Passion For Paper-Tricia Raleigh (martin)

I finally had a chance to play with some of my QuicKutz last week. Here is a page I did of Morgan when he was 3. I know I am a little behind on my scrapbooking. Humpty was created using many different dies. (egg, pirate legs, the body feet and hands, balloon for hat, space shuttle for bow and a few other small pieces)   I am in the Memphis area this week. I have been having to much fun. I have been hitting all my favorite scrapbook places. It has been hard not buying all the new goodies out. Maybe I will be rich someday. 

Here are a few card I did for the LLSS. Getting  ready for a long road trip back to Oklahoma and Tennessee. I post more later.....T 

A lot of my Memphis friend have seen my poster at my favorite scrapbook store, Eclectica Scrapbook and Stamp Store. But not all of us are lucky enough to visit frequently, so I thought I would share the poster I created when I went back to Memphis to visit. Most of the pieces are created using quickutz dies. I couldn't get a good picture from the window so I've included a close up view. 

Just thought I would share a swap I did a while back made out of match boxes. Stamps are Stampin' Up and paper is Cosmo Cricket. Oh good news the temperature finally hit the mid to high 60's today. Spring might be here after all. Last week I wasn't to sure about spring coming when I saw snow falling from the sky. ugh!  

Hi yal, I have been a busy girl. I was able to go back to Tennessee last week to see my mom and few friends. My trip was not long enough. I didn’t get a chance to see all the people I wanted and my shopping had to be scaled back. I enjoyed every bit of my time in the wonderful spring weather. Hopeful I can come back this summer and stay a little longer. I found the cord to down load some pictures from my camera. Here are some cards I have worked on lately. Hope you enjoy.

Welp, you are right. Sorry, I haven’t posted lately. I haven’t done much art and have been in one of those funks. I hope to get out it soon. I think I just need to get a coloring book and start to color maybe it will inspire me. We have had so much snow and cold weather I had to finally break down and get some winter gear.   I feel like a big marshmallow man dressed like a penguin. But by golly I am warmer now.   Here are some pictures of our winter. Some ice fishermen drilling a whole to get to the water. There are ice houses all over the river. This is in front of our apartment. a lot of the snow is from snow drifts. Mercedes alway beats us back to the house when we take her out for potty breaks. She sits patiently with tail tucked until we get the door opened. She loves running in the snow for a few minutes but cold weather drives her back to the house quickly.  Trey and Morgan on snowmobile. Me on snowmobile. I never knew how cold it could get outside until we moved here...

Just wanted to let everyone know I have not dropped of the earth. The house we were renting was sold this month. So I have been busy packing and moving again. Life should be back to normal soon. Or as normal as it can be, living in a little apartment.  Since most of our stuff is going to storage I shouldn't have to unpack a lot.  tricia

I was looking at some of my photos and found this summer time suit case I finished a while back. Since it is below 32 degrees around here. I felt like I needed to post a warm summer time photo. tricia 

Here is a thank you gift I made using Graphic 45 paper. I added the zipper for a little added bling. I think this paper is one of my favorite paper lines.

Totally off the subject of any art talk. I was driving home the other day and saw something orange in the sky. So I had to go around the block to get a second look. I found this deer hunter so funny I had to share. I am not a hunter, but everyone here thinks hunting season is a holiday. They all think work should be canceled on opening day. To me it is to cold around here to sit in a tree and wait to see a deer. Or in this deer's case a man. We got our first flurry of snow this weekend. It didn’t stick or stay long so I couldn’t get a good picture to show yal. I am sure I will have more chances.  tricia

Morgan got his helmet to ride ATV’s now he just need the ATV too.   Slowly but surely he is getting hooked up. He gets a few perks with daddy working at Arctic Cat.   Arctic lets some employees ride the ATV’s and Snowmobiles. We just have to take some classes. I had never seen a snowmobile until we moved here. So I can’t wait to check out how different they are from riding ATV’s. The only problem I foresee is that the snowmobile requires snow and that means cold weather. I am already cold all the time and the cold weather hasn’t even got here yet. The high this week is around 47 to 50 degrees. I am going to have to get me some thermal underwear soon or start packing my pants with all my scrapbook papers. ttfn, tricia

