Sheryl Schmidt Artistry

Here's a very simple and quick layout I did a while back. I was in a use up some of my stash mood so I can't even tell you what paper line I used.

This face...what can I say about it??? I taught them this. I was waiting for everyone to finish up supper and I looked at Ray and made this face. Everyone burst out laughing. It was one of those nights, you know everyone is in a goofy mood kind of night. Well now this is what we do if someone is bored, or needs cheering up or is angry. You jsut can't help but snicker and laugh. :)

WOOHOO!!!! I can't believe that in my 3 short years of blogging I've had that many people come to visit me. Wow! Thank you so much. I will be doing something to celebrate so make sure to check back. Now onto my LO. I used Little Yellow Bicycle papers. I love their stuff so much fun to make boy pages with. It's a clean and simple LO. A little distressing and inking and it was done. The weekend we went camping last summer was cold and rainy. We had to wear our winter jackets. :) The kids really wanted to go swimming so with the first and only break in the weather we headed to the beach. Wolf turn a lovely shade of red with underlying hues of blue.

I was gong through my blog to see what LO's I have that haven't been posted here yet and I realized I hadn't posted my page that was published in the Canadian Scrapbooker Spring Issue. DOH!! So after giving myself head a shake and a mental scolding here it is. :)

I received some exciting news last night....I will  share the news soon so stay tuned. ;) While you are waiting here's a LO for you to enjoy. Wolfgang loves anything to do with the Military. Last year at the Family Expo there was a huge Military display. The soldiers who were working that day were fantastic. The had rifles the kids could handle and aim, a night vision obstacle course and the helmet and vest for the kids to try on. Man was that vest heavy. Wolf was so proud and excited to try them on. This is a simple no frills LO several of the circles are pop dotted for dimension as well as a little stitching just for texture. I used the Tim Holtz craft scratcher to scratch out the busy background of the photo. I sanded the edges of my circles and journal strips and it was a page complete.

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.

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??

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.

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????

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 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.

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.

I just had to document who won and who lost 1 of many altercations between Wolfgang and Kayne. As you can see Wolf lost.

This is definitely a blackmail picture. Wolfgang had played so hard one sunny day last summer that he crashed and burned before supper.

Wolfgangs Eyes. What can I say. He has long lashes and deep brown eyes that I am sure will break many hearts. I took this picture one afternoon when we were just lying around having a lazy day. I know it is mothers pride but isn't he a handsome boy?

I like how this page came together. I know it is a very simple layout but I have tried a couple of new techniques. Like placing a picture over the seam and then cutting it. I does add something to the page. I am trying to doodle but alas I am just not confident enough yet to try it on a grander scale but a little here and there does help to finish a page. Maybe my favorite LSS(JSI) will do a class on doodling this fall.(Hint...Hint) Anyway I do like to try new things and by doing so my confidence is building and I am getting braver, after all it is only paper. Right.

Wolf had been pestering Ray all week to take the training wheels off his bike. When Ray finally found a few minutes one night to do it Wolf took no time at all to figure it out. I think within the first few attempts he had it. Now he is trying to do wheelies. Go figure I'm raiseing a dare devil.