Sheryl Schmidt Artistry

I created this Layout to celebrate my 15th Wedding Anniversary. I can not believe how quickly time has flown. It really does seem like just yesterday we said "I do". What changes have occurred in the last 15 years???? Well  our hair has gotten shorter and grayer, we've finally let go of the 80's though that decade will always live on in our hearts. We're the parents to 4 pretty awesome kids...maybe that's what's contributing to our gray hairs. LOL. We've lived and laughed a lot over the last 15 years some years were harder than others but we always made it through. I am so lucky to have this man in my life and I am proud to call him my husband. journalling reads: 15 years have passed since this photo was taken. I can't believe how fast time has gone by. We are still crazy in love and having a blast living this crazy life together.

Thank you to everyone who is following my Project 365. I'm having a blast with it. I decided to start a blog just for my Project 365 photos. You can check it out here . I want to keep this one more for my craft/scrapbook stuff.

Here's my photo from yesterday. I snapped a photo of Dawn G's hand. I loved how it looked. I added 3 layers of saturation and am almost giddy with how it looks. The background is so abstract and neon and awesome. :) Dawn's hand almost looks like it's ready to leap off the page. :) I'm having a blast with this project. I know it's supposed to chronicle more of your daily life but it's my 365 and my interpretation and I am having fun! It is good for the creative heart.

Here we are at day 6 already.Today's photo is making my heart happy. I spent the day with a great friend. We always have fun when we get together. Today we went to a local art store called Art Placement . It's a hidden jewel in our city. They have the most amazing papers and art supplies. If you have never been there go check them out. After a lunch of Dim Sum at a local restaurant we spent the afternoon "junking" at the local thrift stores. We both found some fun stuff to get our creative juices going. So here is my selection of finds from all the places we visited.

Here's my oldest son out enjoying the snow. Today was a hard day to pick which photo to post as I got quite a few nice shots of him playing. :) I love the "snowfall" effect of the snow cascading out of his hands.

The view from my patio doors tonight.

I live in a house where everyone wears the knees out of their jeans. All 4 of my children and my Husband too. I used to send all our pants to my MIL to be fixed but she is unable to do it anymore. So I was thinking with all the nice material and patterns on the market and all the cutting systems too that making some cool patches shouldn't be too hard. The patches turned out awesome and my kids loved them. What do you think?? I used cotton/cotton blend and flannel fabrics. The first thing I did was to apply heat and bond to the back of the fabric. This stiffens up the fabric and for non-sewers allows you to then iron the fabric onto your project with no sewing involved. I do find that I do need to sew it on to anything that will be going through the washing machine. I love the versatility of my Making Memories Slice . There are so many cartridges to choose from so no matter what kind of a custom patch design you want, you should be able to find it. Keep in mind you can...

Ray and I have been wanting to get skates for the kids for a while now but just weren't able to do it. This year we were finally able to do it. The kids were so excited. They had never been skating before. They took to it like ducks to water. ;) We only got a couple of outing's in before the weather turned cold. I'm hoping this cold snap doesn't last long. Ray and I even got skates. It's been about 20 years since either of us had been skating. It all came back to us...just like riding a bike. Speaking of wich that might be our next investment. I saturated the colours a little in the photo just because I loved how the red and blue laces pop.

Yummy.....Warm apple crisp and ice cream. I love these kinds of desserts in the winter time. :) Today I made Ray's favorite supper, Shepherd's Pie and we finished it off with this. I love how everyone's eye's always light up for the dessert portion of supper. With the six of us there is usually someone who isn't thrilled about what's on the table for supper but they never fail to get excited about dessert.

I have been lacking in inspiration for quite some time now. I don't know where it went or why but it's gone. I have decided that I really need to find it again so I am undertaking Project 365 . It's all about documenting your daily life. I'm excited for it. It has many purposes; First it will get me back on track blogging again. I have really neglected my blog this past year.Second it will make me be creative in some manner everyday. Yeah!! Third I will have to pick up my camera everyday. Something I have not been doing lately. Fourth it should give me lots of photo's to scrapbook this year. :) I am not sure yet if I will continue to post my Project 365 photo's here or if I will start another blog and then just link them up here...we'll have to see. So now onto today's photo.  I didn't put up a Christmas tree this year in stead the kids each made one. I will be putting them away sometime this week and since I hadn't taken any photo's of the...

