D'z Design Studio

Meet Jeffery and Sam

2008-07-08T01:50:00.002-05:00

Please ignore the lyrics of this song...I liked the beat of the music and how they put the video together :-)! Here is Jeffery and Sam - such a cute young couple!!

Meet Ella

2008-07-08T01:19:00.001-05:00

Here is a photo shoot that I did for a friend of mine. Her daughter Ella is such a little princess!!

Meet Aiden

2008-06-10T01:42:00.003-05:00

Here is a photo shoot I did in May of a little boy named Aiden. He is such a little cutie and I had a blast taking his pictures!

Meet Ryan

2008-06-10T00:17:00.002-05:00

Here is a quick little movie of a Senior Photo Shoot I did this spring. Just getting around to posting it now! Check it out:

a few things...

2008-05-18T23:24:00.006-05:00

Another busy weekend as usual with graduation parties, a little shopping and of course...some minor cleaning!! My DH put up our bird feeders on Saturday and we had our first guests! Aren't they pretty???

Also, another Layout I completed...

Be sure to check out D-Mo's blog as I updated with a few "sneak peek" pictures of our upcoming crazy croppin' weekend!!!

Have a great week!
Denise

One long overdue update!

2008-05-09T01:06:00.030-05:00

Well, as I promised MANY months ago...here are the latest scrapbook pages I have done. Some were done when we went on our scrapbook weekend, some I did at home and some were done when we had our community center crops. Anyway, I REALLY needed to get these posted!!! so....here they are!!!

If anyone is a fan of CD - you'll notice I scraplifted a few of her designs! I just love her pages! Some are my own creation and some of them have parts that are "borrowed". but that's the fun of scrapbooking, picking up ideas from here and there and then putting your own little finishing touch to them!

Good night and sleep tight!
Dz-

Last April Post

2008-04-28T22:58:00.005-05:00

It's almost May, so it's time for my once-a-month post :-). I have a bunch of stuff to post but just haven't found the time to sit down and do it. Tonight though, while I was watching the new episode of "The Hills" I decided to do a new digital Layout since it's been a LONG time since I've done a complete digital LO. Man, it was tough and a very b-o-r-i-n-g LO because I couldn't remember where I put all my digital elements and background papers. I chose the first kit that I found searching my hard drive that had the same kind of colors as the pictures. I didn't spend much time on it (as you can tell). but it was nice to do a LO in under 30 minutes! so, here it is...

Before I run off, here is the Mosh-Posh kit for May - another good one!! check out the cute little chick stamp...love it!

good night! dz

March Mosh Posh

2008-03-19T00:10:00.003-05:00

Man, I better get the new March Mosh-Posh kit posted before March is gone!! So, here it is:

Wow!

2008-02-25T22:55:00.009-06:00

I finally got to scrapbook this weekend! A friend of mine (Mo) and I organized a crop at our local community center this weekend. It was a LOT of FUn! We started around 4pm Friday and closed it up around 3pm on Sunday. I only completed 4.8 pages but I still had a GREAT time. I forgot to take a picture of a few of the layouts but here are the 2 I did remember to take a snapshot before putting them in the scrapbook (too lazy tonight to take them out of there right now!)

This one was scraplifted from CD - I so love her designs!

This one was designed by me... Pretty boring compared to the scraplifted designs by CD! I just love fancy pants background paper. You really don't need to add a whole lot of embelishments to it as it is great just by itself.

Well, that's it for tonight but I'll leave you with some pictures of the ladies working hard at this weekends crop...
Good Night.
~dz

One January Post~

2008-01-31T23:15:00.000-06:00

Wow - it's almost February so I figured I better get ONE January post in. So, my quick posting will be February's Mosh Posh kit! It's another awesome kit!!! Check it out...

I love, love, LOVE it!

Well, that's it for me tonight - goodnight!
Denise

January Mosh Posh

2007-12-29T18:30:00.000-06:00

Hi everyone - Just a quick post to show you the awesome January kit from Mosh-posh!

later!
-dz

Our Tree's

2007-12-23T16:56:00.000-06:00

I figured I better hurry up and post the pictures of our Christmas trees before Christmas was over! Here is a quick view of our tree's we put up this year. The one in the living room only took until the 21st to get completed and it's not exactly "complete" either - we just threw some ornaments on "sparingly" so we could say it was done!

Living room -

Kitchen-

Basement Tree -

Vikings Tree -

In case this is the last post before Christmas - I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!

~dz

What have I been up to?

2007-12-13T23:21:00.000-06:00

Well, besides homework...I have been busy designing Christmas cards for family and friends. I really enjoy doing stuff like that so it was nice to take a break from the class work and do something fun! Here are a few of the cards I have done so far:

I also took the pictures myself except for the Scheef card and the Hruby card they already had pictures they wanted to use. The last one is of my parents - my mom didn't want to do Christmas cards this year so I took a picture of them in my kitchen (mom has no make-up on and neither one of them are dressed up) and told them that was going to be their Christmas card - I don't think they believed me but I did use it and ordered them up before they could say "no"! Next year I think they will listen to me when I say "it's time to take your Christmas Card picture"! :-)

That's enough for tonight as I have to get one more assignment done before I go to bed. Hope you enjoyed the Cards!

Good Night -
Dz

Once a month?

2007-11-29T19:05:00.000-06:00

Okay - seems that I'm working on a once a month post! I was really going to try to post more often but for some reason I never get a chance. It's almost December so I thought I should at least show you the Mosh Posh kit for December before they are all sold out. This month's kit is again totally AWESOME! sorry for the 80's lingo - but it is just that - AWESOME! It's called "gingerbread house" and it looks yummie too! I should be receiving my kit within the next couple weeks and I can't wait to start scrappin' with it. If you scrappers don't know what you want for Christmas - I would suggest a membership to Mosh-Posh - and you won't be disappointed at all.

