Two Page Layout - Birthday layouts!

Hello! It's been a very long time since I've posted. Since my last post, my Mom passed away, my son got married and we gained a beautiful daughter, we sold our home and moved into a brand new home. It's been kind of a blur since then! Hope you  are doing well and enjoying a little less "crazy" in your life.

I have so many layouts to share, and I'm starting with some birthdays.

 This is my adorable grandson, who is now 4! I'm so far behind on posting my layouts. I love this boy paper, and especially the bright solid green. Color is my inspiration!

 He has the best smile and basically never stops going!

And another layout of one of my sweet friends who was turning 50 at the time! Life marches on!

 We've been friends for 30 years now and have had a ball moving through life together.

 It was actually a surprise party that her husband planned for her with a little bit of help from her friends. I was blessed to help as she does so much for me and my family!

Thanks for not giving up on me ever posting again...LOL! I hope to be back on a more regular basis now. Did I mention my new home has a craft room just for little 'ole me? I'm so excited and can't wait to get it all set up! 

Two Double Scrapbook Layouts - Fall Family Photo Shoot

Can you believe we are just as close to 2030 as we are to the year 2000? How is this possible? Time keeps ticking away, and the new years keep arriving with surprising regularity. Each year I'm reminded that we need to make the most of our time here on earth. Lets make each day count, because we will never get it back.

Do you have any snow yet? We had a green Christmas here in Indiana. I will miss the pretty fall foliage until we get some snow on the ground. Fall is still my favorite time of year and I adore all of the great photos we got during our Fall 2013 photo shoot. (Photo credit to Just Shoot Me Photography).

 This is a super easy layout with My Mind's Eye paper and embellishments.

 If you look closely at this tree you'll see the letter "L" carved into a heart. We didn't do the carving, so somebody else was looking out for our perfect photo shoot.

 Our sweet grandbaby is now 2 and 1/2 years old. She and her new baby brother put the sunshine in our lives!! We are so honored to be their grandparents.

It was raining the morning before our photo shoot, so my hubby and I decided to check out the area to see if it was muddy and if the leaves had started to change yet. Of course, we took a few "unofficial" pictures as we checked out the park.

 The paper is from Fancy Pants, Close to My Heart and StampinUp. I used StampinUps Fall Foliage stamp with a darker grey ink to create the leaf watermarks on the woodgrain paper. I was pretty happy with the look. The title is cut with Cricut's Lyrical Letters "jumbo".

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I pray your 2015 will be healthy, happy and full of wonderful memory making.

Happy New Year to each one of you!!

Two Page Layout - "Noel"

Our sweet granddaughter is so precious! This layout is from her first Christmas last year. She brings us so much joy and fun! She's just one more reminder of how blessed we are! These photos were taken at our Christmas Eve service last year. I just love her beautiful, silky, red ruffled dress!

 I was inspired by a sketch I found on Basic Grey's site by sketchsavvy.blogspot.com. I cut a little bit off the outside edges of the neutral cardstock, so the red cardstock would frame it all the way around. The four outside corners on the neutral layer are clipped with a corner rounder. I cut a very basic triangle shaped Christmas tree with my Cricut and punched holes in it to see through to the layer underneath, in order to make it look like the tree in the background of the photo.

 I cut layers of horizontal banners to go across the bottom and added some miscellaneous Christmas washi tape across the bottom edge of the journaling tag. The paper is from The Paper Company, Deja Views, and Authentique. The title font is Cricut's Plantin Schoolbook. I used burgundy ink to tint some plain kraft snowflakes that I had in my stash and added some rhinestones. The wood ornament was saved from a Christmas card I received in the mail. I strung Baker's twine through the hole of the ornament and attached it to the page with staples.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.

"Greyhound Spring Fling" scrapbook layout and "Riley" layout published

Our greyhound, Riley, is suddenly afraid of thunderstorms. Everybody in my family loves storms. Sometimes, we actually sit out on our porch and watch them. Why would the dog be afraid? I thought fear was learned from their humans, but apparently not. Today's storm was fairly mild with just a little thunder, lightning, and RAIN (finally). A few weeks back we had a wicked crazy storm with 90 mph gusts of wind and total blackness in the afternoon. Riley was home alone and it's possible that storm was crazy enough to really freak him out. I was at work, and it freaked me out more than a little. That was the first time I was worried about being sucked up into a tornado and it left us without power for three and a half days!

