My sister, a Stampin’ Up demonstrator, hosted a card class last night. Ahhhh. Two and a half hours, uninterrupted, to just sit back with other lovely ladies and make stuff. We made two each of five designs. And of course I did a little catalog shopping afterwards. Here are my two favorite cards:

For those of you who scrapbook, this might be useful! The other night I was fiddling around with some designs for 8×8 scrapbook pages. I just wanted a few clean, simple, 8×8 sketches that were easy to execute when it came time to scrap.

I’ve scrapped 4 layouts since last night. I think that may be a record for me. I did the one on the left tonight while my sister Barbara and I scrapped. That’s the kidlets and me the day after Christmas.
In other news, I strapped on my pulse rate monitor this afternoon and worked out on [...]

…or scrapping mojo freeze, in this case. Usually, when I’m having a tough time getting back into my scrapping groove, I’ll do what I call a "no rules, just right" layout (to borrow a slogan from The Outback Steakhouse.)
I don’t worry about journaling. Sometimes I don’t even worry about the title. I keep it [...]

I scrapped some more this weekend…here are the results:

just click for a closer look.