1 2 3 kick

Hello all.  I created this layout a few days ago, but life has been crazy, so posting until today.

Made with Bo Bunny Ad Lib and with the sketch from the Scrap-Room dot com. 

A few new ones featuring Gracie

I took Friday morning off of everything and scrapbooked. I did two layouts just for fun, both featuring Gracie and both using sketches from the Scrappiest blog.  I am also doing them for other challenges as well.  The photographs are not very good, so I may try to re-take them, but honestly who knows if that will happen. 

So here is sketch 92 from the Scrappiest.  I am also using it for the Scrap-Room blog challenge, one photo and two word title page. 

And my second one is from sketch 93 at Scrappiest.  I am also using it for a new blog I found, the Paper Variety.  The challenge this week is to do a layout about a child- easy enough.  (They are also having a DT call for those who are interested.)

I love these pictures of Gracie.  Over Thanksgiving the older kids decided to limbo.  Gracie did her own interpretation of it and sang "limbo, limbo, limbo" over and over.  She is so cute. 

So there you have it.  Hope everyone is having a relaxing weekend.

Two layouts featuring Gracie

I didn't realize it while I was doing my assignments this week, but both pages feature my youngest daughter Gracie.

For Scrap it With a Song, the song was "Born to be Wild" by the great Stepphenwolf.    I titled my page "Born to be Wild?" and used a picture of Gracie taken when we were still in the hospital.   She is such a wild thing now (everyone comments on how fast she is and crazy she is) that is hard to remember how quiet she started.  Even in utero she was calm.  I had to do the kick counts every day because she rarely be-bopped around in there.  (In contrast Bella was a soccer player constantly beaten me, to the point that people could see my stomach moving.) Then Gracie was born and she did cry right away, but those two days in the hospital I actually worried about how quite she was.  That all changed quickly, and that is what my journaling is about.  So here is the page,

 This one is from a kit at the Scrap-Room.

This week's challenge is being sponsored by Digital Delights and they have offered up to the winner a $10 gift certificate that will equal 5 images.  So if you want to play along please do, just link up your creation to the main blog.

Now on to the next layout about Gracie.  This one is for Scrapbook Challenges and it is sketch 223.    This page is entitled "Dancing Queen" (I JUST realized I spelled Dancing wrong on this page, so I will fix it asap) and features Gracie dancing on the table whilst posing for the camera.   It truly shows her wild side.

So here is the sketch

And here is my page

This page is from a kit at Dixie Pieces.

Going to China

Here is a just for fun page I did the other day.  All pps, and embellishments (with the exception of the border strip and the alphas) is from a Dixie Pieces kit.  The sketch is from the Scrappiest.  It fits two other challenges- the supply list challenge from A Cherry on Top and the Scrap Room pop up challenge.

Bella packed all her belongings (ok, NOT all of them, but . . . ) in a baby stroller  and came into our room and announced she was going to China to see Kailan. 

Scrap it with a Song - Upside Down

The song this week at Scrap it With a Song is "Upside Down" by Jack Johnson.  This is a really fun song, with a ton of possibilities.

I took the title and used pictures of my little monkey bear, Gracie. 

 The papers and journal card came from a kit at the scrap room.  

The winner of this weeks song challenge will get a pack of primas from the owner of Scrap it with a Song, Christina.  So make sure you play. 

bella at 4

Here is a page I did the other day. I used a sketch from Pages in Time and a kit from the Scrap-Room (well minus the bling, and flower.) I thought I was doing a challenge for Dixie Pieces, but upon completion of the page, I realized I used the wrong color cardstock. Oops.

Anyway, this is my daughter on her 4th birthday. We have a tradition that the birthday person gets to pick whatever he/she wants for dinner. She picked Chinese food. Good choice. My mother in law had been her, but went to visit some family in MD, so it was just the four of us. Perfect. But on the way to pick up dinner (we first picked up Jon and then stopped by to drop off something to a friend of mine who had just had a small medical procedure done that day) she and her sister both fell asleep in the car. So we get our food and go home. Wake both kids up and have dinner. So . . . by the time it was time for cake, she was a bit grouchy. LOL.

While we were eating dinner, I asked her some questions so that I could get a list of her favorite things while she was 3. Love that she can do that now. So here is the page

Thanks for looking.

a few challenges

***If you are looking for the JMS and the Blend Blog Hop, please click here***

I have been busy scrapping this week and it has been so nice. I managed to complete two challenges this week. The first is from the scrap-room blog.


The second page is from a challenge at 52 x52 (to use a number, scallops, and ribbon) and for ACOT to make your page around a number.
And I have just been told that Gracie is actually missing an A, oops. Need to fix that.

My Monday Reveals, a day late, again

Posting a day late again this week. Oh well. It seems that life often gets in the way of my plans, LOL.

