Why Do Now What You Can Procrastinate Until Tomorrow?

Yahoo!!!! I finally finished my daughter's mini book. Now I'm pondering what to work on. Perhaps my photography skills. I have a wonderful new little point and shoot that my family gave me for Christmas and I'm still trying to learn all it's features. Please bare with me as I learn and excuse the quality of any photos I post for the next several weeks.

Back to the mini. The base of the book is a 9X9 Bo Bunny refill for a chipboard book. Found it on clearance somewhere and figured I would use it some day for something. I covered nearly all of the pages with paper and embellies from one of my Scarlet Lime Frugal Fab kits, (sorry, can't remember which month). It's a mixture of Crate Paper Cottage Collection, some Lost & Found from My Mind's Eye, I'm pretty sure there's some Pink Paisley in there and a few miscellaneous items I had in my stash or picked up at my LSS last weekend.

  
I had a blast making the cover. Really though, I had a blast making the entire book. Right now I seem to have an over abundance of ribbon. I used nearly an entire package of fibers from a Basic Grey kit. I think it's Pheobe, but I'm not sure. Come to think of it, that paper would have been great for this book. Now I'm in the mood to make something with those papers.

As you can tell I'm pretty eclectic in my crafts. Whether it's old or new, I might use just one line entirely or mix and match, (at least I try to make it match), from several different companies.

You can't deny it, she is definitely cute.





 And a trouble maker.

But we love her dearly.


Thanks for stopping by.

Susan

 

A Day with the Girls

I'm trying to stay on track. Still working on the mini for my daughter and I've got one other project in the cooker. Not really that I'm cooking anything but if I were this project would be in the slow cooker. Today I'm headed to my fAVORIte LSS. Actually it's our only scrapbook store in about a three county area but A Scrapbook Store and More would be on my bestest list even if we had twenty stores in the area. Paula is a wonderful hostess and she carries a huge variety of product.


I hope to get some pictures posted today. I'm taking my camera with me. I have an entire day of cropping with my BFF's, (Jackie and Cheryl). I love scrapping with them because I always learn something new. So off to the store. I'm really looking forward to my girl's day out.

Keep Crafting.

Susan

Distracted As Usual

As Usual I've gotten off track yet again. The blog design is about as done as is going to be, at least for a while. I've got it up and running and added a few touches to make it my own. That was my goal and it's wonderful to check something off the to do list.

My current project is a mini album for my oldest daughter. Months ago she asked for a mini that features her dog. I started it a couple of weeks ago but had to set it aside while I worked on an academic planner for her. Today has been all about helping her with some school assignments and now I'm sitting in my room on a self imposed time out. I just love being the grown up with the power to restrict activity. Oops, got off track there.

While I have no beautiful masterpieces to share with you today I did want to tell you about an online class I just signed up for. Christy Tomlinson over at The Scarlet Lime is launching her She Art Workshop beginning next month. Christy's work has inspired me to try new and unconventional art forms. Maybe not really unconventional but at least very nontraditional for me. Last month Christy featured a tutorial on using canvas in a mixed media project. The project sparked something in me and I made three canvas projects for Christmas presents. I absolutely love this art form and I'm incorporating my own style into the form by scrapbooking layouts on canvas using all different forms of media. I'm LOVIN' IT!

That's about all for today. Want to get back to my time out.

Hope you too can find some inspiration to get you crafting today. 

Susan

The Distractible Scrapper. A Short Explanation.

I love all things paper crafted and I’m always looking for new design concepts and projects. This however gets me off task, hence the name, “The Distractible Scrapper”. But don’t be fooled. My distractible nature can be tempted by many things, not just new ideas. Email, family, the phone, my daughter’s cute dachshund, (aka my grand dog), or a need for a coffee refill can take me from scrapping to cleaning in nothing flat.


Can you relate? You start working on a new layout when you realize your coffee’s cold, you go for a refill and from the corner of your eye spy a pair of your daughter’s shoes, you take them to her closet and can’t help but grab an armful of laundry, then you head to the washer, but you’re out of detergent so you make a detour to the notepad on your desk to make a grocery list which later will include the dairy products you noticed missing after you clean out the fridge, next you wash the leftover containers and start off to the grocery store. Five hours later the house is clean, shopping’s done, laundry’s folded and put away and you’re wondering why you have a caffeine withdrawal headache. Sound typical? Then maybe you too are a Distractible Scrapper. If so, don't despair. It's ok. You're probably like millions of other crafty people. I'm sure it's a sign of genius.



Still I keep wondering how it’s possible to produce any kind of project when I’m constantly getting off tract. From layouts to minis and mixed media to altered trinkets, my desire to create blooms through the distractions. It’s as though the need to create is innate and I can’t resist the urge to make something artsy with my hands.


If your nature is similar to mine and you're easily diverted but also have the urge to create, you have my blessings and also my sympathies. It can be difficult but I find it necessary to carve myself some uninterrupted time to create.  Hopefully, somewhere in the middle of your distractions, you too will find your own uninterrupted time to make masterpieces of your own.

I've Got a Blog. Now What?

My friends Cheryl and Jackie have been on me for years to start a blog. I've done it, so now what? Honestly, I've got a lot to learn, how to edit, upload photos, and disciplining myself to post.

I'll get started by letting you know that most of the creating I'll be doing over the next few days will be on this blog. Expect changes and don't get used to anything about the current set up. I promise you, it will change.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll stick with me while I transition this blank slate to something entertaining and artful.