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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.

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.

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.

Sassy

I did this one for June sketch challenge over at Scrapperie, but I never got around to posting it here. The word art & frame on the photo were from the day 1 assignment in Jessica Sprague's free photo editing class going on right now. This picture was from a stop we made on the way to Montana. I pulled out my camera and Sierra said "Mom, take a picture of me like this. It's my new style!" That girl cracks me up!

Sassy
Supplies:
Patterned Paper- Fancy Pants; Journaling Card- Fancy Pants; Flowers- Prima; Chipboard Circle- Scenic Route; Paint- Making Memories; Ink -Colorbox; Word art & digital frame by House of 3 for Jessica Sprague's class.

Authentic

I posted awhile back that there was going to be a free photo editing class at JessicaSprague.com, and it started on Monday. The first few lessons were about layering PNG files and using brushes on your photos, so I was inspired to play around with some. For this one, I used a square PNG frame and the 'authentic' brush on the photo before I sent it out for printing. Then I used a sketch from a challenge at Scrapperie and my new July ScrapRoom kit.

Authentic
Supplies: Patterned Paper- Bo Bunny; Cardstock Stickers- Bo Bunny; Journaling Card- Fancy Pants; Ink- Colorbox; Digital Frame- House of 3; Authentic brush- Sande Kreiger;

CY Sketch #56- Everyday Love

Like any other mom, I have very few pictures of myself, let alone any of me & my husband together. For this sketch though, I just happened to have this 5x7 sitting here from forever ago! I also have the fabulous June kit from Scrapperie at my fingertips, and this Marrakech paper from Basic Grey was perfect for it! Make sure you head over to Creatively Yours and play along with us! I'd love to see your take on this sketch!

Everyday Love
Supplies: Cardstock- Bazzill*; Patterned Paper-Basic Grey*; Cardstock stickers- Basic Grey*; Paint- Making Memories; Clock- My Mind's Eye; Flowers-Petaloo; (* from Salon de The kit at Scrapperie)

Laugh

This week, I got my fabulous June kit, Salon de The, in the mail from Scrapperie. LOVE this kit! I also got our pictures from Snapfish & saw this challenge on the PageMaps blog right at the same time! I love it when that happens.

Laugh
Supplies- Cardstock- Basic Grey*; Patterned Paper- My Mind's Eye*; Alphas- American Crafts; Die Cut- My Mind's Eye*; Ribbon- American Crafts; Jewels- Prima (swirls), Me & My Big Ideas (singles);

(*- from Scrapperie June kit)

Hybrid- Miss Attitude

I did this one for the scraplift challenge over at Scrapperie this week. The inspiration layout was amazing, and I didn't stick with it as much as I originally hoped to so I may still do it again, but this also happens to be my very first hybrid layout ever. The whole center block was printed straight from Photoshop with the photo, title, journaling and swirl brush image onto AC cardstock. It gave the photo a really cool texture. I added two blocks of patterned paper and a flower accent I made from the same paper & a jewel center. Super easy!

Miss Attitude
Supplies: Cardstock- American Crafts; Patterned Paper- Kaisercraft (background, dotted stripes), My Mind's Eye (bright green, dark purple); Jewel- Me and My Big Ideas; Ink-Ranger; Font- GeosansLight (text), Bleeding Cowboys (title); Digital brush- Tia Bennett;