First let me post this

**If you are looking for the JMS and the Blend Blog Hop please click here.**

Second, I have just two reveals for you this week. Both of my layouts this week were created using kits from the Scrap-Room.

The first I will do will be Nuts About Sketches. This week Shawn created a great single page layout for us.

I used some nice fall pictures of the girls playing in the leaves. This was the first nice day we had at our new house. The weather warmed up enough for me to rake leaves and for the girls to play outside.


Second is this week page for Scrap it with a Song. This week our song was "True Colors" by Cyndi Lauper.
If you want to play along with us, please do so. Just go to the main blog and leave a DIRECT LINK to your post for this challenge. You will be playing for a chance to win some digi stamps from Sew Many Layouts. Good luck and happy scrapping.

a few from the crop- sketchy thursdays and sketches by tamara,acot

Went to a crop this weekend and got a few things done that can be shown now.
First of all, this past week I was chosen as Celebrity Cherry at ACOT. So as part of my status, I had to scraplift someone from the board. Here is what I did.

Also, on ACOT, one of the challenges is to use the word "new". I used the sketch from the Scrap-Room. I am also using it for Sketches {by Tamara} weekly challenge (to use blue, buttons and brads). So here it is,

And lastly, this started out as the Sketchy Thursdays sketch. But since I don't have internet in the crop room, I had to sketch it in my sketch book and well, my proportions are off. Anyway, here it is
Thanks for looking and if you are looking, please leave me a comment. I love to hear from people. Because lately, it seems as if I am the only one looking at these pages.

naptime

This page as done using the monthly sketch for the scrap-room. Tammy at dixie pieces has a challenge to use glitter on a page. She posted a tutorial a little bit ago about how to glitterize (is that a word?) a flower. So I used stickles on the flower. I also only had one pick glitter brad, so I had to make the other one.

Anyway, I think this picture is very sweet. But the story behind it is pee in your pants funny. Literally- sort of. When she is really tired but won't nap Jon encourages to rest by using him as a bed. So she climbed up and fell asleep on Jon's back watching tv. I was at my craft table working and saw this sweet picture and grab my camera and snapped away. A few minutes after I took the picture I hear Jon say, "Come here now and get Bella." I knew immediately what happend. She pee'd all over him. It was SO funny. So when I look at the picture, I can't help but laugh.


The papers are Americana Craft. flowers are prima with stickles. The bling is recollections (no idea why the upper one looks like it is missing jewels- weird.) Border pieces are bazzill as is the cardstock.

take my picture- creative scrappers

This layout is from creative scrappers sketch 93. It was also to be used for
ScrapTiffany's button challenge (but I forgot to email her.) Lastly it is for the scrap rooms challenge for flower or things of nature on your page.


PP are Pink Paislee, cardstock - dcwv and bazzill. flowers and alphas are die cuts from the spring cartridge for the slice.

Two more challenges - My 3 Hearts

Ok I have to say that I really love the way this turned out. And I especially love how every picture totally reflects my family.

Ok, first of all, this is from a sketch and for a challenge at the Scrap-Room. The PP and cardstock came from their monthly kit. The hearts, ribbon and big doily heart came from a game at Dixie Pieces. It was a round of winner takes all, and I won. Lastly, I am going to use this for the Candy Shoppe Designs recipe challenge; the challenge called for

-picture(s) of your loved one

-any type of doily - even the paper kind

-flowers *to taste

-hearts*to taste

-lace

-the colors pink & red *even a pinch will do!

The flowers are not that easy to see- and I totally hope this counts- but they are on the hearts. The one stamped heart, has a flower in it also. So here it is,

PS- don't forget the EDS Blog Hop, it is still going on.

grandma and gracie- sketchy thursdays

Here is a layout I did this weekend. I have tried and tried to get a good picture of it. But with my little camera it just isn't happening. It is much brighter and cleaner is person. Anyway, I used Sketchy Thursday's layout for it. I also layered flowers for the scrap-room weekly challenge.

one layout- many challenges

This one page covers quite a few challenges. First, ScrapTiffany weekly challenge is to discuss grief. Practical Scrappers, wants us to use patterned paper. 52 x 52 wants a little birdie. Lastly, the Scrap Room wants a title to be vertical. So there, I managed to put four challenges, into a page that I have wanted to do for a very long time. And I do like the way it turned out.

PPs are DCWV, birdie is an imaginisce stamp, alphas are thickers, pearls are recollections, flowers are unknown, as they were a RAK from long ago, and brads are making memories.

Holiday Party

From another great website I just discovered, Creative Scrappers. This is my first time using one of there sketches, but I promise it won't be my last.

The papers are from the December Scrap-Room Kit and are all from Pink Paislee. Alphas are Websters Pages, and pearls are Queen and Co.