Chloe's Challenge

This is our second challenge over at Scraptivations challenge blog! This one was brought to us by Chloe who chose to challenge us to create something crafty based on this lovely picture! Who wouldn't love a room as fresh, bright (and clean!) as this? I know I would love sleeping or creating in such a place! What inspired me most about this picture was of course, the colors which were so bright and center stage, but secondly the clean crisp lines and then the minimalist feel to the room itself. So for my layout I tried to stick with primarily the lime green and yellow color theme but ended up throwing in a bit of orange/red. I used papers by Echo Park (green dot-Little Boy line) and Sassafrass Lass. I chose to keep the layout simple with clean lines like the pic, thus the more linear, color blocking design to the layout. I also stuck with minimal embellies (pear feltie and small flower from Sassafrass Lass) and a small title for which I used an Echo Park little Boy journal box with letters cut from my cricut for the "you" and "me" and small sticker letters from Making Memories, all keeping with the minimalist vibe I got from this picture. I was also inspired by that adorable rug in the pic, so I based by title on the word "you" found in the rug. The picture is of my niece and nephew from Easter 2009, aren't they adorable and dressed so sweetly in green to go with my color scheme (love it when that happens!) Now it's your turn, hop on over the Scraptivations and play along for a chance to win an AWESOME prize from the Paper Trail! Can't wait to see how you are inspired by this picture!

My first published layout!

I was so excited to finally get one of my layouts published! My layout 100% Magic is being published in this month's edition of Scrapstreet Magazine! I have been a fan of Scrapstreet for awhile now, I love the wonderful articles they have each month, always trendy and current and with adorable and inpsiring layouts to boot! You can pick up a lot of good tips there as well, on all sorts of topics, my favorites include the technique articles and the one that focuses on journaling each month! This layout was created awhile back, it uses papers from Scenic Route's Cape Town line (loved that line and I sure miss Scenic Route). The chipboard letters and circle are also Scenic Route. This picture is of my son and my dad from Father's Day 2009, when we gave my dad a fire wallet for Father's Day! If you need a fun gag gift for an adult, this is a great gag gift! We picked it up at a magic show while in Universal Studios that year on vacation. This layout was based on a sketch by Julie Bonner when she was doing the 52 sketches 52 weeks blog (miss that as well, but luckily Julie is still sharing her sketches HERE on her blog!) Ok, enough tooting of my own horn, thanks for letting me share with you! Hope you enjoy your April Fool's Day, just remember to please BE NICE! LOL!

My first Scraptivations Challenge!

Today is our first "official" challenge over at Scraptivations! I was honored to get to go first. This sketch is our first challenge, all you need to do to be entered into a random drawing for an awesome prize from The Paper Trail is to complete a layout based on this sketch and upload it to Scraptivations. For my layout I used papers and title block from My Minds Eye's newest line Stella Rose. To give the title block a bit more dimension I cut out the center title and raised it up by mounting it on a crocheted flower and mounting the title on brown cardstock to accent it more. The felt circle with heart embellie is from American Crafts. I love everyone's take on the sketch, all so unique even though they sprang from the same sketch! So hop on over to check out the DT's take on the sketch and for your chance to win an awesome prize for this month's sponsor! So excited for tomorrow, its the first day of class at Club Got Sketch! Can't wait to see what Valerie has in store for us tomorrow! It's not to late to join, just go HERE to join us, see you in class!

Scraplifting fun

I had so much fun doing some "lazy" scrapping the other day. I am always blog hopping and finding layouts I would just love to lift, and yet, I never get around to actually lifting them. Well, the other day doing some late night scrappin' with my good friend and the mojo just wasn't there, so what's a girl to do but scraplift a layout. After all, I can't afford to waste the precious creative time I was able to give myself! This layout is a lift of Frances Sylvia from her blog FOREVER AND A YEAR...Frances' work is just awesome, love visiting her blog whenever I have time! For this layout I used my October 2010 PersonalScrapper kit featuring Jillibean Soup, which is fast becoming my favorite manufacturer now that Scenic Route is gone. I used this layout for my Week #7 52 week challenge over at Personalscrapper as well, which was the theme LOVE. I don't love anything more then these sweet faces...have you ever seen any cuter faces then these four???? These are my fav pics of my son, my niece and my two nephews from 2010. Just love the simplicity of this layout which allows these sweet faces to shine! Hope you all are having a good week, I'm hoping to do a bit of scrappin' tomorrow to get me over the hump, keep checking back, maybe I'll be able to actually finish one of the three layouts I have on my desk...then I've GOT to clean it off...who knows what is buried under that mess!

Winter Treat

Happy Monday everyone! I have been busy creating here and there, which boils down to, everyday when I have a few free minutes I piddle around with whatever layout is on my desk...usually for increments of 30 minutes or less. It's frustrating sometimes, but I find I am getting better at it as I don't normally have hours of time to scrapbook on an average day, even though I wish I did! I completed this layout awhile back but never shared it. I used my Personalscrapper January kit featuring Echo Park Wintertime and Fancy Pants Hot Chocolate papers. This is one of my all time fav kits, just loved this die cut paper and that little bird! This is from 2008 pics of my son at Panera Bread enjoying a cup of hot chocolate after we went with the fam to see Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer at Casa Mana (a local children's playhouse here in Fort Worth). This is one of those rare layouts I created without a sketch! Shocking I know, but see I really can design without a sketch, although I prefer not to. Well, I'm off to bed, this time change is doing me in....I must be getting old as it takes me longer to adjust to any little change in my routine lol! I am so excited for my first challenge at Scraptivations, don't forget to check HERE on the 20th, in the mean time, stop back by here cuz I did some scraplifting that I wanna share with you tomorrow, when I get some light to take a pic!

Exciting News

I am so excited to share with you that I have been selected to be on the Design Team at Scraptivations! This is a fun new challenge blog that I am sure you will love as much as I do. Our first challenge is going to be up on March 20th, so I hope you will stop by and play along with us. I am looking forward to being part of this super fun site that will offer a great challenge twice a month. In the mean time I have been hard at work on our first challenge as well as my 52 week challenges and I will have more to share with you this weekend, so enjoy your Ash Wednesday and check back soon!

Sketch 105

Not sure which I like more, this sketch by Liz Chidester from The Scrappiest OR Basic Grey's Wander line...I guess its a toss up, both are pretty fantastic! I received these fun papers from my secret sister last fall Erica from Personalscrapper. I just love the colors in this line, perfect for any type of layout really. I complete this layout for one of the 52 week challenges over at Personalscrapper, the category for this challenge was MEMORIES. This picture was take of my Dad, brother and nephew on my nephew's first birthday this past January and is for his album that I am making him (slowly but surely, well, the first year will be finished by the time he's 10, so that' pretty good huh?) I love this picture, this little guy is the most photogenic baby I have ever seen, he is always smiling for the camera, unlike a 13 year old boy I know who shall remain nameless.....but his time is coming, he is due to featured on the old blogo here next week, cuz I'm currently working on a layout of him LOL! This sketch was so easy to use, and I really like the simplicity of it. I'm lagging behind though, cuz I think they are up to sketch 109 over at The Scrappiest, so hoping to play some catch up this weekend, but then again Becky did put up some really awesome sketches over at Page Maps this week too....choices, choices... well, off to play before bedtime, hope you can get sketchy soon too!