Defunkifying My Life Pt 6...My Dies Video

Totally completed my thin die organization.

I told you I was going to make a video of this, explaining in more detail about the way the different thin dies are organized.
Plus there are a few chuckles in the video that I was going to take out...but thought I would leave them in for a laugh or two.

 Onto My Day:
I spent my day catching up on some book work.
Now hubby and I are watching the Walking Dead. AMC is showing all the shows from the start of this season. This makes me happy :)

I hope you all had a creative Sunday :)

Tracy :)

Scrap Cards second set

 I had a fun Scrapbooking Night last night.
4 of my friends came and we all made some cards.
I kind of forgot I was going to share how to make some cards out of scraps....until someone reminded me, then they were all teasing me  ;)
So I came up with this easy card a few weeks ago for a card Sharon wanted to make.
A much easier sketch then the last set of scrap cards.

I even did a bit of colouring on this one. I only used 3 colours and I didn't even need my cheater glasses, lol.
I used my copics on the dragonfly.

I made a few cards today as well.
I guess I have another set to give away. I am going to make a few more for an even dozen.
I like this set for the fact that I got to use my cardstock scraps as well.

Here are the measurements for this card.
Base= 8.5x5.5  score in half to get a 5.5x 4 1/2 (card)
Card Front= 5 1/4 x4(card stock)
Panels= 2.5 x 3 13/16 (pattern paper)
Middle panel= 2x 3 1/4 (card stock)
Stamped panel= 1 13/16x 3 1/16

You can play around with the measurements to fit your scraps.
I did. If you notice some of the space between the pattern paper are different then others.

Onto My Day:
Everyone had to work today except for Ashley and I.
I worked on a video of my die organization...which took most of the afternoon. Not sure why it took so long, but it did.  I will share the video tomorrow.

I am now watching (not really) a football game. Well actually Wayne is watching it and I am doing book work. Is it sad that I would rather work then watch football.
Mind you those guys with their tight pants are pretty easy on the eyes ;)

I hope you all had a creative Saturday :)

Tracy :)

Defunkifying My Dies Pt 2

I organized my dies today.
I was planning on working all day, but this was just calling out to me ;)
I got this idea from Aeryn Kelly. She gave me the idea to use these plastic CD envelopes.
Then I took from there :)

Hard to believe that they took up two of these drawers and now they all fit into one...with lots of room to grow ;)
I cut the plastic packaging up for other projects. If you know me, I like to make use out of everything.

Here is the front and back to these envelopes.
I should have shared a different set of dies, as this one was the ones from the CD cases, so I didn't have the original packaging. I had to print this up from the internet.
I used the original packaging on the other dies.
I am in the process of doing a video as I can go into more detail on a video :)
















Onto My Day:
Tonight is my Friday Night Scrapbooking :)
It looks like a full house tonight with more colouring...or teaching colouring going on tonight.
My friend Myra is getting into Copics and wants me to show her the basics. Colouring will help her pass the time, as she has just had her second knee replacement.

I hope you have all had a creative Friday :)

Tracy :)

Defunkifying my Dies

I am still defunkifying my life.
I know I kind of put things on hold during the summer.
I was hoping to do the whole house before I started with the ol' craft/scrapbooking room.

But I was using my dies the other day and just got fed up with taking them out of the packaging. Those suckers can cut you.
As you can see from the photo I had started putting them CD cases (about 5 yrs ago)....I think I did 4 and then quit.
So I am trying something a bit different.
I have quit a few ideas on how I can organize them. I am a flipper so I had to keep that in mind.
I am working on this tonight while we watch the tube, so hopefully I will be done it tonight so I can share it with you tomorrow.

Onto My Day:
I was a cold one today...so not liking the cold weather and it hasn't even really started yet.
Hubby and I went to Canadian Tire tonight, then to Staples.
Did a short walk today, and that is about it.

Hope you all had a creative Thursday :)

Tracy 

Creative goodies

I made a visit to my LSS.
Sadly it is closing and this is the last one in town.
I had mentioned that the store was hit hard by the flood our city had. Sadly I think it affected her business, as she still hasn't been able to keep regular hours. I think she has only been open 6 days since May.
Yes it is a sad day.
She was open today so I went to pick up some adhesive for my tape gun as she is the only one that carries my tape. Unfortunately she was sold out of it, but she is going to still order it even after her store closes.
I couldn't leave empty handed ;)
So I picked up a couple of cute stamps.

I also picked up some fun papers.
I know I didn't need either the stamps or the paper but I couldn't leave empty handed ;)

Onto My Day:
Listening - Survivor in the boob tube
Eating - nothing
Drinking -coca-cola (my last sip from my 1 can a day)
Wearing - yoga pants and a t-shirt...ready to grab a blanket
Weather -its raining its pouring
Wanting - to colour some images
Needing -chocolate
Thinking -chocolate
Enjoying - sitting on my arse with Wayne and Heather watching our show :)


I hope you all enjoyed a creative day :)
I wasn't creative today, but I did get a walk in. I chatted with a friend on the phone and walked around the house the whole time....1 hour, and that was a short phone call ;)

Tracy :)

Once Upon a Fairy

I made a card today with my scraps :)
I used some of my left over papers from Once Upon a Springtime paper collection.
I think these and the Steampunk are my two favourite collections from Graphic 45.
I used this sketch from MFTWSC71 .

I had coloured this image a few months ago.
It is a stamp from My Favorite Things, isn't she so sweet.
I coloured her up with my Copics.

I wanted to play with my new flower die from Spellbinders.
Actually I made this flower a few weeks ago, before I even thought of making this card.
I am not sure how I like this die.

The reason being, it is so high. It looks like a cabbage, lol.
This is the first one I had made so it may get better as I make more.
But then again if you know me, then you know I need things to turn out the first time.

Here is the inside of this card.

Onto My Day:
It rained all day today. It was a muggy day, and I just didn't feel like doing anything.
I did make myself walk on the treadmill for 35 minutes.
Then Heather and I spent most of the day watching SuperNatural...I had to get in some eye candy today, Ohhh Dean ;)  teehee.
I also tidied up the house a bit.

So what have you done today to make you feel proud?
I......went on the treadmill
I.....lost some weight, not a lot but a bit.
I....enjoyed the day with my daughter.

I hope you all had a creative Tuesday :)

Tracy :) 

Scaredy Cat.

Look at the size of this cat, wow.
It is as big as the house :)  
Heather and I were running around and drove past this huge kitty, so I got Heather to take a photo for me.

Onto My Day:
I spent most of my day cleaning the house.
I went for a 35 minute walk on the treadmill. I usually listen to music while I am on the treadmill, but today I took my Ipad and watched a video.  I still think I prefer my music, it gets me to walk faster ;)
Then after supper, Ashley wanted me to go with a walk with her, so another 35 minute walk. I enjoy walking with my girl.

I ran to Michael's to look for a box to alter for my card set.
They had some bags in a bin for $2.00 each. I picked up 3, the reason being is that they each had a 7 Gypsies artists tray in them. There were a few other things in the bag, but I just wanted the trays. Funny thing is I had picked up one of these trays for .01c a few months ago.

I hope you all had a creative Monday :)

Tracy :)