Organize your Stuff: Week 19 (round 4): Chipboard Part 2

Hope that you all have had a good weekend! OCD Me had great intentions about cleaning the scrap room… however we never made it past our Design Team homework and our layout.

PA Me has assured us that once school starts back, she will actually pitch in and help undo the mess that Creative Me invariably makes!

In exciting (although belated) news, we have finally been published! The POW had to pinky swear not to share the image until after release, and then with summer being summer and PA Me being in charge (it is kind of the reverse of Persephone being sent to Hades…and messier), we then forgot to post it! *gasp*

Here is our layout: Deployment Sisters. It is featured in the Homefront Heroes section of Scrapstreet. com Magazine Summer issue which went live on August 1st.

Also, Creative Me broke out her rarely used chipboard letters so that she could scrapbook our trip down to Idaho.  The POW does not understand Creative Me's hang up with chipboard.  This looks pretty cool! We had such a good time visiting our friend down in Idaho…even if it was short, that we were just SO excited to get it down on paper! (It is green in honor of their dairy's name: The Green Goat Dairy).

Thanks for visiting as always! We will be crafting alone this week, as Girl Friday has Girl Scout Day camp. Next post…die cuts. See you for WOYWW!

Organize your Stuff: Week 19 (round 4): WOYWW & Chipboard

Well, time flies when you have been on the road! It is Wednesday again, and that means that it is WOYWW (What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday) time…

Here is our desk up close (mildly messy)…

Then here is our desk from a wider angle. No, global thermal nuclear war has not rained down on us (cue the young Matthew Broderick and the CPU: Would you like to play a game?).

While we would like to say that it has been a lazy summer, having the kids around has put us in who’s on first and what’s on second mode big time! Especially now that Illusive Middle Child has football (American style, not soccer) and Girl Friday has Cheer practice. To see other clean, messy, and creative spaces, please hop over to Julia and the Stamping Ground.

However, we did make time for our design team card for Tuesday Trio’s Sketch #78: Summer Vacation Theme. As we usually go to the beach during the summer, this is what Creative Me came up with!

Also, PA Me gets to do the happy dance, as our chipboard got settled down last round (post here). OCD Me has had no problem keeping them corralled (mostly because Creative Me doesn’t use the much and the Inner Hoarder is more likely to pick up a cute piece of patterned or a cute pack of brads)!

Now all we have to do, is get a layout done for the weekend! Off to visit some desks! SO, as we go, a parting picture from our fabulously quick holiday to Idaho to visit our friend (a goat cheese maker...mmmm...yummy cheese!).

Organize your Stuff: Week 19 (round 3): Chipboard part 2

This week the layout Creative Me was working on her homework for the Ali Edwards One Little Word class. This was kind of fun, as Fabulous Spouse and the POW spent an evening on dueling laptops trying to find the perfect quote (OCD Me cut and pasted a two page word file of alternate quotes in case we need them later). Very ironically,we felt that one by Dean Koontz (Horror/ thriller novelist) spoke most to us. Does that mean that we need therapy?

When the POW and OCD Me were done with all the bookwork part of the assignment, then Creative Me broke out Illusive Middle Child’s old set of Crayola watercolors. Personally, she has been spending too much time in Girl Friday’s Kindergarten where we must zap the white! White paper is the enemy!…and over half of the page was covered in it! …maybe we should cut back on volunteering with little ones.

The POW, who is always a little concerned when Creative Me starts rooting around in the kids’ school supplies, is actually quite pleased in how this turned out. If you had told the POW that this layout would have sparkly Thickers, chipboard, beads, buttons, flowers, magic mesh, jeweled brads, punches, fabric boarder stickers and watercolors…she would have laughed, and said that it would look like a scrapbook store threw up on it! However, I think that the POW underestimates Creative Me sometimes, and this turned out well.

For half a minute, Creative Me thought of using the sewing machine again on the bottom left square, but OCD Me barred the way. OCD Me reminded Creative Me that the sewing machine is still in solitary confinement to think about her tension issues and receive help that we cannot provide. If we tried to deal with her right now, the sewing machine would probably end up with the death penalty (and it would be a violent and messy death). So, no machine stitching, just this little bit on the chipboard "e".

