Happy Saturday!!

Good morning!
I love Saturday mornings. I wake up early - brew a full pot of coffee, logon and catch up on blog hopping, cuddle the pug and plan my day! Today - laundry and scrapping. I plan on staying in the house all day! I love when I can do that.

So - Willowtraders is doing another blog hop this weekend. So fun - there are so many talented people and I love the ability to check the blogs throughout the day for new fun posts! Here is my scrappy contribution this morning. It's my LEO challenge #13. We had to use old product in our stash. this is from the ScrapRoom - a page kit from March 2007. The paper is AtoZ Essentials - I don't think they even exist anymore. The arrows are Maya Road chipboard and a FULL sheet of Luxe rub on arrows. I rubbed the entire sheet onto some patterened paper and cut them out. I pop dotted each arrow on the layout. I know this layout is very busy and I need to learn to edit sometimes, but it was fun junking it up and only using items from that kit. Actually I added Maya Mists and some Tim Holtz red pearl stickles to puch it up a notch!

The Very Best!

This makes my toes tingle in anticipation!! There is NOTHING close to a Publix fresh glazed doughnut - it puts Dunkin to shame!

What is one of your Very Best things?

LEO #12 Crazy Silly Goofy Nut Boy

This was the "Get out of the box" Challenge! Very fun and challenging. I am a lumpy bumpy kinda gal and this layout is flat. Almost paper only, but at the end - I had to glitz it a bit with some stickles!
I cannot believe there are only 3 more LEO's left! My personal goal is to complete every challenge. So far so good. I think the next two will be fine as one posts today and is due on Saturday morning. Then one will post on Saturday and be due on Monday. If I have some weekend time - I know I will get it done. The challenges posted on a week day and due on a week day are the hardest for me. I am usually pretty much toasted when I get home at night. I am absolutely a morning girl. I go to sleep early and wake up before the roosters crow. In fact - this challenge I did yesterday morning before I got ready for work. I have had such a great time being challenged every other day. I am looking forward to the Construction Challenge coming up for August at Willow Traders.
Have a fantastic Thursday!

It's Pug Wednesday and another card

Today is Roxy's favorite day. Every Wednesday she goes to the groomer. We call it Pug Wednesday because I have to go into work a little later to drop her off at doggie daycare.
Roxy looks forward to Pug day because she gets to spend the day with one of her favorite people. Miss Collette owns Gigi's pet grooming. She is a second mom to Roxy. Whenever I go out of town, Roxy goes to stay at Colette's house. Collette has lots of kids and they love to play with Roxy.

Wednesdays are more than a shampoo-set, mani-pedi for the pug. We also call it doggie daycare day. Since Roxy and I live alone, when I go to work each day - Roxy spends a lot of alone time. Going to doggie daycare allows Roxy to play with other puppies all day long. When we get home, she is whiped out. She flops on the cool tile and that is that. Down for the count. I know it sounds crazy to some, but Roxy is my only baby and $15 a week is pretty cheap compared to child daycare!!

I also wanted to share another card I created.


I love to repurpose cardboard!

The Card

It was a personal mission to complete all of these new project before today. I completed this card last night. About 20 minutes from thought to completion. Took longer to pull all the supplies than complete it. I wanted to use a technique. Those are my favorite kind. :)Although completing the card completed my mission - it is also going to be well received by the person I am sending it to. A co-worker has a wife going through a very difficult medical situation. Actually, his entire family is affected. Once a month, I try to send them a card to let them know they are in my thoughts and prayers. I will mail this tomorrow.
So - there it is. Thanks for pushing me. I needed it. I feel good about it.

WillowTraders LEO #11 Find Some Inspiration

OK - I have to tell you - Sandy really threw me for a loop - the challenge was to find inspiration from something non-scrap related. EEp. I frequent scrap blogs, have tons of scrap mags and books. I thought - I had best have some lunch and think about this. I went to Publix on my way home from church and picked up my favorite veggie sushi tray. So I went to get it - as I was drizzling soy on the lovely little rolls - it hit me! Sushi tray = fab inspiration!! Off to photo my lunch tray and get to scrappin! Here is my Sushi lunch inspiration:

Black background - the little rolls reminded me of my scallop punches - white, avacado green and carrot orange! Love the different size circle and scallop punches! I punched away and this is what I came up with!

I used pop dots to lift the pics off the page. I also staggered the orange circles to show off the color. I finished it off with a "wasabi" green ribbon at the bottom!
This was too fun! I was really excited to whip this baby up and it came together in an hour!

It was a very fun weekend playing with my scrappy goods. The garage sale at the LSS was this weekend. Too bad they are closed today. I am excited to see how much of the stuff is gone. It will be fun to have a credit to use to purchase summer CHA goods when they start rolling in. I cannot wait for the new Sassafras Lass!! Monstrosity is my absolute favorite new line!

Have a productive day!!

The Completed Mini!! (Pic Heavy)

I spent all day yesterday completing this bad boy! Still not a mini girl, but it feels nice to have accomplished it and I am pretty pleased with the end result.

And there we go! The LEO challenge # 11 will post today and I plan on working on it and a very special decked out card too. Check back - I might have one more post before the end of the day!!

Have a Blessed Sunday!