Day 14

Wow...I cannot believe I stuck to my challenge for two weeks straight.  I am making the albums for the swap...probably will for the next week or two.  Once those are finished I have a tag swap, ss swap, and a matchbook swap due in August.  I am excited about the matchbook swap.  I have never done that type of thing before.  Until tomorrow - Kel

Day 12 and 13

Cleaned the scraproom yesterday.....ugh.  I love making the mess....don't love the cleanup.  After working on the albums it is a slight bit messy again.  So far the one when folded out can go out 6 ft at maximum point....so much for the mini in "mini" album swap.  The other one will not be as far but it will be pretty big too.

Kel

Day 11

So I have been working on my swaps...here is a mini sneek peek of one of them.  Then I need to be grounded from playing with my scrap stuff until I clean my scrap room.  It looks like a tornado whipped through here.  Pretty bad. Have a great night all. Kel

Combined Post 9 and 10

Woot! Woot! As my dear sweet friend Emily would say!  This weekend has been scrappy productive.  I am excited.  I went to my friend Shannas house (she is amazingly talented) and worked on a swap album.  Absolutely love how it is coming along. I put in about 15 hours+ into just the one the last two days.  It is about 70% done. I do have a bit to go yet.  I will wait to put pictures up.  I can actually say I am loving it. 

I have been going through a creative mojo drought.  It has been a very long time since I have really liked something I have created. I am not saying I haven't done things that were okay - I just didn't love them.  This I am really loving.  I hope she likes it as much as I do and it doesn't end up in the closet tucked away somewhere.  I will post pictures when I am done?

When was the last time you were really excited about a project  you were working on?

Until tomorrow - have a great evening.

K

Day 7 and 8 combined post

Sorry I have been busy...but I still did a project yesterday - just didn't get time to post it.  I decided to make my friends daughter a happy birthday bank.  I thought it would be different ...she is too young for gift cards (at least in my opinion).  She does love change so I am putting 5 pennies, 5 nickles, 5 dimes, 5 quarters, and 5 dollar coins.  (Any guess on how old she is going to be?)  The other project was I bought the Tim Holz die Sewing Room Floor for a swap I am participating in.  I decided to fool around with it tonight to get some ideas.  So love the color orange and I was looking around the craft store and found some gift bags.  Loved them.  So I thought I could convert them into a dress...here is the work in progress -by no means my finished product for the swap.

Have a good night.  I get to crafty after doing some work tomorrow.

K

Day 6 Wednesday 062211

Oh I am spending more time on the Cricut mb than creating today.  I have worked a little on the mini album swap.  I am trying to get a little mojo rolling... probably just need sleep and can get back to it tomorrow.  I was looking at the pictures of the scrap room and realized that I have some cleaning to do.  I have so many projects that I want to do, so many partially done.  Need to start completing.  Goal:  By Sunday I would like to be almost if not completely done with one of the two Mini albums.  By the weekend after I want to be completely done so I can get in the mail.  I have two other swaps to complete, then I need to focus on some of my other goals too - like using stuff and completing projects.  Swaps are good for me to.  It stretches me.  I am working on an album that is vintagish.  Yes, I made up another word...I have never done vintage and it is definitely a growing experience. I just hope she likes it.  Have a good sleep - I am off to bed. K

Day 5 part 2 pictures

Sorry - I didn't get the pictures in on the previous post so here they are:

I know there is so many images to go through - sorry I got carried away taking pictures.  Kel

Day 5

Wow, I have stuck to something for almost a week...it's a record and even made through being sick - yea!  This is better willpower that I have shown on any diet plan :) So  down to business.  I am working on a page and took a side view so as not to give to much away - it is for a swap.  I made my first rosette - yippee; not quite beautiful - but still a good effort I think.  I also wanted to share my orangie goodness of a scrap room if anyone wants to see.  My son describes it as if the great pumpkin threw up in here.  I just don't care - it makes me happy everytime I come in here - you definitely cannot be sad for long in here.

