Adore {a layout}

Happy August!

Sorry my blog has been so quiet. I was sick...again. Ugh!  I think I'm almost over it though. Hopefully this will be the end of my allergies/sinus issues for awhile!!

Tonight I'm sharing a layout that I made on Friday night for my 52 week challenge (yes, I'm still in it!!) and for the Frosted Designs One Word Title challenge.

I created this page using a Page Maps sketch from February.  The picture is of my nieces at my wedding and the one word title challenge was a great push for me to scrap this adorable picture :)

Here is a close up of the picture of the banner I created. The base is lace and I attached it with some brads from my stash and I accented it with gems and the banner pieces were cut from the MFT Fishtail Banner die-namics.

I got a new camera yesterday so I took these pictures with it. I am in love. It's a Panasonic Lumix and has a lot more power/features than my old Lumix did.

I hope to be blogging a lot more this month! I still have a lot of layouts & cards from last month that I haven't shared yet and hope to get in my craft room this weekend to make some new stuff. I've been glued to the TV since Friday night (as I'm sure lots of people are!) Love watching the Olympic games!

Supplies~
Paper: Basic Grey Cappela
Other: BG Cappela bloomers, BG border sticker, Thickers, Marvy Scallop Circle punch, MFT Fishtail Banner Die-namics, lace, brads and gems (all from my stash)

Rockstar Baby

I created this for my 52 week page tonight using this week's Let's Get Sketchy sketch.

This is the very first page I have created of my nephew! It's about time right? LOL!  He is a little over 3 months old now and he keeps getting cuter by the day :)

Here is the sketch~

TFL!

Supplies~
Paper: DCWV Rockstar stack, PTI silver cardstock
Other: star brads from stash, MFT Star die-namics, thickers

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 :-)

Silly Girl

Hello Friends!

I scrapped a digi page today! It was fun too!  It took me awhile to get my bearings again using My Memories Suite software but I powered through and created a fun page mixing elements from quite a few kits.  I am entering this page at Inspire Me Fridays #19 (anything goes) and Allsorts Challenge #116 (anything but a card).

These pictures are of my niece, Grace.  She has become very camera shy for me so her mom kept telling her to smile for me and I got these pictures lol.

The background paper is from Of Boys & Girls Embossed Papers. The title was made from ThisNThat Extra Monograms 1 and the cluster is from ThisNThat Clusters. The butterfly is from Cardboard Elements and I added bling to the butterfly from Mini Crystals EP.

TFL!

24 Hr. Challenge

Click HERE for my Birthday Sundaes Blog Hop Post!

During the last weekend of each month, a yahoo group I belong to, Scrappin-N-Chattin, has a 24 hour challenge where we each select 3 collections to work with and someone else selects the collection and sketch we are to use.  I haven't played along in several months and almost backed out within the last hour lol.  I'm glad I powered through and got my page done, it was the first page I've scrapped in over a month! After finally deciding to make the page and finding the stuff I needed, it only took me about 20 minutes to put together.

Abby chose this Creative Scrappers sketch for me along with the Bo Bunny Barefoot & Bliss Collection.

I flipped the sketch so I didn't cover up the pier on the paper.  The edges were inked with Colorbox Chestnut Roan.  The picture is of my husband and our dog on the boardwalk at a beach in the next city over from us.  Everything is from the collection except for the cardstock.  I {heart} how it came out!

Let's hope I can get scrappy again this month!

TFL!

Precious Baby Girl

Quick share for today - a layout of my niece and I at my bridal shower. She was about 3 months in these photos and she's over a year old now! 

I picked this page kit out of a prize bin at the LSS crop - everything is from the kit except the flowers & pearls. I used the Fiskars Threading Water punch on the edges of the blue strip. The layout is an older one from Sketchy Thursdays - I forgot to write the dates on them when I printed a bunch of sketches to bring to the crop.  

The designer paper is from MME Wild Asparagus as is the 'precious' title.  I cut up some ribbon from the kit that said baby girl to include as part of the title. The cardstock is Bazzill, the great thing about scrapping at a scrap store is always having cardstock available that matches everything!

TFL! Hope your week is off to a good start!

