Hugs and Squeezes

This is my Layout for the Let’s Get Sketchy sketch for February week One.

Here is the sketch:

The photo is of my grandchildren and my good friend Barb and her dog,

Nugget.

Products used are  Let’s Be Happy by Echo Park,

American Crafts, and Colorbok. Thanks for looking.

Week In Review-Week Five

Here’s a small picture of our lives for the past frigid week.

Products are by Jana Morton and Anna Aspnes.

Thanks for looking.

Get Inspired E-magazine is out

and I have a page published in it.  You can browse thru the

magazine here: Get Inspired.  Here’s a peek at the front cover

I submitted the following layout :

Thanks for looking!

Family

This is the next page is the Creating Yourself series I am doing.

This about the family I grew up with.

Products are by Jana Morton and Katie Pertiet. Thanks for looking.

Have a layout you want published?

Do you have a page you would like to have published?
 Here's your chance...

 

Good luck!

Design Team Call

Do you love to scrap? Always wanted to be on a design team?
There is a design team call at 123 Get Scrappy! All submissions must be entered by February 5th.
For more information SEE 123 Get Scrappy

Winter in our backyard.

This is for a challenge at Passion2Pixels to scrap lift this page by Patsy

These are photos from the past few days.

Products are by Jana Morton and Anna Aspnes.

Thanks for looking!

My Guy

All about my hubby!!!

I did this for two challenges-Creating Yourself Series and Living life with a Song
at Passion2Pixels, and Let's Get Sketchy Week 4 Sketch.. Products used are by Jana Morton, Lynn Grieveson, and Bella Gypsy.  Thanks for looking!

WEEK FOUR

Here’s this week’s version of our lives!

Products used are  Jana Morton’s Storyboard Template No. 3 –altered

Thanks for looking!

How I construct clusters.

I have been asked numerous times recently how I construct my clusters. I actually learned how to do clusters from Jana Morton classes and studying them in different galleries and layouts.   I usually start with a vertical element-I love using branches and stems, or a flourish, and sometimes a vertical shaped brush or paint. Twists work well vertically too. Then I go with what I want that goes with my layout-flowers, leaves or even a tag or label. When I use flowers I try to stay with odd numbers of them and stack them slightly. I need something horizontal to go above the vertical element. After that I tuck elements in that will look good and tie in with my page. Sometimes It will be a clock, or a heart, or a button or flair. Don't forget ribbon and bows. For digital pages I add drop shadows to every element so I have some depth and dimension.  That's it! I hope this helps.

Here’s an example: I used a brush by Erica Zwart as the base, then a vine and branches, and then four flowers by Jana Morton clustered together.

Thanks for looking!

A True Love Story

The story of my great-grandparents.

Thanks for looking. Products are by Jana Morton, Katie Pertiet
and Lynn Grieveson.

Week Three

Here’s this week’s edition!

 

The Journaling reads:

This week has been a little slow.  I added exercise back into my life now that I am feeling better. I have been walking on my treadmill.  So far I have stuck to walking 30 minutes  a day.  I am also starting to reorganize my home. I started with my laundry room which tends to be a dumping grounds. I did get my shelves done where I store extra pots and pans, dishes and small electrical appliances.
We also lost a longtime family friend this week. Jeanie was 83 and had been a school friend of my mother's. I had babysat her kids, then they babysat mine, and then my DD babysat their's.
  I looked out the back door Saturday and saw all these geese in the field behind our home.  I counted about 40 of them!  Also had a red-bellied woodpecker at the suet feeder!  We finished off the week by attending a retirement party for one of the firefighter's Bob worked with. He had been with the fire department for 35 years. I thought Bob was looking good! We played pool with friends at their home afterwards. Bernie & I beat Bob and Danny  3 out of 4 games!!!!

Products used are by Jana Morton-Storyboards, Winter Buddies Collection, and

Pattie Knox-retired. Thanks for looking!

Barb & Steve

One more for today! My brother Steve & his wife Barb were visiting over the holidays. Captured a few shots of them and had to scrap them,especially when she is the one who got me started scrapping!

 

Thanks for looking!

Products used are by Jana Morton, Erica Zwart,

and Katie Pertiet.

