LOAD #11

Making great headway on the California album!

LOVE getting these finally done!

This layout was done with a sketch from Let's Scrap.

I used some paper I had left from the retired Pemberley pack. Do any of my Close to My Heart sisters recognize the paper that the scallop strip is cut from? Can you say OLD!! So fun to incorporate it on this layout! I also used some old, retired wooden shapes. 

I've been working at an evacuation center the past three days. The devastation from the Colorado floods is so wide spread and so close to where I live. It breaks my heart. Hope to get another layout done today and take my mind off the sad stories I have heard this week.

Hope all is well in your part of the world!

♥

Let's Scrap!

This week's sketch at Let's Scrap worked perfect for the pictures I had of pumpkin carving back in 2010!

Here is the sketch,

And here is my layout!

 I love starting with a sketch and tweaking it to work with ALL the pictures I take and want to keep!

Here is the last pictures I had for "Halloween" of 2010!

The pets deserved a page of their own.

They are so cute!

The paper is last year's Halloween paper from Close To My Heart called Mischief. And I dug in my stash and used embellishments that I have had for ever! That tag is YEARS old--from a set bought from a dollar bin at Michaels. The Thickers have been hoarded for three or four years! And of course, paper flowers, buttons, and brads just seem to collect and multiply!

So happy to use up some old stuff!

Thanks for looking today!

♥

Mojo Monday Sketch 275

I'm starting today's post with a prayer request; my mom is going in for a bronchoscopy today and having a PET scan tomorrow. I'm terribly worried about her. 

Hoping prayers, karma and warm thoughts can help her this week.

Thanks.

♥

Here is another card completed with help from Mojo Monday!

The sketch:

The card:

The paper and ribbon are retired items from Close To My Heart--still trying to use up what I have! The stamps are from Verve Stamps. 

A new camera is still on my wish list!

Thanks everyone for looking in today.

Cheers,

Lisa

First Card of the Year!

I JUST decided while coming up with the title for this post that this year I will keep track of the number of cards and layouts I complete!

Ohhhhh--the pressure is on!

This card was created for my husband's top customer--who is receiving a travel voucher! I used a paper pack from Graphic 45 called Tropical Travelogue. Their patterned paper paired up nicely with Close To My Heart's Pacifica and Crystal Blue card stock.

I had help with the design by using Unscripted Sketches, #192.

LOVE using sketches!

 Now--off to make cards #2, #3, and #4!

Maybe I'll keep track of books read also!

Be looking in my sidebar, I'm going to find one of those counters for these things!

♥

I'm On a Roll!

Saturday was a cold and cloudy day, and it was wonderful! I got another layout done and worked on finishing up some WIPs. (Work In Progress)!

I joined a group on Let's Scrap called "Let's Scrap Our Stash". Perfect for me, because I have so much stuff! For this challenge we were to use:
4 pieces of patterned paper
3 pieces of colored card stock
4 die cuts
12 brads, eyelets or bling
Also you need to use one of the Let's Scrap sketches.
I chose this sketch:

 And I am so happy to get a layout done from our Fall Drive in 2009!

I used 5 different pieces of patterned paper. It is hard to tell but the paper for the tree trunks are actually cut from patterned paper. I used 5 pieces of colored card stock. All the cuts were done on the Cricut. I had never used that tree cut before and I love it! The leaves, two pieces for the title and the banner triangles are all from Close To My Heart's Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge. And-I used 13 brads. Bonus on this layout, was the use of those letter stickers of which I don't even know how long I have had them!
Got to go fix dinner now, but hope to be back to post some of those finished WIPs!
♥ Lisa

Baseball 2009

With help from Let's Scrap, I completed another layout! This sketch was perfect to get a whole season of baseball into one layout!

I like the way it turned out. Got to apologize for this horrible looking picture though.

You know the story----

I NEED a new camera!

Thanks for stopping by today.

