Scarlett Charms

2 more kits coming to Scrap Cloud soon!

2006-08-23T08:18:00.000-07:00

Who would I like to change places with, and why!

2006-08-22T09:38:00.000-07:00

I'm gonna have to be generic here. I'd love to change places with any number of the hot scrap designers out there today. I'd love to crawl around in their brain and see their creativity from start to finish...How cool would that be?

Wow! 2 kits went live this week!

2006-08-21T10:42:00.000-07:00

I never told anyone. I was accepted as a designer at www.scrapcloud.com!!! Feels great! I'm so psyched to do this! Whether others like my art or not, I've always been a creative person by nature! I love designing things. I had (and still o) hoped to go to school to pursue a degree in graphic or web design. Anyways, back to the kits! My first 2 kits went into the shop!

Citrus Kiss

Nevermind

It feels good to be doing this. I love being creative, anything above and beyond this being a creative outlet is just icing on the proverbial cake!!! If you happen to purchase either of these...let me know what you think and send me a link to one of your LOs!! I'd be so appreciative!!

If I could make a fantasy camp...

2006-08-21T10:38:00.000-07:00

Hmmm...Fantasy Camps are all the rage right now! If I could design a fantasy camp it would be a graphic designers paradise...all of the newest techie gadgets, a PC per person, and all you can eat junk food to help the creative juices flow! I'd have each person design a billboard, magazine ad, paper product or website of their choice. That sounds like heaven!!

10 "atainable" goals for my family

2006-08-15T08:37:00.000-07:00

1. I want my kids to learn to be more appreciative and humble, we've lost that in the younger generations, and it's time for a comeback!

2. I will start taking better care of all of our "stuff". I tend to let things go, then get mad and just toss things out or give them away instead of actually utilizing and taking care of them.

3. My husband and I will have our Master Suite finished!!!

4. To become more organized and get the house in order.

5. We will find more time for "us". Unhappy, fighting, grumpy people do not make award winning or even mediocre parents! My husband and I need to each find our seperate "happy places" and our couple "happy place" and go there as often as we can manage with 4 kids and 2 jobs!

6. For my husband to get the proverbial "ducks in a row", so that he can fullfill his dream of starting his own business sometime in the next few years.

7. Give the kids weekly chores, make sure they DO the weekly chores, and hopefully find a few minutes more for myself as well as teaching them to be more helpful.

8. My kids need to learn how to be more self-sufficient. I think I'm doing something wrong, when my 7 year old still needs me to lay out clothes for bed AND school.

9. Get all of our medical bills paid off.

10. I aim to have a new camera and PS CS2. I consider this a family purchase even though I'm the main user, because I want to leave a lasting, tangible, and meaningful legacy for my children, grandchildren, and all future generations. I know that even though my husband doesn't always "get" my obsession, er...love of scrapping, he does agree that what I'm doing is a good thing! (Hey, getting them to admit that is the first step, right?)

Top 5 things I stink at...

2006-08-04T20:17:00.000-07:00

1. Cleaning...one look at my house and you'd agree! I just can't stay on top of it. I can get it into a semi-stable enviorment, but it's never really CLEAN clean. I hate that about myself. My best friend is a clean "freak" and I really wish I was, but its so hard woth 4 kids, a husband, and 4 daycare kids on top of that! I try, I really do!

2. Saying NO! I am notorious for overcommitting, or just plain old committing and complaining about it to anyone who'll listen. I tend to not feel validated unless I have 4 people who NEED me to do something for them, but I'm so passive agressive...because after committing, I sit and complain about how I hate being tied down to so many things...it's a viscious cycle I hope to stop...someday...

3. Nurturing my relationships and keeping in touch with loved ones. I tend to live in my own little world, and unless others step into it, iIm not one to go out on my own. I've been trying to be more social, but again, with 4 kids, it's just hard to find "me" time. Thank goodness for the internet. I've met some great women, and I hope even 2 or 3 of them feel as fondly of me as I feel about them. I have vowed to start keeping up a weekly corrrespondance with my out of town friends, and attempting a monthly night out with my girl friends who live close by, and I've even beem trying to get on the chat rooms and IM my internet friends more often.

4. Laundry! I't a never ending chore...I can get it to the laundry room, into the washer, and even into the dryer and into a basket, but that seems to be all the farther it gets. Folding with a two year old is like plowing in a blizzard...basically pointless, but atleast it makes you feel as if you're making headway.

5. Enjoying the little things...I watch my mom and my grandma with my kids and I can't wait to be a grammy. They say it's wonderful...no strain of the day to day raising of a child....just pure enjoyment without consequence. I wish I could slow myself down, and regain some patience so I could stop and play Boggle with Seth, have a dress-up tea party with Leah, read Who Wants a Dragon? 80 times in a row to Isaac, and sit and rock Ruby as I kiss her small cheek and sing You Are My Sunshine to her...but there never seems to be enough hours in the day...

I'm sick...really!

2006-08-01T08:05:00.000-07:00

Oh, I'm getting a terrible cold. It started with sneezing and a sore throat on Saturday...and today I'm feeling weak, light-headed, my throat is scratchy, my nose is runny...blah! It's August...who gets a cold in AUGUST? I hope it goes away quickly, just got my CT assignments for SS and I just don't feel creative today! :)

One famous person I'd like to have dinner with is...

