Wedding... WOW!

I have the BEST-est Friends!!!

I saw this online:

Link Here!

And it's PERFECT for the Rustic-y Celtic feel we're going for at the Wedding.
lol... I am not a tool person and we live in a teeny townhouse with a postage-stamp backyard, so no trees... let alone one to spare! :O)
My friend Eric however lives on a pretty patch of forested swamp and has lots of trees, including a couple down already his wife was 'nudging' him to deal with soon.
So he got out his chainsaw and made us THIS:

I'm really floored... it's perfect!
There will be a 8-9" Dark Chocolate cake on top with our birdie topper:

Rising above a field of dark chocolate fondant covered cupcakes with 2 flat white birds pressed onto each one...
It's going to look great!
Thank-You Eric!!!!

Scrap That Poetry Challenge #23 Ode To the End of Summer

The Poem this week is:

Ode to the End of Summer
by Phyllis McGinley

I used a couple of pictures of Britannia Beach, abandoned once school started last year. It was so eerily quiet that day. No birds even...

Scrapping the Music: We are Going to be Friends...

The months just fly by, don't they?
It's already time for movie week again!
This month we are paying tribute to the movie "Napoleon Dynamite," with the song "We Are Going To Be Friends" by the White Stripes! We hope you enjoy the song as much as we did!!! - it's got a ton of scrappable lyrics, and the timing seems appropriate with school starting up again in September for lots of folks!

No surprise I've had William in the forefront of most things this past week.
The In-Patient program is going ok, he's not suffering. VERY much not suffering...
They try to make it as fun as possible between all the pokes, prod and tests. He's home for the weekend and crowing to his brothers about picking whatever he wants to eat (off a menu), a room to himself and tons of LEGO (no sharing!). There is still much to do in the next 2-3 weeks he's there but already the decided to try some alternate medication. He was "a bit much" the 1st 2 night. lol... we told them. I'm just happy to have him home, we even get and extra day because it's Labour Day Weekend.

I decided to scrapbook this picture of William. It's one of my favorites... our Nature Boy!
No matter where we go he's into the sidelines... poking around at plants and looking for bugs and other critters. Pocket check before laundry can be... um,... gross, some days. ;OP

ADHD is only part of ME... oh boy! Believe in Yourself.

About a Boy:
William... though you
have ADHD & ODD you are
also the sweetest...
most curious... and yet
loving little boy.

...through the park, by the tree
we will rest upon the ground
and look at all the bugs we've found...

Oh Alice! Girly...

Oh Alice! CHAPTER 28: (taken from "Child of the Pure Unclouded Brow:
preface to "Through the Looking Glass"

hild of the pure unclouded brow
And dreaming eyes of wonder!
Though time be fleet, and I and thou
Are half a life asunder,
Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

I have not seen thy sunny face,
Nor heard thy silver laughter;
No thought of me shall find a place
In thy young life's hereafter -
Enough that now thou wilt not fail
To listen to my fairy-tale.

This week's theme is simply to make a card with a LITTLE GIRL theme:) Alice is such a whimsical free spirit and we LOVE that about her! Channel your inner girlie this week with this great (and free-to-be-you!) challenge!

I saw this challenge and though 'YEEPS!'... I'm in trouble!
With 4 boys and not really being a girly-girl myself I knew it would be a toughie.
So... here she is:
Time for Tea from Tiddly Inks Digi-Stamp.
Markers: Stampin'Up!
Rubber Stamps: Close to My Heart (lace and sentiment)
Bling-y Butterflies, flowers and stamps... gifted scrappin' supplies from a friend.

Macabre Monday HDH054: Creepy Cute

HDH054 - Creepy Cute

Ok, my little pretties... your challenge this week:
Creepy Cute

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween page, project or card using cute images, but on the darkside. Turn something adorable into something abominable... something delightful into something devious... something cute into something creepy. Or just grab one of TI's Gothic cute images and start coloring ;)

I didn't grab a Tiddly Inks Gothic Cute image...
BUT
I did use Tiddly Inks: Time for Tea!
I decided to take her from cute-to-creepy...
All coloring: Stampin' Up! powder pastel with a wet pen.
Chipboard Embellies: Scenic Route
Spiderweb Ribbon: Martha Stewart
Pattern Paper: Basic Grey

Is it Halloween Time yet????

OPH: Hitting the Books...

It's Thursday!!!
Time for the newest One Powerful Hour weekly Challenge...
This week it was MY pick:



Hitting the Books:
Back to School... Back to Books... and Teacher's Dirty Looks!
Make something 'Book' related... have fun!

One of the most visual quotes I've ever heard: Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
~Sr Francis Bacon~
I created a Postcard for this weeks theme Hitting the Books.
All edges sanded and inked...
The back ground image was faded, then I hand colored in some of the key elements: napkin, cutlery & plate.
The books are mounted on cereal box board, 3D Crystal Lacquered and then attached (at 2 heights) with scrap EZ-mount foam.

ARTastic DT Project for September

pssssttt...
If your a newbie to ARTastic let Shazza know I sent you!
Then let me know by leaving a comment below...
I'm going to put together a Goodie Bag and draw from the list of anyone who does this. So what's to lose? Give it a go!

Septembers inspiration will come from the painting......

Frida Kahlo - Self Portrait with Monkey

Diva demand for an extra 6 bonus points, give me ......
1. A photo of you or family member with your pet/pets = 1pt
2. Shades of brown and orange on your layout = 2pts
3. A single tropical flower or plant = 3pts

This is an 'easy peasy' challenge this month, so it would be great to see some of our new followers have a go :)

Cant wait to see this months entries !!!
Please email your layouts compressed/resized for web viewing to shazzaalleyes@hotmail.com

I HAD to scrap my Brandy Gurl... she is my Baby Dog. My Daemon, always following me around.
This picture was taken *the* Christmas Day that Greg proposed. There was sooo much excitement going on around me and she wanted to be close, so she jumped up on the back of the couch and wrapped herself OVER my shoulders, like a puppy-fur collar. She has some claws on her I can tell you, ow! and she's no lap-dog. (husky-chow chow-lab mix)
Please excuse the Bunny nibble out of the bottom left corner... I think Hope was jealous I didn't scrap her. *giggle*
Chatterbox Chipboard tile title & corner pieces, puppy print strips cut from PP, Rub-Ons from Fancy Pants, 7 Gypsies ATC cards (dogs & list) orange Glimmer Misted, Felt flower is a coaster with the princess button in the middle and the Seed Packet was printed of Clip-Art (I cut it big and folded all the edges back to make it look like a 'real' packet... then ripped the corner so it looked used).