About: HallowIni Inspiration

Ok so 1 more day before October & HALLOWINI countdown.  Wahooooo.  I love helping my girls create new costumes every year and watching them run around with their friends.  October and Halloween also reminds me of how papercrafting connected me to a wonderful group of women in NYC.  

In 2007 I headed out to Girl Scouts with my girls with some supplies to make spider webs for some Halloween cards. I get there and wahoooo there is this lady organizing her SCRAPBOOK!!!! 

Waaaaaaaah!?!?!?!?!?!?  "Um excuse me, do you scrapbook?"  Lady looked at me like, "Duh", heeheee.  We introduced ourselves, Julie was her name, and the rest is history.  We talked the whole time GS was in session and we ended up making plans to bring in supplies to make paperbag scrapbooks the next week with the other GS moms.  Boy you would be surprised what people who "don't scrap" can make with a  little paper, scissors, and glue.  

Julie ended up being my fairy scrapmom. She invited me to crops all over the place, and introduced me to some wonderful ladies.  I met Rosie at a library crop, then I met Karishma when she hosted a crop and I met Salima there.  

Julie, Rosie and Salima proved to be some seriously inspiring chicas.  Julie gets everyone together, she just is the best at connecting people with a love for papercrafts.  Rosie is such a heart, always reliable.  You tell her you're looking for a zebra print heart shaped rubber stamp; not only will she find it, she will pick it up for you and drop it off.  Sal, well I call her the distress queen!  She can take a piece of cardstock and bruise and batter it into a thing of beauty.  She is beyond a friend, trustworthy and such a good cook too, mmmmm.  

October and Halloween just reminds me of the time I met all these ladies, and reminds me how inspired I always felt and still feel when we are all together.

Oh and then I met Christine R., Deeeeeeee, and the gals at Manhattan Meetup, hugs hugs hugs ladies.

Well, perusing my favorite blogs, I ran into this BEEYOUTEAFULL blog Geris Paper Wishes  .  She had a tutorial to make a seam binding flower.  I figured hmmmm this would make great card or tag candy.  This is what I came up with:  

Hug Snug seam binding, random buttons, Swarovski sew on crystal.

These are so fun to make, AND I get to use all those beads and findings I have.   

There was also this tutorial to make a rose out of seam binding.  This is what I came up with:

These lil guys were hard to photograph.  

  I made all of these in black because eventually they will end up on some Halloween tags.   I love these flowers and roses.  They are easy to make and so so sassy.  Sassy like my NYC Scrapbook Crew.  Hope you like.  Want a tag?  Let me know and I will send it out when I finish making them!  Hugs!!!

About: Inspiration

  Inspiration.  So many times I see something or meet someone that just makes me want to create, but unfortunately I never have time :(  Well, on this blog I will try to use my time (and my supplies) more often for creating cards/tags/ and ATCs.  My inspiration will be people I know, color combos I see in the city, pics I come across etc etc etc.

Last week, looking around on Facebook I came across this picture posted by a childhood buddy named Eddie Huey:

This is Eddie's personal pic (thanks for the permission to use it), but for more yummy goodness check out the website's gallery: http://macaroncafe.com/gallery

I just love this pic.  I love the soft colors mixed with the clear plastic. It inspired me to create this: 

and this is the inside:

Leave a note, let me know what you think!  If Eddie's pic inspired you, create something and post in the comments.   

Supplies used: patterned card stock: DCWV Nana's Nursery, Hug Snug seam binding, clothesline stamp: Inkadinkadoo (Baby Girl), green half pearls: Kaiser Craft, clear acetate: Staples 

Stampin' Up supplies used: scallop circle punch, chocolate chip dye ink, BABY stamp (Lovely Labels), solid cardstock, versamark watermark ink.

About: Life Is Just a Chair of Bowlies...

Ya so I have been thinking all week about what would my blog have to offer. Considering that there are some extremely talented blogs out there that inspire me to work on my own projects, I wonder "What will strangers, and friends get from visiting me?" Well that's the thing, I don't know.

I could say this is about me living in NYC and being busy, and my kids, and my boyfriend and my dog and my family and my pseudo families. Or I can say this is about scrapbooking which is my passion, or card making, or quilting that I love as well or collage or or or.

Well, this is what it is. So today I will talk about 2 of my favorite words. The first is CHINCHILLA. I do not know why I find this word so funny, but I do. I had the opportunity to actually hold a chinchilla and boy are they fuzzy. So cute. And fuzzy. No matter what mood I am in I crack up whenever I hear this word, I can barely think of this word without laughing. Call me strange, yah I get that a lot. But I love that word.

The other word is actually not a word but a nonsense silly word, in the vein of that long word from Mary Poppins. It is SNARFBLATT (from The Little Mermaid). This is anther word I love because if you know me , then you know when I use SNARFBLATT I am being silly, or mean, or whatever. But it really fills in the blank. Case in point: What is he thinking? Let me just SNARFBLATT? it means whatever you want it to mean at that moment, and most people get it.

Yah one of my favos!

I also love when famous phases get changed up a bit. One of my favorites is:

LIFE IS JUST A CHAIR OF BOWLIES.

It was altered by Mary Engelbreit

Well all done for now, hope you come back!

Beethovens 5th as salsa arr: Sverre Indris Joner

This is a lil bit like me.