Hi everyone who may still be following me. I know I've been very neglectful of my blog lately but that is going to change. I'm not going to make excuses....it's been a long year and my priorities changed and that's OK. December is going to fly by and 2011 will be here before many of us are ready for it. I plan to be back and better than ever in the New Year. I'll be blogging REGULARLY and I need you to help keep me accountable. We're all in this together. LOL. Last year I had found this very cool site called Ten Two Studios I thought they rocked last year....well they are rocking it again this year. All sorts of free printable down-loadable vintage goodness. Please go check them out and give them some love.   

I am sooooooo excited about how well this altered book turned out!! It's full of vintage goodies and distressing and Tim Holtz goodness. :)  I used my dremel tool with a sandpaper attachment to do a lot of the sanding and distressing. Wow, what a time saver. It has found a permanent home on my desk!! Now I just have to find some goodies to hide in my drawer.

Opa is German for Grandfather. My Father-in-law has the gentlest spirit. I have never heard him raise is voice or speak in anger to anyone. He is sooooooo patient. He lives for his Grandchildren and loves to sit back and laugh at their antics. This photo of Opa and our youngest really captures these qualities. It is a photo that I love to look at.  **my camera did not want to cooperate when I was trying to photograph this LO-sorry for the poor quality.

The Fall Issue of Canadian Scrapbooker is out!!!! It's on the shelves....run don't walk to get your copy.  I am so excited to be featured  in the Passport to Creativity!!! What an honour.I freaked to put it mildly when I opened that email. :) :)  These are the 3 LO's that I created for the issue. I stressed over my Bio and felt a little "nerdy" answering my interview questions, but when it's all said and done I am very proud of how it all looks and reads. I want to send a big SHOUT OUT to my friend Karen of KMP Photography for doing my head shots and scraproom photos too. Bird Call was created with Bo Bunny and some vintage goodies. I used my hole punch distress technique to finish it off. I wish I could Freeze Time consists of Graphic 45 and some yummy Tim Holz items. Toes is my last page. It has Basic Grey and my all time favorite photo of 2009. Now who else was is this magazine????? How about checking out my friend Kate ...she was featured in Pas...

A page full of BoBunny goodness. This is my youngest child. She has some of the most fantastic eyelashes I have ever seen. They are long and thick and black. She's 5 and she already knows how to use them. :) Boysenberry Dot cardstock PP is the Sophie line unknown bling swirls ribbon from my stash handmade flowers from the paper scraps

I made the drawing for my blog giveaway....the lunchbox filled with goodies at Midnight last night and the winner is: Jenn said... 6. Happy Everyday :) What an exciting giveaway full of creative inspiration! ovcgh June 15, 2010 3:55 PM Congratulations Jenn. Send me your info and I will send you your goodies. :) :)

I love how this page turned out. It is so bright and summery. I used a Hambly overlay on this page. I "fussy" cut the swirls off the overlay so I could place them exactly where I wanted them. I used a Fiskars border punch for the edging.

I used a Heidi Swapp butterfly mask and inked over it. I then took some Shimmerz and brushed that on. Stamped the title with StazOn ink. The black card stock was edged using my Fiscars scissors  and a Hambly overlay finishes off the page. Quick, simple fun. The photo was taken at the Fireworks Festival last year. Scyap Inc. did the face painting. They were amazing.  

I am celebrating many things today, 15 000 Visitors, my 3rd Blog Anniversary and my 37th Birthday. (My blog anniversary and my birthday are July 12th and this will be the day that I pick a winner.)It will be a month of fun so make sure you check back often.I have dug out a vintage metal lunch box that I found while out "junking" I am going to fill it with all sorts of goodies. The more comments left the fuller it becomes. The more people who follow me the fuller it becomes. If I reach 50 followers by July 12th I will have a bonus giveaway. :) Please number your comments. The first person to leave a comment is # 1 and the next is #2 and so on. Thanks. Some of the goodies in there already???? Vintage buttons and lace, 45 LP'S, Vintage playing cards, vintage cupcake papers, strings of pearls, chipboard journal blocks, bath sponge and duct tape (2 of my favorite things to put on a page.) Flowers.

I create cards very seldom. I just don't enjoy designing them. I don't know why. :) There are 3 photos of this card. I wanted to show how much dimension and texture was on it. I began by stamping the swirls with black archival ink. Then I stamped the butterfly 3 times. Once on the card base and twice on white card stock using Adirondack dye ink. I applied Rock Candy Distress crackle paint the the 2 stamps on the card stock. As you can see from the photo the ink did bleed a little. After the paint was dry I cut the butterflies out and pop dotted one over the butterfly that had been stamped on the card base. I then cut the second butterfly in half and pop dotted the only the top half on to the card. A little Stickles on the antennae and it was finished.