Finally...

I finally squeaked in some scrapbooking time. I used a fun sketch from Scrapbook Circle to document my girls wild and free spirits. Love those two!

Scrapbook Circle

I love the fun and inspiration from the Scrapbook Circle Blog. It is lots of fun and I love the sketches  they do once a month. Here is my take on the one for September. I just love these kidlets! I mean seriously, how could you not?!!!

Here is the link to their blog. http://www.scrapbookcircle.com/blog

Pagemaps Sketch

I love the pagemaps blog, there's always great inspiration and fun challenges. I made this layout for one of the challenges. Go on over and check out the blog. http://www.pagemaps.blogspot.com/
This is of my cute Kessie enjoying the sprinklers. The journaling reads: The day is a bit cool...The breeze is a bit stiff...The water a bit too cold...BUT who cares?!? Celebrate, play, go crazy. It's Summer!

Bo Bunny

Loved this sketch on the Bo Bunny blog, so I had to give it a try. Check out their blog, it's great!

My Mind's Eye Sketch

Here is a sketch I used from My Mind's Eye. The challenge was to use a song lyric. I chose,"I believe happiness is something we create" from the Sugarland song "Something More". Thought it was a perfect sentiment for these fun pictures of Louie. It was fun to mix and match their collections, I love the bright colors!

Bo Bunny Sketch

I just loved this sketch from Bo Bunny. It was perfect for these two photos I've been wanting to scrap. I pulled out some of my older stash, and had some fun.
Journaling: He's a tough guy! His other side-sweet and always thinking of others. He always finds ways to tell me how much he loves me, like this perfect natural heart! Love you too, Buddy! Laramie Peak 7-2010
There's always tons of inspiration over at the Bo Bunny blog, check it out!
http://bobunny.blogspot.com/

Pagemaps Sketch

Loved this sketch, it was just the encouragement I needed to do this page about my husband and his first white hair! I even saved the hair, but it is impossible to see in the picture. So fun! I used the Echo Park line, I love it, with a little We R Memories in there.

Home Grown

I loved the challenge over on the American Crafts Blog. Especially the idea of making a recipe layout, which didn't actually use a food recipe. So here is my take.
The journaling reads:
Our Family Recipe 11-2010
(Takes a great amount of time and patience, but worth the effort.)
Infinity of Love
Fill to the top, when full, add more. You'll find there is always room for more.
Add:
Bucketfuls of Laughter
Armor of God (1 suit per person)
Gallons of Imagination
Fishing (I like just a pinch, but most prefer a lot more.)
Scores of Communing w/Nature
Scoops and Scoopes of Adventure
A Kiloliter of Hard Work
Tons of Support
Bushels of Compromise
Heaps of Extended Family
A Hundredweight of Crazy Chaos
Sprinkle w/Cuddle Time
15 Pets
Many Pounds of Paint, Tape, Bandaids, Tylenol, and Glue
Dash of Green Food Coloring

Stir, fold, roll, and encourage together. Never beat. Work at it always...and enjoy!

Supplies: Patterned Paper, Thickers, Rub-ons (American Crafts); Cardstock (We R Memory Keepers); Black Pen

Sketchy Thursdays

This last week, they had a great sketch, here's my take.

American Crafts

There was a fun challenge on the American Crafts blog...so I thought I'd play along.
I used the Dear Lizzy collection from American Crafts along with American Crafts alphabet chipboards. Sooo love this picture of my Louie!

Sorry about the sideways photo, I'm not computer literate and can't get it to turn! LOL

Sketchy Thursdays

I love this site, go over and check it out. http://sketchythursdays.blogspot.com/ I used their sketch for the Sept. GDT challenge. I had so much fun!

Journaling: Who knows? Maybe someday Goliath's dream of flying will come true! Grayrocks 6-10

Scraplift

Here is a page I did scraplifting a layout from the American Crafts blog. The original layout was by Moon Ko entitled A Letter to Charlie, and I just fell in love with it. The patterned paper, rubons, thickers, and pop-up stickers are all from American Crafts. The white cardstock is open stock from Hobby Lobby. It came together so fast thanks to the awesome page I lifted!
Go check out their blog!
http://americancrafts.typepad.com/

DeLovely

Here's my first layout using the new Cosmo Cricket paper called DeLovely. I absolutely love the quote and had to use it. It goes perfect with my sweet, innocent Kessie's face! Thanks Cosmo Cricket...you always have great products!

Card Sketch

So I'm not much of a card maker, but Crate Paper had a beautiful sketch challenge up so I thought I'd give it a try. My sister-in-law just had a baby boy and so I thought the Orbit line would be perfect. I also found this great quote that went along perfectly. It was actually really fun! Go check out their blog! http://crate.typepad.com/cratepaper/

Outdoor Girl

I was so excited to use this sketch. I had these hysterical pictures of Louie grumping in the middle of the trail. She didn't want to go any further. Then she forced a smile and told me to tell Daddy that she was an outdoor girl! I got the sketch from Sketchy Thursdays...go check out their blog!
http://sketchythursdays.blogspot.com/

Sketchy Challenge

I got some of the new October Afternoon papers. I usually don't buy the stickers or anything, too expensive, but I splurged this time. I'm so glad I did. I used a ton of them. It was so fun to have everything matching and not have to dig around, this page came together way fast! I got the sketch from Sketchy Thursdays...love their blog!
http://sketchythursdays.blogspot.com/

Seasons

I can't get over Crate Papers Seasons Collection. I just love it, I use it all the time. So I used it again for this layout, added a few Kaiser Craft Dots an orange piece of paper from We R Memory Keepers and black cardstock and there you have it. The journaling reads:
Okay, maybe we're not really twins, but one way that George and I are exactly alike...we're so stinkin' cute!!! Oh yeah! (P.S. Kessie said I looked like a psycho in this picture! LOL!)
Feb. 2009
I used the sketch from the Crate Paper blog! Check them out, tons of great inspiration!
http://crate.typepad.com/cratepaper/

Cosmo Sketch

Cosmo Cricket had a sketch challenge, so of course, I had to participate. I found this photo of my Louie and Uncle Derek and thought it would be a great chance to scrap it. I haven't scrapped 8.5 x 11 for a long time and it was fun to mix things up a bit as well as use several different of Cosmo Cricket's collection papers. They have a great blog so go on over and visit!

http://cosmocricket.typepad.com/cosmo_cricket/

Siblings

Love that I finally got a chance to use these pictures of my kids. The sketch at Sketchy Thursdays this week totally inspired me! http://sketchythursdays.blogspot.com/

My Mommy

There was a challenge on the American Crafts blog and I thought of these pictures of Grace and Kessie. Kessie adores Gracie and can't get enough of her, unless, of course, Grace is trying to eat Kessie's food!

Supplies:
Cardstock
American Crafts:Patterned Paper, Thickers, Chipboard, Stickers