Grandmas are Special

Here's a layout of my daughter and my mom, taken a few years ago.  My parents used to live 2 1/2 hours from me, then they moved 7 hours away, and now they are clear across the country.

This layout was done for a challenge where you had to pick a magazine and go to page 17.  Whatever was on that page was to be your inspiration for your layout.  Fortunately, I chose Canadian Scrapbookers latest edition and it had a wonderful layout on page 17.

I sprayed Tiger Lily glimmer mist on chipboard swirls and punched out scallop circles to make the flowers (sprayed with the same glimmer mist!)

Daddy's Picasso

Here is my latest creation using Treasure Box Designs paper piecing - Little Artist".  My daughter is 4 in these pictures and whenever she was going to be doing something "messy" she'd run and get one of her daddy's black t-shirts to wear!

Heaven Sent

A layout of my baby when she was 3 (she's now 16).  The paper piecing is Angel Bear from Little Scraps of Heaven Designs and this layout is for their challenge #9.

Little Scraps of Heaven Challenge

Here's a layout I made of my son graduating high school.  The challenge was to create a layout following the sketch and use at least ONE paper piecing from Little Scraps of Heaven.  The sketch can be found on their Facebook page here.

Spring has Sprung

I just entered into a challenge on Little Scraps of Heaven's Facebook page.  The challenge was to create a project related to SPRING.  The only rule was to use one of their cutting files.  They have tons and tons of gorgeous files to choose from here.

Here's my layout!  I used their Spring Is In The Air set.  Love those little bears!  I used some fabric flowers for the bouquet and glitter paper for the butterflies.  To make the net, I cut out the pattern on a clear piece of page protector then covered it in grey magic mesh!!  I like how that turned out.
CLICK ON PICTURE FOR A CLOSER LOOK!

Our Little Sweetheart

I just entered this layout into a challenge over at the Sure Cuts A Lot forum.  You have to create a Valentine project (card, 3D, layout, etc) using SCAL and your cricut - you have to actually MAKE something in SCAL.  The prizes are great too!

Anyway, I haven't been using SCAL to it's fullest so basically I challenged myself to do this challenge using ONLY the shapes the program has.  Was it a challenge?  OMG!!  It sure was.  It has taken me hours and hours to complete this layout!  Believe me, I'm not exaggerating!

The only thing I didn't "make" was the tree, which is a silhouette I found using google images.  I brought it in using the "trace images" function, resized it and cut it out.  That was the easy part.  I then cut out and added all the hearts.  Another easy part.

Here's the hard part (or at least it was when I first started)......The bears, wagon and stems for the heart bouquet were made completely using circles, ovals, rectangles, etc. - shapes only.   I hadn't played much with 'nodes' and believe me I learned a few choice words the first few times (hours) I tried working with them.  I think I've gotten the hang of it though and feel way more comfortable working with them now.  After putting the layout together I realized that I probably should have done the wagon a little differently.  Oh well, it's done now and stuck down! LOL

I hope you like it.  I am so proud of myself  **grinning ear to ear**  for challenging myself and creating a 'keeper' in my mind LOL!

Flower Challenge

2 Sisters Challenge Blog wants to see FLOWERS!

Cooking with Cricut also wants to see FLOWERS!

I've been wanting to scrapbook this picture for some time now and always knew I wanted to use flowers.  When I saw these challenges I knew it was time to create it!   I grabbed my supplies and went to town!

The picture is my daughter.  She's now 16 but was 15 in the photo.

Hope you like it.  I do! LOL  (click on picture for a close up)

Snow Cute Layout

Cooking with Cricut is having their first challenge of 2011 and it's called SNOW FUN!  Any kind of project as long as it has to do with snow!

I was checking out their new cutting files here , and couldn't resist purchasing a few of them!  If your name is picked, you will receive the whole set - FREE!  How cool is that!!!

I'm in the process of creating a 12 x12 album for my neighbour's daughter, who was born just a few short months ago, and the 'snowman with snowballs' cutting file is so cute I knew I had to  use it right away.  Of course, it is no longer a snowman.......it's a snowgirl!

 Here it is.............