Sheryl Schmidt Artistry

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

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 attended Sask Scraps last weekend. What a hoot. I got to meet and take a class with Allison Orthner. Wow!!!!This lady is fantastic! If you ever get to take one of her classes do so. Jill Hildebrand is a riot! Leica Forrest is amazing! Yes I had a good time. I did a little shopping, a little scrapping and a lot of visiting. I was encouraged by friends and family to enter some layouts for publication....so I did. Holy Smokes did I represent.LOL. I had 2 LO's chosen for Honorable mention and 1 will be published in Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine. WOW!!!It's been a week and I think I am still floating on cloud nine.LOL. Here I am posing with Jackie Ludlage from Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine. This lady is so much fun to hang with. I can't show you a picture of my winning LO but I will post my honorable mention LO's over the weekend. I am so excited to announce that my friend Andrea Hipkin also had multiple wins on the weekend and will have a page published in Canadian Scrap...

Let me start today's post with a huge thank you to Leica Forrest for organizing such a fantastic crop. Woot!Woot! You rawk girl! It was so much fun to see old friends and meet new friends and to put faces to the names on the Just Cre8 Forum board. It was an awesome weekend. Now many of you know that C95's Rambling Dave sometimes speaks before he thinks. This was the case last week. He made a reference on the radio 1 morning about how scrapbooking was just glorified sticker collecting. Lets just say the scrapping community of Saskatoon soon set him straight. After a week of this being a hot topic every morning during his radio show he graciously agreed to come for a visit on Saturday. While we all know his comment was tongue in cheek and we were all joking about it we still wanted him and many others to understand why we do this hobby. I think that Dave really took away an understanding and, maybe even some appreciation for the art which we create. He now knows this is much more...

I was at the Sask Scraps this weekend and had a blast. Make sure you check back often over the next few days as I post pictures and "spill" some exciting news.

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.

Coffee Sticky pick up toys clean the bathroom laundry dirty dishes dance lego still sticky play doh me kids fighting cute snow fold laundry ew !!! what was that???? play why do I have to do it?? supper???? mmmmmmmm ice cream smell why are you still sticky???? ow summer where did that come from??? quiet pick everyone up hmmmmmmm because I'm your Mother friends smile hugs bed why are you still sticky?

Yep this is me at 35!!!Pink hair and comfortable in her own skin!Who'd a ever thunk it??I distressed the photo using Tim Holtz's scratchy tool.Hole punched the edges of the PP to distress it and I journaled about me for a change. All the things I am and all the things I do. I love my life.I love where I've been and look forward to where I am going. I am happy with the path I chose!! * won honorable mention at Saskatchewan Scraps in March 2009 *

A really simple page but I love how the stiching turned out.

I used Just Cre8's February Kit for this LO. I stamped the ribbon,made torn paper flowers and stiched the stem. I love this page. It reminds me of my own school days.

This is from the February Kit at Just Cre 8. I added the skulls and the transparencies. It was a fun page to do.

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.

My goal this year is to try and use more of my scraps up. So with that being said here are a couple cards I made from my scraps. I really like how the INSPIRED card turned out. Using my hole punch to distress my edges is my favorite technique right now. I think the last 4 or 5 projects have had this done somewhere on them.

We were on our way home from Ray's office kids Christmas party and Ruby-Jean fell asleep. Her hand was buried in her bag from Santa and she wasn't letting go for nothing. We made it all the way home and the bag never fell off her lap. I used some stuff from the December kit I got from Just Cre8 and some stuff from my stash.

We went to the Monster Trucks on Sunday afternoon. Kayne had started talking about monster trucks back in the fall so when we asked him a few weeks ago what he wanted for his birthday he asked to go see the Monster Trucks. So this is how we celebrated his 5th birthday. This is the driver of Jurassic Attack. She was super nice to the kids. This was Wolfgang's reaction to the Trucks. I think he really liked the Extreeem Quad Racing and the Freestyle Motorcross. This is Jurassic Attack.Nice.

Today is shaping up to be a great day. The tire is fixed on the van. YEAH!!! It is gorgeous outside today +4 is the forcasted high. I'm going scrapping with a bunch of friends tonight.I really need to get out of the house. I hope my creativity is flowing tonight when I get to my favorite place to play...Just Scrap IT! It's the last Friday of January which means winter is sort of maybe kinda coming to an end? only a few more weeks and we should be able to smell spring in the air. It has been such a long winter because it has been so cold. You know that kind of cold where your nostrils freeze shut when you breathe. I hope to get some photos taken this weekend of pages I have done so keep checking back to see what I have come up with.

Do you ever feel as though LIFE is hurling at you at 100 MPH? Speed bumps, road hazards,sharp bend in the road,Bridge washed out? You know the hole 9 yards. It feels like that some days. Yesterday afternoon I was waaayyy late leaving to pick the kids up from school...so I already know this is not going to be a good trip across the city. I was stopped at a red light when the driver of the vehicle behind me got out of his jeep and started walking up to me. I thought oh no this isn't going to be good...he tapped on the window and informed me I had a flat tire. Oh Crap! Thankfully I was only a couple blocks away from a gas station so I stopped to put air in my tire. When I knelt down by the tire I could hear the air hissing and see the bubbles forming around a nice gash. Oh Crap! This gas station is right across the street from my church so I drove over there praying that someone would be there. Yes! Our Youth pastor was still there and he saved the day by lending me his car to run and...

To all those that have been following Mojo Girls I am not sure what direction I want to go with this challenge blog and so I have TEMPORARILY shut it down. Please keep checking back as I will get it up and running again soon...hopefully. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions please feel free to leave me a comment or email me. Thanks.