Just a quick one....

My life is crazy right now. I have gutted my scrap space and then hurt my back and haven't been able to put it back together. So no creating for me :( I am hoping my dear, sweet husband will help me tomorrow.

Until then.....Here is a few things I did in the past few weeks. I have had this layout planned forever. I really love these pictures of my dd Faith and I was afraid to scrap them. I did though and I let them take center stage....just as they should. I am in the middle of writing her a very long letter. It is what inspired the page....I like my journaling to inspire my layouts and not the other way around.

TFL and have a great week.

so much to share....

It's official.....I am addicted to the Hero Arts blog. I can't get enough of the Hero Arts Flickr Pool....It's insane...the amount of talent in that "pool" just blows my mind. I could spend endless hours just sitting there and oogling over everyone's creations. I have been inspired so much that I have failed to make it to sleep for the last 3 nights before 3:00 a.m. I am useless today. I am counting down the minutes until the kids go to bed....because I'm right behind them.

This challenge this week was to make a shaped card. Shari Carrol put the challenge out. There was also the Winterfest Challenge over at 2 peas. I entered only one contest over there "don't be square". The 2 challenges worked perfect together. So I created for both!And Lucky me......I won a $15 GC to 2 peas! I am thrilled thank you so much Kelly (Freckled Cutie) YOU ROCK! :)

Here are some of my creations that kept me up to ungodly hours:










I will be back with my favorites from last week after I have a good long sleep! :)

I've created a creating monster! and HERO ARTS BLINKY

My little girl loves to scrapbook. Lately she has been found sitting at my desk and creating. Her latest love....cards. Just like momma.

Last week I was playing with some watercolor pencils. She loves watercolors too. They do this wonderful program at school called "picturing writing". They use crayon resist to create these beautiful books (see pictures at left). I was inspired by her to create something similar. When she saw my card she instantly wanted to re-create it on paper herself. I was so impressed with her final project. Please keep in mind...I didn't help her. She looked at mine and "lifted" it completely. She is very visual...as am I. We can both look at something...regardless of how complicated...and know immediately how to re-create it. I find for me, it's a wonderful talent as I can get overwhelmed and overloaded with ideas in my head and have to resort to using another's idea (always with credit of course ;) ).

Here is my card:



and here is her card:


I am so proud of her. Tonight we are making cards. A promise I made to her before bed last night because I was too sick to create yesterday. We are donating our cards to the Victorian Card Drive. If you haven't heard about this please click the link.

I also go my Hero Arts blinky today! I have NEVER had a blinky before but I can tell you I am addicted to the Hero Arts blog and the Hero Arts Group over at Flickr. If you haven't checked them out....YOU MUST! A complete daily dose of inspiration.

Ok, off to feel better so I can create tonight