Life is Beautiful

Hi - I hope you are having a great day! Christine gave me this beautiful photo of my parents and I just had to scrap it. When this sketch came up on 52 Sketches 52 Weeks, I knew it was perfect for this photo. I had just received my Scarlet Lime kit for September and it had this fantastic "Vintage Ruby" exclusive Scarlet Lime paper in the kit. Since my mom sews just about anything and is a quilter, I knew this paper was perfect. This year my parents are celebrating 52 years of marriage - how exciting. I used Jenni Bowlin chipboard buttons and alpha letters, stickers and ATC trunk card by Vintage Ruby, a Melissa Frances vintage keyhole and miscellaneous ribbons from my stash. Thanks so much for checking out my layout.

Scrapping Buddies

Hello All! These are some photos from the CKC - Creating Keepsakes Convention in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Heather, Joan, Sara and I went this past July. We did two crops and a lot of great classes. We completed lots of layouts on this trip. I did this LO for 52 Sketches 52 Weeks using the Memories {Note}worthy paper kit. The papers and colors in this kit are beautiful. Thanks for stopping by to check out my scrapbooking pages.

Just Pear~fect

This is a LO I did for 52 Sketches 52 Weeks #35. I used my Scarlet Lime August kit again for this LO. I just love the color combination of the papers. I used a template to mark the circle and traced it with my black pen and used the buttons in the kit. The photo is one of Robby and Christine pumpkin picking last year.

Splash

"Splash" was done for 52 Sketches 52 Weeks LO #34. I used the Scarlet Lime August kit for this page. The glitter letters are Thickers. These are photos of Roxie swimming in a friend's pool. She went down the slide with Andy and surprised us all by jumping into the water. She immediately swam to the side and tried to climb out. I don't think she liked it and I doubt she'll be jumping in a pool again. Rob and Andy were practicing diving with their new underwater video camera.

Hoop Dee Doo

Hey everybody this was a fun layout to do for 52 Sketches 52 Weeks #29 because I finally broke open my new July kit from Scarlet Lime. The papers were designed by Melody Ross of Chatterbox exclusively for this kit and they were beautiful. It was hard to use them because I just wanted to look at them but I did. I used the buttons from the kit and a few stickers too. I used the Thickers glitter letters for the title. The butterfly was from the SU! "Great Friends" stamp set. I colored the butterfly with a SU! gray marker and then used Crackle Accents on it. I was happy with how it turned out. The photo was taken when Rob and I were in Disney at the Hoop Dee Doo Revue in Fort Wilderness. The show was very funny and we really enjoyed it. The barbeque dinner was delicious - great corn bread! Thanks so much for checking out my blog - have a great day!

Disney Pages

These Disney layouts were done for 52 Sketches 52 Weeks. The "Donald" layout was done using Disney papers from my stash, miscellaneous embellishments and the Mickey hands were done using my Cricut machine. For the "Tree of Life" layout I was happy with the way the papers went with the pictures. This was one of the first layouts I did for a page sketch site. I was hooked . . . love those sketches!

Celebrate Disney

These are photos from the Move It! Shake It! Celebrate It! Street Parade in the Magic Kingdom at Disney World. This sketch was from 52 Sketches 52 Weeks #28 and it looked perfect for a two page LO so that's what I did.

Hats Off To You

This is a LO I did for 52 Sketches 52 Weeks of our trip to Disney. Rob had a lot of fun trying on the different hats in the Magic Kingdom. I made the Mickey shoes on our Cricut machine. It's always fun to scrapbook anything from a Disney trip!

Strawberry Picking

This is a page I did for 52 Sketches 52 Weeks. I used an older K & Company paper by Kimberly Hodges. These photos were taken when we went strawberry picking this spring at Donaldson's Farm in Hackettstown. The strawberries were delicious. Roxie, our black lab, went with us too and she loved eating the strawberries.

Engagement

This is a page I did for 52 Sketches 52 Weeks about my son Robby's engagement to Christine. Robby asked Christine to marry him on Christmas Day 2008 and they will be married on July 17, 2010 at the Indian Trail Club in Franklin Lakes in an outdoor ceremony on a private lake - just beautiful. The papers I used were by My Minds Eye in the "Andrea Victoria" paper line. I used the SU! "Always" stamp set for the bird and heart and then I used crackle accents on them. The chipboard word Love was red so I painted it with the acrylic dapper "Lake Mist", inked it and then used the SU! background stamp "Weathered" on it to give it a crackled look. The eyelet ribbon was sewn onto the page. I was very happy with how it all turned out.