National Scrapbooking Month

And what a way to celebrate it by going to your local scrap book store to check if they are having any classed, crops, or specials.  I have spent the last four days at my LSS and put 75 miles on my car going back and forth. The store is not that far away but two of the 4 days I could not spend the 10 to 15 hour days there all at one time so it required two trips a day.  

I had a wonderful time, I met old friends and made a few new ones along the way.  One lady kind enough to share her time, talent, knowledge, and her Gypsy. A Gypsy is a hand held mini design studio that has (if you purchase them) tons and tons of letters, shapes, and phrases that alow you to cut inticate elements for a layout.  A Gypsy will be going on my wish list for this year or next.  Can you tell I had fun, and once Laura showed me how fast and easy it was I kept going back to her work area to see if she would do just one more, after all she had just about every Cricut cartridge ever made.

What is a Cricut, pernounced like the insect, you say? That is an electronic paper cut work machine. I just have a  few font cartridges like the title I made the the following page.

And speaking of pages, I was able to complete 19, for some that is not very many pages but for me it is huge. That is more than a months worth of work...........did I tell you I was slow?  One reason is I usually don't have much of a plan on what I am going to do, just the pictures and some papers that match the colors in my pictures then maybe a few embelishments.

I have to admit, this page did not take long to do, I think I spent the most time appling glue to the letters of Christmas cheer and sticking them to my page, that and coloring the border swag at the bottom of the picture. This page is a combination of sticker, stamped and colored images, a flower, and cut letters with a little net ribbon thrown in.

It was a very warm year for decorating the tree, as you can see my DGD is sitting in an open window with green grass and shrubs. It is often warm late in November and we usually have green grass at Christmas time.

The stickers are Bo Bunny with Fancy Pants designer paper. The ribbon is from May Arts and the flower is from my stash, I think Prima, a few years ago.

I am suppose to be making cards for Monday but have not gotten any done this week. May be in a day or two.  Glad you stopped and I will be posted more of from my scrapping week end.