A new week and some new shouts!

My friend Bela from CROPPERSTIMEZONE frequently hosts Kards for Kids which members of her group participate in to donate the cards to TORONTO SICK KIDS HOSPITAL! These cards bring such joy to everyone! The kids have access to them so they can send a card to someone and the staff have access to them to add some joy to someones day!
Altered notebooks are great for taking notes and memos about medications etc! I crated the notebooks above and also some of the cards for Bela to take to SICK KIDS! I love the idea of giving joy to someone with something that brings me joy!
If you would like to be part of a down-to-earth group come over and say hello to Bela, myself and the other wonderful girls!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cropperstimezone/

Many of the projects i do are done on the go! I bring something to do on the bus and on my breaks! The UHU glue stik comes in handy for this! It is small, portable and reliable! No worry of messes or spills! The cards and 4 small notebooks were done on the go and the UHU glue stik never let me down! I also recieved a sample of UHU TAC and discovered it is great for popping embelishments on cards! you can use as little as you want (no cutting of adhesives to make the sticky smaller) When making kards for the kids embellishments and small pieces cannot be added to the cards so I dont have a UHU TAC Embellished card to show at this time! UHU TAC is great to attach "works of art" to the fridge and to post reminders!
Wishing you all a happy scrappy day!

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/