Certified Scrapaholic

Contemplation

As the year draws near and my busy season starts, I was thinking about all my experiences this year and the unbelievable people I have met along the way, the people that I am fortunate enough to work with each day and the things that I get the opportunity to create.  Thank you to everyone who has been part of my journey!

So I have to share a story with you.  Last night, my husband (and this is fall on the floor cannot believe it stuff) sat in my studio with me after we installed two new custom shelves.  I am the type of crafter that has to be able to easily access my supplies or I wont use them.  I have always dreamed of a really shallow shelf to put my wood mounted stamps on so they sit upright and I can see them all at a glance.  And a shelf for my paints, mists, etc. and all the color would be pretty.  So guess what I have?  Yep!

And to top it off, MY HUSBAND sat there and took direction and organized the shelf for me. This is just a quick pic to share.  I am working really hard to organize and get my studio all prettied up to share.  So here are two quick pics that my daughter took while we were working on it.

 
  Its getting there, and I will have better pics soon, I promise.

Happy Crafting!
 

My Five Faves

I was recently asked at a crop what my favorite crafting supplies were, so I decided to share them here with you too.

Honeybee Scissors
Truly all I need is paper and Honeybee Scissors and I am set.  These are the bomb where scissors are concerned and I own 5 pair, they are in every tote, my purse and desk drawer.  Wait a minute there are even a pair in the drawer in my bathroom.

Patterned Paper
The first thing I do when I walk into a scrapbook store or get a package of paper in the mail, is smell it.  Yes, you read that right.  I slowly draw it across my nose, I can almost name paper by its smell. But what I love the most is great patterns on the paper to cut, my fingers start twitching.

Paper Piercer
I absolutely go nuts if my poker tool is not in my tool bag.  I have to have it, it is the 3rd most important tool in my bag.

 

Tim Holtz Stapler
This is new in my tote bag, but I just adore this stapler.  I had given up on having a stapler, they always broke and got jammed.  This one doesnt do that!  It is awesome!

And finally....

The Sanding Block
Need I say more?

These are all the tools that I use to get the effects that you see in my work.  

Happy Crafting! 

What a great weekend!

I met alot of great ladies at Memories of Time in Coos Bay, Oregon.  We were all there for our certification as a Copic Designer for Copic Markers.  I had so much fun with my table mates, Merri from The Merri Artist and Nancy from Copic.

 
Here is a shot of an old city hall building just down the street:

 and some shots at the coast and on the way home:

 
 
 
 
I love drives through the country, but never enough time to catch all the shots that I see on the way, but I have a thing for old country buildings and barns, so I had to stop for these:

 
 
Now it is back to grind, it was a nice weekend away!


 

I am so excited! I am heading out this weekend to become certified!

I know, I know...I am already a certified scrapaholic, but now I am going to be a Certified Copic Instructor.  I am heading out to Coos Bay, a 3.5 hour drive this weekend and hanging out with some great ladies, getting our stamping and coloring on!  I am so excited!

And keep an eye out at www.kpscissors.com for my upcoming altered dress form class on November 17th!  I hope to see some of you locals there, we will be painting, glimmer misting, curling Graphic45 paper and blinging! 

Ok, see here is a fun little challenge at Graphic45!  I love to find items in the dollar store, clearance racks and thrift stores for items to alter.  These cute little wood toys were my latest victim!
Head on over to the Graphic45 blog and comment on the post and you could win a pack of Renaissaince Faire paper collection!

Happy Crafting!
 

Some shots of my studio

I have received a few emails about showing updated pics of my studio since I have been rearranging and changing it.  So here are a few, I am not done but getting close.  I added a few shots of the "cleaning" through the crap phase, but you have to promise not to gasp!

 

Ok, so it got cleaned up, but still have quite a bit to go through. Keep in mind that these are taken at night with a wonderful flourescent light above.  My wonderful hubby is working on getting that changed out for me.  Cannot wait!



So here is what I have been working on tonight...some black paint, a canvas, some wooden toys...a hint:  Renaissance Faire.

And look over to the right a bit, I cut up some Graphic45 Botanicabella to do some ATC's!  


Thank you for stopping by and peeking into my creative space.

Graphic45 and Tattered Angels...need I say more?

I started with a tag, and just kept spraying glimmer mist, and adding paper and, and, and.......well I could not stop and this is what I emerged with from my studio.  Along with mist stained fingers!

 
And yes the paper has 3 dimensional eyes!

Candy

The hardest thing...

One of the hardest things about what I do is not being able to share all the great projects that I work on throughout the month, most are for the magazine and for class projects so I have to wait and wait to share them.  But this week I was able to share a few things that I made for our LSS, Krop, Paper, Scissors.

It is nice to be able to share these with you and they were alot of fun to make!

 
 
 
 
 

 And just because I had the time and the fun stuff to play with check out Nikki Sivils new collection, it is just so adorable and I made a cute box for a gift:

 
and I got my newest Unity Stamps in the mail and could not wait to use so I made a few ATC cards to share: