Winding down...

I love taking pictures of butterflies! And I am even happier that they love to have their picture taken. The zoo has a butterfly haven that is just wonderful. And every year I make it a point to get to the butterfly festival at our local nature preserve.

This was a great sketch from The Studio Challenges. I love all the little butterflies and decided to stick with the theme of the sketch. These pictures are from last year's festival.

I used some scraps of mulberry paper for the photo mats. The flower die cuts and the large butterfly are from fabulous die cut packets from K&Company.

The butterflies are also for the re-run challenge at The Trail Makers blog. I had to use butterflies, bees and birds. If you look closely, there is a little bee by the flower die cuts. I thought adding a bird somewhere would be pushing my luck...lol.

I wanted to try splattering some paint on the page and give my glimmer mists a break, but I have very limited colors. :(

I dug through the bling drawer and used different sizes and colors to make the butterfly trails.

And the title is from Marcella by K. I found this die cut packet at Target. This was hidden in the drawer of Fall goodies. I don't know what made me look there, but I am so glad I did. I'm thinking I should just spend a whole day and just look through everything to remind myself of what is in the stash.

Well, the hubby called a little bit ago to warn me that he and the kiddies are on their way home. So my fun is almost over. I can't get this silly smile off my face...lol. I am so happy with everything I accomplished today. I'm not giving up yet...I think I might be able to start one more page. Hubby and I are having a dinner date tonight. :)

He starts his new job tomorrow and needs to shop at Kohl's for new work clothes.

Think I can convince him to let me run into Archivers?? Hmmm....

A Walk in the Park

YAY! I finally broke into the Echo Park "Walk in the Park" kit!! I pull it out all the time and my pictures just never seem to work with the kit. Which to me is a sign that I need to take more pictures. :)

The flowers in the pictures went so well with this paper. Even the kids clothes matched pretty well!

A few of the stickers from the kit were popped up with foam squares. I used solid cardstock for the grass along the bottom. I actually broke out some decorative scissors that I could never part with. I used a little bit of ink so it didn't look so boring.

The sketch I used is a PageMaps sketch from The Trail Makers blog. It's the 3rd sketch I have used today from them! I had fun and they had some great sketches to work with.

Still Having Fun...

See what happens when the hubby takes the kids out for the day...and the rain won't stop....I get to scrap a LOT!

Here is another fun sketch from The Trail Makers blog. This is my take on the DT sketch Rerun.

This came together using a pretty old kit from 3 Bugs in a Rug. I love these huge letters! I just have to remember to use them and not hoard them....

Lots of other goodies from the stash included:

Some ribbon scraps

Metal embellishments from Joann's Scrap Essentials

Pastel brads from DCWV

Pastel brads from K&Company

Chipboard ribbon slides from Colorbok

I still have a few more hours till the kids get back....hee hee!! Am I enjoying this alone time too much??

Sketchy Re-runs

The Trail Makers Challenge blog is a fun new site I discovered through a friend. This month they are hosting challenges based on past challenges. It's called Summer Re-runs and they look like fun!

Here is my first page I did for one of their sketchy reruns. I started out with Amarily's sketch. Just gorgeous!!

The background paper is from an Echo Park kit. The doily was glimmer misted with green (which was toooo bright) and Black Magic (to tone it down a bit).

The strips across the bottom are a few different strips of ribbon and a strand of bright pink fiber.

I love that I am really putting an extra effort into using the thousands of flowers I have collected. I really want to buy new ones.....

The gorgeous pebbles in the centers of some of the flowers are from Prima. I absolutely love these and need to find them in different colors!.

The title was made from a few pieces from My Mind's Eye. I have a whole bunch of these fun titles and I love when they finally work for my pages.

I'm also entering this for the Sketches in Thyme Open Sketch Challenge. :)

Off to work on a few more of their fun challenges!! :)

Creative Scrappers #165 and buttons!

I have to admit (again) that buttons are my FAVORITE embellishment! Needless to say I was very happy to see the Fabulous Friday challenge at Frosted Designs. I chose to add lots of fun buttons on this page to act as water drops at the end of the splashes. I love that I had a bunch that were solid and some were clear to give them all a different look. The splashes are fun glitter pieces from Jolee's.

I loved sketch #165 from Creative Scrappers. I was able to play with my new glimmer mist! I actually used two different colors of mist on a pale blue background. The title started out as just a rub on from Karen Foster. I added some chipboard letters colored with markers to give the title dimension.

ON a roll and feeling good....and it's still raining.... :(

Creative Scrappers #164

It's a yucky, rainy day here. I guess I will have to just stay home and scrap all day....darn!

Here is my take on sketch #164 from Creative Scrappers. I used a fun kit from Crate Paper. I love all this chipboard! The outer border was made by using a decorative edge ruler and Tombow markers. I think I like this technique! I used the same marker on some Thicker letters for the title.

I wish I could get outside to get some good pictures today. :(

Off to work on the next sketch! Have a great day!

It's Raining....

...well, not really. I kinda wish it was. I went outside to take a picture of my layout and had to wait until the camera became acclimated to the humidity. It is so miserable out there.

Here is my take on Frosted Designs - Sketch along Tuesdays. More circles! I cut up a few different sizes and used markers and inks on them. The background paper was stamped with a light blue ink pad from Cat's Eye. I found these fun raindrops at Hobby Lobby. I'm glad I found them because I lost my raindrop punch. :(

This adorable little turtle, the title and the clouds are all from Nikki Sivils - It's Raining, It's Pouring cut out sheet. I love this little guy! :)

I used some pop dots on all of these pieces.

To finish off the page, I outlined and doodled around all the pieces.

Time for lunch! Who's cooking???