♥

Woot Woot----

I've finished a layout!
I was inspired by this sketch over at Let's Scrap.

I liked the way this sketch used vertical and horizontal pictures across both pages, with the middle photo cut at the center of the layout.

Of course, when I went to find photos to scrap--what I chose didn't have any vertical photos! AND as always --I had more than the number of pictures shown in the sketch.

Even though mine doesn't look like the sketch, you can see I was inspired with the overlapping of photos, and cutting the pictures in the center. That little trick really helped me get more pictures on this layout! So--mine is pretty plain, but it sure does feel good getting a layout done. This goes with a layout I did back in January! See it here. The title and journaling are on that layout, so I didn't put anything here.

I went to an all day crop on September 22. I just have some finishing touches on those layouts, hopefully I will get them posted soon.
Thanks so much for looking in today.

Winter 2010

Hi! How are all my blogging friends today? I had dental work done this morning--so I'm feeling a little sore in the mouth, but after three Tylenol, I'm feeling like myself again!
I have another layout to share with you.
These pictures were taken one freezing (17 degrees) morning in 2010. There were ice cycles covering everything. It was so gorgeous with the blue sky and white ground, I bundled up and went out for a walk.
Inspiration came from another sketch over at Let's Scrap.

The base page is Grey Flannel (X5911 or X5921), the pictures are on a strip of Moonstruck (X5918) and the circle is Dutch Blue(X5908 or X5918). Dimensional Elements-On Target (retired) frames that circle and is sprayed with Fall Breeze Glimmer Mist and Perfect Pearls Mists -color Perfect Pearls. There are snowflakes from the Snowflakes stamp set (retired as of 2/1) stamped with Gesso then sprinkled with Prisma Glitter. (Z134) The sprinkly, glittery shine, along with grey/blue color combo, made it a very hard layout to photograph--please click on the photo to see some of the detail.
The supplies that I indicated with an item number can be found on my Close to My Heart website.
Thanks for surfing by today!!

Elemental Fun!

I'm having so much fun reliving this KC trip from 2009! I guess that is one good thing that comes from being so far behind--ReLiving the Memories! The sketch for this layout came from Let's Scrap.

 

This layout was created with Close to My Heart supplies and can be found here.

Elemental Paper Pack  (X7141B)
Elemental Complements (X7141C)
Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge (Z1686)
Sunset Mini-Medley Collection (Z1393)
Color Ready Alphabet-Bold (retired)
Chocolate Ink for distressing (Z2111)
Creme Brulee Marker (Z2367)

Hope your day is fantastic!
 

Time for Scrapping!

I got the mojo back for working on the scrapbook! I know people always say they are behind--well--I'm REALLY behind! My advice for people who feel overwhelmed by all the years of pictures they need to scrap is to just pick an event and do it! Don't worry about going in chronological order. If you love Halloween, and have a bunch of Halloween paper and embellishments--then go ahead and do a couple years of Halloween. If you are day-dreaming about a summer vacation while staring at the snow outside--then pull out those pictures from that summer vacation a few years ago and scrap it!

Sometimes I'll find a sketch that I like, then go through my pictures and see what I have to fit that sketch. This is one reason I joined Let's Scrap, to help me with layout inspiration on a weekly basis.

 

When I saw this sketch, I knew it would be good for one of the many years of sports I still needed to scrap for my son. I chose football from 2008! 

 

I took a layout that called for eight pictures, and made it into one that displayed 15! Are you like me and take tons of pictures at your kids sports games. Then you don't want to leave any of them out of the scrapbook! This sketch was so helpful for me! 

For this layout I used a paper pack (Teammate) from Close to My Heart that I had been hording forever. (so needless to say it has been retired) It was the perfect paper pack for us, because the Barn Red color in it matches our city team colors of maroon and gold. You'll be seeing this paper again in a basketball layout!

Thanks for looking in today!

Hope your day is filled with joy!