated the boys old white table. They use to eat on it in the kitchen but now they are both too big for it and it was stashed away in the storage room.
The little white sidetable was the last of our Pottery Barn outlet finds and it fits perfectly in that spot. I sooooo didn't buy everything at once but just kinda put the room together bit by bit over the last few months. I am happy with the end result and really enjoying having a room all to myself.

The space really is very conducive for creating scrapbook pages and painting. So much so, that I finally got myself together enough to create a video.

You can check me out creating the page on YOUTUBE. Below is the page that I created. And, guess what -- I had a blast creating the layout.

This is a pretty basic page but the clouds and the folded paper in a semi-circle add some visual interest. Let me know if you try a little paper folding and bending on a page. Hands down it is one of my "go to" techniques.

Well....I'm outta here for now! Love, hugs and peace!

Wendi

Thickers, Gesso and Paint.....Oh MY!

What do you do with your left-over thickers? You know the "q," "z," and "v." 

In the two layouts that I created above, I took all of my mismatched letters and numbers and covered them in several layers of Gesso and paint.  One is one canvass board and the other on paper. 

Hugs!

MIXED MEDIA ART CLASS

I am taking a mixed media art class with a local artist. It is so wonderful to learn new techniques and to immerse myself in "play." That is what I love about mixed media -- it is so freeing. 

I love my SISters at ScrapinStyleTV!!!!!!!!!!!

I just returned from Tennessee and I had the most fabulous time at SISLIVE09! So much laughter that my sides ache. Everyone was simply splendid and I am so glad that I went this year. Below is a short vid I took on Saturday night when it was very late and most normal people had gone to bed. Enjoy the silly pics, too!

LOVE to all!