OMG A video & a Giveaway!!!

Hello Everyone!
Did ya see the post title? I actually created a video for you!!! It has been a long while since I have done a video. This video was not easy to do either! First, I had to move my tripod 3 times to get it where it was directly over my work area. Secondly, the lighting was not so great and lastly, my head got in the way several times in the video! UGGG!! You can tell that I am not used to making them LOL.

 I am however, going to start making more videos for you. I will try my best to start making them more often and having fun with it. So thank you in advance for having a peek and I hope you like :)

 If you want to win a mini treat bag kit (board not included), just leave me a comment telling me what your favorite new "In color" is by Friday, May 29th by 11:59pm and I will randomly select one winner! Winner will be announced on Tuesday, June 2nd! My birthday!

Until next time, Enjoy life's blessings!

HUGE, HUGE HAUL!

 

 

 

Hello my lovely friends. I want to start off by saying thank you for all the well wishes.

It truly made me feel better to see all the wonderful comments. While I am not feeling 100%

just yet, I was feeling well enough to manage to edit my haul video.

Even with the editing in place this video is still over an hour long!!!!!  It is 1 hour and 9 odd minutes or so. I invite you to kick your feet up, grab your favorite drink and come join me in my craft room as I show you all the goodies I have purchased over the past 3 months. We are talking things like Ranger, Tim Holtz, Graphic45, My Mind's Eye, Prima and much more!

 

I apologize in advance for the super long haul and I do apologize for the lighting glare on my screen overhead. Unfortunately, my room does not have the best lighting so with the lights off or with them on, I cannot win and I suffer. Hfffhph! So shall we spend this next hour together? I hope you enjoy!

 

 

Thank you so much for watching and stopping by!

Until next time.... Enjoy life's blessings~

 

Weekly Wednesday Webisode~

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Hello Friends!

Happy Hump Day!

I wanted to share with you another video in my craft room tour series.

Enjoy!

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Until next time...enjoy life's blessings~



FFC 9 Winners & Happy Mail!

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Hello my crafty friends!

Happy Monday to you all.

Wow is time flying by! I cannot believe that August is 3 days away. Where is the time going?

And I'm shocked that school will be starting up already!! It feels like yesterday that the kids just got out for the summer. I have not done much of anything this summer so for me it has not felt like much of a summer as I have not had many cookouts or a vacation. I need a vacation though! LOL

 

Ok so let's get to our winners from last week's FFC #9 "Summer Fun" challenge.

 

# 9 Karen

# 20 Nicole N.

# 25 Mayras Designs

 

Congratulations ladies!

Please email me at:

Joann6274 at gmail dot com to get your top 3 badge!

 

Well something awesome came in the mail to me and I wanted to share it with ya'll

So have a peek!

 

 

Well my friends that is all I have for today.
I hope you have a great day!
Thanks for stopping by and until next time....
Enjoy life's blessings~

  



Craft Room Tour Video Series Video #2

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Hello my friends!

Boy is it HOT outside today! Over 100 degrees and the humidity is horrible. I thank the man upstairs for central air conditioning LOL. On hot days like today, I do not like to go anywhere. I like to stay indoors where its cool and I am comfortable. So to those of you who are like me, what do you do with your time inside while staying cool? Do you get crafty? Do you have a pile of stuff that has been sitting in a corner or on a table for months that you keep saying, "I'll organize that soon"? Well I sure hope that my video today helps you in some way or another to tackle that pile or motivate you to at least start the process by going through what you have and purging what you won't use. So grab a nice cold glass of iced tea or lemonade and enjoy the video!

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Until next time....

Enjoy life's blessings~



Craft Room Tour Part 1

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Hello Friends!

Many of you have asked me about my craft room and how I organize and store all of my supplies. So I have decided to do a craft room tour video series for ya'll. I have a very SMALL room for my crafting space and it is very cramped and cluttered to say the least. I am sure that is the case with many of you as well however; I have made the best of my space and did what works for me best.

In this first video, I give you a glimpse of the room and I show you my workspace desk where I create. I apologize in advance for the poor filming quality. The lighting in my room is not the greatest and I am new to doing videos so needless to say, my video is not the work of an expert LOL. In any case, grab a cup of your favorite iced beverage or a hot cup of Joe and I hope you enjoy it!

 

 

Until next time......

Enjoy life's blessings~



Daily Craft TV Review~

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Hello my crafty friends! Happy Hump day!

 

A few weeks back, I was approached by a gentleman named Eric Woolf. Eric is the online media coordinator for Daily Craft TV. Daily Craft TV is "your source for online crafting instruction". There are hundreds of videos on this site that teach you everything from A to Z that you need to know about quilting, sewing, knitting, crocheting, scrapbooking and papercrafting!

 

Eric had come across my blog while searching for scrapbookers' blogs and decided to see if I would be interested in watching one of the videos(of my choice) from the Daily Craft TV website and then give a review on it. Of course I said yes! Who doesn't like to watch craft TV?

