Special lo for SOUS

I just love all the colors and embellies in this layout I did with the sketch from SOUS- its been so long since I did a challenge from there- but this one comes pretty close since my pictures were both a 4 x 6. Its another one of my favorites of my kids taken at my daughter's wedding in Jamaica this past April.

I used the background paper from Scrapbook Customs called Paradise- two colors of cardstock for the mats, and Cricut cuts from Ashlyn's Alphabet, Accent Essentials and Life's a Beach. I layered the flowers in two colors attached a brad and added some stickles for bling. The cloud I inked the bottom and added stickles also. On the palm leaves I inked in 3 colors of green and one the bottom three added some sub-titles to them in my own handwriting.

I will be applying this over at SOUS this week..hope its not to late. Today is the first day of Summer- enjoy and stay cool- because its been a hot one here lately Happy Scrapping!

Over the River and thru the woods...

To grandma's house we go..... is the title of my layout this week for 2 challenges, one at The Paper Variety to use a Christmas song or lyric  and over at SOUS to use "tree" die cuts. This photo is of my 2 daughters and their cousin in Upper Michigan after Christmas one year. The girls decided to take therir first rode trip alone to Michigan to celebrate the New Year with family. And they went over plenty of rivers and thru the woods to grandma's house --so the title is so right for this page.

I used several Cricut cartridges on this layout: DoodleCharms (trees) Graphically Speaking (snowflakes) Accent Essentials (hearts) Calligraphy Collection ( title words) . I also used my Cuttlebug and embossed the trees and layered them with pop dots and used green and diamond sStickles on them for some added bling.

Papers used were by Basic Grey -2-sided paper with houses on one side and blue swirls on the other- .also used red c.s. for mats and title cuts, brown inks, Stickles in pink, green and diamond, Rhinestones on snowflakes and my Xyron can in handy tonight to attached the title on.

I added some Stickles to the hearts and snowflakes and some pretty 3 colored ribbon and made my own journal spot.  The sketch I got from my handy PageMaps 2 book page 29 a 8 1/2 x 11 layut I convereted to a 12 x 12.

Great Lengths-

Here is my take from Sketch #128 at The Scrappiest- the photo's are not the best -a bit blurry- but I remember this moment all to well a few years back of my son and his long golden locks right before we cut them all off- so he could join the high school football team. He was kinda worried about this- since he believed he was a chick magnet with this hair. Which he probably was- but football was more important and he said he could grow it back if he wanted too after the season.

 I used all papers from the Recollections stack - which I just got the other day at Micheals for 1/2 off what a great deal this was. I added big gold brads to the corners of the photo's and journal strips on the side. With my Gypsy and Cricut Expressions I cut out the golden swirls to represent LOCKS of hair and the Handle with Care sign and the title Great Lengths from several cartridges- Accent Essentials, Graphically Speaking and Ashley's Alphabet. I inked all the edges with Memories-Chestnut

Crop Suey Challenge

The challenge over at Crop Suey this week is to use 9 different items on a layout- which is alot but this layout of my daughter's Prom dance qualifies for this challenge. I used designer paper, black & white cardstock, several word stickers, I made the tuxedo with bow, cricut cut swirls, stamped the birdcage and embossed in black, made the flowers from paper towels, spray then with Tattered Angel mist, added rhinestones and pearls, some silk silver leaves,  andStickles glitter - which is more than 9 items on this layout.

I'm the Guest Designer at Frosted Designs...

I was so thrilled to be ask by Debbie over at Frosted Designs to be the Guest Designer for one of this week's sketches...which was Designed by Fern and a great one to work with. With Valentine's Day coming up next week I choose to use the colors black, white & pink and heart & flowers for embellisments for this layout of my cousins wedding. The photos are of the newly married couple and my husband & I dancing- there was "Love in the Air".

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Be sure to go check out the new sketches and challenges over at Frosted Designs-click here- they have such wonderful prize packages and a very friendly & talented DT to get alot of inspiration from weekly- I just love this blog site.