Looking back to 2013 and Forward to 2014

This is the second part of a series of scrapping about myself.This will be the second page of a my album so to maintain continuity I used the same template and colors as I did for the page on creativity.

Thanks for looking. Products are by Jana Morton, Katie Pertiet,

and Chrissy W.

Tired of Winter pages

so I thought I would cheer things up a little!!

 

My daughter Becky-can you guess what her favorite color is????

Thanks for looking!

Products used are by Jana Morton,Katie Pertiet, Maplebrook Studios,

and Chrissy W.

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The Magnificent Magical Sleigh

 

was the name of Bobby’s holiday program at school. The second

and third graders did a wonderful job  performing it.

 

Sorry I could not get this lined up exactly straight. All the products were from my stash! Thanks for looking.

Week Two

Here’s a peek into our lives for the past week.

 

Thanks for looking! Products are by Jana Morton, Anna Aspnes

and Amber Shaw!

You are not going to believe this…

but I finally got this page done! It has been in process for several weeks!
I started playing this layout again last night. I had a starburst I wanted to place behind Ironman but I painted….yes I painted it instead.

I cut a stencil and used it for painting, and added rhinestones to some of the stars for a little sparkle!
Products used are by American Crafts-cardstock, wood veneer stars byStudio Calico, and Rhinestones by Silhouette America.
Thanks for looking!

My Creativity

Jana Morton has a challenge this week to write about your creativity. This will be added to my Book of Me.

 

Products are by Jana Morton, ChrissyW, and Katie Pertiet.

Thanks for looking!

Contradiction

Thanks for looking! Products are by Anna Aspnes’

Art Play Sparkle, and Snow Sprinkles, Jana Morton’s Autumn Memories, and Katie Pertiet’s Loosely Labeled.

Want to Learn digital scrapbooking?

Want some new ideas for scrapbook pages?   Have you heard about the new site Scrap A Page A Day?

Debbie Douglas will walk you thru the construction of a scrapbook page.  She will teach you the basics and then lead you to where you need to go to further educate yourself on higher levels.  You can find her  at Scrap A Page A Day.

My Version

of Project Life. I am going to be documenting life a weekly basis. I am also using templates by Jana Morton that make this project easier. I just drop in the photos and add some journaling and I am done.  I am using Capture Your 365 by Katrina Kennedy for daily prompts on photo taking.  I even used my tripod and remote for the pic of me taking down the tree ornaments. Yes a self-portrait that was not a selphy!  I get fun little photo tips every day also. Hopefully my photography skills will improve also.  So here’s my layout.

Thanks for looking!

                                                 To you and yours!

Scrappy Goals for 2014

 

I was asked what my scrapping goals for 2014 were so here they are!

My scrapping goals are not too demanding! I don't set a number of layouts as that is too much pressure. I am making another attempt at a loose interpretation of a PL. I  I also want to start scrapping my girls photos. I am going to get the special scanner out that I can start scanning slides and scrapping those photos. I also want to do more of the heritage pages. I have a lot of work to do with those photos. My Book of Me also has not been touched in a long time. I think all of that could keep me in my scrap room for the next year!

I have a few other things I may be doing but I will surprise you with that. So stay tuned as I hope to make some changes here on my blog.   I will be updating you on my new projects in a few days!

 

          

Those Were the Days

Oh those Memories!

Thanks for looking!

Products are by Jana Morton-Fifties Medley Collection, and Katie Pertiet-Winter Ice kit, Edge Overlays, Frosted Winter paints, and paper.

Wishing You

          a very Merry Christmas.

Thank you for allowing me to share my creations with you.

Snow Balls Or Dough Balls?

This is for my JYC I started 3 years ago. I want my family to know why my recipe card is titled Dough Balls!

Products are by Jana Morton, Katie Pertiet and Pattie Knox-retired.

Thanks for stopping by!

Treasured Memories

 

Memories can be triggered anywhere by the smallest thing. The important thing is to document those memories as soon as possible so you don’t put them away without documenting them for the future generations. Thanks for looking! All products are by Jana Morton.

Holiday Projects

I thought I would share a few of the projects I have been working on for the Christmas holiday! The first are treat boxes I made. I was making these for my DGS to take to a few friends at school. I ask him how many he needed and to my surprise he answered “25”!!!!! I quickly switched from boxes to treat bags and toppers.

