My New Ride

Good Morning you all and I'm back with another scrapbook page, my camera died on me yesterday so the picture of the layout was done with my phone camera so I hope it's not to bad of a picture.

I used this sketch from Scrapbooks and Cards: a Spring 2013 sketch for the inspiration of the layout:

This was a bit interesting to do, tried to work out the dimensions of all the cut paper on paper first and as I was putting it together realized that it wasn't working as I planned but worked through it piece by piece. 4 papers are 12 X 12, 10.5 X 10,5, 6 3/8"w X 8 3/4"h, 6 1/8' w X 8.5". I used white and navy cardstock and the lt. blue paper from Clorbok All Boy pattern pack and the brown is from DCWV The basics stack paper pad, I used Mini Monograms cricut cartridge for the title scallop, the edge embellishment and journaling scallop (circle navy at 2.5" and the scallop shadow tan at 2.5") with an added tan cardstock that was inked with distressed ink walnut stained. Used a MS punch for the brown pieces of embellishments, a couple of vellum blocks for some sheets in my stash and a date sticker from jillibean soup: journaling sentiments with a couple of green crystal stickers elements.

This was a fun one to do, it took me approximately 3 hours from start to finish.
 I just may get this album done this month!
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Your in My Thoughts and Prayers

Hi everyone I am the designer today over at Card A Day Blog. Sympathy cards can be the most trying card to do when the event is taking place, so my thoughts are that it would better to have some done and available for such an event.

 

This card was made for a swap that I was in and the sketch challenge on the Northeaster Scrapbook Friends yahoo group I belonged to.








I cut the blocks of sunflowers out and the mat for it was cut with Spellbinders: Classic Scallop Squares small die 3" X 3". The background pattern paper was cut at 4" X 5.25". The borders (3) layers: the front layer at 2" and the back 2 layers at 1"
 The recipe for the card:
Border paper is from Stampin Up, background mat and the mat paper behind the flower is from My Minds Eye Bella Bella pack. Sunflowers came from Best of Brenda Walton Stack.
Stamp: I got from Micheals
Cardbase: White cardstock from The Paper Company
Ink: SU Basic Black
Punch for the layers: Martha Stewart Doily Lace.

This was easily made with the sketch and it would be appropriate for a male or female recipient. I'm glad that I was able to share it with you all.
Wow last month was a bit busy and I plan to be on the blog more often this month. I wish you all a good day....

Happy National Scrapbook Day & PL Week 3

Wow I really got a lot of catching up to do, but I did get Week 3- 1/14-1/20 finished up:

Left side:

Right side:

Some close up shots:

Week in review

My beautiful Grandaughter did a wonderful thing, cut off 14" hair and gave it to the locks of love.

Us volunteering with the Moline Gold club we belong too

and snow again

It was a good week, got a couple more boxes of swap stuff put away. Got to craft a bit on Wed. because of the snow. A dear friend of mine was in a horrific accident in October 2012 wit alot of prayers and some great doctors by the grace of God she pulled out of it and has been on the mend ever since. Friday she stop by the shop it was good to see her up and about. God is amazing!

Saturday we spent the day traveling and volunteering for a club we are very close to and are board members of. Meeting, food, audit and the club trailer getting some shelving put in. It was a full day. Sunday was a crafty day  and a football game watching day. My favorite team the San Fran 49ers made it, but the coach's brother did too (the Balt. Ravens) gonna be a good game!

What's your plans for National Scrapbooking Day?

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Page a Day in May Challenge-Day 2

Hi and welcome back to another May's page a day challenge. This page was so much fun to put together:

The page was brought about from this sketch at Scrapbooking About.com:

I'm not quite sure what to title it yet (there is enough room to add one) not sure if it needs a title. 

I will let my DIL date it and journal the page these are her pics (This is a gift for them, but more for her since our son was deployed at the time she raised Zach basically his 1st year as a single parent.

Details:
I used Elegant Edges: swirl2-shift on page 39 @ fit to page for the water paper. Green background paper came from the DCWV Heirloom pack. Fussy cut pieces from 3 bugs in a rug-Summer-Playtime and Summer-Words cardstock. Journal block and date ticket from Cosmo Cricket social club elements-Now Spin Me Round. Couple of stickers from hugz&dotzkit-pacific. Chipboard pieces from my stash that I got in a swap box that worked perfect for this layout. I used CTMH Liquid Glass to enhance the centers of the sunny words (look like flower petals). Used SU ticket duo for the the date piece. 

I really enjoy how it turned out took about an hour and half to do (I had all the paper choices already picked out for it) 

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BBQ

Hi you all, don't you just love getting an invitation to a great party! During the summer we sometimes throw a backyard BBQ, this year here is the invitation for it

 

Today I'm the designer over at Card A Day Blog and the theme is Invitation so with that in mind I came up with this year's invite to our backyard BBQ that we hold in the late summer. The card base is tan cardstock from staples, the backgroud paper is from my stash (no name on it), the BBQ are sticker letters from Making Memories Creative Letters-chunky deep red. Your invited tis from the CTMH Little Reminder stamp set stamped on recollections Spice Markets cardstock pack punched with SU oval punch. The barbeque cut is from the cricut cartridge Block Party cut at 3.5" mainly from scraps on hand bling up the  wheels and the steam with stickles. Block Party is great cartridge for the summer cookout season. Thanks for stopping by and hop over to Card A Day Blog and join in with the monthly challenge

Page a Day in May Challenge-Day 1

I created this scrapbook page

from this sketch

This is the sketch that Kathy posted on the facebook group ScrappersChallenge for the first day's challenge. My photos were quite abit smaller than as for the sketch so I moved it around abit but it's based on the same concept.

Working on one of my 2013 personal goals-Zachary's 1st year album, here's another page completed. The pictures are of his first top teeth, I have either one or need to create one for his very first tooth and will post at another time. This May month challenge may get me through completing this album.

Personalized journaling-changed a word after taking the photo to his from what I wrote of my (no more journaling before bedtime, lol).
See you tomorrow with another page....

What have you created today

Happy National Scrapbook Month-2013

 

National Scrapbook Month is here!! Happy National Scrapbook Month! 31 pages in 31 days anyone up for the challenge!
I'm gonna give it a shot and cross off at least one of the goals I had in Jan. There is a fun challenge going on over at Scrappers Challenge facebook page for the month of May if you would like to play along. So some days you may see 2 posts from me one of prior commitments: cards and such and then a scrapbook page or a Project Life page for scrapbooking month. So check back each day to see the new layout. Since I'll be doing the layouts at night you see it here the next day. So tomorrow I bring you a card for Card A Day Blog and a separate post of the layout I completed. Have a fantastic month, I plan to!

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