Well, I gotta run and get the last Christmas tree up. My daughter and I already decorated her little tree that goes in the kitchen, then we decorated the Vikings tree that goes downstairs and right now my husband is trying to put the tree stand on the tree so it doesn't fall over(again)! That is the biggest one that we usually put in our living room. I will try and post a couple of pictures this weekend of the 3 trees we have (before Christmas is over) and the 3 other tiny ones I have downstairs but I keep those up all year round so those don't really count! I have lots of pictures to post so as soon as I find the time I will post them. I've been busy taking pictures and designing Christmas cards so I hope to post some of them soon.

See you later!
Dz

It's been tooo long!

2007-10-31T21:29:00.000-05:00

Ok, so I'm a bit behind. Life just seems to fly by before you know it. I'm going to get back on the blog bandwagon here soon. I have so many new things to post but so little time to do it in! I've been to a few scrapbook weekends this summer and I haven't had a chance to post the layouts that I finished there so that I will get to soon. Tonight was Halloween of course and here is a quick picture of my daughter - she went as a red hat lady this year. Sounds like one older lady didn't think it was a cute idea! My husband just kind of laughed it off with her and then politely left to go to the next house. Anywho, they went trick or treating while I stayed home to hand out treats to the other kids in the neighborhood. Was a little quite this year then in the past - so some of the later kids were getting handfuls of candy because we surely don't need that stuff lying around the house. So, here is a picture of my daughter in her costume:

And, since I am a little behind I need to post the October and November Mosh Posh kits - the October one was so unbelievably AWESOME! Everything went together just perfectly and the colors were perfect. I love fall and the colors it brings and this kit is all that and more. If they still have some left I would snatch one up as fast as you can! Here is the picture of the newest kit (November's):

All I can say is this kit is SWEEEET! The colors are so cheery and all the stuff you get with the kit goes together so well, I can't wait to get this one in the mail and start using it with all those pictures I took this summer. The only item you can't see on the picture that comes with the kit are the doodlebug sugar coated brads and those are going to be super cute to use as is anything made by doodlebug. As I said earlier - I can't wait for this kit to arrive!

Well, that's it for this evening, I'll try and get a new post tomorrow. And I apologize to anyone that visits this site hoping for a new post and there hasn't been any!!

Good night -
DZ~

Long overdue Update!

2007-09-10T21:48:00.001-05:00

Yes, I am still alive! Just been so busy that I haven't had much time to update the blog. Of course yesterday was opening FOOTBALL weekend so that day was filled with big ups as the Vikings WON!! I was impressed on how they played. Sure they have some sore spots but overall I was happy with the outcome. Next week will be the test. We always do horrible against Detroit whether they are good or bad we always have a tough time with them. So I'm crossing my fingers we will be 2-0 after Sunday! Other then that just busy with another garage sale (I think I am done with that for this year)and that takes a lot of time to set up, tag and a wasted day to sit there and hope you get some sales! it was a good day for sales for everyone that had stuff they not longer use anymore and needed to get rid of. Right now I'm watching the Arizona/San Fransisco game. I picked San Fran to win so I have to stay up and cheer for them to win. Then that means that for the week I will have 4 wrong - not good, but not to bad for the first week either.

well, gotta go do some hollering for the 49ers...

Dz~

September Mosh-Posh and I finished the race!

2007-08-26T21:28:00.000-05:00

Gee another week has passed and no post. It's just been so tough finding time to blog and it's only going to get worse in September when I get back into my classes (must finish my 2 final on-line classes within the next 4 months) so my nose will be knee deep in accounting and web-design. I've only had a YEAR to finish these, but as you can see, I waited till the last minute to get it done. Actually I really haven't even started!!!! Anyway, it's starting to storm out so I better get off the computer! Here is September's Mosh-Posh kit - isn't it yummy!!!!

Also, this was the last week of the Amazing Digi Scrapping Race and here were my last 2 LO's (one had to be about your favorite movie and the other had to be a scraplift of one of your partners LO's AND the journaling has to be about the race). Both of the LO's were done very quickly as I didn't have much time left to spare to get them out. So be kind at your thoughts of how "not up to par" they are :-)!
Challenge #11

Challenge #12

That's it for tonight! Have a great week!
DZ~

Oh, Yeah!

2007-08-19T20:19:00.000-05:00

I forgot to mention that one of my LO's are featured on the Natural Designs in Scrapbooking home page!!! check that out here - I think it will be on there for about a week or so and it's the one that I did for the "fairy tale" race challenge.

ADSR challenge #9

2007-08-19T15:54:00.000-05:00

Long time since I last posted . Been busy getting ready for the rummage sale we had this weekend. Those things sure tire a person out but I was happy with the outcome of all the work of tagging and using up a whole Saturday! Here is the LO I did for challenge #9 - it had to be about an embarrassing moment of ourselves. I almost didn't post it but my friend Lisa told me I had to!! So, here it is...

that's it for tonight!
See you later,
dz

I'm a slacker!

2007-08-11T22:44:00.000-05:00

Can't believe it's been over a week since my last post! Please forgive me on my slackiness - I hope to get back on track next week. This week I'll be busy getting ready for a rummage sale so I'm guessing my only post will be the next challenge. I've been putting off these last 2 challenges and I have to apologize to my partner for waiting until the last minute! Sorry Sharon!! I should soon be able to get back on track.

On to this weeks challenge, challenge #7 had to be one that I had to do the background, use a minimum of 10 pictures, and the title. Then, we swapped our LO's with our partner and they finished it with the embellishments. Here are both the LO's:

The first one is Sharon's where I added the embellishments.

