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First grade

Here's another layout to share from the awesome scraplift challenges at Scrapperie earlier this year. There are so many things I love about using bright colors and fun papers! Sierra is especially good for this, because she is quite the little fashionista. Coupled with me working at The Children's Place, this kid has an awesome wardrobe! I have to say, it comes in super handy for first day of school pictures and matching scrap products. So, yes, she was homeschooled this year, but we do co-op and that is her 'school' in the sense that we picked a first day outfit and did the standard back-to-school supplies shopping trip for her classes, so that's where this comes from this year.

Big bonus- my ScrapRoom kit included this awesome Crate Paper bliss line that perfectly matched the feel of the lift layout and the colors of her outfit, and I just LOVE Crate Paper anyway. So here ya go, some inspiration for today!

First Day of First Grade

Supplies: Patterned Paper: Crate Paper; Journaling Tag & Butterfly Diecuts: Crate Paper; Mist scree: Maya Road; Mist: Maya Road; Jewels: Basic Grey (swirl) and KaiserCraft (singles); Alphas: American Crafts (Thickers) and Making Memories (tiny alphas); Ribbon: Unkown.

Busy, busy, and a sketch challenge!

Busy busy here this last week, with one kiddo down with the chicken pox. Luckily it was a pretty mild case, but we're still waiting to see if the others are gonna get it. The weather here has been absolutely gorgeous, so being cooped up hasn't been so much fun, but we spent most of the weekend in the back yard. Grandma Mary was here for the weekend too, spoiling the kids like crazy and helping Mark & I get some projects done. We built a new chicken coop to add the new set of chicks we got, recovered the kitchen chairs (badly needed), and restuffed the couch pillows. Yay for progress!

Anyway, this week's sketch at Scrapperie was so much fun to work with. I took these pics of Venice at the park the other day (and it was a nice warm day, but we have sooo much wind here that winter hats are still a must!) and I was happy I got a chance to scrap them. Venice is totally in love with the swings!

Swing Swing

Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned Paper: Bella Boulevard; Thickers: American Crafts; Flowers: Fancy Pants (Crocheted), K & Co (Stitched Paper); Ink: Ranger; Jeweled Butterflies: Unknown.

If you want to work with this fabulous sketch by Amy Teets, please post it here at Scrapperie!

Happy Monday everyone!

 

Loves of my Life

Here's another one of my pages for the Scrapperie scraplift challenges. This one came from February. I had a lot of fun crushing up the background heart and sanding the creases. 

Tomorrow my baby girl turns 2, so tonight we're doing a birthday party with our friends and Sierra's friends are spending the night. We didn't get to celebrate her birthday in December since we were in Arizona, so this is to make up for that. Happy weekend everyone!

Loves of My Life

Supplies: Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye; Canvas Flowers: Shabby Green Door by Daisy Bucket; Thickers: American Crafts; Jeweled centers: Prima.

Willow Tree Crafts Projects

Well, I had to make an unexpected road trip Tues & Wed down to AZ, so I haven't had my internet or anything on the road. We're here now, and it's hot and crowded, but there's lots of good scrappin here! I can't wait to go browse the local scrap stores and see what they have, but for now I have some DT projects from Willow Tree Crafts to share with you. They sent me some Scenic Route Roxbury to play with. Enjoy!

Superstar!

I used some old cardstock letter stickers on here as a mask for that misted title. I also used some of that same mist on the ribbon to give it the look I was going for.

Naughty or Nice?

For this one, I used teal & black Glimmer Mist to get the shape outline on the Bazzill background paper. I love the way it came out! Makes me just wanna spray everything!

 

Spoiled from the start!

Yup, she's Daddy's baby girl alright. Has been from the start. Make no mistake, this one has daddy wrapped around her little finger! LOL :)

This was a line I wasn't sure I liked right away. Now after seeing it in person and getting to use it, I LOVE it. These bees and butterflies are so cute!

Spoiled from the start:

Supplies: Cardstock- Basic Grey; Patterned Paper-Basic Grey; Chipboar shapes- Basic Grey (flowers, bees), Pink Paislee (title shape, photo corners); Alphas- Making Memories;

CY Sketch #19- Kinder Grad

I used this week's Creatively Yours sketch and some new My Mind's Eye stuff to scrap Sierra's kindergarten graduation pictures from this June. I love this sunshine paper! It just makes me feel all light and happy! We'll be having a special Creative Round Up this month on the blog. All you have to do is pick any CY sketch and send in your version. There's also a guest DT call. Here's all the info.

09 Kinder Grad

Patterned Paper- My Mind's Eye, Die Cuts- My Mind's Eye; Thickers- American Crafts; Button-?;

Monkeybar Superstar

Jana gave us another fabulous sketch this week for Scrapperie's sketch challenge. I couldn't resist using these pics I got of Sierra doing the monkeybars at the park this summer. This girl is so strong, it's crazy! I couldn't belive she made it all the way across.

Monkeybar Superstar

Supplies: Patterned Paper- Fancy Pants (clouds), My Little Shoebox (green circle, orange); Alphas- Doodlebug (brown), Making Memories (blue); Die Cut- My Little Shoebox; Flowers & Flower Border- Creative Imaginations; Buttons- Basic Grey; Brads- Making Memories.

Library Love

How has everyone been lately? In my house I'm the only one who caught the bug that's going around. I was really lucky though, and Mark took care of me while I was down. Now that we're over all that (knock on wood!) I have a whole pile of layouts sitting on top of my scanner waiting to be scanned in and posted. Working on getting them done in between homeschooling and activity central here. For today, here's one about one of our favorite places: the library. These pics are from last year before our local library got it's remodel, but Sierra found this rainbow book and this paper seemed to just go perfectly.

For the clouds, I used Glimmer Mist on white Bazzill, then hand drew the clouds and cut them out.

Library Love

Supplies: Cardstock- Bazzill; Patterned Paper-Sassafrass; Alphas- American Crafts (black), Basic Grey (white); Ribbon- American Crafts (abc), Unknown (black & blue gingham, black ric rac); Felties- Sassafrass; Mist- Tattered Angels; Paint- Making Memories; Glitter border- Unknown;

CY sketch- More Peas Please!

 Today's sketch was a 6x12 sketch, which I just love! I love the inspiration to do something un-square. I decided to make it even more fun by using the pattern in this Basic Grey paper as a template for a shaped layout. I'm thrilled with the way it turned out! Make sure you head over there and try this sketch out for yourself! We're still looking for guest designers!

More Peas Please!

Supplies: Patterned Paper- Basic Grey; Alphas- American Crafts; Journaling Spot- Fancy Pants; Buttons- Basic Grey; Distress Ink- Ranger; Twine- Studio Calico; Font- Existence Light.

Turtle Power!

I did this page for one of Jana's amazing sketch challenges at Scrapperie last month, and it just never got posted here. Last year Scott went down to Arizona for the end of the summer without us, and Grandma got him this Ninja Turtles swim set that he still loves and uses. These pictures were perfect for this Cosmo Cricket paper I've been holding onto for a while. Super quick and easy page. Love that! Enjoy!

Turtle Power:

Supplies: Patterned Paper- Cosmo Cricket; Alphas- Basic Grey; Paint- Making Memories; Ink- Colorbox; Twine- Studio Calico.