Flutter By Wednesday #160

I can't believe we are at 160 FBW challenges!

Today's challenge is an open one - just remember to include a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation. This week we are sponsored by Through the Craftroom Door - click HERE to enter your project and to check out the prize details!

Here is my creation ~ a layout of my niece. Pictures are from my bridal shower last August. While I was opening gifts, she decided to go play in my friend's dog's toy bin and I had my sister snap a few pics.

The layout is based on an old Sassy Lil Sketches layout, I had it printed in my crop file and didn't write the date of the sketch on it. The paper is from the My Mind's Eye So Sophie line. I had fun mixing and matching the patterns that were included in the collection. The flowers and butterfly are from Prima.

TFL! 

Tutti Fruiti at TPV!

When I saw The Paper Variety's challenge this morning, I just knew I had to play along!  

First I thought I was going to make a card but then I remembered I still have pictures to scrap from my niece's 1st birthday...in just a few weeks, she will be 3! I looked through some paper collections that I haven't used yet and came across the Crate Paper Neighborhood collection.  I found a few papers and a banner in there that matched the pictures quite nicely!

The background paper was labeled 'Home' and I used the 'Visit' paper to cut the top layer of the title from my Simply Charmed Cricut cartridge.  I used my swatch book to match cardstocks and was able to use some scraps of Papertrey Ink Melon Berry, Aqua Mist & Simply Chartreuse on the title shadow, photo corners & strawberries. The darker pink paper is from my way old stash.  I made the photo corners using my paper trimmer and deco scissors.

TPV is hosting a DT call too, you can check out the details HERE!

TFL!

My first digital scrapbook pages!

My friend Marilyn switched to digital scrapbooking a few months ago and highly recommended the My Memories Suite software to me as I've been wanting to dabble in digi scrapping for awhile.  I finally have a computer that can handle the software so I bought it a few weeks ago and started to play around with it last night.

Here is what I made using the Home Cooked kit:

I really had fun creating these pages and the software was quite easy to figure out after a few pointers from the awesome MMS girls on their MMS facebook page.  While digi scrapping will never replace paper scrapping for me, it is nice to try something else out and it frees me from having to print every single picture that I take or receive. These are pictures of my young nieces from their older sister's facebook page.

TFL!

May LOAD - Day 21

Here is last night's page. I so love how it came out!

I've had these pictures pulled out to scrap for a week or so. I came across Sketch #6 that I saved from Artful Delight for their 14 Days of Sketches and I stopped hoarding my May kit long enough to scrap these pics.  I really love the bright colors & fun patterns from the Echo Park Summer Days collection. 

 I love scrapping pictures of my nieces! They are such fun and cute subjects :) 

TFL!

May LOAD Days 17-20

I've been scrapping so late every night that I haven't had time to type up the blog posts for these! Less than 2 weeks to go now, I'm so happy that I've made it this far!

This is Day 17...used one of the sketches from the 28 Sketches Class.

Paper from a K&Co paper pad and embellishments all from my stash!

This picture is from when Mike and I were dating a few years ago. :)

This is Day 18...some pictures from a fall drive in CT. I have no idea where we were. I need to show Mike because he will remember!  Paper is from a DCWV stack, it was perfect since it already had a title on it. I added some Cosmo Cricket stickers for the date and a few Basic Grey Pyrus embellishments. 

This is Day 19...pictures from the 2008 Big E. Love seeing the different butter sculptures when I go. The title is the name of the sculpture. Thank goodness for Google!  I didn't know what to title the page and Google came to the rescue. I was also able to find the artist's name which was nice to add. 

This is Day 20. I used SBSC283 for the layout, it worked out great for my pictures! I had them sitting out on my desk all week and didn't know what to do with them. As soon as I saw the sketch on Friday, everything came together! I love when that happens! More paper and embellies from my stash!

I'll be back with Day 21 shortly. It's for a challenge so I want to post it separately or else it would get lost here!

LOAD - Day 10

Not my best page ever but it's another one done...

Long day/night and I didn't have time or energy to do much, not ready to throw the towel in yet either lol (I'm stubborn like that!)

I used today's Artful Delight sketch which you can see HERE.