The second one is the one that I did and Sharon added the embellishments.

Challenge #8 was one that had to do with "girl talk" (as you can see in the LO) and we had to do a theme about that, so I wrote about how "girl talk" has changed since I was in high school. I still keep in touch in with my best bud Lisa - but our "girl talk" has definitely changed over the years! Here is Challenge #8:

Well, that's it for me tonight. Have a fun rest of the weekend!
-Dz

ADSR Challenge #5

2007-08-03T23:54:00.000-05:00

Hi there! I just finally finished the LO for challenge #5. This one is supposed to be about someone/something that has influenced you in your life. I chose my Mom. She is about the only one that has always been there for me no matter what. She may get upset with me but she would never hold it against me and is always someone I can count on.

Credits are here

This weekend we are celebrating my Grandma's birthday and I have a few of my cousin's coming home that I haven't seen in a while (other side of the family this time). I'm looking forward to it and hoping to get a bunch of "cousin" pictures of my cousins little girls wiht my little girl! should be a good time. Yes, yes, I still haven't uploaded any of the LO's I did last weekend. Hopefully they will be up next week some time. I'm off for the weekend and I hope you all have a fun and safe weekend as well!
Dz

It's been a while!

2007-07-31T22:04:00.001-05:00

Wow, time flies! Let's see, what have I been up to. Well, my DH took me to a Nickelback concert and it was AWESOME!! Puddle of Mud and Staind were also there and it Rocked! I had a great time and the music was great.

Then, the next morning my sweet hubby and I went golfing in 94 degree humid as humid can be heat!! Needless to say we made it through hole 7 and then called it a day. Do you know that golf story "I hate golf, I hate golf, I hate golf, nice hit! I love golf!". Well that is how my day went. You wouldn't believe it, I have never actually, truly Par-ed a hole (not sure how you golfly state that) and on hole #5 I tee-d off and on the first swing - my ball landed right on the green!!!!!!! I even had to take a picture because I couldn't believe it myself. Did I mention the little river/stream that I had to shoot it over as well?? Yeah, I made it over that (for some reason my golf balls are usually attracted to water and trees)!!!! It was a nice hit I do have to say so myself. At that moment I decided I liked golf again. So, there I was, 2 shots away from Par.

First shot I took, it stopped about 2 feet in front of the hole because I was scared to hit it too hard and overshoot the hole. So, I'm thinking to myself that I have to hit this just right to truly Par a hole for the first time EVER in my life (that is without cheating :-)). So, I hit the ball lightly and....

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!!!!! I couldn't! I was hoping for a breeze or something because that's all it would have taken for the ball to fall in the hole. Nope, nothing, no breeze and I even blew on it and it wouldn't budge. So, I had to settle for Bogie (however it's spelled). I hate golf.

This weekend was busy - a few of us girls got together and scrapbooked all weekend long. I actually completed (7) 12x12 pages!!! I was so impressed because I usually only complete a few. It was fun and we are planning on doing this again in September sometime. I will hopefully get a chance to take some pictures and get the LO's posted this week. (these were PAPER LO's - no digital this time)

That's it for me - I'm 30 minutes past my curfew.

nighty night -
dz

ADSR Challenge #3

2007-07-23T19:39:00.000-05:00

Credits are here

Here is ADSR Challenge #3. This one had to be some sort of fairy tale, princess or Queen/King type theme. Again, another tuff one for me! But, the LO is completed and that means I move on. The big prize is what I am aiming for!!! Well, this is it for me tonight as I have to pack for a couple day vacation. My DH is taking me to the Nickelback concert! Yippee!!!

Have a great next couple of days as I will not be posting till at least Friday.

~Dz~

ADSR Challenge #2

2007-07-20T21:23:00.000-05:00

The 2nd challenge of this race was a bit difficult but we pulled it off! With this challenge my partner Sharon and I had to work on a LO together. Easy right? Well it was considering I live in the US and she lives in Australia!! So basically when I'm sleeping she's awake and when she's sleeping I'm awake! It's a good thing we both like to stay up till wee hours in the morning. So, here it is - our collaboration LO:

Credits are here

We also had to make sure we had flowers, a doodle, red and the word friendship on the page. I started the LO and then sent it to Sharon to add some of the red, her picture, and come up with a theme for the page. We were both struggling with the "friendship" part - we couldn't come up with anything that sounded right. So it was funny when I came across the same quote on the Internet as she did (without either of us knowing we both found the same one) so when she sent it to me - I knew it was the one we had to use! It's hard to read (that was all my fault) but it says "Strangers are a friendship waiting to happen". I think it fits well with the LO. Anywho, it's time to get to bed early for once and spend some quality time with the fam - well, I think they are sleeping already, so it's time to catch a little bit of the Twins game!

Have a great weekend everybody!
Dz`

ADSR Challenge #1

2007-07-17T01:11:00.001-05:00

Ok, this first challenge was really tough for me. Our first challenge of the amazing digi scraping race was a page on a museum you have been to or one you would love to go to. Turns out I'm not much of a museum-er at all so I wasn't even sure what I was going to scrap! The last museum I went to was when I was in the 6th grade (over 20 years ago) and I don't even remember the name of it. I thought long and hard about this challenge and the only thing that I could come up with was the Football Hall of Fame (I hope that counts as a museum). That is actually a "museum" I would love to go to but I'll wait until Cris Carter gets inducted :-)! Here is the LO I submitted for the first challenge. It isn't my best work, but when you don't have a lot of time to think (because they have to be submitted by a certain time) about the LO or even like the theme they went with, it's kind of hard to get your groove on! Oh, and the word "amazing" had to be somewhere in your LO in order for it to count...