I am about to get everything unpacked here in northeast Minnesota.   I just unpacked my last craft room box. Now I have to figure out where to put it.   I need to get rid of some of my craft supplies but I just love them all. Someday I might need them. I guess it’s a compulsion just like women who have all those shoes and never will wear all of them before they die. I have been playing around a bit with some new supplies. Here is a Halloween project I have been working on. Hope you enjoy. Hi to all my TN friend I miss being inspired by all your talent. Miss you too Cindy. :) Tricia

I got my hubby headed off to his new job yesterday. Yeah!  He starts work monday.  Now I am on my own to get everything ready for the move. I am glad we have movers coming, however just getting ready for them and getting my house ready to sell is overwhelming.  Yesterday I also celebrated my birthday with mom. Doing the dinner and movie thing. Thought I would top it off with a little frozen custard. Well I always get the same thing but being my birthday and all I decided to get something new. Not sure what the problem was but by the time I got home I was so sick. Hugging the toilet and I didn't even drink alcohol. When I was young and celebrated I knew why I was sick. (to much fun!!). The good news is I believe in celebrating your birthday all week. And the rest of my week is going to be greeeat!  tricia

I finally visited Graceland last week. I have been here 3 years and never got the chance to go. We are getting ready to move to MN so figured if I wanted to see it I better go now. I'm not a big Elvis fan but I was really impressed. As an artist I loved looking at all the costumes he had. I was amazed by the talent and time it took to create them. The house was cool too. It was a total "Brady Bunch" experience. tricia

This is  how we start our wild adventures to CHA. Can you believe we even got more stuff in here on the way home? We a had a low rider on the way home. We just needed to add some cool paint to the van but we were to tired.   tricia

I just returned from CHA. I had so much fun. I saw so much stuff, I haven’t even processed it all. I am still so tired. I learned a lot about being a designer with CHA. Thank God I had my wonderful mentors with me helping every step of the way. I would have been as lost a goose with out them.   I met some wonderful woman, that also design as CHA members. How amazing and inspiring they all were.   Here are a couple of project I created for a children’s display at CHA. The first is a kids party hat the second is a desk set for a girls room. tricia

Did you think I was never going to post again? I was beginning to wonder myself. I have been so busy with new project. I am going to CHA this year for the first time. I am going as a designer and I have been trying to get as many project as I can created. I also have taken on a new adventure at my LSS. Our store has a card kit they create and sell every month. Our designer for these kits has moved. So I am in progress of designing my first card kit for the store. I am so excided to be designing these kits. However, I have big shoes to fill and I hope I am able to make my LSS proud. Also I am creating some project for A-MUSEA-PALOOZA stamp extravaganza. This is an exciting week long of event on July 7th-13th.. These stamps are so fun. I will post some sneak peeks soon. They are definitely going to get you in the holiday mood. Here is a peek at one of the project I am creating for CHA. The stamps are from Artistic Outpost. I painted the pencil box lightly. Stamped with black then colore...

Here is a little book I have been working. It is 5 star book by Pine Cone Press. I still need to add pictures to finish. It took a little work but I think it was worth the time. I got on line this morning and looked at my OSU transcript. I was excited to see: Degree awarded- Bachelor of Fine Arts. I guess it just goes to show persistence pays off. --tricia

I also though I better share one of the projects I have been working on for the LSS. This house is created by using the Maya Road chipboard house. The paper is by Fancy Pants designs. The flowers are many different brands. Hope you enjoy.

Hello, once again it has been forever since I have blogged. I just seem to loose track of time living life. This is a simple card I created for the LSS. We have a make-n-take Monday every week teaching new ways to use our products. This week we used Jolee’s embellishments and cloud 9 paper.