In Austin

We are in Austin watching the grandkids while my daughter and SIL are in Galveston for the weekend with friends. Yesterday was full, Emma had ballet and tap class in the morning followed by lunch at McDonalds. Then to the Round Rock outlet mall where Papa bought Emma and I new Crocs, JT got a pair of Nike sandals, and Papa ended up with a new pair of shoes for work (he walked a hole in his old pair Thursday).
Emma is the ballerina in the orange tutu...

I wanted to share this picture of a page I did in my art journal last week, it includes a cricut cut from my friends cartridge. The story is how I am feeling lately, I want to fly, (and I don't mean by plane)... I have so much swimming in my brain and I can't get it completed I'm exhausted from brain busy! lol

Today was "deadline" day for my June swaps!!

This is some of what I've been up to lately....


Thanks for stopping by, we are off to see the grandbabies for the weekend.
Have a healthy, happy time.
~Jill ♥

I am one lucky woman!!

Hey There June Bug!!

This is my ATC for the June Swap at Life on the {scrap} beach, hosted by Hope. The theme for this month is "Hey There, June Bug!" This was the first time that I used my Cricut for an ATC - the mushroom came from the "Paisley" cartridge. I altered it with paint, ink, & stickles. (of course, I can't ever leave well enough alone)
The bugs I found at GASC a few weeks back, are rub-ons that are a little too realistic, the dragonfly is more to my liking. I used the new Tim Holtz Ideaology Paper Tape, it is paper however, my stickers were resisting sticking to the slippery surface of the tape, to fix this I glued them down with glossy accents and covered over the entire tape section with matte finish Mod Podge. Used a bee and fly stamp. The bee wings are covered with Frosted Lace Stickles.
Thank you to Hope Simpson as well as the rest of the girls who played along this month, I had lots of fun, I'm hoping you did too!!
I appreciate you stopping by, wishing you and yours a healthy, happy weekend - after all it is TGIF!!
~Jill

Printing pictures

I am having some photos made at Walgreens and I was thinking it's probably time to have some black and whites made. My first experience working with B & W's was this time last year, even though they were problematic at first, the end result was really rewarding.
Since I didn't have my blog at the time that I created these I thought I would share them with you now.
Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a healthy, happy scrappy week!
~Jill

LTC Challenge

This is my entry for the challenge at Live.Teach.Create on their FaceBook page. I struggled with this layout. I wanted to keep the extreme distress edges on the corners of the page so I folded it in the middle, which resulted in a mini pocket. Very strange, and different but it worked. The paper collection is Lemonade something from Basic Gray? The challenge was to express why I scrap, that's easy - it's to remember the good times with my friends / family!!

Thanks for stopping by, hope everyone is having a healthy, happy, scrappy week...♥

~Jill

our Cruise

This layout was "designed" at GASC with my gal pals during our crop (which was awful, btw)- luckily, we made the best of it with girl time. I took a picture of it all laid out so I had an easy repeat on the digital camera (what did we do before digital??)
Thanks for stopping by - - have a happy, healthy, scrappy week!
~Jill ♥