Las Vegas Wedding

 

 

I am re-doing our wedding scrapbook.  The first one I started was 8.5x11 and I was brand new at this hobby.  Needless to say I am not happy with the way it looks.  This time around I am using a color palette of red/white/black only and the pages will be 12x12.  I have an awesome black and white chevron album for it as well. So here is the second page I have done...the first page I finished a few weeks ago and it was a page on my wedding shoes.  You can see it HERE. And by the way....YES, I wore a black dress for our wedding and I still love that I did.

 

For this layout, I used this sketch from The Scraproom Blog:

 

 

Thank you for checking out my blog....have a wonderful week.

 

Family 2003

I had a catastrophe happen when I was nearly done with this page.  I pulled out the gray washi tape because I thought the page neede just a little more something and i dropped a length of it on the picture.  When I pulled it up it pulled off the print from the picture.  This is a picture that I printed years ago at home on a cheap printer and I framed the picture as it is the only picture of my dad and all three of us kids in recent history.  The original digital picture was lost when my computer crashed nearly 3 years ago so this was the only copy. Hence that is why I wanted to scrap it. I was heartbroken.  I somewhat salvaged the layout but I am still very upset.  At least none of our faces were damaged.

My color palette of navy, gray and white was inspired by this color challenge over at ScrapFit:

  I used this sketch from Sketches in Thyme:

I rotated the sketch 90 degrees to better accomodate my picture, title and journaling.

Smash Cake

 

 

Izzy had a wonderful time attacking and eating her smash cake at her recent birthday party.  All the adults were gathered around her snapping pictures -- we looked liked the paparazzi!!  I had so many good pictures that I had to do a 2 page spread.  Here is a close up of the left page:

 

This is the right side page:

 

I used this 2 page sketch from Sketches in Thyme:

 

 

Thanks for checking out my blog....I appreciate each and every comment!

 

Florida Keys



My friend Kristie Wilson gifted me this awesome title and I was saving it for just the perfect page.  I saw this week's sketch from Let's Get Sketchy:

 

 

And I just know I wanted to use the pictures of me feeding the tarpon on Islamorada (our favorite of the Keys) on our first of what we hope to be many trips down there.  The title was perfect for this page....thank you Kristie!!

 

Home

 

I am still working on finishing up my son's childhood photo albums.  I scrapped this photo once before and wanted to make sure it was in both Matt and Adam's albums so I wanted to scrap it again.  This time I used Jillibean Soup papers and their sketch:

 

 

This layout was also inspired by the Fall Color Challenge over at Cut It Up Challenges:

 

 

I used mostly the same color palette and even included an apple on my layout (do you see it??) The challenge also included using a die cut on my project so I included that cute little picket fence. You can see more about the challenge HERE.

 

Thanks again for stopping by and checking out my creations.  I love reading your comments.

 

Friends

 

Jacob and Cole are the best of friends which is really the way it should be in life.  This picture was actually taken a year ago this month....I should be ashamed for not scrapping it sooner but I finally found the right papers and layout to use for it...and don't you just LOVE those lil' flair buttons?

 

I used this sketch from Boys Rule:

 

I am also linking up this page over at Paper Issues Fall 'n for Flair theme.  Thanks for stopping by today and checking out my blog.

 

YUM

 

While in Chicago last month we went out to Cold Stone Creamery with Matt, Amy, Abby and Izzy for ice cream....boy was it good.  And it was so much fun sitting outside on a summer night and eating ice cream.  I really miss being able to do things like that on a regular basis.  Halfway through eating our treats, Abby decided she wanted to switch her half melted ice cream for my turtle sundae.  I am her grandma....could I say "no"?  Of course not! 

 

I love the way the page turned out...so fun and colorful.  I used Bo Bunny's Sweet Tooth collection and this sketch #227 from Creative Scrappers:

 

 

Edited to Add:

I am also linking this page up with Paper Issues current issue: Gettin' the Scoop on the Sweet Days of Summer