Week 39 - safetysuit

TGIF!!

It's been a super long week here, so happy it's the weekend!! I fell off the wagon with the SITS Girls blogging challenge but with good reason.  Our sweet Amber was quite sick and I had some long sleepless nights with her.  We took her to the vet yesterday and she is now on the mend thankfully. Hoping for a full night of sleep tonight!!

I made this layout tonight for the 52 Week challenge, I'm amazed that I'm still in this challenge. I may not share my pages each week (lazy blogger that I am sometimes) but I'm still scrapping at least one page each and every week. 

I pulled out this pictures last week and decided to use them tonight.  They aren't the best as they are zoomed in cell pics but it was such a fun night that I wanted to document it for our scrapbook.  We went to Mohegan Sun on Good Friday and as we were strolling around after dinner, we came upon this awesome band.  I'm hoping we can see them again and actually sit in the Wolf Den so we can see them a bit better (the lead singer was so cute! LOL!!)

My layout was created using this week's Classy Sketch.  Papers are by Echo Park and from the Note to Self Collection. Added some tape from Bella Blvd, stickers and brads from my stash.  I like how it turned out!

TFL!

Cut it Up Challenge #1

Hi friends!

Here is a double page layout that I created at a crop on Saturday for the first challenge at Cut It Up Challenges. The challenge is Anything Goes - just include a die cut. I used circle die-namics and the new flower medley die-namics from MFT. 

(click to view bigger version)

The layout uses Week #228 sketch from Nuts About Sketches. This was my birthday celebration just a few weeks after we closed on our house in 2009 - before we officially moved in. It was fun to look at these pictures and see how far our house has come since then!  Patterned papers are Imaginisce - All Kinds of Happy and Bazzill cardstock. 

TFL!

Our Little Diva {a layout}

Good morning!

Just popping in to share my Week 33 Scrappin' n Chattin' layout.  I created it at the crop on Saturday, along with several other pages that have yet to be photographed.

I used an old Sketch Savvy sketch and papers from the Fancy Pants Love Story collection. Some flowers, Thickers and rhinestones from my stash finished off the page.

Here is the sketch~

Have a great day!

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)

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)

Obsessed! ~ a layout

Just popping in quick to share a layout I made on Friday. It was for my 52 Week Challenge  last week and for last week's Sketches in Thyme sketch.  

I had so much fun scrapping these pictures!  My sister got me hooked on Bakery Story and Restaurant Story - games that we play on our phones. In one month I went from Level 1 to Level 28 on both games and not quite a week later, I'm on Level 31 lol!!  I found a little camera icon on the games and realized that I could snap pics of my bakery & restaurant, so I thought it would be something fun to scrap. 

I used Studio Calico Classic collection for the papers. The colors in the pictures are so bright, the neutral palette of the papers were perfect.  I used stars for the embellishments since stars are collected in the games to level up. Fun and I'm using some WAY old stash!  Foil thickers finished off this page.

Here is the sketch that I based my layout on~

TFL!

Gelato ~ a layout

Sorry for the silence this week, I was so proud of myself for starting to blog often and then my allergies reared their ugly head on Sunday night so I've been a bit off this week.  I did do a lot of resting and had some fun blog surfing! I've missed having the time to do that.

Here we are at the end of another week - with my weekly layout done late on a Friday night.  It's week #23 - I still have plenty more weeks to learn to get it done earlier!  I was thumbing through some pictures and came across a few pictures from our 'minmoon'.  We stayed a hotel near a casino about an hour from here and had fun hanging out at the casino that night and the next day.  The pictures aren't that great since it was my old phone but at least I have some pictures documenting that time :)

All supplies (except the mist) are from the Studio Calico April kit - "City of Lights".  This was my first month's subscription from them and I finally opened it tonight.  I am loving their kits! They are full of things that I normally wouldn't pair together and there are so  many fun things in it. Since I didn't want the cardstock to be plain, I decided to finally try the spattering technique that is so popular these days. Oh my, what a mess I made LOL!!  Luckily it all cleaned off my counter top pretty easily although I still need to wash off my cell phone case.

For the layout, I used this week's Sketches in Thyme sketch except I rotated it to fit my page. I love how this turned out!!

Tomorrow I'm off to my friend's to craft for the day. Naturally I over packed but I hope to get a lot done, including my projects for this Monday's blog hop!

All Dressed Up ~ a layout

Happy Saturday!

It's been a lazy day here...a few errands, some cleaning up in my scraproom, reading book #3 of the Fifty Shades trilogy and some coloring!

I'm sharing a layout I did during the NSD crop last month.  I did use a sketch for the layout but I have no idea where my notes are right now.  The flourish and flowers were all cut from MFT Die-namics and the paper is from my ancient stash, felt good to use it up! 

That is me in the picture several years ago dressed up for my bridesmaid duties in my bff's wedding :)

TFL!

First layout of the month!

It was kinda a given that I would scrap on the first day of the month...I waited (again) until the last minute to make my weekly page for the SNC 52 Week Challenge.  The mojo just hasn't been there for my pages...but as I do almost daily, I look through all the challenges for the day and I found a great sketch at Sketches: Creatively Yours and knew I found what I wanted to use.  Then came the decision on pictures - sigh, that usually takes the longest lol!  I went back to Christmas 2010 and picked 3 pictures to scrap.

