Bobcat Badge

I did this layout last Thursday I think. It was a sketch challenge from feeling scrappy. I think this was the fastest page I've ever done. It took me about 20 minutes to do. At first I wasn't sure I liked it. But it has grown on me. I like the nice straight lines and no fussiness on it. I'm not used to have extra space on most of my pages. Anyway, hopefully this will help me get out of my creative slump.

I'm stuck

I started a layout Saturday and just did not like it. I had not glued anything down and went back to some sketches, thinking that it might help. Still not done. I've lost my mojo. I cleaned up my spot today and put that away and maybe will come back to it after I complete somthing else. Bummer!! I hope I get my mojo back soon.

This page turned out really nice. I put all the flowers on from some stickers I got from Dollar Tree today. I made the swirly's with my glaze pens. And of coarse the chip board for the title. We won't live in this house forever so I wanted it scrapped. We've been here 3 years I think. This is our 2 home we've purchased and it is a little big bigger than our first, so maybe our next one will be just right. I only wish the picture was in the summer when there was greenery.

Gingerbread House

Noah's Gingerbread House he made at school. He had a lot of fun creating his yummy house. When he brought it home he wanted to eat all the goodies off of it, but I said no. So we kept it for decortation for a couple of weeks then threw it away. This page took me a long time to do last night. I had seen and idea in a magazine and was going to use it. After spending all the time creating the design, I decided it didn't work with this layout and ended up with this.

Ouch!

It's been over a week since I've scrapped. When my husband is gone at night working I seem to get a lot more done. He left about 8:40 tonight and an hour and a half layer a new layout. Check it out.

Dress up a Picture Frame

This frame I got from the Dollar Tree. I had some cute art cut outs so I glued them to the outside of the frame. I also used a glaze pen to write name and date on the frame. This is such and easy way to dress up a frame. You can hot glue items like legos, baby pins, flowers etc. What ever the photo calls for. Give it a try on your next photo frame.

The last few layouts

The "Sleep,Baby,Sleep" Layout is precious to me since it has my cutie Ethan. I changed the photo to sepia and used a 5x7 photo in a www.feelingscrappy.com weekly challenge. It was a color challenge using blue and brown. The big ribbon on the corner of the photo I took off of a package of flannel blankets. I just put the date of the picture. I didn't think any other journaling was necessary. The picture speaks for it's self.

The "He Is Here" layout turned out really good. Simple, but I really like it. I really liked the whole look and didn't want to break it up with a lot of writing. I put the journaliing on the back of the page. My friend Trudy and I made some challenges for ourselves, one being to use an arrow on a page. I chose to use it on this page pointing to the new arrival. Since I didn't have one I made one. I later wnt back and put a date and place on the layout and journaled on the back.

That is one thing about my scrapping, it's pretty resourceful. Since buying scrapping supplies is a treat at best, I have to make all my stuff count. If I see something in a layout that I really like, I will try to make my own.

The Care Bear on the birthday page I also paper pieced and I think it turned out really cute too. Th cloud is also just a free handed die cut I did.
Th journaling I did in a white pen because I wanted it kept light.

Sometimes it makes scrapping one page very lengthy when you have to make your embelishments from scratch, but in the end I usually like those layouts the best because they are all me!

Back at it

Since before Christmas I couldn't find the time to scrap. To busy. But I am back at it and finished a page tonight. It is of Eve from a few years ago during Noah's soccer camp in July of 2005. Boy was it hot. I was a few months pregnant with Amelia too. After she got restless I found my sunglasses and she had fun playing with them. It kept her busy for a little while anyway. The layout was a weekly sketch challenge from feeling scrappy web site. Hope you like it.

Contests

These 2 layouts I have posted on feelingscrappy web site. One was a monthly contest and the other is a weekly challange. Plus I'm almost done with our own group challenge. I only have 6 more to do. I will get pictures of all 25 and put them on a slide show. Won't that be cool!!!