Sheryl Schmidt Artistry

I created some art. Can you believe it? It seems like it has been forever since I last felt like getting messy and letting the creative juices flow. I found this wall hanging at a thrift store for $1.99 about 6months ago and it has been kicking around my craftroom every since. I was finally inspired today to do something with it. It was a very shiny brass so I Alcohol Inked it in several colours just to give it some depth. I than Glimmer misted the "base". Found a picture I liked and a quote that spoke to me added some vintage goodies and voila I am done. I think I like it. The quote reads:I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I live as I believe. "Greatest Love of All" Whitney Houston **Gallery find of the week at Your Memories by Design

It's been a while since I posted. I have taken lots of time off work this summer just so I could hang with my family and friends. These are just a few of my favorite photos from an outing to Beaver Creek. I loved this purple flower and the blurred background. I Really fell in love with it after I turned it black and white. Here is some of the "wild life" I found while we were hiking. I never should have shown Ruby-Jean how much fun this is. If she spots a Dandylion with "fuzz" she has to stop and blow it away.

Oh what hard desisions there are to make when you have a birthday looming on the horizon. Wolfgang will be 7 tomorrow and had such a hard time deciding on what cake he wanted for his birthday. We started with a Football cake and then it was a Rocketship. Then he thought maybe a Basketball cake would be nice. When I sugested a cake that would look like Taylor Feild (Mosaik Stadium) he went wild!!!!! Then I turned the page in my cake ideas book and his eyes fell upon this tiger. That was it. He found his cake. I love how it turned out (even if it is a little lopsided) and Wolf is beyond excited for tomorrow when he can finally taste it.  

It was my birthday on Sunday but I had my party on Friday. It was a riot. We laughed till it hurt then we laughed some more. I have some of the best friends a girl could have. They know how to have a good time. Life has been getting in the way for a few of us so it was just so much fun to let loose for a little while. There were some shall we say incriminating photos taken.....I'll let my friends aka THE BAD GIRLS show you those. I'll be posting a few other pictures from my birthday over the next day or two.

My first Publication!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yeah I am so excited!!!!!!!!! Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine Summer 2009. My boys. I used Tim Holtz's scratchy tool to scratch the background out on my picture. A little stamping and distressing and voila.

First let me say I am sorry for the delay in posting the winners. We decided to get away for a couple of days and with all that has been going on I was just so excited to just leave and breathe for a bit. Anyway back to our winners. My first winner is Janet from Corrosive Creations by Janet If you haven't been to her site before please make sure you take some time and go see her. She ROCKS!!! Janet is the winner of a Jar of Whimsy from me. My second winner is Melissa B. She wins a $10.00 gift certificate to Just Scrap It. My third winner is April . I have a little goody bag for her.Make sure you check out her blog. I decided since I was late in posting I would draw a fourth name and so Andrea you are a winner as well. I'm not sure what you've won but it will be something good!!! Thank you to everyone for playing along. To the winners please us the link and email me your mailing addresses so I can get your goodies out to you. Make sure you keep stopping by my second Blog ann...

Hi everyone. I had such great intentions of keeping my blog up this summer but life has once again gotten in the way. I have a very close family member in the hospital right now. The Dr.'s are preparing us for the worst. They are not optimistic that he will survive. He is battling a very serious infection and the medications that are supposed to help him fight the infection are causing his kidneys to shut down. I have been "living" at the hospital for the last 10 days. My poor husband and children have been left to fend for themselves. I am living on coffee and little sleep. DH has a few days off this week so I hope to lock myself in my scrap room and create some art. I need to find a day to just decompress. I will still be making my draw on June 30th so remember to sign up to be a follower of my blog.

Sign up to be a follower of my BLOG and your name will be entered into a draw. I will be making 2 draws: 1 for local followers and 1 for those that don't live close by. If you are already a follower your name will automatically be put into the draw. What am I drawing for???? For those who live near Saskatoon a $10.00 gift certificate to my favorite local scrapbook store, Just Scrap It! and for those who don't live near by how about a fun Jar of Whimsy filled with all sorts of goodies. I will be making my draw on June 30th. I may even have an extra goody for the person who leaves the most comments on my blog by June 30th. You just never know when I might surprise you.

A few weeks back I took part in Just Cre8's Happy Be Scrappy Crop. It was a blast. These 4 LO's were created using Amanda'a Recipe I really enjoyed her recipe and will definately be using it again.

Hi everyone. Please bare with me as I change my blog around. Feel free to leave me comments telling me what you think.

We celebrated Ruby-Jean's birthday a little early. Her "real" day is next Saturday and she will be 4.She asked for a Princess party so I tried to give her a little of that. We went shopping and picked out some balloons and napkins and party hats. I wanted to keep it pretty low key and thankfully she was thrilled with all that I let her pick out. She had her Oma and Opa here for the day but I think the highlight of her day was when her "special" friend came. We will call him W. I forgot to ask his mom if I could post his picture but I'll tell you all about it. W and Ruby are as thick as thieves. Ruby calls W her "boyfriend" it really is quite cute but I think it may distress W a little. He knew exactly what she would love for a gift (thanks W's mom) and he made her Birthday card himself and wrote in it. It was way too cute. Ruby gave W a huge hug after opening her gift and reading her card. Lets just say it was adorable. Being a man though he w...

Roses for Mother's Day. I was playing around with my macro lens and a spray bottle. My Mother in law received these from my sister in law for Mother's day. I'm happy with the way the pictures turned out but I do want to play with depth of field a little more.

I made this altered sign during Just Cre8's online crop. I forgot to take before pictures but let's just say that seagulls and lighthouses aren't really my thing. It was a Dollar Store find. I love how it turned out. The quote says"Dream as if you'll live forever...live as if you'll die today." -James Dean

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