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I had to get my layout completed for the 52 Week Challenge at Scrappin'-n-Chattin'.  Last night I saw a sketch from Basic Grey that really jumped out at me.  It's a 2 page sketch, and I really wanted to use it.

I had wanted to do a 1 photo layout of my Tessa, but after I saw this sketch, I thought some photos of Willie would work great.  Here is page 1....

And page 2....

Now both pages together.  (Sorry the photos of the pages are better.  It's difficult taking good photos at night.)

I used the Basic Grey collection Granola.  I was so excited as the pages came together.  I think the papers were perfect.

I am also going to enter this layout at Dutch Dare Card Challenges.  The current challenge is Furry Friends.  

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My friend Mel is challenging herself to create 30 layouts in 30 days during June.  A few friends have joined her, and I am one of them.  I'm not keeping up real well at this point, but I'm still trying.

I created my first layout for June last night.  I used this week's Basic Grey's sketch to create my page.  I really loved this sketch, so I made a point to use it first.

I used Basic Grey's Max and Whiskers for this page.  I love this collection.  I have made so many pages with it.  It's almost gone.  The photos are just a couple of random pictures I had taken of the dogs sitting together.  Trying to get them all to look at me at the same time is sure a challenge.  At least they will all sit still.

Mel is inspiring us with challenges and prompts to really get our creativity going.  One of the challenges she posed was to use something that has been in your stash for at least a year.   This Max and Whiskers collection has been in my stash for over a year, and a little neglected as of late.  I think I have enough of the papers left for 1 more page. 

I am using this page for my 52 Week  layout entry at Scrappin'-n-Chattin' and in one of our monthly challenges - To use a sunburst or sun rays.

I am actually taking the day off tomorrow.  The first time that I have been able to take the day off just because since October.  I hope to get a lot done.  

Just in the nick of time...

I didn't get near as much done this weekend as I wanted. Isn't that always the way? I really wanted to participate in the blog hops that happened over the weekend and get a page done for The Paper Variety. Sadly, none of that happened. But as luck would have it, I am forced to take a day off from work because I have too much vacation time built up. The only day this week I could take off was Tuesday. Cool, if I planned it right, I could get a layout done and uploaded before the noon deadline today.

The challenge this week at TPV was "Let's See Your Green". Your layout is to be at least 50% green.


I love Kermit, and all muppets for that matter.... Anyway. I had no idea what photo I was going to use for this challenge, right up until 10:00 this morning. I had Morgan's and Courtney's school photos printed on the desk in the scrapbooking room, but neither of them were wearing anything with green in it. So I started looking through some of my collections and came across the Basic Grey Green at Heart collection. Yep, that was it.....

Well, I needed a sketch to follow of course. I had looked over several the night before and I chose the March 7th reveal at Sassy Lil' Sketches.


I flipped the sketch to fit Morgan's school photo. She is growing up so fast, and isn't she pretty? I think the colors in the collection were perfect to coordinate with her shirt, and I got my green in there.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope to get a couple more projects done today. It's so nice to be able to relax some, and not worry about what I have to get done though.

Every Day Card Challenge

At Scrappin-n-Chattin we are currently running a challenge to create a card every day. And for this month, they are to be Christmas cards. How fun to be creating holiday cards during the summer. There were 2 options - creating 30 cards, or 15. I chose to try to do 15. So far I am up to 4. It's quite fun and very challenging for me. It will be so nice to have a stash of holiday cards all ready for addressing in December.



My day 4 card also qualifies for our Card Challenge #1 this month at SnC. The challenge was to use a transparency. I used one I had from the Eskimo Kisses collection from Basic Grey. It's such a wonderful collection. The colors are awesome and non-traditional. I really like how it turned out.

I am also going to enter this card into a contest at The Paper Variety. Abby and Suzanne will chose a random winner to receive the Imaginisce Christmas Cottage 6 x 6 paper pad, greetings rub-ons and holly stamp. So much fun.

Thanks for looking.