Life is Better with Dessert

Life is better with Dessert is the obvious title on my layout of my mother, granddaughter and daughter with desserts after Easter brunch in 2012..

Easter 2012
 

For Jayne's food challenge at Two Scrapbook friends based on Two Broke Girls sketch No. 20

and then for Sugar & Spice sketch-a-thon Sketch no. 9 and the animal challenge at Two Scrapbook Friends blog


She fills our lives with SUNSHINE and our Hearts with Love
August 2012
 

Dr Seuss ...Born to Stand Out.

Christa's challenge at Two Scrapbook Friends Crafty Challenge for Jan 21.


I found another Dr Seuss quote that called for this photo.

"Why Fit in when you born to Stand Out?"

The challenge was : Be inspired by this quote and think outside the box.












Thanks for looking!

Scraplift? Blog?

Let's Connect On-Line Crop

In Christa's Words

Since I have been scrapbooking in earnest, I have enjoyed blogging and visiting the blogs of my scrappy friends. I find those blogs a great source of inspiration and it undoubtedly gets my 'mojo' flowing!

For our online crop I drew the "BLOG" card and wanted to share with you a challenge inspired by the concept of staying connected through BLOGS.

The biggest way to be inspired by BLOGS is to used the idea of a "SCRAPLIFT". Who hasn't been inspired by a technique or a sketch on a blog? Since I visit many many many blogs in the course of a week, I wanted to encourage you to do the same!

I challenge you to VISIT one of the DESIGN TEAM'S blogs and choose a design to scraplift. In order to satisfy the challenge you will need to:

1. Create an original never before seen design based on a creation from Carolyn, Joanne, Shelby, Christa, Ann, Jayne or Amanda's blogs

I chose to scraplift from Joanne's blog  http://ilovesketches.blogspot.ca/
 (I picked Christa to scraplift last time).

Love You  (Feb 1975)

Fancy Pants Love Notes  Collection works well for my Love You layout
Studio Calico Stamp and Authenique paper mat with doodlebug pearls.

My Son

As I age, I think more and more about the age of my children. To me they will always be my babies but of course my youngest is now 39 or 39  1/2 as my granddaughter would say when she was 6 1/2.
Half  years are important to the young. I try not to think about it at my age .

Anyway the result is I made this layout for my son who will soon turn 40.
(not til March, he would say)

My Son

Echo Park This and That
Technique Tuesday Stamp
Studio Calico Wooden pieces
Bo Bunny buttons
Kaisercraft Pearls
Simple Stories Take a Hike

This layout is for:
Two Scrapbook Friends -Element page challenge
The Scrapping Bug - ABC123 challenge

That's all for now...have a great day!

Board Games

This layout came about from a conversation with my granddaughter that she was bored. So Grandpa suggested he teach her how to play a new game. She gets excited when she plays and ended up getting closer and closer to the board eventually ending up on the table and cheering when she won!.

Here's the results on my layout....



Board Games

 sketch by Sharlene Nye-Petrone

Have a great day.

It's a Sketchy Challenge!

September Sketch from Canadian Scrapbooker..main criteria is use the sketch and products from a Canadian Manufacturer.

Here's the sketch by Sue Sykes



and here is my version using a mixture of  BISOUS  collections "Promise" and "Fun"
Letters: Studio Calico, American Crafts and Cosmo Cricket



Storybook Gardens
Waiting for a show at the Amusement Park
August  20, 2012

Here's the link :


http://canadianscrapbooker.ca/sketchy/showphoto.php?photo=117&title=september-2012-sketch&cat=511

That all for now....have a great day!

From a Sketch or two...

My page comes from the sketch by Ann Jobes, DT at Two Scrapbook Friends and the misting border idea from Bev Code DT at the Scrapping Bug. Lots of inspiration whereever you look.!

Sketch by Ann
 

Last Walk on the Beach at the Cottage Aug 2012

The next sketch is by  Christa Uttley  and the button shape circle idea  is from Bev Code.
Loving the October Afternoon Woodland Park collection. I used in both these pages.




Then and Now
Father and Daughter


That's all for now...Have a great day!

One Hour On Line Crop at the BUG

I entered a One Hour On Line Crop at the Scrapping Bug. A little too hectic for me. This time it was a Sketch which was not so bad as the last one I did called for a few different things.

Anyway here it is finished in 50 minutes (I was late finding the challenge...did not realize it would a separate thread.)

Toothless Beauty
with Studio Calico AC HeyDay Paper Collection.

Memories....

Here's my week of layouts for the Two Scrapbook Friends Challenges:

A day at Valens Conservation Area Park in 2007


Jayne's  Sketch Challenge
Using Little Yellow Bicycle Collection and Lawn Fawn Stamps

My husband's Childhood Home...

Remember...315 Western Ave-Christa's Sketch
Studio Calico Collection

Our son, David played ball when he was 9 and 10 years old.

David's Baseball Page 1982
Sports Challenge

Emma collecting her Easter eggs and playing in her activity books. The Easter bunny leaves clothes, activity books and a little bit of chocolate.

Easter Egg Hunt 2010
Echo Park Spring Mini Theme Collection

That's it for now...have a great Day!

My Baby Brother and the Last Sketchy Thursday

Sketchy Thursday is retiring.

This is the last sketch. So sorry to see them go but understand the reason.. I wish them all the  best in the future.

My brother turns 50 on Jan 26 2012.
This page is a picture of him at 1 year and a recent one. Obviously he had more curly hair in the baby picture. I have poker straight hair and both my brothers had curly hair. Go figure!

I used the January kit from Studio Calico. The colours  looks great with the photo. I even recycled...the mat under the photo is the reverse of a shipping tag.!

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So here is my tribute to him and Sketchy Thursday.

Studio Calico Weekly Challenge And Two Scrapbook Friends November Sketch

From this inspiration page

I created this page. with the title...".together....ALL SMILES" 

using the November Studio Calico Kit.
this is also the November Challenge Sketch for Two Scrapbook Friends.

Back to School On=Line Challenge with TSF

Two Scrapbook Friends, our LSS, is hosting an on-line crop from Sept 9 to 18. with different challenges related to Back to School topics.

Christa's Challenge was to journal in your own handwriting:

Here's "How I spent my summer vacation" Sharon's challenge:


and this next page is based on Avril's challenge of a card for the teacher:

and Shelby issued a 'Rithmatic challenge...basically to use lots of number on you project so here's Austin at 1, 2 and 3. This one is based on a Sketch Savvy sketch # 60. Go to the forum and check out what the other ladies are doing.....and have fun.

The Accidental Tourist

Here's the  July sketch from Two Scrapbook Friends site. The sketch was selected by TSF DT member Dr J (Sharon)   from the STUCK! site (May sketch)  (http://stucksketches.blogspot.com/)

It's funny sometimes you see a sketch and know what you are going to use it for immediately. That's it for this one, I had these 2 small 2 x 3 pictures of Buckingham palace and the palace guard that my son took and this story to go with it but didn't know how I was going to use it until I saw this sketch. Fate!

The page is more than the photos, it is a story of an incident in our son's working life in Europe.

I used moxie diecuts, Studio calico papers, Sassafras paper and alphas.