      I used K&Company Designer stack papers, pink, black and white cardstock for all the Cricut cuts using 3 cartridges. Calligraphy Collection for the title, Accent Essentials for the hearts, swirls and scalloped circles, and A Child's Year for the mat photo borders. On the hearts I used Flower Soft in Sweet Pea and wrote a few words in the center of them. I chalked the mats in pink and inked the edges also in Studio G pink ink added a few white silk flowers and stamped Love all around the matted photos. Pink and black Stickles were added to the title and the black swirls. Then last added one red heart rhinestone to the title.

      The month of January was a great month for me- in my scrapping corner of the world! I was choosen as a guest designer- which was a goal of mine this year, I was choosen by a customer to do a scrapbook of 33 pages for her daughter's skating book, two layouts were choosen as the Top 3 on other blogs, My page titled "Nature" was featured at Practical Scrappers - also I just won the Frosted Designs January prize package - and it was my birthday a few weeks ago- WOW. With this kind of start for the new year - I look forward to coming months ahead. Again, thank-you to all of you a Frosted Designs I look forward to all your posts and your friendly comments.

Another layout for SOUS -just loved this sketch

Here is my second layout this week for the sketch over at SOUS- isn't this just a wonderful sketch to work with -the possibilities are endless and love the circles. This photo is for my daughter Linda's book (who is dressed in a peach colored blouse) so I used that as my inspiration for colors in this layout.

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Love the Bo-Bunny papers I picked up last week when I went to Las Vegas to visit my other daughter for Christmas- I just happen to know where the 2 scrapbook stores are out there.. lol. Materials used Bo-Bunny paper for the flower cut outs, Crate Paper- lime green  paper for background,  Memory Box- peach floral paper for large scalloped circle cut from Gypsy Wanderings cartridge, white, blue and green cardstock for other cuts from Songbird, Accent Essentials and Calligraphy Collection.  A sanding block, rhinestones, forest green and diamond glimmer mists, and Flower Soft in Sweet Pea for edges of the peach flowers, and a Bo-Bunny journaling tag

Sketches in Thyme weekly challenge

Here is my sketch that I worked from this week from the new Page Maps #2 book- which I received for Christmas- and I couldn't wait to start scrapping today, since I haven't had the chance in about 2 weeks. I'm starting all my pictures from the year 2004 and this was my cousin's wedding and a family picture and one picture of 3 of my 4 children that attended the ceremony. Titled "I Do".

Materials used were:

White cardstock for background, scraps of black pattern paper and some cream with pink and green floral papers, Cricut cuts from Tie The Knot and Accent Essentials cartridges, White felt floral ribbon, pink silk flowers, rhinestones, moss green and orchid inks, and a stardust gelly roll pen. This will be applied over at Sketches in Thyme for their challenge this week to use any sketch for a layout.http://sketchesinthyme.blogspot.com/

Family at Christmas time- what could be better

This is a photo of my Husband side (part) of the family -2 of his brothers, his son, nephew and his mother taken back in 2007 a week before Christmas, while his brother was here from Alaska during the holidays. I will be applying this sketch over at Sketches in Thyme,  Frosted Designs ,to use Glitter and at Chop Suey to use the word Family in a project. The picture came out kinda blurry sorry I didn't have my reading glasses on when I took this picture.

 I used My Minds Eye, Bo Bunny, Teresa Collins and misc Christmas papers for this layout along with lots of embellishments. Also used three Cricut cartridges for the cuts- Accents Essentials, Home Accents and Christmas Cheer. Lots of glitter in several colors, stickles, punches, double sided tape, pop dots, and 3 Maya Road leaf decorative pins

This 3-D origami christmas tree was alot of fun to make it added alot of dimension to this page and I added stickles in 3 colors and punched out little snowflakes to decorate the tree. I saw a tutorial on this tree at Practical Scrappers about 2 weeks ago and I also have nmade several cards with this tree- just love how they turn out.-

Life is Good...

