my everyday essential- practical scrappers and scrap yourself

I finished another challenge today. It covers three challenges. Practical Scrappers- to use border punches, scrap yourself- your everyday essentials, and ACOT - to use bazzill.
My everyday essential is coffee. Have to have it. It is the first thing I do when I wake up. And the older I get, the more I am drinking. I even go to bed at night thinking about how I can't wait to wake up and have a cup of coffee. Sad, right?

Anyway here is my page

PP is die cuts with a view. Black cardstock, edges and black alphas are all bazzill. The tan cardstock is not bazzill and I layered it with mesh and painted it to get that textured look.

Also, I re-did some of my "Gracie at 2" page. I didn't like the way it went downhill. I didn't realize it was so downhill, so I re-positioned some of it. And in doing so, I uncovered a piece of ric-rac that was hidden. Oh, and I fixed her name, LOL. So here it is,

And if you participated in the blog hop for JMS I will be picking a winner shortly.

scrap yourself and design dollies

Here is another one I did this weekend, for fun. It is from the sketch challenge at design dollies. I also decided to do this weeks challenge and Scrap Yourself. It is to scrap a high school photo of yourself. So I used one of my senior portrait photos.

I have tried and tried and tried to get a good photo of this layout. And it is just not working. I will try again tomorrow morning, when light is the best, but since design dollies wants it posted by midnight tonight, I have to show you what I got. Which is a crappy photograph of it. LOL, so enougth talk, here it is.