GIANT banners!

Hello Again!

I've got another fantastic sketch for you to get busy with! This time it's from Let's Scrap!

I love the GIANT banners!!! Another great way to showcase different busy patterned papers or maybe a rainbow of colours...you could definitley finish off some of those kits you have...I cut the strips about 2½" wide and using a 12" length, trim out your banner ends! Super simple, super fast and super great looking!!!

I only took a handful of photos of Oliver playing with this bottle cap...in the end I had only printed out six so I decided to take the scraps of each 4x6 photo and trim out the patio for the other two photo spots...my photos are 2x2 and then I cut out 2¼x2¼ white printer paper to mat them on...I've used the small corner rounder on the photos to make them look like little Instagram photos...

If you can believe it, these photos were taken with my iPhone!!! I still can't find my Nikon battery charger!!! Super frustrating but I am learning to take some great photos with my iPhone in the meantime...isn't this Macro shot great!???

This layout felt like it needed some more texture so I went a little crazy with the sewing machine...stitching and boys seem to go together in my mind...

I've decided to try to use up the rest of my February Bonus Kit from the Memory Workshop...I have to say that I seldom actually use all of any kit up, but I wanted to make a point of creating with this one until it was all gone!!! My sticker sheet is looking pretty bare and I actually used some of the flowers...not a giant fan of flowers so this was a stretch!

It just so happens to be the perfect colours for my newest family addition, Oliver!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop in here today, I love having visitors and hearing from you in my comments...let me know if you get creative with this sketch! 

I'd love to hear from you :)

Gotta love Doilies...

Hello! Now let me just say right off that I can't find my Nikon battery charger!!! It is very frustrating and in the meantime I've been using my iPhone to take all my layout photos...I am actually amazed at the quality of them, especially the macro shots!

Moving on...

I've got another layout using February's fantastic Bonus Kit from the Memory Workshop...Talk about making short work when you have the sticker sheet and these gorgeous doilies already done for you to just grab and stick down!

When I saw this sketch I just HAD to get these papers...I didn't realize until I opened the kit that there were some great textured papers in there! I LOVE how they add the look of pattern to a solid base!

Now you could sand the surface to get a completely different look, but I was happy with all the blue...the photo doesn't do it justice in this close up, it is truer in colour to the top photo.

I cut the doilies that were being covered up with photos and hanging off the base so that I could use the small bits elsewhere on this layout...I also popped up the lower grey one with 3D foam tape...this is going to be the perfect layout for the first page of our Hawaii 2012 holiday album!

Here's this week's Scrapbook Challenges sketch!

Thanks so much for popping in today, I hope you have fun with this sketch! Make sure you stop over at the Memory Workshop site to check out all of Sandra's great kits or to learn more about her Monthly Kit Clubs!

Can of Worms!!!

Well I know you have all heard the expression, 'Opening up a can of worms'! Today, I have done exactly that :) I am in the final hours of preparations for the 'Use Your Stash' class tomorrow 10AM sharp! Where we will be getting instruction from the talented Jennifer Edwardson in her 20 layouts workshop! Yes, you heard right, 20 BIG ones...and this time she has even promised a double-pager or two...actually I've heard it will be '5' double-layouts...phew! I'm freakin' out already!!!

Now in preparation for her classes we need to pack kits...20 of them usually, but in this case, 21 for tomorrow...what time is it now, OH, it's 4:24PM and I have officially packed 'ZERO' !!! Yes, because I was in the search for my kit instructions, which I only just found a couple hours ago! Off to pick kids up from school, get one kids' hair cut for the big grade 7 & 8's final Rec Centre dance tonight and tending to another kid who's been sick with the flu for four days now!!!

I am plotting out my layouts...now I'm looking at my pictures and saying to myself, 'Geez, these pics look familiar...have I already scrapbooked this?'...Have you asked yourself this question, or are you really organized and put all your finished layouts right into their proper places right after completing them...??? NOT ME ;)

So then I get this:

Spread them all out into piles...one kid, the other kid etc...

One holiday, the other holiday, Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas etc....

Everyday family stuff, my nieces (cause they get their own albums)...

You got it...about a hundred, at least, finished layouts that need to be filed into their proper albums, or start a new album...more like it! Tomorrow when I'm at the class, Sandra from The Memory Workshop, will have her store set up and I can buy some much needed albums!!!...anyways...you get the idea of the 'Can Of Worms' I've opened!

Off to pack those 20+ kits now! Check back later for some pics of some of the finished layouts from tomorrow's class...thanks for stopping by :)