11.1.11 self portrait

In the downstairs bathroom.

11.2.11 Orange

colored pencils from the boys’ stash.

11.3.11 a bad habit

procrastination is a hard one to photograph so I went for these fat treats leftover from Halloween. #ChocolateIsSoGood.

11.4.11 what i wore

home from date night, dinner at Sam Choy’s, movie at Dole Cannery. Aqua linen top, jeans, aqua cons. Favorite Lucky Necklace and earrings.

11.5.11 clouds

it was an ugly looking day outside so I decided to share these clouds in my scrapbook room. :)

it is not too late if you’d like to join in! let me know and I can send you an invite to our facebook group where we share our pictures.

Thanks for stopping by!

Love Love and Blog you Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

There are so so many more goodies that I haven’t even gotten a chance to work with yet, but I wanted to share these two cards.

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I so love Jen Martakis’ April kit, especially the scratchy looking papers in yellow and gray. I used Laina’s Borderlines 5 to cut the bracket edge on Jen’s papers in my silhouette. Hybrids are so easy in 8.5×11, I printed my journaling right on my background paper.  The alphas are thickers, the corduroy brad is from stampin’ up!  and those little legos are stuck on with mini glue dots ;)

and in other exciting news, today my layout was featured over at the clubcreatingkeepsakes.com blog in the gallery :)

I picked up a few cute digital cutter files from Laina Lamb again this week, so I’ll be working with those…

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more exciting news: I’ve been invited to join the designhousedigital.com Hybrid Creative team.  I’ll be making a few hybrid projects a month and posting them over there and here.  I’m super excited to be working with those lovely creative peeps over there!  I’ll let you know when my first project(s) are up!

and a few last bits on the personal front.  I have been wanting to get my hair cut for quite a while now.  It’s been long and quite a hassle. I swear it would take me atleast 20 minutes to wash, condition and rinse all that hair. Not to mention all the hair I have to vacuum up around here.  I was also inspired by Megan to just get it done and donate it to Locks of Love.  You’ve probably heard of the organization, they accept donations of hair to make hair pieces for children who have lost their hair whether through alopecia or cancer or whatever situation.  I took the boys to the Navy Exchange to get their hair cut today and I thought I’d stop by and make an appointment to get my hair cut tomorrow while they are at school.  When I walked into the salon, they had an appointment, so i let the boys watch Veggie Tales Jonah on the touch while I got my hair cut.  Who knew I could take them with me?! Atleast now I know I’ll be able to get my hair cut during the summer (no school usually means no appointments for me).  So the girl that cut my hair was super super sweet and she measured the hair to make sure it was long enough… and it was. She cut off 12″ and then proceeded to give me a new look.

Thanks for stopping by! Come back again next time when I’ll have more scrap to share and some pictures from the preschool fieldtrip series ;)

Love Love and Blog You Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

I want to share a picture with you and ask, can you guess what Jordan is doing in the photo?

I posted this on my Facebook the other day and my girlfriend Lala was the only one to guess.  While walking on the beach, Jordan saw this piece of driftwood.  He immediately picked it up and started pumping it over his head.  “Look, I’m a sand person!” (from star wars)

When creating this layout, I considered placing an element over the truck in the background, but in the end I decided to flip the picture and create more background green, use Gaussian blur to cover the edge and it provided a perfect spot for the journaling.  The beauty of digital.(and p.s. i saw a you tube video featuring a new tool in cs5 that would make this even easier and faster to fix. drool)

both layouts use Vinnie Pearce’s Toy Box Kits: Toy Box Kraft Solids, Toy Box Elements, Toy Box Papers

the second layout also uses: Bee Happy: The Alphas by Betsy Tuma and Letter Template Value Pack III by Erica Hernandez

I wanted to thank you again for your votes for the CK Reader’s Choice poll, I didn’t win, but I thank you for your votes! :) I send out my congratulations to Jana’s winning layout (the one with the boots, it was so cute!)

Thanks for stopping by, I’ll be back again soon with more from 2 peas, some minty goodies and more.

