05/15/13: CPC - Buttons and SIWAS -"Soak Up The Sun"

Yay, I'm on time today!!!
Well...kinda ...sorta!

 

I have 2 challenges to share w/ you today.

One actually went live today, the other a week ago...so yeah only kinda, sorta, on time!

 

Let's start w/ this weeks challenge over at "Child's Play Challenges".

This week we are inspiring you w/ buttons!

Here is the inspiration pic:

 

Oooooohhhhhh.....Aaaahhhhhhhh!

So colorful and pretty, right?!

I love using buttons on my layouts!

They're a fun, easy, fairly cheap, embellie and the come in so many different shapes, sizes and colors!

 

Here is what I created:

 

"M&M Girls"

Journaling: "3/21/13 - M&M Store, Vegas.

My favorite = Brown   Madi's favorite = Green"

 

During our last trip to M&M World in Vegas, in March, I found out that Madison's favorite M&M character was the Green M&M. I also have a favorite, the Brown one, so when I saw these displays I wanted to take pics of them to memoralize these faves of ours.  Kinda silly, I know, but I think it will be fun to have  this to look back on. After all, things change! Also, I think it's funny how we actually have "favorites" of such random things! I mean really, a favorite M&M character? What's that about! LOL!

 

In keeping w/ the inspiration theme, I  used buttons (and brads and eyelets and self-adhesive dots) to mimic M&M candies.

 

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Okay, next challenge, which went live on May 9th (Yikes)!

 

During the month of May, "Scrap It W/ A Song", is inspiring you w/ songs about the weather.

The layout I am going to share w/ you was inspired by the song "Soak Up the Sun" by Sheryl Crow.

 

Here is my layout:

 

"Soak Up the Sun"

Journaling:"Madison enjoying the sun-inspired fountain at the Redlands Shopping Center."

 

Not much of a story to tell about this layout.

Just some older pics of Madison enjoying the water fountain at a shopping center we frequent.

This was 2 years ago when simple things like this still made her happy!

 

*Note: I used a sketch I found online but now I can't remember where or who designed it! So I apologize in advance to the person if they stumble across my blog and recognize their work w/out my giving credit!

 

Okay well that's all from me today!
Don't forget to come on by either blog and share the projects you were inspired to create!

Challenges are open until May 31st, 2013!

 





05/14/13 - SIT Sketch #110

Hello there!
Long time no see...errr...blog!

Once again I am late for the party!

Not good!

Well they say "better late than never" so w/ that in mind I am here to share the latest sketch over at "Sketches in Thyme":

Sketch # 110:

 

 

And my interpretation of it:

 

"Pucker Up"

Journaling: "Spring Break '13. Madi at the M&M store in Vegas"

 

 

The green M&M is my daughter's favorite M&M character so when we saw this cute doll of her making a kissy face I of course had to take a picture of my daughter imitating her! I think she did a really good job! LOL!

 

As you can see, this time I stayed true to the original sketch.

I added a few minor modifications, but for the most part the sketch worked for me as is!

 

Please stop by SIT and show us how it works for you!

Link up by May 31st for your chance to be a guest Maven  in July!!

 

05/02/13 - It's Complicated

Hello!

If you follow my blog, you know I  am usually really good at keeping it up to date.

If you follow my blog you will also notice that lately that hasn't been the norm.

 

Well, life has become a little complicated for me again.

Unfortunately some of it is my own doing.

Because of this and the fact that I don't know when it's going to become "normal" again, I am kinda letting scrapbooking and blogging take a backseat.

I am on 3 Design Teams so I will definitely keep up my commitments w/ those!

But as far as extra scrapping, yeah, IDK how much of that I'll be doing.

Due to some of the complications in my life I just haven't been "feeling it".

Unfortunately there goes my chances of fulfilling my scrappy goal for the year!

But that's okay, sometimes more important things come up and you have to let go of previous plans.

 

BTW -

I'm okay.

So please don't worry about me.

You know how life is!

 

But I wanted to check in and let you know and also apologize to my fellow bloggers whose blogs I make regualr visits to!

I miss you guys and know that when I do have the time and energy I will stop by your blogs and say "hi"!

 

Until next time, take care!

04/26/13 - CPC: "Guess Who?"

Hello! Hello!

I have been really slacking on my blog! Yikes! LOL!

I was a day behind on my "Scrap It With a Song" challenge and now here I am 2 days behind on my "Childs Play Challenges" challenge!!!

Oh well, better late than never! 

 

The current challenge at CPC is a classic game challenge.

We want you to share w/ us a project inspired by the game "Guess Who?":

 

 

 

 

 

 Here is what I was inspired to create:

 

"Guess Who?"

"Madi fell asleep while doing homework. 10/20/12"

 

As you can see I was double-inspired!

