Puppy Love

I'm starting to work on an album of my great nephew Silas.   He lives in Sydney, Australia so I haven't met him in person so relying on Facebook for all my pictures.   Luckily both Mommys post lots of them.    They will be here next Christmas so by then I should have a pretty album finished.
My brother, Grandpa AKA Bam-Bam is headed there the end of the month to be there for his first birthday so I'll get more pictures from him when he gets home.

I had the perfect sketch to work with for these 3 pictures.    Sketch #98 for "SKETCH-N-SCRAP"
So glad I hadn't used it yet because it was perfect.   I just pulled out some of my dog hand made embellishments from swaps I've been hoarding.   And SHHHH don't tell anyone but the black paw paper and the "the dog did it sticker" is from my Meow collection from Echo Park, since here in my home there are 6 cats.   :)    

You might notice the is a blank space in my journaling.   I'm waiting to here back from Cecilia's dogs name is.    But 5 am there so they haven't read todays Facebook posts yet.   :)   But I wanted to get this layout posted and move on to my next Silas layout to work on.

I am also going to use this layout for the "3 in a Row" challenge at "A CHERRY ON TOP"
I  did the middle row of using a sketch, 2 or more lines of journaling and small alphas.

Check out all the details for this challenge here at "SKETCH-N-SCRAP" and you will see their other monthly challenges too.

Dinner

I wanted to scrap these pictures from our dinner at Christmas this year and add to my Christmas album, but I just couldn't use Christmas themed papers, I always get drawn to my Let's Eat collection from Elle's Studio.    So I pulled those papers out and used their sketch to tie it all together.  Had several pictures to chose from but these worked out perfectly.

See the sketch below and check out the great blog at "ELLE'S STUDIO"

I Love You Valentine

Yes its that time of the year and for over a week I've been busy making Valentines.   This one I will enter at "4 CRAFTY CHICKS"  This weeks challenge #284 is Love.   So I would say this card pretty well has that challenge covered.   :)

Check out all the details   HERE.

Next I'm going to enter my Valentine at  "THE PAPER GIRLS" Challenge  #97 it is Valentine/Love and this card covers that.

Check out all the details  HERE.

A Valentine for Mylan

I made this Valentine for my Granddaughter Mylan.   She is really into cats right now so I thought this Miss Kitty die-cut card would be perfect for her.   I'm going to enter this card at
"JUST US GIRL"  Challenge #329 Word Week and the word is Valentine.   I'm just glad I had more Valentine cards I needed to make this week.   Next Tuesday or Wednesday will be when I'm mailing all my cards out.

A Windy Day

I just love this pictures of my granddaughter Mylan.   Looks like they had a pretty windy day in Texas this last December.    I've had the pictures printed for awhile now but I found the die-cut yesterday in my stash  so today it was my first to do layout.   Just had to find the right sketch.

I used February Week #1  at "LET'S GET SKETCHY"   A fun layout for a single picture.
So here is the sketch and check out what the design them made and all the details   HERE.

FUN !!!

This was a fun layout to put together.   The whole family was hamming it up outside the T-Rex Cafe before we went in for dinner.    The kids loved looking at everything, inside and out.

I used sketch #469 at "SCRAPBOOK CHALLENGES" for this one.   I also made it with a challenge in mind from my scrapbooking yahoo group.  One of this months challenge is Old and New, to combine one of your newer collections and older ones.   I used a piece of paper from My Minds Eye - Kraft Day collection from 2011 as the back ground piece and the other two patterned papers are from Elle's Studio Thankful collection from 2015.

Here is the sketch and go  HERE   to see what others have made from the sketch.

A Valentine Heart for You.

I'm making several Valentine cards this week and I really like this double embossed cricut cut hearts.

Then for a little more accent on it I added a flower on top.

I'm going to enter this card for two challenges.  First off  "THE PAPER GIRLS" challenge #97 Valentine/Love

See the challenge details   HERE.

I'm going to enter this card at the "FANTABULOUS CRICUT"  challenge #269 Valentines Day.

Check out the challenge    HERE.