POKEY PEAS CHALLENGE FOR MARCH 2018

scrapincin, that's good that it's not your copd. I hope your medicine gets you all better. Your cards are adorable! I especially love the textured front card, although I'm also a sucker for anything butterfly or hummingbird.

grammadee, glad you arrived safe and are having fun.

msliz, I often find long bouts of nothing to buy at J's and M's too. It never stops me from going in and looking though. I hope something good catches your eye.

I had a good time at my crop. I finished 27 pages or almost finished 27 pages. There are a few that still need journaling and a few finishing touches. I did better on the shorter day (Friday evening) than the 13 hour day, although I worked steadily the whole time. I think next time I will be better prepared too. There will be a next time, I signed up for a crop in mid-May. They had one in April but it's on Don & my anniversary weekend, so I thought better of signing up for it.

I came home and was unwinding from the day and ended up staying up way too late. I started (re)watching the BBC Sherlock on Netflix. I fell asleep while watching probably around 5:00am, woke at 6:00 with the show still going. So I turned it off and went to bed. So I'm a bit draggy today.

I hope everyone is have a fantastic Sunday with lots of sunshine.

Hi everyone!!  Just wanted to say hi and send warm wishes to everyone!!   Been a slow month for me as we re-org and downsize to get ready for full retirement (again)!  I have a hard time letting go of things so I decided to take pics and tell the story to see if that helped...still hard but better!!   So here is a layout of stuff and a couple of cards I copied from pinterest...





scrapincin - Thanks so much for the warm welcome!! I love your colorful cards and attention to detail.  Wish I had the patience for hand stitching!!

grammadee - the beach photos are breathtaking!!


kellyr21 - your cards are so beautiful and artistic, completely stunning!!

justjac - loved the story -  loved the colors!!

Hello Pokeys. I am back at home. The drive was uneventful: a few fog patches at the beginning, but the rest of the way was clear and easy driving. Stopped to print photos, and stopped at one LSS in Edmonton, got a silhouette matt, their March kit, and some Minc foils, but they don't carry my brand of glue refills. Didn't have the energy to drive around town looking for the refills at other stores, and hadn't done my homework by checking on line, so I will have to make do with what I have here (2 sided tape, the end of a refill, and a full refill that doesn't roll out properly but which I am sure I can use if I dispense it manually).

Will read your posts and check out your creations tomorrow. I tried to watch a little TV but was falling asleep, so I think I just need to crawl into bed.

justjac , congratulations on your weight loss! and it's still early in the year, so you have lots of good weather ahead of you so you can keep at it! Hope you kick that cold soon.

grammadee , hope you had a good night's sleep in your own bed. It would wear me out traveling as much as you do, but I know the g-kids make it worth it.

kellyr21 and nylene , I bombed out at J's. I got there too close to closing time to come up with something to spend the 40% off on, and I left without buying anything. I hit M's before that, and I spent $2 on 14 sheets of paper, and I used my 50% off on ATG tape. So, nothing terribly exciting or big budget, but it was a clean store and it was a nice little break in my day.

nylene, the hair on that girl ! What great photos 

Hoping you all get some scrapping time in this week. Looks like tomorrow will be a snow day for me, so I ran some extra errands this morning and I'm postponing some other ones for later in the week. I won't have to step foot out of the house. When I wake up tomorrow, it's craft time!

scrapincin , cute layout. You're right you don't need a lot of embellishment with cute paper like that.

woodysbetty , your cards are beautiful. Your layout is fantastic. I love the colors and the big acetate clock in the background repeating your theme. Wonderful page.

kellyr21 , happy belated birthday to Ron. Did you get time to play the other day? I was never much for crops, as I like having my stuff. I've maybe been to 4 before this. The last one being in 2005 or 2006. Then all the LSS went away and there were no crops. Now that Don can't take the kids away for a few hours outing as dd doesn't travel well, I had to search out one if I wanted any time to myself. I think I'm going to sign up for a retreat too.

