Happy St. Patricks Day

Just 10 days away so I've been work last couple of days on my St. Patricks Day.     This card is for two different challenges.   First is the  the "CURTAIN CALL INSPIRATION CHALLENGE"   

Click on the name above and here is the inspiration.

Next I am going to enter it at  "THE PAPER GIRL CHALLENGES"
Challenge #123 is The Luck of the Irish.    So with my background paper and the big shamrock I think this card is perfect for this challenge.      Click on the challenge name above to go to the link for this challenge.

Baby Girl

Yes I'm still making baby layouts.     This little granddaughter is going to have a full 3D ring album
before she is two months old.      But it was my baby girl that had a baby girl and I was there in the delivery room and this little angel is so precious to me.

This is my design team entry at  "THE MEMORY NEST"  for the new sketch on March 6th.  
I really liked working with it.   I had to change it up a bit from the orientation of the picture I wanted to use so my second picture is the PL style card.

I look forward to seeing how everyone else will work with this sketch.   It's a great one to use and as always there will be an awesome monthly prize so be sure and join the fun.   You have all month to play along.

Here is the sketch and the link to  "THE MEMORY NEST"

I'm Growing

I have been making lots of layouts for my latest granddaughters album but today I decided to make this double page layout for my own album.    I was inspired by the March double page sketch at
"LET'S SCRAP SKETCHES"   It was perfect for the first 5 weeks of Elle's life.  On the left hand side, the picture in the circle she was 2 days old and this is when she came home from hospital, the vertical picture is here week 1 picture and then weeks 2 through 5 are all number on the right hand side.  

I am also going to enter this layout in the new challenge just announced today #334 at
"LASTING MEMORIES LAYOUT CHALLENGES"   The new challenge is to 'Include a Banner' with the bonus prompt if you wanted to use it was to make a birthday layout.   Well, this is kind of that with weekly birthdays as that is all Elle has celectrateb so far.    I have that across the bottom of the both pages where I have the mini alphas on them spelling out  I Am Growing.   And she really is, I need to get back and visit for some more cuddles soon.

I love being able to combine challenges, but more importantly I love that I know that this great double page to keep for my own album.

I used all papers from the Baby Girl Mamby stack of papers.   My title I made from misc. stickers that I matted and but on a matted pink card stock.  I also double matted the vertical picture and added ink to all the edges of my papers.   The mini alphas are from October Afternoon.   My go to letters when not using Thickers.

Here are the links to the challenges and the sketch below them.

"LET'S SCRAP"

"LASTING MEMORIES"

Tiny Dancer

I'm so glad I had this single picture of our granddaughter Avery,  It worked perfectly to print it 3 times and use it with the sketch at  "LET'S GET SKETCHY"   I love that shadow effect it makes.

Working with this sketch I decided to combine it with another challenge the March Tic-Tac-Toe
challenge at "SCRAP OUR STASH"   I used the bottom row,  Mini Alphas, Flair and Crate Paper,
All the paper is from the Crate Paper Heart Day collection

Here are the links to the challenges.

"LET'S GET SKETCHY"  

"SCRAP OUR STASH"  

You and Me

I've been waiting to use this February sketch at  "MY CREATIVE SKETCHES"  and I finally got the right picture.     This is my son and grandaughter all dress up and ready to leave for the annual
Father - Daughter dance at her school.   My son took other pictures there but they turned out a bit too dark.   He had asked me if I would make him something that he could frame.    I hope he will like this layout and frame it when I send it to him.

I decided to go with blues because of the color of Mylan's dress and Jason had on a light blue dress shirt.   I looked at my DCWV Linen Closet stack and found the accent papers I wanted to use plus was also able to fussy cut from items one one page, my title, my journal box and some of the other accents.   I used to acrylic gold arrows from a package of PL cards and embellies that I no longer have the name of.   Then I used the B side of an old piece of Authentique paper and then a piece of Jim Holtz shattered card stock.  I also used two different shades of distress inks to ink the edges of  the majority of my papers.   I really liked the blues and golds together, I think it merits a father daughter dance layout.

Here is the sketch and the link to the challenge at  "MY CREATIVE SKETCHES"   you have until midnight EST March 4th to enter.   There is a great random draw prize also.

Christmas Eve 2010

Why Christmas Eve 2010 you ask???   Because it seems my photo printer decided to quit this morning so if I want to scrap anything until I get a new one, I have to go back to pictures I've had printed.   I noticed I had a pretty good selection from Christmas 2010, so I looked in chronological
Christmas albums and it seems I had mostly scrapped only pictures that year up until the big day.  Plus I had these 2 from Christmas Eve so I just started here.

When making these layouts I was inspired by the new March 1st challenge at  "COLORFUL 
CREATIONS"   a color combo with a twist.      Below is the link to the challenge

"COLORFUL CREATIONS"      I used red and green through out my layout with my paper choices, my matting on the pictures, the journal tags and my poinsettia embellishment, even the 3D border at the top.   I softly inked on top of my paper with a green ink and then also used both green and red inks to ink the edges of my border, both mats and my tags.   Plus to finish off the layout I also inked all around the 12x12 layout with green ink.   I love inking edges, just gives a finished look to me.

Then and Now

I think about 4 years back or so I made a layout of the picture on the right.   So when my daughter-in-law posted these two pictures together in Facebook, earlier this month.  I knew right then I would be making a "now and then"  layout.    Boy these two have really grown, even Scotty the dog has grown, no more baby spots on his belly.  LOL

I'm glad to be back on the Design Team at  "SKETCHES IN THYME"   This is my first reveal using the week one sketch for March.     Come back every day to see what the other Team #1 members have done with this sketch and then ever week for a new sketch to work with.

Really looking forward to seeing a lot of you join in on the fun.    We are working to get some great prizes together for our challenges.

Here is the link and the sketch.     "SKETCHES IN THYME"