The credits are here

Time for me to get some shut-eye!

Dz`

I won!

2007-07-15T23:27:00.001-05:00

Wow! My LO was chosen as one of the three winners in the Black and white challenge!! I couldn't believe it when I saw that my LO was chosen as one of the top 3 LO's to win the $20 gift certificate!! Check out her blog here as she has posted the winning LO's.

I had a busy weekend so I didn't get any scrapping done, but I did get a bunch of photos taken. We had a mini family reunion this weekend and it was a lot of fun. Sure is nice to see my cousin's that I don't get to see very often. We had cousins that flew from Arizona, Las Vegas and one that drove from Wisconsin. It's been a few years since I've seen them so it was fun to catch up again. It's always a good time when we get together, too bad we couldn't do it more often!

Maybe tomorrow I will have time to post some pictures from this weekend. Tomorrow is also the start of the amazing digi scrapping race! I'm really excited to start this race and I can't wait to see what the first challenge will be(or even how this race even works :-)).

Good night and have a great week!
Dz-

Not again!

2007-07-13T00:36:00.001-05:00

Ok, another night of breaking my curfew! I was planning on settling in early but then I remembered I still needed to submit my B&W LO yet! So, while I was doing that of course I had to search the galleries and before I knew it, it's 12:38am already! Darn.

For those of you paper and hybrid scrapbookers out there, here is a blog that has some AWESOME ideas for your cricut (if you have one). That machine rocks, and Regina Easter has put together some cute cards, bags, boxes and wall art beautifully!

I even had to get my George cartridge out (the free one that came with the cutter) because I couldn't believe this flower(card made by Debbie Fisher) came from that cartridge!

The tags and flowers from this card were made from that cartridge (and frankly I don't care for the George font and rarely use it) and I had to get it out to see for myself that those cute adorable flowers were on there, and sure enough they were! Now my next (paper or hybrid) LO is definitely going to have those on there!

Here are a couple items that Regina has made (she noted that she used the new expressions for these - that one rocks too!)

Check out Regina's blog for even more ideas and CUTE stuff!!

Ok, that's enough for tonight!

Good night -
Dz

Black and White Challenge

2007-07-10T23:08:00.000-05:00

Here is a LO I just finished this evening for a challenge at it's all about me. If my LO is picked I get $20 worth of free product! Doubt I'll win but I have to try cuz it's $20 worth of FREE product and you can't beat that! Anyway - in this challenge you have to use the b&w alpha she has at her store and then the rest of the LO has to be 90% black and white. I hope I didn't go over the 90%!

The picture I used is a picture I scanned of my mom and dad. I've always thought it was a cool picture and the best part is that my mom put it through the typewriter and wrote on the top of it "Darryl and I trying for a comeback". I'm really not sure what the heck that means! I'll have to ask mom about that one. When I scanned it I made sure to keep that bit of journaling on there and also the rip on the right hand corner is real - not photoshoped :-)!

Well, I think I am going to call it a night because it's past my new 11pm curfew I set for myself. I need to start going to bed earlier. It's easy to do that tonight cuz the hubby took our daughter to the swimming pool tonight after supper so I did get to sneak on the computer a little earlier then normal so that means I get to quit earlier!

See Tony - I can get to bed at a decent time once in a while! (just checking to see if you'll read this and see your name and wonder if it's you I'm talking about or someone else.) hee hee!

Okay, here is tonights LO and cross your fingers so I win some free product!

Credits are here!

oh, and I hope there are a few of you out there working on that "copy cat" challenge!!

Now I'm off to la la land.
~Dz

The new COPY CAT challenge - keeping it simple

2007-07-09T23:28:00.000-05:00

Okay, I’ve decided to start a new challenge. Well, there are tons of them on the internet, but I’m going to try another one! Since I’ve really been getting into digital scrapbooking these days, not only because it’s faster, easier for me, cheaper, takes up less space in my house but because I feel I can design better on the computer then I can using paper. But at the same time, I have tons of paper scrapbooking supplies that I just can’t let go. I still love the papers and embellishments too much that I still want to create with them. I just find it hard to come up with my own ideas with paper. Probably because I am so overwhelmed with all the supplies I have, that I just don’t know where to start. After looking thru magazines and blogs, I’ve been finding that I like the simple, clean layouts in paper scrapbooking (but I LOVE the bold, full of embellies, stitching, you name it on digital ones). That is why I have decided to do a challenge called “Copy Cat Challenge – Keeping it simple”. This way I will be able to copy those fabulous designs out there and maybe some day use up all my paper stash with sleek, clean designs scrap-lifted from others!

So, here we go…Copy Cat Challenge #1. This first copy cat is from Keisha Campbell. She is awesome and I love her style! Here is the LO that I have chosen to be the first "copy cat"!

and here is my "copy cat" version:

As you can see - I pretty much copied the entire LO! I made a 6x6 page so I had to cut the cute little journaling bubbles down to 3 instead of 4. Plus I didn't have a stamp to do the polka dots so I just left it out. My version is not as nice as Keisha's original - but it's another LO completed for me! Yippee! So, please feel free to change it up, completely copy it, use paper or go completely digital - it's all up to you!!!

Please, if you do try this challenge – email me the link or jpeg to: scrapingal89@hotmail.com and I will post it on my blog along with my version and everyone else that plays along too! I am going to try to do this at least once a month…maybe more. So keep checking for added updates.

I think that's it for tonight.
Hoping to see some new copy cat's in my inbox!!!

Good night,
Dzzzzzzzzzzzzz

The BIG one - that DIDN'T get away!

