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!

It's Sketch Time with Lasting Memories!

Good morning!

It's time for my 1st post as a new design team member at Lasting Memories. This week we have a sketch for you. You can enter your layout HERE and check out all the wonderful DT samples while you are there as well.

Here is my take on the sketch. I altered it a little bit since I decided to use this as a 2nd page to a layout I created on Friday night. I love sketches that are multi-photo since I take so many pictures!

Here are the two pages together~

We hope to see you at Lasting Memories!

Tri-Shutter Friendship Card

On another yahoo group I belong to, Scrap Friendly, we were challenged to create a tri-shutter card. Seeing as I never made one, I decided to finally try it out. I used this SCS tutorial, I had a bit of a tough time getting the card base right...probably since I started it really late last night lol! I incorporated a friendship quote to enter The Paper Variety's friendship challenge.

The paper is Memory Box Brioche, I picked it up at a stamp store a few weekends ago and yes, shocker I cut into it already! The quote is from The Purpose of Friendship set by Paper Makeup Stamps. I accented the card using a Martha Stewart punch, bling from my stash, felt flowers cut out with Nestabilities and an EK Success border punch.

This is the full card~

Another shot with a better view of the quote~

TFL!

Christmas 2010

I am so happy to be spending so much time in my craftroom this weekend!

I made this layout for the Scrappin-n-Chattin yahoo group's January sketch challenge. This page will go first in the album for Christmas 2010. I'm sure it will be enough for an album lol, I have more pics than I thought and may need to get another BG Jovial collection!

Here is a closeup of the Jovial Pops. I strung them together with PTI twine and tied it together on the back of the page.

The full layout~

I took a few liberties with this sketch between rotating it and using bigger pictures. I liked the grid idea and selected a few pictures to highlight this Christmas. Our tree, a few ornaments that I received last Christmas and we can't forget our new addition for this Christmas, of course I had to feature our pup!

This is the sketch from Pencil Lines~

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!

January SFYTT

First ~ thank you to everyone that commented on my 'white on white' card! I so appreciate all of them!

With just a few days to spare, I am getting my January SFYTT card posted. I started it last Saturday at a friend's house and then I decided to add glitter to the frosting one night. Then the next night I was going to post it and then decided to add glitter to the candles lol. One can never have too much glitter!

This adorable bunny is from The Cat's Pajamas and is called Forget About the Cake. He was so happy to get out of the package and get inked up! The happy paper is from SEI called Happy Day. A tip regarding the sentiment, it was one long sentiment and I folded it over a clear block so I could stamp it on two lines.

Here is the sketch~
TFL!