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Pretty Busy!

Been busy lately trying to use up my never-ending stash (mostly so I can justify ordering more! LOL!) The one good thing is I finally got my Mom's Disney Album finished. Although I'm thinking of holding it ransom for my Wedding Album (I'll be married 6 years in Sept!)


My Grandma DeSalvo also had given me a bunch of pictures of me growing up. I would LOVE to get more of my childhood pictures to scrap (HINT HINT MOM!!!!) This LO is of me and my sister in Sept 1986. The new Love, Elsie Roxie collection so reminded me of the 80s so everything on this LO is from this line.
This is the last page of my Mom's Disney Album. This is my first 'freestyle' LO. I really enjoyed it, so much fun doodling all over the place. Dustin made fun of my car ride and sunglasses :D
Added: this LO was featured on Multi-Photo Scrapbook Layout Blog (9/15/07 - scroll down on the page)

I had entered this LO in a contest for a create your own flowers, but sadly did not place. Oh well, still a cute LO.

My little Mischeif Maker. This one was for a challenge to only use 3 colors. At first I thought it could not be done! But I finished and am quite pleased.

This LO was for an Ad Challenge. This is just about the only pic I have of my brother from our MONTH in Arizona and week at Disneyland!

Ruby Reading. This was for the Chatterbox Doodle Genie Contest. The doodles in the corners are from the Whimsical stencil.
Thanks for looking :D Of course there is lots more but I'm too lazy to take pics unless I really love the LO or its for a contest - LOL!

Sisters

This Layout is for Thorunn's sketch challenge. She is a friend from SG. Here is her awesome sketch site Gettin' Sketchy

Thanks Danice!

I did a Secret Sister Swap last fall, and Danice (dulittle) on ScrapGoods was my Secret Sister. Well, she was so very awesome and got me a 3 month sub to Scrap Til Dawn!!! One of the kits was the A2Z Funky Hip Cool line. When I first got it, I was all YUCK! and I filed it away. Well, I pulled it out last month and I LOVE THIS STUFF! LOL! I have used every last bit of paper, and am saving a few scraps for cards! YUM! Thank you so much Danice!!


These first two images are for my BPS 52 Card PickUp class. It goes for 10 weeks and we learn 52 different techniques and tips. It is so much fun!



Karis being cute, as usual. I am entering this LO in the ScrapScene 'Create a Flower' contest. :D

This is a mini album made from CDs. I got the album in a kit from ScrapGoods. This will go to my sister Libby when I next mail a box to them.


California Adventures LO for my Mom's Disney Album. Only three more LOs to do and that baby is DONE!

Another LO

Okay, so the design is lifted from a Dec 06 CK LO, but I really liked how this turned out. Flowers are stamped on PP and then cut out. Pic of two of my sisters at Balboa Island Pier. I will slowly but surely get the CA trip and Disneyland album done.

National Scrapbook Day Crop

Saturday was National Scrapbook Day. I 'attended' an online crop at ScrapGoods. It was only one day, but I was busy all day long! Here are the LOs I got done. Thanks for looking!


We had to gather inspiration from a card. Below is the card from Vanessarfox at ScrapGoods. She is our resident Card Queen. My LO is next.

This challenge was to use three of the techniques from past ScrapGoods kits. I used Mola (cutting and layering for the word GIRL in the title) Doodled on the flower and made a Journal Space with the covered chipboard. Ruby has really been trying my patience lately, so this was some 'scrap-therapy'. Journaling reads: This is Ruby right before she turned 2. Isn't she adorable? I must remind myself this on a daily basis now that she is well into her terrible twos! Pray she makes 3!


This was a sketch challenge. I had pictures from the Parade at Disneyland but they were so dark I couldn't get them to show up well on light paper, and dark paper really darkened them more. Then I got the idea for a dark background with white around the edges of the pictures to make them 'pop' They are still a little dark, but way better! Oh, and I had to upload by a deadline, and my printer was being slow and hadn't printed out 3 of the pictures yet. So now there are pictures all across the top and bottom.


This LO was to use a picture of ourself and do a LO about the days of our life. So here is my interpretation. I'm too lazy to write out the journaling... maybe you can read it.


This LO is for a challenge where we were supposed to find pictures that portrayed the words Dream, Sweet, Honest, Delight and Orange. Picture of Karis sleeping is Sweet Dream, pic of her Eating is Orange (face), and pic of her is Honest Delight. :-)


This LO is for a challenge where we could only use three things in addition to pictures and cardstock. The things were 2 pieces of patterned paper, 5 flowers (with any center), and a stamp or template. Patterned paper as base and matting around picture. made the 5 flowers into 4 by layering and used buttons for centers. And the stamp is the zig zag stitch at the bottom of the title. Title is Cassie and her Cluck Cluck written on maroon cardstock. Used green cardstock for flower stems. Pic of my sister Cassie and Ruby.

Found this picture of Sierra while cleaning up and laughed. So I had to scrap it.
The Girls and the Easter Bunny

Easter Egg Hunt at the Park

Luau Breakfast with the Characters at Disneyland

Castle pictures at Disneyland

Sierra was playing with my camera and taking pictures while I was playing with Karis. When I went through them, I found this one. It is so adorable and I love it. Changed to Sepia tone to match the paper and added a rubon sentiment to the actual photo.

Sierra's 4th Birthday

Just some recent LOs done of the girls. Karis' LO was for a designer challenge, Sierra's was just a Christmas LO, and Ruby's was for a telephone scraplift challenge.

I've also been making lots of cards for Paper Crafts Magazine Royal Stampers contest. They will choose 20 winners and each get a bundle of stamps and accessories worth $250. Check it out at www.papercraftsmag.com but don't submit stuff better than mine! Just kidding! ;-)

WOW!

