Love second Page Layout

Here is the second page for my two page layout.  We were celebrating Father's day and had such a wonderful dinner out and gifts. 

I decided to use another sketch from Sketch Savvy.  I love her sketches and it made it really easy to create a second page without having to use the exact same sketch.

 

Here is the finished layout.  I'm really liking these colors.  Not sure how the hubby's going to feel about pink and red lol.

 

 

Love layout

I've been having a hard time scrapbooking lately and just don't seem to have the gumption to do so.  I love the craft but bringing out all the different things I would need to do a layout just seems like so much.

I finally just decided to make one layout and hope it starts me off and running.  I usually do two page spreads so I will most likely make a second page for this layout but at least its a start.

I used two challenges for this project.  1 2 3 Get Scrappy! and Sketch Savvy.

 

 

I choose to do hearts, plaid pattern, and red background.  I did work love into it.  The plaid is on both my husbands and older sons shirts (just happened to work out that way).

 

 

Supplies:

SS: seal-love, take note (ctmh sets), love stamps (su)

INK: night of navy, cherry cobbler, bermuda bay

CS: cherry cobbler, bermuda bay, whisper white, smokey slate, regals dsp

ACCESS: sweetheart hemp cord, artiste & artbooking cricut cartridges, heart border punch, wood shape swirls, love embossing folder

 

{heart strings}

I absolutely love this stamp set from Unity Stamps.  Such a simple set and gets straight to the point. I used the color challenge over at Unity Stamps blog and the sketch challenge at CAS(E) this Sketch!

 

I used sponges and added a little color to the edges.  I wanted to soften all that white. I used Stampin' Up!'s blendabilities to color in the hearts.

 

Supplies:

SS: heart strings (unity)

INK: so saffron, soft sky ink pads, soft sky, daffodil delight, rich razzleberry blendabilites

CS: lost lagoon, whisper white, crumb cake

ACCESS: banner die, jewel rhinestones, sponges



Another Year Wiser

I have so many birthdays coming up that I have to really start working on some cards.  I used two great challenges to get this nerdy girl birthday card done today.  If I can, I always love to do the toppings at Seize the Birthday.  I just received a great heart splatter background stamp from Your Next Stamp and couldn't wait to use it on this card.

Seize The Birthday

 

The Paper Players

 

 

Supplies:

SS: heart splatter (your next stamp), nerdy girl

INK: tuxedo black, su blendabilities, real red

CS: basic black, real red, calypso coral, neutrals dsp

ACCESS: whisper white taffeta ribbon

 

Sending Love

Here is a card for two great challenges.  The Paper Players and Sunday Stamps. I just found Sunday Stamps today and couldn't wait to try out their challenge.  I think I'm getting it in just before it ends lol.

 

Here is my card.  I cut two butterflies out and attached the light pink down and have the brown one getting ready to soar away.

 

 

Here is a close up of the butterfly

Supplies:

SS: antique butterfly/unity stamps

INK: crumb cake, real red, blushing bride

CS: crumb cake, real red, blushing bride, whisper white

ACCESS: whisper white taffeta ribbon, happy heart embossing folder

 

 

Beautiful

Good morning! I had some time to create today and decided to use things I already had on my work desk.  I love the framelit standups by The Stamps of Life and I have them sitting right in front of me all the time to encourage me to use them.

I purchased this bee set quite a while ago and loved it on site.  I've used it for scrapbooking but never on a card.  I just needed to come up with a concept.  Once I started it just all came together!

The die cut Beautiful is from one of the card club kits I've received recently. I haven't had the chance to use the kit much but I love how she creates the word framelits with shadow dies as well. It makes the word just pop.

Supplies:

SS: hive4bees

INK: pumpkin pie, crushed curry, tuxedo black

CS: chocolate, sunset, cranberry, and buzz and bumble dsp from close to my heart

ACCESS: bee die set, beautiful die, antique studs, regal stand-ups/card framelits

More and More Cards!!

Here are the many cards that I've been working on.  This is only about half. I lost quite a few pictures due to computer issues.  I was making samples for wedding invitations and birthdays. 

 

 

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.