Noah's High School Pictures

As I mentioned on my previous post, there was a challenge on my scrap list to use professional photos for your layouts. I also had been checking out 52sketches52weeks.com, and the page map for this week really seemed to work with this school photo of Noah. I combined a few challenges on this one. I used the sketch, the professional photo and bling (skittles), and included a bracket to complete this layout.


Fast forward to Noah's senior pictures. It is hard to believe he is in his second year of college and I am finally scrapping his high school photos! LOL Better late than never, right?


This set completed the challenge for bling - sparkly ribbons, as well as the brad challenge.



This one garners bling in not only the ribbon, but it also shines from the metallic accents on the coaster. Again, I used brads for an accent.



More to come :)

Not So Happily Ever After

I made this layout to complete a number of challenges issued on two of my scrapbooking lists. It incorporates ribbon woven into other ribbons, buttons used as decoration and as the center of my butterfly. I also used a professional photo (per one challenge). There are three or more flowers used including the use of bling. The journaling for this layout is hidden in a pocket behind the layout. The story is personal since it is about the failure of my second marriage. Hiding it seem more appropriate.

Thanks for taking a look.

Waterfall Halloween Card

This is my first ever attempt at a waterfall card. The group I belong to, Memory Scrappers (see the blinkie on my sidebar) had a challenge to make an interactive card. I decided to try my hand at a waterfall card, and this is what I came up with:




I pulled a little crooked so this picture looks funny, but it all stayed inline even with my funky pull.



The card ends up with the sentiment showing~



I am pretty happy with my first attempt. I can see a lot of variations for this card.

Puggle Power - Doodling on a Scrapbook Page

I just finished about 15 layouts, and I wanted to share another couple of pages with you. The challenge here was to incorporate doodling into a layout. I had these great pictures of little Miss Hailey Marie, and I couldn't resist. I had so much fun just going crazy with the white gel pen on this black cardstock! The embellishments are from a paper collection by Rusty Pickle. It is called Rock Star. I used their doodle designs as a jumping off point to just have a lot of fun on both pages.

The elements are colored using chalks, pencils, and alcohol pens.

Grab a pen and go crazy with doodles! It is a lot of fun!

Halloween Card

For this week's challenge at Scrappy Frogs, we had to incorporate a tree. Since October is upon us, I decided what better way that a cobweb filled tree at Halloween! Scooby Doo is sneaking through the graveyard and the ghost is sneaking up behind Scooby Doo! Typical Scooby!

I hope you enjoy my card:

Scrappin' With Suzy's Blog Candy

My friend Suzanne has a wonderful scrappin' blog, and this month she is offering an amazing blog candy! I simply LOVE these papers! I would love to keep them all to myself LOL, but her blog is too fun to not share~

Slip on over and check it out! Click on her banner for the main page of her blog.

Or click here to check out these amazing paper line and her blog candy post:

New Layouts!

The scrappin' bug has bitten! And well since Saturday I have completed a number of layouts.

The challenge for this was to scrap a silly photo.

















This challenge was for a song title.




















This challenge was to use a 5x7 or larger photo.

Stamped Images

These are some stamped images I made for trading with others. I love getting new images! It adds to my collection!







The background papers on the bottom images are serendipity papers I made using mullberry papers on plain cardstock. They were so much fun to do, and so messy! I felt like I was back in grade school~ My white glue and messy hands. hahaha

Nope, I didn't eat the glue!

Emmy Awards tonight

Hubby and I love to watch television, so I thought I would check out to see who is up for what and make my guesses for winning the Emmy Awards tonight. Who knows, I may turn this into a scrapbook page LOL

Or maybe not LOL -- We did horrible for our picks~ Hubby got one right, and I got zilch! Actual winners noted below:

2009 Emmy Awards: My Picks

The Emmy’s are tonight, so hubby and I jotted down our picks. Let us know who you will be rooting for!

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES - WINNER = 30 Rock

Entourage

Family Guy
Flight of the Conchords
How I Met Your Mother
The Office
30 Rock
Weeds - Hubby's Pick

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES Winner = Damages

Breaking Bad
Damages
Dexter - Hubby's Pick
House M.D. - My Pick
Lost
Mad Men
Big Love

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES - Winner = Alec Baldwin

Jemaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords
Tony Shalhoub, Monk
Steve Carell, The Office
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men - My Pick & Hubby's too
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES - Winner = Jon Hamm

Simon Baker, The Mentalist
Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, House - My Pick & Hubby copies that one, too!

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES - Winner = Toni Collette

Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures of Old Christine
Sarah Silverman, The Sarah Silverman Show
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Toni Collette, The United States of Tara - Hubby's pick
Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds - My Pick

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES - Winner = Glenn Close

Glenn Close, Damages
Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters
Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Hubby's Pick
Holly Hunter, Saving Grace - My Pick
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

My latest Creations~

I have been puttering a little in the craft room. I had a few challenges to do, and I had some cards to make.

These are stamped images I did for fall. I used various stamps (Making Memories and Stampin' UP) to create the images. I used paint rather than ink for a different look.




This is a belated birthday card that I made for my auntie. I was so behind in mailing my cards this year!


This is a grandparent's day card I made for my grandma on my father's side:


This card was for my grandfather on my mother's side:


The last one here is the one that I made for a challenge on the Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog. It was a lot of fun trying to figure out how to incorporate a frog into a project.




I have a lot more to add, but I am going to stop here for tonight. Hope you like my creations.

Blog Candy!

Skip on over to Helen's Blog and check out her wonderful blog candy offer. Looks like an amazing offering! I see so many things I would love to play with!!

