Catching Up

I was behind posting again. These are my latest pages. Now I'm caught up :)

4 Layouts

Here are some pages I created this week. The first one was done based on a sketch from Page Maps. The 2nd one was done last night. This was made inspired by Scrapping the Music's song of the week, "because of you" by Kelly Clarkson. Isn't there another "because of you" ?? Anyway this phrase on my page is what came up to me... a little different from Kelly's song. The last one "grin" was scrapped using a sketch from DUS.

Mr. Bear & Hangin' Out

I created 2 pages this afternoon. The first one titled Mr.Bear was done for Scrappy Times color challenge. I now know why I don't participate color challenges. They are so hard! I had to look for the papers with the colors first then picked this photo. The papers and accents are mostly of Making Memories. I also made this one the entry for Butterfly Craft challenge. The second page was done based on Page Maps sketch. My dd took my camera with her when she went out with her friends during Spring break. They went to Borders and acted silly (I'm sure).

5 Layouts

Why your days off go so fast ? I wish I had another day to stay home. I was off today and spent the most of it scrapping. I also went to the craft store and bought American Crafts' D-ring album. I hear great things about them and I had never used a ring album. Since they were having 50% off sale, I thought this would be a good opportunity. I didn't forget to grab a refill pack :) Actually the reason I went out was to go to the scrapbooking store. I wanted to get a mist. That craft store doesn't carry and I don't own any either. It is the current challenge on Method Playground. But guess what!? That scrapbooking store have gone out of business!! I guess I will sit out this one. Anyway I am posting the pages I have created the last few days. The first 2 layouts were done for Scrapping the Music. This week's song is 'Colors'. This song is one of the greatest songs to get inspo. You could create a page for each sentence in the song. The first one is 'yellow'. I also used a sketch from Page Maps. This sketch was also a puzzle sketch on CCAS. The next page is the color purple. This design was inspired by the last week's Ad This ad. The page titled Sweet Memories was done based on Page Maps sketch for their sweet challenge. Also I did it for CMIH. This month' challenge is to use a callendar something. It happened to be included in a prize package from Rough Draft last month. The next one titled 'Just For You' was done based on 52 Sketches...52 Weeks sketch #3. And the last one was done for Dreamgirls current challenge. It is to use old pp, paper tearing, and the title starting with 'I'm not'.

2 layouts

I took another day off this month. It will be a short week this week and I am glad about that. I will be taking 3 more vacation days early part of December. This should give me extra time to scrap but not as much as I would like to. I know I will have other things to take care of. Anyway I completed 2 pages today. The first one was inspired by '5 O'clock World", the song of the week at Scrapping the Music. That's the theme song for Drew Carey show. I had totally forgotten about that show. I bought a pack of black magic cardstocks. They are black on front and different colors on back. I sanded this one to reveal some blue color. As I was sanding, my hands got sooo black and I had to go wash them. I want to try tearing next time. The second one was done based on Page Maps sketch. This was another 'thankful' challenge. I guess it's that time of the year but I feel I made too many 'thankful' pages this month. I used velvet flock on this one. It was included in the prize I received last month from IMM-Scrap Muse. Pretty neat!!

Give Blood

I did this page for Page Maps challenge. It was to scrap something that is meaningful to me using Becky's sketch. She is wearing the t-shirt I got when I went to give blood the other day. Blood donation is very important to me and I am hoping she will consider doing when she gets old enough. I had hard time choosing papers on this one. I wanted to write jounaling directly on the paper and I started to. But it wouldn't show clearly enough on the pattern on the papers I decided to write it on the another piece of paper instead. I hand cut the circle photo. My first atempt. It doesn't look as good, but oh well... I am pretty happy how this one turned out.

2 more LOs

I finished 2 more today. The first one is based on Pencil Lines #100. All circles. I was going to scrap this Christmas photo this weekend and when I saw this sketch, the ornaments came to my mind. I made those paper flowers again topped with flower stickers. I was actually going to use 8x10 photo which would have been too big. Amazingly I had this smaller photo. This may be the only package that included this size photo and I had just one left :) The second layout is my very first 6 x 12 layout based on Becky's sketch on Page Maps. It was a lot easier than I thought. My pages are all 12 x 12 and I never realized how easy it is when the space is smaller especially when you have a sketch to work with. I will mount it on 12 x 12 cardstock when putting it in the album.

Love You, Simply Beautiful

The first layout is based on Pencil Lines #89. I was looking at what's left on 2 sheets of felt alphabets and tried to come up with a short word for title. I ended up with "love you" using a heart shaped chipboad for "love" and a felt letter "u" for "you." I also tried to use scraps. And sticky stiches were used here. I will make an effort to use it where possible to finish it up. The sticky part on the back is not so sticky anymore. 2nd layout was done based on Page Maps Sep 2007 sketch. I think my sister got this photo enlarged for me.

Tis the season

Today, I went to give blood....but didn't or couldn't. After a technitian stuck the needle, he couldn't find my vein and another one tried to find it and moved the needle around. It really hurt. The last time I gave blood one person stuck the needle and another had to adjust. It wasn't a very good experience. But I will probably try again. Then went to a scrapbooking store. I usually go to a craft store for my scrapbook supplies these days. But I wanted to try some different items I see used on scrapbook gallaries. For the first time I bought some things there.

Anyway, 2 layouts done today. I had a hard time with the first one. My mind was totally blank and couldn't pick papers. 2nd one was based on a sketch from Page Maps June 2006.

2 more today

The first LO is based on a sketch from May 2005 Page Maps. 2nd one is for Page Plans #2. I just put photos on this blue with flowers paper first without choosing anything else. After that I had a hard time deciding on what to do with the rest of LO. I still think I need to do something else on it.

Hey!, Golden Gate Bridge

I used a sketch from Page Maps Dec 2006 on the first one. Sencond one is a 2-page layout that I feel I should have added some more something. Oh well...

Delightful

I finished this page very quickly. Still working on SF photos.... (PageMaps March 08)

Got Clean

I started this layout last night and finished this morning. Though a photo on top doesn't go with the other 2, I put them on the same layout because they were taken on the same day. I used chalk around the title. (Page Maps July 2005 sketch)

2nd Family

Tonight's layout brings a lot of memories. Megan's babysitter and her family visited us. Three of the photos used had been already cut like they are and I didn't know what else to do. I used ink pad where the title is. I used stickers for the title. I also have added a few layouts on my gallery.

Joy

Happy hump day!! One of my co-workers is transferring to another department and girls took her out to lunch today. I had crawfish alfredo and it was delicious!

This layout is based on a sketch from Aug 2006 PageMaps. I was not going to put a border at the bottom until I realized I left too much space there.

Baby has taken over.

Tonight I made this layout based on a sketch from July 2006 Page Maps. I feel it still needs some improvements, but oh well, I can move onto next pictures. I am happy with these rattle shaped eyelets that I used like photo anchors.