I'm Distressed ;)

Look What I Picked Up Today :)

Yup the new Tim Holtz seasonal series distress inks!!!!
I had to drive 45 minutes to the border to pick them up, but it was so worth it.
OK, OK, I also ordered the other colours I didn't have ;)

Oops forgot to put in the photo, I also bought the distress crackle paint in Walnut stain.
I then found out there is a clear version of this. I will have to get it on my next on-line order ;)
I wish I would have known earlier to order the Tim Holtz fall seasonal distress inks. But I found out about them way too late.
I did go to order the Fall ones on a different site but I they wouldn't fill my order because of where I lived :(

 I finally added the hot water to the Lindy's that Claudia and Theresa sent me :)
I don't know why I was so intimidated to add the water.
When I unscrewed the bottle on the right I thought that the straw thing was missing. Then I took the cap off and realized this one has a felt applicator. Sooo cool.

 Today I received some Happy Mail :)
Tina from Homemade Memories sent me some goodies and a beautiful card. These will go perfect with my travel journal :)
Sadly my photo doesn't do this card justice, it is stunning. I love that beautiful butterfly on the front, and the colours are so feminine.
Thank you so much Tina, you are a sweet heart :)


Onto My Day:

Heather and I made a run to the border, no not for taco bell, teehee.
It all started with Ashley ordering shoes with a gift card. So I figured if I am heading that way, I might as well order myself a little something ;)
Then we went for lunch.
When I got home I worked on my cover for my newest project.
I remembered why I haven't painted for a while, I am inpatient when I have to let the paint dry. The second reason, washing out my brushes.

I had to go to Black's to get some photos printed. This is the first time I am making a book to fit my photos.
For some reason the machine at Black's didn't want to read all of my photos on my jump drive (I think that is what it is called). But I did get most of them done.
Ran to Michael's. Pretty bad when (yet again) I walk out there with nothing :(     
I was hoping that they would have had some of the new $1.50 Christmas stamps, but Nope.

Watched Bones. Now going to check out some blogs.

Tracy :)

What is your secret ?

I have been working and am focused on my newest mini album.

So because of that I have no new projects to share with you.

But I have another photo to share with you.

Heather took this photo last year when she was doing Project 365. She was doing a picture a day, no journaling though.

Actually Wayne and all the girls were doing this. The girls even put suggestions in a hat so if they got stumped they would get an idea from there.

What she did here was tape the lock to her wrist ;) Yes she raided my craft room, teehee.
She is so clever.
Heather just has a point and shoot camera, not a big boy one like Wayne and Ashley.

Onto My Day:
Like I said I was planning the pages for my mini album. I did start on the front cover :)  Funny as the cover is always one of the last things I do.

I have been playing with my new laptop and learning more about it.
One thing I love about it, is that my email is nicely organized. When I get a new comment for my blog, they are all organized under that post in my email, not scattered amongst other emails :)
What I am having a problem with is signing in to google.
When I leave a message on someones blog, I have to sign in every time, then sign in again to do the word verification, then sign in yet again to make sure it went through. Frustrating.

Watching the end of Survivor. Its good, but thought there would have been more drama at the beginning of the show ;)

Hope you all had a creative Wednesday :)

Tracy :)

1st post on my New Laptop

I am finally using my new laptop.

Crazy it took me so long I know. But I felt like I needed to squeeze the last bit of life out of my old one. Plus I am attached to it.

I know I'm weird.

I don't have any photos on this laptop yet so I nabbed this one from my daughters Face book album.

It is a photo of my daughter Ashley, but it was created and the photo was taken by my other daughter Heather :)

I just love this photo. I love the idea (bird nest entangled in her hair) and the way she captured part of her face.

I tell you it was fun trying to keep that nest on her head, lol.

It is a real bird nest as well. It was a Robins nest from our cottage.

So onto my laptop, or should I say my old laptop.

It froze on me 3 times today. Luckily hubby got it working each time.

You may think, why did you need it working again, you have a new one.

Well I am the worlds worst procrastinator....I didn't download my photos :-0

They are safe and hopefully sound in my external hard drive now.

I would have been so upset if I didn't get that done, and it would have been my own fault.

I have not only all the photos of my family on there, I also have all the photos of my cards, mini books, videos and crafts on there.

Onto My Day:

Went out to Walmart with Ashley and Heather during her lunch. I have not been to Walmart for about a 6 months or longer. But Ashley saw some pretty frosted drinking glasses and thought I needed new ones. Yup I bought them :)

Then we went out for lunch in the food court in the mall.

I also say someone from my youth. He was surprised I recognized him, but I usually don't forget a face, no matter how much they have changed.

Chatted on the phone tonight with a blog friend.

Hope you all had a creative day today.

Tracy :)

Simple Tags

You know when you get an idea in your head and just have to try it out.
Well that happens to me a lot. Funny thing is, I usually end up forgetting about it before I get to trying it out.
Ya, ya I know, I should get my sketch book and jot them down.
But my book is down in my scrap/craft room. So what I have been doing is jotting them down on sticky notes, as I always have them in all over the house.

This is one of the ideas I had while I was working last week.
And I wrote it down this time ;)
The idea was to make tags with my chipboard scraps.
It is a tag made only with scraps.

