Scrapbook Challenges sketch#348

I'm late! This is Sketch#348 from Scrapbook Challenges...I got it completed in time for reveal but with the distress of the past several weeks, I forgot to post it here too! Better late than never is an expression that I live by!

I created a quick layout using a fun photo from my daughter's Spring Break trip to Thailand! Imagine walking in the river while riding an elephant! I'm quite sure I won't be travelling that way anytime soon...lucky girl !

love that I was able to dig into my stash for these flowers and jewel bits!

I stuck true to the sketch and loved adding the machine stitching and ink blobs

This Basic Grey background paper was perfect because it already had some great distress to it! 

I picked up the hexagon Spellbinder die and these hexagons were super fast and easy :)

Now's here's the sketch! I hope you whip this one up, cause it took me longer to stitch with the machine then put it together...super fast but super fantastic too!

Make sure you head on over to Scrapbook Challenges Blog to see what some of the other Design Team ladies cooked up with this sketch!

Thanks so much for stoppin' by, I hope you have a fabulous day :)

Snapchats ;)

Good Morning! Well, I always seem to say 'Good Morning' because that's when I post! I probably should say 'Good Day' because we all BlogHop during the time we can...enough of my carrying on already...no matter what time of day it is there for you I'm still so glad you dropped by for today's Scrapbook Challenges Sketch #345 !!!

It's been several weeks now that my DD, Marissa, has returned from her adventures in Thailand! She experienced some amazing things, some of which were captured in photos...but I had just the snapshots she sent me through Snapchat as my main source of communication for the two weeks she was away!

It was a bit scary for me to send her off on this trip as it was the first trip she's taken without her parents...travelling to Thailand meant many hours of little to no communication home, which was stressful for me!

Now I'm not sure if you are familiar with 'Snapchat' but it's an APP the kids use on their iPhones and Androids to send photos like they do text messages...they can add a little bit of journaling or do some drawing on their photos and then send them off like a text message...needless to say, I certainly did look forward to getting Snapchats as they were easier for Marissa to send to me than it was for her to phone me...for some reason her text feature wasn't working there and she isn't a regular Facebook user anymore.

Even though the picture quality isn't great, I LOVE these photos, they illustrate Marissa's silly personality very well and this sketch was perfect for these 3x4 photos...I even used my Basic Grey Marrakech papers! I've been holding onto those for years now ;)

This layout came together super fast, especially seeing as I used the sticker sheet and only a couple of pieces of patterned papers!

Make sure you pop over to the Scrapbook Challenges Blog to see some more inspiration from our Design Team with this week's sketch...thanks for stoppin' by!

Circles and more circles...

Hello! So glad you've stopped by today!

I have a sketch from Let's Scrap this week and I've interpreted it quite differently...

Now firstly I've created a single page, I seem to be creating a lot of those these days...not sure if the tide is shifting with the double page layouts or if I'm just needing a change...

The funny thing about these photos is that it was a few days before we left on Christmas holidays and I usually get my BFF, Tania, a gift and Jaime usually buys her hubby, Rob, a gift...he thought it would be funny to buy Tania a giant wedge of Parmesan cheese from an Italian Deli in town and wrap it up inside a big box full of popcorn?!!! 

Strange, yes...but also funny ;)

I LOVE this Basic Grey paper collection, 'Paper Cottage' and the sticker sheet that came with it was a great addition...

even found some of those Martha Stewart doilies and threw that in there too!

Would love to see what you can do with this sketch too! Head on over to Let's Scrap and set up a profile so you can share your work or just search the gallery and see what others have done with this week's sketch! It's a great site and full of super supportive folks from all over the world! let me know how you make out :)

Merry memories with SBChallenges..

Good Morning and Happy December and the beginning of Holiday Cheer for those of you that celebrate Christmas!

I always seem to have plenty of photos already printed from years past and I actually like to go back and pick a couple to scrapbook...this layout is a couple of snapshots that I took of my front porch from a few years ago...I love the bright colours and birdies and have added to them over the past few years but I have to say that decorating my front porch is like spreading some Christmas/Holiday Cheer to the neighbourhood and I love to be greeted into my home with all the pretty decorations on my trees!

I've cut all my snowflakes from Martha Stewart punches and added some Close To My Heart Bling gems to the centres...the title is a clear overlay (which I've backed with some white paper) from Little Yellow Bicycle from many years ago...

