Prehistoric Fun

This Roar! by Jen Martakis was just right to document our trip to visit our neighborhood Mall Dinos this past summer.

Jack-o-Lanterns

This year Troy carved the pumpkins as I was busy with projects, I only got to snap a few pics of the process and then return to my work. The finished jack-o-lanterns came out pretty cute, I think. One was designed by Jalen to resemble a black puffle, the other was designed by Jordan to be an alien from Toy Story. It’s a hoot solids!, It’s a hoot ADD-ONS, It’s a hoot Page kit! by Michelle Underwood

I Can DO That Pose

Troy was laying on the carpet in the living room when Jordan called out, “dad, i can do that pose!” I thought he was so funny, I had to snap a picture. i LOVE these papers from A Haunting We Will Go Full Kit by Dianne Rigdon

Goat Boy * Kit Smitten

I used family day – the kit by Polka Dot Pixels to document my little goat boy. We visit a neighborhood park that has a large climbing rock and he loves to climb up and jump off. We call it goat rock and he is our little goat boy. Smile My favorite pieces in this kit are the frames, the square stitches and the stripey patterned papers.

Two Peas is also celebrating Digi Scrapbooking Day this whole week!  All kits are 25% off!

Thanks for stopping by!
Love-Love and Blog you Later,
Joscie, rhymes with bossy! :)

October 31st card

Tricky by Shelley Castillo, Cat Die Cut Shape- D-Cut by Deena Rutter, Stamps by Studio Calico, Popsicle Glimmer Mist.

Happy Halloween Card

Not So Frightful by Jen Martakis

I can’t wait to get started with the new goodies today!  Thanks for stopping by!

Love Love and Blog you Later!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

treasure island day

journaling: After reading the book Treasure Island, Jalen’s 4th grade class painted a treasure island set.  This included a cave, a pirate ship, and an island.  The kids got to dress up in pirate gear and watch the movie treasure island and party.  may 2010.

• Cute Pirate Kids Stickers by Holly Brooke Jones
• Reading Adventures by Kerry Stewart

Raising Readers

journaling: We live just  a few blocks from our neighborhood library and have finally started using it this summer.  We’ve signed up for the summer reading program and are logging our books read this summer.  We try to make it out there once a week.

• Reading Adventures by Kerry Stewart
• Letter Template Value Pack III by Erica Hernandez
• Basic Stitches No1 by MaryAnn Wise

This week I’m being interviewed over at the two peas digital designer blog, go see! I’ve also created a free template for a challenge, you can download the template here.  There is a prize, so I hope you’ll participate! :)

I used this template to create this layout:

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• Woodsy by Jen Martakis
• Denim Summer (buttons) by Jen Martakis
• Chocolate Bunny Elements (stitches) by Miss Mint
  

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• Back To School by Jen Martakis
• Chocolate Bunny Elements (stitches) by Miss Mint

I also picked up a few more kits today to work with, so I’ll have lots of scrap to share! :) Thanks for stopping by!

Love Love and Blog you Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

swim time digital layout

Journaling:   We finally had a day where it was sunny and we were all healthy so we headed down to the community pool.  We had a fun time splashing around.  4 July 2010.

I slightly modified Jen’s template and recolored Wilna’s alphas.  Gotta love scrapping cell phone pics.  Until I can get a waterproof camera solution, this is the best it’s going to get… ;)

• WhiteSpace No. 7 by Jen Martakis
• Notebook Basics Grunge by Jen Martakis
• Watercolors SUNday News by Jen Martakis
• RAIN – Alphabet by Wilna Furstenberg

Happy Birthday Card

• Party Monkey Mini Digital Kit by Holly Brooke Jones
• Cardstock- Stampin’ Up!
• Spellbinders Petite Scalloped Circles

Monkey Card

• Party Monkey Mini Digital Kit by Holly Brooke Jones
• Cardstock- Stampin’ Up!
• All Occasion Messages 4×6 Clear Design Stamp Set by Hero Arts
• Versafine Ink Sepia
• White Sharpie Pen
• Baker’s Twine

Just Saying Hello Card

• Rochambeau Paper Kit by Erica Hernandez
• Wonky Photo Mask II by Erica Hernandez
• All Occasion Messages 4×6 Clear Design Stamp Set by Hero Arts
• Versafine Ink Smokey Gray
• Making Memories Felt Flower
• Corduroy Brad Stampin’ Up!
• Cardstock- Paper Trey Ink.

Hi Ho Cherry-O hybrid layout

• Game Night by Laina Lamb
• Patterned Paper- Debate Team- American Crafts
• Precision Pen .01 American Crafts
• Flocked Thickers American Crafts
• Smooch Ink
• Glue Dots
• Pop Dots
• Scalloped scissors
• Silhouette
• Paper Trey Inc Cardstock.

Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate your visits!  Love Love and Blog You LATER!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

congratulations Jan, I’ll be emailing you to get your address.

I’d like to share the latest two peas layouts I’ve created.  I picked up two super cute kits last week Tuesday at Two peas.  The first one was by Michelle Underwood called the smile you give.  I always love Michelle’s feminine, sweet kits.  Since I don’t have daughters, I scrapped a picture of myself.  I have been reading a lot lately on my kindle app for the iTouch. I lOVE it!  most recently I’ve read the percy jackson series, the traveling pants series and the curious incident of the dog in the night.

The smile Page kit by Michelle Underwood Basic Kraft by Jen Martakis Distress Brush Set 01 by Vinnie Pearce

Stitched Felt Alphabet – Lime & Stitched Felt Alphabet – Evergreen by Miss Mint

The second kit I picked up was from Kerry’d Away Designs called candy apple.  I must tell you, i had been working on this layout for about an hour and kept saying to myself, you really should do a save as, so you don’t ruin this paper… and as I was closing windows in ps (ctrl w is my fave) I accidently closed the window with the layout in it and instead of clicking cancel, I clicked do not save. D’OH!  so this is the second attempt at the layout with this kit.  These pictures are of Jordan and his friend Ryan from preschool… two hams, I love it!

Candy Apple by Kerry Stewart Stitched Felt Alphabet – Orange & Stitched Felt Alphabet – Seafoam by Miss Mint

For this week’s kits, I chose Jen Martakis’ SUNday kit and Shimelle’s you are AMAZING template/alpha kit.  I absolutely love the painted newspaper in jen’s kit and the alphas in Shimelle’s. so so awesome.  This is a layout of Jordan on Preschool Graduation day.  I took the journaling straight from the blog post that day, so so convenient to have that info to use as journaling.

SUNday News by Jen Martakis You Are Amazing by Shimelle Laine

In other scrappy news, I have a blog tutorial for a hybrid layout going up at the blog at Design House Digital soon and I’m working on another tutorial for Tattered Angels to go up at the Educator’s blog soon.
Last week the Pioneer Woman’s photography assignment was homecoming.  I entered the pictures that I posted in my last post and she chose this one for her blog, I was so excited to be included! :)

Thanks for stopping by!  Love Love and blog you Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

It was finally my turn to issue a scrappy challenge over at Two Peas.  My challenge, which closes on Tuesday, is to document a day in your life.  It can be as extensive or brief as you like.  I used my pictures from last week Monday’s a week in the life to document an ordinary day in our life.  and I know, grammatically it should probably be a day in our lives, but really, it seems as though there is only one life and we all share it- but I digress.  I started with the morning coffee, followed through breakfast, lunches, drive time, my work, my lunch, pick ups, activities, dinner and ended with bedtime.  I love these coordinated bright papers by Tricia Chapman, and kept it pretty simple by using a grid pattern with frames by Jen Martakis.

you can see the close ups of the pages and complete credits here.

The next layout is from Last week’s releases by Vinnie Pearce.  Love love love these rich blues. love. and Jordan’s funny faces make me smile.

credits here.

also from last week, I whipped up a few quick and easy hybrid cards with the help of Deena Rutter’s digital die cut files and papers from Carina Gardner of DHD.

and last little scrappy bit to share, I whipped up this little layout using goodies from Miss Mint’s latest releases over at Peppermint Creative.

credits here. and yes. those are marshmallows in my coffee ;)

and I wanted to share this card that I got in the mail. I have a pal Tina, who is from Hawaii but lives in Washington.  We “met” after Noel took Flat Joscie for a visit to her LSS.  Tina came by my blog and we’ve been online pals ever since.  On her last trip home, we were able to hook up for a craft-mance, as her DH called it. hee hee! Tina, FabuLisa and I hit a few shops and enjoyed counter burgers together, it was a great estrogen-fest!  But anyway. She won a give away on my blog a while back and sent me this stunningly gorgeous card. I LOVE IT!  check it, isn’t she awesome?!

Tattered Angels is celebrating National Scrapbook Day all month long!  Check out the educator blog today where the ever fabulous Liz Hicks is sharing her project today:

Thanks so much for stopping by! Come back again soon, I’ll have more scrap to share!

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 have two tutorials up right now, the first is over at Peppermint Creative on Miss Mint’s Blog, a project seen in Simply Handmade last year:design your own reusable shopping bag.

I also have a Glimmery Card tutorial up at Tattered Angels’ Educator Blog: Recycled Security Envelope flower card.

