Sheryl Schmidt Artistry

I tried my hand at a Leica page. This woman is so talented at taking a blank piece of paper and with only a few ink pads and stamps creating something that is totally amazing. Anyhoo I gave it a whirl. I'm not sure how I feel about the page yet. It is growing on me. It was so much fun to just let loose and see where creativity took me. I do love the colors and how "summery" the page feels. What do you think??

Hi everyone go check this out. Ten Two Studios is offering a free download every day from December 1st - 25th. I love yesterday's image. Oh so sweet and full of Vintage goodness.

Kayne had a birthday party to go to this weekend so I whipped up a quick card using scraps off my table. I used wire coils under the rocket ships to give them a little bit of a bobble head effect, I saw this done here . Quick and cute.

I am trying to master GIMP. It is a free Photo Shop type program. I think maybe I am starting top make some headway. :) I'm loving how this picture turned out. I really just want ot bring a little more creativity to my pictures as I scrap them.

Check out my friend Bree's Challenge Blog Get Sketchy Every Week there is a new card sketch and a fabulous prize to be won. I tried to create my card based on the sketch but it is aparent that I have trouble with rules/guidelines :) I really like what I created especially as I don't make many cards.

A page about a day at the lake. We had a blast and the kids played on this tube for the better part of the day. I am not sure if I like this page or not but they can't all be works of art. :)

I saw this Lo on Let's get shabby and I LOVED it so I had to create my own.For the most part I like how it turned out but I still think it needs just that something something yet.Make sure you click on the picture to get the "big" picture.

I did this LO back in May. It was a challenge during Just Cre8"s Happy Be Scrappy online crop. I used vintage lace for the flowwers and distressed the paper. I think it is one of my favorite LO's.

Vacation pictures from 2004. I embossed and inked some of my circles and used up a handful of pictures. yeah!

I took apart an old board book and used the pages like a mask with my Glimmer Mist. I the green gears are chipboard that I inked and Glossy Accented and the orange gears were stamped,embossed and hand cut. I used pop dots to pop them off the page.

  We went to the Fireworks Festival last night. The kids had their faces painted. The group Scyap Inc. that was doing it did a fantastic job. The kids had fun and I got to play around with the settings on my camera trying to capture the Fireworks.

I did this photo shoot for some friends of ours who were expecting their 2nd child. We had a blast. I stopped at the Dollar Store and picked up this yellow football just to help keep their little guy occupied. He fell in love with the ball and it ended up being in several shots as he didn't want to put it down.        

Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine Fall 2009. I am so excited to have another Layout in print. This is a completely recycled layout. Cardboard from my bin, old camera film for the title,material from my stash and metal embellies from the thrift store.

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.