Some more yumminess!!

Hope everyone's Easter was just fabulous! The weather we have been having the past couple days is just divine! My girls and I are just loving it! My youngest little girl has grown very fond of eating sand, very large amounts of it too! Oh well, it will come out the other end some time right?

I am blogging about a bunch of my layouts & cards that I have done over the past few months to kinda catch up from the little break I took :} Hope you don't mind, but I figure let's get all the past projects out of the way so we can start focusing on the newer stuff I'll be doing and maybe start some really cool challenges!! I give only the best RAKS away over here so you will want to keep your eye on this one baby that's for sure! So, here goes!

I so love this layout below of my baby girl Lilyann, or Pudge as we like to call her. She was 10 months old in these pictures and they are my favorite of her and those baby blue eyes!

I used a Fancy Pants transparency and added some goodies to it like stitching around the photo collage. I used some fabric behind the main photo and made it pop out a bit from the rest of the photos. I used Fancy Pants papers, rubons & crochet flowers with stick pin, Autumn Leaves stamps, American Crafts thickers that I inked up to match better, some Inque Boutique little paisley stamps and little odds and ends from the Fancy Pants collection I used.

The next layout of my daughter Finley used such a neat photo editing technique called color isolation I believe. I took a black & white photo of her and went into my ACDSee Photo Editor and made only the blue of her eyes show through. You take two of the same photo, one color on the bottom and one black & white on top, and lay ontop of each other and then use the eraser tool to erase the area of the top photo to allow the colored portion of the bottom photo to show through. Isn't that neat? Very simple to do and gives a very cool effect! If you happen to try it please do send me a photo of your project so I can see how it turned out :}

I used Daisy D's paper, Making Memories ribbon, Cosmo Cricket chipboard letters hat I painted to match, the large flower, pearls on the letters & butterfly ribbon are from a Scarlet Lime kit, and I used my Quickutz Silhouette to cut all the fancy borders and finally added stitching and my journaling around the outside. Love it!

My boy, my boy, my boy! What can I say, I love my boy! This has to be one of the best photos ever taken of him. He usually runs when he sees the camera, but he was in a good mood this day so I got lucky!

I used pretty much all Basic Grey paper, stamps & letters. I used Daisy D's rubon around the picture and Making Memories brads. Stitched around the outside of the layout and around each square and distressed the edges too. So handsome he is!

This is what a typical lunch time is for Pudge....all over the place! How can you not love that face though! This is what happens to her lunch when she is done, or she just doesn't want it, take your pick.

I used Cosmo Cricket papers, Fancy Pants rubons, and cut the borders with my Quickutz Silhouette. Love to layer everything and give it dimension as much as possible. I'm a very visual person so there must be lots of color & texture! Yummy!

That's all I'm gonna do tonight but, don't despair I'll be back with some yummy stuff again soon! Oh, and a little something exciting if your a fan of Glitz Designs, they are having a small little DT call! Check it out here! You bet I'm going to apply because I'm no fool! Love them! Again, check out Scrapbook Challenges over on Ning too for some great inspiration, as well as Simply Scrapping on Ning too! Lots of great challenges and a great group of ladies over there too! I'm off now to create and hope you all have a great night! TTFN!

Been a long while....

Since my last post, but I had to take a break and catch up on life for a bit. I'm back in the swing of things and can't wait to show you some of what I've been up to lately. Been having alot of fun doing some challenges over at Simply Scrapping Crafts.com. It's a great site with lots of challenges to keep you inspired. You can check it out here. On to the good stuff!

The layout below is of my son Cameron and his "Cat That Ate The Canary" smile he always gives. You know he's done something wrong if you get this smile that's for sure!

I used everything from the Scarlet Lime January 2010 kit here. Love her kits! You gotta check them out because they rock!

Below is a layout I just did for a color challenge over at Simply Scrapping and I think it turned out pretty good. It's of my dog Shank, who we love so much. The name shank was given to him by his previous owners, not one we would have chosen, but we call him Doodles instead. I used another Scarlet Lime kit mostly from May 2009 kit here. Isn't he adorable! This is the best picture I've ever been able to get of him because he's really scared of the camera for some reason.

