daily.blessing.11.9.08

6 of spades - was wishing I had my camera while driving during the sunset. It was stunning and the colors were so vivid. I tried to recreate on this blessing card with paint. Not nearly as spectacular!

overlooked

1-9-08 coffee cup
Originally uploaded by kwhitten

This is one of the coolest projects I've seen in awhile. One of the SIStv's fashionistas, Ashley Wren, began the Overlooked project. This is the first assignment.

daily.blessing 1.8.08

10 of clubs - Love these vintage/retro kitchen labels that I picked up at the Stock Exchange - my cousin's groovy shop. Love weeknights when dinner is simple*quick*good! Just like my poppyseed chicken. Had the chicken cooked last night while fixing that dinner, so it was easy peasy!

used matte photo paper as base with ribbon, label and an "e" brad for easy, of course! :) .01 black zig and fine AC slick writer, MM date stamp.

Elsie's 52 Week Challenge

So I've taken alot of new "projects" on for the new year. I am a realist and know that I won't stick with all of them for 2008. In fact, I've not done so hot on my 365 challenge so far. I LOVE to take pictures, but it's hard for me to take them of myself on a day-to-day basis. I'm not giving up yet, but I'm just saying...
This 52 week challenge project along with my daily blessing cards which I am already doing anyway, and my bible in a year are three things I really think I can do. I have made my first week's layout and this cutie patootie cover based on Elise Blaha's instructions. I am loving the way it turned out. I used Elsie's paper and the self-adhesive fabric paper for the inside cover from the Roxie line. worked great!

Week 1 prompt which is being provided on the boards at SIStv by fellow Arkansan, Linda is straight from Elsie Flannigan's first book, 52 Scrapbooking Challenges.:

Work those words - Whether it's a quote, a list of your favorite adjectives or computer-generated phrases, journaling on strips of cardstock is a great way to add visual excitement to your page. Be creative and cut a favorite quote into pieces to add to your design.

I'm using regular standard sized notecards for my project. I thought it would be something different and I don't recall anyone else using them so I thought I would try something new.

Here is my week one:

This is a picture from Christmas of my Granny DeShazo and all her grand and great grand. We were taking serious pictures with her, but thought it would be fun to do a silly picture. I used transparency with a white Sharpie and pink acrylic painted on the backside. The picture looks discolored over Haley's face...please excuse that!

These prompts come out on Tuesday (i think) so I look forward to this week's challenge.

daily.blessing.1.7.08

king of hearts - I worked out and was sweating again - felt great!

Sweating=icky=good!

used some older paper with paint, black pen, rick rack & staples.

I was going to start posting my materials and techniques for these each day this year, but keep forgetting.

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king of clubs - Almost spring like...very decieving for January 6th, but I am loving the warmth!

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jack of clubs - I love days like today. I literally took a shower and put on clean pj's, hung out with Alex, Amy and Memaw, played the Wii, scrapbooked, tried to organize my organizer (LOL that sounds funny), caught up on my daily Bible readings, and made a cake for church dinner tomorrow. I guess I did do something after all!

It ain't easy bein' green

that is my color in the ATC color swap I signed up for and I had fun making all 17 of those little green machines! I cannot wait to get all the colors back and look at everyone elses handiwork on these. This is the first swap like this I have done, so I hope my work halfway holds a candle to the others.

Here is the entire pile of cards. I am pretty happy with the way they turned out actually. My next endeavor is the ATC alphabet swap. My letter: Q. I am also doing a bible verse ATC swap. I am really looking forward to it. Which reminds me...

I have another goal for the new year: reading through the entire bible. My friend Suellen is also doing this and she had one of the bibles set up to read by date. She let me borrow it to bring home over the weekend to catch up. Then I will be following along on through Bible Study Tools (BST) which I found through an online ad on one of my emailed devotionals. I am really excited about tackling this and really think it will be something good to do at this phase of my life. I am going to read the New Living Translation because I can follow it pretty well and understand it.

Happy Weekend!

daily.blessing.1.4.08

8 of spades-Friday is a blessing and a short work week.

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10 of diamonds-I love my Crocs! The original Crocs are awesome but these Celeste Crocs Rock! <----I made a rhyme! :)