As for chipboard, my tiny stash is firmly tucked away. Again, therapy is probably in my future, because OCD Me would just look at this pile and be at a loss. There is not much free space left in the scrap room, and really, there aren’t enough pieces (Inner Hoarder, this is not an invitation to shop…seriously) to justify a whole “system”…which is really OCD Me’s meat and potatoes. So, while reading Zen Master Wookiemouse’s blog for the umpteenth time (sorry Google translate friends, umpteenth= a lot more times than is healthy or more than four), she was finally inspired.

Wookiemouse had chucked her 3-drawer Sterlite drawers because they were not quite big enough for the really big chipboard pieces, and she had well…a lot! OCD Me goes…THAT’S IT! She runs upstairs to the almost completely empty old scrap room, and finds the empty 3-drawer Sterlite container and brings it down stairs. Five minutes later, OCD Me is done. There are now three categories for chipboard pieces in the Scrappnbee Scraproom: alphabets, shapes, and finished pieces (alphabets and shapes). Plus, there is room to spare.  So, here it is above, and it is great because my ATG Gun and scrap bin fit right on top!

Organize your Stuff: Week 19 (round 3): Chipboard Part 1

This week starts the Anniversary events for Tuesday Trio, and Creative me is so honored to have the sketch that she created be chosen for this week! Pop on over to Tuesday Trio and have a chance to get some great free blog candy! Here is my Design Team Card for Sketch #49!

Just so you know, when this sketch was submitted to Tuesday Trio, Creative Me was still a contestant, and did not really think that we had a chance of making the design team. Therefore, she had no problem with suggesting that the bonus challenge was to use stitching…since she was not going to make the team… So, imagine the POW’s surprise when the Sketch was accepted and we made the design team!

You may not be aware, but currently, my sewing machine and I are on strict supervised visitations. Apparently, she has tension issues that she enjoys taking out on Creative Me and OCD Me. This causes extreme amounts of stress and violent tendencies on the parts of my personalities. (Note: It took me forty minutes to stitch four inches with my machine without it jamming up. Creative me could have hand stitched the whole thing in less time. But why hand stitch when you have a sewing machine? With tension issues?!?!)

Now, to the issue at hand…chipboard. Ok, OCD Me has serious chipboard issues. This is where we ended up after Round 2.  Totally under inspiring.  Now, the Inner Hoarder has not acquired that much chipboard, so this should not be a big deal. But, the POW has come to realization that since we do not have enough chipboard for nine (9) 12x12 Iris containers (and Fabulous Spouse, don’t worry! We do not intend to go shopping and get more just to make this mentally easier! …. Hmmm, shopping…. No. Must stick to budget!) like Zen Master Wookiemouse (her blog here), it is actually more of a challenge.

So, provided that the weather gods don’t have a sick sense of humor, and keep my kids home with a snow day or two this week, the POW has promised to support OCD Me and come up with a solution that does not involve a giganticly big bin. Wish us luck and rain instead of snow!

Organize your Stuff: Week 19- Chipboard

Happy Mother’s Day Week to all of you who use being a mom as your excuse to scrapbook (don’t worry that’s the reason I do it too *wink*). This week is chipboard, and to be honest, it is one of my newest most used tools. Last year I discovered the world of handmade mini-albums. They are the cool answer to that 400 photo long weekend… you know the ones. For this “layout” the POW has forced me to step it up and start the family Easter vacation to California (I started with a kit from http://www.scrapyardchicks.com/ using jillybean soup papers and enhanced it with We R Memory Keepers). Here is the cover with a chipboard tulip (itinerary on the flip side), chipboard letters wrapped with wire and beads on another chipboard page, and finally… the start of the photos on the inside.

Question of the Week: How do you decorate your chipboard?

Usually I adhere paper on top and either leave the edges naked or ink them. Girl Friday likes to play in paint to much. However, on occasion, I do break out the paint, and for the above pics, the edges are painted and the C and A are as well.

Here is the tiny stash of unused chipboard that I have. Chipboard also lives in my scrap class bag, and I have a request in with Fabulous Spouse for a case of chipboard from U-line for my birthday! OCD Me barely had to lift a finger…I think she actually yawned at this tiny stash, the Inner Hoarder laughed and PA Me did not even bother to play.

Die cuts/ cut outs for next week…only 9 weeks left!