Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

Here is a page I created yesterday.  I had lots of fun making it and even had some help from my hubby choosing the papers. October Afternoon has a fabulous collection called Sasparilla and the patterns are all so neat and I couldn't decide which ones to use!  Everything except the thickers that spell big are from the OA collection.  Abby chose the collection and the sketch for last week's SNC 24 Hour challenge but I ran out of time to get it done then and have been itching to make this page. 

The picture is of the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at WDW.  I took this cool action shot from across the river while we were on Tom Sawyer's Island.  I have many other pictures of the railroad so eventually I will do a 2nd page.  

This was the sketch that I used. It's from Liz Qualman's blog.

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52 Week Challenge - Week #4

Yay, I made it a whole month! *patting self on the back* lol

I don't seem to have a good track record when following through with challenges or classes so I'm trying very hard to stay motivated to get my layout done each week. I saw Frosted Designs sketch for this week and knew I had to use it!

Here's my take on it. I used more of my October Afternoon Holiday Style collection. It felt a little strange scrapping a picture of myself LOL. Usually if I'm it in, so is my hubby or my dog! Every year I add at least one new nutcracker to my collection - this year I added 3! Next year I'm going to have to find a new way to display them since I'm sure I find another to add.

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52 Week Challenge - Week #3

I put my 52 Week Challenge layout together tonight...took me what seemed like forever LOL! 

I knew I wanted to use this sketch from Artful Delight (designed by our SNC leader Abby!)

I finally decided to scrap some pictures from this past Christmas and it's the first time I got to use my new printer! My friend Suzy got an awesome printer and since she loved it, I decided to use a gift card to get my own. No more running to the pharmacy for just a picture or two to scrap!

All supplies except the kraft paper and Thickers are from the October Afternoon Holiday Style collection. Initially I wasn't going to get any but one day I went to the LSS and they had it in stock - it just jumped into my basket, I swear!  I also got those cool stitched Thickers that day - I think I need more even though I only opened the package tonight. The kraft paper is MME Funday and I took it from my Artful Delight January kit. I like that it has a light pattern to it so I could still journal on it and it broke up having so many busy patterns. 

It's supposed to start snowing overnight! I hope to get some good pictures tomorrow to scrap!

The Toy Graveyard

I'm sure you're all thinking what the heck is she talking about??? LOL

When we first got Amber we got her a bunch of toys not knowing what she would like or what her temperament was....well we quickly found out that she is one heck of a powerful chewer! Even the stuffed toys that said 3x stronger than regular toys didn't hold up lol. I saved all of the toys in a box just so I can take pics for a layout. I couldn't set them up in the box very well so you could see all the injuries and just laid them out on the dining room table.

Here are the poor toys. I used Basic Grey's Max & Whiskers line for everything but the lettering (which is made up of October Afternoon, Thickers and Cosmo Cricket). The sketch is from Nuts about Sketches. I love finding two page layouts holding lots of pics!

(you can click on the picture to see a larger version)

Here is the sketch~

I think that wraps up my weekend of crafting. I've had a few late nights and am too tired to do anything tonight!

Make Mine Chocolate!

What can be better than a yummy baked chocolate treat? he he he

Here's the other card I made over the weekend using Cuppie in the Kitchen and paper/buttons/ribbon from the June Key Ingredients Kit from Taylored Expressions. Loving this kit!


I used this week's Taylored Expressions sketch challenge for the layout~


TFL! Come back tomorrow for a new Party Time Tuesdays challenge card!

Life is short...eat dessert first!

I love that saying LOL!

Here is a card I made at my crop yesterday. All the paper and ribbon are from the Taylored Expressions June Key Ingredients kit. The adorable cuppie is from the Cuppie in the Kitchen TE stamp set.


For the layout, I used this week's Pals Paper Arts sketch ~


TFL! Hope you all had a great weekend!