Birthday Girl

This is a layout of my Daughter Becky’s Birthday a couple of weeks ago.   This was for Round Robin challenge at Turtle Soup.  I am on Team One!

Products used were by Echo Park, My Mind’s Eye, American Crafts,and Silhouette Studio. I made the roses using an image design from Silhouette Studio. Thanks for looking!

A Special Gift

 

All product are by Jana Morton. Thanks for looking!

And it snowed and snowed and snowed and snowed and

Here is how deep the snow got in our yard. Actually it finally made it to the top of  the picnic table.

All products are by Jana Morton, and Anna Aspnes.

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So Ready for Spring

I am so ready and here we are expecting 6-12 inches of snow this weekend!!!

Well I have been busy making things for spring.  I purchased some of the new Silhouette Studio files and used the tutorials at Bits of Paper. I also made a wreath and used the tutorial for cherry blossoms at What a Beautiful Mess.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking!

To All My Scrappy Friends!

Fourth Grade

A photo of me in the fourth grade at St. Joseph’s Catholic School. Can you believe this is me at about the same age as Maggie? Yes this was taken in 1956-57!

Products used are by Theresa Collins, and Echo Park.

Inspired by a sketch by on Pinterest. Thanks for looking!

Jeremy’s Smile

Jeremy is a big Alabama Crimsontide fan and every Christmas
I get him something from their team shop. This year it was
a Bear Bryant hat. Becky made him a throw also.  He hardly
ever smiles, even though he has a great smile. This year we got
huge smiles!!!! Christmas 2013.

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

Freebies!!!!!

Do you like Freebies? Here is a link to todays freebie from Miss Kate’s Cuttables!

http://www.misskatecuttables.com/products/freebie-of-the-day/

and here is site I read about and it is packed full of freebies-both cuttables and digital images. It is called Birds Cards and there are all kinds of pretty things available here. These are great images for scrapping even though her title is called cards.

Have fun checking these out!

Gotta Love This!!!!

 

My friend Barb’s dog Nugget and her kitty named Ollie.

Both are rescues!

All products are by Jana Morton. Thanks for looking!

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.

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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 :

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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!