Good Enough to Eat

Scrap Whispers Challenge #8 - Use this title on your page. "Good Enough to Eat".

I've had these fun pictures of Jason feeding his peas to Daddy. He was very meticulously putting them onto the fork and then passing them off. He did this with almost every pea. We had some great laughs and Dad was a great sport about it. :)

This sketch was from Frosted Designs Sketch Along Tuesdays. I had to change it up a bit and only used 2 pictures. I love this paper from American Crafts! Such great colors! And the doily was from the scrap box. I had inked it up quite a while ago and then decided it didn't work for a project, so it was tossed in the box. So glad to finally find a use for it. :)

It's Pizza Time!!

This layout is making me hungry!! Since it's Mother's Day I wonder if I can convince the family to order in tonight.....hmmmm.....

This is what I came up with using Sketch #2 from Artful Delight. I love using these fun die cuts. Of course, I had to use a die cut shape to trace out on the fun patterned paper. These stickers and paper are from Creative Imaginations.

I chose these pictures to work with Scrap Whispers NSD Challenge #10 which was to create a layout about your favorite food. Of course, I don't have pictures of ME eating pizza, but obviously my little ones have no problem posing for me. :)

Fall Cuties

Happy Mother's Day to all!! I hope you have a wonderful day! Lucky me...I get to scrap my little heart out today. We had a wonderful family day yesterday and I am so looking forward to just chilling out.

Here is my layout for Scrap Whispers NSD Challenge #4 which was a recipe challenge.

5 patterned papers

4 flowers

3 embellishments

2 word titles

1 stitching

All of these papers were from a kit I bought from the dollar spot at Target a few years ago. :)

The flowers, buttons and the letter stickers are all from the stash. And I used faux stitching around the edges.

I started out with this week's sketch from Sketchy Thursdays. I love all the little circles. They were a great way to use up some scraps.

Have a great day...off to the next challenge!

Squeezing in some scrapping....

We had a beautiful day today! My youngest daughter made her First Holy Communion this morning. We had a wonderful brunch with the whole family. I managed to participate in a little NSD fun. And now I have to get moving to get dressed up again. We are off to the photographers to get some professional family photos taken.

Here is a layout I did for Challenge #2 at Scrap Whispers. Georgina (who I am discovering REALLY loves cake...lol) challenged us to do a layout of our favorite cake. I had bought this new "toy" a few months ago. It's my new Cupcake Display Tower. I LOVE this thing! Never mind that making cupcakes are so much easier to make!

This photo is from my daughter's 9th birthday party. She had a Twilight theme, so the color scheme was red, white and black. This was the first time I used the tower. My oldest daughter and I decorated the base of the stand with roses, streamers and crystals. I love how it turned out!

I used a one photo sketch from Artful Delight to create this page. Since I had only the one photo left (yes, I took lots of photos of the tower), this sketch was perfect and came at the right time.

I'm also using this for the challenge at Show Us Your Stuff. The challenge was to use trims, ribbons and lace. I used a piece of felt ribbon trimmed in lace for an accent piece. I also added a piece of the same ribbon to the tag and attached it with fastenators. :)

Now I really have to get moving....time for more pictures!!!

Scrap Whispers lift

It's time for a Scrap Whispers DT Blog Hop! I love all the different interpretations on the sketches and layouts.

This time, we were challenged to Scraplift Georgina's layout. I loved what the DT did with the original. But I kept looking at it and I couldn't get these winter pictures out of my head. The colors were perfect for the lift. I decided to stick with the original layout as close as I could.

The scalloped papers for the background are from the dollar spot at Michael's. There were about 5 different designs in the package. And all the colors were perfect matches.

All of the snowflakes are from Michael's also. Some are just foam and others have some glitter. And the title was dug out of the stash of letter stickers. I wish they showed up better. :(

Happy Easter #1

I recently found a ton of older pictures hidden in the closet. Most of them were my daughter's school pictures, which were already scrapped. But then there were hidden gems! Lots of Easter Bunny pictures taken throughout the years. And tons of Santa pictures!

This is a picture of my daughter when she was about 6 years old. She is not happy that these are all over my desk now. She turns 21 in July! LOL! She has her friends here all the time and they have been giggling over how cute she is in these pictures.

The background paper has been around for a zillion years. I had to stock up on it because I thought it was so cool and could have a ton of uses. The Easter egg patterned paper is new from today's shopping trip. I love this title sticker from Jolee's too! I had fun inking up a doily with some new inks from Studio G. And I also added a few miscellaneous stickers popped up on metal rimmed tags.

The sketch is from Sketches in Thyme. I am such a dork too. I placed my patterned paper on the desk and did a quick hand sketch of what I wanted to cut out. I was so careful to cut it out to get the swirl just the right way. Then....I realized I had the paper flipped the opposite direction. Sooo...I ended up flipping the whole page to resemble the original sketch. Stupid rookie mistake...lol. Oh well....

Tropical Trance

YAY! I am so happy that I was able to finish this before our big scrapbook shopping trip today!

This sketch is from The Scrappiest #114. I was hoping to finish this last night, but who could resist an invitation to dinner from an old friend?? Especially when it's pizza!!! Which, by the way, makes a great breakfast too... :)

My daughter loves going to Navy Pier to the Crystal Gardens and just watching the waterfalls and flowers. Until she sees a bee...lol...then it's totally meltdown time! Which is really hysterical....just saying...I need video of her reaction...lol

These were all miscellaneous papers from the scrap box. The flowers are also from "The Drawer of a Million Flowers I Will Probably Never Use Up".

Scrap Our Stash is having a May Challenge to use up some flowers from the stash. Since I have gazillions to choose from, this was an easy challenge...until it came time to choose the pictures. Yesterday I was able to get out and take some Spring pictures with my daughter, but of course, they are still on the camera. So I decided it had to be the tropical flowers instead of spring.

My proudest achievement was the title. I used a set of Thickers letters. I was down to the bare minimum and was able to cut, chop, slice, and piece together all the right letters. I used up quite a few numbers and "q"'s and "j"'s. I didn't have to break down and wait to buy a new set! Of course, I will pick up new ones today...but that doesn't count.....

Happy Sunday!!!!