Here are the treat bags:

Both projects are available thru the Silhouette Studio. Thanks for looking!

Behold the Beauty

is my latest layout.

This is the Japanese Maple tree in my backyard. It is my favorite. The background photo was taken at night, then I turned it to B&W, then used a filter and blending mode on it. All products are Autumn Memories by Jana Morton,  and available at Passion2Pixels. Thanks for looking.

 

Treasured Moments

Is an artsy layout of my grandchildren. I used several filters, and blending modes.
 
The journaling reads: Like most siblings you two argue  a lot and act like you don't care about each other. Yet when one of you gets in trouble the other one is there to support the first one. This is a scene when you were hiking, and if you look closely not only are you chatting and walking together, but Maggie has her hand in your pocket Bobby.  How about that!
Thanks for looking!

Moments to Cherish

My niece and my sister last Christmas.

All products are Santa’s Crew by Jana Morton.

Hooked on Fishing

Used a new technique on this layout-for an artsy look.  I used the threshold filter on my photo to increase texture.

Products are by Erica Zwart, Jana Morton. Erica’s products can be found at MScraps and Jana’s at  Passion2Pixels. Thanks for looking.

Super Heros

My grandson is so into super heros. I had the grandchildren all day Wednesday due to no school so I introduced them to  Wordle. Well the journaling here tells the result:

You are so into your super heros! You play super hero video games, dress as them for Trick or Treat, and playtime. You had a Super Hero themed birthday party.    You talk about them and when I introduced  you to wordle you even wordled all about them!  You read books about them too.  I guess it ‘s Love!!!
I only used one product on this page and it was by Katie Pertiet!  Thanks for looking!

The Fifties

Those Were the Days is a layout I did for a Shape Challenge at Jana Morton’s new site. I dug out my albums and in one was this booklet with all these articles and photos from the fifties, sixties and seventies. This album was Dick Clark's 20 years of Rock & Roll.

The booklet was thanks to Creative Graphics & Productions:Milton Sincoff Yearbook Design: Michael Mendel, Maurer Productions.
All products are by Jana Morton. If needed you can see a zoomed version of this you cab see it here:
http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af350/cablair47/Layouts%20By%20Cindy/ThoseWeretheDays_zpsf05c038b.jpg

Whew!!!

I have spent the last four days working in my scrap room!!!!  I have all my Christmas cards finished except for signing and addressing. Today I had my grandchildren so Maggie & I made these cute place cards for Thanksgiving.

We got the image for the Silhouette Studio online store. We added the pilgrims!  TFL!

Wordle Challenge

Have you ever heard of Wordle???? It is place where you can create cool looking word art! Jana Morton had a wordle challenge this week. You go to wordle.net and then click on create and follow the instructions. Essentially you type in the words you want to use then without commas, spaces and one set of words per line. It then mixes it up and then you can change the font, layout and color palette. Then you save it to PDF Creator. This will make more sense when you see my page.

I think this would cool to use with the Silhouette! I am going to with my DGC. Have a good one!

Junkie Jive

I posted the other day about Jana Morton’s new site. You can find it HERE. Last winter a group of us at Creative Passions who were taking her classes began calling ourselves “Jana’s Junkies”.  On her new site she has a section called the “Junkie Jive” where once a month she will feature one of her students to let everyone get to know a little more about one another. I was honored to be asked to be the ‘Lead-off batter” for this project. You can find what I had to say HERE!

Have a great day!

I dream in pixels

is the name of the challenge for this week at Jana Morton’s new site Passion2Pixels. Here is answer to that challenge and believe me it is so true!

I know a lot of scrap bookers who are just like me! Thanks for letting me share with you.

All products are by Jana Morton and Katie Pertiet.

Neener, Neener,Neener!!!

Here’s a page about my grandson’s sense of humor coming out! He has been sillier then usual lately and loves teasing his sister and doing silly things when I am taking photos! Love him to pieces!

Products used are by Kristin Aagard, Jana Morton and Katie Pertiet. TFL!

Raven

Maggie dressed for Trick or Treat as Raven from Teen Titans Go, one of her favorite TV shows. They had trick or treat on the Oct26, and did their Halloween parade at school today. Thanks for looking!