Snowy Monday

Really, I don't believe this. First day of spring break and we get snow. Crazy!

Well, I have some layouts for you today.
We'll start with today's NAS #206 layout:


This is my oldest son Brayden. We took these pictures last Oct. I used some older paper and did an 'all about him' kind of lo, with all of the journaling strips describing him in some way.

I did some machine stitching and added pen work to finish it off.

You can check out the sketch and all of the other fab examples on the blog here.







Next up is a lift I did for the My Scraps & More lift it crop.



My daughter felt the urge to start running. So her and her younger sister dressed up and went out for the first of 'many' runs. This was the only day it happened. lol
I used a kit from 3 Bugs in a Rug that I just picked up from the Scrap Expo in SLC, Utah. I added pen work to this too and had fun tearing out my layered circle flowers.

You can check out the fun crop here.


Thanks for stopping by! Feel free to leave a comment, I always enjoy reading what you have to say. :)

Going GREEN for March

The challenge for March over at Scrap Our Stash is GREEN. I chose to go green with my layout.


I grabbed this cute photo of my little guy sleeping in his hiding spot, used lots of border punches on some green patterned paper scraps I had and added some Pink Paislee banners for my back ground. I also matted my photo, added a little bit of Bazzill Basics tape that I recently won from them and put some candy dots at each end of the title.





I knew where I wanted my title but couldn't find a good place for my journaling which is why it ended up behind my photo. I knew I wanted to add this little scrap of pp with "I imagine" on it and when I went for the hidden journaling it just seemed right to staple it on for a pull tab.












Thanks for stopping by and as always if you decide to take the challenge you can send it to Kathy to be posted on the blog. All the details are on the blog here.

A nutty Monday

It's MONDAY! Which means I have a Nuts sketch and layout for you. Here's the sketch:

Ahh, one pagers just speak to me for some reason. I love the simplicity of creating in that little space.















Here I used some photos of Jayse showing off on the trampoline. I used Nikki Sivils Noah line, some ribbon and string from my stash. I popped up a lot of the fussy cut elements, inked my edges with brown and added some stars that were laying on my table from a previous layout.













Next up is last weeks Nuts sketch. Here's the sketch and my layout:













I used Echo Park's Winter Park collection. These photos are all of Shylee sledding early this past winter. Her coat is a light purple so I pulled that color into my layout a bit with the ribbon and some ink and changed up the 5x7 photo for a few smaller ones.



Don't forget to check out the rest of the dt's examples on the Nuts blog and if you use the sketch, link us to your layout so we can come see. Happy Scrapping! :)

Some lo's and a card

It's Monday, so we'll start off with today's Nuts Sketch:

Fabulous as usual and so many possibilities.










I just received my package from Nikki Sivils badge giveaway! I won the Noah line so I had to break it open and use it right?




I flipped the sketch to go with my photos, did lots of inking, some fussy cutting, doodled a border around the page, added some rub-on stitches and stickles. I couldn't just toss the part of the photo with Jayse's feet curled over in excitement, so even tho the page is John's bday, the journaling is all about how excited Jayse was to help blow out the candles and the heart shaped photo to the left of the journaling is his tiny, cute, curled feet.








I found a card challenge on the Bo Bunny blog and decided to try it out. Here's the sketch




















and here's the card I came up with using their Ad Lib line.





I used my newest border punch for the loops on the pp, punched some butterflies to add over the top of some sticker ones I had and added a little jewel for the body. Then I put on the ribbon with lots of glue dots, added the sentiment and did a little doodling on the alphas and butterflies.









I also have some layouts I've been making for a crop over at My Scraps & More. She's doing another for the month of March. So if you're interested come sign up to play along and have some fun!



The February crop was music inspired so this first layout was based on some 80's hair bands. I used a lot of older stash supplies and some fun pictures of Jayse trying on John's hat.












This next layout is also about Jayse's hat obsession only he's not using a hat this time.


He's such a funny boy. I was just glad he did this before we broke in the potty seat. Again most of this is older stash supplies, but I did just get this washi tape and I had to try it out. I'm having a lot of fun with it. I see more in my future.












The last layout I have is based on a challenge that I obviously didn't read very well.


We were supposed to pick a song from a movie sound track, use the title as our lo title, use some lyrics on the lo and our favorite color. Then for extra pts. make a design element based on the song. It took me forever to find a song I wanted to use, but I came up with Watching You by Rodney Atkins and went to work with my Noah line again. I got the title and lyrics on there and then remembered I needed to use my fav color. Can anyone tell me WHY my favorite color is purple? Thinking I may need to change that. But I did a design element based on the lyrics (boots) in purple and had my lo all done.
Anyone see where this is going? Yep, totally forgot about the movie soundtrack part. rofl Oh well, I love the layout and I LOVE these photos of John and Jayse hugging while Jayse rubbed John's head.
So sweet.

Lots of fun today!

First off I'm going to start you with today's NAS sketch:
An awesome 2pager with lots of possibilities. I first started looking at it as a single using either side, but decided to get some photo shoot pics done and went with the 2pager instead.


As you can see I kept it pretty simple. I really wanted the photos I took to be the focal of the page. I kept the middle 2 photos a little bigger than the sketch called for and changed the circle photo to a star embellishment with the #2 for Jayse's age. I covered 3 stars with washi tape and traced and cut the other 2 from the pp, inked the edges of my journaling strips and some of the stars and added a little pen stitching here and there.

papers - Webster's Pages Let's Celebrate
Washi Tape - Hambly
Chipboard stars - Heidi Swapp
alphas - American Crafts
Stickles - Ranger
ink & markers - Stampin Up
glue - Tombow
black pen- Zig
cs, staples & pop-dots - stash

Don't forget to check out the rest of the dt layouts on the NAS website HERE.

Scrap Our Stash
This month the challenge is LEAP and you are to interpret it however you want. So I leapt into a project. I'm really more of a layout girl, so projects don't happen often around here. I really love doing them tho, so it's about time I added in a few more don't you think?
Being the month of Valentine's and watching my TEENage daughter chow down on a mini hershey's bar made me think about the upcoming Vday parties my younger kids would need Valentine's for and there you go, project idea in mind.

So I gathered my supplies: candy bars, stamps, stamp ink, scissors, glue, pop-dots, super old Valentine papers (Scenic Route anyone? but still so cute!) and my ever handy trimmer (not in photo) and went to work.
First I determined the length of the paper wrap by measuring around the bar and adding enough to have the papers overlap plenty so I could double up on the glue-ing (which was 3 3/4 an inch), then I measured the width (2 1/2 inches) and used my scallop trimmer blade to cut the papers (I'm thinking any border punch or decorative edge scissors would be fun for this too). Add glue to the edges, wrap paper around the bar and press (the bars slide out easily as my 2yr old has proven). Then stamp and cut or punch your wanted embellishments, glue and pop-dot them to the paper and you're done! I planned to let my kids add their own To/From on the bigger hearts, so I stamped and cut them out and they're waiting on the kids to fill them out before I add them to the bars (or let the kids).
But there you have it. Super simple and fun, handmade Valentine with a sweet treat inside.

These would be great for nearly any holiday, birthday party treats, thank you's, baby shower favors... the list could go on and on.

Have fun making yours and feel free to leave me a link in the comments to your blog if you do. I'd love to come check them out.

You can also visit the Scrap Our Stash blog and see the other designers' takes on the challenge and email your own to be displayed on the website. Happy Scrappin'!! :)Ange