Our Story

 

What a fun sketch, challenge and word to use all together on one layout!  I created it for these 3 challenges, and had a lot of fun putting the pieces together!  Our adoption story, now 4 years old, is one of my favorites to scrapbook!

 

Bird is The Word: "Story"

Tuesday September 11, 2012

 

Sketch Inspiration

Sketch for Sept.9th-15th

 

Craft Your Passion: Challenge #127 Blast From The Past

I chose Challenge # 109 Distressing -  I love to distress everthing that has an edge!!!

 

I used these products:

Simple Stories Year-O-Graphy

Bazzill cardstocks

Close To My Heart paperclips

American Crafts thickers



My Monet: A Layout for Pagemaps 6th Anniversary

My Monet

My little painter, creating his first finger painting in 2010.  He was just as excited to be able to touch the paints, and smell them, as he was to paint with them!

This layout is inspired by the Pagesmaps 6th Anniversary celebration sketch below:

And here is the link to the contest page:

http://pagemaps.com/6thanniversary2012.htm

For this layout I used the 2010 Little Boy paper collection from Echo Park, American Crafts vinyl thickers and ribbon, Marvy Uchida Brush markers to color the tiny clothespins, Martha Stewart Star Punch All Over The Page to cut the star shapes from one of my son's art creations, Bazzill Classic Red cardstock, my sewing machine, Carolee Adorn It tiny font stickers, We R Memory Keepers Heart Attack distresser for the paper and photo edges, ek Success 3D-Dots, and last the Marvy Uchida Corner Punch.  I had a lot of fun with this sketch, these products and my youngest son's photos! 

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Roberta

You Are A Hoot

I love patterned paper, and I'm not afraid to mix it up!  This layout features 5 patterned papers and a patterned ribbon.  I also pulled out one of my VERY favorite stamp sets, "You're A Hoot" from Close To My Heart. My background black polka dot paper is Fancy Pants Rough and Tough, the adorable owl patterned paper is Bella BLVD Finally Fall, the aqua polka dot paper, striped photo matte paper, and the aqua scrap on the top right are My Mind's Eye Lime Twist, the tiny journaling strip is a scrap from an older Close To My Heart line, as are the Colonial White cardstock squares I stamped those adorable owls on!  I distressed edges with the cute little We R Memory Keepers Heart Attack tool!  And of course, my thickers title, and 3 ribbon strips are from American Crafts. I attached the ribbon strips with my trusty Xyron 150 Sticker Maker, stamped with Close To My Heart black distressing ink, and popped up my hooty owls with ek 3D-Dots! Finally, I did a little coloring with a Close To My Heart color pencil in Robin Egg Blue, and added a few Basic Grey brads.  And the best part -  these hilarious shots of my adorable son!

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Twine Challenge for Frosted Designs

I Won a "Top 3" Award! :)

Frosted Designs Challenge: Fabulous Friday Challenge May 19

I had a great time creating this layout! Here is the list of the supplies and tools I used: Close To My Heart (Chocolate cardstock, Colonial White cardstock), Die Cuts With a View (Baby Boy Stack), Recollections (Border Punch), Cricut Expression and Cartridges (Plantin Schoolbook, Doodletype, Birthday Bash), Martha Stewart Brown Flocking and Ballpoint Glue, EK Success brads, 3D Dots, cotton twine, and mini wood clothespins