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!

I've got my Weave on!

Yes I do! Paper Weaving that is!

One of my fellow Design Team members at Let's Scrap has come up with a challenge this past week to create a layout using good old fashioned 'paper weaving' and I thought I'd give it a try!

So to start with, she has given us a tutorial on how she used two different colours of cardstock and then showed us how she did it! Looked easy enough...not as easy as it looks I must say!

Instead of having both strips loose, I decided to have my base colour, Cocoa, cut into 1/2" strips from 12x12 cardstock but instead of cutting them all the way through, I decided to cut them near the end...this way, all my 1/2" strips were still attached to one another...then I decided to add two different alternate colours of cardstock (cause why make it simple on myself!) AND one strip of patterned paper...and to make it even trickier, why not make them all different sizes!

The Creme Brulee cardstock was 1/4", the Juniper cardstock was 1/2" and the new Typeset patterned strips were 3/4"...all woven into the Cocoa 1/2" strips...in the end this is what I created:

Now the instructions for the base frames in Cocoa and Kraft cardstock can be found HERE under the Forum section in 'Design Team Challenge 110' if you want to give it a try for yourself...it was actually challenging and super fun...kicking it Old School with paper weaving!

Here's the finished layout...I almost didn't want to cover it all up...felt bad actually, but in the end I'm happy I finally used these photos that I've looked at several times over the past 8 years! Yes, old photos of my boy Matthew and his pal Payton when they were 5 years old! Just didn't have the right place for them until this challenge! So cute...thanks for stopping by :)

Everything you see is Close To My Heart! I love the changes they have made to their products...

Products Used:

(X7139B) Typeset Level 2 paper pack

(Z1464) Milepost Shapes

(Z1450) Colour-Ready Cork Alphabet

(X7139C) Typeset Complements Canvas Shapes

(Z1461) Decor Journalling Spots

Juniper, Creme Brulle, Colonial White, Kraft and Cocoa Cardstock

Check the Design Team Challenge link again tomorrow for this next week's newest challenge from Rene!

Let's Scrap Sketch for Wednesday!

Good Morning! 

It's another Let's Scrap Sketch Wednesday today and here's what the ever talented Cheri O'Neill has created for us to play with for this week!

This was a fun one to work on...after seeing the gears I thought, wait a minute...I have actual metal gears from Tim Holtz and what better photos then the ones I took of my kids in our friend's old cars...

I cut the black die cut from the new Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge from CTMH...when I saw this paper I thought it would be perfect because it reminds me of asphalt and also rubber tires...the sketch said 'a very large and fun title' so I thought it would fun to use the white chipboard Enmarc 'discover' word and inked it with some metallic silver ink...tried to make it look like the chrome in the cars...

While diggin' through my stash for embellishments I came across these Stock tickets...perfect!

I tucked some journalling in behind the photo on the left...inked the street sign in the same silver metallic ink...hard to see the shine...when I purchased this Imaginisce Scooter's Vacation paper pack, I, of course HAD to also get the epoxy stickers with it because they were so cute and I put some everywhere! 

Thanks so much for visiting today, make sure you click on over to Let's Scrap for more inspirational layouts from more of the Design Team and make sure you have fun with this sketch too!