Home Alone?? What's that??

I cannot believe the hubby was home early enough tonight to take the kids to all their sporting stuff!  This does not happen!  I have the house to myself and I'm not sure what to do!
I was going to scrap and realized I never posted these pages from the weekend.

Let's start off with my page for the sketch challenge from Brenda at Granddiva's Creative Corner:

This page came from the box of My Mind's Eye goodies.  The die cut was buried under tons of the newer stuff.  The frames were found in a drawer.  The trims are new from Paper Secrets...o.m.g!  Are they gorgeous??!!!  

Here is the sketch:

Then I finished this page for Kerys' Word Art challenge:

I dusted off a flower punch and added some newer flowers to the centers.

The letter stickers are from an Echo Park collection.

I also dusted off the tearing rulers for some fun patterned strips.

And don't miss the extra scrap of burlap up there too!

Scraps are always a good thing!

And finally...

This was a combination of the sketch challenge from Paper Secrets:

The twist was to add chevrons.  I added another scrap piece with a chevron pattern underneath the chipboard birds.   :)

And the color combo challenge from Rochelle Spears:

I found these papers also in the My Mind's Eye stash.

Now I should work on another page....before anyone gets home!

Have a great evening!!!

Super Scrapping Sunday!

I really do plan on watching the big game today....WHILE I scrap!

Here are a few that I managed to finish so far...

This page is for the newest challenge blog called About A Boy.

Since this blog is just starting out, the challenge was to introduce the Boy in your life:

And I managed to do it without a sketch!!!

I totally love all these little gears.  These papers are from the Prima Craftsman collection.

I added a few metal gears from Tim Holtz too.

And then I finally managed to finish a page I started a few days ago.  I hate it when I start a page and then halfway through I get totally stuck.  This one was quite a puzzle for me.  I tried to stick to the sketch which is from Sketchbook 365:

And this is how it ended:

I fussy cut the hexagons from some My Mind's Eye papers.  The flowers are all from the stash...with buttons in the centers.  And just as an added touch I ended some metal dragonflies.

Have a great day!!!

Inspired Blueprints #81!

So glad to see Inspired Blueprints back in action!  It's been a long time and I have really missed their inspiration.

Breaking into the older stash, I pulled these pretty pink, red and glittered papers from My Mind's Eye.

I added a bit of Stickles to the papers and the photo mats.  The butterflies are chipboard pieces from Maya Road. 

Here is the original sketch:

Have a great day!!

Congrats!!

I took a shot at a fun challenge from The Paper Mixing Bowl this morning.

 I saw the "recipe" and thought it quite challenging.  I've been putting it off for a while, and today, it all seemed to come together.

Here is the recipe:

I used some white paint, a little Glimmer Mist and some random bling on the background. 

The title piece is a metal embellishment from the stash.

And the bling is from Michaels.

This was fun!

I can't wait to see what the next recipe is!

Have a great day!!

Showing some Turtle Love

I love going to the Nature Center when all the animals are happy and playful.  These two fellas kept peeking out of their shells, letting us get some good pictures.

I raided the box of scraps to put this page together.  The bits down the left side are a piece of corrugated and some cork.  

The sketch is from Sketch N Scrap:

Have a great day!!!

Quick Saturday post...

It's finally snowing!!  I am so happy that it's snowing, lightly, on a Saturday!  I don't have to drive through it to get to work!!  The kids can just jump out the door and play!  And I can take lots of fun snow pictures!!!!  YAY!!

So I'm starting off the morning slow...because everyone is still sleeping...I guess they aren't as excited about the snow as I am...

Here is my page for the new challenge at Sketches With Color:

This is the original sketch:

And of course, the cool color palette:

Off to try and drag them out of bed!!! 

Have a great day!!

FINALLY FRIDAY!!

TGIF!!
What a great way to end the week....Chilled Strawberry Margaritas and Chilled Strawberry Soup from Jillibean Soup!

And here is the Jillibean Soup sketch: