A LO from me and a new product

June 6, 2008, 12:18 pm

I was inspired by the cover of Sports Illustrated that came in the mail yesterday – has anyone seen it? It’s got the Celtics and the Lakers and shows an old picture in a vintage-looking frame. I thought, “How neat! I wonder if they did that digitally or if it’s an actual photo of an old slide/photo?” I took that as my inspiration and then started making my own slidemounts and photo frames. I wanted to incorporate some stamps, writing and miscellaneous numbers and, well, “Mangled Frames” is what was born from that inspiration.

You can get Mangled Frames at SBB or ShopJMT and they’re $3.00 for a set of 13 frames, 2 labels and a large staple. The frames come in 3 different slidemounts and 3 different photo frames, each with several different versions. Each one has either labels, text, stamps and torn cardboard to make them look old and used. Here’s a preview:

And a LO I did using one of them:

Credits:

By me, Jennifer M. Trippetti – Sisal background paper, Lily doodle, red ribbons from Serenity Now; Mangled Frame, Blackboard Alpha, Red Matted Alpha, Embroidered Alpha and Denim Strip from Pick-A-Pocket, Feltie Heart.

Staples from Maya’s Personal Stash – The Ultimate Staple Collection.

Love from Springy Sayings by Traci Murphy (blog freebie, I think).

Tag, Stitching, Memories from Digi Scrap Tabs by Christina Renee.

Background Cardboard (modified) from Salvaged Creamy Cardboard by Rachel Young.

Oh, and the journaling: There’s a Void in my heart and I don’t think it’ll ever be filled. Memories – We miss you, Kip but we did what was best for all of us. (It’s referencing us having to give him up because he was biting the kids. But, fortunately, he was adopted by someone without kids just 4 days after we gave him up.)

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Harder to Breathe

May 9, 2008, 8:36 pm

That’s the name of my most recent iTunes purchase – Harder to Breathe by Maroon 5. I was at Saxby’s (a coffee shop) the other day & it was on Sirius’ The Pulse station. I googled it while there because I wasn’t sure who sung it & found out it’s Maroon 5. I figured it was a perfect running song & considering I’m doing my first 10K tomorrow, I grabbed it for my playlist. Nothing like doing a run with a fresh playlist. I used to be all strict with my playlist & whatever I trained with, I had to run with. But lately I’ve been mixing it up a lot. Here’s the playlist I put together for tomorrow’s run. Quite a variety, I think:

The first 6 songs are from a “Running Through the 90s” playlist I found on iTunes. Then I’ve got my Power Song, Bleed it Out by Linkin Park – that one really gets me going. So I mix in some hard stuff & then mellow out with a block of Modest Mouse. Then, at the end, I threw in a bunch of weird stuff, just to get me through the end. I *think* I’ve got more than enough songs on there. I sure hope I don’t even make it to the end because that would mean I’ve totally blown my goal of finishing in 1.25 hours.

Well, obviously, race-mode has already set in, because I’ve spent the last hour or so figuring out my playlist, so the stress has already begun. I already warned DH that by tomorrow morning, I’ll be in full blown race-mode, so he is to just ignore me. I get really wigged out on race days. It’s weird, because it’s not like I really am that stressed about the race, but for some reason, a few hours before the race (or the night before), it just consumes me and it’s all I think about. I spend 20 minutes fixing my shoes, blowing my nose, fixing my shirt…everything must be perfect for the start. I guess it’s how I get in the zone.

Well, I think I’m going to spend an hour or so vegging in front of the TV with my dogger-doo and then hit the sack. Sometime later this week I’ll have to update on my hives. Long story short: they’re still here. 4 weeks of hives. Bleh. I’ll leave you with a few LOs I did this week, one of the aforementioned dogger-doo and the other of Lauren. Both are using products I purchased on National Scrapbook Day, which was this past Saturday. Click the pics to see the credits in my DST gallery.

“Is there anyone out there cause it’s getting harder and harder to breathe” Maroon 5, Harder to Breathe

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A couple more LOs with my new kit coming Friday!

February 27, 2008, 11:21 pm

I posted a couple of LOs earlier this week and I wanted to post a few more LOs as well:

Jamie did this cute LO:

And here’s one that I did:

And one more here by Marianne. She desaturated most everything to really bring your eye in to Aiden’s jersey! How cute is he?