 

I chose the scrapbooking section and chose a video called, "Designs & Techniques Creating the Perfect Project". This video was awesome! The video was a little over an hour long and it covered 7 chapters:

1. Techniques Revealed: Fussy Cutting
2. Design Workshop: Quick & Easy Ways to Add Dimension
3. The Idea Center: Playing with Paint
4. Designer Hints: Ribbons, Fibers & Trims
5. Creative Shortcuts: Handmade Card Sets
6. Design Workshop: Encouraging Your Imagination
7. The Idea Center: Scrapbooking in a Grid

I found this video to be extremely helpful and informative. It covered topics that are new and in trend and also covered the basics.Their videos from what I have seen range in price from $4.99 to $9.99. What I liked about it is that the instructors that are teaching you in the videos are well known in the papercrafting industry. Some names to name a few are: Cathy Zielske, Lisa Bearnson, Megan Hoeppner and Ali Edwards!

 In my video, the instructors did a wonderful job in explaining in detail what technique they were about to show you and walked you through step by step. It was very easy to follow along and they all spoke very clearly. The video was clear and of great quality. I was actually impressed with the video and I have a few other videos lined up to purchase that I want to review.

Because this is a review the only thing I can say I would like to see more of in the videos, are projects from start to finish. I'm assuming that for the sake of "TV" they wanted to keep the running time to an hour or less so that is why you probably don't see a project being completed from start to finish but rather in stages. I would love to see a complete project being created in its entirety. Other than that, everything was awesome! I learned a few new things by watching this video and I'm going to give some of those new techniques a try in some of my upcoming projects. I would highly recommend this website to all of you! You need to go and visit the site Here and learn something new too!!

 

I am hoping this link below works. It is the video that I watched and I am hoping that you all can view it as well. If not, I apologize. I would suggest that you create an account with Daily Craft TV and find a video that sparks your interest. You won't be sorry!

 

http://www.dailycrafttv.com/videos/4014_designs-techniques-creating-the-perfect-project/

 

Until next time, enjoy life's blessings. Thanks for stopping by!

It's my 1st Blogaversary, a HOP and a GIVEAWAY!!!

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Hello everyone!!! Happy National Scrapbooking Day!

AND

Happy 1st Birthday to me!

Welcome to my first blogaversary and blog hop!

Here is a little video for you to watch of some exciting news and changes regarding Jo's Scrap Shack as of this month. Enjoy!

 

And here is my card! The card was cut out at 6" from the cricut cartridge "Birthday Bash". I added some hemp and a button and for some sparkle, I added rock candy stickles to the cake confetti, flame and dripping wax. =)

All my papers used were from Bazzill and Gina K. Inside sentiment and hats were from an old stamp set that I've had for years. Not sure of the company, sorry. I am the first stop on the hop and from here you are going to hop on over to Tara's Blog. Enjoy the hop!

 

 

I cannot believe that Jo's Scrap Shack is 1 years old! It has been a wonderful year and I have each and every one of you to thank for it. I would not be here right now if it were not for all of you.

So THANK YOU!

 

And because I am so appreciative of all your support and love, I am giving away everything you see here in this photo and as you saw on the video

Here is the list of  all blog participants in the hop! Please stop by and become followers and leave them some love and remember there will be a random 2nd winner! Good Luck!  

     Jo at Jo's Scrap Shack YOU ARE HERE!

Tara at Craftin Desert Divas

Candice at Candie Cards

Kellie at A Little Bit of Kellie

Pam at Papillon Digital Designs

Migdalia at Crafting With Creative M

Brenda at Friends Craftin with Friends

When you comment, please leave me a way to contact you and I will be announcing the winner on Monday, May 6th.

 

                         

 

My First Haul Video~

Hey everyone! Welcome to the weekend!! Woohooo!!! So guess what? I have created my very first video and I'm hoping you all like it. It's a haul video of some cool new toys that I received and I cannot wait to play with all of them. Yummy goodies!!!

 

Ok so please be patient with me as I am new to the whole video making process and I have learned a few things to do differently after creating this first video! You can tell I was a bit nervous as I rambled on and on and said thank you to all of you a gazillion times haha but hey, at least you know how much I value each and every one of you!!!!

 

Hope you enjoy the video and have a wonderful weekend!

 

 

Live in the Moment

Hi there my blog friends! Sorry I have not posted since last week, soon as Easter hit I was sick and have not felt that great at all. I am on the mend and feeling a bit better today and I have a cute card I want to share with you. The Scrapbooking Queen is having a DT call so I decided to make this card as one of my projects for the tryout.

I made this card with my Pazzles Inspiration and used Bazzill white cardstock. I layered different sized circles that I cut out with my cuttlebug using the Spellbinder's classic circles nestabilities. The black paper is bazzill and the pretty pink patterned papers are from the Prima Almanac Collection.

The sentiment is from Hero Arts and the butterflies are a stamp from the new Pretty Momma stamp set from Paper Smooches. I stamped them onto the prima patterned papers and cut them out. The butterflies are on dimensionals and I folded the wings to make them look like they are fluttering. Aren't they cute?

I added in a doilie that I inked using some vintage photo distress ink to give a vintage feel and I used some platinum pearl liquid pearls to make my pearls around the card. I also used some of the liquid pearls on the butterflies. To finish my card off I added a rose flower from Recollections and a cute ivory sheer bow. Well that is it for today but I have a busy week ahead so more postings later in the week! Thank you for stopping by~