PINTEREST RETRIES

I had the privilege of decorating my son's wedding reception and took advantage of some of the pins from Pinterest.

BLUE DOG CRAZY

If I find something I "really" love, you will know about it. Right now it's Blue Dog. I've always favored this painting. Well, I went to painting with a twist and the rest is history. I'm hooked.

CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEAS

Any name up to ten letters and customized to your specifications.

$35.00 unframed (12x36)

$75.00 framed (12x36)

$25.00 mini framed (7x16)

SEPTEMBER SCRAPENO PROJECT

Here's this month's project. Instead of a double page layout, I've done two single page layouts. This line of paper from Graphic 45 is unbelievably versatile. I can't wait to make a mini album plus many more projects.

SCRAPOLA KEEPSAKE BOX

BOOLINDA

Here's my Halloween She Art Cutie, Boolinda.  Hope you enjoy.

HAUNTED HOUSE - A RAINY DAY PROJECT

This was my rainy day project, a halloween haunted house. It's a paper mache house from Hobby Lobby that I cut down the middle to allow it to open up and then decorated it Halloween a la Ya Ya style.

You can use it strictly as decoration and as a mini album. Each of the pages is also a pocket. It can hold 16 photos. That's a lot of real estate my friends. If you add pockets on each side of the pages with tags you can increase the photo count to 24.

I hope you enjoyed my rainy day project.

SHE ART COMES TO WESTLAKE

Scrapbooking has brought me to many places and now it's brought me to "She Art." This mixed media craft is really too cute to ignore. Thank you Miss Nola for bringing this craft to the Ya Yas.

A LOUISIANA DELEGATION

Here's scrapbooking 101. A group of photos that tell a story, simply matted, a few cricut cutouts related to the photos, a title and background paper that doesn't distract from the photos.

MAY SCRAPENO - MOM'S EMPTY NEST

This month is a tribute to the moms currently experiences an empty nest for the first time like me. Well, it's been almost a year and a half but I can now write and scrap about it without getting teary eyed.

Well, let's face it, you could change this to a baby's layout, a girly layout, teens, spring, Easter....you get the picture.

ADVENTURES IN SCRAP

Any time I can get away and scrap with my friends is an "adventure in scrap." This week Karen and I, the original Gypsy Ya Yas, were off to Scott to the Ladybug Lodge for a three day slumber party. I absolute love cropping at the Ladybug. These ladies have played such a role in my scrapbook experience over the past two years. They inspire me to go beyond my comfort zone and create not only scrapbook pages, but pages that reflect my spirit.

HWY 61 BLUES MUSEUM

Here's another treasure found while traveling for work, the Hwy. 61 Blues Museum. The museum did not really have a lot of items. What it had was charm and character and a very interesting blues muscian who sang for me the entire time I was visiting. His father was actually someone very important to blues and he was doing what he could to keep his father's memory alive. It's an experience I feel fortunate to have.

FEBRUARY SCRAPENO PROJECT

The theme for this month's project was use your scraps. I recreated a design from Connee Giraud and found I had lots of scraps left over so I added a few more pages from the same Graphic 45 line and created another double page layout and tag. There is a lot of cutting in this project but I think it is so worth it.

WHAT I LOVE ABOUT SCRAPBOOKING

What I love about scrapbooking is that you don't always have to reinvent the wheel. Here's my point. I took a class at Treasured Memories in Lafayette. Before it was all said and done I changed a few items on the layout and made it my own. I came home and received my packet from Creation Station with this blue paper and created two more layouts with the same basic layout which goes to prove my first statement..you don't have to reinvent the wheel, just tweek it a little and make it your own creation. I fact, this post will become my jouraling for the original page.

GYPSY YA YA WEEKEND

Don't forget about our Winter Scrap. This event will be a fundraiser for my grandson Brock Lemaire. We need your support.

JANUARY SCRAPENO PROJECT

I found these printer's trays and fell in love with both the white and black so I decided to make two versions for this month's Scrapeno project. I also couldn't go without using Graphic 45 paper on at least one of the designs. Don't you just love their paper. I know I do.

2011 Scrapeno will be all projects instead of double page layouts. I hope everyone is ready for passing a good time.

SCRAPENO COOKIE SWAP

Our kookie, oops I mean cookie swap was so much fun. How can you beat sweets and great friends to share a night? I can't wait to see the layouts for this event.