backyard photo op

Happy Sunday everybody!!

I have a layout today that I did for ColorCombosGalore. This weeks colors are just great!! I found the perfect pictures of my boys to use for it! Here is my layout:

Here is CCG challenge #202:

 

Here are some close ups:

I used the current sketch at PageMaps:

 

And I also used the current challenge over at The Paper Variety:

Just create a paper project using 3 criteria either vertically, horizontally, or diagonally :)

I chose the top row of use faus, hand, or machine stitching, making a multi photo layout, and to use journaling strips.

I had a hard time getting this layout to photography correctly. It is photographing too yellow, but I did the best I could!! *(I have updated the top picture. It shows much better.)* I took the background paper and white/gray washed it to make it the correct color. I hand drew the knots on the letters and then white/gray washed them as well. I hand stitched the two layers on with black thread, and also hand stitched the buttons on with the same black thread and the twine.

My journaling reads: "We took these pictures for an American Eagle/77Kids photo contest. You were supposed to photograph your kids wearing their 77Kids clothes. Well, we took the photos, but forgot to enter them! Oh well, at least the boys had fun taking the pictures, and we got some great shots out of it!

I am also going to enter this into the current Fabulous Friday challenge at Frosted Designs: use circles on your project!

For this layout, I used:

• TPS black cardstock
• TPS paper - "Old White Fence" (background)
• Colorbok paper (red)
• MME Simply Delightful paper (darker green)
• MME Where The Heart Is paper (light green polka dot)
• EchoPark - For The Record - alpha stickers
• Making Memories - puffy alphas (red and  green)
• Colorbok - Woodhaven - foil stickers (green border)
• K&Co Wild Saffron DieCut cardstock, journaling tag
• AR Creations - baker's twine (annie42.etsy.com)
• TPS SpareParts eyelets and brads
• TPS Bag O Buttons 
• buttons from stash
• Treehouse Studio wood letters (Hobby Lobby)
• acrylic paint
• Cricut cartridges: Doodlecharms and Sentimentals

Thanks for stopping by!

Much Love,
Jenny♥

Daniel &the Christmas tree

Happy Friday everyone! I'm so glad to be heading into the weekend!! I have a CHRISTMAS layout for you today! Yes, Christmas... lol. It's Christmas in July over at How Much Is Too Much?, and I just have sooo many Christmas pictures to scrap, so I am entering for the first time!! Here is my layout:

 

These are pictures of my oldest son getting caught messing with Grandma and Grandpa's Christmas tree!! This was his 2nd Christmas, 2003, and I miss him being so little and sweet! Not that he isn't now, but you know...

Anywho...here are the requirements for playing at HMITM Christmas in July:

Requirements:

2 + photos [at least 2]
1 x Christmas tree image, any size
5 x patterned papers, i.e., Christmas patterns,
5 x metal embellishments, and any other embellishment in increments of 5

I have used 2 photos, I have one very small cardstock sticker of a Christmas tree in the upper right portion of the layout(above the top picture), I have actually used 10 patterned papers. There are 9 squares, and the red with tiny polka dot around the metallic cardstock background. I have also used 5 metal embellishments: 2 metal buttons, 2 metal eyelets, and 1 metal arrow brad. My other embellishments are in increments of 5. Here is my list:

•  used twine 5 times throughout the layout and 5 times tying on the buttons
• used 5 red buttons
• used 5 strands of ribbon behind one of the pictures
• used 5 pearls
• used 5 gold glitter stars
• i used 3 borders and 2 felt squares which = 5

I used one of the current sketches at Creative Scrappers, sketch 163:

 

Here are some closeups:

 

I am also going to enter this into Sketches In Thyme for Open Sketch.

For this layout, I used:

• DCWV SafariKids metallic cardstock
• scrap cardstock
• MME Simply Delightful paper
• MME Lost & Found paper
• The Paper Studio paper
• green and red felt
• Doodlebug Design Inc. cardstock stickers - "Christmas" tag, xmas tree
• Stick-A-Bilities by TPS alpha stickers "tree"
• Bubble-A-Bilities by TPS - "&"
• EchoPark, For The Record- "THE"
• Making Memories - Puffy Alphas "Daniel"
• GEMSTONES by TPS - pearls
• SpareParts by TPS - arrow brad, eyelets
• baker's twine
• LaPetites by TPS - 3D stickers (gold glitter stars)
• K&Co, Wild Saffron, DieCut cardstock - journal tag
• CratePaper borders, Portrait Collection

phew, made it through...lol. Hope everyone has a fabulous day, night, morning, evening!! :)

Much Love,
Jenny♥

I made Gallery Fave!! and a congrats card...

