another giveaway!

wow! adele is making my head spin with all these giveaways!! http://dleebug.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/scrapbooking-with-fabric-notions/#comment-1066
check out her blog!

done

I just can break out of this "melancholy" state of mind. I tried scrapping but my sewing machine has gotten the better of me. So I am stopping for the moment and will try again later. This was such a hard week. I was hoping to snap out of it but I still have not been able to break free. For those of you who do read this blog thank you and I appreciate your support. Prayers are welcome.
I do have a bright spot to share...yesterday I received some scrappy goodness from a fellow peep on clubck! what a welcome bit of sunshine to my otherwise cloudy atmosphere!:

thank you my friend!

free subscription to Creating Keepsakes!

http://dleebug.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/free-creating-keepsakes-subscription/#comment-1038

this is a great chance to win a free subscription to Creating Keepsakes magazine for a whole year! thanks Adele!

friday is here!

it is a gorgeous morning today! a bit chilly but the sun is shining and God is good! the picture I took of the LO I was working on yesterday did not come out real well so I took one this morning! I used the Creative Scrappers sketch #194. It's just right for my style of scrapping - clean and simple! Hope everyone has a blessed day!

trying new techniques!

I made a few scrappy goals for this new year. One was to learn new techniques with PSE and I have learned a trick or two but I want to learn hands-on as well. Tonight I totally stumbled onto a new way (for me) to make a title by heat embossing on a transparency! I went to the copy place to get a transparency printed out for me but it was going to take ages so I bought a piece of transparency and brought it home. I put the sheet of transparency in the paper cassette of the printer and looked for a tab to choose what piece of paper I was going to print on. Now please understand that I don't have much experience in the realm of technology and this was going to be a stretch for me to accomplish the task at hand! I didn't find a tab anywhere near the element I wanted to print on so I just went for it and printed out the title I wanted. Well it seemed to print out fine even if it wasn't quite dry. I put it aside and went to work on the rest of the LO I was working on.
I looked at the transparency a little while later and thought it might have dried but no! it was still wet. So I had the idea to cover the title in black embossing powder and then heat embossed it and I love how it turned out!

I did end up finishing the LO but the lighting in the office/scrap room is not that great. I will take a picture of it tomorrow morning when it's daylight. Blessings my bloggy friends!

scraplifting is fun!!!

I love the scraplift challenge on Club CK! last month I did not pay attention to the due date for the LOs but I made it on time this month!

wow!

went to Bible study at church today and all I can say is WOW! I am so enjoying being able to attend Bible study with Treasure Seekers at church again! We are studying Beth Moore's James: Mercy Triumphs and I am in awe of God's perfect timing of this awesome study which I am sure was written just for me!! You know what I mean - when you're in church service and you can almost swear the pastor is preaching just to you - so that's me in this Bible study!!
off to scrap now! bit bluesy today so being somewhat creative I'm sure will help! either that or frustrate me to no end!!!! still working on that title in PSE......