nylene , I love Alyssa's page and I love her hair all red or tipped in blue. That's a gorgeous blue too. I've been telling Don that I want to dye my hair with a streak or two of color. I was always too shy and conservative in my youth to do it even though I wanted to. As I get older, I find I care less what others think. Also there is a beautiful young lady at our church who always seems to have different shades in her hair that is so pretty. The mom also occasionally will have a streak of color. My dd has some spray in that washes out.

grammadee , I'm glad you are home and safe and had a good time.

justjac , your card backgrounds are beautiful, but I think that the "I love you more than chocolate" saying wouldn't make it onto a card in my house. No one would believe it. lol. I like your parade pages, but love that you send Dean photos of things he'd like. So sweet.

msliz, sorry you bombed out at the stores. I hope you are staying warm in that Nor'easter. I hope you had a great day of crafting!  

On Sunday's draggy day, we ended up starting a movie very late. I had to be up at 5am Monday to drop the doggies at the vet for their annual teeth cleaning. I hate that they have to go under anesthesia every year for it. It makes me nervous. I ran errands until I could finally pick them up around 12:30. They were groggy and out of it all that day. I thought they were yesterday too until we went outside and they were running around chasing each other and playing. My new theory is that they were milking the attention inside, hoping I'd make them scrambled eggs again. I always make them scrambled eggs as I think it's easier on their bellies after anesthesia.

I ended up laying down at 4:30pm, just going to lay down not nap. Fell asleep and slept until 7:30pm. I'm not really a napper, so I was definitely needing the extra sleep.

Yesterday, I didn't feel tired, but I didn't get a whole lot accomplished either. I did finish a double page layout which completes my Christmas 2017 pages though. Today, I'm hoping to make a dent in this weeks to do list. I also want to have my desk and craft things put away by Thursday evening so that on Friday I can enlist Don and kids into helping me finish the journaling on the few pages that are left. I needed their help which is why the pages didn't get finished at the crop.

Off I go to get something done. I hope everyone else, has shorter to-do lists or at least only fun things on their to do lists. Have a fantastic Wednesday!

Happy Friday Pokey Peas!!

nylene I totally get your hair thoughts, I am not at all adventourous as some these young kids are.  But I respect their ability to be in the moment!!  Love that pic!!  Thanks for the kind words on the button layout and I have to give you total kudos for that one!!  This challenge inspires me to actually get things done, so thank you so very much!!

grammadee your little hockey stars are adorable!!

scrapincin the pinks on your page are just stunning as is that photo..., so glad the Doc is fxing you up and you got a visit in as well!!  Awesome!  

Off to my daily youtube viewing and coffee!!

Happy weekend! It is supposed to be officially spring, but we had a snowfall warning for today. Didn't add up to much here, but enough to cause quite a bit of drifting because the winds were so strong. Hope justjac got to work and home safely.

LisaDV, you are burning up the road in Calvinball! Awesome progress toward your goal! Quite a few of the neighbours around here are getting sheep this spring: they are GREAT lawnmowers!

woodysbetty, I love how you used all those buttons! I have a lot of them hanging around here. This makes me want to put some of them to work!

Hope the new meds have you feeling a bit better, scrapincin. Thanks for all the positive comments in the Gallery.

We went to dh's Seniors' Club for a pancake supper and card games last night, but today and the rest of the weekend looks pretty quiet. I finished a couple of pages today, and hope to get two more done this weekend. Then I need to get to work on some other things around here, and maybe get started on my tax paperwork.

Good Sunday evening, Pokeys. Hope you all had a restful weekend. The snow storm didn't really deliver what was threatened, and it has been melting for the last couple of days, so maybe spring will actually arrive. Still a couple of feet of snow in the yard, but maybe...

I have been playing with a new set of paints I picked up last week: Prima Opal Magic paints. I have one set: three colours. They are a pearlescent creamy paint that takes on different colours on different surfaces. I prefer how they look on plain white cardstock. Yesterday I used them on a piece of scrap cs, then used the cs to create a couple of cards:

garland greeting by Gramma Dee, on Flickrbirdie greeting by Gramma Dee, on Flickr

Today I used them again on a page for stinkerbelle's challenge to spell CALVINBALL. I like the way the pattern shows through the swipes of paint.

time with Dad 2 by Gramma Dee, on Flickr

Hope you get to finish those pages you had planned, LisaDV. I see that justjac has been busy scrapping this weekend as well.

