5K Partner

I'm still working on pictures from our trip to Texas for Thanksgiving this last year plus more pictures from the 5K walk/run the kids all participated in that morning.   I knew i had these 2 pictures of Uncle Hank and Mylan and when I saw the sketch at Shop Scrap Much  I knew it  would work great for these pictures.    But then pics got buried on my desk for a week so just found them to make the layout.     Here is the sketch and the link to it.  

Shop Scrap Much Guest Designer layout

Valentines Day is the day this layout I made will be featured on the Shop Scrap Much blog as the Guest Designer.     The sent me the sketch to use a couple weeks back, so I went right to work on it and made this layout using a couple of pictures taken last month on our trip to Orlando to visit Arthurs' daughter and her family.   They live on a lake and the weather was perfect so one afternoon we went out in their boat for a ride.    Fun time for sure since we left the cold weather back in Missouri,  although we did semi get caught driving home because that was the time of the storm
that hit Atlanta and basically closed them down for a couple of days.   We were suppose to drive right through Atlanta but had to change our route and ended going thru Montgomery and Birmingham, AL which wasn't good either, but because of all the route changes we made,  we were able to get there ok, just took extra time.

But back to the challenge at Shop Scrap Much,  you can check it out    HERE  or see the sketch below.   I hope a lot of you will enter.    And thanks so much for asking me to be the Guest Designer, it is an honor and a joy.

My Garden

I made this challenge at Stuck on U Sketches with just a few hours to spare.     I knew I wanted to make a layout of all the pictures my son had posted on FB of the process over a couple of weekends on the organic garden he was building in his backyard.    I was looking thru sketches at various blogs I follow and found this one and it was perfect because I would get to use all 6 of the pictures he posted.      The challenge is over this evening, so I started right away just after lunch trying to decide what papers and embellies and such to use.   It ended up being rather ample as I just matted my pictures and my background paper is actually 4 6x6 squares I just taped together on the back.
Then I used my silhouette for only the 2nd time to cut these two different plant/leave cuts to use as the embellishments.   You can see the sketch and challenge     HERE

Valentines card

Valentines day was sneaking up on me.   I got the Valentine cards made for the Grandkids real early and their treats sent out to them.   But then I still had to make my card for my hubby.   He would be surprised not to get a handmade card from me on every occasion.       I used card sketch #19 at the Sketch n Scrap blog.    You can check it out   HERE
I thought the sketch would work perfectly for a Valentines card.   My goal the first of the year was to enter more card challenges and I think this is the first one I've entered.   I just usually make my cards without a sketch but now after doing this one.  I'll be using more card sketches now.

Mylan Texas Cowgirl

After I finished this layout I thought the true title of it should be Pink Overload.
My granddaughter Mylan is certainly not the all pink girlie girl, but with the top she had on and the hot pink cowgirl hat I decided to go with dusty rose and pinks for the paper colors that I chose.
I used an old collection.   My Minds Eye - Indie Chic for this layout and then two different types of flowers from my stash and pink Thickers.    I don't know how much of the Indie Chic paper I started out with, but I know I've used it often and I still have a lot left.
I used the Inspired By Sketch #2 at the Sketch n Scrap blog.   You can check it out   HERE
There is still time to enter the February challenges and a chance to win a great prize from
Crate Paper.
My bonus for this layout since I have a total Pink Overload going on is that I can also enter my layout  at S.W.A.T.  their Drill #25 posted on 2-4-14 is al about ONE,  use one color on your creation and can also use black and white.   So I have all pink here and a touch of white.   Check out this fun
challenge  HERE.    There is a great prize of a kit from 3 Scrappy Boys.

Crazy Cat

We adopted a 12 wk old kitten from the Humane Society the day after Christmas.   Here name there was Rosette, and we have shortened it to just Rose.   We really love her and laugh everyday at her antics.   Just this last week found her trying to clean out the pasta pan from the Spaghetti we had made for dinner and then another day climbing and looking thru the branches of the artificial ficus tree in the dining room.   She is spoiled rotten but we love our "Crazy Cat"   I used the sketch at
Creative Scrappers,  it is sketch #261.    You still have till the end of the month to join the challenge so check it out   HERE.      There are so many different takes on the sketch and fun to see them all.

So Pretty

 I haven't scrapped in a couple of days when is unusual for me.   But I'm back and now looking at my blog it seems the last layout I did was the Let's Get Sketchy Wk 1 sketch and now I'm back using the Week 2 sketch there.      I had to rotate the sketch because the picture I wanted to use was a vertical picture.     This is my granddaughter Avery and I just think she looks so pretty in this photo, so made my title rather obvious.   When looking for what papers to use I found that I have a few sheets left of the Basic Grey - Oliver collection and it really tied into all the pictures in the photo.   I even found one lone butterfly in my stash that colors worked too.    For the doilies I just cut one small one in half and then rubbed my Tim Holtz distress ink Shabby Shutters color over them and had the soft green color I was looking for (not sure why they look more yellow in the picture) but it is a soft shade of green.      This was a fun sketch to work with.   The sketch also had some banners on it, but I skipped that part.   You can check it out    HERE