Sheryl Schmidt Artistry

I took part in the Just Cre8 online crop last weekend and I will be pasting my LO's from that weekend over the next few days. This was a promt-8 things you didn't know about me.It was a fun LO to do and I love how it turned out. It helps that a Good Friend didn't mind doing a photo shoot at 10 at night or 6:30 the next morning.....stay tuned for those pictures as they will make an apperance. Thanks Dawn !!!

We were out at my my Father in law's farm for Mother's Day weekend. It was a gorgeous weekend and I couldn't resist doing a little photo shoot with the kids. This old car made for a fabulous backdrop. The kids thought it was fun to be able to crawl all over it and "pose" for me. Our next stop was this old wagon wheel. I love how it turned out. This was my favorite picture of the weekend though. I love it. I love that Opa and Ruby are holding hands as they walk together. I love how the sun is side lighting Ruby's hair and how it is creating this white halo on my Father-in-law. I love his hair. It is snow white and so soft. This picture just speaks to me of family and memories of my own Grandfather and walking with him hand in hand. I think my most favorite part of this picture is that they didn't know I was behind them. This photo just speaks to me of a Grandfather's Love.

This page is from Just Cre8's May kit. I love the photo of my son and the title makes me smile. I made my own tiles for the lettering and embossed the little green arrow but other thatn that I have no fancy techniques on this page.

Have you heard the news???? There's a crop happening over at Just Cre8 . It is their Happy Be Scrappy online crop. It runs all weekend long. So why don't you come on over and party with us??? Are you ready? We have an awesome weekend planned for you! Here's a schedule of what's going down this weekend. All times are approximate and there may be some last minute changes, but for the most part, it gives you an idea so you can plan your weekend around the challenges and projects that you'd like to complete. Friday May 22 Early Afternoon (noon to 3:00 pm EST) 1. Class -- Between the Lines: Altered Book: Part I (Jessi) 2. Tutorial -- Sign of the Times: Altered Sign (Cindy) 3. Challenge -- Got You Covered (Leica) Late Afternoon (between 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm EST) 1. Game -- ScrapPoker Run: all weekend long (Sue) 2. Tutorial -- PS Collage Tutorial (Amanda) 3. Project -- Book Of Thoughts (Leica) Evening (between 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST) 1. Challenge -- Tell Me A Story: Part I (H...

Wolf is the Star Student this week so instead of using the premade templates that the teacher sent home (glue a picture on a piece of paper) Wolf and I sat down and did this on the computer instead. Smilebox is a digital scrapbook program that I had played around with before but that was about it. It is so easy to navigate. Wolf did almost all the work himself. I helped him load in the pictures and did the typing but he picked the backgrounds and which pictures he wanted to use. He used the scanner and printer. He learned how to replace the ink cartridge in the printer. He learned how to remove elements he didn't want. He dragged and dropped the pictures into their spots. He learned how to save a file and where to save it to. He did an awesome job. I sat back and just helped when he needed it. The Star Student wall at school has received a lot of compliments and interest so far this week. I am so proud of what he accomplished over the weekend. I think the Sprts Magazine cover and t...

We went to the park last night trying to run the mischief bugs out of the kids before bed. They ran and they ran unfortunately the mischief bugs remained . LOL . I was snapping pictures left right and center and when I called to Wolf to turn around I snapped this....I think it is one of my all time favorite pictures. What do you think????

On April 19 we went out to Griffiths Stadium to watch Matt Dominguez's Football Camp. This camp was for students from grade 9-12. I think that it is pretty cool that these guys come out and show our up and coming footballers how to improve their game. I mean how cool is it to be given advice from a "hero"? Someone whom they watch play this fantastic game for a living!!!After they were done we were able to go out on the field and meet the Riders. Pretty cool. I am not sure who was more excited Dad or the kids because they got to meet 7 Riders or me because I got to play around with my camera??? Matt Dominguez Gene Makowsky Jason Clermont Wes Cates Reggie Hunt Marcus Adams Paul Woldu

As promised here is one of my honourable mention layouts from the Sask Scraps weekend. I love how this turned out. I used my Notebook border punch man do I love this punch. I heat embossed the grey paper with a gelee orange embossing powder. I also embossed the quote which is from Tim Holtz's Nature 's Discovery stamp set. A few metal accents and I was done. I like how this page turned out.

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.

This is from the February Kit at Just Cre 8. I added the skulls and the transparencies. It was a fun page to do.

I blew this picture of Wolf up to an 8x10 size and then cut the part of the picture I wanted out. I splatter painted the background and did some stiching on the page. I love how it turned out.

My goal this year is to try and use more of my scraps up. So with that being said here are a couple cards I made from my scraps. I really like how the INSPIRED card turned out. Using my hole punch to distress my edges is my favorite technique right now. I think the last 4 or 5 projects have had this done somewhere on them.

We were on our way home from Ray's office kids Christmas party and Ruby-Jean fell asleep. Her hand was buried in her bag from Santa and she wasn't letting go for nothing. We made it all the way home and the bag never fell off her lap. I used some stuff from the December kit I got from Just Cre8 and some stuff from my stash.