On the subject of greyhounds, this layout is of the Greyhound Spring Fling event in May in SW Michigan. It was our first time going to this event since we just adopted Riley last August. He didn't really care too much about meeting the other 4 legged skinny greyhound friends, but we enjoyed ourselves.

The absolute best part of our day was meeting Riley's sister!! They sniffed each other, and there was a little eskimo kiss (upper right picture) with their noses that said it all....LOL. Honestly, he just treated her like every other dog. I guess I expected endless tail-wagging, licking, and tears, but there was none of that. =) My husband kinda likes our pup...Can't you tell?

The cute doggy paper is from We R Memory Keepers "Friends Furever". The left side page was already divided off into patchwork squares so I used the upper left square for my title ("Jubilee" cartridge). I matted each picture in white to set it off from the patterned background. The flower is made with Stampin Up punches and a ltitle heart brad, and the leaves are cut with "Art Philosophy" Cricut cartridge.

Rather than adding a journalling block, I drew lines to the left and journalled there. The dogs pictured above are just some of the greyhounds that were there. It was a hot day and they were all pretty lazy with a few racing around the exercise area.

Big News:  I was super excited to hear that another one of my layouts was published in Scrapstreet Magazine's, July issue!!!! Check it out here. It just so happens that Riley is the star of that layout as well. It's the layout at the bottom of the page...The dog with the long skinny nose and soulful eyes. =)

Have a great week!! Hope you get to do something scrappy. =) I'm getting really antsy to scrap or do something crafty. How did I ever survive before I started scrapbooking and what did I do with my time?

Good Times

Happy Tuesday! I am down with an upper respiratory bug. Bummer! It's summer time. I am sure it'll be behind me soon. =) I have far too much to do to be sick right now. LOL!

I was able to upload some pics of recent layouts and chose one to share with you today. These photos are from 5 or 6 years ago. You can tell because Joel is about my height! He's 6'4" now. Anyway, the caricature was done in Gatlinburg, TN and I just LOVE it. We have the original larger version hanging in our hallway.

The photos on the right were taken in Hilton Head. We were there with my parents for their 50th anniversary celebration. There was a hurricane rolling in and they were recommending people leave the area, but we stayed one more night and everything was fine! We had a great time.

If anybody is specifically interested in the line of paper that I used, leave me a comment and I will edit my post later. Notice the twine wrapped between the photos on the right side. I kind of like how that turned out. =) I also used rub-ons. The vine was cut with my Cricut machine. I love how it echoes the design in the paper, although you may have to double click on the photo to enlarge it enough to notice.

That's all for now! Have a good one!

Double Double- Prom Scrapbook layouts

Yes...I'm posting two prom layouts for you today as a reward for sticking with me through a week (or more) without a new post....lol
This first layout is one that I did for the family album of Jacob's Jr/Sr Keystone banquet (aka Prom). The theme was "Hollywood Premiere".
I used a full page diecut with hearts cut out and filled some of the negative heart spaces with black and white patterned paper. I used a pink and white theme because it seemed to bring out the best in the pictues. Honestly, if there is a girl anywhere in my photo, I kinda jump on the chance to use a little pink.

The second layout is for Jacob's book. I featured him and Anna with a 5x7 and then completely packed in a bunch of wallet size photos. I knew he would want to remember everything about that night, so I put them down without a lot of rhyme or reason. The flowers are made of silky white (petals) and green (stems and leaves) ribbon.I just kept sticking them on the page. lol! I love all of the shots, but to me it's a little too much chaos. Somehow, I knew he would love it. When I showed it to him that night he was so excited. It was his favorite page and because there were so many memories packed into one layout. Again, not my favorite layout. It won't win any awards, but if he loves it, that is what really matters!
Thanks for looking! Have a marvelous Memorial Day weekend.