Creative Cafe Give-Away

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Clear Scraps Give-Away:

Click on this title to go to Irene's (Scrapperlicious) blog to learn more about the Clear Scraps Mini Acrylic Give Away. These little albums are adorable and you can win some by spreading the word of the contest. Irene is a DT member with Clear Scraps and you should see the awesome work she does with their products!!

Here is a recent layout I finished today for another example of my Rub-On Challenge I host at SB.com:

I am hoping to do more scrapping tonight. I was suppose to be working overtime tonight but was called at the last minute (just as I was about to walk out the door to leave) and told I wasn't needed. Now my daughter wants me to go to the movies with her and her boyfriend so they can watch the R-rated horror movie, My Bloody Valentine. YUK! I'm hoping I can worm my way out of it and just stay home and scrap.

Lots of New Layouts:

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I've been busy scrapping for several challenges on the boards. This one was for a Color Challenge & Quote Challenge on SB.com and also for the Six Times The Fun Challenge on Your Memories By Design. I did a lot of my favorite techniques on this one and of course flowers.





This is a 2-pager that I made using Heather's Sketch on YMBD. I really liked her design and thought it worked well with the Acapulco pics taken back in 2004.



This layout was made for the Quote Challenge on SB.com. The patterned papers were scraps but a perfect match to the covers on my daughter's bed. I added lots of doodles and was happy to use up some more of my eyelets. I think we are all trying to use up our eyelet stash since most of use are brad lovers...hehehe.


This layout was made for GroovyDeb's Tea Challenge on her blog and for the Inanimate Loves Challenge on YMBD. The design was inspired by a recent layout by Emily Powers in the Memory Maker's magazine. It's not a lift but I did use some similar elements.

Until next time,
Nik

I CLEANED my Scrap Den!!

I haven't seen this countertop in sooooo long. My daughters helped a little and it didn't take me too long.


I put away a lot of supplies and embellies that I've been buying and also tried to sort through my ribbons. I stored away the large seasonal ribbons that I rarely use and threw away the empty rolls and tried to straighten out my wall shelves.


I also think it helped my creativity. Here's the layout I made after I finished my cleaning.
I made it as another example for my Rub-It-In Challenge at SB.com and for the recent challenge at Gutter Girlz using "Still Hurting" as a theme and also using sewing pins. I used Pencil Lines Sketch #113 for the design. I love their sketches!! This is my sweet mother-in-law holding my baby girl. It's been over two months since we lost her and yes, I'm still hurting. I've been thinking of her a lot lately so I'm really glad I decided to join their challenge. Thanks Gutter Girls for the inspiration!!!

Happy New Year Scrappers!!!

Some more new LOs:

I'm scrapping away. I love this patterned paper I bought at CKC this year. Finally getting around to using it.
I'm going to try and scrap as much as possible before I return to work.















Here's one of me and dh on our wedding day. I used it as an example for my Rub-It-In Challenge at SB.com. Hope everyone is having a creative day!

Here's my first Layout in almost a month:

I made it for the December Cosmo Cricket Challenge and the Leave Me In Stitches Challenges at SB.com. It's a simple LO but I was happy to get back into the swing of things. I'm tired of laying around the house.

Blessings!
Nik

If anyone has ever lost a child....

then you know what I am going through.

I know I haven't been online lately but for good reason. I finished my three weeks of training at the Police Academy but on the day before my graduation, I was admitted into the hospital. I was pregnant but did not know it. I was having severe lower abdominal pain and the leaders forced me to go to the hospital. Good thing. I was pregnant in the right tube and I had to have emergency surgery. The baby was inside the right tube and they had to remove that one AND they went ahead and removed the left tube because they said it was severely damaged and bleeding.

I was by myself and very emotional but happy to be alive. The doc said I might would have died had I not came in. My husband and I weren't planning on having more children but we weren't prepared for all of this. I'm still emotional but getting better everyday. My husband just acts like it never happened. I guess he's still dealing with the death of his mother. He never even mentions the baby.

Please pray for me and my family during this difficult time. This is our fourth child we have lost and I think I'm having a harder time with this loss because I know I will never have another child.

I am out of work until the 6th of January and will probably return to work on light duty. I am planning on cleaning my scraproom tomorrow and starting some new layouts. Scrappin' always seems to be good therapy for me so I am looking forward to drowning myself in creativity.

Until next time, God Bless!

Nik