This Family Rocks

This week, Melodee at Scrapbook Steals gave us a fun grid pattern to inspire the weekly sketch challenge.  I picked a photo of my boys and got busy cutting my grid.

I used some of my favorite papers from the Pebbles Seen & Noted collection.  I love the coordinating colors and patterns and especially love that I snuck a few floral prints onto a boy layout (something I don't often do).  I used part of a journaling card for my title and added some letters die cut from craft foam.  The same foam was used to die cut the hearts by my photo.  A fun and simple page with lots of patterns and colors!  Thanks for stopping by!

wonderful you.

I almost forgot to post my version of this week's sketch challenge at Scrapbook Steals.   The original sketch was created by my scrappy friend Minousha Bari.   I actually created this layout last Thursday, but then got busy celebrating the 9th birthday of my youngest little dude.  Since it was his birthday weekend, I decided to do a page in his honor.  For this layout, I used pieces from Seen & Noted by Pebbles and a few elements from Simple Stories' 24/seven collection.  I love the finished product!

Scrappy Fun

I completed the weekly sketch challenge from Scrapbook Steals while camping over the weekend.  It is always more challenging using only a few supplies, but this Seen & Noted collection from Pebbles certainly made it easier.  The original sketch can be found HERE.  And here is my version:

This layout brought back all sorts of fun memories.  Last May I travelled to St. Louis to meet up with some scrappy friends and spent the whole weekend crafting and hanging out with my crafty girls.  It was a ton of fun!  Thanks for stopping by!

a taste of summer

This week's Scrapbook Steals sketch challenge was another great source of inspiration.  Since I'm sick and tired of winter, and looking forward to a camping trip in a few weeks, I decided to do a cheerful fun layout about summer! 

I used some bright fun papers from Pebbles' Seen and Noted collection and added some fun tags from Elle's Studio.  Since I didn't have any coordinating embellishments, I decided to make a few pinwheels of my own to complete my layout.  Here's the original sketch by Melodee Cloud that inspired my layout:

Lela's birthday

This week's sketch challenge at Scrapbook Steals was a good excuse to scrap some photos from our darling niece's 1st birthday a few weeks ago.  Lela Ray turned one and was joined by dozens of friends and family as she celebrated her big day!

 

Since I was in the mood for Spring, I loved working with fun bright colors that coordinated with Lela's beautiful birthday outfit!  Thanks for looking!

Meeting Melissa

This week's sketch at Scrapbook Steals featured a beautiful sunburst pattern and a single photo.  Sunburst designs are the perfect way to showcase lots of patterned paper and I immediately knew I wanted to use the Pebbles Seen & Noted collection I "stole" from ScrapbookSteals.com a few weeks ago.  These papers are flowery and girly and nothing I can imagine using on my boy layouts, so I was thrilled to come across a photo of myself and my sweet friend Melissa that would work perfectly.

 

On this cold dreary day, after a weekend of feeling under the weather, this project was exactly what  I needed to pull me out of my funk.  Because the papers coordinated so nicely, I didn't have to "think" too hard to put this together, which is a bonus since I'm full of cold medicine and still a bit woozy.  I added a few doilies from my collection and was so happy with how it turned out.  Honestly, I wasn't a big fan of this photo, given my unflattering resemblance to a water buffalo, but with the beautiful patterns and papers, I hardly even notice how ridiculous I look.  Not only do I love the layout, but I love the memories this photo brings back.   We were lucky enough to travel with Nate to Milwaukee last summer when he went for a work training, allowing me to meet up with an on-line scrappy pal who I had never before met in person.   After over a year of being on-line friends, I finally met my dear sweet friend Melissa as we spent the day with our kiddos at the zoo.  We had a wonderful day together and I can't wait for another chance to meet up with Melissa and her delightful family!  Now I'm inspired to dig out the rest of the photos from this day and do a zoo page featuring all of the kiddos.

Life is Good

I was thrilled to see a two page sketch this week at Scrapbook Steals! I recently printed some amazing photos of my brother and his family and realized they fit this week's sketch challenge perfectly! 

I decided to go for a black/cream/kraft color scheme, combining papers from Simple Stories Documented and Pebbles Walnut Grove. I had to add some pops of color, and was totally inspired by the red and teal embellishments in the Pebbles collection.  I added some crochet trim from October Afternoon.  This layout turned out even better than I expected and came together very quickly.  Thanks for stopping by!