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Our morning started early.

We left the house at 6:00am. And if you know me, you know I am not a morning person.
But I was quite proud of myself as I didn't fall asleep during the drive until we were a couple hours into it ;)

First stop Ryden's, where I picked up my order of my new copic colours :)
And some happy mail from Pea :)
Sad thing was it was pitch black outside and Wayne can't drive with the interior lights on.
So I had to enjoy how everything felt, lol.

Next stop, Pine City Scrapbooking.
They have a wall of Penny Black and House Mouse stamps....Tracy, you would love this :)

















We then went out for a very late lunch.
Then Scrapbookers Too.
Picked up a few Magnolia stamps ;)
Some Copic papers Neenah and XPress It.
And some other purchases that make me happy :)
And that's what it is all about, keeping me happy, lol.
They changed their rewards coupon. At first she said I couldn't use then, they had to be transferred to the new system. I had 2 full stamp cards :(
But once we talked about it, she let me use one of my full stamp cards and transferred the other one to the new system :)





















Picked up some papers from Archiver's.
Like I need more paper, lol. But honestly I did need the G45 Alice papers in 6x6 paper pack.
Notice some more twine.
I was a bit ticked with Archivers. I couldn't print my coupon for some reason. Even though they had my email, she wouldn't give the the lousy 40% off coupon. Like my $4.00 affected their bottom line,lol.

I even made it to Joann's :)
Of course almost everything was on sale.
But I handed out the 40% off coupons to the family and we all picked up a memento inks for me.





















Lastly Michael's.
I needed a new large Momento ink pad. I have tried looking for ink re-fills for these pads, but have yet to find them.





















I know it looks like I bought a lot...okay I did buy a lot.
But everything at home is at least 40%  or more then the regular price here. So when I come here I bring my coupons and go crazy.
At home a Tim Holtz distress ink is $8.49, here it is $4.99 regular price.
The Momento 3 pack inks at home is $16.99 here it is $9.99 regular price.
And I do share everything I purchase with my scrap booking friends :)

Hope you all had a creative Wednesday :)
I just want to open everything and play away :)

Tracy :)

Recording my Distress Inks

I went in my scrap/craft room, got side tracked again and started organizing.
I needed some way to keep track of my distress inks....but I one that I could take with me when we go on our trips.
So I printed out the distress ink printable list on sticky labels and then inked up the colours that I own. That way if the colour isn't inked, then I need it could purchase it if I see it at a good price.

I made this to fit in my smash travel journal. But after I made it, I saw that the binding holes are closer together then my Bind It All does.

I also wanted to a way to remember some of the stamps I own.
Not only that, but it gave me an excuse to stamp them up.
If you remember me saying before, that I couldn't buy anymore stamps until I inked up the ones I have?
Well I inked them up ;)

I will show you those on another post. As I need a way to distort the images....don't want to get in trouble for sharing images....oh that's right, that happened already :-0
 A few of you have asked what a hot knife is.
It is like an exacto knife but you plug it in and it gets hot....very hot.
It is what I used to cut the thin foam for the backs of my rubber stamps.

Look what came to visit us today :)
There were 8 deer hanging around today.
There is so much bush here that they love it.
It doesn't hurt that many of my neighbours have bird feeders and feed the little animals around here :)


Hope you all had a creative Tuesday :)

I am so happy, I got my billing finished tonight. My wrist is killing me, but I won't have to worry about it now :)

Tracy :)

Copic Paper Organization

I went down in my scrap/craft room today, to put together a couple of parcels I am going to mail when we go across the border.
Well, I got a bit side tracked and started organizing, lol.

I organized my Copic papers.
I had them all in a bookcase, stacked on top of each other.
But sometimes they would get mixed up and I would have to try and figure out which papers were which.

I bought this plastic file container from a garage stamp sale last fall.  It was new and only cost me $1.00.

This is what I was planning to do with it all along. But just never got around to it.

You can see I used my trusty label maker.
That thing just makes me happy :)
So I labeled each of the types of papers.
But not only that, I have them attached with a clip and have the names of the papers on a sticky note attached to the top paper.
I can never get them mixed up again.


The 1st photo, I put my water colour paper pad in the very front of the folder.

Here is the folder closed and ready to be transported anywhere I want to go.
Nicely organized and labeled.

This makes me Happy :)

I also mounted all my stamps today as well.
I bought a hot knife to cut out the EZ mount foam.
Love this thing.

I was just going to do one stamp, as I wanted to use it. But I thought that since the knife was hot, I might as well do all that needed to be done.
I just have to say....I had way more stamps that needed to be done then I thought.
Which means I had way more stamps that I haven't used yet.

