better late than never

Check out my "fashionista" blog post here.
Try it yourself at home today.
tired from gardening today.
{from the farm},
j.

what's in your closet?

Giving you a sneak peek at the layouts I created for my next myStampBOX post. I scheduled it tonight for next week sometime, so you'll have to check out their blog EVERYDAY to see it AND the layouts.
I'll give you a little hint: one of the themes given to me was "Colour Combos" and I chose to give it a little "fashion" twist.
Next week I want to introduce you to a new company. I just received a BOX-FULL!!!!!! of product from them today and will be b.u.s.y. next week creating, creating, creating........woo hoo. There's some yummy stuff in there!!!

For now, I'm gonna rest............ 'til tomorrow.

{from the farm},

j.

deck the halls

Feels like Christmas around here because these showed up in the mail today!!!!!!Today I received a box with not 1, not 2, but 8 stamp sets from myStampBOX. Woohoo..........what ever will I create tonight?

Ron didn't quite "get" my excitement; my "oogling" over my new stamps; my drooling & caressing tendencies while I looked at them on the couch in front of him. So.......I led him to the kitchen island, layed a stamp pad infront of him, handed him a stamp on an acrylic block and told him to find out for himself...............



............didn't get the same reaction that I gave, but at least he touched the stamps and "played" in his own way. Way to go, babe!!!! Thanks for humouring me. :)

I'll show off the stamp sets I received in the next few posts -- with some projects, of course.

itching to start creating {from the farm},
j.

old school technique

Just showing you the layout from the sneak peek yesterday. But, instead, I want to walk you through how I created it.

I used this cute, little basket weave with strips of pp to create my background -- so old school, but lots of fun.......again. It's a little tricky trying to keep all the pp from sliding around the cardstock and moving, so I adhered the lhs of the strips directly to the background cardstock. I could then just start weaving my different strips "over & under" to create the basket weave.
When my strips were all in place, I straight-stitched around the entire thing with my sewing machine. I didn't have to adhere anything else yet, as the weave was just staying in place (thanks to the little glue dots I used on the first strips).

Then, I trimmed my pattern paper strips, adhered them to the background & added my 2x2 inch matted photos.
Here's the sticker journalling tag that I trimmed around, matted with a coordinating cardstock & pop-dotted in onto the layout. It's actually covering up my hand, which was resting on my husband's shoulder in this photo. **Looked a little weird -- just a hand sitting there {lol}.

Some embellishments, a title & voila: you got yourself a layout.

my journalling: You test our parenting. We live by faith & example. Our faith is challenged. But we are all ... stronger for it.

have a good day {from the farm},

j.

scissors & swirly things

Check back tomorrow to see why I'm scissor happy with my journalling tags ............. and why i love these swirly chipboard things.

creating-like-crazy {from the farm},

j.

zoom out

Hope you enjoy {from the farm},

j.

zoom in

Here's some sneak peeks of some more new layouts using Dear Lizzy & American Craft products. Come back tomorrow to see them.

good day for baking banana loaf (good idea, hmmm).

{from the farm},

j.