2007-07-07T21:28:00.001-05:00

As promised, here is a new LO. This one is of my nephew Dillon that caught a huge walleye out on the lake with my husband and my brother. He was pretty excited about it. I think the older guys were a little jealous :-)! Credits are here. I rented 3 movies tonight so I better start watching them so I can return them on time!

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Don't forget to check back tomorrow for the new challenge I am starting. I sure hope a few of you out there will join!

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Thanks, and have a good evening!

-Dz

It's Friday!

2007-07-06T20:11:00.000-05:00

Yipee! Today is Friday and I was actually able to complete a LO. This one was made the old fashioned way - it was made with paper. I am trying to use up my paper supplies and one day completely go all digital but with all the paper supplies I have accumulated over the years, I need to actually use it up first! Here is a quick little LO I did with my daughters 3 year pictures. It's pretty plain but hey, it's done!

Check back tomorrow and I should have another LO completed and on Sunday I will be posting a challenge for everyone to participate in! I'll have all the details for you on Sunday so hopefully we will see you then!

Later -

~Dz

Sluff off day!

2007-07-02T22:36:00.000-05:00

Today is a sluff off day! I left work after 2 hours to come home and watch my DD while my DH went fishing. We went up town and did a little shopping then we went to the hardware store and bought a cheap sprinkler for her to run through since we are not ready to take out the new slipNslide her sister bought her for her Kindergarten graduation. I took a few pictures of her having some fun and planned on getting the LO done today but that just didn't happen but here is a layout that I did get done. It is of my DD and the cute name she called the "liquor store"! The writing in the layout says: You and your dad went up town and when you got back you said “Hey mom, Daddy took me to the ”licorice store” (meaning the liquor store). Then you said, “But they didn’t have any licorice!”. “But daddy did buy me a pop, in this bottle that looks like a beer!”-you are too cute! I thought it was so cute that she thought it was called the licorice store and that they sold licorice there! You can find the credits here

Oh, one more thing. Since Nickelodeon is THE channel at our house because DD has to watch it, I find myself still watching it into the middle of the night. One reason is I have always been a big fan of Roseanne and The Fresh Prince of Bela ire. I am actually watching an episode of Fresh Prince right now and it's an episode with the "new" Vivianne. I have to tell you that I never did like the new one. The old "original" Vivianne was way better - she was funny like the rest of the cast unlike the "new" one. She's a stick in the mud!!! Anyway, the re-runs are still fun to watch. The show ALWAYS cracks me up and I catch myself LOL when no one is in the room with me!

I think that's it for tonight - I promised myself I would be in bed by midnight tonight!

Till next time,

~Dz

July Mosh Posh - So CUTE!

2007-07-01T19:08:00.000-05:00

Here is the new Mosh Posh kit for July! Its so cute and full of doodlebug stuff - which I love! I can't wait for it to arrive. Not a lot going on this weekend. I was on the computer for most of it be it seems I didn't accomplish anything. We did rent some movies this weekend. Two for DH and I and one for DD to watch. Well, we only watched 2 out of the 3. Strawberry Shortcake was watched by DD while DH and I watched Dejavu. I thought it was OK...not sure about the ending! The other movie was Breech and I got through the first 10 minutes and then I fell asleep! It didn't interest me enough to finish watching it this morning.

See you next time!

~Dz

Another new kit from Chris!

2007-06-28T02:27:00.001-05:00

***UPDATE*** Here are the pictures of the new kit "Plain Jane" by Chris Turnbull that I used in the above LO

Here is another awesome kit from Chris Turnbull - I just love the colors. Here is a quick LO I did with the new kit - I will update tomorrow with the pictures of the kit and the credits...time for bed now since I will only get 3 hours of sleep before I have to get up and go to work!!

Dz~

DD Quote Challenge using Chris's new papers!

2007-06-26T00:11:00.000-05:00

WoW! These new papers of Chris's are awesome. I love the colors and the textures! I used the grunge paper as the background and the brown graph paper for some of the circles. Katie Pertiet designed this really cute and fun to work with quote and 12x12 template. If you want to join the challenge just click here to get the freebies and enter! The pictures I used are of my DD and our dog Rikki in the Fall of 2005.

Credits:
Background paper, graph paper, flower, girl tags, cardboard, button, paint swoosh and staples all Chris Turnbull and you can get those here.
Stitching - weeds and wildflowers and font=journaling hand

Well, that's it for me tonight (that is if it doesn't start storming again) because if it does, I'll be up all night!

~DZ

a NEW look!!

2007-06-24T00:09:00.000-05:00

Well, what do you think? I don't have a new layout to post yet (but there is still Sunday left) but I did get a chance to finally design my own header. I also made a blinkie too -so please, grab it if you are a fan :-)! Of course, all the papers and elements I used were from Chris Turnbull's AWESOME designs! I used the "It's not all pink" kit for both the banner and the blinkie with the one item (paint swoosh) from her "Blackberry Lush" kit. Both these kit's can be found here. Let me know what you think of the new design, or what you think needs to be added/subtracted from this blog - I am looking for some suggestions!

Well, I really need to get a new LO done, so I better go and get started.
See you all tomorrow!
~DZ

Chris's New stuff!!

2007-06-23T23:37:00.000-05:00

I would like to introduce Chris Turnbull's 2 new paper packs and new flower packs. I love the graph paper design, the grunge papers (especially the colors) and the flowers are awesome! They all can be found here. Also, other members of Chris Turnbull's creative team have already designed some really cute LO's with these new papers (yes, I am the slow one) and you can check them out here.

Tuesday's Tidbits

2007-06-19T23:14:00.000-05:00

I’ve been thinking about posting some scrapbooking tidbits. You know, things that help our fellow scrapbookers decide if they need this tool or that tool or just questions we have about scrapbooking that another fellow scrapbooker answered for us so kindly. So, here’s round one of “Tuesday's Tid-bits”.

