Don't you love fresh flowers? We have been seeing a lot of them around our home the last two months. Dd is taking a floral class and brings us creations on a weekly basis. We love the fresh flowers and the little lift they give us in spirit when we walk by. The only thing we don't like is the fact that the two cats have taken a definite liking to leatherleaf and statice! Maybe it smells like catnip or something? Dd has also been making silk arrangments for a client and those are all the winter whites and blues on the upper right photo on the long table. She does great work! The cornucopia is of course for Thanksgiving last week and below is one she did for Halloween.

Vintage ribbons and trims are a wonderful accent for a christmas page, heritage page or altered project . Heck i just love them because they look and feel so fantastic! I would rather spend time in a ribbon store than a candy store! dolls and lace.com http://www.dollsandlace.com/cgi-bin/dalshop.pl?cat=VintageRibbon&view=cat Ribbon jar http://www.ribbonjar.com/Vintage_s/45.htm french ribbons http://www.hymanhendler.com/french.htm JKMribbon has newer ribbons http://www.jkmribbon.com/main.html retro 1960s http://www.renaissanceribbons.com/ and Relient Ribbon has tons of selections http://www.reliantribbon.com/ Simply beautiful! Rockester

Wow! These are sooooooooo darling and timely and CHEAP! (One of my main criteria in online purchasing.) Look at all you get at Chatterbox.com for the $1.95 download fee: http://www.chatterboxinc.com/fonts.asp mmmmm scrumptious! This one is called CBX Celebrations (Tell them Rockester sent you!)

Here are some holiday card ideas (Not all are christmas and many can be adapted with change of sentiments) Tearing and stamping http://tinyurl.com/y2m5hp Drywall tapes! yes you heard me right... http://www.kent.ca/scrapbooking/card_07.htm more http://tinyurl.com/y6p3s9 dimensional small accents Vary the card size to fit your envelopes on hand! http://www.craftgenie.co.uk/cardmaking_ideas.gal.shtml pocket card for those wonderful family photos (I plan to do a variation in the spring on this one for grad invitations/announcements!) http://tinyurl.com/y4qrgu lots of themes http://www.docrafts.co.uk/asp/authors/?id=340 green buttons http://www.docrafts.co.uk/asp/projects/project.asp?id=762 circle punch http://www.docrafts.co.uk/asp/projects/project.asp?id=1040 So pull out those holiday colors and the scrap bin (and some pop dots) and make some cards this long weekend. Instead of sitting around bloated ater thanksgiving, get moving on some cards! It will get you in the mood for th...

Ok gals help me out here..... Where have I seen these kinds of shaped clips before and tossed them out???? On socks? when you buy a new pair??? LOOKS SO FAMILIAR... and bravo for Cropper Hopper for making something that will hold down the ribbon ends! Yeah!! Rock

Need another blast of creativity in the CARDMAKING department this week? How many cards did you make so far? Here we go again and the theme this set is for BIRTHDAY cards and Birthday projects with SCRAPS! Take a peek. Get out the scrap bin and make a few spare cards to have on hand all year long or better yet make a dozen and give them as gifts! colorblocking http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=158615 snips and strips http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=157704 templates and stamps http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=156841 coordinating papers and punches http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=158616 mini file folder http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=158489 rub on leftovers http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=158142 corner rounder and rubber stamped sentiment http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=158141 circles and photo turns http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=157393 one big flower an...

thanksgiving card inspirations vellum pocket and tags http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=156747 stampled wording http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=155619 dry embossing http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=153046 trifold http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=130770 stamped leaves http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=126602 stencil http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=126497 thanksgiving placecard for the table http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=126360 watercolor pencil and labeler http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=126273 tearing and twine http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=125697 rafia and a flower http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=118035

(artwork by tia bennet for the susan komen foundation) Today I was waiting for my daughter and her friend to get up from a very fun but very exhausting sleepover here at the house. I don't generally get up early on a sat. morning but hubby went fishing and I wasn't tired enough to go back to sleep so I made pancakes and bacon and chocolate milk and went to the laptop. Browsing blogs I see that a fellow scrapper webfriend Shel of my online friend kelly has just been diagnosed with a aggressive breast cancer. And she has two small children. I sincerely wish Shel the best even though she doesn't know me at all. Do what you can to support foundations that fight this disease like The Koman Foundation. That brought to mind my own mom and her fight two years ago with the same illness. My mother was very fortunate. Early (but shocking) diagnosis and fast Mayo Clinic treatment (lumpectomy) along with radiation when she got back to the west coast helped my Mom. But you know it is ...

Wonderful helpful links to HOW TO for cardmaking even if you have never made one before. (It's not as hard as you might think!) http://www.scrapbooking101.net/articles/april2006doingdoubledutyscrapbookingandcardmaking.html http://www.scrapbooking101.net/articles/february2005introductiontocardmaking.html http://chicago.craigslist.org/cls/214854328.html http://www.papercraftz.com/ http://www.docrafts.co.uk/asp/projects/project.asp?id=842 http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/hd_christmas/article/0,2025,DIY_13889_2276835,00.html You too can make wonderful cards. Give it a try this month! and if you have questions, we can help. Rockester

Fall Cards Remember that cards for notecard sized envelopes are usually 4.25x5.5 inches but you can make 6x6 cards too. Some stores --especially scrapbook stores-- carry 6x6 envelopes now but you can also make your own envelopes. (More on making envelopes and FREE templates in the next post) 6x6 cards: haloween- love how she used the dymo labeler for her sentiment/saying http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=157762 use small punch for color blocks http://www.dsmemories.biz/Halloween%20card2.jpg use up some of those neons and stickers! http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=92230 square punch and a few bean shaped simple cuts and pop dots http://www.pinetreedesigns.com/Halloween.html work in some normal pattern papers in the right color scheme and Quikutz http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=92231 6x6 just scraps http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=98154 Have fun!! Rockester

image credits: http://www.masterpiecestudios.com/theme_halloween.cfm I know you may have been working on halloween layouts and halloween cards or gift baggies this week. Let's use up some of those leftovers--and some from your stash--in our first set of inspirations. If you use browns, oranges, beige, tan, rust cardstock as a base and as blocky backgrounds you can easily slap on a leftover halloween theme tag, button, or pumpkin item. Heck just tie 2 or 3 different fibers around a 1x3 inch torn piece and poof you have a simple accent right there. Add wording (or not) and a card is done. One tips I use is to make at least 3 cards in the same 'format' or layout at a time. It saves thinking up a new idea time after time and the people who GET the card don't know you made two other identical cards to send other people ...nor would they care! LOL Halloween card inspiration and ideas seen at all these sights quick and simple colorblocking and stickers. Love how she used small...

Look at the differnet cards you can make! Use your scraps up this month! Photo by http://www.homeofthesampler.com/peeks/0411.html Want to get a grip on all those scraps? Want some ideas for how to use them up? Would you like to give cards as gifts for the holidays or simply send some homemade cards for once at LOW COST using up some of your stash? Our November challenge on this loop (completely optional in case you are new) is cardmaking with a highlight on using our scraps and odd embellishments up! So if you have a stack of 'somewhat boring' 8.5x11 cardstock, a file of scrap papers (or 3 files or 10!!) and a bunch of embellishments.....lets do it! Sign up to do this challenge here http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ScrappersChallenge/surveys?id=12457104 Just vote to join in the fun and you will be eligable for a prize at the end of the challenge worth over $25. Participate and win! Well, let's get it started in here! Make 20 or more cards this month....some of you can do this ...