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

mystery plant:

Journaling:  Jordan’s class planted some seeds at school the other day.  His teacher did not tell us what kind of plant it is.  Our only instructions were to remind our preschoolers that it is their kuleana *responsibility* to take card of this plant.  We have to take it back to school in a few weeks.  We are enjoying watching it grow!

RAIN – Alphabet RAIN by Wilna Furstenberg

I used Laina’s flower digital cutter files and my silhouette to cut up some October Afternoon paper to whip up this hybrid card :) I added a Making Memories flower, a Prima Flower, a button and divine twine. :)Basic Shapes – Flower #2 by Laina Lamb

another hybrid card from me, this time using Vinnie’s Bracket masks with my silhouette. Patterned Paper, American Crafts, Butterfly die Sizzix, Stampin Up! Kraft cardstock, stamp, small oval punch, memento ink, silhouette, pop dots, glue dots :) Bracket Masks by Vinnie Pearce

I love these bracket masks by Vinnie Pearce! You can use them for digital clipping masks, or import them into the silhouette software like I did and cut the shapes. just a little layout to document how I am ALWAYS early to pick up the boys from school. Patterned Paper, Thickers by American Crafts, Stampin’ Up! Kraft Paper, Pop Dots.  Divine Twine in Aqua. :) Bracket Masks by Vinnie Pearce

Journaling:  I am always nervous about being late for pickups at school, so I always plan to arrive atleast 15 minutes before dismissal.  I figure I can spend those last few minutes reading on my kindle app for the iTouch.  It makes me happy to know that YOU know, I will be there at the end of your day.

I was both inspired by a tone on tone white card or layout I saw a month or more ago in the gallery @twopeas (http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/pg.asp?cmd=display&layout_id=1595385)and by Laina’s super cute die cut frame shapes. I cut one set of labels in the same white textured cardstock that I made the mini book out of. I lOVE how it came out. I printed a few family shots in b/w and added the title in white vinyl thickers. sewed up with some divine twine. will be sending this overseas to Troy :) Favorite Frames 2 by Laina Lamb

So it’s official! I’m a hybrid decorator over at Design House Digital ;)  and my first blog tutorial/project is up on the dhd blog.  Check it out!

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Personal notes.  This Sunday was Jalen’s first time to be an acolyte in our Church Service.  He has been waiting for a while to be old enough to volunteer and this Sunday was finally it.  We woke up early and got dressed, made breakfast, and finished up our routine.  We were so early, the boys sat down to play and I sat down at the computer to work on some digi stuff.  before you know it, it was 9 am, perfect time to leave and make it with time to spare. I was happy, especially after the last two weeks of running in almost late!  so the boys got in the car and I scrambled to grab my camera, put it into a big bag, although not my usual camera bag. Grabbed a snack for Jordan and a bottle of water *that was prepacked, just had to get it in the bag. then transferring my wallet, Touch and looking for my cell phone. oh and lip gloss. and grabbing my coffee cup. where is that dang cell phone?  Jalen walks back into the house, Mom, are you looking for your cell phone? Jordan has it. ugh! i glance at the clock and it is now 9:20. <sarcasm> GREAT!</sarcasm> there went our lead time. we’re supposed to be at the church already!  so I get in the car, and we jet to the church. Jalen runs in and gets the robes on and Jordan and I are getting into our regular seats… and here they come.  Now let me say, in my mind, the past acolytes have been kids.  I’m thinking Jalen’s going to be looking like a big boy.  I hope he’s not nervous… and they walk in.  The two in the front are a brother and sister and they are highschoolers carrying the candle things… and Jalen carrying the bible, just looks tiny. like a little kid. and the Big BOOK, put up a little struggle with Jalen, but thankfully he did NOT lose his grip… and he takes his seat in the front row and now Jordan notices, hey Mom, why is Jalen helping out up there!  :)  I’m happy to further report that Jordan went to Sunday school with no incident and Jalen performed his other acolyte duties without any troubles.   He gets to do it again one time next month, and I couldn’t be prouder!

I am going to document my week along with every other scrapbooker on the planet… hee hee!  I really enjoyed the last time with Ali, so I figured why not?

Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate you!
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

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

We are big drinkers

journaling: of diet coke and coffee! In our beautiful state of Hawaii, we have a bottle deposit. That means with every can or bottle of soda there is a
5 cent charge at the store when you purchase (sometimes there is a 6 cent charge) and there is only a 5 cent refund when you bring it back. The bottles must be clean, empty and still have the label attached and you have to take it to a redemption center. When the law first started up, I stopped buying 12 packs of diet coke and switched to two liter bottles. It just seemed silly to pay for all those bottle deposits because at the time 2 liters were exempt from the deposit… so we simply made the switch to two liter bottles. We would still recycle the 2 liter bottles and any of the few other bottles or cans that we had. The 2 liter bottles are now a part of the deposit system and Saturday was the day we finally packed all those plastic bags into the van and down to the recycling truck.  The truck has “reverse vending” machines where you put a bottle or can in and it gives you a ticket worth money. Our redemption center gives tickets for the Navy Exchange.

blue bin recycling

journaling: the city dropped off our blue recycling bins today.  We can now recycle #1 + #2 plastics, cardboard, and aluminum cans curbside.  I am so thrilled to do our part to help reduce waste!

sh, it’s a surprise party!

love love love the bingo cards.  Fiskars and Martha Stewart border punches on birthday boogie papers, some thickers, letter stickers, other punches and glimmer mist in Iridescent Gold.

birthday bingo cards, Miss Mint’s Birthday Boogie Papers

and I as I was making this card, I couldn’t help but think, hmmm maybe I should have bought the orange bakers twine too… ha.

birthday bingo cards, Miss Mint’s Birthday Boogie Papers

Thanks for stopping by!  I’ll have more digi/hybrid goodies to share soon!

Love lOve and Blog You Later!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

For Jen Martakis’ challenge I scrapped about love.  Have you heard that song by Jason Mraz and Colbie Callait?  I swear, the first time I heard it, it was like it was written for my hubbs and me.

(click on the layout to see it in the twopeas gallery)

Jen Martakis’ DigiKit – Simple Starts No. 10 , DigiKit – February , DigiKit – February Cardstocks , DigiKit – January , Kate Teague’s DigiKit – Labels Everywhere,  MaryAnn Wise’s DigiKit – Grungy Edges2 Water Stained,  Jen Allyson’s DigiKit – Study Hall – full kit

I also whipped up a hybrid layout for Jen Jockish’s Challenge: include cardboard, paint, bling and lots of pictures.

(click the layout to see in the twopeas gallery)

Stampin’ Up! Textured cardstock, American Crafts vinyl thickers, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Meadow Green and Irridescent Gold, Glimmer Screen Regal, Japanese Washi Tape, Sizzix Butterfly die, Whisper Graphics Bakers twine.

and here’s a little layout i made with my two peas kits:

(click the layout to see in the twopeas gallery)

DigiKit – Beautifully Grungy Frame by Chelsea Parsons, DigiKit – WhiteSpace No. 4 by Jen Martakis, DigiKit – Spring Fling by Shelley Castillo, DigiKit – Itty Bitty Alphabet by Erica Hernandez.

Thanks for stopping by! Check back again when you’ll see my newest minty projects and pictures of the day.

Love Love and Blog you later!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

Here are a few of my recent favorites:

I also wanted to share the latest three layouts from the June/August issue of Memory Makers

Thanks for stopping by! I have so many things to do in the next few days! If I don’t get back before then, please have a safe and happy 4th of July!

Love Love and Blog you later!
Joscie, rhymes with bossy

sketch from a million little things: here

Stampin’ Up! textured cardstock, star punch. Making Memories: mini letter stickers, red flocked paper. Jenni Bowlin: Chipboard buttons, ticket.  Maya Roads: Pearled pin. Cosmo Cricket: Red/white polka dot paper. Ink: Red stazon, Black versafine. Studio Calico: Typewriter stamp, alpha stamp. Other: date stamp, sewing machine, grey thread, paper bag, copic pigment pen, red bakers twine.

I love that stazon ink on the edges on the grey paper. and that typewriter stamp, so cute! and so so in love with those maya roads pearl pins (now available at concroption.com)

I also wanted to share the sneak peeks of the projects I’ve done over at Scrapbook Dimensions:

(full projects with detailed tutorials are available with a subscription)

My Lucky Charms Hybrid Layout (seen in the Vol 2 Issue 1)

Personalized Easter Baskets (seen in Vol 2 Issue 1)

Father’s Day Brag Book (Seen in Vol 2 issue 2)

Today I’m working on some other projects but I’ll be back with my Memory Makers Layouts, my skirt pictures and new digi goodies!  If you want Lego Jewelry, let me know and I’ll email you about it.

thanks for stopping by, Love Love and Blog you later!

Joscie, rhymes with bossy!

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!

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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