Sketch #92 is up at Let's Capture Our Memories

It completely slipped my mind that I hadn't made this post yet!!! Oh well, better late than never, and this way, the yummy feeling of reveal day continues... Lol!

This is a fabulous sketch by Becky Fleck over at Pagemaps and it's a super nice one with lots of details and fun elements! I really enjoyed creating this layout about our little family at the beach- another "selfie of 5" for some long distance birthday wishes for my Grandfather, about 3 hours away.

And here is my version of it-

I used Fancy Pants Design Nautical papers and stickers, some wood veneers by Studio Calico and Queen & Co,  a Recollection enveloppe, a Maya Road paper clip, a cork badge by Studio Calico and a flair badge by Lime Citron. I love machine stitching with accent colours other than black, white or brown. It shakes it up a bit and offers variety. On this pic, the yellow stitching doesn't show up as much, but there it is...

Hope you enjoy this layout as much as I enjoyed making it- 

sketch #84 at Let's Capture Our Memories

It's that time of the week again and sketch 84 is up on the Let's Capture Our Memories blog- lots of inspiration around that place! Did you seeeee the amazing mini album using kraft envelopes??? Wowsers! And those Disney theme papers from Simple Stories- just so cute!

Today's reveal sketch is simple, but of course, a sketch is just the beginning. There are so many ways to make this sketch your own. This one is by Vicki Saulnier. I flipped it to suit my pictures.

I used some of my stash- Paradise Beach by Echo Park... it felt right for the pictures, taken at the beach in June of 2014. There's a Studio Calico cork piece, a woodie and washi tape by Queen & Co. I added some embellishments on top, a sticker row and a few layers of beach theme papers, sort of cinching the papers with a bit of washi tape. Thanks Aurélie at LCOM for the inspiration to stitch by hand. I usually if not always stitch with the sewing machine, so the 2 strands of embroidery floss felt much better and nicer than the whole thick strand. The journaling translates to "You thought you were pretty cool in my hat and glasses- you were right!" Great memories camping on the Island...

Loved

Scrapbook & Cards Today put on an amazing event in late March- Crop & Create came to our town. It so great they come and see us here in the Maritimes. The event gets better and better every year. Good friends, fun classes, amazing stores, good dessert buffet spread every night and cool Make&Takes... It was an all around good time. I don't usually get a ton of layouts done, but I come out of the event full of inspiration and ideas and a list of albums/layouts I'm going to make. As usual, there was a great goodie bag...


This one was done as part of the Color Suite challenge at Scrapbook & Cards Today. This is the March challenge with a delicious mix of navy, pale blue, green, white and gold.

I made this layout with Elle's Studio's Cameron collection. If you've seen it, you know those arrows are yellow and orange, not gold and blue chevron. Nothing like some washi and cut out arrows to make some colors "fit"...The sketch is by Pagemaps. Many thanks to Stephanie Hart for the gold ribbon and Kristine Davidson for the Silhouette title!

Here's one of my layouts, more to come later:

This is a layout of DS#3, taking a break after spending the morning running, jumping in the bouncy playpark, playing on the swingset with his brothers.
Thanks for looking- more to come later-

Missed deadlines...Jillibean Soup fun!

Well, the story behind this layout is a bit funny. I was quite motivated to have this one done in response to not one, but two challenges! Enthusiastic much??

I just had the right papers to join in on the fun at Life.Paper.Scrapbook for their December color challenge. It was going to be fun! Then, I just had come across this great sketch from My Creative Scrapbook for their December sketch challenge. Perfect! It was all coming together.

Except life/work got in the way and I missed both deadlines! By about a day or so! But I had a great time creating this colorful Christmas layout with the Jillibean Soup Winter Tortellini collection and I rather like the result. Good memories for us.

This is a visit with Santa and Mrs Claus in December of 2012. The 2 older boys got some Legos (is there any better toy?) and the little one got an Oscar the Grouch garbage truck. The title is: "La liste des gentils"- it means of course The Nice List...



Here's the great sketch by My Creative Scrapbook:

Here's the fun color scheme, the December color challenge at Life.Paper.Scrapbook:

And here's my take:

So challenge accepted! but a bit late! better late than never- I still had a blast making this one. And someday, I'll have to explain that smirk on Mrs Claus' face... Hubby seems content enough... hee hee hee...

4 years old!

This is an old layout I tore apart a time or 2, couldn't get the right feel... It now looks much better. Hope you like it. We held DS#2's  4th birthday party at the local pool, with his friends. They're very tired and spent, with chlorine/salt water eyes... but who cares? They had fun!

Creative Scrappers sketch, lots of Jillibean soup and a My Little Bit of Whimsy button...