Tools you can live without (Here are 3 that I can think of off the top of my head)

The Tag Maker by Making Memories – Yep, I did it. I went out and bought it as soon as I saw the previews for it. Well, it isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. I thought this tool would cut your tag then frame it with the metal tag. Nope. It comes with a stencil like plastic frame template that you trace your picture or paper with then you cut it out by hand. You then insert your picture/paper into the metal frame then use the tool to bend the metal frame to your paper. Which, you can do using your fingers because the metal is very thin. Actually, it works better without the tool! So, if you were ever thinking about buying this tool – I would advise you not to and instead just buy the metal frames because each metal frame kit you buy – comes with the plastic template that you need. UPDATE – they are now selling a Tag Maker punch kit that will punch out the shapes perfectly for the Tag Maker rims. BUT – I would still advise to just buy the Tag Maker Rims and not the tools that go with it.
The Fastenater by EK Success – Ok, I learned my lesson on the tag-maker so when this new tool came out, I let my friend Maureen spend her money on it and I would then find out if it was worth it or not. Well, she showed it to me and we thought it was “ok” until I realized that I could poke the staples (that came with the stapler) thru the paper just like a concho and then bend the pokie’s down with your hammer (or whatever you want to use or normally use for concho’s)! So, I saved a few bucks by leaving the tool in the store and walking out with the cool staples! Not to mention that you can put them anywhere on the page without limitations – whereas using them in the stapler you are limited as to how far it reaches on your page.
The Ribbon Iron by Pebbles – Yes, this is a VERY cute tool, but odds are you have a curling iron – preferably a flat iron, but if not the “curling” ones work just as good to flatten out your ribbon too.

So there you have it – today’s tools you can live without!

~dz

One more thing...

2007-06-19T00:37:00.001-05:00

Oh, before I go - you must check out the kits I got from the Sweet Shoppe all for $10! They are having a sale and if you buy $10 or more, you get the "some kind of wonderful" kit for free! VERY GOOD DEAL. Here's a few of the specials I got along with the "freebie kit".

Wow! AGAIN!

2007-06-19T00:20:00.000-05:00

I can't believe it - on the same day I submitted my entry for 2 creative teams, thinking that maybe, just maybe I might get selected for one, and guess what? Both lovely ladies chose me to be a part of their teams! I just really can't believe it. I am so honored to be a part of their teams and I will try my best to make them both proud of their designs. Thank you Jonash of Jonasch Designs for also giving me the chance to be a part of your team. and again, Chris, Thank you too!!! Wow, I just might get an album filled by the end of this journey. Yippee!

I'm off to bed, I told myself at midnight the computers are going to be shut down...well, it's already 12:30 so I'm signing off. Good night.

~Dz

Father's Day

2007-06-18T01:10:00.000-05:00

Ode to Dad day! I think I'm a little bit over due on the Father's day submission, but better late then never. The pictures I used were of my dad in his younger years. I thought he looked so handsome in these pictures. I often tease him that he looked like Elvis in his young days! Well, I better get to bed, 6am comes early for me. Before I go, here are the credits...

Background paper, patterned paper, staple, id plate, alphan (My) all designs from the Summer Grunge kit by Chris Turnbull available at: http://www.pickleberrypop.com/shop/manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=4&sort=add_date&sort_direction=&page=2
Cardboard tag, clip and today sticker - Danielle Young; Handstamped alpha (DAD) - Michelle Coleman; Font: Angelina

Creative Team Layout #2!

2007-06-15T01:12:00.001-05:00

This is a couple of pictures of me and my hubby (of 10, going on 11 years) at his daughter's wedding dance. I think this is the first page I have done with just the two of us! I wanted black and red because to me those colors together are sort of "romantic" and I was trying to set the mood :-)! I tried to use the pickleberrypop scraplift challenge layout (from April) as an example but kind of made it my own at the same time.

Here are the credits:

Stick Mint Swirl kit (background paper, flowers, heart, button, beads and rickrack), It's not all pink kit (flourish), cardboard pieces, Freebie4U2 (brads) and Romantic labels - All Chris Turnbull's awesome designs which are all available at http://www.pickleberrypop.com/

Stitching was a freebie from Natali at:www.scrapwithnatali.blogspot.com

Frames are templates from PSE5 vintage photo #2 frame

Font: Euphemia

Thanks for stoppin' by!

~dz

First Creative Team Layout

2007-06-13T21:33:00.000-05:00

Wow! I just finished my first layout for Chris Turnbull's Creative Team. I used a picture of the girls I took after Maria's Kindergarten graduation. They all look so lovely I just had to scrap it! I wish I would have posed them a little more fun like rather than so "family portraitishy"!! Oh well, there are plenty more chances for me to get that perfect picture of the 3 of them together. I better run, I have to upload the layout to my galleries and start on the next!

credits: Background paper and paper tag - Freebie 4U2 kit; flowers, rickrack, circle stitches, corner and jewel brads - It's not all Pink kit; Sisters - glitter fun alphabet....ALL Chris Turnbull available at: http://www.pickleberrypop.com/shop/manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=4
Staples -pink posie freebie... ksharonk designs; Swirls - Anna Aspnes; Frame - Adobe Photoshop Elements 5; Font -Tunga (2007)

Good Night
~dz

I can't believe it!

2007-06-10T15:32:00.000-05:00

I was just chosen to be a part of Chris Turnbull's Creative Team!! I am so excited that she chose little ol' me! I can't wait to get started designing pages with her awesome digital kits and I can't thank Chris enough for giving me this chance to be a part of her team. All of her designs are at http://www.pickleberrypop.com/ and her blog is at http://www.bearicutesfab.blogspot.com/.

