Let's Read with Dr. Seuss

Sometimes I run across a challenge that I just don't have the right pictures for....A color combo from Scrapping 4 Fun was one of them...

I did my best to adapt - even though I wish I had tropical pictures to work with!!

Here is the original inspirational picture:

I also did a little doodling with a Uniball pen to incorporate the "use a pen" challenge from Artastic

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Cute Memories

This has got to be the biggest smile I have ever seen on my little guy's face!  This was when we were at a weekend getaway to a waterpark after he got hurt.  We decided to make him feel better by getting Everything including the Kitchen Sink ice cream sundae!

For this page I used sketch #308 from Creative Scrappers:

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Awesome Vacation!!

Love that I was able to use LOTS of pictures on this page!

With the help of Rochelle's color challenge:

And a 2 page sketch from Let's Scrap:

I knocked out 9 pictures!  AND dusted off the old Coluzzle set to make my smaller circles.  And then I dragged a metal rimmed tag out of retirement.

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Dinner Cruising

Special time with just me and the hubby.  Here are a few more pictures of our dinner cruise along Lake Michigan last year.


I pulled out some old brads that worked well with this color scheme.  I fussy cut all the wave borders.  2 of the 4 are on pop dots for dimension.  If you look closely, there are some water friends hidden within the waves.

I started with this mood board from Hiding in My Craft Room:

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Bowling Fun!

And yet another sport that my little guy enjoys!  Bowling!

This page was inspired by a scrap lift challenge from The Studio Challenges.

This page by Sherri really jumped out at me (NOT just because it was taken in Disneyland..lol) but because my first thought was that I have LOTS of photo slide mounts in the stash!

I haven't even looked at them in forever!

Thank you for the inspiration Sherri!!!

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Dirt don't Hurt

Gotta love having boys and girls.  I get to dabble in everything under the sun with scrapbooking topics.  Here we are the Demolition Derby:

I used some misting spray on the background to make it look "dirty"...lol.

I've had this title sticker from Bo Bunny for years!

So happy to finally have a page for it!

This is the sketch I used from Scrap the Boys:

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More 4th of July

Quick and simple, but this title set from Jolee's was so awesome I couldn't wait to use it!

Perfect for this sketch from Stuck?! sketches:

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USA!! USA!! USA!!

Happy 4th of July!!!

Fun pics of the kids waiting for the parade!!

My starting inspiration was sketch #283 from Sketches in Thyme:

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Wild Thing

Love this picture from our trip to the zoo last year!!

I swear he smiled just for me!!

I used this awesome picture for this sketch from Scrapping Clearly:

This board from Off the Rails caught my eye and it was what triggered me to find this picture:

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City Fun

Mixing it up a bit...these pictures worked best with the challenge from Scrap the Girls:

Here is the moodboard we were challenged with:

And here is another from Challenge YOURself:

I also chose this sketch from Sketch N Scrap to plan my page:

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I Love America

Sticking to this month's theme...

I used this month's challenge from Let's Get Sketchy.

The added black to this color scheme was a little different.  I chose to use a black background, but added some blue Stickles.

Here is the moodboard:

And here is the sketch:

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Happy 4th of July

Back to the holiday pages...

Here is a page with a LOT of stars:

I used lots of old stash.  I couldn't believe how many stars I had all over...lol.

Here is the sketch I worked with from the Scraproom blog:

And I also used this Tic Tac Toe board from Scrap Our Stash as inspiration:

I used Red, White and Blue - Stars - and a metal rimmed tag:

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Let's Play Soccer

I thought I would work on  a  few sports pages along with all of my 4th of July pages.  Here is my little guy and his first year of Soccer:

Funny thing...I used this sketch from Granddiva as my starting point.  When I cut the paper, you can see I cut it in the wrong direction....lol.  

Here is the original sketch...in the original direction...lol

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Love, Life and Liberty

Good morning!  I am so enjoying this time off of work!  Im getting lots of work done around the house and getting some scrapping done too.

Here is my first page:

I played with some Stickles and a paint dabber.

My initial inspiration was this moodboard from Creative Embellishments:

And I chose this sketch from Stick it Down to work with:

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