My Beautiful Girls

I ran across some older pictures of my 2 daughters and had to use them on a page.  I love these black and whites...

Lots of fussy cutting and a pretty border punch was dusted off.

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My Soccer Star

My little guy is still not sure what sport is his favorite...right now he loves them all.

And his Mom really likes to take lots of pictures of him playing sports.  :)

Here is one of my favorite posed shots:

I stuck with the orange from his shirt and the black and white soccer balls for the Black and White and One challenge from About A Boy.

And here is the sketch from Artful Delight that I used for my inspiration

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Open Your Heart

Time to chip away at all those school pictures...including all of the school activities.

Here is my daughter with the FIRST instrument she chose to play for school band.

Again...this is the FIRST one...sigh...it's never quiet here anymore.

My inspiration came from Let's Get Sketchy:

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I'm back!

I cannot tell you how good it feels to finally get back to sitting at my desk and actually scrapbooking!

This has been the craziest, busiest, most insane summer of my life.  The kids are getting older and getting into every sport and activity imaginable.  It's unreal how time consuming these things can be.  And this was AFTER school let out for the Summer!  I'm actually relieved that school is back in session and things are on a much more manageable schedule.

We were also VERY lucky to embark on a long awaited European vacation.  We started out by leaving Chicago and flying into France.  After 3 days there, we took the train into London and stayed a whole week.  We have some family out there and had a wonderful time.  Then we flew into Ireland and stayed with family for 3 more days.  It was the most wonderful experience ever and I am so glad we finally did it.  It's definitely something we will not forget for a long time.

And it's going to be gazillions of scrapbook pages too.   :)

I just ordered all of the pictures to work on, so stay tuned.

Anyway...it's so good to be back.  My mojo was given a good swift kick and I participated in a sketchathon at 2 Broke Girls.  In 2 days (gotta love holiday weekends) I managed to kick out 14 pages for our previous trip to Disney.

They can be found HERE.

But for all my other pages, well....it's going to take a long time to chip away at those boxes of photos.  But I'm game, motivated and excited to get back into it all.  

A sketch from Sketchabilities was my first attempt at a non-disney page.

Here is the original sketch:

It's good to be back again...this is the therapy I needed.

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Let's Get Sketchy - Week 3

Good morning!  I hope everyone found some time to scrap this weekend!  Things are starting to warm up here and I've been spending a lot of time in the pool.

Now that the baseball season has slowed down, I'm hoping to find more time to work on my albums.

Before I know it, it's football season and the schedule will be crazy busy again!

Here is a page I did with this weeks sketch from Let's Get Sketchy:

And here is the original sketch:

Stop by the blog and see the rest of the DT work! And don't forget to play along for a prize!!

Have a great week!  STay cool!!

Guest Designing at Let's Get Sketchy!

I am so lucky to be the Guest Designer this month at Let's Get Sketchy!

I've always had fun playing along with their weekly sketch challenges!  And this month is no different...

Here is the sketch for Week 1:

And here is my page:

I love working on zoo pages...finally!  It's even better when the animals are willing subjects and pose nicely for you.   :)

I used a white paint dauber on my background and a few different types of ribbon and trim.  And these letter tiles are so cool!

For Week 2 we have this funs sketch:

And here is my "split picture" page:

The background paper has a bit of a shimmer to it, which I thought was perfect.  I used a distressing tool on the middle piece.  The HUGE flower was from the dollar spot at Michael's.  I bought a few of them because of the fall colors, but it worked out great for these pictures.  I'm on big on cutting my pictures up, but this was great because of the reflection of the sunrise on the water.  It pays off to get up at the crack of dawn...sometimes!

Stop by Let's Get Sketchy and see the amazing works done by the Design Team!

And don't forget to play along!

Have a great weekend!!

Back to the Disney album!

Well, we finally took the first steps in planning our next big family adventure.
Which means, I REALLY need to get back to work on the Disney album!

Once I started to think outside the "Disney" theme, I managed to pop out a few pages.

Here is one using a collection from My Mind's Eye - Miss Caroline:

I will be posting all of my Disney pages on my Disney vacation blog:

http://scrappingwithcharacter.blogspot.com

Stop by and say hi!  

Have a great day!!!