First Design Team Projects

I submitted my first projects for my design team. They were published in the monthly ezine on http://www.faithfullyyours.net/ this past Friday. I was given a kit of papers and some embellishments and was to make a minimum of 1 layout, one project and 1 card from the kit. At least 1 layout had to be with the theme of Pastor Appreciation. Since my hubby is a pastor, this was pretty easy for me. I ended up with 3 layouts, 1 project and 1 card. Here are my layouts and card.

More Weight Loss Cards

Here are my next two weight loss cards.

For this one, we were to journal about our feelings about exercising. What exercise do we do, do we like exercise, etc.

For this one, we were to journal about eating out. Do we eat out? How do we make sure not to blow our diet? Etc.

Oct. Card Buffet

We had a "card buffet" at church recently. A Stampin' Up rep came and set up 11 stations of cards. We could pick & choose which cards we wanted to make. I did all of them. LOL I like having a stash of cards all ready to be sent out. We also decided to decorate the envelopes to match our cards. It was a very fun evening.

Sasha Scraps

As I've mentioned before, my kitty, Sasha, likes to "help" me scrap. Actually, she just wants to play with my ribbon and eat my flowers. Since this is so unhealthy for her, I have to keep all my ribbon & flowers in enclosed containers.

We were able to get some pics of her "scrapping" so I decided to devote a page to her fetish. I used a sketch by Becky Fleck from Page Maps www. pagemaps. com for my design layout.

Tags

I'm participating in a Chinese Whispers Challenge over on ScrapJazz. One of our challenges is to make 16 tags. I'd never made tags before so this was something new. I used the George cartridge for my Cricut to cut out the basic tag from cardstock and then covered (or partially covered) them with patterned paper and my other embellishments.

A Couple New Cards

I made a few more cards last night. Here are two of my favorites.

This Week's Card

This week we're to scrap what we're going to do to avoid failure. We were also supposed to journal what fun things we were going to do to help us. I forgot the fun stuff but I do allow myself treats -- I just plan them into my calorie count. I make counting calories and staying in my limit a game and that helps too.

Circle Journal Pages

I am mailing my circle journal tomorrow for the first stage in its journey. Here are the rest of my pages:

My title page -- The theme for my journal is the Scripture and Christian songs that provide us comfort during the difficult times of life.

Instruction page & location map -- The left page tells the ladies what I would like them to do in the journal and the right page is for each participant to put a brad on the map where they live.

Getting to Know You Page -- Each lady will decorate the front of her folder. The ladies will attach of photo of themselves and answer a few questions on the inside of the folder.

Autograph Page -- this will be the last page in my album. I've asked each lady to autograph this page.

New Technique for Me

On AC Bailey Designs they're having a celebration all month long. They've issued some great challenges. I decided to try the one that had us to use bleach to stamp on cardstock to make our own patterned paper. We were then to use that paper to make 2 cards to send to people. This was definitely stepping out of my box -- because I've never used bleach in scrapping before. Here are the cards I made -- yes, I do know how to count. I was having so much fun that I made 3 cards.

Dealing the Weight Loss Hand Challenge

I'm participating in a challenge on Triple the Scraps http://triplethescraps.blogspot.com/search/label/Weight%20Loss%20Cards that helps keep those of us participating motivated. Here are the cards I've completed so far:

My title page for my cards:

Card #1 - List our goals

Card #2 - What are our keys to success?

Card #3 - Scrap a motivating quote

Card #4 - Scrap our food & drink weakness

Card #5 - What gift will we give ourselves when we reach our goal weight? The gift cannot be clothes.

Card #6 - Scrap one word to describe our weight-loss journey. Use a monogram to represent our word.

Card #7 - Use the theme of time on our card.

Card #8 - Describe our feelings about our scale. Do we use one? Is it our friend or enemy?

Card #9 - Our favorite healthy snack - what is our go-to food that won't get us off track?

Card #10 - What is the favorite comment we've received about our weight loss?