"1 moment"

The first page that I want to share with you is from a sketch that I found on 52 sketches...52 weeks. It is her sketch 16 and it was one of the 'possibilities' for the DT submission.

I am really trying to pop out of my bubble and try more techniques. For instance, the grey paper behind the picture, I did not have the actual paper in this shape, so I had to come up with a way to create it. And if you know my style, I cannot free hand. I have no artistic ability that can magicly draw out shapes and have them turn out looking like anything recognizable... :)) I took my cricut and cut two of the shapes that I needed at 11 inches and then traced the shape by piecing them side by side to get the shape I wanted!

For the journaling, I stamped three separate journal pieces and ripped the edges. This is something that I am really trying to get better with. I have not been very good with journaling in the past, and it is a resolution....so far so good!!!

The journaling reads... This is but one moment when time stands still, and I can reflect on how perfect you are. How much my heart has grown every moment spent loving you. And looking forward to every moment to come. I am Blessed!

This was another possible submission for the DT. It was sketch 12, and in this one, I played with a little paper cutting and colors. Like the blue flower...I would have put on a green, white, or pinkish to go with the colors of the page...but I saw this blue and it just kind of worked...still not sure why, but I like it!! :)

More tomorrow!!!

Happy Scrappin'

New stuff a happenin!!

#1 ~ Over the next few days, I need to update the blog links as some no longer work...very sorry about that!

#2 ~ tanjascraps ~ The blog winner from a few weeks ago...my apologies...but the package came back in the mail and my husband told me what I did wrong on the address (going to Germany I did not think it would be that different..but a little is I guess...) Soo sorry.

#3 ~ Today is the last day to enter your application over at 52 sketches...52 weeks. And if you haven't had a chance to take a gander at her site...take a look! She has weekly prizes and some wonderful sketches!! And new this year is a forum for you to share ideas and such!

#4 ~ I GOT PAGES DONE THIS WEEKEND!!!! The last month has been crazy around our homestead. We took spring pictures of the kiddos...packing for the move, still looking at houses...blah blah blah...but I scrapped!!!! It felt soo great to get some pages done!!

This is one of the few from this weekend. This picture is of all 4 kids piled onto the couch to give Tyler a hug. And if you look really close, you can see all four!! lol

The wings are from Tim Holtz grundge board pack. I used chalk to color the wings and then covered with a clear coating of Glossy Accents topped with a pearl dot.

I did the same for the letters although I did not coat them completely with the chalk...giving it that broken up look that the paper has.
More pages tomorrow!!!

Chellenges completed!!!

I was finally able to get a few moments to scrap some of the challenges from the Sisterhood of Scrap online crop!! Yeah...and they were soo much fun! If you haven't had a chance to get to any of them...today is the last day! Tonight I will be drawing a winner for my challenge ~ so check back tomorrow for the winner!!!

This first one was for Deanne's challenge #1. She wanted us to use a picture of a fashionable 50's skirt as inspiration for a card or layout!

This page was also a Deanne Challenge #10. She gave us an old Pepsi ad to take inspiration from...and she got me to pull out my wedding photos and start the album! So thanks Deanne!!!

This challenge came to us from Jenn who also happens to be the sister for May!!! Challenge #4 was to take the title of a famous 50's song and use it as a title on your layout. She also wanted to see 5 round elements reminiscent of records and roller skates!! These pictures are of my daughter at 18 months, 6 years, and 12 years.

Challenge #6 came from Carla and I knew when the challenge was given that this is one one I would be doing!!! I LOVE this look and the pop that the all white gives. I have done it before with a black/white picture, and it looks just as good with a colored picture!!! This picture was taken in Oklahoma City in Bricktown.

Challenge #9 also came from Carla. She wanted to see a 12 inch or 7 inch circle, with black somewhere, ooo and lots of bling!!! These are pictures of my daughter in her performance for dance class at school.

Challenge #3 came to us from Candace!!! Take a look and listen to the YouTube link that she has!! Too cute!! Anyway, she wanted us to use the song Lollipop as inspiration. So I decided to look up the lyrics and found this one that went perfect with this picture!! This was taken on a day when my son was not feeling very well, so he stayed home from school. He ate lunch and then went into my room to watch cartoons. I was only a few minutes behind him, but he had already fallen fast asleep.