Happy New Year everyone! I attended an 'Online' Crop this weekend. Here is what I got done... I'm pretty proud of all the awesome pages I got out of the challenges and games! Wow, even uploading the pictures I'm amazed at all the LOs I got done (and a few cards too)

Challenge: Ad for Inspiration. We were given a magazine ad and supposed to draw inspiration from it. I'm too lazy to find the ad right now and post, but it was the Fancy Pants paper ad that had a hand cut heart and clock. So I used FP Free spirit paper, handcut the green flourish, and made a circle (clock) out of flowers. Quote says one must have sunshine, laughter and a little flower. Plaque says 'My Flower". Pic of Mommy and Sierra - my flower.

Challenge: Use and edged cardstock. Pictures of our Kare-bear. Bazzill cardstock with an edge (mini scalloped) Chatterbox Villa papers, Cricut for the title. Sorry for the fuzzy pic, I was under time contraints to get it uploaded in time!

Challenge: 2 pieces of patterened paper, ribbon, brads and rubons. Rubons are the title 'Bug Eyes" Ribbon is the ribbon flower to the left of Sierra's picture (green, easier to see in real life). SEI Doodley Girl PP


Challenge: Sketch. We had to follow a specific sketch. And it had to have pictures on it. The picture of me is going to be replaced with a 5x7 of Sierra on her 4th birthday. Pics down the left are at 1, 2, and 3 years old. SEI Doodley Girl PP, Cricut for the title.


Challenge: Person who Inspires you. My Grandma DeSalvo. I will add journaling later, but it will say how my Grandma taught me to cook, bake and sew. I was a chubby kid and I remember her helping me make the 'cool' clothes in my size when I was younger. I will always love her for that! I love you Grandma! Homeschool Plaid paper, made the wire photo corner, and my cricut cut the title - again, gotta love the bug.

Challenge: Monochromatic LO with 3 pictures. Everything had to be from the same color family on the LO - I cheated with the Rubons - LOL!


Challenge: Scraplift Challenge. I lifted the LO design from a design memeber at SG. Cosmo Cricket Storytime PP, handcut circle, tab and heart and traced in black pen - such a pain, but turned out really cute.

Challenge: Use pics you've been meaning to scrap. I already did these for Ruby and Sierra's book, but I wanted a page abou the 'Ucky Punkins' for my album, so here you go. Daisy Ds Gypsy Harvest PP, corduroy ric rac, Jolee's scrabble tiles for title.

Whew... thanks for looking! I had fun and got some awesome pages!

Cards Cards Cards

I was in a Card Kit Swap and just recently got enough kits back to make about 50 cards. I've been creating like crazy, and have made about 35. Here are a few I'm most proud of:

The top two left are from the SG December kit, the shiny one actually has a wire flower on the foil, really cute in real life, but kind of hard to see here. Thanks for looking!

Bleaching

Yay! My Welcome Sign won a challenge category for Best Use of Bleaching Technique. 'WELCOME' was stamped with Castaway Stamp pad, then ironed to start the bleaching effect. Scroll stamp on either ends was stamped using regular household bleach. When using bleach or bleaching stamp pads, remember to use on un-coated cardstock and paper, and clean your stamps right away so the bleach does not damage them. A really neat effect with stamping. Other eays to use bleach: doodle with a Q-tip dipped in bleach, spray bleach onto cardstock, dab bleach on a tissue and then onto paper. Once the bleach dries completely the chemical process is over and the end product is safe to use in your scrapbook.

Cosmo Cricket Wanted Paperline, Prima flower, SG chipboard, ribbon, tags and other embellies from stash. LO design 'Scraplifted' from alrenwald for the SG Scraplift challenge.

Loving the ScrapGoods October Kit!

This is my favorite recent LO. Done with Daisy Ds Gypsy Harvest Patterned Paper (part of SGs extra paper kit), prima flowers, and some diecut tags courteousy SG RAK. The pumpkin is hand cut, inked and chalked, with curled paper for the vines. Really cute in real life!

Ruby's LO is done with more Daisy Ds Gypsy Harvest Patterned Paper, painted chipboard letters (cut from Sizzix), and yellow ric rac.

Karis' LO was done using products from the SG October Main kit and Sizzix diecut letters.

SG Guest Designer

Okay, ScrapGoods, my monthly club I belong to, is featuring a Guest Designer the month of November. The Guest Designer gets their monthly kit early and for FREE! Hello, where do I sign up? Here is my Challenge submission - I hope I'm picked!


The Challenge: Create a Layout that incorporates the Good, the Bad,and the Ugly.

The GOOD: One product or technique you couldn't live without. This would be my Prima flowers! I love them and have A TON!

The BAD: One embellishment or tool that you 'had to have' and have never used. I used, for the first time in 3 years, the Creative Memories Title-Topia to curve the title SISTERS. And now it will go back to the bottom of my drawer never to be seen again!

The UGLY: One piece of patterned paper that you consider ugly and wouldn't otherwise use. This is the PaperHeartStudio Shorcake Collection - Apricot. It is the tiny sliver of PP between the green and polka paper. Hey, they didn't say I had to use the whole piece. I actually had trouble with this one, as I think this paper is hideous and did not want to ruin my LO by using it. I thought long and hard about choosing a prettier 'ugly' paper, but in the end, decided not to 'cheat'

Other than those requirements we could use anything else on the LO. Cross your fingers guys! Thanks for looking!

Recent Cards

Just some cards I've made; some for specific reasons, some for some online challenges I'm in, and some just because. Enjoy!





This is a card I did for ScrapGoods Anniversary. They've been in business for two years. I used September's Kit papers and Scratch Art technique. Email me if you are interested in learning more about SG.