BFFs ~ a layout!

Good morning!

I'm sharing the page I created for the SNC 52 Week challenge and it's also for the June Sketch at My Scraps & More. Yes, I scrapped before Friday! It's a miracle! I told the girls at SNC that I wouldn't know what to do with myself on Friday night now LOL! Maybe I'll get wild and scrap a 2nd page. hehehe

This is a picture of my best friend, Courtney, and I.  Self portrait of us at the beginning of the year and it's been sitting in my 'to be scrapped' file since the May crop.  The papers are all from the Authentique Genuine collection. I sprayed the background paper with Mister Huey's Mists in Passport - most of it ended up covered up lol. I used my Gypsy to die cut the flower paper using a cut from Storybook and the flower buttons and flowers are from some ancient stash! I used some stickers from the Authentique collection to the right of the picture (click on the picture to see larger version).

TFL and stay cool!! It's going to be another hot day here in New England!


Supplies~
Paper: Genuine (Authentique)
Other: Thickers (American Crafts), stickers (Authentique), Mister Huey's Mists - Passport (Studio Calico), buttons from stash, flowers from stash, Storybook cartridge for the die cut shape (Cricut)

52 Week Challenge - Week #5 & 24 Hour Challenge!

Well lookie here, it's only Saturday and my 52 Week layout is DONE! Whatever will I do with myself on Friday night now? LOL!

We had our monthly 24 Hour Challenge on SNC, I missed the deadline to get my layout entered for it but I still wanted to get mine done since I loved the collection and sketch picked for me by Amanda. She picked Echo Park Country Drive and this sketch from Creative Scrappers:

I've had this collection on my 24 Hour list a few times now and this is the first time it got picked. I've been saving it to use for pictures from my day trip to meet Sue!

I started off with inking the edges of all the papers with Tea Dye distress ink. I think it helped the papers not blend in together since they are a bit on the busy side. The thickers are from a kit I took apart and I used some flowers from Recollections and the blue one is one I've been hoarding from Precocious Paper! The butterflies were punched from a few of my Martha Stewart punches.

I can't wait to scrap more pictures from this day now that I finally started :)

TFL!

Scrapbook Saturday is back!

I finally have something to share on Scrapbook Saturday!

Last Saturday I spent the day at the Papercraft Clubhouse and crafted the day away with some good friends.

I decided to share all 4 pages at once since they are for the same album. I did use sketches for all of them but I was a slacker and didn't write them down lol.

I attended my first scrapbook retreat in San Antonio, TX in 2006 and these are just some of the photos that I and the rest of the girls took!

 {I think this one is my fave!}

TFL!

Forever Friends

It's the weekend, woohoo!!! Any plans?  I am off to the eye doctor for an exam and hopefully some cute new glasses and then a little shopping at the mall and craft stores. We are supposed to have beautiful weather and I think we may take the dog for her first hike tomorrow.  I'd like to get some craft time in but after spending all week cooped up at the office and home, I need to get out and enjoy some fresh air!

Today's pages are from the crop I attended a few weeks ago - I still have at least 4 more pages to share from that day.  I love how these pages turned out - I had some friendship transparencies that I wanted to incorporate but they weren't working out.  I decided to stick with plain cardstock and dress it up with Basic Grey Marjolaine paper and embellishments. I think the tree & birdie are perfect for these outdoor pictures of my friends and I at my bridal shower. The title is made with Forest Thickers from American Crafts - I picked them up while I was at the crop. 

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Have a great day and thanks for stopping by! 

The Riverwalk

A bunch of dear friends from a Yahoo group held their annual retreat this past weekend and ever since then I've been feeling a little blue about missing it for a 2nd year in a row. I sure hope that things work out so I can see them next year.

To make me feel a little better, I decided to scrap some pics from the very first retreat I went to in San Antonio back in 2006. These pics are from The Riverwalk where we dined and celebrated Shirley's birthday and our friendship. So many amazing memories from that trip and the other retreats in Los Angeles and Boston. Yes, I've traveled coast to coast to see these girls!

I am entering this layout in the "Lasting Memories" design team call...Karen wants to see what represents our style and such. I love to scrap multiple pictures and use lots of flowers and brads so that's what I did tonight. And yes, I recently left my dts since I feel I didn't have enough time with planning my wedding, but I discovered that I really do love to be super busy and having idle hands drives me nuts LOL!

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Background paper is Bazzill and the dp is Basic Grey Stella Ruby.

TFL!

EDLC Day #5

Here are today's pages! I did another two pager and scrapped 9 pics!

Paper and brads are from the Crate Paper Bliss collection and the flowers are from Prima. The pics are from my bff's wedding, we all had such a fun time dancing lol!

Today's shopping trip was a success, I bought my wedding dress!!! So excited, it will be here at the end of July! Next up is to start getting the invitations together...and no I'm not making them lol. I bought boxed ones last fall and will just dress them up a bit!

TFL!

EDLC Day #4

Hurray for Friday!

Today was a very good day, I actually scrapped this page before work! All I added tonight was a little bit of journaling...had high hopes of adding some other embellishments but couldn't find what I was looking for.

This is my bff and it's another page for the California 2006 album, yay!


We checked out the place for our wedding and really like it, just have to keep our fingers crossed that we can get it for the date we want or move the wedding to the following week. Tomorrow my bff and I are going shopping for wedding dresses!

EDLC Day #3

I'm a little late today...laid these pages out this morning but I didn't venture in my scraproom until it was time to watch General Hospital on Soapnet at 10 p.m.

I decided to do a 2 page layout today so that I can make a bit of a dent in this album - the pictures were taken 4 years ago. The designer paper is from Carolee's Creations, I bought the paper specifically for this trip quite some time ago.

(You can click on the picture to see a bigger version!)

Yay for tomorrow being Friday! I get out at 3 p.m. and then Mike and I are touring a place to possibly hold our wedding. Woohoo!

I'll be back tomorrow night with Day 4's page!