LOAD 211 day 5

Here is my LO for Day 5 of the LOAD challenge.  I LOVE this LO.  I like the clean simplicity.  But more importantly I like that although it is clean and simple the pictures tell a story and the journaling has a lot of info. 

The Journaling is laid out like a table of contents.  I have listed facts, my age, years married, number of children, etc. as the page numbers.  

The majority of the products used on this LO are mostly from CTMH.  The paper is retired, as is the ribbon.  The title is stamped with a new stamp set from CTMH Bohemian Alphabet (1019).  I really love this alpha stamp set. 

The rub-ons are from My Minds Eye - Flirty Pure Joy. 

Th other 2 stamps are just some random stamps from my stash. 

Have a good one. 

T. 

LOAD 211 day 4

Okay guys, I have a confession.  I am having so much fun on this Challenge. Every day I look forward to the challenge prompts and get excited about getting creative. 

This is the LO I made for today's challenge. I have had these pictures printed for ages (well since last January) and never found the time to put a page together.  It felt so good to get this off my imaginary scrapbooking to do list.  Do any of you have those? 

I took plain old chipboard letters and put a light layer of Rock Candy Stickles on them to give them a little sparkle. 

The ribbon pleat at the bottom of the page is very simple.  You just need a lot of glue dots.  

Go have fun and get your creative groove on. 

Have a good one. 

T. 

LOAD 211 day 3

LOAD 211 day 3, originally uploaded by Tambur.


This page is dedicated to my husband.  Thanks for 20 years of fun, adventures, and loving me. 


All supplies came from my stash.  The die cut paper is Jenni Bowlin as is the Bingo card.  The flower is Prima, the clock face is Heidi Swapp.  The brads are Lush.  The title is stamped using Technique Tuesdays Language of Love.  The ribbon - I don't know from my stash of goodies. 


The journaling reads: 


20 years ago I said yes.  Yes to a life of uncertainty.  Yes to a life of unknowns. The one thing that I knew with complete certainty was that I loved you and that I would never stop loving.  


20 years ago we started a life together.  Every step of the way we have been together on this amazon glide adventure.  We did not know where it would take us. But we always knew that we would have each other. 


20 years later we can truly say that the adventure of ourlife together has not lost it's sparkle. We have lived in some amazing places.  We have traveled the world.  We have 4 amazing kiddos. We are not bored or complacent with each other.  We live a life filled with love and respect and faith. 


20 years ago I said yes to my true love - You.  I can't wait to find out what adventures the next 20 years hold, and the 20 after that......

LOAD 211 Day 2

LOAD 211 Day 2, originally uploaded by Tambur.

My day 2 layout.
Remembering our wonderful trip to Bald Head with one of my BFF's. Such a great time. Such great friends. Such great memories.

The papers are from Crate Paper Cottage Collection.  The chipboard pieces are from Scenic Route and the flower behind the Take It Easy is from CTMH.

I am on a journey to get my creative flow going again, and part of my personal challenge is to use what I have on hand.  It is fun to did through my stash of stuff and pull out odds and ends and get them to work together.  As I always say - enjoy the journey.

Day 1 of LOAD

This is my first LO for the LOAD challenge.  This is a LO of my sister and her new husband from their wedding.  They were married on Halloween.  Yup, October 31.  I love their wedding story and the pictures are awesome.  The got married in their backyard.  All the guests came in costume.  How fun is that!  Instead of a floral bouquet my sister carried a fan of peacock feathers, which were the inspiration for the LO.  

The heart I stamped using the Amore stamp set from CTMH.  I stamped it on a piece of blue patterned paper in VersaMark ink and then embossed it with black embossing powder.  I then put a gloss of Clear Rock Candy Stickles over the top.  I adhered the heart to 2 pieces of black yardstick to give it a more dimensional effect, and to sturdy it up.  Then I put a few Bity Sparkles (CTMH) on it for a little extra glam.  The ribbon is from CTMH - it comes gathered.  Easy-peasy.  The decorative brads are also from CTMH and I just jazzed them up a bit with more of the Bity Sparkles. The black ribbon is leftover from a set of invites that I had from Walmart. The little black 'feathers' behind the heart are pieces of scrap paper that I hand cut. 

The journaling tag I cut from a Teresa Collins 12x12 sheet, Journal It.  I stamped the Romance, I love you and Love from the Amore stamp set.  The bird is a Tim Holtz charm.  The journaling folds and is tucked behind the photo.  The overlay over the photo is also a CTMH product called a Top Coat.

Taking on the LOAD

Hi all,

I have not fallen off the face of the earth.  I swear!

I have been very busy taking care of my kiddos.  I have found that with every new country we move to the first go round of winter sickies we get slammed.  I think it is new germs.  Since New Years Eve someone in this household has had a fever and a horrible head and chest cold.  But I am happy to announce that as of today all my kids are better and back in school!!!!

To celebrate that amazing feat I have decided to treat myself to a little creative challenge. I joined the LOAD.  Have you heard of it? What I am talking about is the LayOut A Day challenge that Lain Ehmann created and hosts.  You can learn all about the LOAD challenge on Lain's blog.

For some helpful hints and tips you can go here and read this blog post from a fellow LOADer.

Why did I decide to take on this challenge?  I have many reasons for deciding to do the LOAD challenge in February.

•  My kids are all better (that is a good enough reason right there). 
• Having moved and then waiting 5 months for our stuff to arrive, I have lost my creative flow.  Has that ever happened to any of you?  Well I have lost it and I want it back.  I think that LOAD will help get the creative juices flowing again. And knock down some creative blocks that I have installed since we moved.  
• This is the first time that all 4 of my munchkins are in school.  At first I was really lonely and I missed the constant interaction I had with my kiddos.  Then I started to adjust and became comfortable with having time for me.  I also rediscovered the art of homemaking again.  The way I like it, not the let's-get-it-done-cause-we-have-to way we did it when we schooled.  The kiddos helped with household chores so everything got done, but it was not a relaxing event. It was part of our school day and I was always in teaching mode.  Now I have re-discovered the joy of laundry, the fun in cooking, and the relaxing swoosh of sweeping.  
• I have time in the afternoons that I can use to be creative, to scrap.  I have dreamed of this for many years and now the dream is a reality. And the reality is that I am a little overwhelmed with this new found freedom. Weird - I know. 
• Company.  I know that sounds weird (I'm just a weirdo).  But I have no scrappy friends here and I miss the company of my fellow scrappers.  I miss being able to talk about paper and embellishments and whether I should make a 2 page spread or just a single page.  I miss the lingo! I also miss chatting about the why's and how's of scrapping.  

The bottom line is simple, I just want to be challenged to create everyday  - for the joy of it.

For Him & For Her

Here is a super quick card that I made for my nephew.  I used my Cricut Lite Dude! cartridge to cut out the skater dude.  The UR Great was a title I cut out from DCWV The Doodlin' Around Stack.  The background paper came from Cosmo Cricket 8x8 paper pad called Get Happy. 

I love this card.  I was inspired by Kristina Werner MACM.

I used some odds and ends that I pulled from my paper scraps box.  The flowers are from Sassafras called Blossoms mod pods.  The Happy I cut from that same sheet of paper from DCWV that I used on my nephew's card.  The ribbon is CTMH White Daisy Ribbon rounds.  The birthday came from CTMH A Little Everything  (D 1408).