~dz

Rhonna's Pink Challenge

2007-06-07T00:03:00.001-05:00

Well, I finally completed a layout for this weeks challenge. I will add the credits to the digital elements tomorrow as it's just too late for me to track down where the elements I used came from! I should have a few minutes to do that tomorrow night. I can tell you that most of the elements I did use were freebies so I'll be sure to let you know where I found them. Even the cool white border overlay! Hope you check back in tomorrow and I'm sure it will probably be a late post again :0)

~dz

My Cowgirl

2007-06-03T16:24:00.000-05:00

Good afternoon everyone! It's been a few days (again) since I've done any layouts - so today I decided it was about time! I found this really cool template from Shandy Vogt's website. I chose these pictures of my DD for the LO. She really like's cowboy hats, she has about 5 different ones in about 3 different colors and 2 natural colors. Every where we go and she sees a new cowboy hat - she has to have it! Good thing I don't let her get every one she wants or we would have a houseful of cowgirl hats! Anyway - you should check out Shany's site, she has some cool freebies including this neat template that I used.

Hopefully, I will get one more posting today for Rhonna's new challenge "pink" - one of my favorite colors!

See ya Later

~dz

Nothing new

2007-05-31T02:00:00.000-05:00

Exept a little change in the colors of my blog! Just finishing up some work on the computer when I decided I needed a change. As soon as I get some free time I would like to completely re-design my blog and make it my own. But, that could be a while! Right now I'm trying to finish my last 2 college courses on-line, working full-time, a mother, a wife and learning a new job! At times it seems like I have too much on my plate and it feels like I never accomplish anything. Well, that could be because I don't ever really finish anything. Like my house, every room I have started re-decorating, but none of them are completely finished - and that really bugs my husband because before I finish one room - I'm working on the next!! Well, hopefully one day my plate will be partly empty so I can maybe finish ONE project completely!!

Well, another day ends for me -
Good night.
~Dz

Ad Challenge #2

2007-05-28T21:16:00.000-05:00

Even though the weather wasn't all that great this weekend, I didn't get much accomplished. But, I did get to enjoy the long weekend with my family. Yesterday my hubby got me and our daughter out on the lake in his new boat for a couple hours. We didn't catch anything, but we still had a good time until our darling daughter decided she didn't want to be out there any longer! Today consisted of a sleep-in day, catch up on the soaps and a few hours at the park with my daughter. I did get a chance to do one layout for the ad challenge from Designer Digitals. I was hoping to get a few more posts this weekend, but I guess this one will have to do!

I've had these pictures for a while now so I thought I would do something with them. These were taken by me at a local radar run this winter. My hubby, son-in-law and a good friend of mine raced their sleds and they all won 1st place in their division! It was a good day!

till next time

~dz

Sorry...

2007-05-24T23:22:00.000-05:00

for the neglect the last couple of days with no new postings! Seems I have been a bit busy and I haven't found the time to sit down and write anything - or scrapbook anything. But, I am looking forward to the coming weekend and my plan is to spend a lot of that time in my scrapbook room! It looks like the weather is going to be crappy all weekend so I guess that's the perfect time to sit and look at my computer screens all day. I did come across this on CD's Blog today - you MUST check it out if you are like me and ever wondered "how does she do it?"! She designs some incredible scrapbook layouts and on the Creating Keepsakes website, she put together a whole article from start to finish on how she goes about putting her scrapbook pages together - it's wonderful! So check it out... www.creatingkeepsakes.com and click on the link in the middle of the page that says "start to finish: C.D. Muckosky" I can guarantee you will enjoy it!

See ya tomorrow!

Ad Challenge

2007-05-22T01:56:00.000-05:00

I just had to do one more layout before I went to bed when I found this ad challenge on www.DesignerDigitals.com. I really like doing the challenges like these because it gets me scrapbooking more than usual. Ok, so I've had these pictures of my daughter for almost 2 years now and I haven't done anything with them yet (bad mom) it's hard for me to say that I haven't even printed them out! So, I thought now would be a good time to use them in a layout! The free download for this challenge (those little black line thingies) are so neat that I think I will be using them again in future layouts. I also used another freebie (the connected little frames in the bottom right hand corner) from Janosch designs www.janoschsscrapblog.blogspot.com Well, time for me to sign off for the night.

Good night and sleep tight.

Already Graduating

2007-05-21T23:13:00.000-05:00

My little girl is going to graduate from Kindergarten! It's so hard to believe that this day is already here. I thought I would share her graduation announcement (I took out the information that was on the bottom) and some of the wallet pictures I made for her. I took the pictures myself and used Photoshop elements to add the text and the cool effects. She was pretty excited to hand them out to her classmates - it reminded me of when I was graduating from high school!

Finally

2007-05-21T02:07:00.000-05:00

Finally - I had a chance to sit down and put together a layout from the few pictures I took on Mother's Day. The ones I did take, didn't turn out the best because of the bright sunny day mixed with a very WINDY day (as you can tell on the pictures - we are all squinting and our hair is flying crazily in the wind). But, I guess you have to do with what you get huh?!

Well, it's time again to hit they hay! Goodnight and don't forget to check back again tomorrow...

~dz

New Hardware

2007-05-20T23:28:00.000-05:00

Ok, I finally broke down and bought a laptop. I was to the point where I couldn't work on projects, classwork or just play around whenever or wherever I wanted! I've had it for over a week now and I really haven't had much time to play around with it. I do know already that I could never give up my desktop - it's just way easier to type with and my 2o" monitor was nice to look at too! Although this one has a 15.4" screen, it just seems sooo much smaller. But, it's going to be nice to be able to take it with me when I go somewhere and there is no computer (like my parents place and the in-law's). I did a lot of shopping around before I finally bought one. Everyone I talked to recommended buying a Dell. I was just about to hit the "complete purchase" button when I decided to see what HP had (since I had an HP desktop that I really like). Well, I was able to get the same computer for a few dollars less then the Dell, but the biggest selling point for me - was HP's design! I thought the look and style of the HP kicked butt on the Dell! I know that should not have been the selling point, but for me it was!

