Vancouver trip

Happy Monday my blogger friends. 
I've been doing a lot of thinking today about my blog.  I know I haven't spent enough time on here, posted enough, done what I want to with it yet.  But we're getting there.  I read an article about blog jealousy and I definitely know I'm guilty of that.  But I can't be the perfect blogger, woman, worker, friend, sister, daughter, person. 
I will try to post more, I do want that to be a resolution.  I think when spring break hits at work I will have more time to play on here and maybe come up with some weekly challenges or something to spruce my blog up. 

But for now let's show you somethings I worked on this past couple days off.

This first picture is of my eldest brother and my youngest nephew.  We stopped by his place in Kelowna.  He lives right on the lake and it was just gorgeous.  Fairly warm when we were there (mind you that was the middle of August last year), and we just sat in his backyard and had a BBQ.  He was a 5 minute walk from a nice beach and Liz took the boys down to play in the sand while Rene took us for a walking tour of downtown.  I used to live in Penticton and went through Kelowna many times before but never really explored it.  I had a lot of fun visiting.

Sorry to blab on I just like to tell the story behind my scrap pages.  I feel like it helps them make more sense to the people that are looking at them(especially since I am not a big journaler).

Anyways, hope you have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Hez

Ever since I watched a video on youtube from the fabulous Renee, I've really wanted to try this technique.  It's called shadow stamping.  It's kind of hard to tell with this picture but the flowers look like they are shadowed.

To break it down fairly simply you need to find a solid image and stamp it on your paper in craft white (from SU!) and then dry it with your heat gun or you'll have to wait awhile because it's fairly wet stuff.  Then you grabanother color that's somewhat close to your background paper and offset the image just a bit, like giving it a shadow.  It definitely helps to have you stamp-a-ma-jig for this as then you can line up your image exactly where you want it to be instead of just guessing.  Now that I finally figured out how it works I love my stamp-a-ma-jig!!! What a time, paper and life saver...lol

I'm working on another card to showcase this technique and if I could ever got off of work at a decent hour I might actually be able to finish the card.  Soon my dear friends, soon.  I'm noticing this picture is a little blurry and well I just happened to find out the government owes me a little moooney, damn tax man, I knew they over-taxed me.  So with my newly acquired fortune I may splurge a little and buy the camera I want.  But we'll have to wait and see...

Anyways I must leave you for now, until next time!

Hez

Mother's Day (early)

So a few days ago when I had a spare 5 minutes I actually threw together this card for Mother's Day.  I know it's a bit early and I didn't plan for it to be that way but after I had finished and it was time for a sentiment I just thought it would work. 

The butterflies are actually mirrors that I bought at the dollar store, the paper I'm not sure and the cardstock, of course, Bazzill.  Yes the base is black, but honestly, I think it actually all works well together.  Let me know what you think.

Cheers,

Hez

Chase the Rainbow

Well another week gone by and here I am sitting on the couch absolutely drained of any energy.  Boy, am I ever glad I got a least one day of scrapping in this weekend.  I went to my sister's yesterday and we sent the men away to go ice fishing.  They took the youngest, Zach, and left Xander with us as he was still sick and not having a good day.  This is the second layout I ended up making yesterday using the new Wings line from CTMH.  I never would have thought I would be able to make a layout like this with that line but this is the backside of a few of the papers and I love the way it turned out.  I actually outright copied it from the CTMH idea book but I just couldn't not!  I absolutely love it.  I did turn it sideways to fit the picture I had already printed out.  Do you love it as much as me??

I just put an order in for some new Stampin Up! stuff before Sale-A-Bration was over so I can't wait to get it and I'll be showing off some new stamp sets!! 
For now I'm content to doze on the couch and hope this cold goes away because I won't make it to work tomorrow if I still feel like this.

So long for now,

Hez
 

Family is Forever

Good day my stampin' buddies!

I loved this picture of my sister's family so much I wanted a really special layout to showcase it.  I had seem similar layout to this in the newest CARDS magazine so I thought the hearts masked would be perfect since I'm on such a kick using my smooch spritz lately. 

I've seem so many of the pennants lately I figured maybe it was my turn to have a go at it.  I went with the blue background and DP because of the boys shirts in the photo and I thought the hearts were perfect to match Liz's shirt.  Everything seemed to just come together and I'm really happy with it.  I used stickles around the hearts just to add a little something to make them stand out. 

What do you think? Is the layout worthy of the picture?

I'm teaching a friend tomorrow how to get into cardmaking.  Not sure how good of a teacher I'll be...lol  Hopefully I can explain things well enough that it's enjoyable.  It's just one of those things you have to find your groove I guess. 

Well, maybe I'll be back tomorrow but I'm thinking more like Tuesday to show you all my creations.

Have a good night everyone!

Hez

Family

Told ya I'd have another one for you today! And I don't lie about these things, lol. 

This is a picture I took last summer when we(me, my BF, my sister and her kids and my mom) went to BC to do some visiting of family.  These two lovely gals are my Aunt and my Grandma.  I didn't have any really good pictures of either of them so I thought this would be a great picture to scrapbook from our journey. They both look very happy and healthy.  It was so joyous to see them, they are very wonderful people and I love having them in my life.  My aunt actually runs her own company, she's a life coach and absolutely amazing at it.  She has such a positive attitude it just rubs off on everyone.  My Nana, while she is getting up there in age, is still a very spry woman and always inspiring to talk to.  I love you both!!

I love the layout of this page and all the crochet trim just gives it that old vintage kind of look, as I said before that I was kind of into right now.  The big pink flower is Prima and the smaller one is actually some crochet trim I bought at the Dollar store and just swirled around on a piece of double sided tape to make a flower.  The brad in the middle I believe is CTMH, but don't quote me on that...lol it's possibly SU! 

Not much else to say right now, just working hard, can't you tell ;)

Chat at ya later,

Hez

Fab Friday

Happy Friday everyone, although it's not really Friday for me, I still have two more days before my weekend starts.  So I made this card while ago, I do belive I CASEd this from Renee Vanstralen, Stamping For Sanity.  She has an amazing blog and I absolutely follow it religiously, she is a wonderfully talented lady,  Kudos Renee!!  If you don't know what CASE means, it's copy and and share everything, or copy and selectively edit.

Basically, I copied her layout and changed everything else.  I don't like to copy exactly everything about a card or page, my biggest problem is coming up with my own layout so I tend to "borrow" those from other people. 

I really like this card, and the colors.  I don't make too many manly cards but this would definitely work.  I didn't put a sentiment on because I don't know what I'll end up using it for, probably father's day, but I left space underneath the truck to stamp something if needed.

Originally when I got the Stampin Up! catalogue back in July, I just glanced over this stamp set (Countryside), but then I saw what Renee had done with it and HAD TO HAVE IT!!  I like that it works for man stuff and that it's kind of vintagey/antique.  That seems to be a little bit of my thing lately, not sure why.  The grey paper with the polka dots is coredinations cardstock, which is absolutely faahbulous.  I really like sanding it and revealing the core, it's just so easy.  I don't know if you can tell but I dry embossed lines on the orange background carstock, it just seemed too plain on it's own.

Anyways, I do have more to show you so I'll stop back later with another card, or maybe a scrapbook page, I've been a busy bee lately!

Have a fab Friday,

Hez