Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!!  Welcome to another wonderful sketch challenge from Sketch~N~Scrap! I can't believe it's already 2018.  Where did the time go?

Here is January 1st sketch challenge

Here is what I came up with.  This is one of the last pages I created for my mom's album (she got it on Christmas). 

Moments Like This

Here is a layout of my kids first day of school from two years ago.  I love taking these pictures every year and seeing how much they've grown in the past year.  It's hard to believe that my youngest was going into 8th grade here.  Now he's half way through his freshman year.

 

 

Backyard Golf

This is the first layout I made using my new templates form Kiwi Lanes.  These were so fun to use and made the layout come together so fast.  I'm loving how polished the layout looks and it barely needs any embellishments. 

The pictures themselves are the greatest but I couldn't pass up scrapping these.  My son got a kids golf set for his birthday and couldn't wait to use it the first nice day.  He had a blast playing and I was able to get some fun pictures. 

Cross Over Challenge layout

I am so happy to be scrapbooking again!  I can't even tell you how much I've missed it.  My husband gave me a wonderful weekend retreat as part of my birthday present and it has ignited my creativity again.  I was able to get 16 full layouts done (pictures to come soon) and with my craft supplies now nicely tucked downstairs, where I'll use them more, I can't wait to pull out my supplies and get busy!


I decided to create this layout using a sketch from Kiwi Lanes.  I've heard of there wonderful templates before but just never took the leap into buying any.  At my weekend crop one of my table mates was using them and I just fell in love. When I got home I purchased my first few sets.  I love them.  They help make scrapbooking easier as well as helping to make nice clean looking layouts.

This is the challenge for this week.  It ends tomorrow (3/27/2016) so I got this in at the last minute.

 

Here is my two page spread.  I love how all the patterned papers work together.  This is the first layout that I've ever done and not added embelishments.  I just really don't think they are needed.

 

 

 

Supplies:

Paper: cranberry and chocolate cardstock, patterned paper

INK: tim holts distress ink vintage photo

Templates: clara lane, elements, adventure

Many Many Layouts

Since I unfortunately had to delete my first blog, due to all the photos and info disappearing, I want to add some of the projects I had uploaded onto it.  Here are a few of the layouts I've worked on over the last few months.

I found these old photos of my kids from a Halloween in August celebration at my in-laws campground.  They had so much fun dressing up and parading around.

 

 

I love this picture of my mother (on the right) and one of her many cousins as flower girls at her Aunts wedding.  It's hard to imagine the woman I know today this tiny!

 



 

This is my oldest son going off to his junior prom. It didn't go the way he had hoped but he looked so handsome in his all white tux.  I love this photo so much that this layout hangs in a frame on my living room wall.

 



 

My younger two children are on the autism spectrum.  The cause is very close to my heart.  When they were about 8 and 5 we did the Autism walk in Chicago.  Afterwards we got to walk around and visit different vendors.  The highlight for my daughter was meeting Miss  Illinois

 



 

For a few months my youngest son was wanting a bubble bath every night.  He would sit and wait for all the bubbles to disappear before he'd get out.

 



This is a layout of my daughter at 3 and then at 13.  Hard to believe how much she's grown.  She's now going to be 16!!

 

 

 

 

Share Memories

I have been working on pictures of my niece for, it seems, like ever.  She's 19 years old and I'm still scrapping baby photos!  I'm hoping I'll have them done before she's 30!!

I normally scrap in two page layouts and knew that I wanted to use the sketches from this month over at Stuck?!.  But I had to figure out how to make them a two page spread.  I pulled out all my supplies and laid them out to see if I could get the two sketches to work together. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out.

I'm loving the bright colors.  I used retired paper from Creative Memories called Candy Shop.  Such vibrant, fun colors.

These are the two sketches I used.

 

Here are my finished layouts.