one more altered jar!

I was browsing for some ideas for an altered lunch-box and my journey brought me to this site called " some assembly required " (http://www.alter-nativefun.blogspot.com/ ! I didnt find a lunch-box but i did find a challenge for beads! I cant resist a challenge so i had to give in!

I handpicked the green and clear beads out of a jar of multicolored beads so i could adhere them to the chipboard scallop! The bottom pic is a close-up of how i accented one of the jar handles!

This was a fun project to do! I hope you will browse on over and take a look at some awesome work!

Have a happy scrappy day!

Altered card box with cards

I was honored to have had this set of cards and altered card box chosen as LOTD (layout of the day) at Scrapperie! The box is altered with American Crafts pattern paper and the cards are predominately made with American Crafts ( pattern paper and ribbon) the sentiments are from my stash and the flowers were purchased from The Scrapping Bug!

Scrapperie is hosting a Scrap-olympics! The challenges are fun and they run until August 31!

in a slump!

gosh, i've been so busy away from the house doing other activities besides scrapping, so i'm behind in my posting updates! I'll be back ..........!

Fighting boredom one challenge at a time

Bless my mess! Crop till you drop!! Scrap, don't nap!


Come join me this Friday for the Friday Night Boredom Fighters crop at Scrapadilly! Guaranteed a good time and a funtime! Check it out here: http://www.scrapadilly.com/scrapadilly_web/Home.html

Tell them Jo-Ann sent ya!

Taaaa Daaaah!

It's almost Back To School Time and with that in mind who wouldn't want a Mini Lunchbag Album to put together!

Thanks to everyone who gave me suggestions for my jars!

With no further ado the winner of the rak is .......... MO! Congratulations!

Hostess for Scrap Central

Caribanna Challenge!


I was asked if i wanted to be the Hostess for the month of August at Scrap Central! ( http://www.scrapcentral.ca/index.html ) What an honor and what fun! For week 1 i issued a scraplift challenge with the focus being on the colors of the Caribanna Festivities!

There's still time to get your name in for the rak! I'll keep this open till Sunday midnite and will post the winner on Monday after work!


I got my first award from my blogging friend Cathy ( mamasheg)
As a recipient I’m to do the following:
Send the award to only 5 people. 4 of the recipients have to be dedicated followers of your blog.
One has to be someone new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the world.
You must link back to whoever gave you the award.

Here’s 5 blog friends that I’d like to pass this on to:

Bela ( her site was the first i belonged to, met her on facebook ) http://belascreatingplace.blogspot.com/

Carla ( soon i can say " i knew her when ......!!!!) http://moralia.wordpress.com/

Mo ( met her at " Oceans of memories"( now closed ) We go to a lot of crops together! http://papergirl-mo.blogspot.com/

Donna ( her scrappy style inspires me ) http://busyscrapper.blogspot.com/

Jany ( just getting to know her ) http://scrapbookandmoremania.blogspot.com/

Your Lucky Day!!

More mix than match!!
I had these jars sitting around for quite awhile and today i felt like altering them!
I plan on using them eventually when i have my big open house sale in late November!

I plan on filling them with something and i need some trippy ideas! Can you envision anything in these? I would really appreciate any ideas and to show my appreciation i will send a small rak to someone at random! Looking forward to seeing some funky ideas!
I had to do a quick edit here: I got an email from a friend who said " Why dont you fill the jars with bright condoms"!! LMAO!! Thank you Dianne for making my day!