A+ Great Work

Happy Saturday!

I feel like I'm off to a great start using up my old stash.

I dug deep into the depths of the stash to work with this sketch from Rochelle:

I found some older scraps from the School Spirit collection by Crate Paper circa 2010!

These bits are paper looked like fun and I just couldn't toss them, so I finally used them.

YAY!

I also added some random stickers and some felt pieces that I found in the dollar deals section at Target years ago...when they used to have scrapbook stuff in there.

Join us this month at Cookin' Up Creations while we play Out with the Old, In with the New.

Use up the old stash and mix it up with the new stash.

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First page of 2021

 Happy New Year!!!  I'm really hoping that this year is very different from 2020.

The only thing I will miss from the past year is having extra time to scrapbook.  The downside is with so many things cancelled, I had fewer pictures to scrap.  

Here is my first page for 2021:

As part of the team at Cookin' Up Creations, we are hosting a new challenge this month:

Out with the Old - In with the New.

I used a really old collection from Moxxie.

I cannot find any information on how old this collection is!

If that's any indication as to how long it's been around..lol.

Check out the new challenge for the first of the year and hopefully you will be inspired to use your old stash.

I used this sketch from Sketches in Thyme #451:

                                        

I was lucky enough to be selected to be on the Design Team!  I am so excited to be part of this wonderful group of scrapbookers.  Stop by and see what our amazing team has put together using this sketch.

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Together is the Best place to be

Welcome to 2021!!!  

I am hoping and praying that this year is a much better year than last, as I'm sure everyone is.

This year I am lucky enough to be on a new Design Team.

I am now part of the fabulous group of ladies designing layouts for Let's Get Sketchy!

I have been playing along with their sketches for years and I am so happy to be part of the team!

This is the first part of a great new year!

For January, we were offered this sketch to work with:

Fun, right??

I used Echo Park - I Love Family collection.

They had the perfect patterned paper to sue for those hexagons. 

These were cut out by hand and a few of them were mounted on pop dots just to break up the pattern a bit.

I hope you will stop by and play along with the sketch.

Every month a new winner is chosen to be a Guest Designer at Let's Get Sketchy.

The sketches for the new year are fun and you won't want to miss out!

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Merry Christmas Tree

 I love seeing the Christmas Tree all lit up and surrounded by gifts.

I'm usually so busy with dinner and games that I forget to take pictures of the tree.

I remembered this year!

I scrapped these pictures using this challenge from Scrap Our Stash:

I added some gold trimmed acrylic embellishments.  

The dimensional ornaments are from K&Company.

I added some gold glitter Stickles to them to make them shine even more.

I wasn't feeling the "glitter and sparkle" enough, so I outlined some of my papers with the gold Stickles too.

Off to order this year's pictures!

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December 25th

 Almost done scrapping previous years Christmas pictures!  Now I just have to sort through hundreds of new pics from this year.

This was a fun page as I finally had a thought on using all those little word strips.

I added some black and white braided ribbon and these really pretty poinsettia pieces I found at Hobby Lobby.

I used this sketch from Sketch n Scrap # 215:

As I work on these pages, I'm already making a list of things I will need for this year's pictures.

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Happy Holidays!!!

 It's Christmas morning!  We have a dusting of snow but it's soooo cold outside!!

I had a wonderful time with my family last night for our Christmas party.  Lots of food, games, presents and laughter.

Here is a picture from last year of my Mom, sister and me:

I used Simple Stories Say Cheese Christmas collection.

I love the Disney vibes!

I added my own little hidden Mickeys to my enamel dot scatters.

Here is the sketch I used from  Sketches in Thyme #450:

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!!

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My Sunshine

 This past summer, my daughter and one of her friends went to a sunflower farm.  I didn't know they existed!  I am so putting this on my bucket list for next year.  The pictures she took were beautiful!

I started this page by playing with today's mood board challenge from Cookin' Up Creations:

Once I saw the bright yellows and that picture of the shoes among the flowers, I knew which pics I wanted to scrap.

My second step was choosing this sketch from Sketches in Thyme #449:

I used a crumpled up napkin and some blue paint to "mess up" my background.

PSA - after a few dabs, the napkin starts to stick to the paper...lol.

I used one of my templates from my cutting system and a brown marker to create the different sized circles.

The flowers are a mix of felt flowers from Michael's, some random leaves and Martha Stewart sunflower stickers.

My title was a print and cut from a Pinterest board.

Now that I have avoided everything I was supposed to do tonight, I'm going to bed.

Baking in the morning!

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