I have so many little pieces of thick book board or chipboard left over from my mini albums and wanted to use them up.
Also lots of scraps, and I mean lots of scraps.
Chipboard letters that I have NEVER used.
Adhesive and of course my hand made tissue tape :)

I cut the chipboard with my Tim Holtz on the edge die, but you don't have to.
Cover the chipboard and the chipboard letter circle with paper, ink the edges and then punch holes in the tag and the circle (so it looks like a button).
Add the embellishments and its good to go :)
 
 Here is the back of the tag.
There is room to write a sentiment or just To: and From:

I have so many small pieces of chipboard, I can probably make one for every gift I give this Christmas.
I was going to make a Christmas one, but I wanted to share it on my blog....and nothing Christmasy til December.......wonder if I can last till then, lol.

Hope you all had a creative day :)

Tracy :)

Hand made tissue tape.

I got to play a bit today.
Well actually I could have played all day, but I ....actually I really didn't do to much but laze around.
I was jumping around on YouTube and blogs last week and came across this cool idea.
How to make your own tissue tape.  
Sadly I don't recall which blog it was though. Plus she called it washi tape.

Here is the finished card I made with my homemade tissue tape.

 First you will need some two way (double sided) tape. I used the left over tape from when we put the plastic on the windows of our camp. You could use sticky strip, or score tape, or any other 2 way tape with a film on it. You will also need tissue paper, stamp, ink and scissors.

Next you are going to adhere your tissue paper onto your two way tape.
Then trim the overhang off.

Then stamp, and stamp and stamp :)

 The hearts were neat, but I wanted to take it up a notch.
So what I did was after I adhered the tissue paper, I inked the tissue with tea dye distress ink.
Then stamped the tape measure stamp with vintage photo.
I love how this turned out :)

I inked around the edges of tissue before adhering it to the card front.
As you can see, I didn't line these ones up perfectly, but I like this look.
Just think of the endless possiblities....coloured tissue paper or pattern tissue paper.

I wrapped crochet cotton around the bobbin.

And this is the money shot ;)

Again here is the finished card :)


Onto My Day:
Slept in again, even with the time change, teehee. I love weekends ;)
Heather got me to watch GRIMM. Oh it was really good. I think I have to add this show of my must sees.
Only downfall is it is on Friday Night, which is my scrap booking night. So I will have to watch it online.

Walking Dead is on, so I have to run and enjoy my zombies ;)

Tracy :)

I think I may have made a mistake ;)

         This was the view from our backyard tonight.
Doesn't that look eerie and beautiful at the same time.
I looks more blue in the photo, but to the actual eye it is more black/grey.
     
Onto My Day:

I slept in ahhhhhh.
Actually I only slept in for a bit, but then just relaxed in bed for a loooong time...why.....because I could ;)
Then Heather, Kristy and I checked out an open house at the end of our street.
They built 2 new homes. So we checked it out.
It is 1800sq.feet, it has 3 bedrooms, 3 full baths, attached garage. The basement was unfinished except for one of the bathrooms and the laundry room (which was huge, it was as big as a bedroom).
They were asking $398000.00!!!! I know the house market right now is crazy, but wow.
I joked with the kids that we should sell our house (we would make nice profit) and live at our cottage until the house market gets better, lol.  But a 2 hour commute one way would be a bit much, lol.
The girls told me we should buy it.
But I told them I couldn't buy a house so close to our home. You can see ours from the livingroom.
I would be sad seeing another family living in our home. Is that wierd?

Ran to Michael's. They had some beautiful Christmas papers in. Sadly I didn't get any as I have 2 sterilite containers full of just Christmas paper.
But I did do an online purchase....are you proud of me, lol.
I bought the new Tim Holtz holiday distress inks, oh and a few distress inks that I didn't have, oh and some of his distress crackle paint. I HAD spend $50.00 to get free shipping....even though I am going over the border to pick them up, lol.
I think I made a mistake. I got a new visa card just for online shopping. I made sure it has a smaller limit just in case someone hacks it. Yes I am paranoid.

Hope you all had a creative day today. The most creative I got was putting away all my supplies for last night ;)

Tracy :)

Come walk with me

After my walk this morning, I was chilled to the bone.

Even after my hot, hot shower, I still couldn't get warm.

So Heather made me some hot chocolate :)

 I thought I would share my morning walk with you :)
I drive Kristy to school in the morning, then head to Lynne's house for our walk.
I know it is coming to an end, as I hate the cold, my body just doesn't like it at all.
This is part of the country road we walk down, this is at the top of the hill.

 Look at this house. It is hard to tell, but it is actually built into the hill. Only the front is visible, the rest is under ground.
See the frost on the ground....told you it was cold.

 We usually tap the sign when we get to the end of the road.
This is Lynne, she didn't want her face on here. We don't look our best in the morning, lol.
But she wanted you to know that "Yes us Canadians do wear toques and love our Canadian attire", teehee.

 Look very closely.
Do you see the deer hiding in the bush.
Every morning during our walk we see a few deer right in the open, or in a yard eating the apples that fell off the trees.
But because I had my camera with me we didn't see any right out in the open.
This guy was hiding on us.
                                                
 Lastly here is the McIntyre river or that we walk over.
We don't actually walk over it, we really just walk on the bridge ;)

So do you feel like you got a good work out, lol.
I think you must have burnt a few calories during our walk, so go and treat yourself, have some chocolate, or a donut, lol.
I am finished my work for month end :)
Tonight was Scrapbooking Friday. Sharon and Lynne came by. Sharon worked on a couple of Christmas layouts and Lynne tried to organize her stickers.  Me, I put the finishing touches on a mini album kit for Jamie. Sorry it has taken me so long, yes I suck when it comes to mailing things out.
So tomorrow I am hoping to clean the house and work on my mini album for the design team :)

Hope you all had a creative day today.

Tracy :)