This challenge #7 came to us from Ali! She wanted us to play with numbers...and to have a clock on the page! I thought of this picture and have had this paper forever!! It's of my step son during our Fall Pictures outing. Thanks Ali!

Wow!!! Seven out of ten challenges done!!! How many did you'all get done!!??




Happy Scrapping!!

Another Sunday down!

Phew...I was able to sit down for a few hours today and scrap!!! I think it's been about 2 weeks since I could get anything done. It seems that my mojo comes and goes. When it's with me, I can just pop pages out, but when it's visiting someone else..aka Suzi...I go weeks just looking at my stuff with no inspiration. :(

Anyway, here are a few pages that I got done today. And be sure to check back tomorrow...Sisterhood of Scrap is having their 2nd Anniversary Online Crop this week, and my challenge goes up tomorrow!

We got these Nerf Tommy 20's for all of the boys for Christmas last year. And this is my hubby reenacting the famous 'Scarface' scene.

This page is for my daughter's 13th birthday. It was the hubby's turn to 'coach' the party, so I took the boys to see Santa, but took the camera with me. So he used his phone camera and all of the pictures came out with a yellow tint. I tried to fix them before I printed, but this was the best that I could do. So I used it and had a yellow background with green. ~And I don't know why they all have their mouths open in every picture~

Now here is a question for anyone who embosses. I used grunge board numbers and covered them with Color Box Pigment Inkpad. I then put clear embossing powder on and embossed. It should have come out clear, but it started to bubble and show these white speckles. My heater was pretty far away, so it was not burning it, and I love the outcome. But I am not sure why it did this. Any ideas would be appriciated!!!

Happy Scrapping!!!

New Look...New Layout!

A lot has been going on here at the homestead. I will be blogging about it on my personal blog in a little bit...but that is why I have not been on with an other pages from camp...

During camp, there is a secret envelope challenge. Our hostess and a few helpers put together 10 bags of assorted paper and embellishments for 10 wanting scrappers. Out of these bags, we are to make a layout. I was one of the lucky 'grabbers' along with a wonderful new friend Suzi, and fellow table mate Kim. We took before and after pictures of our supplies and what we created from them! (I did get permission to post their LO's on this site) :)

This first one is from Kim.
She used the before picture in her layout
and added some ribbon along the bottom.

This next one is from Suzi who made a two
page layout with her pages. Isn't her daughter
the cutest!!!

And lastly is mine. I tried to use everything in the bag along with a
new technique that I had read about in a recent magazine. I will be
writing out a tutorial on how I did this...but here it is!

After the voting by the other gals at camp, Suzi, I believe came in 2nd!!!!

Woohoo!!! So off now to blog on the other site. I will be back tomorrow for challenges and sketches...I have not done that in a few weeks :(

Happy Scrapping!!

Good weather and a little camp talk!

Whew...finally the sun has come out and I was able to get some good pictures of my pages!!! (Long post....sorry about the upload time... :) )

Maranatha is such an amazing place! Camp starts at 4pm on Friday afternoon and closes on Sunday at 5pm. So you can go and scrap for 49 hours straight or plan for a few hours sleep in between. (My roomy and I usually go down about 4am and up again for breakfast at 9) And it seems that I turn into a 12 little girl every time I step foot into the main hall. This is my 4 year going, so I am getting to know many of the gals that attend. And we spend that first night mostly catching up!

Previously we have stayed in the dorms (12 rooms with bunkbeds and a comunal bathroom) but after this last time, my roomy and I have decided to fork up the extra $20 and stay in the motel style. Case in point, we go to bed at 4am, and are super quite so not to wake anyone who is already sleeping. (And you hear everything in the dorms) So we do expect the same curtiousy in the morning from those early risers. So my roomy, I'll call her Mary, she and I awoke and she asked me, "do you want me to go yell at them. 'People are still sleeping!!'". I said a very quick and sleepy yes. So Mary gets up, walks to the door, opens it, pauses and then shuts it quickly and says "I can't say that to her" and runs back to the bed like a little girl sneaking to the cookie jar at night and hears her parents walking down the hall. LOL Maybe it's one of those 'had to be there moments' but we laughed soo hard.

