Happy Monday and Happy Birthday to ME!!!

Yes, every year I get another year older and I get another notch on my belt, so to speak, no avoiding it so I might as well enjoy it!!!

I was able to get some scrapbooking done this past weekend and I also worked on my Project Life pages...fun to play with paper and glue for a while and get some scrappy Design Team business done too!

Today being Monday means another great sketch from Scrapbook Challenges!

This was from our trip to DisneyWorld in March 2010...the kids wanted solo pictures with each of the characters so I'll end up adding this photo to Olivia's personal album instead of the Disney Holiday album.

I've added some fantastic wide Burlab Ribbon from Close To My Heart, great embellishment and texture for your projects...I also decided to fussy cut some Hot Air balloons out of the patterned paper for some fun and dimension :)

I dug into some of my stash of punched flowers and bits and pieces to create this cluster of embellies, even found a CTMH journalling pocket for some hidden journalling :)

Here's the sketch! Enjoy!

it all started with a Mouse!

The Mouse is the theme of this page today, but it all started with a sketch! 

There's a new Design Team over at Let's Scrap starting an August to November term and bringing you a new sketch this week!

I'm thrilled to be a part of it once again!!!

I had to improvise a bit with the photos in the banners because I already had them printed out and couldn't crop them down any or I'd have lost some of the photo...but I did get all of the ones into this single layout that I wanted too!

Boy oh Boy do I LOVE twine!!!

Lookin' like Goofy and Doc

Good Morning! 

I have been digging into my stash of papers and photos...getting another layout completed from our DisneyWorld vacation from 2001...

I only had one photo of the face painting that each of my nephews got done,

 Goofy and Doc never looked cuter!!! 

It doesn't look like they were sure about the painting or 

the photo taking, hard to say now...

I've used this weeks sketch from Let's Scrap:

Painted faces and painted paper...I decided that this Glimmer Bazzill cardstock for my bases needed some extra attention so I splattered some white acrylic paint with a toothbrush to create my paint drops and splatter :)

I also wanted to play with different coloured lettered in my title...it's actually a great way to use up some of those alphabet sticker sheets that you can't use for other titles because you've used  up most of the vowels or common letters...

Now I don't know about you, but after my first trip to Disney after I started scrapbooking...I figured that I needed ALL the available Disney stickers and papers!!!

It was nice to actually open these packages of stickers after 6 or 7 years!!! I wanted to use some of them as embellishments so I stuck them down onto some plain ole printer paper, cut it out and voila, instant embellishment from the excess stickers I have in my stash!

So glad you've stopped in today, hopefully this week's sketch will get you scrapping some layouts for yourself :)

More great sketches !

Well better later than never I always say! I have to confess that I've been crazy busy with various activities...and even though I am still creating, I'm not being so diligent with actually posting!

This past week, Let's Scrap posted another great sketch...as a Design Team member there we have been super busy creating {Inter}National Scrapbooking Month Challenges! 

So make sure to pop over there to check them out and to try to play along if you can!

Here's last weeks sketch:

and this is what I created from it:

I happened to just look through my stash of already printed photos...I have had these ones printed since 2001 !!! We went to Florida, Disney World actually, soon after my father had recovered from his Prostrate surgery...all was good and we wanted to celebrate this by having our entire family on a holiday at the Happiest Place on Earth!!!

I had fun rolling some of the patterned paper into a cluster of candles for his Birthday...not sixty! but a few anyways and seeing as I love twine and have loads of Disney stickers, they were as great addition to this embellishment :)

I covered some CTMH star chipboards with more paper and stickers to add some dimension and of course needed some more twine and buttons :) 

Thanks for stopping in today!