Sheryl Schmidt Artistry

We went to the Monster Trucks on the weekend. The kids had a blast and I enjoyed trying to get that perfect photo. :)I thought I had captured some really good shots but my critics were the kids and I think they think everything is "cool". I went through tonight with a much more critical eye and I think I have some ok shots but nothing really,really great. The day was fun and in the end that is all that matters. The extreme bikes were fun to watch. The boys can't wait to try "jumping" their (peddle)bikes this summer. I lucked out and caught the tough truck just before it flipper over. Take a look and tell me what you think.

I took part in the Bo Bunny Sketch Challenge . I really enjoyed it. I had to really hunt to find some Bo Bunny papers in my stash (a friend had raided my stash a while back and I hadn't replenished yet)but I did find some fun papers to play with. I used Grease Monkey,Dark Denim Dot,Orange Citrus Dot and some scraps from the same line for embellishments, a little machine stiching and the page was finished. The 2 "flowers" on the bottom were made by cutting different sized circles from the scraps and distressing the edges and sewing them together. It's just a fun page rembering how much fun my son had blowing the fluff off of the Dandelions.

Check out this blog Posh Designs Scrapbook Store she has a fabulous give away going on. I sat and drooled over it for a few minutes. :)

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.