Mother's Day 2012 Layout

Yes it's two posts in one day from me!  Scroll down to see the adorable baby shower invitations I posted earlier this evening :)

Here is the layout I scrapped tonight, it's for the Lasting Memories "Celebrate Mom or Another Special Woman in your Life" challenge and it's my entry for the SNC 52 week challenge. These are pictures of my mom and I on Mother's Day. They were taken in front of my house.  The azaleas look so awesome in these pictures - sadly they don't last long enough. I added the journaling under the picture on the left. The date is on the tab where it pulls out.

I used a sketch from Sketch Inspiration for my page~

Supplies~

Paper: Authentique Uncommon, Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream cardstock

Other: Thickers, Prima flowers

Thanks for looking!

Flutter By Wednesday x2!

Oh happy day, it's Flutter By Day and it's also Leap Day! How you will you spend your extra day? I'm working and then I hope to craft tonight!

After taking off last week due to no mojo, I have two creations to share today. I had hoped to finish more but I ran out of time.  I finally got my desk and chair cleaned off. I spent hours coloring on Sunday!  It's been months since I touched my copics to color a full image...it was rough going at first but I think I'm back on my game :-)

Anywho, this week's Flutter By Challenge is an open one - just remember to include a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation!  If you play along you have a chance to win a prize from the fabulous Susana of Susana's Custom Art and Card Design.  Susana so kindly sponsored the team with stamps to use this week - thank you Susana! Click {HERE} to enter your creation and find links to the rest of the team to see what they created.

I received the Fairy Good Hair Day from the Victoria Case Fairylicious Collection. Isn't she adorable? It took me two attempts to color her but I am pleased with how she turned out.  I paired her with some new Bo Bunny Ambrosia paper also from Susana's store. There are lots of new papers there, I did leave some for the rest of you to buy, he he :)

Here is my 2nd creation using last week's inspiration challenge. I finished it Friday night but didn't have much time to blog over the weekend.  It's also for Week #8 of the 52 Week Challenge, I've managed to still get a page a week done even though I haven't shared them all here.  For this layout I used various pieces from the My Mind's Eye Lost & Found collection and the sketch I used from Sketch Inspiration.

This is the first page that I've scrapped for my wedding album. I can't wait to scrap more of the photos!

Thank you for fluttering by today :-)

New Toys

Yes, I waited until Friday again to do my 52 Week layout challenge...it's been a long week!! Don't worry, I already have next week's page scheduled to be done during my 3 day weekend :)

I scrolled through my desktop of sketches I saved this week and picked #302 from Sketch Inspiration to play along with.

I did flip it for what I had in mind, needed to pull some extra duty and enter in a Scrappin-N-Chattin challenge! Abby challenged us to use a vertical title and this sketch was perfect for accomplishing that.

I am still scrapping pics from Christmas 2010. Hopefully it's only 3-4 more layouts and then I can retire these BG Jovial supplies for cardmaking. I already have several collections in mind to scrap the 2011 pics!

TFL!

First Snow

I scrapped my first page of the year today. Yay!!!

Here's a sneak peek of the title ~ it wasn't my brightest idea to use the vinyl thickers since they don't show up well in the photo!

Of course I couldn't resist incorporating a few challenges~

The Paper Variety - started by my friends Abby & Suz months ago and I finally have the time to participate, woohoo!

and I'm entering it into the Double Dip challenge on the Yahoo Group Scrappin-N-Chattin, enter a challenge on a blog, forum, etc. and share that challenge with SNC.

These are the first pics that I've scrapped of our dog Amber. She's now 10 months old so this is her first experience with snow. We rescued her through the SPCA and she came from Alabama.
I used Bo Bunny's Winter Joy for the designer paper as well as the coordinating chipboard. The cardstock is Bo Bunny Double Dot. I just had to use my EK Success paw print border punch along the photo mat to mimic Amber's prints in the snow.


I used an older sketch from the Sketch Inspiration forum~

TFL!!