Happy Together -- UPDATED 3/9

I decided something was missing. So, I added the Prima flower and moved the happy up closer to the border. Do you think it is an improvement???

I made this layout of Emily and Mitch just happy to be together! I used all Close to My Heart except the letters which are Thickers and the lace.  Well, and I rubbed some gold Adirondack Paint Daubers on the pieces I cut from the CTMH Art Philosopy Cricut cartridge which is totally amazing!!!!  I made it using Artful Delight's beautiful sketch.  Have you checked out LeeAnne's kits? She and her team have such a knack at picking out great kits!!!

Thanks for visiting!

Christmas Rose

I am entering this in the Crafter's Companion Green Challenge this month. I am also entering it in Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes challenge.  My friend Stacy sent me this beautiful Christmas Rose stamp as my prize for one of her challenges! See, I told you she sent great prizes.  You should really check out her challenges!!!!  Anyway, even though we are super busy, I had to stamp and color the beautiful images immediately!! I used some cool stuff that I got from Hydrangea Hippo to make the card, too!

Have a great week!!!  Thanks for visiting!

Crafter's Companion Sparkle Challenge

This is for the Crafter's Companion sparkle challenge.  

This is one my sister made:

Phoenix - Sisters and First Day of School for Mitch

This is my twin sister and me at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Gardens.  This was our FIRST trip that we have taken with just the two of us since we left home so many years ago that I don't even want to count!!!  I haven't played over at Artful Delight in a while, but I really loved this sketch and had some pictures that I thought would work really well with it!  I'm also entering this at Moxie Fab World's Fabulous Felt! challenge (one of the flowers) and Simon Says Stamp challenge to add bling (to the butterflies).

Oh, and here is a photo of the first day of the last year of high school for Mitch!

Thanks for visiting! Hope you are having a great weekend!

Baby Card with Graphic 45

I was super thrilled to see that I had won an 8 x 8 paper pack from Graphic 45 recently!! Thanks for sending it out!  Once Upon a Springtime is my favorite collection of theirs!!!! I was also excited to see the Simon Says - Look What The Stork Brought ! challenge!  The flower is Prima. I made a banner from a Studio Calico stamp and cut some of the excess off of some Kaisercraft letters. I also added a little pink semi-circle at the top of the banner.  I'm actually proud of this card. I usually don't like making cards and am horrible at it!!  I also entered this card at Sketches 4 All...

Thank You Card

I made this for  Moxie Fab World's Tuesday Trigger: Skirting the Issue challenge! Also Simon Says Stamp and Show Anything Goes!
 I think you can see where I got the idea to use this paper! I'm also entering this into a challenge at Sketches 4 All!

My Sister's Wedding - 1988

In the midst of our impending blizzard here in the Midwest, I have suddenly gotten the scrapbooking mojo going!  Three layouts in a row!  I made Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday's layouts on Monday and thought I's spread them out over the week! I used Sweet Peach Crop Shop's beautiful January sweet kit that I won earlier this month and their January sketch to create this layout! I did add some Kaiser Pearls, a little lace from my stash and some Prima flowers (just because they matched the paper perfectly)! Sweet Peach Crop Shop's kits are a lot of fun!

My Mom at Thanksgiving 2010

I made this layout of my mom  in her kitchen at Thanksgiving in 2010 for Scrapfit's latest challenge.  I was so surprised that my mom actually let me take a picture of her.  My dad built the kitchen by hand.  It's hard to tell, but their counter tops look like little cookies to me.  The Lily Bee Design paper couldn't go better with them if they tried! :-   For Scrapfit's challenge, we were to use strips on our layout from 2 different manufacturers--mine are from Lily Bee Design and CTMH.  I also included a row of embellies as instructed.   I used a doily, rhinestones, pearls and a flower for Michelle's challenge at Sketches 4 All.


By the way, most of the layout came together as a result of winning a kit from Scrapcetera.  I was surprised when Sarah closed her kit club.  She offered her very well designed kits at such a reasonable price.  I believe she is still selling her remaining kits on Etsy. Here is the link if you'd like to check it out! http://www.scrapcetera.com/

Another Prom 2010 Layout

After a break, it looks like XOXO is back.  Hey, wouldn't you like to scrap-lift this layout to win a prize? Go to The XOXO challenge site for details. My term was up in August, but since the site was static for a few months, the challenge was postponed until now!

Butterfly and flower-greens, yellows and browns

Caardvarks had a lacy challenge. I thought this was a fun card to do! I used some liquid glass on the butterfly and flower! 

http://caardvarks.blogspot.com/2010/03/lacy-days.html

scrapFIT Challenge

I had a lot of fun with this challenge! I blog hopped this morning, and I was immediately excited to spend part of my day off from work creating this beautiful layout! I used all of the required elements set out by all of the lovely FIT girls!  I loved the ideas they presented! It was fun to make the paper flowers and also use the lovely butterflies along with the other elements. How can you go wrong with pink and green?! Hope you can see the details well enough! Some of the butterflies have Tim Holtz crackle paint and the others were on glossy paper which was first inked and then salted and left to dry to create a cool look!

Hope you enjoy this layout!

UPDATE:  I ended up being the winner of the Blog Hop! What fun!