One of the best parts of camp is that we do not have to cook. We have breakfast, lunch, and dinner prepared for us and this year the food was yummy!!!! (Not always the case) They put out a salad bar every meal, and bacon for breakfast!!! Mmmmm.............

Anyway, camp was a blast. I wish that we could do it more often though. Most of the ladies reside in Nebraska, so this is the only time that I get to see them and visit, except on Facebook!! :)

Okay...now onto some pages!!

This first one is Amanda right after her surgery last year. She could not make a complete sentence and just had the sappy silly smile! She was definitely feeling good!!

This was a simple page with journaling...which I do not do enough of, but this was my attempt at changing that!

This page I did for one of the challenges: Make a one page LO with 3 or more pictures. I used a borrowed cricut cartridge 'camping out' to get the branches and pine cones. This is just another cartridge on my long list of wants!!! I took the pine cones and used the stencil on the wrong side, put in some defining lines and then distress them on the right side. And I really like the way they came out! Oh...and I did win!!! 2nd place!!

This page of Taylor and Meko was also one of the daily challenges: A LO using Die Cuts. I used the cricut to cut the background scallop and then embossed it with a glittery white. And for this page, I won 1st place!!

I LOVE the way this page turned out. It was actually a lift from 'Mary' who had printed out some of her favorite pages found online. Below is the lift.

So if this is your page...thanks so much!!!

These next two pages will go in Bayle and Amanda's personal books. These two have an amazing relationship. And I have soo many pictures of them like this!!

This was also done for one of the daily challenges: No embelishments, which means that there cannot be anything more than 2-D on the page. I won 2nd again!!!

A very quick page that I got done on Sunday afternoon. The silver sheet is a reflective paper and I am not really sure where I got it. But it worked!! I liked the end result!!

There were a few more pages and challenges, but I will post them tomorrow! This post is getting pretty long! Have an amazing Thursday!!!

Inspiration is in the challenge

Here are a few of my favorite pages from the online crop this last weekend over at Scrap my Memories!!

We had to do an all white layout with a black and white photo! I love the look that came out of it! This is one that I will do over and over again!

Challenge: Scrap someone hard at work or hard at play. These photos worked for both. They were taken last fall during one of her first games.

Challenge: Use Arrows. And it's funny...Bayle asked me the day before to make him something, and I took out an arrow and chalked it gold and then used UTEE to harden the arrow...and then this challenge came along. Worked perfect!!

Challenge: Make a ring or circle of something on your LO. This picture does not show it very well...but there are 'bling' placed all over the paper and on the butterflies. The picture of Taylor was taken almost two years ago the July 4th.

Publish Post

TFL!

The Hulk

Sisterhood of Scrap posted their Monday challenge...and it's all about GREEN!! They want you to use mostly green in your card or LO. This is my go at it...I've had this picture printed for almost 6 months now, and saw this as a perfect opportunity to use it!

Remember to submit your entry through comments or email to be eligible for the monthly drawing!!!

Okay...I am going to go grocery shopping now and wait for the sun to come up a bit more. I did a ton of pages this weekend and still have to take photos! Did anyone else make it to the online crop at Scrap My Ideas?!?!?!

Fall Pictures

Here are some very quick pages that I put together last night...nothing special, but I had to make one of each for the main book and then their individuals...so in total, I made 8 2-page layouts. These pictures were taken last October while we still had greenery!! TFL!

"It's GO time!"

Here is my page for the Sisterhood of Scrap challenge!!!!

This picture was taken at my nephews football birthday party last year. Bayle is at the age where he wants to do more manly-type 'boy' stuff, and Taylor just wants to show that she can do more then just 'girly' stuff. And she held her own out there!!

The sisters have some really cute examples too!! Click here to check them out!

A few more

I was pretty busy this weekend, but I was able to sit down for a little bit and get a few pages done. These are the last few for Amanda's book (until the next printing) and I am starting on Taylor's.

This picture was taken at the lake this last summer. She just turned around, and I could see how beautiful her smile was. It was a perfect opportunity for me to share what I see. I found this transparency as I was scrapping and painted the back to make the words pop out.

Here we were at my Aunts wedding (8*8*08) and Taylor was able to meet some of the extended family. Here she was a little hesitant to 'boogie' in front of everyone, but caught the music and started up!

Happy Scrapping!