Family

I LOVE this collection from Simple Stories - Vintage Ancestry:

I played Tic Tac Toe with Stacy for this page:

I use stickers - twine - enamel dots

My favorite part was the grid that I made using a marker to draw light lines and then filling each spot with stickers.

So happy with how this one turned out!

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Love and Strength

 

Good morning!

Benefits to waking up at the crack of dawn - getting a page or two done!

I put this together using a kit I scored at Hobby Lobby, who is having a HUGE clearance sale!

This kit cost me a whopping $1.49!

I fussy cut the flowers and added some pop dots.

Here is the sketch I used = #225 from Sketch N Scrap:

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Hello there!

 Our pet tortoise is the best pet we have ever had!  He is so fun, for as much fun as a tortoise can be.

He's so low maintenance and just so - chill.

I used this sketch from Rochelle Spears to get started:

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I've been dabbling in mixed media lately.

For my background, I dusted off some older bottles of Tattered Angels misting sprays.

This is a mix of 3 different colors.

Instead of spraying them directly on the paper, I spray them on a sheet of plastic, sprayed with a mist of water to get them to mix and then laid my paper on top.

This gave me the look watercolor look and not the "sprayed" look.

I like this technique - although its still a bit messy...lol.

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Yeah, that’s my boy!

This month's sketch from Stick it Down was a great one photo page that came just in time for this great picture of my son and I:

I used the Cocoa Vanilla Legendary collection, lots of pop dots and Nuvo Drops.

Here is the original sketch:

I can't believe how quickly this came together!

It helps when you're inspired by a great sketch.

Stop by the Stick it Down blog to see how the whole Design Team was inspired!

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Think Happy & Be Happy

This month's kit from My Creative Scrapbook featured The Garden party collection by Maggie Holmes.

I LOVE these pinks and greens and then the pops of gold!

SOOO  pretty!!

Challenge #544 from Lasting Memories was to add flowers and at least one tag on your page.

I used some tags that were in the ephemera pack, added gold brags and some ribbons.

The circles were hand drawn and then outlined with Nuvo Drops and Stickles.

The flowers are from the same collection - puffy stickers!

I am so happy with how this turned out!

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Good, green and gold

Okay, I am in love this the Garden Party collection by Maggie Holmes!

The greens, the pinks, the golds...so pretty!!

I have started to remember to make sure there are pictures of me in my books.

It still feels awkward taking selfies....lol.

My daughter has been helping.

We FaceTime and challenge each other.

I played with Challenge YOUrself this month with a couple of these pictures.

I love that these challenges remind you to keep YOU in the pictures and on the pages.

The challenge was to pick a letter and use that letter to create your page along with your title.

I chose "G".

It went very well with the greens, the golds and the "good" in my title.

I used a dabber and some pink paint to soften the green a bit.

And then I put more green on the page by adding a thin washi border.

Now it's time for "me" to have more coffee.

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Bowling tournament

 I love how amazing this guy is at bowling now!  It took a bit for him to find his groove, but he's doing awesome!

I mixed up a few things for this page.

I dug out some Big Brads and some flair that I had in the stash.

It's so hard to remember things I have already.

I was actually looking for something else ran I opened a drawer and found the Big Brads.

In many colors.

Hiding in a drawer.

Lonely and neglected.

Poor guys.

Oh well, they have a home now being on display.

I used sketch # 223 from Sketch N Scrap to get started.

Here is the original sketch:

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