TFL!

Day 9 for LOAD & May with May

Today's page cover LOAD Day 9 and May with May Day 9. I found this sweet picture of my niece last night and kept it out to work with this week. I let the background paper do the work for me and kept the layout simple. 

The paper is from some old DCWV stack and I used my CM heart punch for the corner accents. 

TFL!

May LOAD - Day 8

Whew...I made it. I have such a headache tonight that I was ready to throw in the towel. I'm glad I didn't as the page I made is super cute (and I am determined not to fail this challenge!)

This is a picture that I snagged from my sister's computer awhile ago. I thumbed through a bunch of different pics tonight and picked this one when I found a sketch that would work. As I was contemplating paper choices, I remembered that my Artful Delight kit came yesterday and it was perfect for what I had in mind as this new week for LOAD focuses on color. The sketch is #8 from the 14 days of sketches at Artful Delight.

Everything is from the Echo Park Summer Days collection and is all from the kit except for the Thickers. The bright fun colors make me happy :) and I can't wait to use it again!

TFL!

May LOAD - Day 7 and another challenge

This is my 4th page for today and possibly my last so I am going to enter it for my Day 7 of LOAD.  I'd hate to get distracted and not make another page by the deadline tonight!

I started this layout using the 2nd NSD challenge from the Scrapfriendly Yahoo Group.  The challenge is to use newer photos, papers & tools.  I used adorable pics of my niece Emily, some MME Stella & Rose Hazel papers, and used my Cricut (and Gypsy)!! The yummy was cut from the Simply Charmed cartridge - first time using it! The cake was cut from the Sweet Treats cartridge (my 2nd time using this - I originally bought it to cut some flags that I used on my wedding bookmark favors)

TFL!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope you all had a sweet day!

This is the card I made for my husband. I found this House Mouse image in my stash so I'm not sure of the name...the paper is from Bo Bunny Crush. I love all the heart patterns in this pad.

I even decorated the inside! The stamps are from an old CTMH set. The ribbon is from American Crafts, I won it in a blog candy package from my friend Jennie a few months ago.

I'm entering these challenges:

Crafty Catz #69 - Valentines/Love

2 Sisters #26 - Hearts

Crazy 4 Challenges #74 - Hearts

And a few photos from our night lol...our family photo. This is our first married V-day and our first with our puppy!

Our yummy dinner prepared by my husband!

TFL!

SNC January 24 Hour Challenge

The Scrappin-n-Chattin yahoo group has a 24 hour challenge the last weekend of each month. We list 3 collections we'd like to use and our partner picks one of three sketches and one of our 3 collections. This month Abby chose for me! She chose sketch #3 (which is by Studio Calico) and Basic Grey Jovial.

Here is my take on the sketch. I really like how it turned out. I have a bunch more pics from our Christmas Card photo shoot so I will use those on a 2nd page, the journaling will also be on the 2nd page.

This is the sketch. I rotated it to suit what I had in mind.

TFL!

Lasting Memories Challenge #9

Today's Lasting Memories Challenge is to use fancy folds or folders (pockets) on your pages. I have to admit, I was a little stumped at first. Check out the challenge HERE to see the challenge details and links to some ideas.

I remembered that I bought some folders at Target quite some time ago on clearance, amazingly enough I was able to find them and all the coordinating elements on my page in record time. If you saw my room, you'd know why this is amazing LOL

This is my adorable niece, Grace, who was 4 months old in the pics - she's over 2 now!

To play along, please link your challenge HERE and while you are there, check out what the rest of the team has made!

Have a great day!

Lollipop Crafts Challenge #7

Happy Monday!

Today's Lollipop Crafts challenge is 'All About Family'. Please create a card or project about family and link it to the Lollipop Crafts challenge blog. This week's sponsor is Stamp and Create, you will find all the prize details and challenge rules on the blog.

I decided to create a project focusing on my adorable nieces. I just love to scrap pictures of them and am so pleased with how this page came out.


The layout is this week's Sketchy Thursday sketch. The papers and embellishments are from the Basic Grey Olivia line and I used word stamps from the Dream Big Verve stamp set near the bottom of the page.

Have a great day!