cookie monster

Journaling: I am not normally a fan of messy-faced kids but I could not resist this one…

I love these Polaroid frames and the banner, of course.  The banner was ready made, I just added the buttons on top. I love it!

• That was yesterday Solids by Michelle Underwood
• That was yesterday Pagekit by Michelle Underwood
• Black Plastic Alphabet by Miss Mint

all of a sudden

Journaling: some days it feels like it was just yesterday that I had one little baby.  then I had a five year old and a baby. and now I have an almost ten year old and a five year old.  I’m afraid to blink and find myself at high school graduation.

This layout came together easily, thanks to Erica’s template.  I love the graphic feel of Erica’s templates.  I simply went back and pulled a few pictures of Jalen through the past few years, added some gorgeous patterns by Shelley and journaling, easy peasy!

• Lazy Afternoon Papers by Shelley Castillo
• Letter Template #31 by Erica Hernandez

I’ve seen these spiral flowers for a while now and thanks to Laina’s Spiral Rose design, I was able to whip up these flowers in no time at all:

• Spiral Rose by Laina Lamb
• Everyday Sayings Clear Design Stamp Set by Hero Arts
• Versafine ink
• Sassafrass Patterned Paper
• Stampin’ Up! Kraft Cardstock
• EK Success Apron Lace border punch
• Marvy Circle Punch
• American Crafts Precision Pen
• coconut button
• divine twine

• Spiral Rose by Laina Lamb
• Everyday Sayings Clear Design Stamp Set by Hero Arts
• glue dots
• assorted buttons
• Divine Twine
• American Crafts Patterned Paper
• Felt
• Fiskars Pinking shears
• Versafine ink

Thanks for stopping by! Love Love and Blog you Later!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

PeeWee Bowling

Journaling: Jalen loved his Saturday mornings spent down at the bowling center for PeeWee bowling league.  One of his favorite things to do was to lean into the fan and let his hair blow up.

• Miss Mint’s Ten Pin Kit (new freebie)

First Dentist Visit

Jalen’s first dentist visit at age 3.  The dentist counted his teeth and gave him a toothbrush.

• Miss Mint’s Brush & Floss Papers and Elements

Mergency

Journaling:  We had to take Jordan in to the emergency room with a high fever and a suspected ear infection.  We sat for a long time waiting to be seen.  It’s always an adventure waiting in the Emergency Room at Tripler.

• Miss Mint’s Bumps and Bruises Papers and Elements
• Massive Splat Mats

HomePort Pearl Harbor

Journaling:  We wanted to move back to Pearl Harbor so we called for orders but the detailer said there was nothing available.  We were so excited to get a call from my mom to tell us about a story in the local newspaper.  A brand new ship was being built an ddue to be homeported in Pearl Harbor.  We called the detailer and got assigned to the USS Chafee.  Troy spent 6 months in San Diego, CA with the pre-com unit and then in February 2003, Jalen, Troy and I moved to Bath, ME to finish up the Pre-Com work.  In the summer of 2003, Jalen and I moved home to Hawaii and in December of 2003 we were so excited to welcome the USS Chafee to its new homeport in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

• Miss Mint’s Stars and Stripes Papers and Elements
• Punch Labels USA
• Candy Button Alpha Cherry
• Ingrid’s Templates #9(modified slightly)
  

Cars Fanatics

Journaling:  Today we got to meet Lighting McQueen and TowMater from the movie Cars.  It was so exciting. The cars were super cute.  We planned to be in the right spot and the right time today and were able to casually say to the boys, Oh look, who is that?!  The boys have watched the movie so many times.  Jalen has been walking around with a little hook on a string saying he was the world’s best backwards walker and Jordan has been screaming over the Ghost Light.  August 2007

• Miss Mint’s Traffic Jam Papers and Elements
• Stitched Felt Alpha Seafoam
• Stitched Felt Alpha Cherry
• Word Strips p.365

Thanks for stopping by!

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

I got the pictures from fox.com they are offered for free as screen savers or desktops or something like that.

journaling: I started watching Glee about 2/3 of the way through the first season.  I went back and watched all the episodes I could find on fox.com.  Then I got my husband hooked.  and then we bought the first episodes via iTunes.  Now we’ve got it programmed in our dvr and I’ve got both soundtracks in my favorite playlist.  I love the singing , dancing and the characters too!  We are gleeks at heart.

Today as I was reading GalleryStandouts.com I see they liked this layout too, thanks Ladies! :)

Thanks for stopping by, I have lots of digi scrap to catch up on as Jalen and I just returned from a quick trip to the big island of Hawaii and I have lots to do. Come back again next time when you’ll surely see some Big Island action, some glimmery goodness and Flat Jackson touring.