I used the title of the game as the title of my layout and I pulled most of the colors off of the game box and onto my layout!

 

 

The inspiration for my layout also came from 2 other sources:

 

1.>  "Another Freaking Scrap Challenge".

They are currently having a sketch challenge. Here's the sketch:

 

 

As you can see I kinda went crazy w/ the circle elements of the sketch...but what can I say, I love circles! Surprisingly I didn't use that many buttons. I say surprisingly because I love buttons too, but they weren't working very well for me on this layout.

2.> "Twisted Tuesdays"

Challenge details: use "chocolate and one of the following: chalk or glitter or spritz spray or distress inks or copic markers (or a mixture of any)"

I used "chocolate colored paper for my BG and a little bit of spritz on the large circle.

So in the end I wasn't really double inspired but more like quadruple-inspired!

I hope you are inspired too!
  

04/25/13 -SIWAS : "Foolish Games"

Good Morning!

 

I'm a day late getting my post up! Oops! 

Yesterday a new challenge went up at "Scrap It With a Song".

The song we are inspiring you with is "Foolish Games" by Jewel.

Remember that song?

I loved it when it was popular! But at the time it came out... I was only 20 yrs old so I liked the song but never really truly paid attention to it's lyrics. When completing this challenge I looked them up and realized what a sad song it actually is! Awwwwww!

Foolish Games Lyrics

 

So now how to make a layout out of a sad song?

Just try to forget  what the song as 'a whole' means and pick from the lyrics the not-so-sad parts.

That's what I did w/ my layout. The lyric "smoking your cigarettes and talking over coffee" jumped out at me because it reminded me of all the times I take the kids to Starbucks. I love taking them there to have delicious coffee, non-coffee for the kids, drinks and just chatting w/ them!

 

I found some old pics of my daughter at Starbucks and scrapped those.

I was saddened when I realized I didn't have any of my son. So I will definitely be making sure to set up some Starbucks photo shoots w/ him in the future! LOL!

 

 

"Talking Over Coffee" 

And if you like my layout, thank you, but I can't take full credit for it.
I was actually inspired by another challenge; a sketch challenge over at "About a Girl".
Here is their sketch:

 

 They are actually a brand new blog and this is their first ever challenge!

Congrats to them for the blog and how amazing is their first sketch?!

Ah-maz-ing!

 

Any-hoo!

That is it for me today.

 

I hope you'll stop by and join us! 

  

 

04/18/13 - SIT SKetch #109 Part 1

Good Thursday Morning Friends!

Stopping in to share the latest sketch challenge over at "Sketches In Thyme".



Here is the 2-page sketch that we are (hopefully) inspiring w/ this week:

 

Sketch #109

My interpretation:

"11"

 

*all papers are from Nikki Sivils' "It's Your Day" Collection*

 

I wound using the middle of the sketch as my inspiration; that's a first for me.

Usually w/ 2 page sketches I pick one side or the other but in this case my eye was drawn to the middle elements. 

Also, I took a lot of pictures of this event, however, I choose to pic only 4 pictures I thought really captured the story.  This is not something I usually do, as I can never seem to narrow down my pics into my absolute favs because usually they are ALL my faves, LOL! But there is definitely more freedom and room to move around when you don't have to worry about fitting every picture on the page!  I will definitely be doing more of this in the future.

BTW - just in case you're wondering, I do have a printed copy of every picture I took, I just didn't use them on my layout.

 

You have until the close of the month, on Tuesday, April 30, 2013, to link up your takes on this sketch and/or any of the other April sketches.  Your entry(ies) will put you in the running to be named one of our Top 3 and have the opportunity to guest design with us during the month of June!

 

Have fun, and good luck!!!

 

04/13/13 - Punky/Tuesdays : "Easter 2011"

Hello!

How is everyone doing? I hope well!

 

Just wanted to stop by and share my latest layout.

This layout was inspired by 2 different blog challenges.

 

 

First inspiration came from the "Punky Scraps" gals!

I used their latest sketch and kept w/ the challenge guidelines of using lots of yellow and feather and/or Easter embellies.  Although it wasn't required, I was inspired to scrap some old Easter pics of my kids.

 

Here is their sketch:

 

 

And my interpretation :

 

 "Easter 2011"

 

Also "Punky Scraps" encourages the use of paint and ink on your creations so I made use one of my un-inked stamps; the flowers. I'm not much of a stamper but I really like the extra little "oompf" the stamp added to my layout!

 

Speaking of un-used items...

the Second blog inspiration was "Use It Tuesday".  The main theme of their blog is to use hoarded items. This week's challenge is specifically asking for the use of "sticky" things. So besides the un-inked stamp I used a few stickers and the title is made up of hoarded self-adhesive letters.

 

Both were great challenges to work with!