To Teach is to Learn Twice

Photos taken at the St.Joseph Indian School in Chamberlain, SD. I couldn't resist using cardstock from Club Scrap's Academy kit when I saw the eagle on the paper echoing the eagle on the side of the Akta Lakota Museum on the school grounds. This is an old half-baked assembly line layout started long ago. I don't have many school layouts to make but this was a perfect fit. I also used a Cheery Lynn die of a Dreamcatcher as an embellishment to mimic the school flag. Thanks for stopping by.

Wild Bill

I'm not overly thrilled at this layout but it's as done as it's going to get for now. Cardstock is from the Club Scrap Wild Wild West kit. As usual, I'm thinking waaaaay out of the box. NOT! Photos are from the cemetery in Deadwood, final resting place of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Seth Bullock (among many others). I used a pocket card for some journaling to fit my class assignment in Scrapping Outside the Pocket. I'm not happy with this final product so I'm hoping some inspiration will come to me eventually and I can dress it up a bit. Or not.

Drama, Drama, Drama

Another South Dakota layout, nearly completed on my table with an addition of Pocket cards to help me fit one of the assignments over at Big Picture Classes Scrapping Outside the Pocket. Other cardstock is from Club Scrap. Photos represent all of the historic theatres I photographed while on our South Dakota adventure. Another simple layout but it's done. Yay!!!

Embark on Adventures

My good friend and fellow Squirrel Farley lured me over to a new class at Big Picture Classes called Scrapping Outside the Pocket. The focus is to use the cards we are all accumulating designed for pocket scrapbooking. I only own one set called Chalkboard from We R Memory Keepers so I used it on this layout. I do own several kits in digi form so you may be seeing them in the future. 

This is another in a long line of many you will be seeing from my South Dakota trip. While leaving Rapid City on our way to Custer State Park, we stumbled upon these Big Heads I had read about on Roadside America, one of my favorite sites. I had given up on finding them and there they were, right along the side of Hiway 79. What a find!!! A simple layout but it's done. And done is better than perfect, as my sister always tells me.

The Stamps of Life

Posted this card from my phone and evidently the accompanying text did not make the flight. 

I'm still putting finishing touches on the cards I made in a recent class with Stephanie Barnard at Stampers Corner in Elk Grove. Love these Flip-it cards. This one is on its way to Cousin Jane in Bradenton for her 80th birthday.

Prairie Dogs

At long last I have started making the scrapbook pages of my trip with Mom to South Dakota in September. This first one was created using the sketch I submitted as the March scrapbook sketch over at Paperartistsonline. It's a sketch from Club Scrap's Lock and Key kit in October 2013. All papers are from various Club Scrap kits. The spinner2stamp set is from The Stamps of Life. I used the stamp and die set to create a journaling tag for the layout. These photos show the adorable prairie dogs who reside near the entrance to the Badlands. I know. They're rodents. But I like 'em. Thanks for dropping by.

Happy Spinner Birthday

A quick card for my brother-in-law using the spinners2stamp dies from Stephanie Barnard at The Stamps of Life along with greetings from the tickets2stamp set. Love this little set and hope to do more with it soon. Cardstock from Club Scrap.