Book Buddies

I think it's so cute that our kitty Rosie must be where ever my daughter is.  When she comes home from school, Rosie runs down to her bedroom to do "homework" with her.  (This usually consists of kitty head butts and tummy scratches.)  She even likes to lie on the desk when my daughter is using her laptop.  It's too funny.

These pictures of the two of them are typical...My daughter curled up with her Nook and Rosie right there with her. (yes, she is extra fluffy....and looks like a blanket!)

 

I based my layout on a sketch from Kristine Davidson's new book Creating With Sketches Volume 2. (page 44).  If you haven't ordered yours yet, you should!  It's really an awesome book.  I pretty much followed the sketch.  I used Crate Paper's Fourteen collection.  This has been one of my favorites this year.  I started by "splopping" some Mister Huey's on my background page.  I love how opaque the colors are!

 

 

I cut some arrow shapes from my background paper and backed them with another coordinating paper.  I love this technique...it really adds dimension to a project.

 

The banner was created by fussy-cutting some banner shapes from one of the papers, and stitching a zig-zag stitch along the top.  The chipboard shapes are also from the Fourteen collection.  That's it for today...I'll be back with more projects soon including one for The Twinery's Banner Day Challenge.  Thanks for looking!

MFT & Friends Workshop - January

Just a quick post to show the layout we'll be creating in this month's MFT & Friends Workshop at Right at Home Scrapbooking.  It's a fun one, perfect for those holiday snapshots!  Take a peek...

We'll be using BasicGrey's Aspen Frost Collection and tons of MFT Die namics and stamps.  I even cut the title from my new Christmas present..my Silhouette Cameo.  I'm in love with this new machine!

If you're local and would like to join us for MFT & Friends Workshop, call Right at Home Scrapbooking at (508)695-9290 to reserve your spot! I'm back tomorrow with a fun layout using some Bella Blvd. Birthday Girl.

Memories

I almost forgot to post this layout I did for the MFT Fan Club over at Right at Home Scrapbooking.  We got to play with some festive papers from BasicGrey and the new Poinsettia MFT Die namic.

I love this picture from 2005 of my niece reading the Christmas Story to my daughter.  Just too cute!

 

 

In addition to the Poinsettia Die namic, I used the Journal-it Calendar Basics stamps to create a little calendar embellishment.

 



I'll be back Sunday with a layout for Creative Scrappers!

Scrapfit Challenge

I was browsing through Pinterest the other day and came upon a sketch I just loved.  I followed the links to the original source and stumbled upon a great challenge blog,  Scrapfit.  I decided it would be fun to try out their Workout #78 Sketch Challenge.  Here's the awesome sketch:

 

I usually like to change up sketches, but this one was perfect as is...here's my take on it:

LOVE this pic from my daughter's birthday party last August.  The girls had a lot of fun with the photo props I made. I used Basic Grey's Paper Cottage line.  I love the black blue and red together.

 

Thanks for stopping by today...I'll be back next week with a DT Project for Right at Home.

April Layout Workshop Peek

I can't believe it's April already...this year is flying by. I just completed the layout for the April Layout Workshop at Right at Home Scrapbooking...take a peek:

I used BasicGrey's Out of print papers... they're so springy! I also had a bit of fun with my new Sizzix Hexagon die.
I love the new Botanical Beauty MFT Dienamic, it's great for creating layered flowers .

It was fun looking back at these pictures of my daughter enjoying her new swing set! Talk about time flying... she'll be in high school next fall! The Layout Workshop will be held Friday, April 27th at 7:00pm at Right at Home Scrapbooking.

Layout Club Project

Hi Everyone... just wanted to share a layout that I created for the Layout Club at Right at Home Scrapbooking. It's a great club, each month we get a kit to work with and create layouts to share at our meeting. In the meeting we do a project as well! It's a great way to get caught up!

This month we got to work with Basic Grey's Marjolaine line. I LOVE this line.. blues, greens, browns, it's right up my alley! Here's what I came up with:

This is a picture my mother, husband, daughter and me on the front steps of the Chatham Bars Inn. We go there each summer to celebrate my parents' anniversary. I based the layout on Creative Scrappers's sketch 146.

I had lot of fun with the flower embellishments and I couldn't resist adding some cute butterflies made from MFT's Die-namics butterflies.

I finished it all up with some machine and hand stitching. I'm really happy with how this came out!! Well I'm off to the Crop on the Cape this weekend... I'm hoping to be very productive!!

It's About Time!

After two years of talking about it, I finally got my act together and joined the blogging world! I know that many of my good friends are saying, "It's about time, we're tired of hearing you talk about it!" Well, now they don't have to listen to me complain anymore!

I got to show off my new blog design (created by the VERY talented Kristine Davidson) this weekend at the Right at Home Scrapbooking Winter Crop. What a fun weekend we had. I took my daughter Caroline and we spent the weekend scrapping and laughing with a wonderful group of ladies! I wasn't terribly productive, but I did get a couple of projects started. One thing I started was a mini binder to hold all of the MFT Die-namics I've been accumulating. I was getting tired of losing them, looking for them, finding them and losing them again, so I figured it was time to find a better solution. Here's what I came up with.

The album is a 6x6 Bo Bunny Binder and I've decorated it with the new Basic Grey line Hopscotch. LOVE the Hopscotch paper... it's so cute! The chipboard pieces and felt flowers are awesome! To hold the Die-namics I found some 6x6 tie envelopes from a company called PaperPresentation. I replaced the chipboard pages of the album with these envelopes and decorated them with the die cuts they contain. I'm not completely done (I still have a few more Die-namics ) but I'm well on my way!

It really was a fun project to create! We might even be making it into a class at Right at Home! I'll post details when it's scheduled!

That's it for now... I'll be back soon with some more creations from my scrap weekend!