Hope you all had a wonderful, creative Monday:)

Tracy :)

Bagalope?

Can you guess what this is made from?

It is a bag made from an envelope.
I wanted to work with some Spring colours, so this is what I came up with :)
Just a close up to see the embossing I did on here.

Onto My Day:
I was asked to go shopping with Lynne and Denise.
They want to decorate our table for when we go to Scrap for Heart. Last year our table theme was Survivor.
This year it is Crafty Queens.
I am going to get some crafting done, but I am they type of person to go with the flow, so that's what I'm doing.
So we went to the dollar store to pick up some tiaras and jewels :) Then we went to Michael's.
Those ladies sure know how to browse, lol.
I was chilled all day today. It wasn't that cold. It was about -11C, but I seemed to be chilled to the bone. So I read my book in my hot bath :)

Hope you all had a wonderful, creative weekend :)

Tracy :)

Whats up with Santa?

Yesterday Valentines, today Christmas...whats up with that, lol.
I am working on this mini for a friend of mine that was in the "Pay It Forward" on face book last year.
I am thinking she will use it for her grand children.
So i am going to keep it cutesy. 
I had such problems with this cover. I was so frustrated.
Nothing was working. I stamped and used clear embossing on the frame. I then inked on top. It was too close to the same colour. So I was disappointed.
Then I got some paint on it, so had to fix that up.
Santa didn't stand out on the background so I inked the background paper.
I paper pieced Santa (except for his face I coloured with flesh coloured copics.   \
Santa is still missing something. I thought it might be his eye, but I think it may look odd if I draw it in.....well especially my drawing.
Added some faux snow and put some sparkles in it. Not sure how I am liking that, but it looks better with it then without.
Added these cool die cuts that Schell cut for me :)
I am hoping this looks better in the morning.

Onto My Day:
Wayne went to our cottage to plow the snow and check on things.
I stayed behind and slept :)
I was thinking of going with him, but I didn't even wake up when he left.
Kristy was decorating something for Valentine's day and asked me to help her with the cricut.
Wayne and I watched Tremors ;) 
I caught up on some of my book work.

Hope you all had a creative Saturday, and thanks for all the well wishes about my test results :)
I'm still smiling every time I think of it :)

Tracy :)

Valentines card and some very Happy news

Today was a good day :)
I went to my friends (and Stampin' Up rep.). She was having a card making party and we made a card.

I brought my SIL and Friday Night Scrapbooking partner, Sharon, along with me :)
I really like this card.
Love this embossing folder and the shiny sparkle hearts :)

Then Sharon and I came back to my house and she worked on a layout.
I worked on my newest mini album.

I got to talk to my friend tonight as well :)

I also received a call from my cardiologist today.
He had my results from my Muga scan. I was really surprised as I thought I would have to wait until I saw him in August. Plus the doctors always tell you they won't call unless there is a problem.

Well I am so pumped as he told me my injection fraction is 49%!!!!
In 2004 it was 30%. In April of 2011 it was 30%- 35%. July it went up to 40%. 
And yesterdays it was 49%.  This shows that the medicine is working!!!
When I got off the phone I said to my hubby "Well, I guess I have no excuse anymore why I am fat and lazy....Damn!   He just laughed as he was as happy as I was :)
Thanks for all the good thoughts you forwarded my way :)

Hope you all had a creative Friday :)

Tracy :)

Chocolate and some Radioactive substance

What is this you may ask yourself.
It is my daughter Ashley's idea of dessert. LOL.
Her boyfriend Tyler had supper here tonight, and this is what she served him for dessert. A chunk of Toblerone with a plop of peanut butter.
Oh yes, I can't forget the blop of peanut butter on the side ;)

Today I had to go for my Muga scan.
It actually was pretty quick. I didn't even get to read a page out of my book.
You know if I forgot a book to read, I would have been there half the day.

 This was my first injection.
I should have taken a photo of the second injection.
The one that came in a steel box with a toxic symbol on it, lol.


I did remember to get the paper saying that I did get this test done if I get stopped at the border.
I heard that this one girl brought her grandfather for this test, then brought him home.
She then drove over the border and the alarms went off. She didn't have the paper work (as she didn't get the procedure) but the radioactive substance was in the vehicle from the grandfather.

 We won't be going over the border for a bit, so I am sure it will out of my system before then.

That is about all to my day today.
I seemed to be glued to the Internet the rest of the day...thank you pinterest and YouTube, lol.

Thankful Thursday:
For medical technology.
For the Internet, even though it is a time sucker.
For my hubby picking me up a couple of cookies when I was at my test.
They picked up subs and know I don't like my subs soggy :)


Hope you had a creative Thursday

Tracy :)