Rhonna's Purple Challenge

2007-05-17T00:47:00.000-05:00

Finally - I got a chance to put together a layout for this weeks Rhonna Farrer's color challenge! I used a free digital kit that I downloaded from http://www.swordascrappin.blogspot.com/. She has some really cute downloads and I thought the colors she had would be perfect for the color challenge. Thanks a bunch "sworda" for the awesome (FREE) downloads!! You Rock!

Mother's Day

2007-05-13T22:38:00.000-05:00

This weekend was a busy one. I didn't get a chance to scrapbook at all. We had a Friends surprise birthday party on Friday then Saturday was a full day of visiting my grandma, shopping, and going to the water park. Sunday was the traditional Mother's day dinner at my mom's then we had the 2 hour drive back home. The only bad part of the whole weekend was when we went to visit my grandma I took my camera out of my purse to take some pictures and realized I left my memory card in my computer at HOME in my computer! Thank goodness my sister-in-law had hers with so I did get some pictures of the weekend. I thought I would share a few with you - the first one is my daughter and her friend at the water park, the 2nd one is my daughter and the last one is of the girls (taken in my parents front yard).

I hope everyone had a wonderful Happy Mother's day!

Lifted

2007-05-10T01:16:00.000-05:00

I just finished this layout of my little cousin Beau tonight. I totally scraplifted this idea because it was sooo cool! Of course I changed the title and the quote to fit my theme. The sample was a 12x12 layout but I decided to do a 8 1/2x11 layout instead. This way I can make an extra copy and frame and matte it in a 11x14 frame so he can display it in his room. I'm thinking black frame with a white (or black) matte . But if anyone has a cooler idea, please let me know!

If anyone is actually reading my blog and has any comments or suggestions as to what you would like to see, hear or talk about or what I can improve on - please let me know!!!

Thanks and have a good night!

Mosh Posh Kit

2007-05-07T19:40:00.000-05:00

~Yeah! I received my Mosh Posh kit in the mail today!! It is awesome. I love the colors of the papers, the embellishments are wonderful and the best part was that there were a few freebies in there as well! They are having a special this month for all new subscriptions you will receive the add-on kit for free (or while supplies last) so of course I was going to to extend my current subscription because their kits are the best! So if you want to check it out and subscribe to their monthly scrapbook club - here is their website: http://www.mosh-posh.com

Trust me, you will love all of their kits!!

Rhonna's BROWN Challenge

2007-05-06T23:14:00.000-05:00

This is the design I came up with for Rhonna Farrer's Brown Challenge. Since brown has turned into my favorite color I thought I might as well do a page on that! So I had an idea to scrapbook my favorite things that are the color brown. Well, the idea that I had in my head didn't turn out exactly (not even remotely close) to what I had in mind. The design I had dreamed up looked way better in my head then it did on paper!! Maybe it has something to do with being up till 5 am the past 2 days?? Well, I am going to turn in early tonight since I have to be to work at 7 am tomorrow morning (can't do the 5 am tonight)!

Great Find

2007-05-06T03:00:00.000-05:00

Happy Scrapbooking Day (yesterday)! I was doing some searching yesterday for some cool digital kits to download and I came across this site www.mistycatodesigns.blogspot.com and she had this really cool tutorial on how to do your first digital layout. She supplied the base of the layout and all you had to do was place your photo and your text. So, I had to check it out and boy, was that LO ever cute - I just had to post it. I wonder if I could use it for this weeks Rhonna Farrer's "BROWN" Challenge?! I know I can't but it would be a perfect LO for it!

Another late night -early morning...nighty night time!

Growing Up

2007-05-05T04:29:00.000-05:00

OKAY! I am going to go to bed now. I just had to do one more layout before the sun rose :-).

Good night / Good morning to some of you!

Scrapjacked #8

2007-05-05T01:15:00.000-05:00

It's been a long day - it's 1:14 am and I just finished this weeks scrapjacked! I'm so excited for tomorrow - or should I say TODAY! My May mosh-posh kit should be in the mail! Mosh-posh is the best monthly scrapbooking kit I have ever received. I have not been disappointed in one yet and I've been in this club for (I think) more then a year now. If you want to check out their site, I have a link on the right hand side under "favorite scrapbooking sites".

See you tomorrow!

Just Playing Around

2007-05-03T23:54:00.000-05:00

Today I downloaded a really cute digital kit from Songbird Avenue (I have to mention that they are donating 100% of this month's profits to The March of Dimes) so around 10:30pm tonight I decided to play around with them a bit. I'm not too impressed with what I came up with - so just remember I was just PLAYING AROUND!

Good night.

Sweet

2007-05-03T09:30:00.000-05:00

Here is a scrapbook page I designed using the "Pencil Lines" sketch #25 Challenge. The flowers I used on this page were actually colored and cut out by my 6 year old daughter. It was an art project that she brought home from school and I thought that they would make a great embelishment on a scrapbook page. Hope you like!

Rhonna's Yellow Challenge

2007-05-01T20:44:00.000-05:00

This is my first post! I just visited Rhonna Farrer's webpage and she has this really cool color challenge that I must try! So, maybe in a few hours I will have my first scrapbook page to post!!

Later!

Okay - here is my "yellow" Challange layout...