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I needed a little push to work on some layouts, so I checked the latest calls at Scrapbook Trends and did these two Easter layouts to submit for the March issue. I
don't expect them to get picked up, but at least I finished a couple!
The first layout is with a picture of our Malamute, Shiloh when she was a puppy (about 75 pounds ago) and the second is with a picture of our granddaughter on Easter with her basket during the (indoor) egg hunt.

Some more challenges

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I am having so much fun (and getting some layouts done at the same time) doing challenges this summer! The first one is for Memory Making Crafts. This one is based on this sketch.


The final layout is another one for a challenge at Serendipity Scrapbooks. The requirements for the challenge are to use a shaped background paper, some hand cutting, some hand or machine stitching, and layering. The picture is of our Malamute, Quinson, who was only with us for four years.

Where did summer go?

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Where has summer gone?? The grandkids' baseball and soccer are finished, next week is our county fair and school starts on the first! I haven't had time to take even a long weekend away. Hopefully we will have a few days in September.
I have gotten a few layouts finished though. This first layout was for a challenge at Serendipity Scrapbooks which required fringing. I fringed the round flowers and the strips in the lower, left.

I did some stamping on this layout. The birds and the wispy flowers are stamped and some are cut out and added with foam tape.

The next layout was also done for a challenge at Serendipity Scrapbooks. For this one we were to create a border using non-typical scrapbooking items. I used some ephemera and images from Altered Pages for mine.

This final layout was another challenge at Serendipity Scrapbooks. We were to create a layout similar to one that was shown which used a LOT of hand cutting and layering.
The inspiration layout can be seen here.......
http://www.serendipityscrapbooks.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=134&t=17195&sid=4ae6b4f8d3f58463f11469980530606c
And here is my take on it:

Finally, I altered a puzzle piece for a friend. This was a large, floor puzzle piece. Her theme was freestyle (anything goes) using the colors of pink/mauve/black and a lime/sage green.

Some things I've been working on.......

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I've found a little time to work on a couple of cards and some layouts between the
grandkids' baseball and soccer games. The first is a card that I made with the leftover papers from the Prima layout that is in the previous post.

This second item is a quick card I made for a baby shower. The text is a sticker. I put both pieces of colored cardstock through my Sizzix with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.

This two page layout shows how we transformed what was a screened in storage area under one bedroom in our house into a four season hot tub room.

This layout is of my great grandparents homestead. I used a challenge that a friend had on a blog for which she is a design team member which included lots of fussy cut work and layering. I've added two close ups to try to show the dimension with this layout.



This last layout is of my grandson, Hunter on his first day of preschool. I didn't take the photos, so you can't blame me for the "antlers" it looks like he's wearing in the large photo.

I had time.............

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I was surprised that I had time to work on a couple of layouts over the weekend. This one is a couple of old school photos.I used some Daisy D's papers and punched
flowers from Rusty Pickle and Creative Imaginations papers and a Scenic Route arrow.

This layout was done with a new paper pack by Prima. I really like how it turned out!

A few layouts done in May

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I am finally getting around to posting a few layouts I finished in May before our re-do on my scraproom. The first one is a picture of me with my grandson, Levi, which was taken after a day at our county fair (thus the reason for the frazzled hairdo). We were watching an evening performance of John Michael Montgomery and Levi couldn't stay awake.
You can click on any of the pictures to enlarge them so you can see more detail.

The next two layouts are two of my grandsons' school pictures from 2003. Yeah; I'm just a little behind on my photos! lol

Titanic exhibit

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My oldest daughter and two of her three boys took me to see the Titanic Exhibit in Milwaukee on Mother's Day. It was a wonderful exhibit and if you are even a little bit interested in the history of that fateful ship, I encourage you to see the exhibit if it comes to a sight near you. We weren't able to get photos inside the exhibit, but they take a photo of your group before you enter and at the end you are able to chose one of several backgrounds (we selected the grand staircase) and purchase copies. I was able to use it and our "boarding passes" and some photos I found on the internet of items that are in the exhibit to create this three page layout. The papers I used are some VERY old ones I've had for a long time. And I don't even know who they are by because there was no identification on them. But they were perfect for these pages (they look like rusty old metal).
I used two of the boarding passes on the last page so you can see both sides. Each of us received one upon entering and the pass tells the statistics of one of the passengers that was on the ship (age, sex, married or single, adult or child, which class they were traveling in, etcl). At the end of the exhibit you could find your
"passenger" to see if they died that day or were one of the survivors. I also stitched a clear pocket onto the second page to hold the brochure that we received.