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!

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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 ;)

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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.

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Joscie, rhymes with bossy

on January 30th, I finally took the time to take down the Christmas tree and all the other decorations.  The living room looks so plain and sparse.  I need to add more art.

January 31, the boys reading at bedtime, in my room :)

On Monday Feb 1, I finally got to meet an online friend IRL.  Tina grew up here in Hawaii and was home visiting, so we got together for what her husband called a craftmance.  I thought that was funny.  FabuLisa, Tina and I hit up Fisher, J’s Knicknacks and a quick lunch at the counter burger.

one of the 2 pictures I took on Tuesday Feb 2.  Groundhogs day ;)  Jordan was reading a book on picking apples.

Okay. so i usually go grocery shopping on Mondays but this week due to the craftmance on monday, I had to adjust to a commissary trip on Wed.  Jordan has a short day, so i had to hurry to put away the groceries before picking him up.  Obviously I hadn’t put everything away by the time I brought him home.  I walked out of the kitchen for a minute and came back to this:

Thursday, Feb 3, Jalen had an assignment to bring in 4 pictures of his favorite items on a usb flash drive, so we set up a shoot with the macro in the living room.   Jordan picked out his favorite marble to show me:

Friday February 5, I participated in my first online crop at twopeasinabucket.  I created this layout for Jen Jockish’s challenge.  Use paint, cardboard, bling, lots of pictures.

Today, Saturday February 6, We spent the day indoors, avoiding the vog.  Jordan and Jalen played a little ds, wii and watched some veggie tales today while i created the labels for Jordan’s valentine’s treats.  I still need to make a label for Jalen’s treats.

It’s been voggy around here and this past week I’ve felt a little loopy, coughy, sniffly, headachy and lost my voice.  Thankfully it’s bearable, no fever or any other yuckiness.  But I have minimized my outside time as much as possible.

So, if you follow me on twitter or are my friend on facebook, (and if you’re reading my blog, surely you should be both of the aforementioned…) you probably know I use another social media game called foursquare.  It is a locational game where you “check in” at different locations.  Each time you visit a venue you can either check in publically or “off the grid”.  If you check in the most times you are called “the mayor” of a location.  Currently I am the mayor of Hickam Commissary, the post office, the NEX, the NEX minimart, J’s, Aiea UMC, Bubba Gump, Burger King at Hickam, Fisher Hawaii, and Old Navy at Waikele.  I was also the Mayor of Target Salt Lake and Hickam AFB and the Navy Commissary, but I got messages from foursquare letting me know that others have replaced me as mayor.  I have to tell you, it’s a fun little game, but boy my competetive side has me thinking, hmmm, maybe I need to head over to hickam for something and target too while I’m at it…

Have you checked out http://clubcreatingkeepsakes.com ?  It’s a new community with an option for a premium or free membership, a gallery, a forum and a social networking community.  I have signed up and have been enjoying finding my way around over there.  And let me just say, i LOVE the new gallery over there, it is so so much easier to upload. yay!

and Did I tell you? I’m taking the pen tablet basics class over at JessicaSprague.com.  I’m enjoying it so far, and can’t wait to learn something fabulous as I know I will.  I already love the downloads we got with the first lesson.  Here’s the first layout we did for the first week’s lesson:

It’s getting late, but be on the lookout.  I have some minty projects and some pea projects to share in the next few days. and I’ll be hosting a giveaway on Valentine’s day to celebrate my 3rd blogoversary.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Joscie, rhymes with bossy

me: Did you know this was your very first bear?

he: no

me: Aunty Paula gave it to you when you were a brand new itty bitty baby!

he: i don’t remember

me: I have pictures, do you want to see?

he: YEAH!

so i go searching.  they’re labeled in folders by year and then by month within the year. aww, what a sweet happy over exposed baby. what was I trying to blind him with the flash on my sony2 megapixel?

oh I am a happy baby. but you’re killing me with that flash mom.  you really should figure out how to take pictures with out it. but i still love you…

Okay. now I’m getting a little annoyed. I see the way you’re looking at my baby. don’t even think about it.

and this last one on the right: If you try to take my baby, I’ll knock you out! (ps, he’s a lefty too)

oh.my.gosh. we laughed so so hard when that picture came up.  which then lead into watching baby videos.  Janel was disappointed at the brevity of the videos.  I had to explain to him, sorry son, but 9 years ago, I was shooting with a Sony Mavica recording on a 1.44 floppy. I was excited to get the 15 seconds of video! hee hee. funny how times and technology change so quickly.

Tonight at bedtime, as I walked Jordan to his bed, he asked me:

Jordan: Mom when were you a baby?

me: a long time ago.

Jordan: How come you don’t have any baby pictures?

me: I do, do you want to see them?

Jordan: yes!

Jalen, shouting from his bedroom: They’re in black and white!

me: NO.THEY.ARE.NOT!

okay now. if your baby pictures are in black and white, I am not saying anything against you. but really. Jalen was serious. silly child.

so anyway. we’ve been all about the baby pictures this week and then what do I see on Two Peas Digi Tuesday?  this absolutely yummy baby boy kit.  I love the blue, green and white.  The hot air balloons and clouds? yes please.  elephants and polka dots? yes and yes please again!

It took almost all day to get this done, but here is my latest

growingUP! (click layout to see in the 2peas gallery)

Tricia Chapman Designs’ Posh Baby Boy Papers, MaryAnn Wise’s Curled White Frames and Basic Stitches No1.

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

Jen Martakis Designs’ February Kit, This Year Grid Papers , This Year Alphas, and MaryAnn Wise’s  Basic Stitches No1, Grungy Edges No2 WaterColor.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Joscie, rhymes with Bossy….

I downloaded a few vectors for craft cutters from Peppermint Creative.  When I saw this particular image, I thought it could be a cute teacher gift filled with cookies or kisses or some other sweet treat.  I cut the design out of silver vinyl and put it on a jar I got for a few bucks. add a ribbon and voila, you’re all set:

COMMERCIAL Vectors – Life is Sweet Word Art

My picture of the day, a quick snap of Jalen.

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to read more about the challenge, click here.

I hope you’ll play along!

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the backing is painted chipboard.  The scalloped frame is chipboard from Stampin Up! the paper is sassafrass lass.  the man and woman are naked chipboard pieces from maya roads, sprayed with my homemade glimmer mist and then coated in crystal effects.  I also used crystal effects to glue the letters down and gloss the middle.  the flowers are imaginesce and kaiser.  I also pleated the ribbon under the scallops.  I tied a ribbon into the holes in the heads of the people :)

thanks for stopping by!

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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!

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This is a picture I took preDSLR. My trusty sony point and shoot, self timer and black curtain.  We took many shots that day, but this was the one that went out with our Christmas cards back in 2004.  I was newly pregnant with Jordan and we were so excited about our expanding family. Journaling: we had no idea how much our lives would change- going from a family of 3 to a family of 4.  We were so excited to welcome you in.

These supplies all from the Studio Calico May Kit except a piece of Stampin’ Up! textured cardstock.  American Crafts Thickers, Machine sewing, Stampin’ Up! scalloped edge punch, cropodile, foam dots.  I so love that stripey paper and that number paper. so so cute!  I still have lots of paper left from the May Kit and I’m considering subscribing, the kits are so cute! :)

Thanks for stopping by,  tune in next time where I’ll show you the boys’ May Day program and who knows what next.  By the way today was/is the last day to vote for my layout to be in the Creating KEepsakes Oct 09 issue: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB22974KQLMPL  Thanks to all of you who have voted! We find out on Wednesday who the lucky scrapper is!

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