3D Challenge

I belong to a design team, and the challenge for this week was to make something 3D. Well, I haven't been too active lately because of so many things, but this time I went all out and created 5 items:


This is my new coffee mug! I love it now that it is more "me". I used a Bella image that one of my wonderful paper crafting friends sent to me. The papers were all fav's from my stash.

Another view so you can see my little quote. I just love this saying!


Giving you an idea of the transition of elements.


This is a gift box with matching album:



Inside:


The album:



Now for the more manly ideas:


A candy bar cover: (For the giant size manly bars)


A small remember album or notebook.


Last but not least, a chipboard album with manly papers:



I hope you like my latest creations!

Mr. Fix It Birthday Card

We all have one of those guys in our families who can fix anything. You know who he is. He is the one you call for every problem, and he usually knows the answer. If not, then he knows someone who knows the answer.

Last week was our Mr. Fix It's birthday, and what better card could I make for him? We had a paper piecing challenge at ScrappyFrogs. After completing a layout using paper piecing, I got the idea for this card for Mr. Fix It. I layered cardstock for his clothing hair, and shoes. I used the Sizzix Die cuts for this project. I modified the "shorts" from the summer set to make the tool belt. The screwdriver is a sticker from Jolee's. The stamps are from Stampin' Up and the Word Poetry stamp set.



I hope you like my second inspiration for paper piecing.

Tweety Bird Layout

I know I shared the story of the baby bird we rescued a few months ago. I finally got around to making a layout featuring "Tweety Bird".



Here is what I came up with:



The journaling slides in and hides behind the photos. The papers are from We R Memory Keepers. The chipboard accents are from DCWV Spring collection. I added doodling and faux stitching to the paper the change up the background using a white gel pen. The arrow and accents are also from We R Memory Keepers. The journaling paper I made out of cardstock, and I used my markers to mimic the grid pattern on the arrow and then inked it using a ColorBox Cat's eye.

Let me know what you think~

Hubby's Birthday Card.

For hubby's birthday this year, I made two cards.

This first one was for my mom and dad to give him. I used some great chipboard letters from DCWV and some rub-ons I found in my stash. In the picture you can see the glue that I used to glue down the balloon strings, but it isn't noticeable in person.




The second one is the one from me. There is a little more to this card than it appears. We have a standing joke regarding my "porn" and his "porn". He calls scrapbooking and crafting my form or pornography. It is so bad of an inside joke, that now the entire family refers to it that way. I tease him about his "porn", because he loves watching "Cathouse" on HBO. I tease him that he dreams of growing up to be Dennis (the manager of the Bunny Ranch in Reno that is featured on the show). I couldn't decide what to make for his card, but I wanted something funny. I was looking through my stamps, and I found a bunny stamp --


Here is what I came up with:


I don't remember who was kind enough to share this Bella image with me, but thank you! It was perfect for this card! I colored her using watercolor pencils. I used my Creative Memories cutter for the ovals, and the cardstock is from a DCWV cardstock pack. I used my new Stampin' Up embossing plates to make the polka dots on the yellow cardstock, and then sanded them using my hand sanding block with fine sandpaper to let the white core show through.


The inside of the card:

The sentiment is stamped using an old set from Stampin' Up.


And then of course, we couldn't have a bunny ranch without the bunnies. This is from an old Stampin' Up stamp set. I colored the bunnies using watercolor pencils and crayons. Their tails are colored cotton balls that I found at the Dollar Store. The fence is made of Popsicle sticks and jewelry wire. The grass is made from mullberry paper.


So now you know the story behind the Bunny Ranch birthday card! LOL My family sure got a good laugh out of it. I have to give credit to my mom for telling me to find something to do with bunnies and the Bunny Ranch! She gave me the inspiration to start looking.

Birthday Card

My auntie just LOVES frilly and girly cards. I decided that was exactly what she was getting for her birthday.






I created this card using some K & Company papers I have had since the late 90's. LOL -- Yes, that isn't a typo! The vellum from that collection already had the glitter on it. I loved it so much. I just saved and saved it. I combined it with new cardstock from DCWV. The lace is from my sewing box, and the pearl button came from my great-granny's button collection. The ribbon is from the Walmart cheapie ribbon box.

Hope you enjoyed taking a look~

Wow!

I am so far behind in posting! We have had HUGE problems with our Internet connection over the past two months, but it has been worse these past two weeks. I have been without a connection more days than I care to count. The technician was out today, and they think the problem is fixed. Keep your fingers crossed for me! LOL

I have a bunch of projects to get uploaded and added to my blog. I can't wait to touch base with everyone!

Happy Scrappin'

:)

Color Wheel

Color wheels can be really helpful when planning pages, cards or any project, really.

Below is the basic color wheel from Creative Memories. They offered this for a while as a thank you gift for attending a crop. Their wheel includes the primary colors, as well as some of their pattern papers.



This second page explains how to use a color wheel. How to choose colors based on their position on the wheel.



Maybe this tool will come in handy the next time you ask yourself, "Does this match?"

Enjoy!

Blog Candy Winner!!!! MELISSA!!!

Random Integer Generator

This form allows you to generate random integers. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs.

Part 1: The Integers

Generate 1 random integers (maximum 10,000).

Each integer should have a value between 1 and 445 (both inclusive; limits ±1,000,000,000).

Format in 1 column(s).

Part 2: Go!

Be patient! It may take a little while to generate your numbers...

And the winner is......**drumroll, please**

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

241

Timestamp: 2009-07-06 18:11:06 UTC

MELISSA, You are the winner!

Please send me your address and information. I will get your prize package out to you!

Thank you all for your support. I will be doing a couple more blog candy give-away drawings here really soon!

Thank you to Random.org for drawing the winning number! No stress there!