Reindeer Food - 12/31

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We have lots of traditions that the girls enjoy.  In my family, the Christmas season still goes on until Jan. 6 which is 3 Kings Day. The actual Christmas season doesn't begin until Christmas day with the birth of Christ. Well there are 12 days of Christmas after that which most churches call Epiphany. And no we aren't Catholic! Lol. Well enough about the Christmas technicals...... 

We had a wonderful Christmas here. The girls got everything they wanted with a few surprises especially Lizzie (who claims not to believe anymore). That's for another scrapbook page.... The girls got me an awesome photo printer for Christmas!! So I have been editing Christmas pics and printing them without having to leave the house!! Well one of our most favorite traditions is laying reindeer food out to help Santa's reindeer find our house. This year the girls went outside and tossed it all over the yard. They had a ball, but my camera was not enjoying all the motion going on. Lol. 

REINDEER FOOD - OATS & "SPECIAL" GLITTER MIXED TOGETHER

At Let's Get Sketchy this week, we have a challenge for you! Use your blurry, cutoff, bad photos to create a page. I used a sketch from Stuck Sketches to help me with mine. 

Sketch:

My Page:

Materials:

HL Happy Holidays paper pad

Jillibean jute twine

Thickers

Glossy Accents

Close-ups: 

Hope y'all enjoy the rest of the Christmas Season!

Slide!

I love being able to have a photo printer at home. It makes it so much easier to print pics as I want/need them. I can create pages as I'm inspired instead of printing a whole bunch and not using all of them. I have been working on a few old pics lately. I love using sketches to help get my mojo flowing. Here is one from Creative Scrappers.....

My Page:

Materials:

FP WaveSeracher

Cricut Life's a Beach

Bazzill Two Scoops

Close-ups:

Hope y'all enjoy this summer page during the winter time!

Monsters! - 12/10

So this week Team B had a wonderful sketch to work with over at Let's Get Sketchy! I also wanted to play along with this sketch. I enjoyed making my page! I actually messed up with my border punch, but I still love how the page turned out. You can't even tell there was an oops.

The Sketch:

My Page:

Materials:

MS Spider Web border punch

HL cardstock & paper

Recollections halloween flower & leaves

Close-ups:

Hope y'all enjoy my Zombie and Cheerleader! Come play along at LGS!

ABC's of K-5

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I hope that everyone had a great feast yesterday! I was able to spend it with my family. The girls had a blast playing with my nephew. They rode bikes and played in the yard until it was time to eat. We had so much good southern home cooked food! The best part is the homemade pecan pie with cool whip on top! 

I've been sitting her remembering when my girls were little that we didn't do much for Thanksgiving cause they wouldn't enjoy it as much as they now. Over the last few years it has become more and more fun for them. Especially this year because it was so warm outside that they got to run and play without all the jackets. I have been scrapping some old pics of them and they are getting so big too quick :( Here is last week's LGS sketch, but I just love this one! Simple yet versatile. 

My take:

Materials:

Crate Paper School Spirit paper

Momenta alphas

TH emboss powder vintage photo

Close-ups: 

Hope y'all enjoy your feast and leftovers!

Sketch'n Time -11/14

It's been a long crazy weekend and I just realized it's Wednesday and I haven't posted the new sketch from LGS. We had sleepovers, bowling tournament, softball, and a school holiday.

I hope that everyone was able to play along with our blog hop as well! It is a great way to gain inspiration!

The Sketch:

 

 

Be sure to link up your Layout by the end of the month!

 

Come play along at LGS!



Let's Get Sketchy Blog Hop!!!!

Welcome to the LGS Blog Hop!!!

 

 

Welcome to the very1st Let’s Get Sketchy blog hop!! We at LGS are so very excited about our first blog hop! If you have arrived here from Stephanie's blog welcome to the LGS blog hop!! If you have stumbled across this by chance and want to play along then you can head back to the Let’s Get Sketchy site to start at the beginning and to start collecting your Fall challenge words. These words should be bolded on each DT member’s pages.

 

Blog Hop Challenge-Fall into Fall

Fall is such a beautiful time of the year, its when the leaves start changing colors and everything around us is beautiful. It is also the season of Thanksgiving, which reminds us to take a moment to reflect on all the things we are most thankful for.