The sketch is from PageMaps, which I will be entering this layout and for the challenge to use 3 out of the 5 items listed over at Chop Suey this week...which was pretty easy to do, and my first entry at both of these blogsites. My 3 out of 5 items used in the page are the following: white cardstock, buttons, and a stamp (leaves) and inks too. Materials used in layout are the following:  papers from Colobok and cutouts flowers, Memory Box for blue floral print paper, white & green cardstock, Cricut cuts from Graphically Speaking and Accent Essentials, blue and purple ribbons, purple buttons, fiskars border punch,  green, blue and lilac inks, piece of notebook paper for journal area in blue writing pen and pop dots. 

Izzy's favorite treat "My Favorite Bone"

This is my take for Sketchy Thursdays this week titled "My Favorite". My dog Izzy's just loves to chew on her bones-which is just fine with me that's better than chewing up my rugs or furniture...which I still need to hournal that on the page forgot to do that...oops.

 Materials used: Stemma papers, Cricut cuts Accent Essentials,Recollections border punch, ribbon, copper glitter, black marker for doodling, white cardstock, piece of notebook paper for journal area, bone stickers from Stemma paper pack and pop dots.

All American BOY

I'm  packed and all ready to go on my 4th of July weekend trip to Upper Michigan and I have a few hours to spare before we leave so I hurried downstairs to do one more layout for some challenges this week. And it just so happens the challenges over at Pink Elephant is a sketch and color theme of red, white and blue, and over at FCCB #16 it is the Theme -4th of July and to have a star on your project, and Frosted Design's challenge is Stars & Stripes with red white and blue...Wow 3 challenges with 1 layout.. So this photo of my son taken in 2001 in upper Michigan at the Ishpeming parade was perfect for them all. I used white cardstock inked with brown all over and the edges, red and blue cardstock for all the other papers used. I cut the large red star from Accent Essentials cartridge, small blue and red stars from Doodlecharms ,blue star border from Doodlecharms- welded, and the title in blue "All American Boy" from Jasmine cartridge also welded and used  my Gypsy to lay this all out. I used several buttons tied with silver thread. Added a wide red, white and blue silver ribbon to center of page with 4 silver buttons attached. I made my own 2 journal tags from stars and cut it to look like fringe, used white gel pen,  added Stickles glitter to stars and title. I did this is a bit of a rush, but really liked how it turned out. So now I'm ready to go celebrate with family and friends the 4th of July. Hope you too have a safe and Happy 4th.

Dinner Time layout

This is my take of this week's sketch at Sketchy Thursdays. Materials used: Lilac cardstock sprayed with several glimmer mist sprays on background, white cardstock to cut out title and bells from From my Kitchen  cricut cartridge, and swirls from Accent Essentials cartridge and also sprayed with glimmer mists, stickles "diamond" glitter glue, white ribbon and scrap paper for matt of photo. This was my husband and I as we were in the serving line for our wedding dinner held at our home in 2000.

All in the Family

This is my take on Sketch #2 for LID Challenge this week and I love how this one turned out, wasn't sure about the stripes in the background -but they seem to work out ok. I made the flowers using  Accent Essentials cart. to cut out several floral shapes from old dictionary book and inked the edges a bit and attached with a brad. I had drew some swirls with leaves in a green glitter pen. Other products used in layout include: sticker rhinestones, K&Company designer papers,fiskars paper edger"victorian",  diamond stickles  and a 3-D emboss black gel pen for writing.

Creative Scrappers- sketch #103/Practical Scrappers-Punch

This is my sketch to enter into the challenge at Creative Scrappers this week. I had so much fun doing this layout and I just LOVE how it turned out, which I did spent a few hours on it, but well worth it to add to MY scrapbook. I used several papers from K&Company for the main 2 layers, border punch by Martha Stewart and Fiskars for corner punch. Used a white/clear vellum for the journal area and ink edges in Lilac.

The flowers I made using my cricut carts of AE  GW HA to cut out the floral patterns I then layered the different sizes/shapes together and attached a silver brad that I heat embossed  green, gold or blue colors. I then used Tattered Angel mists on them, a variety of colors. I used a vellum Slick writer for my words. Cut out a few words from paper/chalked them green and attached to the flowers.