2006-07-18T04:53:00.000-07:00

Margaret Mitchell. Regrettably, she is deceased, but I still find her completely fascinating! She is the author of Gone With the Wind. My all-time FAVORITE book. I read it once a year and thoroughly enjoy it every time! If you've never read it, you should! It is a great read both as a fictional novel, but also as a historical novel as well. The Civil War era in the United States was a scary and confusing time, and Margaret Mitchell did a wonderful job in making it all seem so real and giving a very thoughtful retrospect of a lot of real events. I doubt you'd ever read such an insightful view of this time in America. I'd love to meet and chat with the mind behind such a superbly written historical piece of literature. I know her story is fictional, but it is set in such a historically accurate setting that it reads almost as a non-fictional tale. Her way with character writing helps this fact a lot! Ms. Mitchell knew how to write a heroine. Scarlett O'Hara is the girl you love to hate and hate to love! So assign, if you have never done so, grab a copy of Gone With the Wind and try it out, I promise you'll not be sorry, maybe you'll decide that YOU'D like to have dinner with Margaret Mitchell as well!

New LO..."Leah"...and other ramblings!

2006-07-13T06:27:00.000-07:00

Credits:

"Beyond Beauty" kit by Stacey Jewell Stahl
The fonts are:beast and another hand font

I did this layout yesterday. This is my daughter, Leah. She turned 4 in November. She's such a wondeful person! I can't believe how big she's getting. She is my 2nd born, and my oldest daughter. I love that she's so much herself in this picture, slightly dirty but in a dress, typical Leah fashion. Oh, and she did her own hair! She's growing up too fast! :(

So, I've had my PSE 4 for 9 days now and I'm already obsessed with digital scrapping! It is so free and clean! Which is great as a mother of 4 crazy, handsy, and rambunctious children! I love the Undo function, and the freedom I have to manipulate elements and photos! Wish I'd known about this 7 years ago. While I still love the tactile side of paper scrapping, I think digital is for me!

I think I'm getting better! I'm loving all of the tutorials I'm finding. I even made a grossgrain ribbon on Tuesday! Yeah me! :) I wonder what the average time frame is for people to be fairly proficient at PSE? I'd love to hear some comments...how long did it take you to feel pretty confident with your software? If you design, how long after your first digital LO, were you making kits and/or elements? I've already dabbled in making my own papers, which is fairly easy for a basic look, but I'm at a loss as how to use "brushes". Guess that will be one of my next mountains to climb!

What sort of strange pet would I want, you ask?(okay, maybe you DIDN'T ask... :P)

2006-07-13T06:13:00.000-07:00

Hmmm...good question...I'm allergic to most anything with dander IE; anything with fur. Birds are very cool, but seem messy and require a LOT of attention from what I've heard, and since I have 4 kids, time is not an abundant resource in this house! I'm thinking some sort of aquatic animal...OH! I've got it, a seahorse...what can be better than a species where the male gives birth? :)

Seahorses are beautiful animals, and seem to come in a lot of wonderful colors. I wonder if they are hard to take care of? Maybe I should look into really getting one!

Here is an interesting link for seahorses...
http://www.seahorse.com/The_News/Latest_News/Come_shake_hands_with_a_pregnant_male_sea_horse!!/

or this...
http://www.ugoto.com/pictures/themajesticseahorse.html

Either way, it seems to be an interesting choice, if I was, indeed, in the market for a new pet!

New Computer

2006-07-05T05:28:00.000-07:00

WelllI finally got my new computer. My 27th birthday was July 1st, my husband, Eli, surprised me with a brand new computer and new 3 in 1 Canon photo printer. We were planning on buying a new computer, but my mom was going to let us borrow half and we were going to use part of our "still to come" tax refund, to buy it. Wel, Eli got a side job with his friend doing a deck and another side job with another friend to help finish a basement...he even had my mom and mother-in-law secretly getting info from me on what tyope of computer I wanted! So imagine my surprise when he comes walking in the house with 3 HUGE wrapped gifts! With 4 kids we have RARELY gotten each other gifts on any special occasion...I was so happy, but the sweetest gift he got me was a new Crown Tail Beta. I had a beta who dies a few weeks ago, and I was really upset. I am not a "pet person" so to speak, but I really loved that fish, he was actually my son Seth's fish, but I sort of adopted him as my own. My son Seth got him on the last day of school during his Kindergarten year, so 1 year ago. He was the classroom fish, and Seth's teacher let us take him home. So anyway, Eli really surprised me twice in one day...that is a record for him!

I got my computer up and running and have installed the trial version of Photoshop...my mom is buying me the full version as a present when she is back from her vacation. I made my 1st LO last night...here it is..

It's very basic, but I literally just got the program and did the LO within about 3 hours time...I'm finding Photoshop trickier than I thought! I'm hoping I'll really get the hang of it soon!

Credits:
SPLENDID by Shabby Princess
(c) 2006 Shabby Princess Designs of http://www.shabbyprincess.com/ and/or http://www.theshabbyshoppe.com/
Contact:
princess@shabbyprincess.com --or-- princess@theshabbyshoppe.com

New Start

2006-05-23T12:37:00.000-07:00

I've been paper scrapping for almost 7 years now. I loved it from day one. I fear I'll never be caught up. It's the nature of the beast I suppose! I love the hands on feel of paper scrapping, but I also get frutrated with not being able to fine tune layouts and products to my specific needs. Digital scrapbooking has just recently caught my eye and rehydrated my creative juices! I'm hoping to dive into digital scrapping in the coming weeks. It looks really fun and creative...2 things I adore! I haven't even done a layout and I'm already getting an itch to design my own papers and elements! Who hasn't been in a scrapbooing store for hours searching for THE perfect paper, only to be disappointed and leave empty handed? Well that might be a thing of the pasat for THIS scrapbooker!