Love Love and Blog you Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

I made the teachers thank you cards, brought them lei and gifties for the last day.  My card was inspired by a card I saw on the blog hop.

( http://sideoatsandscribbles.wumple.com/?p=1791 )

the clouds and woodgrain are hero arts background stamps, the patterned paper on the banner are from the Oct Afternoon  Cherry Hill pad. I love how it came out, although the word was a little longer than I anticipated, it’s okay with me. ;)

also I have been continuing on with my crocheting… i’m hooked, hee hee, and on Row 14 of my scarf. here’s what it looks like right now:

5 more rows to go, then fringe! wheeee!

I also tried out the embroidery floss to make those cute little flowers, ahhh I love it!

Today was a busy first day of Summer. We ran to the post office, picked up an ebay purchase from israel.check.  drove out to Kahala to pick up a dental health certificate for Jordan’s new preschool.check. went to the new preschool to pay deposit, buy a shirt and turn in paper work.check. home to pick up checks in the mail (yay!).check. off to the bank for deposits. check, check, check, check! home for lunch, legos and nap.  I tortured Jalen with a writing assignment, and I crocheted nap time away.  Still need to make a run to the commisary, but over all today was a day with things checked off the list, and that’s always a good thing.

Flat Joscie’s trip to Toronto was documented on Miss Mint’s blog. so.cute. Did I tell you I did a silhouette card tutorial over there?

Tomorrow (or the next day) I’ll be back with news about my lego project, my new printing toy, memory makers, and scrapbook dimensions projects.  Til then, thanks for stopping by my piece of paradise!

Love Love and Blog you later!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

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I took this picture last year as a part of my POTD project while getting our car washed at Hickam AFB.  It is so typical of the way my van gets washed, by someone else. I’m not going to say I’m not big on washing the car, but well, you know.

I hand cut the clouds from plain white cardstock, embossed with a houndstooth cuttlebug folder and outlined with a glitter marker.  I used a circle punch to punch a red/yellow circle from the Studio Calico Paper (Sunday).  I added a yellow corduroy Stampin’ Up! button and used a foam dot to adhere.  American Crafts Rainboots Thickers for the title.  Journaling printed, trimmed and mounted.  I finished up with machine stitching.  Background cardstock is Stampin’ Up! textured cardstock.

I was selected to head up our PreSchool teacher’s appreciation this week.  Yesterday I sewed a thankyou banner for our teachers.  Today I made some cards and picked up gift cards from Borders.  I’m also planning to get some lei for the May Day celebration on Friday and Candy and flowers on other days this week.  I hope they feel appreciated! :)

One last note before I go. My heart is heavy with the news that Memory Makers Magazine is Closing down. no MMM contest for 2010. see this story. I have 3 Layouts in the next issue July/August 09, and the last issue will be Sept/Oct 09 and I’ll have a layout in that issue too. I wish all the best to the people from Memory Makers who have been so awesome.

On a happier note, I’m looking forward to scrapping with my pal Lisa tomorrow, some come back to see some more scrap okay, I’ll blog you later!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

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Fabulous, right?! It’s taken me a few days, but I am so thrilled with my results!  These are 3 18×36 canvases that I painted in a carribean blue acrylic paint.  The clouds are all cut free hand out of felt, stuffed and stitched.  The red felt hearts are die cut out of a sizzix die and handstitched with aqua embroidery floss.  I am so happy every time I see the little hearts fluttering :)

and before I even started with the clouds, I had already hung these ornaments in the entry way to my scrap space… the pompoms make me smile! :) I also hung some in the kitchen, but those don’t have pompoms, that idea struck after they were already hung up…

It’s beginning to look a lot like valentines day, eh?  I did a hybrid version of the valentine’s candy box this year (since there were twice as many to make) and posted the tutorial over at Miss Mint’s Blog.  Leave a comment or retweet it if you like it! :)

I’ll be celebrating my 2 year blogiversary on Feb 14!  I am so glad I jumped on the blogging band wagon, I have gained so much out of the whole experience!  I hope you are all having a great day and I can’t wait to come back and blog again. :)

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