I was so excited to find out this morning that my layout, first ice cream cone, was chosen as Gallery Fave for the day at ColorCombosGalore!! I have been doing a happy dance all day, hehe!! A great big THANK YOU to Debbi and everyone else overthere!! That challenge site is by far my favorite, and I would suggest everyone go join in on the weekly fun!!

Okay, the card...

I thought I would give a go to The Play Date Cafe this week. So I grabbed the current card sketch at CardPatterns and made a card for my Aunt who just got an amazing job offer here in my local city! Which means she will be moving here! Yay!! I plan on giving this to her when she officially gets here! Here is my card:

 

Here is the PDCC91:

 

BLACK AND WHITE
with just one color 
of your choice

and just a splash!

Here is the CardPatterns sketch 125:

 

I got some amazing things in my prize I won from CardPatterns on a previous sketch! I won a WeScrapKit! I decided to use some of the stuff from it!

For this card, I used:

• Echo Park- For The Record papers and "congrats" sticker
• The Paper Studio paper and cardstock
• Bakers Twine from AR Creations (Annie42.etsy.com)
• button from stash
• black tulle
• Fiskars border punch

Hope you all have a fantastic day!!

Much Love,
Jenny♥

first ice cream cone {CCG challenge 201}

Hi ladies! Hope everyone is doing fantastic! I have a layout of my youngest from a few years ago. Got the cutest photos of him eating his very first ice cream cone! These photos just went perfectly with the current challenge over at ColorComboGalore. If you haven't been there, you should!! They have amazing challenges, and everyone is super nice!! Okay, on to the layout!!

 

Here is the challenge 201 from CCG:

I also used the current sketch at Sketchy Thursdays (7.21):

Here are some detail shots:

 

I only used a small amount of the pink, again, trying to not make it too girly. I painted the chipboard white, then lightly edged them with the aqua color. I hand stitched the fabric as a small border to the photos. Used my fiskars border punch on the pink, and my cricut to cut the tag at the bottom. Stamped my leaf on vellum and cut out the image. I didnt want the leaves to be too overwhelming, seeing as they didn't fit the topic. Added my embellishments, and was done! 

I am also entering this into Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday challenge: Buttons!!

For this layout, I used:

• Colorbok cardstock(white)
• DCWV SafariKids cardstock(pink)
• MME Twinkle Twinkle Little Boy paper (teal/brown polka dots)
• MME Where The Heart Is (brown patterned paper)
• Vellum (unknown)
• Stampabilites-Dye Ink Pad (brown)
• Stampin Up(2003) leaf stamp
• Sassafras-In a stitch blossoms
• Colorbok-woodhaven- foil stickers
• Bubble-A-Bilities by They Paper Studio ( {})
• Colorbok- chipboard letters
• Acrylic paint
• SpareParts by The Paper Studio - brad
• Tim Holtz- memo pin
• String
• Crate Paper-Border(white)
• Scrap fabric
• Bag O Buttons by The Paper Studio (pink buttons)
• Fskars border punch
• Cricut Cartridges: Doodlecharms(circles) and Lyrical Letters ("first" and tab)
• stickers (unknown) - "cone"
• GlueDots pop up adhesives

Hope you enjoy and have a great day!!

Much love,
Jenny ♥

washing mommy's car {Sketchy Thursday's GDT challenge}

Hope everyone is having a fabulous day!! I know I am!! I have a layout for you today!! I have been working on it for awhile, and finally got it finished!! I snapped these photos a few months back, and have been waiting to scrap them! Thought this was the perfect time to do it!! Here is my layout:

 

I made this for Sketchy Thursday's August Guest DT Challenge:

 

 

 

you are to use a summer theme, red, orange and or yellow, and have a journaling spot

Here are my detailed photos:

 

I did a lot of handstitching, and also got to use my new Tim Holtz paper edge distresser! I love that little thing!! It is so much fun, lol! I staggered the buttons on top with pop up adhesive to give them some dimension. I am going to enter this into Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge, which is to use buttons!! I think I use buttons on almost all my layouts, so I love this weeks challenge!! :D

For this layout, I used:

• Cardstock: DCWV SafariKids cardstock
• Paper: ATD Vibrant, The Paper Studio, MME(Where The Heart Is & Twinkle, Twinkle Little Boys)
• Ribbon: The Ribbon Boutique and ribbon trends
• Stickers: MakingMemories puffy alphas, white alpha stickers(unknown)
• Colorbok chipboard letters
• K&Company wild saffron Die-Cut Cardstock
• string
• acrylic paint
• SpareParts by The Paper Studio - brads
• Jolee's All That Bling dimentional stickers
• Favorite Finding buttons (small orange)
• square button from stash
• Magic Scraps:vellum words

Hope you all enjoy and have great day!!

