Zoo Day

This last week was beautiful across Missouri even with days in the low 70's.    So there was a trip to the zoo in St. Louis for the St. Louis grandkids.   Looks like they were having a great time.
Look at those shirt sleeves in mid February.   I love it.

I used sketch #470 at "SCRAPBOOK CHALLENGES"  and I'm also going to use it for a challenge in my yahoo group "Scrappin-n-Chattin"  we have a challenge to use at least 3 stars on our layout.
I got out my star washi tape to use on this layout and a star embellishment to journal on.

You have until midnight the 29th to enter all the great monthly challenges at
"SCRAPBOOK CHALLENGES."

Cousin Time

After winning the December double page layout at  "STICK IT DOWN"   I was asked to be the 

Guest Designer for the double page sketch in February.    I really loved working with this

sketch because I got to do two of my favorite things,  matting all my patterned papers and then 

layering everything and I sure got to do that with this sketch.   Fun times.

Hope all of you enjoy working with this sketch as much as I did.

Look at Me

This is the last picture I have printed right now of Silas that I'm ready to scrap.   But there are a more on more computer I've already saved and more in Facebook to choose from.   So I'll be back with more, maybe even this coming week.    He is about 6 weeks shy of a year old in this picture and he
is really loving being able to stand up now.   He can walk but only by holding onto things.   But that is allowing him to go just about anywhere he wants now.    The fun of raising a toddler is about to begin in full force for these mommies.

This layout I'm entering at 'SCRAPBOOK CHALLENGES"  it is Sketch Crew Crush: Ashley and her challenge to 'scrap like me'  I scraplifted her layout that they chose for this challenge.
I really like the simplicity of this layout  with the small and very large banner.   Just my style.
I love banner flags.

You have until midnight the 29th to enter any of this months challenges.

Now That's Breakfast

A breakfast like this deserves a 2 page layout and also 2 challenges to enter it in.

I knew I wanted to enter  SketchCrew Crush Cathy at "SCRAPBOOK CHALLENGES"  here challenge was to do a double page layout.      So there is one challenge but I wanted to find a
sketch for a double page so I went to "SCRAP MUCH?"  and their  Sketch-y Friday challenge on Feb. 5th is a double page sketch.

Check out these challenges by clicking on the links above and here is the sketch.   There is still time
left in the month to enter both.

Play Time

Silas got to go out and play in a ball house for the first time.    So that of course deserves a layout.

For this layout I used the Sketch-y Friday 2-16 sketch at "SCRAP MUCH?"
This was fun trying to find all kinds of different papers with a variety of colors to go with the balls but not necessary the pink around the structure so for an offset color I picked a pale blue as there were some pink like colors in my background paper, along with blue, red, green, yellow and white.
Some black card stock matting to separate everything .

Check out the challenge details   HERE  and I added the sketch too.

Together

Happy scrapping day for me.   I'm having a great day, between sitting outside in our great February weather and back inside to scrap I have to say its a great day.

Here is layout #2 for the day.   I had this new picture just a few days old of Gibson & Addisyn and I just had to scrap it.    The way they look at each other and have so much fun together, just an awesome brother and sister.       I did a lot of combining of papers for this one.   The background sheet is a single piece I had left from the Crate Paper - Acorn Avenue collection and then my main paper under the picture is from a single sheet from Bo Bunny - Family Is collection.   The B side of that paper is also where I got the "you and me" square and I combined two other individual square to put the boy & girl silhouette together for more embellishing.   The 2 stripes of paper I used above that paper is cut and using both sides from one piece of paper from Cosmo Cricket - Upcycle collection.
The two circles and the blue cloudy paper were from my scrap drawer.

I'm going to enter this into two different challenges.

First off I used the Feb. 15th sketch at "STUCK ?! SKETCHES"    I  just had to rotate it 90 degrees to make it work for my picture.  

Next the Sketch Crew crush on Kate challenge at "SCRAPBOOK CHALLENGES"  her challenge was to use a mixture of graphic patterns in your layout.

Here is the sketch.

Is This All

Yeah, I'm feeling like the flu bug has left me, although my hubby came down with it last night, but today while he rests I have plans to scrap all day.

Not much snow at all here in Kansas City this year but I still wanted to make one wintery page for the year.   So I took all 3 pictures that I have for the year and put together this layout using the sketch #471 at  "SCRAPBOOK CHALLENGES"