New Let's Scrap Sketch!

This is what we call a blast from the past...

We dug into the Let's Scrap Sketches Blog archives for this one but you can have some fun with photo layouts as the right page could lend itself to multiple photos!

I've been too busy travelling in January and February to get into my creative space but that doesn't mean you can't play along! 

While we're at it, here's the February 1st sketch we revealed...it's a fantastic sketch for multiple photos and a great way to use up your scraps!

I think I see a layout featuring some of my recent cruise photos...love the flags and the pockets...perfect for hidden journalling or when you just can't decide which photos to use!

Hopefully you have a chance to play along with these sketches this month...if you link up your creation to our Let's Scrap Sketches Blog, you have a chance to win a little something.

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October 1st! Oh My!

Wowzers my creative friends! I can't believe we are in the month of October already...and with that I have another great sketch from Let's Scrap Sketches to share :)

This sketch has great potential for adding lots of extra photos...I see some Flip Flap possibilities here :)

For me, I've been using some Fall papers from a 'new to me' company called Photo Play...we used these papers for the CherryLane Page Club this past month and I wanted to get busy using the leftovers so I have less paper (hahahaha), which may be futile, but worth the effort, right?!!!

Here's a couple of close ups...

I've got some really old Close To My Heart Jute ribbon along the banners here...love jute and burlap with the Autumn layouts and cards!

I raised the banners and the photo as well as a couple of the falling leaves for some added dimension and because that Jute ribbon was so thick, I felt like I needed to balance the layout out a bit more by adding height because of it :)

Thanks so much for stopping in today, head on over to the Let's Scrap Blog to see what the other Design Team ladies created with this week's sketch!

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Project Life integrated...

Hello! SO glad you've stopped in!!!

I have been sorting through my photos and I'm getting them into albums! I've decided that of all the plastic containers I have of certain events full of photos, I know that I have already scrapbooked my favourites. 

How do I know this? 

Well if I've printed these events out months and months ago, and I've already scrapbooked some of the photos from the event...then it stands to reason that while I might like the extra photos (because I chose them to print in the first place) I am done scrapbooking it in my mind already! So that being said...I've pulled out my Becky Higgins photo sleeves, trimmed my remaining photos and added bits of left over papers and stickers and now I have the whole event in an album! Yeah for me!!!

Want to see? ok...

Let me show you how these pages are going to sit in my 'Everyday Life' album for 2012...starting with page one of our trip to the Zoo. I took my nieces and my son and daughter and it was so much fun that I took waaaaay too many photos ;)

page 1&2 

page 3&4

page 5&6

page 7&8

and here's a few close ups:

Now after all that I still had a couple photos I wanted to created a page from! Imagine that! and I still had some scraps of paper from this great Echo Park 'Fall Fever' line to create this:

This layout will go into my 'All About Marissa' album...seeing as it's all about my daughter's relationship with her cousin, I thought it would be nice to add to her personal album.

It just so happens that this layout was created from today's sketch release from Scrapbook Challenges as well :) So after this really long post you are rewarded with a new sketch to play with!!! 

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 :)

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!!!

The Wait is Finally over...

Hello !  So glad you've stopped by today because we've got another great sketch for you from Scrapbook Challenges...this one is Sketch 306 and it worked great for the three pictures I had printed of Olivia's Convocation...

The paper's I'm using for Olivia's Convocation layouts are from SEI and their new 'Field Notes' paper collection...it has a bit of shimmer on some of the sheets and it also features Butterflies.

This has got to be the first time in a very long time, if ever, that I've used a pink sheet of cardstock as my base...weird huh?!!!

I chose this as a title because Olivia has been waiting, for what seems to her like FOREVER, to have this day arrive...bittersweet as she is feeling a little sad now that it is all over...now she realizes she has to grow up a bit and face the real world.

I used 1½" squares and folded them in half for this banner...I thought it looked a bit like her cap...I've also used some heavier thread in my sewing machine, I find that it shows up better on my layouts with the heavy weight thread.

Here's the double page layout for you to see and perhaps have a go at...I hope you get some scrapping done this week and hopefully some of the inspiration over at the SC site will help you along with that!!!

Scrapbook Challenges

Hello my scrappy-friends...it is a beautiful sunny day here, just one in the past seven, but I'll take that :)

I thought I'd share a layout with you today that I've created for the Scrapbook Challenges DT Call.

As I've shared over the past few months some different Challenge and Sketch sites with you, Scrapbook Challenges is a wonderful place for those of you that are Traditional, Digital or Hybrid Scrapbookers and are looking for another place that offers sketches and weekly challenges.

I have discovered over the past year that I LOVE Sketches and challenges as they help me get more scrapbooking done and a variety of challenges helps to encourage us all to scrapbook perhaps a little out of our comfort zone...perhaps even discovering something that we now really love to do!

Well this morning I took a look at this sketch, dug up two sweet photos of my niece Jada and got to work...

and this is what I've created for the Scrapbook Challenges Design Team application fingers crossed they like it, but even if I'm not successful, I know where to go for some great Sketches and Challenges and I hope you do to!

I found a full roll of super special ribbon that I've been hoarding for years because it's super pretty and I like to keep things forever...but it looks lovely here and my niece is super special too, so this is the perfect place for it !!! I've also raised the photo of Jada and created a Polaroid feel with the cardstock I've matted it on...and some fun butter yellow twine adds some nice dimension.

Now you could easily carry this across two pages by meeting the inside edges of the patterned paper flush together and continuing the banner across two pages...

I've used the My Mind's Eye 'This & That' line and purchased the coordinating sticker sheet to go with the five different patterned papers I purchased...it made creating this banner super easy and quick! 

I love digging into my stash of goodies and finding flowers or other do-dads that work nicely with my project even if they weren't purchased together...these flowers were in my stash and the colours worked great for this layout...don't be afraid to piece things together as you will always find something fun to add texture and dimension to your projects!

Thanks for stopping by today...off to work on my BC Crop for Kids classes...check out my classes tab on my Blog for more details of my upcoming classes :)

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 :)

Game Night with the Master!

I love to have my nephews over but between the two families, it isn't often possible...in the summertime though, our schedules are a little more flexible...the boys thought it would be fun to play some Monopoly... the family favorite game...unfortunately for the boys, when playing with Jaime (the Master) he has always played to win! no matter what age, no matter what game, no matter who he's playing...and this time was no different...these two boys were 'schooled' in Monopoly!

I've been wanting to play with these pictures for a couple weeks, so I hunted down a great sketch from the Let's Scrap site...this one is 1-26-11...

and here's the sketch if you were interested in seeing or playing with it!

Having some fun creating with some more Let's Sketch designs by Cheri O'Neill!

I've been hanging onto these photos for some time and it was nice to finally get them scrapped...Jaime's Birthday at Tugboat Junction in Harrison Hot Springs back in 2005!

I am working on the second double page layout with the balance of the photos I have...trying to use some of the same papers so that they will flow when I get them in an album!