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Greeting Blog Followers!

I am back, i believe that i was in a creative funk! Slowly but surely i have come out of it.  My craft room is coming along nicely, picture to be coming very soon.

In a business trip this past week i was able to stop at Michael's in Sioux Falls, SD.  I was happy to see that they had Tim Holtz's stamps not being able to decide on just one I bought all three. Next to these set was Tim's stamping blocks, so of course  i had to get those as well. . .

During my drive to Fairmont,MN and then back to Aberdeen, SD, i was able to mentally create projects using these stamps.  Here is the first idea that came to fruition. . .

It is so nice to be able to get my fingers inked up again. . .

Happy Stamping!

~jason



journey swap

a swap about where I come from

Oz Page Swap

Greetings blog followers, sorry to have been away for so long. . . I am getting back in to the crafting spirit, my new craft room is coming along.  Pics of the room coming soon.  This post I wanted to share with you a page I did for a Wizard of Oz Swap. The character I picked was the Scarecrow.  Using Tim Holtz inks and texture fade and Artistic Outposts Stamps.  I created the following page.  Also included with the page is a tag with historical facts regarding Baum his time in Aberdeen, SD where I am from, and what inspired him to write the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Font of Page

Back of Page

Front of Tag

Back of Tag

Happy Crafting!

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I can not believe that this is the last challenge that Linda at Studio L3 is hosting.  I had the best intentions of completing every weekly challenge--however life took over and I moved back to my home State of South Dakota.  I did in spirit keep up with the challenges, previewing Linda's site weekly.  When I saw this was the last challenge, I knew that I had to participate.  Plus the prize package is a great one.  The stamp set is one that I have always wanted.  I think it would be great to win this challenge.  So with that being said. . .here is my submission.   

~Jason

altered ancestors

WOW!  what a month.  Not only has there been a lot of snow my computer crashed.  Not to worry I was told that the hard drive is fine, and that it is an issue with the power supply.  Thank goodness for that, I was worried that I would have lost all of my clip art and projects.  Well I ended up getting a new lap top which is great I can hook it up to my TV and watch shows that are not available up here in South Dakota that I had in Texas.

My craft room is coming along the walls are painted. and the cabinets have been built.  Time to organize.  But before I start that I had to finish up a Swap:  Altered Ancestors, hosted by Gloria at All Things Tim, Yahoo Group. 

I wanted to share a couple of pics one is of the front.  The alteration of this pic, which is my favorite pic that I have in my collection, putting glasses made out of electrical wire sent to me by my great friend Liz.  I have come to call this young man Nigel Pinkston. 

The concept of this swap was to take a photo of prior to 1950 an "ancestor" an alter to pic.

The back of the page was not to be left blank , so Thank you to another good friend, Inge from Belgium, took this picture of Nigel Pinkston and created a rubber stamp for me.  I love it and thank you Inge.

Stamping the image, I then created a mask and stamped the fabric stamp over the page, adding the pointing finger and a stamped image of a Kirby Ink ad.

It feels so good to be connected back to the world wide web and my blog and back to my crafting.

Please let me know what you think of this project.  (Sorry that the pics are sideways, still learning this computer)

~Jason

My Blog Award

I got a Blogger Award



I want to thank Stephen for giving me this award:



The rules for this award are to tell you 8 things about myself and then pass it on to 8 people.

So here it goes:



8 Things about me:



1. I have a dog a mini wiener named Alexander
2. I have finished painting my craft room the color is Kimono Red.

3. I have three brothers!

4. I use to live in San Antonio, TX

5. I am my own worst critic

6. I have a wonderful partner of 16 years.

7. I am a Human Resources Director by day and the creative scrapping guy by night

8. I know live back in my hometown of Aberdeen, SD



8 bloggers: (I am passing this award on to)
I will get this posted very shortly.

~Jason

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~Jason