Growin Up

Yup.. that's my lil guy.. well probably only lil guy for a bit longer.. this year Austin has totally spurted out, grown, gone through all his pants and is on round #2 of a new size.. twice this year.. Yup he is growin and proud of it.. I used this fun sketch from Sketchy Thursdays 2.25 sketch.. I'm trying to do the whole open space thing more, since I LOVE to see other people do it.. I think I should try it more.. So here's another attempt at it, with some added yummy Cosmo Cricket Nutmeg...

Love Bandit CP Reveals

For Croppin Paradise we got to design with the ever cute and adorable Love Bandit line that Croppin Paradise is carrying in their STORE... I have to say it was sooo fun to work with, lovely colors, cute, sweet lil critters and fun shapes... I loved it.. So here are my creations that I created with this line... It's really quite versatile, not just for Valentines..

Love U Layout:

I Love You Card: My Family Layout:

3,2,1, Cute.

I couldn't resist the fun sketch from Elizabeth at the American Crafts blog for their sketch week.. It just screamed USE ME!!!! So I did.. I just love how cute this owl line of paper is.. I held onto it for awhile cuz I couldn't let myself break it in.. The challenge was to use at least 2 AC products.. Everything on the page is AC except the Prima flowers... so thanks for the great sketches AC.

Congratulations Deer

I have to say I just adore this fun and cute deer paper from American Crafts.. It just makes me smile whenever I pull it out and use it.. I thought this was a fun sentiment to add onto the card with this paper. I used the American Crafts card sketch from Martha on the blog last week.. It was just too cute of a sketch to pass up.. The challenge to use at least 2 AC products.. I used paper, ribbon and minimarks.

My {tweet} Heart

Well it's my turn and I am up for the weekly challenge at Croppin Paradise.. this round my challenge is title "Cutwork with Dimension". I used this adorable line from MME Abby Road Whirly Bird from the Croppin Paradise store to create this page.. For the challenge, I want to see some type of cutwork done and then use some pop dots or 3D glue dots to make those pieces jump off the page.. Here is my example.... Hope you all play along...

Paradise Weekly Challenges

This page was for the 2/8 weekly challenge at Croppin Paradise.. It was to used a smaller size photo and have lots of white space.. this is a technique that I LOVE to see other people do, but I have a hard time doing myself.. But I am very happy with this page.. and used the Fancy Pants winter line from the Croppin Paradise store..

This page for the the 2/15 weekly challenge which was to have handwritten journaling really take over your page and tell the story. This photo is of Sydney and her cousin. She loved to act like a little mother to Ryder and "take care of him". Its actually really cute to watch. I used some of the MME Abby Road line from the Croppin Paradise store to create this page.

Card Sketch Week at 365 Cards

DAY 351:

This week at 365 card challenge blog they had a week long of card sketches!!! wooo hoooo. I've more than needed to get my birthday card stash in order, esp with my new assignment at church. I'm in charge of handing out birthday cards to each lady at church when it's their birthday.. so that's what I decided to work on.. Here are my takes on the sketches for each day.

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DAY 357:

Happy Birthday card

Checked out the new adorable sketch at Posh Designs for sketch # 8.. I used some Early Bird to create a fun and bright birthday card... This is my take on the sketch...

Some Recent Pages

Here are a couple of recent pages that I finally got around to posting from the weekend. This one used the 2/5 My sketch World sketch.. I also used it for Diane's challenge at 2SDs to create a non Valentines layout with Valentines papers.. so there were perfect for a page about Sydney. It's mainly some Teresa Collins, Basic Gray, and Lil Yellow Bicycle from last years stash.

upclose details:

Used 2/3 My sketch World sketch and used towards the 2/1 weekly challenge at Croppin Paradise.. use embellies in 3's Used the 2/9 My Sketch World Sketch to create this page. Used Cosmo Cricket Early Bird line..

Imagination

Over at MSW there is a month long Sketch crop going on... Here is my take on the 2/11 sketch.. I re-found this photo of Austin and his good buddy, James.. a random photo I took at Austin's birthday at Liberty Land.. They were just being boys, talking, looking out at the water, and I had to grab the moment and snap this photo.. I just love it and the angle.. I thought the title was very fitting for it also. Had this fun boy kit and it worked right along with it.. also combined it with Angele challenge at 2SD's to use a quote on a page.. something I rarely do and gave me a push in the right direction...

upclose details:

Bo Bunny Persuasion

At Croppin Paradise, we had our Bo Bunny Persuasion line reveal.. you can check out all the yummy products in the store HERE. This is my card and page that I created with this yummy love, I just love how rick and deep the colors are. This line also has some really fun wording papers that are fun to just cut up or use whole.. You can also check out what the rest of the DT designed with this line. HERE.

XO XO you and me card: upclose details:

Altered Valentine's Box

I made this altered box.. It was just a cardboard box and then decided to spruce it up a bit and add a kick to it. The box is a 9in x 9in x 1in sized box. I took an older Serendipity Scrapbook kit and used it to embellish the box. I even covered the insides and sides so it is all over over altered... I also added some fun ribbons, added some scallops and crumpled the tickets and inked them to give it an edgy kind of feel... I also LOVE the heart w/wings, wording and the heart/crown.. its from the Luxe color me line, and just love how fun it is to cut them out, and then add color for some spunk... I really am happy with how it turned out.. Just need to find something to fill it with... hmmm..

My Two

Finally got to some scrappin time tonight.. Yup it's been awhile.. I haven't gotten much done, it's been a busy week and last weekend I was pretty dang sick, so finally a chance to catch up and bust out some scrappin.. wooo hoo.. Here is a page I did tonight that used sketch 110 from sketch inspirations.. I've had this photo on my desk for a week now, wanting to scrap it. I finally took the time to organize some much needed to be organized photos and found this one and knew I wanted to use it.. Kinda a more simple page for me, but love the open space (yes that's what I consider open space for me..lol) and used some much yummy Cosmo Cricket Nutmeg.

Fo-Hawk

I simply ADORE this Boyfriend line from Cosmo Cricket.. Right when I saw it I KNEW it would be perfect for boy and back to school pages.. And perfect for Austin and his style.. I created this page with LOTS of cut work and lots of dimension to add onto the page.. The paper with the cutest lil clothes hanging was perfect to cut and add some pop dots to add that dimensional aspect on the page. I just LOVE how fun all the embellies and papers are from this line.. Of course the pics of Austin and his Fo-hawk totally fit in with it.