FYI

Bella Blvd is doing a giveaway every day this week on their blog!!
Check it out here!

{how is that for some added excitement to this blog!!}

Well this blog is booooring!

I mean I know that iPod story
was so interesting & all, but I have had a lack of fun projects to post lately.

Don't worry, I've been scrapping!

It's just stuff I can't really share right now.

And I did teach a class at Scrapbook Mania that kept me a little busy.

{and I am working on another one!}

While that is all fun for me, it leaves this ole blog quite dull.

Hopefully this will be solved this weekend when I take an extended weekend with my mom to meet up with some friends to scrapbook!

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On the to do list:

1) Finish this mini that I started a
loooong time ago.
I started this one not long after I did my first marathon (well it was the first of 2).
And I ran that one in 2008...January 2008.

It's so old I had to wipe dust off of it when I got it off the shelf!

2) Play with these new Bella Blvd goodies!

3) Come up with a challenge for the KI blog.

My day is September 6th...Labor Day!

I think a "working" challenge may be in order.

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After that, who knows what I will do!

But I've got a stack of pictures printed so there will hopefully be more interesting blog material coming soon!

{please do not hold your breath though!}

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Happy Monday good people!
:)
gretchen

It still works!

It's a technology miracle!

So I left my ipod Shuffle + earphones on top of my car after running at the park.

I heard them slide off the car after turning onto busy road at rush hour.

Frantically I turned around & drove back only to watch several cars drive over them.

I said to heck with it, turned back around & headed home.

But I thought about it a minute & figured that surely it was not smart to leave $75 laying in the middle of the road without at least trying to save it.

{plus it was a gift from Lee}

So I turned around again.

I saw more cars drive right over my pretty pink Shuffle.

I parked my car in a lot next to the busy road full of cars.

I waited all sweaty on the side of the road for a break in traffic.

I watched more cars run over the pretty pink Shuffle.

As soon as a break in traffic came, I darted into road.

I grabbed my Shuffle.

The earphones were farther away & flattened for sure.

There was no saving them.

The Shuffle looked a little battered but not flattened.

I tried a different pair of earphones.

And it still works like a charm!

{photo in road for visual effects only. i might be a crazy scrapbooker but i am not dumb enough to risk my life in traffic to get my Shuffle AND take a picture of that. no way jose! i just took this one in the road by my house. you know, perfectly safe!
kids: do not try this at home.}

It was a sure sign that this weekend is going to be fabulous!
I hope yours is also!
:)
gretchen

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THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO CAME OUT FOR MY CLASS THIS AFTERNOON AT SCRAPBOOK MANIA!!

IT WAS FUN!!
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Shutterfly winners!!

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random integers, generated with replacement:

 8
10
 5

Timestamp: 2010-08-18 03:46:30 UTC
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Which makes these fabulous girls the winners of some free Shutterfly cards:

gimmegodiva said...

well, I had to go back several posts... I had missed them! So you are not a blogger slacker.... it is just not updating!
anyway! I have used sf for 4x6 pics and have always been pleased!
so pick me! :)

August 12, 2010 6:25 PM

Anonymous said...

I love Shutterfly Studio. The collages are great for scrapping. Should I be lucky enough to win your giveaway, I may have to create some cards introducing my new grandson and re-introducing his big sister. Carolyn Bertram :)

August 17, 2010 8:26 PM

Michele said...

With baby Nick's arrival coming VERY SOON, I could definitely use some announcements from Shutterfly! :)

August 14, 2010 10:58 AM

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YAY!!

So Carol, Carolyn, & Michele please email me and I will give you the super secret code for your 12 free 5x7 cards!

Thanks for playing along everybody!!

:)

gretchen

All about the pockets

I am loving these new pockets from KI!

They were the Focus On this past Friday on
the KI blog.

Of course I had to make something!

Supplies: Pocket page, border sticker, patterned paper, black glitter paper, & "scribbles" are all NEW KI Memories!!

Mickey punch: EK Success

I used one of the 12x12 pocket pages to hold a bunch of memorabilia from the 2008 Disney marathon that I had kept stashed away in a shoebox.

I like it scrapped rather than all hidden in a box under my bed!

I think I am going to need some more of these pocket pages!
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I will close the Shutterfly giveaway Tuesday night so make sure to comment for a chance to win!
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That's all I've got!

:)
gretchen

Birmingham peeps...

What are you doing next Saturday (8/21)??
Wanna come hang out at Scrapbook Mania & take a class or two?

There is a Back to School Party going on from 11:00 until the store closes.

Christine is teaching a cards class at 11:00.

I am teaching a layout class at 1:00.

And then we will be partying after that class until India kicks us out!
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My class is "Playing with your Circle Punch"!
We are going to make 2 layouts and learn a couple of fun techniques that you can do with your circle punch.
We will also be doing a couple of other fun techniques too!

Here are couple of teasers for ya!

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So who is coming?!?!!
I hope to see some familiar faces!
:)
gretchen

Good try

I just got a copy of the September issue of Creating Keepsakes.

{the layout on the front is way cute!}

When I got to the sketch section I realized that I had submitted a layout for that sketch & never shared it here.

I am quite the fan of sketches so I always try to submit something!

This one, my friends, was not my best attempt.

But I love the sketch!

But my layout, eh...
Let's just say that I have done better. Supplies: Patterned paper (My Mind's Eye-red, striped & Jenni Bowlin-stars), Die cut stars (My Mind's Eye), Alphabets/number stickers (KI Memories-"13.1", Making Memories-"Blues"), Chipboard bracket (KI Memories), Die cut alphabet (Making Memories Slice-"MS"), Pen (American Crafts), Bling (Heidi Swapp for Advantus)

The layouts in the magazine are much better!
Mine was a good try & at least I got this event scrapbooked!
Better luck time!
{pssst...guess what??!!...next month i do have a layout in the sketch section of CK!}

TGIF people!

I am going to celebrate Lee's 33rd birthday!

The Shutterfly giveaway below is still going on & I will draw a winner next week.

Have a great weekend!
:)
gretchen