Week 2 of Emily's Art Journal

"What is powerful to you?

I have to share Emily's answer---FAMILY! The quote on the back is "Family is one of nature's masterpieces." by G. Santanya. I hope you can read the quote on the front...hee hee! I used lots of new techniques. Gold Sharpie around the edges, journaling on strips, used my Xyron for the first time, and still liking those sequins. Here is Emily's excellent blog---http://www.embers.typepad.com/

Another Challenge

"What are you proud of?" Emily Falconbridge has a weekly challenge on her blog. It was easy for me to take this challenge because I was lucky enough to take her class in Paris. We made little bags big enough to hold a deck of cards and then she helped us prepare the cards for practicing techniques. 52 cards for one new technique every week for a year. Terrific! I just needed to finish the bag and start the challenge. She helped us with a prod---"What are you proud of? Well, I AM PROUD OF MY FRIENDS AND THEIR FRIENDSHIP! I have never used sequins before so that is my new technique! She is trying create on Sundays---so we should be seeing a new card and new prod soon. Thanks Emily!

STASH

Are you ready for a challenge? I have so much scarpping stuff that I have not used so I joined a challenge at Scraptivity to so 50 layouts before I buy anything new. I'm not sure I will make it to 50 but I am going to try. It helps that the closest good scrapbook store is 1 1/2 hours away. I've also given myself another challenge - to use something new/never used before on the 1st 10 layouts of 2007. So far I have completed 8 layouts but I haven't taken pics yet so hopefully in the next few days I'll have my new layout pics to show you. Until then I 've included a layout from last year that is from the tell us something about you challenge - it is about how I would love to be able to sing!!!

So are you going to join me in my use your stash challenge????

Bonnie

Inspiring

Happy 4th of January! Love the look of Bonnie's "Christmas Tradition" book. As soon as I get things put away, I am going to start scrapping!
My New Year Resolutions are:
1. Enjoy my family!
2. Take pictures!
3. Have fun!
4. Scrap!
5. Enjoy my life!

Right now, I am busy taking pictures of our Christmas stuff, so that I have a pictorial inventory. Thought I was pretty smart to do the Christmas stuff now, while it is out---and not later when I am trying to inventory everything else. *clever me*

I took quite a few pictures this December, so I think my mini book is going to run like a calendar/date book of the holidays! Sounds like fun!

Ryan has a creative project to do for school, so we have been searching for stones throughout the bonnie land of the Picts. Tonight we were way up in Dyce, in a kirkyard, in the dark, and the wind was howling. What a memory---whether the pictures turn out or not!

Inspiring---am reading "The Textured Scrapbook" by Kerrin Quall. It is fabulous and so much fun! Bonnie and I met and took classes from Kerrin in Paris. She was a riot!

Here is your last Holiday 2006 Challenge

I hope everyone had a Merry and Joyous Christmas. If you are like me you took hundreds of pictures and now you need to be inspired to do something with them. That is where this challenge will help you. Create a layout, mini album or something else creative about your holiday. Maybe your family traditions, your favorite part of the holiday, Christmas morning chaos or like I did you can make a mini album about your holiday treasures. While overseas I have gotten lots of special Christmas decorations and I want a record of where I got them. Like my Scottish nutcracker, tiny shell nativity, German pyramid and lots more. So I have taken a 6x6 Heidi Swapp chipboard album and I am going to use it to record my 'Christmas Treasures'. For the cover I used BG fruitcake papers and fibers and K & Co. Twinkle Type letters, HS jewels and my trusty DMC. I also left the fibers long so I can tie Christmas charms on as I find them. I'll share some of the layouts as I finish them.

Show us your special Christmas creation.

Bonnie

It's Christmas Eve!!!!

One more day till Christmas. Todays challenge is easy - if you have kids. Have your kids write a letter to Santa to leave under the tree.

The layout above is a letter Matthew wrote to Santa last year. The trees and rudolf are Quikutz dies that I decorated with beads, wire and glitter.

Wishing you and your family a wonderful holiday from Bonnie and Cheri.

Bonnie

Gifts!

Here is the Gingerbread Family!