So in celebration of the fall we are hosting a Fall Color Combo challenge. You are to use the colors below and create ANY project related to the Fall. It can be a layout, card, mixed media project or altered item. The sky is the limit! Once your project is completed, please return to LGS an upload your project using Mr. Linky.

Please use the color combo below:

You MUST use all of the colors in the picture (light blue, autumn red, yellow, brown, green)

Also as you hop along the way you will find clue words on each of the Design Team member’s blogs. Once you have gathered all the words they will form a quote related to Fall. Tell us that quote by emailing me at letsgetsketchy@gmail.com for an extra rak of scrap goodies!

The winner of the hop will be randomly selected and will win the beautiful Prima collection below. As always there are rules for playing!

Here are the rules for playing and winning: 1. You MUST be a follower of each LGS team members blog and leave a comment on each blog and; 2. You MUST also be a follower of the LGS blog.
Please make sure you visit the entire team today as some members are hosting additional blog challenges during the hop and offering their own extra goodies for you so the more you play the more chances you win!

All blog hop entries are due by midnight, November 15, 2012.

Now hop on over to Kerys blog to see what she has in store for you!

SHADE

 

 



A Sketchy Lift - 10/29

Well since there are 5 Mondays this month..... Let's Get Sketchy has decided to do a scraplift! Yep that's right! Your job is to scraplift any one of the DT's fabulous pages! While our job as the DT was to scraplift a page from a previous LGS sketch. I was suppose to scraplift one from Kerys over at Scrappin'n'Happy, but as I soon found out... I ended up lifting one of She-She's pages. lol. Well here is the page and sketch that I thought was Kerys, but is Brenshevia's page instead.

Here is her page:



Isn't this such a gorgeous page!!!!

 

My Lift:

Materials:

MME Mischevious paper

Cricut October 31st

Old book page

UmWowStudios Sept kit

 

 

 

Close-ups: 

My ribbon and cute Pumpkin Patch die cut. I know the words on the page are upside down! lol.

I cut this on my Cricut using the October 31st cart, then backed it with orange cardstock.

This was also cut using the same Cricut Cart.

I ran it thru my 2.5 Xyron so much easier than trying to glue it down.

Then outlined it with an AC fine tip black marker.

 

 

Come join the fun at LGS!



Super Model - 10/24

I love using sketches or any type of inspiration for my scrapbook pages. This time I played over at Creative Scrappers which I haven't done in a while. They have some awesome sketches and prizes if you've never played along over there. So I used their sketch #228 for some fabulous pics of my Lilybug. She reminds me of the life guards on the old TV show Bay Watch.

 

Sketch:

 

My Page:

Materials:

Crate Paper Cottage collection

Thickers

 

 

Close-ups:

 

 

 

Hope y'all enjoy!!! Come play along as well!!!

 



Marvelous Monday - 10/1

It's that time again! Another Let's Get Sketchy Sketch has come out! I absolutely love this one and everything about my page. I got stuck at first since I haven't really been scrap'n much these last few weeks. But thanks to the wonderful other DT members and their awesome advice I was able to pull this one off. It was so much fun getting my hands dirty again (and not with paint and primer either!). Well here is the awesome sketch along with my page.

The Sketch:

 

My Page:

Materials:

MME Stella & Rose paper & stickers

Bazzill Two Scoops cardstock

Prima bling

Recollections crochet flowers

Smooch Spritz Log Cabin

 

Close-ups:

Love cutting Prima bling to use on multiple pages.

Pop-ups under label stickers

Button & brad added to dollar bin flowers

 

Hope y'all decide to come play along with us!!

 



Marvelous Monday - 9/24

It's that time again! Another Let's Get Sketchy Sketch has hit the web!!! I absolutely love this one! It was not my week to create a page, but I couldn't resist this one. It is so versatile. I am still working on some beach pics of the girls. It is definitely hard to narrow down all those pics to just 2 pages. I always do several pages of the beach. I love the colors of this page too!

The Sketch:

 

My Page:

Materials:

FP Beach Babe/Bum

Glossy Accents

 

Close-ups:

 

Added ink to the plain white letters. Then topped them off with Glossy Accents.