How many of you have hundreds of papers and embellishments for Christmas? I have at least that many as when I see a collection I LOVE, I buy it! and of course the embellishments that go with it! Even though I don't scrapbook ALL of my Christmas holidays I just seem to WANT to have the products! I know...I have a problem...but at least I'm using some of it up now :)

LOVE these Bling Gems from CTMH because they are pretty flat and that is a great feature when trying to minimize the bulk in your layouts! All the patterned paper is from Basic Grey :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I love having visitors and I hope you find some inspiration here and enjoy the sketches each week!

Here's the single and double page sketches from Scrapbook Challenges for this week:

Seeing the World Together

We are fortunate in this lifetime, if we have a great friend, someone that knows us, good and bad...someone who you can always talk to day or night...someone that will meet you for ice cream at 10:30 at night or share a bowl of Taco chips and salsa and not judge!

Olivia, my oldest daughter has many close friends, but none that compare to her close friendship with Madison...they are both so lucky to have this special bond and to have been able to travel so much together! I hope they always cherish the times they've spent together and that they have many more years of creating such wonderful memories with each other!

I loved this sketch as it really gave me a great backdrop for these photos and it's nice for a change to feature one large photo on your scrapbook pages :)

I'm not sure what I would do without my American Crafts Thickers or any of my numerous mini alphabet letters! They make my title far more interesting and when you use your mini-alphas, you can really almost 'journal' through your title...love these!

This week's sketch was brought to Let's Scrap from the one and only Becky Fleck of Pagemaps! Super awesome lady and one of her fantastic sketches as are all of them!

Thanks so much for taking time out of your day to read along and stop by here!

Paris by Foot

I'm back again with some more Paris photos from my daughter's trip and I have to say that working with this Making Memories travel line from several years ago is really working for these photos!

My post yesterday was a layout using mostly Basic Grey's new line and it works perfectly with this Making Memories older line...I've been saving this paper and LOADS of embellishments since BEFORE Olivia went to Paris...yeah, I know crazy hoarding and shopping issues, but hey...look how it all came together now!??

One day I'll get there, but in the meantime, I'll just live vicariously through my daughter :) The group did A LOT OF WALKING...like Olivia said, pretty much everywhere!

While I was away at BC Crop for Kids a couple weeks ago, a lovely lady at the end of my table let me have some of her old stamps stickers...I used them here and on my other layouts from that weekend, so grateful to my scrapbooking sisters out there that have no problem sharing their stuff...this is the world of scrapbookers, we are so generous with our craft!

I worked with last weeks sketch at Let's Scrap...it was provided to us from Valerie Salmon at got sketch? Nice and simple lines and lots of photos...great sketch!

Thanks for stopping in today...see you back here soon!

Paris in Springtime

Olivia went to Paris with her school in Grade 11 which was about 20 months ago! I haven't scrapbooked any of her photos until last weekend at all but I think I felt the desire to start working on them seeing as my Mother is currently in Paris with her girlfriend!

She decided, upon her daughter's suggestion (that's me!) to start a daily blogging journal for those of us stuck at home, so we can keep up on her adventures and see some of the sights she is seeing while she's still there! I like that my Mother is also posting photos of what they are eating and describing it all in great detail...wonderful idea to blog your trip even for your own benefit!

Anyways, this layout is using some fantastic papers and embellies from Basic Grey and odd bits from Making Memories...I love the peaceful feeling I get when I look at this photo that Olivia took on her visit to Paris,wish I was there!

Great chipboard embellies from BG, made putting this layout together fast and easy!

Here's last weeks sketch#316 from Scrapbook Challenges, I've used the single page but I've also included the double page layout below.

Now I've used the double page layout sketch#317 from this week at Scrapbook Challenges and started in theory but then went off on my own! I like that sketches are always a great starting point, but often we just get going on our own after that!

More Basic Grey papers and Bazzill cardstock

Using up the last of my Close To My Heart folded ribbon, love this stuff!

Purchasing some of the embellies that coordinate with your papers is always a great idea as it makes it short work creating a layout when you aren't hunting around for those embellies to match!

I've used up some scrap airplane ribbon from Making Memories, love that ribbon!

The double and single sketches from Scrapbook Challenges this week!

 I hope you are having a fantastic week and thanks for stopping in here :)