June 2015 Part 1

Please excuse the really crappy photo of my first page documenting this past June.  I worked on this page until after dark last night and had to take it to work to photograph it.  I leave for work in the dark and come home in the dark this time of year....it seriously sucks. So I had to take this picture in the parking lot (can you see the asphalt? lol) and it was windy so I could not take the cards out of the pockets.  I will take a better picture over the weekend but for now since the challenge deadline is only 3 hours away, this will have to do.  I used this sketch from Sketches in Thyme Project Life for the left side of my title card in the upper left hand corner.   

Here is a photo of just that card:

I have never used sketches for any of my Project Life cards before and now that I have done it 3 times, I rather like it.

Thanks for stopping by tonight.  I don't know about you, but I am REALLY glad Monday is over.

~~Sandi~~

All My Crew Together

I was really excited when my son sent me this picture in a text message.  All four of my grandchildren are in this one picture. I only have one other picture where they are all together and that was when the youngest, Izzy was a newborn. So I enlarged the photo and this layout is for ME.  I am sure I will scrap the picture a couple more times for my grandchildren's albums but for the time being I am keeping this page.

I used this awesome sketch from Laura Whitaker for Scrap Much?:

I am linking it up with to their challenge with only 2 hours to spare....now that is cutting it close!

Well it is back to work tomorrow.  My hubby and I have been on vacation for 9 days and have had a wonderful time with the perfect mix of work and play.  The good news is that we have another 11 days off coming up over Christmas so I do not mind going back to work too much.  Thank you for stopping by my blog.

~~Sandi~~

Celebrate This Day

My nephew is turning 19 this week and I wanted to send him a birthday card.  These birds by Tim Holtz are perfect for a masculine card and so much fun to add the accessories.  I was inspired by the colors of navy and coral in this inspiration photo from Altenew Stamps as well as the wood veneer house. The sentiment is also from Altenew stamps....I just love the large font paired with the smaller typewriter font.

I am entering it in their November photo inspiration challenge and also in Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Anything Goes challenge.

I am also entering this card in the Seize the Birthday's Anything Goes challenge.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my blog.

~~Sandi~~

Merry and Happy

I only have a few more Christmas cards to make and I enjoyed making 3 tonight.  I used this awesome clean and simple sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch:

I am also entering this card in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge

and in The Cat's Pajamas Anything Goes Challenge

Thanks for stopping by....I hope you are having a very enjoyable weekend.

~~Sandi~~

You Rock Uncle Dave

This is the last page I needed to create to fill up a scrapbook for my brother-in-law and sister-in-law.  They have four fun and active kids and Cheri works full time so there is really no time for her to document her children growing up.  So I occasionally create scrapbook pages for them and I finally filled the first of what I hope to be many more albums.  This is 6 year old Gabriel with my hubby...his favorite Uncle Dave.  And I think Gabriel is special to Dave too.  These two have a great deal of fun together whenever we get to see their family.

For this page I used this awesome sketch by Laura Whitaker for Stuck? Sketches:

We have been very busy during our week off.  But our house is all decorated and most of our shopping is done. I plan on relaxing and being creative the rest of the weekend.  How are your Christmas preparations coming along?

~~Sandi~~

Season's Tweetings Tag

I created another tag for the 25 Days of Tags that Tracey McNeeley is hosting.

 I loved her tag from day #10.  It inspired the background on my tag and also the previous tag I posted. Here is her tag:

I was also inspired by the button and ribbon on the top of Leigh Penner's day #19 tag.  You can see it here:

I am also entering this card in the Lawnscaping Challenge #115....In With The Old.  I have owned the Season's Tweetings Set for a couple of years and I LOVE it.  I use it every year.  I also have had the hillside die with the trees  for awhile but these two tags that I did this week were the first time I used this wonderful die.

Finally, I am also entering this tag in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge

Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy Thanksgiving and your long weekend if you live in the US.  I have been on vacation all week and have been loving it.

~~Sandi~~

Happy Birthday Gabe

This is another page for my brother-in-law and sister-in-law's scrapbook.  One more page and it is full for them.  I am giving it to them for Christmas.  I love to scrap pictures of their adorable kids.  And having 4 children under the age of 7 AND working full time, Cheri sure does not have the time to do any scrapbooking.  This is a picture of Gabriel on his 4th birthday have a piece of the birthday cheesecake that he requested his mom make him....too funny!

I used this great sketch from Laura Whitaker for Stuck? Sketches:

That's about it for tonight.  I hope all the readers of my blog have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

~~Sandi~~