Love Love and Blog you Later!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy.

and in other good news, I got an email from the lens repair company and they say my 50mm is repaired and on it’s way back to me, yay! I’ve missed you my sweet little lens!  I took all these shots with my 105mm macro, so I’m standing about 6 feet away from these projects to photograph! crazy, isn’t it!  and my other sweet new lens is on it’s way too, I can hardly wait!

The pen tablet class that I am taking over at JessicaSprague.com is in it’s final week.  I’m sad to see it coming to an end, especially since with all the sickness and busy-ness going on around here, I only finished the first week.  I am hoping to catch up on my lessons soon and hoping to figure out why my wacom intuos 3 does not play well with CS4 on my laptop.  works well with the desktop, but not the laptop. Anyway, Jessica is encouraging us to participate in the pentablet contest over at wacom, so I’m hoping to get in on that action.

Tuesday is new Digi Kit Release day over at Two Peas in a Bucket and there is a new designer named Vinnie Pearce and she’s brought a SLEW of new digi goodies to the store.  Can I just say, I seriously picked up a bunch of new kits today. Jen Martakis, Wilna Furstenburg, Tricia Chapman, Vinnie Pearce. now that it’s all downloaded, unzipped, backed up on all the drives and I’ve blogged these cards I can get my digiscrap on.

on a personal note, we got news last week that Troy’s deployment is being extended a month, boo!  The boys are crushed.  The good news, the ship was in port so we got a chance to skype with Troy.  It is such a blessing to see his handsome face and hear him laugh (and make him laugh).  We read books, we showed off new items/school work. so many kinds of awesome.  Troy’s birthday is coming up in a few days and I encouraged him to pick up a birthday present for himself at the exchange.  I had wanted to get him something good, but didn’t really want to trust it to the mail, no offense USPS, you know I love you- see the title of this post? anyway, he got an iTouch so he can now watch all the movies/listen to music/read books via Kindle app, so we’re stoked about that too.

I hope you’re having a blessed day, I know I am.

Love Love and blog you again soon,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy.

I also created candy wrappers for each of the teachers, one for Jalen and two for Jordan’s teachers.  I am so pleased with the way they turned out.

my picture of the day for yesterday:

Here is a quick recap of what we’ve been up to:

monarch butterfly cocoons in Jordan’s preschool class.

a McLunch date.  plain cheeseburger, apple dippers and fruit punch @ the navy exchange food court.

parent teacher conference day, mango tree in the playground @ school. yumm!

a quick self portrait.

Do you subscribe to the Two Peas in a Bucket digi newsletter?  My layout was featured there this week, eeee! :)

(click the layout to see it in the 2peas gallery)

Digi Kit by Jen Martakis, Love One Another.  You know I love that red/aqua/polka dot/scalloped frame combo.  :)

okay, so that is it for now. As I was telling FabuLisa, I am trying to get those aprons finished up and sent out, but just willing it done while I work on other hybrid scrappy stuff is not working out for me! hee hee.  imagine that?! with that being said, I need to get back to work.  I’ll see you again real soon, check back on Valentine’s day for my 3rd Blogoversary giveaway! I’ll be giving out 3 love packs of goodies, you don’t want to miss it!

Love Love,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

1. FOCUS.  my word of the year.  I toyed with the ideas of unity, stability,strength… but in the end I chose focus for a two reasons.  I have decided to focus only on what is important.  I will focus on God. Family. Health. Gratitude. Happiness. Integrity. Kindness. Generosity. Love. Honesty. Faithfulness.  I will also focus my lens to capture our life throughout the year.
2. P365.  I will take a picture a day for the next year.  Some will be people, some will be things. But each will capture a bit of our life that we can look back on and remember where we were and what we were doing this year.  I will share these on my blog here, and I will order a photo book at the end of the year.

My first picture of the day of 2010:

the three boys sitting on the couch. one playing on the computer, one on the wii and one on the ds.  jordan’s toes were so cute propped up there.

day 2:

Jalen on the couch, playing one of his mario games on his new dsi that he got for Christmas.

Yesterday we also made our deployment chain.  The theory is one link represents each day that Troy will be gone.  It makes it easier for the boys to conceptualize how long Troy will be gone and help mark the victory of each day as we get closer.  I use Miss Mint’s Birthday Boogie, Spotted Streamer Paper, and Miss Mint’s Commercial Vector’s Basic Label shapes to create the strips:

I stamped the numbers on with my stampin’ up! number stamps and black versafine ink.  I trimmed with the paper trimmer and Troy and I stapled all the links in order.

we layed it out in the hallway, it was sooooo long.

We decided to hang it in the stairwell to keep it out of the way, but still within daily eyesight.

Thanks for stopping by!  I should have my first project up on the Tattered Angels Educator Blog this week (or so) and I should also have my first Two Peas Digi projects going soon too, I can’t wait to share with you.  I also have to finish up my alabama mini book, and I’ll share than when I’m done too.

Love Love and Blog you again real soon.

Joscie, rhymes with bossy. :)