Fall '09

Hope everybody had a nice Thanksgiving. We had a big dinner at my husband's parents house. We enjoyed the dinner as well as company of twenty some family members. We had turkey, fried turkey, ham, dressing, gravy, mashed potatoes, 2 kinds of sweet potato casseroles, asparagus casserole, rigatoni, black eye peas, cream corn, salad, rolls, fruit salad, grape salad, 12 pies and cakes.... I'm sure I'm forgetting something. Then my daughter and I went out early on Friday for shopping. I usually work Friday after Thanksgiving and I was not going to miss out this opportunity. I actually had a whole week off :) I thought it was fun getting out early. Here is the page I got done yesterday using a sketch from Pink Sketches. I dread going back to work tomorrow...... oh well...

Thankful & X'mas Eve

Posting 2 pages here. The first one was done for MSW and Dreamgirls. They both include a list on their challenges I decided to make just one. I asked my dd to make a list for me. This photo was taken a couple of weeks ago at a park by our house. Trees had started changing colors and I wanted to take some pics there. I layered 2 transparency frames and that was it for embellies. Those flowers are cut-outs from a paper. I don't get to use chipboard numbers much. So I decided to use them up on this page. The second layout was created based on a sketch from 52 Sketches...52 Weeks. I liked how the chipboard alphas turned out the other day and I wanted to do it again. I inked white chipboards and applied Glossy Accents over them.

Giveaway alert

Urban Lily is giving away a huge stash of papers from various collections on their blog, Urban Swank. You can find the giveaway post here. All you need to do is to leave a comment and spread the word. So go check it out :)

December Delights

I loved working with this sketch from Sketchy Thursdays. I scrapped these photos taken a few days before Christmas. I couldn't find any color I liked in my alpha stash, I decided to alter the white ones. I applied green ink onto the chipboard letters and coated with Glossy Accents. I had seen it done but I had never tried it myself. And I really like how they turned out! I will definitely do it again. Scrapbook Kit Club is a sponsor this week and you can link up your layout to their blog as well :)

Sweet Smile

I made this page using a sketch from 52 Sketches...52 Weeks. I also did this for Butterfly Crafts' challenge; what makes me happy.

Little Blossom

My Mind's Eye is hosting a sketch challenge this week and I created this page based on their fabulous sketch. Everything, except chipboards and 2 flowers, is of MME. 2 blue flowers are rub-ons. I applied rub-ons on white cardstock and cut them out:)

Dumbo

I made this page based on a sketch from That Scrappy Girl. I had such hard time choosing papers, I almost gave up on it. Then I left it alone for a couple of days and went back working on it. I am glad I finished it :)