Kel

Day 4 - Monday

Just posting some of things I have made.  Can't post what I am making for the swaps until they are done and ready to mail.  Need to go to bed now to try to kick this thing once and for all.  I would like to feel normal for once - ok stop laughing I mean normal for me. K

Day 3 Sunday

Made a dress for the dress form I am working on for a swap.  Not feeling great still.  I called it a night early. K

Day 2 - part 1

So last night I was still sick.  I really rambled on during that first post.  I still don't feel 100%, but I am much better than I was.  So last night I created some baker's twine.  I learned the technique from a fellow Cricut board member's blog.  I cannot remember who that was...but thanks for sharing.  I also brainstormed some ideas for the dress form swap I am in.  I must have been delirious because one of the forms I am doing is to be a famous person....animated, real, etc. I thought about how could I make a meat dress and make be archival safe? Then my mind jumped to Madonna's cone bra.  It looks like I may need to think this out just a little more.

So this morning I finished a mini album from my unfinished project grave yard.  (I think I have scrapper ADD).  I start a project, if I don't like how it is turning out or if I am getting bored with it - off to the graveyard it goes.  The grave yard is just plastic bins.  Some of them have been hiding in there for a while.  So I have decided as a part of my 365 day crafting journey I am going to finish all of them.  This will be a big undertaking...so I am going to tackle just one at a time.  The one I finished this morning is a Love world album that I was making for a friend's wedding present.  Am I in love with the album that I did?  No.  However, I do like it now. It is not colors I would normally choose, but I tried to make it what she would enjoy and not myself.  I do feel better that it is now done and I can move on to the next project.  I am going to take a nap and try to feel a little bit better before finishing the next project - 2 swap mini albums.

Once I learn how to post pictures to this, I will put some pictures of finished projects along with the blog.

I will catch up with you tonight. - Kel

Day 1 - Introduction

This is my first blog post.  I am a little nervous, but I figured it was time to jump in.  My name is Kelley and I have been crafting since my 19 year-old son was born.  Oh, the travesties that I have created.  My scrapbooks look like an evolution chart.  The beginning ones are pretty scary.  You know what I am talking about - the cutting out of the pictures, sticker sneezes, gobs of glue seeping out the sides, hand-cut letters.  Painting a good picture -huh?  If you thumbed through the pages, you can see what techniques I learned and when.  It is all over the pages - remember when tearing was the big thing?  Oh my goodness, I had title blocks torn, mats torn, torn borders, torn journaling tags, and yes....(gasp) even the pictures.  I have kept with it though and I have come a long way....I do have my share of disasters once in a while - and go "what was I thinking!" 

I work crazy long hours, weekends, etc. at a job I love, but it is definitely stressful.  I have a wonderful 19 year-old son who is 99% perfection, but that other 1%...  Paper crafting is my peaceful escape from it all.  I love paper - the smell, the look, the feel.  I have quite the collection growing.  I need to start using it.  However, this is a secret.... sometimes if it is paper I just love and have used it ....I have to go get more of it.  Sad huh?  

Well I have accumulated quite a few things over the years and the favorite things in my craft room (which is a work in progress) are:
My cricuts: 2 E's, 1 E2, and an Imagine including the cartridges
Paper - especially the Basic Grey collection
My orange buckets and my desk

So I am making a resolution to myself  to start today and not wait until next January.  I am going to try to do something crafty each day.  It may be as little as a working on a page or as big as completing a whole project.  I am going to try to post daily if my schedule allows - but at least by the end of each week I will show what I have done and do a copulation post for the days I have missed. 

Things I want to accomplish by doing this....

Use my stash
Use tools including cartridges I haven't even opened yet.
Stretch my skills and learn new techniques.
Do more swaps

Thank you in letting me share and hope you join me in my creative journey.  Now I just have to learn how to add all the pictures of the projects. 

Kelley