 

Hope y'all come play along!!

 

 



Marvelous Monday - 9/17

It's a yucky, rainy Monday here..... UGH! But the great thing about rain is that you get to stay inside and scrap all day long!!!! My favorite thing to do. Also on Mondays...... Let's Get Sketchy has a new sketch to reveal!!! This one is loads of fun and is so versatile. The best part is that you also have tons of inspiration for the challenge with all the DT examples!

 

Here's my girls swimming at the lake....

 

 

Come join in the challenge!!!!

 

Totally Thursday - 9/13

Well I have been away for a few weeks. I have been working on cleaning and purging my scrappy space so I haven't had much time to get online. With all the purging, my laptop has managed to get buried under all that stuff. So I have kicked off the dust to bring you an awesome sketch from Let's Get Sketchy!!! This is not my week to display my art, but I would love for all y'all to go play along and look at all the wonderful work from the other half of the DT. These ladies did a wonderful job with this awesome sketch.

LGS #28 Sketch:

 

Hope y'all come play along with us!!!



Viva Las VegaStamps DT Tryout!!!!!!

So I am interrupting the normal flow of things here...... to bring you....... this awesome company...... called Viva Las VegaStamps! Did you know they make over 15,000 stamps!!!! They even have embossing powder and stamp pads! I have recently discovered this company through one of my great scrappy friends DeeDee. I also love her monthly kits, but that's another topic. Well I love using stamps especially if it involves embossing!! Well here are a few of my projects using stamps. Hope y'all enjoy the interruption.....

ATC:

My fav of them all! I used 2 or 3 shades of green TH distress ink on some TH resist craft paper.

I stamped and heat embossed the flourish. Added 2 different alcohol inks to my Prima flower.

Painted gold Smooch on the flower.

 

Cards:

I love this Valentine card! I used 3 different heart stamps with 3 different color embossing powders.

I also stamped the owl and sentiment with TH distress powder.

This was a card for my Lilybug's b-day. It's simple, but yet I love it.

I used my Nests then stamped Cinderella and Happy B-day with Staz-on black.

 

 

Layouts:

I stamped the MME butterflies using TH distress ink then fussy cut them using my TH scissors.

I also stamped and heat embossed a flower in pale yellow.

I used tone on tone stamping for the background here. I used BG Oliver Stamps with some TH distress ink to create a background that wasn't just plain cardstock.

 

Hope y'all enjoy this interruption with my stamping techniques!!!

 

And check out that awesome stamp site!!!



Pop-up Wednesday - 8/29

Well today is yet again a not so normal day. Hurricane Isaac gave us a few days of wind and rain. It's still lingering around a little bit. I have a few friends without power so hopefully they get it back soon cause it's hot! I have been scrapping away, but with the wind and rain there is no way for me to take good pics. But I can make an awesome announcement today!!!!!!

Announcement time!!!!!!!!

So I posted a few days ago about  trying out for a few DTs. Well I finally got word and I can let y'all in on the scoop........

Remember this page???

 

I made the Let's Get Sketchy Fall DT!!!!!!!!

 

So come over and play along with the weekly sketch challenges!!!

Up(lifting) Monday - 8/27

Well as many of you know there is a storm brewing and headed into the gulf by the name of Isaac. Considering I live within the path (which keeps changing), I have been getting ready for it all weekend. Making sure everything is tied down or put away that can blow around. Getting supplies in case the power goes out. Definitely filling up on gas (learned my lesson during Katrina). So it has been a crazy weekend. Scrapping help gets my mind off things while we play the waiting game.

So I was playing over at Colorful Creations yesterday. I love the Twisted Blueprints challenge every week. It's a sketch challenge with a small twist to it. So it makes a fun challenge on top of getting the inspiration. Sorry my pic is not that great. Had to take it inside up against my laptop cause of the weather. So here is the sketch....

 

Sketch:



Twist:metal, polka dots, and paint

 

My page:

Materials:

BG Granola collection

Prima Bling

Glossy Accents

Ribbon

PowderPuff Chalks

 

Close-ups:

I love cutting up my Prima bling to get more out of it for the money they cost!

 

Hope y'all come play along as well!!!