YIKES! BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!

I never realized I missed my first of the month post here on my blog for Scrapping Everyday Miracles. I got the challenge and my teams work all posted on the challenge blog but never shared anything with you all, my readers.  So I will start today's post with that.

Scrapping Everyday Miracles has 3 challenges happening right now.  There is a layout sketch, a card sketch and some scripture inspiration.  My share for this month is the card sketch.

There was a wonderful couple from my church celebrating their 46th Wedding Anniversary so I created my card for them.  I chose to rotate the sketch 1/4 turn counter-clockwise.

Don't you love the antique button?

and the inside!

I also never got to share this fun layout with you using Let's Get Sketchy July week 3 sketch.  

Yes, I am still working on some photos from that fun crop I went to at Rivercrest Farm in Dover Ohio. This is Robin of "Robin's Scrap Nest" a fabulous papercrafting Facebook group.

and here are a few fun close-ups so you can see some of the details!

 tags

fun accents

 

my title block

 

and a fun acrylic star

My last creation for this post was a fun jewelry keychain I made for a close friend's birthday.  I have done very very little jewelry making but when I saw these pieces I wanted to create something with them for her.

I'll be back in a bit with a few more creations! 

I am going to share my keychain at Word Art Wednesday for challenge #195 Anything Goes.

I'm so happy that you stopped by and I hope you will leave me a comment letting me know what you think!

SURF'S UP!!!

Have you ever seen the fun movie Surf's Up?

Several years ago I had a job doing merchandising for Sony.  They often treated us to copies of the movies that we were placing.  This was one of the ones I received.  My younger son absolutely loved it and we watched it several times. He is now 16 and we don't have as much time or inclination to watch the many animated films we own on DVD.  A few weeks ago he decided we should pull this one out again and watch it together.

I had recently been catching up on scrapping some old beach photos from 1996.  It was fun getting to play with my new Echo Park collection 'Splash!'

These photos are not of my movie buddy but of my eldest.

Here is my layout - 

Here are some fun close-ups~

I know that you can see that the entire layout is beach themed but I also included some actual parts of the beach - here are some real shells.  

(They are a part of a fun new product called Mudd Puddles!)

Don't you love that great swirl of water?  

How about those cute little fishies?

and finally cute little Robert! 

(this photo and the caption are on 

pop dots for a bit of added dimension!)

So I hope you have enjoyed my Surf's Up 

blast from the past.  

I am going to enter this layout into this week's showcase at 2 Creative Chicks and Anything Goes challenge #194 at Word Art Wednesday and Tinker-Dream challenge #31 Summer and Anything Goes challenge #1 at A Bit More Time to Craft. 

All comments greatly appreciated.  

Thanks for stopping by!