And guess what! I'm still using Basic Grey LOL! This is the Jovial collection that I bought for this album...which I still have oodles of. I better start scrapping more of this album fast.  Christmas 2012 will be here before we know it!

Here is the sketch I used~

Psst...The Scrappin-N-Chattin Yahoo Group will be hosting a blog hop from June 11th-June 14th!  Be sure to join us during that time to see lots of cute layout and projects featuring our furry friends :)

Supplies~
Paper: Basic Grey Jovial, Bazzill cardstock
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (used on the squares)
Other: Creative Memories square punch, Basic Grey Jovial buttons, PTI button twine

Ceremony ~ A Wedding Layout!

Happy Saturday!

Any plans for the weekend?  We are going to my parents' today along with 2 of my sisters and their kids. I hope to take lots of pictures of all the little ones :)

I created this page last night for two challenges: Creative Scrappers Sketch #208 and Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge - Weddings.

I wrote the journaling right on the paper and it's a little hard to see unless you enlarge the picture. It simply reads "Ceremony pictures taken by our guests".  I really love this sketch and plan to do a mirrored 2nd page with more photos from our ceremony.  The paper and embellishments (except the bling and Thickers) are all from the Basic Grey Capella collection.

Have a great day!

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!

Argh! ~ a Disney layout

Happy Tuesday!

Any Smash fans here?  It's one of my new favorite shows.  The finale was awesome but now I have to wait until mid-season next year for it to start again! Tonight is the finale for NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles. Looking forward to watching those with my hubby :) 

Here is a layout I did at the NSD crop and it was my entry for Week #19 of the SNC 52 Week Challenge. I just love how this turned out. I had these papers and a package of buttons in my stash (possibly from a swap??) and I printed these pics to go with them.  Made up my own sketch and plopped the pics and buttons down and voila - a super fun page!  I giggled and giggled as I added the pirate button to my hubby's head LOL! 

I added a fan page for my blog to facebook, if anyone would like to keep up with me that way :)
Here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/ScrapColorReadRepeat  It's still in progress but I'm having fun with it!

Have a great day!

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.

TFL!

Not a Fan of the Antlers!

I found a sketch on Jana Eubank's blog last week that I just couldn't wait to use on these fun pics of our dog from Christmas 2010.  This was my entry for Week 14 of the SNC 52 Week Challenge. I'm finding it harder to decide what to scrap each week but after cleaning my room for a few hours yesterday, I think it will get easier!

Here is the sketch~

Supplies~
Paper: Bazzill cardstock, Georgia Pacific cardstock (photo mats), Basic Grey Jovial
Ink: Colorbox Warm Red chalk ink 
Other: Basic Grey Jovial stickers & chipboard, Cosmo Cricket tiny type letters, October Afternoon Sticky Keys, Thickers, Recollections rhinestones

Ooo what did I get?

I created this double page layout last night for my Weeks #12 & 13 of the SNC 52 Week Challenge.  I'm still in the contest...I had to use passes 2 weeks in a row, hopefully I can keep up from now on!

More pictures from Christmas 2010.  Journaling reads "Amber was a very spoiled puppy on her 1st Christmas! She sniffed each and every gift before she started playing.

I used this sketch from SCS - SBSC142.  I mirrored the right side to make the layout match.

Supplies:

Paper ~TE Choice Buttercream cardstock. Basic Grey Jovial

Other ~ Basic Grey Jovial brads, ribbon from stash, Thickers

Let's Get Sketchy #4

I created this page the other night for this week's Let's Get Sketchy #4 challenge~

Here is a close up of the journaling  and some of the bling I added to the paper. Journaling reads "Amber is so happy posing for Christmas pictures in her new dress".

All paper and embellishments are from the Basic Grey Jovial line, with the exception of the rhinestones, pearls & thickers.

The sketch at Let's Get Sketchy~

TFL!

Let's Get Sketchy Challenge #1

Did you hear about the new challenge blog Let's Get Sketchy? They have a new challenge every Monday and I'm getting my entry in just under the wire!

Here is their first official challenge~

and here is my take on it!

This is another page for my Christmas 2010 album, maybe I'll finish it before this Christmas?? This is also my entry for the SNC 52 Week Challenge.

All supplies are from the Basic Grey Jovial line.

TFL!

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 :-)

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.

TFL!

SNC 52 Week Challenge #1

This year I took the dare, double dare and triple dare to join in the Scrappin' N Chattin's 52 Week Challenge. Each week we have to create a layout and at the end of the year, everyone that is still in it is included in the big prize drawing (a $ prize that we all contribute to).

This is week 1's page and my first page of the year!

I used a sketch from Jana Eubanks

Everything except the black letters are from the Bella Blvd. Tail Waggers and Cat Naps collection. Such a cute pet collection! I know the letters are a little hard to follow but the title reads 1 2 3 Strikes and Amber is out of beds.  The journaling talks about how we crate Amber during the work day and how she chewed up 3 different beds. These pictures were taken just a few weeks after we got her. The first picture is when she actually broke out of her crate LOL. It's since been reinforced with metal ties so she can't escape.  I have some other pictures to scrap from the day she escaped her crate. I hope to get those scrapped soon!

TFL!