MY LAST OF NSD!

Today I am sharing the last layout I got to do in celebration of National Scrapbooking Day.  I created it for The Cherry on Top's Deanna's NSD 2015 Monochromatic/Ombre challenge as well as the May 1st Challenge at Picture This! calling for 2 Photos + Black and White + Doily + Yellow.

I'm using a few more of my favorite butterfly photos 

from Lum's Pond August 2013.

And a few close ups of the accents...

I just remembered that there was a layout I did for the ABC challenge over at Soul Scrappers. This month's letter is "E" and the chosen embellishment is Enamel Dots.  You also had to use a word that starts with the letter "E".  

Here's my layout-

and now for a few close-ups-

this was a really great concert! It was so much fun to share the music of 'my era' with my sons.

check out these enamel dots! - I made them out of pony beads cooked in the oven.  Boy did they make some really smelly smoke!

now how's that for an "E" word? 

Ethnomusicology 

Do you know what it means?  As I didn't I'm going to assume you may not either...so I will tell you.

Ethnomusicology is the study of the music of different cultures.  I figured good 'ol southern rock was a great culture to start with!

And now it's back to cooking, laundry, and the other dreary details of my day today. I am planning on more creating tonite!

BEE HAPPY! BEE SCRAPPY! - MONDAY MONDAY!

Another fun day at Robin's Scrap Nest Bee Happy! Bee Scrappy! Crop at the Carlisle Inn Walnut Creek in Ohio's Amish Country. 

Monday I had some mojo and got a lot done...

First up is a layout from my son 

Thomas' 16th Birthday.

I used the sketch from SC89 challenge 

over on Soul Scrappers.

The sketch -

and here is my interpetation - 

I chose to modify it by using two photos.

and a few close-ups-

How about all these fun embellishments?

a fun saying and showing off my new 

Martha Stewart punch!

My next layout uses 

Let's Get Sketchy April Week 2 sketch -

Now here is my take -

and a few close-ups -

some great metal!

more great metal, molding paste 

(a/k/a Dry Dex Spackle), ribbon banner

My next layout is for the April 1 challenge at Picture This!

The challenge calls for using one photo, plus corners plus splatters.

Here is my take -

Obviously you see the one photo...

now here are some close-ups.

Here you can see both the corners 

and some splats!

Don't you love the yellow flower on the left? 

 I got that in the flower swap at the crop!

Here is my last layout of the day 

with some beautiful flowers taken 

at Mt. Cuba in August 2013.

I am going to enter this in 

Word Art Wednesday challenge 179.

And the grand finale - I borrowed the Julie Nutting Mermaid stamp and you will see this on a beach page one of these days...

There will still be another post from the final day of the crop hopefully tomorrow!

IT'S BIRTHDAY TIME!!!

Today the creations I have to share with you are about birthdays past and present.  First is a layout that I did of my Mom's 85th birthday.  It was a treasure to find these photos as it was shortly after this time she started the downhill spiral into Alzheimer's and passed away two years later.

For this layout I started out with Let's Get Sketchy Team B January Week 4 sketch -

 

 

and the selections for Picture This! January 15th challenge calling for 3 photos + black & white + lace

I am also entering this into Rochelle's Celebration challenge at Sketches4All which called for celebration theme and border punch.

Here is my layout -

and some close ups -

 here's my lace

 and this is a double border punch topped with satin ribbon flowers

 

I thought these stickers would be cute but I wanted them to stand out so I stuck them onto black cardstock and then put them on with pop dots for dimension.

I thought it was fun to be able to use this cute little camera button I had which mimicked the one on the sketch.

These items are also pop dotted for dimension.

 

This weekend we are celebrating my son's girlfriend's 22nd birthday.  I absolutely love Kathryn and know that someday she will make a wonderful daughter-in-law.

 

I chose sketch #382 from Mojo Monday.  It called for using a tall & skinny card.

 

Here's the sketch -

 

and here is my card -

 

and a few close-ups-

 

 

 

I am also going to share these over at Word Art Wednesday for their challenge #168 Anything Goes.

 

I hope you have enjoyed celebrating these birthdays of the past and present with me today.  Thanks for stopping by.

 



 

 

 



 

 



A LITTLE BIT OF PAINT AND...

Today I have a layout to share with you for the challenge over at Picture This!  The challenge calls for a sunburst, one photo and paint.  I had this paper that was perfect for this as there was already a sunburst on it.  I am continuing our trip to Gettysburg in 2003. 

I added Walnut acrylic paint on each side of the sunburst that was on the page.  On either side of the Walnut paint I added some brown tone patterned washi tape and to the area where the burst begins I added a chipboard circle which I cut according to the position on the page.  On top of the Walnut paint I also added some Rock Candy Distress Stickles.

 

 

And here is the layout -

The photo is my youngest sun with a statue of Abraham Lincoln that was in the center of town when we arrived.  (Rather timely as Lincoln's birthday is nearly upon us!)

I hope you have enjoyed continuing with me in our trip to Gettysburg!  More to follow...

HAPPY MID-MONTH PLUS SOME EXCITING NEWS!

Welcome to the middle of November.  While I'm sure some of us are getting ready for our big Thanksgiving celebration coming up soon I have a fun fall layout to share with you from the Colorful Creations team.

Here is the sketch we were provided with:

and this month a Mood Board was also included:



and here is the layout I created:

I so wish that I could get a better photo to share with you...being without a computer at home and having to do everything from the phone and the library computer is so difficult.

Please head over to the Colorful Creations page and enter your own wonderful creation.

This layout was also inspired by Rochelle's Word Art over on Sketches4All . I used a photo of me from a beautiful fall day in Delaware just last week and also added some fall leaves as embellishment.

 

 

I also want to enter this layout over at Word Art Wednesday challenge #158 Anything goes.

 

 

And now for the exciting news...Colorful Creations will be leaving after December but starting up with a wonderful new site called Picture This! You really need to head right over there and see what it is going to be all about!  There is a DT call going on until December 1st.