Sheryl Schmidt Artistry

I attended Sask Scraps last weekend. What a hoot. I got to meet and take a class with Allison Orthner. Wow!!!!This lady is fantastic! If you ever get to take one of her classes do so. Jill Hildebrand is a riot! Leica Forrest is amazing! Yes I had a good time. I did a little shopping, a little scrapping and a lot of visiting. I was encouraged by friends and family to enter some layouts for publication....so I did. Holy Smokes did I represent.LOL. I had 2 LO's chosen for Honorable mention and 1 will be published in Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine. WOW!!!It's been a week and I think I am still floating on cloud nine.LOL. Here I am posing with Jackie Ludlage from Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine. This lady is so much fun to hang with. I can't show you a picture of my winning LO but I will post my honorable mention LO's over the weekend. I am so excited to announce that my friend Andrea Hipkin also had multiple wins on the weekend and will have a page published in Canadian Scrap

Let me start today's post with a huge thank you to Leica Forrest for organizing such a fantastic crop. Woot!Woot! You rawk girl! It was so much fun to see old friends and meet new friends and to put faces to the names on the Just Cre8 Forum board. It was an awesome weekend. Now many of you know that C95's Rambling Dave sometimes speaks before he thinks. This was the case last week. He made a reference on the radio 1 morning about how scrapbooking was just glorified sticker collecting. Lets just say the scrapping community of Saskatoon soon set him straight. After a week of this being a hot topic every morning during his radio show he graciously agreed to come for a visit on Saturday. While we all know his comment was tongue in cheek and we were all joking about it we still wanted him and many others to understand why we do this hobby. I think that Dave really took away an understanding and, maybe even some appreciation for the art which we create. He now knows this is much more

I was at the Sask Scraps this weekend and had a blast. Make sure you check back often over the next few days as I post pictures and "spill" some exciting news.

I Love this page. I think I am really liking most of my pages lately. I Hole punched the edges of the PP to distress them and to compliment the orange paper and the circles. I flocked the #4 and stamped the rest of my title.

Coffee Sticky pick up toys clean the bathroom laundry dirty dishes dance lego still sticky play doh me kids fighting cute snow fold laundry ew !!! what was that???? play why do I have to do it?? supper???? mmmmmmmm ice cream smell why are you still sticky???? ow summer where did that come from??? quiet pick everyone up hmmmmmmm because I'm your Mother friends smile hugs bed why are you still sticky?

Yep this is me at 35!!!Pink hair and comfortable in her own skin!Who'd a ever thunk it??I distressed the photo using Tim Holtz's scratchy tool.Hole punched the edges of the PP to distress it and I journaled about me for a change. All the things I am and all the things I do. I love my life.I love where I've been and look forward to where I am going. I am happy with the path I chose!! * won honorable mention at Saskatchewan Scraps in March 2009 *

A really simple page but I love how the stiching turned out.

I used Just Cre8's February Kit for this LO. I stamped the ribbon,made torn paper flowers and stiched the stem. I love this page. It reminds me of my own school days.