Are We There Yet?

So I am LOVING 

the Studio Calico class Bright Ideas!!

This was such a great deal too.

$12!

WOW!!

I'd never taken a SC class,

so this was a first,

and I'm SO glad I did.

This is a LO from yesterday's challenge:

using maps in your LO.

I generally have trouble using the trendy map designs

you see now.

This map page I'd put in my CKC kit this month,

and so I pulled it out and was SO happy to find a way to use it.

It has been in my stash for about 2 years,

time to get it scrapped!

These are pics from going through the Twin Cities

on vacation last May.

I just LOVED these pics.

We loved going through the Twin Cities.

It was an enjoyable experience.

On this LO I cut the map into a 6x12

and then cut those pieces

and then popped every other row,

added a "We Were Here" with arrows.

I love the old map with pics of a modern city.

Makes me happy.

This page was made for a sketch challenge,

so again I pulled from my CKC kit for this month.

I LOVE this man!!

& this color combo....

& these doilies.....

& chevron washi....

& gold thickers....

& this man! :)

This is not a good pic, but is another LO made from the CKC kit

and SC's Bright idea challenge #1.

This was us from vacation last year.

I love this man so!!

We went on an adventure vacation in the BWCA

and it was fabulous and certainly was

Love in the Wild!

I'm getting so much done,

and that is making me happy.

I'm having surgery later this month,

so getting things done now is making me happy,

and I'm suppose to be taking it easy.

Scrapping is helping with that =)

Have a Blessed and Beautiful,

Crafty, Kind a Day ~~

Bright Ideas

So I love Instagram.

And through Instagram I found out that

Studio Calico was having a new class.

I found it the last day available to sign up.

And I'm so happy I did =)

It is called "Bright Ideas" 

and they have assembled some of the best designers 

for this class.

Every week day in February,

they will post a new PDF and challenge.

That ='s 20!!

And it was only $12.

So happy about this class!!!

The first one was by Amy Tan.

Love her.

The first challenge was to make your own stencil.

I got a new heart punch the other day,

and so I used the negative from punching

as my stencil,

and I used a blue paint dabber to make the heart through the stencil.

I LOVE blue and yellow color combo.

It is one of my fav's.

This picture was from an adventure vacation my husband and I 

took in May.  I haven't scrapped many of these pictures,

and hopefully I will get a lot of them done through this class.

This was truly a "Love in the Wild" kind of vacation.

The weather was beautiful one day of our trip.

This day.

The other days it was just pretty crazy,

but we had fun crazy weather or not.

I just love the stenciling and stitching on this page.

The zigzag stitching through the heart kinda makes it look like a heartbeat. =)

I love the wood grain Washi.....(won it over the summer =)

Love the misting and all the other hearts.....

Oh and the twine.

I really like the way this turned out.

These were papers used for my February CKC.

Gonna love them!!!

I am gonna love this class.

I need some new challenges to get me out of my current

little rut.

Not a bad rut.

Just a little one =)

I hope you have a 

Blessed and Beautiful,

Crafty, Kind of Day ~~