More news from Tattered Angels, This month marks the launch of Tattered Angels “Glimmer of Hope” Philanthropic effort. Glimmer of Hope will feature causes that are dear to our staff, designers, educators and customers. Tattered Angels will take these causes into consideration for product development and philanthropic efforts.  Product released for such promotions will be available for limited release and portion of the proceeds will go towards research or non-profit organizations supporting this cause.  This month’s effort for Autism Awareness comes with the Special Edition Glimmer Mist: Piece of Heart is a limited edition color that sells for $5 and is only be available on the Tattered Angels site.

and one last nugget for Tattered Angels fans in Australia, or those who want to travel to Australia:

Now for some digi and hybrid goodies to share:

a layout of my mom and me at my cousin’s wedding a few weeks ago.  I love Michelle Underwood’s girly kits. makes me wish for a little girl to scrap….

It’s the little things page kit by Michelle Underwood

I took these pictures of Jordan as we waited to eat a birthday lunch.  Outside the restaurant, I asked him to smile and he just made funny faces. always a comedian. Shelley Castillo’s (soda pop) colors just make me happy and reminded me of my silly boy. Elements are gorgeous and from Michelle Underwood. background paper, kraft from Jen Martakis, with a white wash. ever fave, white curled frames by MaryAnn Wise

Some Fun by Shelley Castillo It’s the little things page kit by Michelle Underwood Basic Kraft by Jen Martakis Curled Photo Frames White by Mary Ann Wise

I absolutely love wilna’s coffee cup album, and you don’t even need a coffee cup, because a digital one is included. Its easy to put together and you can add as many or as few extra embellishments as you like. i’m sending this one with some easter pics to Troy :)

CoffeeCupAlbum: My Garden by Wilna Furstenberg

I fell instantly in love with Michelle Underwood’s stickers from the Best Days of our life… I recolored this little mushroom and used Kerry’s curly mats *love* to create this hybrid thank you card :)

Curvalicious Clipping Masks by Kerry Stewart, The best days of our life Extras , The best days of our life Page kit , The best days of our life Solids by Michelle Underwood

I have lots of scrap to get working on, and a little bit of news coming up that I’m excited to share with you soon. Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate it!
Love Love and Blog You Later,
Joscie, rhymes with bossy

The first challenge was to use Jen Martakis’ FREE digi template.  For the digi scrappers, use the template and for paper scrappers, use the template as a sketch.  Here is the layout I created:

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The second challenge was to use a digi stamp or regular stamp on a card or layout (as a background). Not surprisingly, I reached for my Hero Arts Cloud Background stamp. I love this stamp and the memento blue ink. so so pretty.  I added a banner (yet another expected element) with bakers twine and washi tape flags.

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The next challenge was to create a layout inspired by a tweet, a fb status update or blog post or email.  I went with a recent tweet.

all these items are from peppermintcreative.  {credits}

then a challenge to use a digi die cut.  I used this awesome dressform shape from my pal, Chris(pea) to make a card.

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and the last little mini challenge was to create a tag based on your emotions.  and does this tag say happy to you? it does to me.  This is a heidi swapp tag for Tattered Angels. It’s a gorgeous cream color with clear pearl embossed cursive and gold foil elements. it is gorgeous.  I just misted it with sunflower and added some yellow vinyl thickers and a bit of ribbon. :)

This morning I checked in at two peas and I was so excited to see that I won a prize for chatting at the crop, woo hoo! :)  Next time I will remind you ahead of time, it’s a lot of fun.

Thanks for stopping by!

Love Love and Blog you later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

I absolutely love this blue graph paper from Shimelle Laine, I mean, hello? it’s blue and it’s graph paper. I could not resist!  The frames are some of my favorites from MaryAnn Wise and the alphas are Wilna Furstenberg’s  and they are recolored from green to blue.  The journaling block is a shape from Laina Lamb’s Favorite Frames.

Journaling: Jordan’s class made these colorful windsocks on the day of the spring festival.  Some of them got hung up on the plumeria tree, and they looked so pretty.  I had to get a shot of them blowing in the wind. :)  March 2010

easter pencil toppers:

I used Jen Martakis’ Easter kit to create pencil toppers for Jalen and Jordan’s classes.  The pencils came from target, of course :)  I printed 20 for Jalen and 20 for Jordan, punched 2 circles on the left side and put them on pencils :) easy peasy.

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and one last layout I’ve created recently using beautiful goodies by MaryAnn Wise.

{I like your} style

I absolutely love MaryAnn’s waterstained paper pack, these remind me of security envelopes, and I have an unhealthy love for them ;)  She also has created Glitter Drops, love these too! and the stacked frames, love.  I also added the painted overlay and the month stamp. oh yes, and the stitches too. I love MaryAnn’s arty style.

Thanks for stopping by!  Tune in next time where I’ll surely have some glimmery goodies!  and pictures. and stories to share.

Love Love and Blog You Later~!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy