Mylan's 1st Soccer game

Here is the latest sketch at "Let's Scrap" that was posted today.    I needed a dbl page sketch to use for the Soccer pictures of Mylan I got last weekend and this sketch worked perfectly.
Check out the details of the challenge    HERE

Here is my finished layout.....using all the pictures I have of Mylan and her first soccer game.

The View

Today I've been doing all vacation layouts and also playing catch up wight eh birthday stash-a-thon at "Scrap Our Stash"   this layout I added bling around my journaling circle, on the corners of the picture and on the 3 blue card stock strips of paper on the right side of the layout  plus I then used sparkly Thicker alphas for the title so I could use it for Challenge #3 'Candles/Anything that Sparkles'      Check it out   HERE

Now for the sketch I used.     Creative Scrappers #263.    See all info on the challenger   HERE

Its not often you find a sketch for a 6x12 photo.   I print my own pictures at home and the largest photo paper I had was 8x10 so I made my picture 6x10 and used a border punch and card stock at the top and bottom.   I actually like the look of it because I also added some of the dark blue card stock strips across the right side of my patterned paper.
I have so many pictures of the waves out our back door during vacation it was great to be able to use one of the pictures in a larger way.

Pub Grub

This was a fun layout to make,  I played around with a lot of different papers before I settled on these, totally different than where I started but decided to go with the purples because of the purple shirt I had on.   So even the black and white word paper, i used purple card stock to mat it.    then matted purple checkerboard paper with white and used purple striped paper for background paper,  the only thing I stayed with was the dark gray dotted paper I used to mat my pictures and then around the journal box and food sign also.    I love matting now so challenge #1 at Scrap Our Stash stashathon b'day challenges was perfect for me.    Check out the challenge   HERE
The challenge is called Cake/Layering and you need to have 3 or more layers of patterned paper and/or embellishments.    
These pictures are again from our Hawaii vacation.   We ate here,   Annie's Burgers twice at lunch time, the 2nd day of trip and then the last day also.    This was our first lunch there and we tried it all between the 4 of us, we had 3 different burgers (somehow didn't get pic of one of them) and Dad had fish and chips, and then as appetizers in the big picture, we had onions rings and jalepeno poppers and Dad and I had a drink, Dad a beer and I had a rum punch which was just as good as all the food we had.   Not a cheap place to eat, but no place was in Hawaii, the burgers were $15 each.

Color

Above is the sketch that I used for my layout.   This is the latest sketch at Let's Capture Our Memories.    Sketch # 63.      You can check it out   HERE
As soon as I saw it I knew what paper I was going to use for the 2 accent pieces.   I had a strip of floral paper left from a previous vacation layout I had made and knew I wanted to use it and my picture would be of some of the floral pictures I took on vacation in Kona.
Here is what I created.
I also am entering this layout at Lasting Memories for challenge #181 "Early Spring"
Check it out  HERE     The spring challenge was to use flowers on our layout.   So I covered all bases and have flowers in my paper, as my embellishments and also the subject of my photo.
I am so ready for spring here, so I'm loving scrapping non winter pictures.

Okika-Lani

I only got to make one layout today but I chose the newest sketch at      S.W.A.T.   Drill #28
I love the panoramic picture my brother took of the living room at the house we rented for our vacation in Kona two weeks ago.    The title I used is the name of the house "Okika-Lani"
This sketch below from SWAT worked great to just highlight this picture.    We had such a great time on vacation and I'm having a great time making this vacation album.   I usually don't make a full album from a vacation but this one that is my goal.   So far I have 5 pages made but many more ideas.

There is also a challenge at Scrap Our Stash for there Stash A Thon Birthday,   Challenge #2 was called cake line/Doily.    So this layout is perfect for it since I used 3 full doilys and 1 half doily.   It's hard to see in my picture because of the lighting but I have one large doily behind my picture and the strips of patterned paper.   Then there are 2 smaller dollies to the left and right, one inked with some green and one with some orange and then at the top of the layout I used a half doily and inked in in both green and orange to go with my colors of the layout.     Check out challenge    HERE.http://scrapourstash.blogspot.com/2014/03/stash-thon-birthday-challenge-2-cake.html

Palm Trees

We just got back on Saturday afternoon from a week long vacation in Hawaii.    So yesterday, even though totally tired I pushed myself to start making layouts from the trip.   I knew that I would probably be making several double page layouts so I went right to Let's Scrap blog to see what they had posted while I was gone because I knew I could always find great double page sketches there.
I wasn't mistaken I used the sketch from 3/5/14 for this layout.     Just showing some of the many Palm Tree pictures I took.   Check out the challenge   HERE     There is a great prize this week from
Pretty Paper Pretty Ribbons, a $15 gift certificate.      And below is the sketch I used.

St. Pats Card

I need to make a couple of St. Pats cards to send out and this is the first one I just made today.
I'll get to enter it in the Red Carpet Studio Challenge #65 The Lucky One.    You can check out the
the challenge   HERE