Below is a card I did for another challenge over at Simply Scrapping for a color challenge. I used scraps of My Mind's Eye, Prima flower, I think the stamp was The Stamps Of Life With Stephanie Barnard located here called Thanks2you, Die cut border, sentiment spot & card base all done with my Quickutz Silhouette. Love the colors on this card and hope to be able to paint the inside of my house some of these colors. So bright and cheerful!
That's it for right now, but I'll be back tonight or tomorrow with more goodies to share! Another great challenge site is Scrapbook Challenges and they are a group of really nice girls. They are having a DT Call right now and the link above will take you there, but you will need to sign up and become a member to check it out on Ning. Also, don't forget to go and check out Simply Scrapping also on Ning for awesome challenges and great inspiration! Hope everyone had an awesome Easter! TTFN!

Life is good...and crazy!!

Hey Everyone! How ya'll doing today? How was your Halloween? Spooky fun I hope! I apologize AGAIN for not doing a post for a WEEK! I couldn't get any busier if I tried! We've had much illness around this house and my kids and husband don't ever get sick at the same time, they get sick one by one so it lasts FOREVER!!! Halloween kept me very busy, but it was so much fun to dress up with the kids and go Trick Or Treating in our neighborhood. Even though ot rained, the kids had a blast and collected gobs of candy. What did you do for Halloween?

Aside from illness and Halloween, I was pretty busy in the craft room too. I'm so very excited to announce the first ever "Book Of Him" Challenge over at Ch{all}enge Masters!! That's right! The November 2009 Challenge is up so hop on over there and be inspired with not only the "Book Of Him" Challenge, but all 15 or so more!! This site has the best group of ladies on the web and the most inspiring and TALENTED!! Plus, when you submit your project to any challenge your automatically entered to win an awesome lot of scrappin goodies!! Hope to see you there!!

Below you will find my take on the November "Book Of Him" Challenge. What do you think? I apologize for the bad lighting, it was very late at night on Halloween when I took the pics. This was a definite challenge for sure. We had to include on the layout:
* his name somewhere on the layout
* at least 5 things about him
* his handwriting somewhere
* describe my first impression of him
* had to include at least one photo


Don't you just love the smaller photo of my DH? That's the real him! Below is a closer pic of his handwriting listing 10 things about him. Can you tell he's a bit sarcastic, or as he would say facetious? The papers on this layout are from Pink Paisley, chipboard from Fancy Pants and that's most of it.

Below is a close-up of my first impression of him. I was intrigued to say the least ;}

I had a great time creating this layout and think it fits him perfectly!

Below is a card I made for another DT Call and I think it's really cute! The paper is from My Mind's Eye, cardstock Bazzil Basics. I stamped a flower with Pebbles Inc foam stamps and then Heat Embossed with multiple colors layered for this effect. Neat technique!

This card I made for my son's Soccer Coach and for the DT Call as well. The paper is from Scarlet Lime's October Kit as well as the chipboard. The ribbon is from Making memories (I believe). I made the flower by taking about a 2 x 6 inch strip of patterned paper and rolling it like making a fan, alternating sides, glued the edges together and placed a chipboard circle & button in the center. Easy! I think this card works well for a man and is a bit unexpected :}

I'm very excited because I'm working on a card that going to be entered for Cutter's Creek DT Call!! Cutter's Creek is an awesome online scrapbooking store and the owner, Kimberly, has a Yahoo group for the site and a few others groups as well. Here's a link: https://www.cutterscreek.com/store/. Here's a link to the blog: http://cutterscreekdesignteam.blogspot.com/. I can't wait to find out who makes the DT and to see all their awesome creations! I so love to be inspired by other's work, but the best is to inspire others with mine. On that note, must go and get these crazy kids to bed......and work on my card!! See you all soon! TTFN!