This next week I have some non crafty things to do, so I don't think I will be creating much for a little while. The only points I will be getting will be for commenting on other people's creations. I had started cleaning up my scraproom yesterday morning, but I don't think it looks much better. The problem is that I keep finding stuff I would rather play with than put away...

Still playing around with using up stuff, cut lots of PP pieces into different size circles and put it all together here.   Of course much of it is hidden -  but still used!! LOL!



grammadee I love those paints and how you used them on the cards and the layout..., really beautiful!

grammadee, WOW! Those cards are gorgeous. I just bought Nuvo drops last month because of you and kiwigirl. Now, you're showing off these gorgeous colors.

woodysbetty, I love how you used circles to reinforce the eclipse theme and how the colors pop against the black.

nylene, I'm so glad you'll be going to see the CA grands. I know you were saddened by the idea of not going. I hope you have great weather for the travel and the stay.

scrapincin, how's the new meds and antibiotics working out?


I finally got my washer/dryer ordered. Don was suppose to do it a couple of weeks ago. With his Home Depot card he had a free financing thing. Well, when he went he forgot the free financing ticket and his card was saying it wasn't activated. So he left with just the tile for the area. Today, he made me go with him, but it's all done and will be delivered April 6th. The plus side is it was 10% off this week. Don also had a meeting cancel the first week of April which means he has 2 extra days to get the tiling down.

We also picked up a new bathroom faucet, as DS came up last night after we were in bed and said the faucet broke spraying water everywhere in the bathroom. He cleaned it up, but now Don and DS have that to do this evening.

I will be cleaning the area, mudding at the ceiling wall joint (as our first contractor didn't do that), then painting this week. I'm just doing the little 4'x 4' nook though and not the whole hall. All that to say I may not reach my CB goal. Of course, sometimes, I get more done when I'm really busy as I need the break, so only time will tell.

I hope everyone has a great week.

Waving hi to kellyr21, msliz, justjac, @elaynef, and maribeth.

I LOVE that page using the circles, woodysbetty ! They go perfectly with your eclipse theme, but I might have to lift this for some other topic. What a cool idea to use up some of the smaller scraps!

I spent the day doing organizing in various parts of the house. Got a bit done in here, some in the bedroom, and some in the basement. I didn't finish any of the projects I started, but I didn't leave any of those places in a bigger mess than they started, so I guess it was not a total fail. Of course since I had decided NOT to scrap today, my mind is full of ideas for pages and cards. I did set up a couple of design screens on Silhouette for some pages I want to make next month. No idea about colour yet, so I didn't cut anything, but I guess having it planned out is a start.

Thanks for the love in the 2Peas Gallery and over at GIS. nylene , the Calvinball rules are easy to understand once your realize that you can apply none, one, many, or ALL of them to any project. The more that apply, the higher the point value! I have them printed off and read them over quickly before starting a set of pages or cards. Sometimes I have a plan for how to get points, but most of the time I just go ahead and scrap and then maybe add some details later to add on points. It helps that the participants can suggest rules, so once I got them to accept torn edges and letter stickers, I was good for at least 2 extra points for most pages.

scrapincin , I hope the new meds will help whatever it is that ails you. Be sure to get some rest. Glad your dgk's are enjoying their trip.

And I am glad you are going on a road trip to see your California dgk's, nylene . And glad your dh has some company at home if he is not able to go.

LisaDV , you are always so BUSY!!! I can't imagine taking on all that you do.

BTW, is anyone else interested in signing up for stinkerbelle's TEAM challenge for April?  Just a way to create a few pages, have some fun and some friendly competition.  Not sure of all the rules yet, but we will be starting with the usual monthly challenges, with a few extras thrown in.