My Boy

I had a photo of Luke that I really liked, but I really wasn't going to scrap. I was playing with the camera and zoomed in on him one day. His face looks a bit funny, but I think it's pretty cool. This month at SnC there is a challenge for a close-up photo. I was going to use a photo of a person, but I really wanted to use this one. I found this sketch on the Bo Bunny blog for Layout Challenge Friday on July 2nd.
For the challenge at Bo Bunny, you had to use Bo Bunny products to create your page. I used papers and embellishments from their Flutter Butter line. I love the butterflies.

Lukie definitely was my boy.

Weaving paper

I was trying to figure out how to incorporate a 2nd challenge or two into a layout using the sketch from The Studio Challenges from July 7, 2010.


My friend Beth from SnC created a paper weaving piece shaped like a circle. I really liked it and wanted to try it, so I thought this sketch would work for that. And the challenge for Week 27 at The ScrapRoom Blog was to create a layout about a holiday. I had taken a photo of the table decoration for our Easter table from 2009, and the photo just hit me as I was scrolling through trying to decide what to do. So this is what I came up with:


The weaving went much faster than I thought it would. I like how it turned out. I was not able to enter the layout into The ScrapRoom Blog challenge, but I am glad that I scrapped this photo. Thanks for looking.

Jessie in the park

I have had these pictures of Jessie for 2 years now. I never really knew what I wanted to to with them. Papercraft Star's Challenge #3 this week was a great sketch with spots for a lot of photos. Perfect.


I enjoyed using these colorful, happy Wild Raspberry from K & Company. I think this is a pretty, girly page. Thanks for looking.

I love balloons

I have always wanted to watch hot air balloons going up. They have a balloon festival here in the next county over every year, but we have never gone. This year, they had multiple launch sites with evening launch times. The fairgrounds are just over the river from us, about 15 or 20 minutes away. They were scheduled to have 3 balloons go off on Friday evening. So we went over to watch. It was pretty cool watching them unpack the balloons and baskets, then filling them up. It was breathtaking watching them float into the air. So worth the trip.

I found that some of the photos I took at the launch would make a perfect layout with this week's Sketchy Thursdays sketch. The sketch is for a 2 page layout, and I was so excited about that.


For the large photo on the left side of the layout, I created a collage of 8 photos of one of the balloons inflating.


I used Echo Park's Sweet Summertime collection for this layout. So cool that it had a balloon die cut and the colors were perfect. This is the right side of the layout.

And both pages together.


Thanks for looking.

Through The Years

When I saw this sketch at Sketchy Thursday last week, I knew I wanted to do a page of one of my kids with photos at varying ages. My school photos of the boys are not totally organized, so I did not have the photos of Pete or David readily available to make this page. I had done a page similar to this of Ben several years ago.




Then I thought about group photos of the 3 of them. I have been working on pages of the professional portraits that had been taken of the family, so I did have some older and newer photos available of all of the boys together. This is the page I put together.


The last photo is of course not a professional portrait. It's a photo that I took in front of the Alamo when we were all in San Antonio for David's graduation from Lackland. I have to really get my photos and scrapping supplies totally organized so that I have everything I may need handy, and up to date. Thanks for looking.

A Fun Summery Layout

This past 3 day weekend for me was pretty productive. I accomplished quite a bit of housework and gardening work. And I was able to get 4 pages completed and a 5th one started. It felt good to get so much done and to start scrapping again.

I did a 2 page layout of Josh and Jarred with photos that my sister took during our vacation at Myrtle Beach at the beginning of the month.

The first page contains a photo of my nephew Josh. It's based on the 6.17 sketch at Sketchy Thursdays. I flipped the photos a bit to make the page work as a 2 page spread. This is the sketch:
And the page:

The photo of Josh looks a little dark in this photo, but in person it's nice and bright.

The 2nd page is based on Sketch #107 at Creative Scrappers. The picture is my nephew Jarred. He sure looks like he's having a blast.


And here are the 2 pages together.

These pages will qualify for the Coastal Challenge at the Scrappin-n-Chatting Yahoo group. Thanks for looking.

First Layout of the Month

I had been doing so well at keeping up with the challenges on the Scrappin'-n-Chattin'. This month started with vacation, then getting caught up. Scrapping has just seemed to be taking a backseat. Stew is working 2nd shift this weekend, so I have decided that I will spend most of my time in the office scrapping while he's gone.

The first layout that I worked on was based on a sketch for the July Guest Design Team Challenge at Sketchy Thursdays. As soon as I saw this sketch, I knew which photo I wanted to use. Stew took this picture that when I was away. The dogs spent most of the days outside while I was gone and Willie and Harley were inseparable. Stew looked up from his work to find Lola, Harley and Willie sound asleep on the front lawn. He went to get the camera, but Lola heard him and moved. When he got back, he snapped this one.

These are truly best friend. This layout is also being used for the Tiny Alpha challenge at Snc.