Peaceful Night

Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. I'm getting off work at 1:00pm. Yay! It's been cold the last few days but it's supposed to be warm tomorrow and will be raining. The layout I'm posting tonight was created based on Rough Draft #11. It was soooo beutiful that day. By the way, there is a fantastic give-away at Leah's blog, Life As Lou. She has a HUGE package to give away and her book is just gorgeous. Anyone needs to go check it out :)
Merry Christmas !!

Cousins & All I want for X'mas

Sunday night comes way too quickly. I spent most of the weekend Christmas shopping. I was almost done but I just couldn't find the last couple of gifts. I will be wrapping the gifts sometime this week. Anyway I am posting 2 pages tonight. The first one is titled 'Cousins' and it was done based on Rough Draft sketch #10. It turned out simple. I thought of decorating some more above the photo area but desided to leave it simple. The second one was submitted to 2 challenge blogs; Scrapping the Music and The Pretty Committee. I created this page on Wednesday but waited till today to post. I've been following The Pretty Committee challenges but I sat out every one of them until this one. They have great prompts and DTs layouts look beautiful. It's just not what I normally scrap since my subject is mainly my DD. I also knew the song of the week for today's reveal over on Scrapping the Music. So I went ahead and scrapped this page and waited until after the new challenge posted. They both have 'All I want for Christmas is...' challenge. I just want a family photo.

2 layouts

I scrapped the first LO last night. It was based on Rough Draft #9. These photos were taken the day before her birthday. She was going to Tiny Tots class that the city offered twice a week at that time and they celebrated her b-day there. The photos on the second layout were the continuation of the layout I did the other day (silly & happy). She was showing the eggs that they colored at Tiny Tots class. It was done using Page Plans #34 that came out this morning.

Post Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving came and went. Hope everybody had a wonderful thanksgiving. I did.

I had to work on Friday but was able to take advantage of Black Friday sales on on-line shopping. And I got some shopping done yesterday. So today I got back to scrapbooking and created 3 pages. 2nd LO was done based on Page Plans #33 and the last one was done based on Rough Draft #8. Speaking of Rough Draft, I was chosen as a grand prize winner for November. Yay!! I just love working with sketches.

Happy

This layout was done based on Rough Draft #7. I just wanted to use up those 2 pieces of papers under the photo. But I couldn't find a background paper that would go with them... Anyway this is the end result.

Serious Scrapping

I took a day off today. I have a few vacation days left to take before the year-end and since I wouldn't be able to take holiday weeks, I decided to take today off. I don't know if you would call this mojo, but I was rolling today. Finished 5 layouts!!! Wow! Of course when I look at each one of them, I find something I wish I did differently. Anyways, from top to bottom, Rough Draft #6, Page Plans #31, 52 Sketches...52 Weeks #46, Dreamgirls, and Getting Sketchy. The first 3 are based on sketches. I used masks on the 4th layout. I was able to use this Heidi Swapp mask for the first time. I also used a little circle and a leaf I cut outAnd I used rub-on tape on the last one. It was included in the prize package I just received today from Paper Popsicles (Unpubbed famer prize).

Special & Thankful

We attended a funeral yesterday. It was 5-hour drive away and we left home 6:30 in the morning and didn't get home until after 10:00 at night. I am not going to write about it here but one thing I wanted to mention is that things like this always make me appreciate everything. I am thankful for the simple fact that I am here typing this post. Anyway I was so tired this morning and couldn't start anything until mid afternoon. These 2 pages are of the photos from a drive we took along Palos Verdes coast. "Special" was done for Use Your Stash button challenge and "Thankful" was done based on Rough Draft #6 and also done for The Story Matters. I used buttons on this one, too.

Working with sketches

From top to bottom; Rough Draft, Page Plans, Pink Sketch.

2 layouts

I totally forgot to post these yesterday. I finished 2 layouts yesterday. The top one is a lift of Vanessa's pretty layout on Unpubbed. The bottom one is done with Rough Draft sketch #4. The pink princess paper I used for jounalling was found at the bottom of my scrap box. These photos were taken at a park nearby. It's a big park with a pond, picnic area, etc. I wish we went more often to this playground area. A little piece of red ribbon on the second layout is a left over from the first one. I used this ribbon all up now. I have started on the next layout this morning. But matching scrap papers is getting harder....

Gymboree

This was such a great sketch on Rough Draft. I wish I chose a different paper. I added some white paint but it didn't help at all.... oh well...

Love Sketches

I just love working with sketches. They eliminate a lot of my frustration. I did all these yesterday afternoon. From top to bottom, Page Plans #26, Rough Draft #1, and Pink Sketch #9. I was also able to use up some scraps. And that always makes me happy.