I can’t wait until Friday when my shop opens, because I’ve got 3 new kits in addition to Comfort Zone that’ll be available. So be sure to check back on Friday for the grand opening!

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It’s a Care Bears Countdown 5-4-3-2-1!

February 8, 2008, 5:09 pm

I can’t get that song out of my head. The girls are both home today watching all our Care Bears DVDs and Allison has even pulled out the VCR tapes. (Which Lauren just doesn’t understand. She took a DVD and tried to put it in the VCR because she had never seen us use the VCR. Allison has been home sick the past 2 days with a bad cough and a fever. And yesterday she even had the “Hershey Squirts” as my neighbor so affectionately called them. Her fever was 103 this morning. She seems a little better now, but it’ll probably spike again this afternoon.

So that all means that I missed the gym again today. Man, I’m batting 1000 lately with the workout misses. Skipped Friday & Monday on my own accord, Wednesday my iPod wasn’t working & then today I can’t go. I’m going to try to fit a good run in either tonight or tomorrow. I’ve only got a week before my race & I’ve got to get at least 1 good 5-mile run in before then! And I want to do some hill repeats, too.

I have, however, taken the past 2 days to do some hard core designing. (For me that means that I got a kit finished, LOL, and I even started on a 2nd one and have thought about a 3rd one.) I’m getting ready for my shop grand opening. And I even got some scrapping done with SMJ’s new lil kits.

First is using mostly Playful, as well as Little Dudes:

My favorite part of the Playful kit is the wire & bead elements. The colors are also perfect for young boys and it really goes well with Little Dudes!

And the second uses mostly Shabbyful and Cheerful, with some other things thrown in, too:

Shabbyful is just such a beautiful kit. My favorite part is the flowers. The one on the left by the heart is from Shabbyful and they are just so perfect!

And now wanna see some previews of the new, exclusive to ShopJMT kits that I’m working on? I’ll post previews in the way of some layouts I’ve completed. First is a featured kit that will be free with purchase when my store opens. It’s called Comfort Zone and here are 2 layouts:

This one is a pretty but grungy kit. Maybe one of my grungiest to date, which is why I called it Comfort Zone;) It’s the style I prefer to design in and scrap with, even.

And next is a boyish kit named for my son, Tyler. I’m going to have a series of 3 kits named for characteristics of my kids. This one is Tenacious Ty and here is a Valentine’s Day cad I did with it:

The heart is actually from my Beaded Glass Embellies at SBB, but everything else is from the kit.

I hope to finish up my kit for my oldest DD, Allison, by this weekend, so maybe next week I can post some LOs with that! Until then, have a great day & Happy Scrapping!

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Novacaine on the Brain

February 5, 2008, 8:50 pm

Seriously, I feel like the dentist Novacained my brain. Which maybe wouldn’t be such a bad thing, huh? Man, dental work. I hate it. Most of my life I had pretty decent teeth. A single filling when I was 13 or so & then nothing for 10+ years. Then in my 20s, I get out of college, get a job and my own insurance and BAM, my teeth go to, well, rot. This year alone I’ve had a crown and 4 fillings. How sad is that? Especially since before this I had only had a total of 3 fillings! And now I’ve more than doubled the teeth that are filled. Besides that, I’m getting a mouth guard, because, surprise, surprise, after 3 kids, I’m clenching my teeth. Ugh, the joys of getting older.

In other news, here I went bragging about running50 miles in Jan. Wanna guess how many miles I’ve done so far in Feb? Yep, none. A big fat zero. On Friday I skipped the gym. And right now I don’t even remember why. Then on Monday I forgot my gym bag. I went all the way there (so it’s only 6 miles) and realized I didn’t have my gym bag. Came home & decided to ditch the gym anyway. Tomorrow, I promise, I’ll be back and get 5 miles in.

Oh, did I mention that I’m a guest CT member this month for Shabby Miss Jenn? How incredibly awesome is that? I love her stuff – just love it and purchased my first items from her just last month. I posted a couple of new LOs over on her team blog, too. 2 were from last month & the new ones I’ll post here. I love the way they turned out!

This one uses mostly Shabby Snowkisses. Such a great kit for snow!