Scraptivations Challenge 3...all about me

So this Scraptrivations challenge is perfect for me at this time as I declared this year all about me. I want to put me into the books a little more and I want to take care of myself a lot more. I figure if I am taking care of myself I will feel better and be able to better care for my loved ones. 

 
So yay I made it into the album a few times this year so far and I have been taking better care of myself too. Both of these things are easier said than done but I am a work in progress. Here is the adorable sketch I had to work with. I LOVE sketches they make it so easy to get started on a page. 

I didn't stray to far from the sketch. I often stay pretty close to the general layout. I extended the photo's a little and moved the title and journaling around.. I also love to rotate sketches. I might give this sketch another go at a later date and turn it on it's side. I have done that in the past and ended up making a whole vacation album that way. It was so fun and easy to do.

I have been wanting to scrap these photo's of me at the beach for a while but was not sure where I wanted to go with them as I didn't like the way they turned out but since I love the ocean so much I didn't want to not use them. I was so excited when the title just came to me along with the little journaling box that starts off "i love..." I decided to journal about how the ocean gets deep in my soul and make any and all worried away and even though I live thousands of miles from it when I get near it just makes me feel like I am home.

I don't know if you noticed but I also have little black flowers behind my main flowers. I have had these for a long time and have almost tossed them a few times because I said to myself...black flowers when will I ever use those? Ha see it is not always so bad to hoard your scrapbook supplies! LOL This is also something I am working on. Using what I have, I guess I can check that box off too. I am really on a roll with my goals for the year.

One last look.

Scraptivations: Challenge 2

This time we had a really color challenge. We had to look at a photo and draw inspiration from it. I decided to pull the colors from it. Green, yellow, and brown. I have been trying to decide what I wanted to do with this inspiration and then today as I was going through photo's I came across this one of my oldest daughter Danielle. This was from a fun day when we went and took a ton of photo's for her senior photo shoot. This is the one we put in her graduation invatations. 

 

I pulled this design off of a horizontal 8 1/2 x 11 PageMaps sketch. I don't really do that size so I just motified it to fit my needs.

I popped up a few of the circles to add some deminsion.

some chipboard letters

 

and some buttons and my new favorite fiskars punch. I also did jounaling in a white gel pen. I also took my journaling to a new level. Normally I just journal about the photo's but here I decided to write a message about how proud and how blessed I am. I think I will try and do this more for each of my girls. I know I would love to have something like that from my mom. I know she feels those things for me but when it is in writing...well it makes me a little mushy.

Here is the inspiration photo.



Won't  you come and join us over at Scraptivations?

Dani

Stampin Up Papers and ribbon, Papertrey buttons, thickers letters, white gel pen.

Enjoy the Ride-

Little Miss Maizie got a brand new bike for her birthday. She is in love. She love things that can help her move. This is extra awesome because it also involves Dora.  Poor daddy didn't realize that before you give the gift you have to put it together. Haha! I snapped some fun photo's of him putting it together and Maizie helping. Since she is three now she knew just how to help. I was a little worried at first because there were some extra parts laying around but alas daddy was the hero at the end of the day because Maizie is now the proud owner of something to ride around and around the first floor of our house.

Here is a close up of the title. I also finally found a way to use one of those awesome chipboard circles that I have had forever and a day.

A close up of this adorable felt flower embellishment from Dear Lizzie....so cute!

added a button to the middle with some ribbon and a little bling bling

and just a different view.

I just adore this paper line from My Minds Eye - Erica over at Personal Scrapper has a great way of putting the kits together. I got all this stuff with my march kit. I cannot wait to see what April's brings!

{Ride}

American Crafts Coffee Cardstock
Stella and Rose – Little One Blooms Paper from My Minds Eye
Stella and Rose – Gertie Delightful Sweet Strip Paper from My Minds Eye
Stella and Rose Gertie Little One Label Stickers
Dear Lizzie Chatter Lush Rhinestone Brads – orange from My Minds Eye



Scraptivations - Challenge 1

Ladies are you ready to join us in our first challenge over at Scraptivations? It is a sketch challenge and I hope you can participate!  Lisa does great sketches and this one will not disappoint.

Here is the sketch :

Here is what I came up with - I have been trying to decide what to do with these photo's for a while of Maizie at Christmas. She got a little upset when all the gifts were gone as she had just gotten into a routine.

The paper is from a past kit over at Personal Scrapper. The line is Happy Fall by We r Memory Keepers I believe. I had been using it mainly for school pages so it was nice to use a fall line for something so different like Christmas.

Close up of some of the details

And of the title. I added some brads on the sides as well as at the top.

More close ups

Here you can see some of the layers. I popped up some of the extras

I hope you have time to head over to the Scraptivations blog so that you can see what everyone else has been up to and when show us what you came up with you will have the chance to win a prize!



In CASE you were wondering...

where I went off to. Here I am. I have been looking for my crafty mojo and I am not sure I have found it yet but my room is all clean. I moved it again, those that know me in real life are very surprised I know. ;)

I do have some scrappy goodness to share. This is a total CASE of my friend Lisa's page that she did a few weeks ago during a Personal Scrapper crop. I had really been struggling with an earlier assignment regarding my one word that I want to focus on this year.

Some SUPER EXCITING Scrappy good news and a card share

Here is a quick card based off of one of the new MFT Wednesdays sketches. You can see the sketch here

The card came together really quick and off it went into the mail to a friend who is always doing the sweetest things for me. I really don't send her enough cards. Heck I don't send anyone enough cards. I am working on it though it is one of my goals this year.

Speaking of goals this year another one was to be a on a Design Team - well guess what? I applied to Scraptivations who make a DT call last month and I was selected! Yippeee!!! I am super super excited to be a part of this team. Carly has been working hard getting this new challenge blog up and running. Our first challenge is going to be up and running on March 20th and I would love it if all of you come on over and check it out and join in on the fun. 

Now to get busy on those other goals on that list. ;)

Doing the Dora Dance

Well my little one turned 3 in December I was super happy to learn that my mom got her a Dora cookie bouquet as Maizie is all about Dora. I love me some cookies and Maizie was not to interested int he big one so I decided to eat that one. Well they are on a stick and so naturally it was off with her head. The funniest thing happened though as we were sitting around the table I looked at Savannah, who is just as silly as I am, and looked at my mom who was in some deep important conversation and I took the headless Dora and put her in position so it looked like my mom was her head. Savannah and I were laughing so hard and so we started trying to take photo's it was forever before my mom even knew what we were doing. Ha! Anyway after we composed ourselves a little we had to make everyone "Dora" and thus we were all doing the Dora dance. I found this sketch over at Got Sketch it is an older one #76 but I love it. Since I needed a two pager I just turned the photo's for the second page. I am really enjoying how this turned out.  So now that you know how we all ended up doing the Dora dance here is the layout I created. These papers are again using the fabulous February Kit from Personal Scrapper.

 

I love making these rosette flowers. I also trimmed out a conversation heart and added them to the middles.

Some sparkle brads and my favorite new Fiskars punch.

These letters are foam and have the perfect playful feel to them.

Close up of the journaling.

and the two pages together

More to share soon!