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!

Finding Focus

with scrapbooking. You know I spend a lot of time dreaming about paper and how to use it. I decided that I need to stop dreaming so much and just do it. I finally chosee my word of the year and that word is Transformation. I want to transform my body, my house, my fiances, my time management, my routine. Pretty much everything. I just need a major overhaul. Sometimes it is good just to take a step back and re-focus. Anyway this is a blog about paper crafts right? Yep so lets get to it. I had a busy weekend but still managed to get a few pages done. I ran across this sketch a few weeks ago and then I couldn't remember where I had seen it! It looks so similar to this sketch that I kept seeing everywhere. I finally found the one I had seen when looking for other ideas over at Got Sketch, I just love Valerie's style. Here is my take on Sketch 110

as I was searching for my sketch I noticed a few things at my favorite scrapbooking blogs

It's all in the little details like layers

and the dimension

and the details

and the story

then it all comes together!

The crazy thing is I know all this. I have been scrapping for years but sometimes it is easy to lose your focus.

{My Corny Girls}
Cardstock - Bazzil and We R Memory Keepers line Be My Valentine line from the February Kit at Personal Scrapper
Thickars (also in kit)
Dear Lizzie glitter brads (also in kit)
Waxy Flax from CTMH
Pop Dots
Fiskars boarder punch

California Dreaming...

Scraptivations is having a really cool challenge that is called

Would you rather...

• use a die-cut/punch or fussy cut something?
• scrap something hard to scrap about or hardly ever scrapped about?
• use a music title or a movie/TV title?

My hardly ever scrapped - my childhood. I always scrap my girls childhood but never my childhood or my brother either. I am actually not sure that I have ever scrapped about my childhood. Here is my die cut...two actually the boarder and the journaling box.

Here is a close up of my flowers and my hand stitching. Fancy huh? This paper with the tree's remind me of some shirts we had when we were little and living in California.

Here is my movie title: Club Paradise

Here is what the journaling says:

When we were young we were so creative! We loved to spend time out in the world collecting things...from the trash. We finally had enough to make an awesome fort. Some of my personal favorites are the stools, his is broken and mine is an over turned crate. We also seem to have a lot of books for me!

 

{club paradise supplies}

April 2008 Personal Scrapper Kit

Crate Paper Static Collection Road

Felt Flowers & Brads from Kit

Twill from Stampin' Up!

Buttons Chocolate collection from Papertrey Ink

Waxy Flax from Close To My Heart

Die-a-namics scallop die from My Favorite Things

Mat Stack 5 die from Papertrey Ink

Mini Scrapbook Series: Library Ledger stamp

Cocoa ink from Close To My Heart

Got Sketch # 65

Consider it Cased - Valentine's Edition

So I came across this blog in my hopping and I knew right away that this is what I would do for Maizie's Valentines Day Cards.

First I cut down some Close To My Heart Tulip Cardstock down to 2" x 3" which was nice because out of one piece of cardstock I got 24 cards and I only need 21. Next up a cute little frame I used Fillable Frames #12 from Papertrey Ink and some white craft in from Stampin' Up!

Then I rounded the corners and stamped a variety of cute animals from PTI's Tiny Treats Birthday stamp, punched them out, and colored them in with my Copics. Added a sentiment from CTMH's Stay it in Style stamp set.

About that time two of my girls came up so Savannah helped her little sister sign her name. Melts your heart huh...

Awww my little lefty.

Look mommy! She did that after every one it was so cute!

All set for tomorrow. I hope everyone has a great day.