These Beautiful Days

Here is a layout I made for the Paper Posies crop. I saw a beautiful layout while I was blog hopping and I forgot where it was, but I followed the sketch of her layout. The beautiful lolipop flowers were made by Pauline. The paper I used is by Prima, and the trim was from the craft store. I made the flourishes with black stickles. The letter stickers are Rebecca Sower, I believe. ***ETA I refound the bolg I scraplifted from! it's simplyabundant.typepad.com. Her layouts are beyond amazing and worth a look, for sure!***

Back in the Groove

Well, I apologize my dear bloggy friends for deserting you. I've been having the most amazing time with my family. It's been surreal to have my Hubby home and I've been savoring every second. This weekend I've been hanging out with the girls over at Vintage Plum. They had their first ever online crop. It was tons of fun. Lots of great challenges and prizes to be won. Here are 2 of the layouts I made. If you can't tell from first glance, I was in a Sassafras Lass mood. I made this card to match Kevin's birthday party theme. I used the Citrus Stack form DCWV and the Wild Kingdom Cricut cartridge.

little artist

Here is another layout I did with all Sassafrass Lass papers. I cut out all the little hedgehogs and doodlemajigers. I also FINALLY found a use for these Love, Elsie stamps that I bought on clearance and LOVED. I guess that was over 6 months ago. I never found the perfect page until now ;) The title is Bazzil naked Chipboard that I covered with Doodlebug glitter and Diamond Glaze. I try to do artistic things with my son every day. My Mom did creative stuff with me when I was little and I have some really great memories of that. This was his first time with the TaDoodles he got for Christmas. Yeah, SO not mess free! But they do wash up easily.

Autumn Splendor

Here is a layout that I created for a challenge on Method Playground. The challenge was to add dimension. Since I love layering, I knew I had to enter. I've not had as much time to scrap too much lately, so it is an 11th hour entry, I am afraid. I've titled this layout "Autumn Splendor". I've gotten to break out my brand spankin' new Distress Stickles on this layout. The stickles are Peeled Paint and Spiced Marmalade; I've also used Distress inks. I used the bookplate and flourish die cut from Cricut's Home Accent Essentials. The word 'splendor' is grungeboard. Here is a close of to show some of the dimension. I used a page from Making Memories 'Noteworthy Notebook. The green ricrac is making memories as well. Cardstock is by DCWV and the patterened papers are from BoBunny and MME's Wild Asparagus. The flowers are hand crocheted and the brads are from SEI. I love this lace that I found at a junk shop. I overlapped it with itself to add a little more interest and texture. Thanks for taking a peek at my blog. Have a fantastic day!

My Son Shine

Well, when I went out last Friday I bought some new glitter. If you check my blog regularly you will probably seeing a lot of it. I love a little sparkle! I used the glitter on the title for this layout. The chipboard is the really cheap junk that you can buy at Walmart, but would probably never put on your pages as is. I bought it anyway though because I love to alter chipboard. You can always use paint, glitter, flock or paper glaze to totally alter the look. You can customize it to your layout. I got the inspiration for the layout from Scrapbooks Etc. Another inspiration was the popsicle from a swap I participated in on cafemom. It was just so cute that I designed the layout colors around it. Even though this layout is of my son I used a lot of flowers.The flowers are made out of fabric, buttons and lace I hope he doesn't mind when he get older. Even though they are flowers I think they are of a more whimsical nature.

Finally...A layout!

Time to post a layout. I've been busy with cards and other projects and I've been waiting for inspiration to strike. This is one made from a sketch on pencillines.com. I also did it for a challenge on cafemom. The papers are K&Company from the hopscotch paper pack. I used some chipboard for the flowers and doodled the stems. I've been seeing a lot of doodly type stuff lately and I wanted to give it a shot. This picture of my son is one of my favorites. He looks so sweet and innocent. He isn't. This picture was taken about a month before he learned to walk. He is growing up so fast and changing so much. I treasure every moment with him.