Building on Blue & Altering Chipboard Letters

This layout was inspired by 2 different challenges. The first one was my challenge at SCS: IFC45:Build on Blue. The challenge was to simply use some blue on your page and one of the suggested themes was pet pages. The second challenge is from the July monthly challenges at Serendipity Scrapbooks (a cool new place I found to hang out at online). The challenge was to alter your chipboard letters. I altered mine by painting them blue and green to match the blue and green in the embellishments I used and to pull everything together.

No Mojo

Lately I've just had no mojo for scrapping or blogging. Today I finished my first layout since June 20th. That's terrible. I haven't been feeling great and my dog is sick so, I just have felt out of sorts lately.
Here is my page for IFC44:Going Green























I used papers from DCWV-Garden Whimsy and BoBunny. The chipboard letters are from Colorbok. 3-D Butterly from Soft Spoken. And the green border stickers have been in my stash forever. I think they are from Me & My Big Ideas. I hand-stitched around the paper circle with some craft thread.

So Proud of YOU

There is something so innocent and yet so heart-breaking at the same time about a Kindergarten graduation. Innocent because they are so young and heart-breaking because they are no longer our "babies" anymore. And yet, you are filled with so much pride when you see all that they have accomplished and learned in one year. That's how I felt when I attended my niece's K-5 Graduation. She never talked about school. At least not more than a few words. She led me to believe she had no friends. Was I ever shocked. She was in practically every slide of the slide show for her class and the star of her class presentation. I am definitely "So Proud of HER"

Mother Nature's Babies

I originally created this page for Sally's SBVC79:Nature Photography Day. Once I got started however, I realized that is also worked for my IFC41: Color by Theme:Orange.

These photos are of some bunnies that we found in my Mother's flower garden one year in the early spring. They were so cute all nestle together and I knew this was probably the first and last time I would ever witness anything this miraculous in nature so, I just had to take some snapshots.

The fun papers and products are from a line by Colobok called Friendly Forest. It was launched in the early spring of this year at Michael's and it's now all on clearance. Just in case you want to check it out.

Fun New Products

I created this layout with a fun new line from K & Co. It's by Carolyn Gavin and it's called "Greenhouse".

Retirement Gift Project

So my cousin is retiring from her career of 36 years in banking on July 3rd. I wanted to make something special for her so, I asked a friend of hers to get her to write down about 20 of her favorite scriptures and I am making them into 6x6 pages and placing them in an album. I just got started on the project today:









Only 16 more pages to go!

A little scrappin' done...

This page was inspired by Peggy's SBVC78 at SCS to use journaling strips on your layout. I really enjoyed how this came out and will use this technique again.




Still working on photos from Myrtle Beach. This is Mike in the Price of Piracy exhibit in Ripley's Aquarium.

Breaking Free

Finally completed a page for my "tried and true patterned paper combos" challenge...


I chose to combine flourishes and botanicals. I used patterned papers from the Metropolitan collection from American Crafts.

I made this title with my Cricut™ and the Calligraphy Collection Cartridge.

The paint daubers from Adirondack® are becoming a favorite of mine. I used them here to distress the edges of my cardstock that I mounted my title on and also around the edges of the arrow below.


I have several packages of these die cuts and chipboard accents from Close to My Heart™. So fun and so convenient.



No layout would be complete without some flowers! (at least not for me)

Springtime Beauty

This layout was inspired by the "Welcome in the Summer" challenge by Annie's Pantry aka Anavon at SCS. She always does these great recipe challenges that are full of color. This recipe had so much color in it I knew that the paper I used is the only one in my stash that would cover them all.


The fun and colorful paper and embellishments is from the Fashion District line by Me and My Big Ideas. (and it's on clearance at Michael's right now if you're interested!)

Hard to Resist

I received this great pattern paper in my Scap-A-Latte kit this month that just screams "little boy" so, I could not resist creating this layout with photos of my great-nephew Aaron.


The patterned papers are from Cosmo Cricket. The line is called "this way for more trouble". I have a few more sheets of paper from this line so you'll be seeing more of this little guy.