Alaska here we come

Over at Scrap Our Stash the themed challenge is Road Trip/Travel and I sure have been busy doing a lot of pages for a friend's trip/cruise to Alaska. So here is one that I picked out to enter into this challenge. This 2-page layout was the beginning of their journey to Alaska.

Did several cricut cuts for the luggage and airplane then used some travel strip Borders from K&Company and several rub-ons. Also, the precut Seattle title and made some clouds and inked all the edges in blue. I also had to find room for the space needle brochure, which I added a tab- so it can be lifted up to read the inside.

LUCKY to have YOU in my LIFE

 I had so much fun with this sketch from Memorable Seasons and I love to do layouts of my dogs. I am applying this layout to several  challenges today which I have listed below.  Many supplies were used also- but most of all I used more than 50 % of Kraft paper by My Mind's Eye and Chevrons, painted on Layout with paw prints, used staples for the banners and the word Lucky in the Title. Other embellies like the flowers were punched from several papers and inked and pop dotted on

 Also used several sticker and thicker alphas for the title and some washi tapes and journal tags, oh yeah  a few metal brads -which some of them I covered with the washi tape. Some stamps were used on the banners also. Misc scrap papers were used for the chevron pattern and punched flowers, and the hexagon pattern on the other papers which were torn and inked edges.  I just love how this whole page turned out with all the embellies and the color combo that I used- I will have to use this sketch again in the future.

Applying this layout to the following challenges:

Sketch - Memorable Seasons

use staples - Memorable Seasons

 Chevron challenge- Frosted Designs

Kraft cardstock-1 tag-paint/mist and at least 2 kinds of Alphas- at The Studio Challenge

word LUCKY - Bo Bunny challenge

Kraft it up- Scrap Our Stash

Chevrons/hexagons-TPE #48 challenge (scrapbook)

a treasured POEM

This was a challenge alright- 4 of them-- First one is Frosted Designs to use cardstock only ( this was stepping out of the box for me) Scrap Our Stash "NEW" challenge - so this was a new technique of cardstock only & no pictures- a poem instead, Scrapbookers Anonymous to use either ink, mist or paint along with masking on a project and the last challenge I used was the sketch from Sketch Along Tuesdays over at Frosted Designs.

 All my papers are plain cardstock- which I masked stars on the background, chalked a rainbow,  embossed on the sun and clouds, and fringed for the grass.  I used Tattered Angel Mist, several inks and jelly roll markers. This cardstock was a great challenge for this layout of mine- because I wanted the poem to really be the main focus of this page for my daughters scrapbook.

 She wrote this poem the night her grandfather (my father) passed away and gave it to me the next day, which was also 2 days before I was getting remarried- so it was an emotional roller coaster in our household. I tried to bring out a few of the embellishments that she had written  about in her poem such as the birds, clouds, the sun , rainbows and grass. I used some rain drop like rhinestones  to represent rain from the clouds which she mentioned also in this lovely poem.

I drew some birds and some swirls to represent the wind- which might be kinda hard to see in this photo. This is the original copy that she wrote on -so this will be a treasured page for sure in her book. I know the sketch is not quite the same as Sketch Along Tuesdays- but I was inspitred by the sketch and tried to follow it the best I could with this poem- instead of a photo.

Anything goes..at Scrap Our Stash

So here goes my 2 page layout called Double Vision- which I did a few weeks back and thought this would be great for the challenge this week over at Scrap Our Stash- ANYTHING GOES. - besides this has such  silly photos of my son and his girlfriend taken at college this past fall one evening...I think they were bored or something. But they sent them to me just for kicks on Facebook and I had to copy them and do some kind of page for his scrapbook.

 I don't know how they did the special effects- but I like it and thought they were pretty funny... I didn't want to use to much decorative papers to take away from all the silliness going on = so I found this black and white striped paper and pulled out the color peach in the polka dot paper and a die cut by My Mind's Eye "so sophie". Plain black cardstock for all the mats and used a circle punch with Making Memories paper(black and white patterns) and scattered them on the page with pop dots for dimension.

 I used my Cricut & Gypsy to cut out the arrows with the title cut out in the centers and backed with black cardstock. And use black ink on all the peach edges of  thecuts.

So just for kicks....I did a silly page for his scrapbook- which I'm sure he is gonna really like-great memories for him and his girlfriend. So I will be applying this over at Scrap Our Stash-Anything Goes challenge.

