Stuck Sketch - 15th September

The 2nd sketch of the month at Stuck! was an 8.5 X 11.5 sketch. I was totally digging on it because I have just started to dabble in the smaller format.

Here is the sketch:

Here is my take on it. Enjoy.

Scrap the Boys - September

Scrap the Boys - The challenge this month is to use household/family ephemera on your layouts. Now this can be anything from clothing labels, toy packaging, gift cards or cards from birthdays, ticket stubs etc....
Here's my take on it!

And a close up too.

I've repurposed an old birthday card in the back and there are some old train tickets too! One of the train tickets I cut into a car shape to fit with the 'transport' them!
Hope you like it!

Stuck September 1st Sketch

Here's the sketch from Stuck!

And here is my take on it

The photo sizes are different but I *tried* to remain faithful to the sketch.

Hope you like it!

White with One - September challenge

White with One is one of my favourite challenge sites. I love white cardstock! This month's challenge totally rocked because it was White with PALE PINK! Oh yeah with two little girls I have so many photo's to scrap in this colour combo I could have completed 100 layouts! The addditional criteria was to journal on the photo. Here's what I came up with!

And a close up too!

I didn't have a smudgeproof pen to journal on the photo so I used letters cute out from the crossword styled paper. The word smile was a happy accident. I die cut the letters with my Cuttlebug intending to use the positive images but when I saw the negative image I really liked it! Hope you like it!

Recent Layouts

Here are some layouts that I've completed lately. Not for challenges just for me!

My 2 year old India is just mad for Dora. She LOVES all things Dora so i thought i need to make a layout so we can always remember how much she loved her!

This layout was inspired by a layout I saw on Pinterest. I loved the simplicity of the square blocks of colour highlighted just by the hand sewing around the edge. It just goes to show that sometime less IS more!

Favourite colour combo at the moment. Grey, yellow and aqua - oh yeah!!! Circles - loving all things round too! And look at the face, what a cutie!

An old photo, but a funny one. If only I could get her to clean the toilet now! Funny story after I had finished this layout, I spilled my bottle of brown Mister Huey all over my desk, my god does that stuff stain everything!!!! I was screaming as it was dripping onto the carpet, trying desperatly not to let it get into the sewing basket, my poor hubby had no idea what was happening! I did mamnge to clean it all up but it was a colossal effort!

Scrap the Girls - August

The inspiration at STG this month was a quote.

"Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it." ~Harold Hulbert

I loved the quote. I had lots of photo's to choose from (I have really badly behaved kids -LOL) but I ended up choosing some pictures of my eldest daughter Mackenzie in full tantrum mode. She is six now and started school this year, but i swear her tantrums are more frequent than my two year olds! I feel like she holds in all her frustrations in the day and the moment she sees me she just unleashes them on me! Does anyone else have that?

Anyways back to scrapping here is my layout for STG August. Enjoy!

Scrap the Boys - August

The inspiration for STB this month was this gorgeous bedroom - how cute is it!

I loved the wood and the red stripe, and the blue with a hint of yellow!

Here's my layout featuring my gorgeous boy, Ethan.

I had this photo printed at 8" X 12" at Costco a while ago and I have been waiting, not really sure what to do with it. I am really happy with the result and I think I might enlarge some more pictures!