The Assignments: Animal Totems - A new e-course from Sissy Sparrows

The Sissy Sparrows girls have developed a new e-course for Visual Journaling. It is amazing. They've worked hard on both the elements and the content. It is a great way to explore yourself in a non-threatening way... through animals.

Check out this gorgeous opportunity and the first set of pages made by the team.












































Jump on the opportunity to get this e-course while it is on sale this weekend. It is a great value, and you'll love exploring!

Calvinball | Game On

So I just happened to stumble across a post from Celeste on Facebook. She mentioned Calvinball, so I had to take a peek and find out what that was all about. It turns out that it is a fun scrapping game at Get It Scrapped where you do a lot of smack-talking, a lot of scrapping, mucho point-tallying and a super lot of watching what is going on because the rules are always changing. There is no prize other than self-satisfaction, but who doesn't need a little of that from time to time? Get It Scrapped is a neat community filled with paper scrappers as well as digi girls. They hold monthly online crops and have a lot of classes and other fun things... like Calvinball. Check it out if you dare... and scrap on!

Here are a couple of pages for the Calvinball gallery

Gardner's Journal by Sissy Sparrows

Gardner's Journal by Sissy Sparrows; Enchanted template by Zoliofrope

The Painted Nest #24 elements by Sissy Sparrows Paint Can No. 5 by Sissy Sparrows; Journal Ink by Vinnie Pearce

Join in the fun... and if you do, mention that I sent you so I can score a point.  :)

November Scraps

We finished up November full of gratitude and thankfulness that everyone was happy and healthy.  Here are some moments captured with November scrap pages.

October Scrap Pages

I've been scrapping a lot lately.  It can sometimes seem crazy to make so many pages, but at other times, I am excited that I've been able to be creative several days a week.  Over at Pixelscrapper, they had a "layout a day" challenge.  My goal for the month was 31, and I met it, which made me happy because I usually don't reach goals.  Here are the pages I created in October.

Pages for Sissy Sparrows...

What I've Been Up To

My poor blog is so neglected.

I've been doing the occasional post over at One Story Down, weekly new-release posts over at Sissy Sparrows, and now a couple of posts a month at My Scrapbook Art's blog Home Is Where the Art Is.

Between blogging at other sites, homework, wrangling a 3-year old, scrapping for creative teams, I didn't think I had much time or energy.  Then my 93-year old Grandma got sick three and a half weeks ago, and I've been advocating for her.  The first week, I took her to the ER three times, and to her doctor once.  I stayed with her a couple of days to make sure she was okay.  The last trip to the ER landed her a hospital admission, so she has been in the hospital since.  She ended up with a pacemaker (that no one proved to me that she really needed), but is on the mend and now transferred to the rehab unit of the hospital so she can regain her strength and work to get back home.

Life has been a blur the last month and a half.  Crazy times.

Here are a few of the layouts I've done to keep myself from losing my sanity.

May's pages so far...

April Pages

Scrap and art journal pages from April...

March Pages

Art Journal and scrap pages from March...