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By Schoolmarm, April 4, 2010 6:23 pm

Holidays are ALWAYS more fun when children are around! Our sweet girl isn’t quite sure what all these colored things are, but she is having fun. It was a beautiful day for being outside to celebrate.

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By Schoolmarm, April 4, 2010 6:13 pm

I’ve been playing around with My Digital Studio from Stampin’ Up. This photo shows a card that I created using a combination of the included materials and some from Scrap Girls.

Making cards with paper, stamps, and embellishments is very rewarding and tactile, but being able to try out ideas and use great commands like “edit-undo” is also a lot of fun!

The MDS software is easy to use, yet it has some impressive features like the drop shadow command.

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By Schoolmarm, January 18, 2010 4:44 pm

Wordle is a free online application for generating word clouds with words that occur more frequently appearing larger. You can print your Wordle or save it. I saved the Wordle above and then uploaded it as an image to this blog post.

One great educational use that comes to mind is to have students copy and paste their essay into Wordle and print it to use as a cover page for their paper. Or print them and hang them up in the room or hallway.

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By Schoolmarm, January 3, 2010 8:23 am

It’s been great to be at home these past two weeks, having a chance to step outside of my professional life and spend time “feathering my nest,” baking holiday treats, and catching up on all the craft blogs I’ve been intending to read since about July. Reading these blogs has inspired me to take up paper crafting again. Yet again, I have resolved to carve out some time each day for creative pursuits outside of work. (This resolution lasted nearly all the way through January last year!)

This year, as I craft, I also intend to do more blogging. I have a running list of ideas that I would like to develop, and I know that one of the best ways for me to learn more about what I think is to write about it! Nearly every morning as I’m driving the loop to work, I write posts in my head on various topics, but by the time lunch rolls around, those ideas have been scattered by all the details of the morning. Well, I’m attempting to change that by making quick notes and then taking time later to write–at LEAST three times a week. I’ve also come to terms with the fact that this blog may become a hodgepodge of diverse topics. My solution is to bring some organization to the mess with my tags.

Now that we have it in writing, we will see how well I follow through on this resolution….  Thanks for stopping by and spending a few minutes with me!

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By Schoolmarm, December 29, 2009 3:16 pm

One of the high points of my holiday has been being around family. Every year we promise to do a better job of staying in touch, but then our lives whirl by for another year. Having a new granddaughter will be a strong motivator for us this coming year!

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By Schoolmarm, January 27, 2009 11:01 am

Being “under the weather” is SO frustrating! It has stolen away my energy to do both the things I need to do for work and the things I like to do. I’ve tried positive thinking to no avail. I still ache. I still feel feverish. Bummer!!

It’s been a whole week since I’ve posted a card, partly due to feeling bad and partly due to some techno work on my images and blog. Seems as if most people who post their work to online galleries like Splitcoaststampers and Paper Craft Planet have created a watermark to place over their images. If only I had just made one when I first noticed it, but, oh no, better to put off til tomorrow… So when I set my mind to adding the watermark that I created, I had to upload all the pics again. I didn’t think I had made that many cards since I started posting, but as I worked with them, the number appeared to grow…

I’m off to rest!

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By Schoolmarm, January 20, 2009 10:06 pm

Here is a simple card for a friend’s birthday. I fell in love with the DP, Chatty Cake by Imaginisce. The paper has sentiments all over it, so I just used Nestibilities to add scallop and circle in coordinating colors and then made a large cupcake from Basic Grey Bittersweet paper.

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By Schoolmarm, January 10, 2009 10:58 pm

Sometimes simple is best. Here is a quick card for a good friend. More Basic Grey Bittersweet papers.

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By Schoolmarm, January 10, 2009 10:43 pm

Here’s a valentine that I created using the CTMH stamp set Soul Mtes and Basic Grey Bittersweet Papers.