Such a Cute Couple

 I just love the colors on this layout I did from the sketch over at Sketches in Thyme this week and also the recipe challenge at Scrap Our Stash - which consisted of :   5 embellishments- 4 words or letters in a title-
                                                                                          3 pictures-2 pattern papers- 1 solid paper.
All my papers are from a Recollections paper stack- and white cardstock for all the Cricut cuts. I used 3 cartridges: Calligraphy Collection-Accent Essentials and Wild Card, which then I embossed with my Cuttle bug and folders and then I heat embossed them with 3 different powders- Silver, Pink and Red which you can see a close-up of the hearts that I did this technique on. Which is also the challenge this week over at Frosted Designs- heat or dry Embossing on a project.

      I also used a Recollections x x x border punch, brown inked edges on layout and pop dots. So I will be applying this layout for 3 challenges ( Frosted Designs as a Design team member). This cute couple is my son and his girlfriend when they first started dating in the end of  2006- beginning of 2007.

Grid Challenge = I only have EYES for U

This was so much fun to work with this grid pattern- I will definately be doing this again! This is the challenge over at Scrap Our Stash for the month of September and I wasn't sure if I would be doing this challenge- but I'm sure glad I did. I was working on a layout with these fall colors - and I had alot of large scraps left over- so I decided to punch out the scalloped squares and see what I could come up with. Then I had to find a picture - which was a challenge with these colors and I found this photo of my son and his girlfriend being silly and thought this was appropriate and went from there to add the circle punches then the buttons- Then I came up with a title and everythig fell into place. So I sorta did things backwards than I'm use to doing. I usually start of with the photo first, then pick out the papers for color and then the sketch or design.

I used all DCWV- fall paper stack- scalloped square punch, circle punch and lots of white buttons. I hand drew the black border around the edge and the photo, made the banner with black cardstock and with white paint painted the letters for part of the title. With large chipboard letters I painted black with white dots and tied some yellow jute cord on and for the banner also. Also used pop dots for the flags for dimension and my handy Yes paste.

I also applied this layout as a DT for an example to use punches -which I used the scalloped square and sm 1 inch circle punch- lots of them. So be sure to go check out Frosted Designs new Fabulous Friday challenge out this week.

Two challenges in One!

Another layout titled Jet Ski Fun from me- but I used the sketch from Sketchy Thursday and the challenge from Scrap Our Stash for using red-white and blue on a project. So here is my take with my son and his first tijme on a Jet Ski during the 4th of July Celebrations up in Upper Michigan back in 2005. After hours of fun- he said "hey-mom could we get a jet ski". Of course, my answer was I don't think so- but if you want to save YOUR money- you could get one.

I used some 4th of July papers from Adorn It Creations-Hero Art banner stamps, Paper Studio star stamps, starburst wooden stamp, white ribbon, silver glitter glue, pop dots, Staz-On blue ink and Brillance moonlkight white ink.
I stamped the background paper with the starburst and wrote with black marker on the stars on top of the banner 4th of July. Did my own journaling on the strips of the red and white paper. So this surely qualifies for the red -white and blue challenge.

Many Parks

Here is my take of the sketch over at Let's Capture these Sketches #74 this week. A variety of photos taken at several of the parks at Walt Disney World with my boys a few years back. Since there were so many different colors and many activites going on in the photos I looked through my older stash of papers and found this light colored wavy line paper and painted the light blue mats on the pics The green swirl paper is by American Crafts (older stack). I used alot of older embellishments like the chipboard buttons and some sticker sayings and alphas in orange for the title on the side. So I will be also applying this layout over at Scrap Our Stash - March Dust it off challenge -

Painting on a Project

The challenge this week over at Frosted Designs is to paint on your project and I did just that. I used several colors-black, white, red and yellow and gave my background a graffati look of all the colors to kinda match the outfits that the skaters are wearing in their performance on ice. So here is my 2-page layout for this challenge.

 I used background paper by Scrappin Sports, white cardstock for mats, red cord for torn area, crop-a-dile, alpha stamps by Studio G for the sub titles on scraps of packaging paper, and one sticker embellishment. And of course acrylic paints in 4 colors.

 I will also be applying this over at Scrap our Stash  for the "New" challenge this week. I have never painted the whole background of a page (new technique)- but now that I've done this once I'll probably do it again- it turned out great and it was fun to do.