Cat in a Tree

There is a new sketch reveal today at "Scrap Much?"    I really had no idea when I saw the sketch what I would do but since the reveal is now in mid December I was thinking Christmas.
Luckily I put up my Christmas tree real early in my craft room andmy one year old cat Rose has been entertaining me ever since.    She has spent days 'walking' thru the branches of the trees so I was able to get a variety of pictures of her.   She circled thru the tree mostly before I had any ornaments added, but once I added the ornaments that made for a whole new variety of fun.   Of sticking her paw out and batting at the ornaments hanging in front of her.

I hope to see a lot of entries using this great sketch.   I sure had fun with it and I'm sure you will also.
You can click   HERE to see all the details and I have added the sketch below.

A Winter Card

I was asked to be a Guest Designer at "Scrapping4Fun Challenges"   Challenge #32 is
"Winter or Summer"  and I chose Winter and decided to make this card.       I have to admit its
been a long time since I've used Stickles but I thought my age needed a little more  so I added
some to the  line of snow and then on a few flakes in the sky.    In my mind the white doily is
one big snowflake.

I hope you will join in the challenge.   You can make a card, a layout, canvas, just about anything you want.   Just pick either Winter or Summer.     Check out the details  HERE.

CARDS

I found this picture by chance this morning while I was looking for some embellishments for another Christmas layout.   I have no idea how it got in there but glad I found it as I'm trying to  fill in as many years in my Christmas albums that I can, going back to 1951 the year I was born.

For this layout I used the Week 1 sketch at "Let's Get Sketchy"    I was looking for a sketch for just one photo and this one was perfect.   I added the Santa face as an embellishment because that is what my picture is about.   I write it about in my journal box.   My Mom had made this felt Santa card holder years before this picture of Christmas 1962.   I can remember it being hung on the inside of the front door for all my childhood and into adulthood.    All I can think is that it was done on the couch in this picture because we had been looking at the cards that we added to it each day after the mail came.    Plus I have the bonus of a picture of our cat Snooper in the picture too.

Here is the sketch below and you can check out all the details   HERE.  

Pizza !!

We are home from Thanksgiving at my son's home in Dallas so its time to start scrapping some of the pictures I took.   On Wednesday night we made homemade pizzas.    They have an attachment for making wood-fired pizza that goes on their webber grill.   We went to the store and got all kinds of ingredients and made our own dough.   Then everyone made their own pizza with the toppings they wanted.    It didn't take long at all for them to cook on the grill and Jason was the master chef.
We had everything from mac n cheese topped pizza for Kai, and Mylan wanted mixed cheese only on hers but shaped it into a heart.    We had these toppings to choose from, mozzarella cheese, cheddar cheese, parmesan cheese, fresh mushrooms,  red onions, black olives, fresh basil, pepperoni, italian sausage and even left over steak from the night before.

I was glad when I saw the double page sketch at "Stick it Down" as it would work great for a variety of the pictures of the pizza making event.   It's a great sketch you can see below.

I'll also enter this layout in the new challenge "Lasting Memories" which is a DT Call - What's Your Style.     This layout shows my style as I like to have layers of patterns and I also like to make the papers and all my pictures.  On this layout I even having matting on some of my embellie stickers and on my journaling strips.

You can see all the details by clicking each link below.

"Stick It Down"

"Lasting Memories"

Mr. and Mrs.

When I saw the sketch assignment for the DT reveal for Nov.28th sketch challenge at "Scrap Much"
I immediately thought how great it would be to do a collage of my daughters wedding pictures.
Plus I got this great chipboard Mr. & Mrs. just a couple of weeks before in a RAK from one of my online scrappy friends and I knew it would work perfect for this layout.   I just kept the chipboard look to it and did a little bit of charcoal black inking on some of the edges.    Then just used white, silver and black colors on the layout papers   Added a few white dove embellies, some bling behind my journal circle and I was really pleased with how it turned out.

I'm sorry I didn't get my blog post up on time for the reveal going live but I was out of town for the holidays and honestly just forgot to do it early.    I do hope to see a lot of you joining in the challenge as I really think there is so many things you can do with this double page sketch.    I have the sketch below and check out all the detail for the challenge at "Scrap Much?"   HERE.

Soccer

Jason was the coach of Kai's soccer team this year so he got his picture taken with Kai along with the traditional individual players pictures.     Oh this so brings back memories of when Jason was this young and his Dad was the coach.   Hopefully this will be the family tradition and when Kai is grown up and a father he too will have a son and coach his teams.
I used the sketch at  "Colorful Creations" to make this sketch.   I have a picture of the sketch I used below and you can read about all the details of the challenge  HERE.

PL week 46

I was all caught up on my PL pages when the challenge came out at "Stuck on U Sketches".  
Their latest PL challenge (and sadly the last PL challenge) is to use woodgrain on your pages.
So I went to work on getting started on this weeks pages and I finished page one and I used woodgrain on all of it.   Every card and background behind pictures has woodgrain except for the November card that I added a flower to.

Check out the challenge  HERE  and enter one last time for PL challenges at "Stuck on U Sketches"