The Title Children I used my Gypsy and 2 different letter fonts LL  PS and welded together and inked the edges in lavendar and added sticker rhinestones to it. I cut from patterned paper 3 butterflies and added Stickles glitter glue to them and attached just at the body part. The leaves I hand cut and used a dash ---in marker to highlight them a bit.I cut out 2 hearts in the K&Company blue paper and attached a vellum saying behind one of the hearts, added rhinestones and glitter to the hearts also.

I wrote in black marker on top and bottom border the saying " A mother holds her children hands for awhile, and their hearts forever"

And this is a close up of my 4 lovely children on my Wedding Day in September 2000. They were so wonderful that day and as you can see by the smiles they were happy too. I can't wait to put this one in my special Scrapbook of my special pictures of my children as they are growing up.

Our Wedding /Cheryl's scrapbook pages.

Here is a 2page LO I did for my DD cheryl's scrapbook of our Wedding  in 2000. I used the sketches from the LID challenge 5/8-5/14 which worked out so well. I used lavendar cardstock on bothe and some teal floral paper and some prelined paper for the journal areas. I used GF for all the lettering and sprayed them with a purple glimmer mist. other embellishments include silk flowers, pewter heart brads, ribbon, glitter ink pens, and leaves cut from AE on scratch green paper, inked edges in lavendar and teal.

Frosted Design "mask something" challenge

In my challenge I did a layout of my DH and DSS when they did another 5K -Snow Fun Run in January in Lake Geneva (tradition)in 2000. I masked the snowflakes on light blue cardstock using 3 different colors of glimmer mist sprays, then attached some felt snowflakes on top and sprinkled glitter all over the left side of the page. I used Accent Essentials cartridge to cut the darker blue snowflakes to attached on top of the felt ones.Then used Tear Drop cart. for the letters in Snow Fun Run.

Practical Scrappers Sketch by 5/1

These are  some pictures of our summer volleyball team years ago(2001) and we took first place...pretty good for a bunch of "Old Timers". I used two patterned papers and solid cardstock for all the cuts and chalked most of them. The carts I used for this layout are P.S.- Were #1, FMK-pizza, SM-volleyball,Spike it, AE-for the teal swirls, GBS- for the triangles in banner.I'm using this sketch for the Practical Scrappers challenge due by May 1st.

Creative Scrappers Challenge- (sketch #100)

Over at Creative Scrappers they have a sketch challenge due by April 30th, so here is my layout of the sketch. I used a Close to my Heart kit "Grace" and made my own flowers using my gypsy and AE cartridge and the papers from this kit so it all matches really well. I added little rhinestones around the flowers and 2 tags. I also sanded the edges of the blue paper and the circle to make them stand out a bit, and inked the edges in coffee bean brown. My title was a saying from the kit that went with my daughters Junior H.S. picture.

Relay for Life -layout

Relay for Life layout I usedpurple star patterned paper, black silver star by DCWV and a lazer-cut with stars.Pictures matted on white cardstock, and the Title was cut from cricut cartridge Plantin Schoolon white cardstock, back with black. The moon and stars were cut from George and the tag was from Tags, bags, boxes and more and I used my Gypsy to weld together. The swirls and the hope were from AE and I used black diamond, white diamond, stickles on the stars .I cut strips of cardstock to journal on . This is my DH who broke his foot during the event and we came back to do a lap in the wheelchair in the memory of our lost loved ones, who's names are on the bags which I cut out and put in the layout also.I am entering this layout in the Pagemaps Challenge for the month.

LID Challenge 4/10 - 4/16

Here is my take of Sketch 1 of the L.I.D. challenge this week.I used Heidi Grace papers on a lt. blue cardstock , using white rick rack vertically on the left side and attached snowflakes cut from AE cartridge with silver vinyl punched with hole punch to accent the snowflakes. I used George for the SNO FUN RUN title backed with the silver vinyl and attached a white ribbon thru the top of the letters. The swirl accents were cut from AE also and sparayed with 2 different colors of mists by tattered angels. Also found some pearlized snowflakes and glued them on in several places on the swirls. This is my DH and his 2 sons on race day in January of 1999