Let It Snow

It is winter time, even though here in Kansas City, we have had one snow and less that 1" but over in St. Louis where the grandkids are they had their first snow of 2" and the kids got out and pretty well used it all up building their snowman.

I used Sketch #51 Make it Monday at   "THE MEMORY NEST"  for this layout.   Was perfect for the 3 pictures I had of the kids.  You have through the end of the month to enter and try to win the
prize of a $10 GC to The Memory Nest.

When making this layout I was also being 'pin'spired with the January Mood Board at "PAPER ISSUES"   I was inspired by the dark blue and light blue colors, the white in the mood board and of course the snow, especially the mitten covered hands full of snow, just like my granddaughter working on the snow man.    Check it out and a chance to win a GC at Paper Issues.

Stick It Down card challenge

Zentangles and adult coloring books are all the thing now.    A true zentangle usually remains black and white so that is why I combined some pops of colors behind it for this card so the black and white would still pop.

I used the January card sketch at "STICK IT DOWN" for this card.    Check it out and join the fun.

New Year Dinner 2016

We celebrated New Years in Columbia at my brothers, with my Dad, daughter and son-in-law.
We only cooked in once during the 3 days we were there and then ate out a lot.  From BBQ. to Burgers to Cajun for New Years Day dinner out.     These are the pictures from that dinner.   We had a variety of food but only got a picture of mine,  the 6 dinners included, Shrimp Diane, Blackened Cat Fish, Mufaletta, Blackened Shrimp, Crawfish and my Shrimp Creole.   All great and spicy.

This layout is my reveal for the 1-15-16 sketch at "LET'S SCRAP"    I hope you will check it out
HERE.    The others on the design team have some great layouts to share with this versatile sketch.
I'm sure you can put you creativity to work and do the same.

Here is the sketch.

Using up my Brads

When I saw challenge #206 - Brads at   "USE YOUR STUFF" I knew I wanted to start right away and make a card for the challenge.        In one of my online yahoo scrapbooking groups that I am in one of our monthly card challenges was to use brads on a card.     So perfect now I can make this card for both challenges.

My brothers b'day is February 5th so I wanted to have a masculine card ready to send out to him.
I went with all shades of browns and deep burgandys but then for the brads in the corners to add just a little more color I chose green to help pull the green from the stem on my stamped image.

These "USE YOUR STUFF" challenges are really working because I'm noticing that my supply of brads is really getting low.   I never thought I would be low on any scrapping supplies.   LOL
So join in the fun and use up your stuff too !!!!

Jacko's Big Day

Jacko is my daughters guinea pig or as I refer to him, my first grandchild from her.   :)
I sure never thought a guinea pig could be so cute, but I just love cuddling him.
It was his big day because one set of his bedding was fresh out of the washer and dryer, so as soon as we traded it out with the used bedding we put him in the laundry room sink for a bath and some freshening up.   The after lots of drying cuddles back to his clean cage with some fresh hay for part of his meal.

For this layout I used the sketchy Friday team B sketch at "SCRAP MUCH!?"    I got to do my favorite type of scrapping for this one, matting and lots of layers.     Check out the details HERE
and see the Laura Whitakers great sketch below.    You have until the 29th to enter any of this months challenges.

Gifts

Continuing on with Christmas layouts of us opening gifts I made this one of my hubby and I opening some of our gifts.      I usually have to hand off the camera to someone to get a picture of myself during the festivities because I am the one taking all the pictures.    Luckily my husband took this one for me.  Ok so I did hand him the camera to use.   But it worked.

Week #1 sketch at  "LET'S GET SKETCHY"  was perfect for two pictures of the two of us.     I loved this background holly paper but wasn't sure what to use with it, but I had all these different plaid scraps and started laying it out and it worked.     Plus one tiny strip of music paper I had left from the layout I made before this one and I was set.     And I had 2 gift box embellishments left to use.

As I said above its always hard to find pictures of me to scrap, but since I do have one of me at Christmas and since I love Christmas layouts this is the one I want to use for the challenge #25
at "CHALLENGE YOURSELF"   It's an Anything Goes Challenge, just of course have to be sure and feature a picture of yourself.    I might not be the only in this layout but I worked to get my picture taken so that counts to me.   LOL

Check out all the details hers at 'CHALLENGE YOURSELF"

Here is the sketch below and you can check out all the details here at  "LET'S GET SKETCHY"

Merry Christmas Gifts

I had all my pre Christmas days layouts pretty well made early in the season and then I discovered yesterday I hadn't made any layouts from Christmas day itself.    So I chose three pictures of my Dad and brother and them opening gifts.    I love the hoodie that I found for my brother, featuring our hometown.   He loved it too.

I used the January 1st sketch from "STUCK ?! SKETCHES"  to make this layout.  It was fun to work with.    I couldn't decide how or where to put some journaling so I used some sticker flags from my 2016 planner and and just wrote what the gifts were they were opening and put them on the pictures themselves and then a flag for the year just for a little extra to go with the sketch.
Plus I got to pull out some of my hoarded 3D embellishments for the title and then I had this great set of gifts that was perfect for this layout for embellishing.

Just go to "STUCK ?! SKETCHES"  to check out all the details and see what the design team did.  You have till Jan. 29th to enter this weeks sketch.