Much love,
Jenny♥

another year older

Hello and Hi!! Hope everyone is doing well!! I have a layout for you all today!! Another one of my boys! What can I say...they are my life, lol. Here is my page:

 

This layout is based on sketch #165 at Creative Scrappers:

 

and the current challenge at ColorCombosGalore:

 

Here are a few closeups:

 

This one was a lot of fun to make!! Those pictures are from annual pictures last year. We take pictures every year right around their birthdays. I really didn't use very much of the vanilla color, just what was on the embellishments and torn paper. I hand stitched the ric rac onto the banners and the paper at once. Lemme tell ya, that wasn't easy, lol. I dripped acrylic paint to achieve the designer's challenge, but I didn't do a whole lot. I didn't want it to overtake my layout. I really love my end result, and hope you do too!!

For this layout, I used:

• Colorbok cardstock (black)
• CDWV SafariKids cardstock (creamsicle)
• Cardstock: unknown (cool blue)
• The Paper Studio Paper: Enchanted Light Blue (ice blue)
• AVD Vibrant Paper (creamsicle)
• MME Twinkle Twinkle Little Boys (ice blue)
• Magic Scraps: vellum words
• Acrylic paint
• GEMSTONES by The Paper Studio
• SpareParts by The Paper Studio: brads
• Affinity by The Paper Studio: Cardstock stickers (creamsicle)
• Crate Paper Border stickers (filmstrip and numbers)
• May Arts Black Ric Rac
• Bag O Buttons by The Paper Studio: buttons

Hope everyone enjoys and has an amazing day!

Much Love,
Jenny♥

OSU Birthday card for my son

Hi everyone!! I have a card to share with you today! Tomorrow is my son's 9th Birthday(ya!!), and he is having an Oklahoma State football party! It is my husband and my alma mater, along with a lot more of our family. He is just growing in the right direction!! lol. Anywho, on to the card:

 

I used the current sketch at CardPatterns. Sketch 123:

I honestly used just a bunch of scraps from my stash to make this. I stole the football from one of the extra invitations, and cut the OKState symbols from some of our old catalogs. I used some twine and some scrap black ribbon. I did use my new stickers from the WeScrap kit I won on the last challenge. Those are echo park For The Record by Bella Road. 

Okay everyone! Have a great night, and I will talk to you all soon!!

Much Love,

Jenny♥

Popsicle Time

Good evening everyone! I have a cute, fun layout for you today!!

 

I used the current sketch at Sketchy Thursdays:

I am entering this into ScrapFIT's workout #47 Summer-TIME. You were to use a lot of yellow to represent summer, and a clock to represent time. This was my first experience with paint splattering, and I think it turned out really good!! I also took a toilet paper roll and bubble wrap and made my background.

For this layout I used:

• Cricut Cartridge: Doodlecharms
• Colorbok paper
• MME Twinkle Twinkle Little Boys paper
• MME Bloom & Grow by Zoe Pearn paper
• DCWV SafariKids cardstock
• Stickopotumus alpha stickers
• La Petites by The Paper Studio 3-D stickers
• The Paper Studio brads and eyelets and Bag O Buttons
• GEMSTONES by The Paper Studio
• The Ribbon Boutique ribbon
• string
• acrylic paint

Thanks for coming by!
Much love,
Jenny♥

first Easter layout

Hello! How's everyone's weekend going?? Mine has been nice and relaxing in the indoors out of the 107+ heat! I have been working on the new CCG challenge this weekend, and finally got it done! It was a tough one for me, girl colors!! Well, just one girl color, but it makes the whole thing look girly, lol. Of course, I don't have any girls, so I worked it the best I could, lol. Here is my layout:

 

 This is a picture of my oldest and me on his very first Easter. 

I used sketch #51 over at Sketches in Thyme:

And here is the current challenge at ColorCombosGalore:

 

Here are some detailed pics for you!!

 

Don't you just love the pinwheel flowers?! Those were from Hobby Lobby. I took them of their wooden rods and hot glued them back together and added the buttons. I also made those cute little bees out of buttons! I used brads for the antenas, lol, I just love them!!

I thought these wooden letters worked perfect for the title.

I love how dimensional this is!

side view of title

I LOVED how this turned out!! I used individual alpha stamps to make it staggered, and it just looks so good!!

For this layout I used:

• Paper: The Paper Studio and some scrap paper
• Cardstock: DCWV SafariKids cardstock and scrap cardstock
• CraftSmart ink pad (fuschia)
• Stampin Up ink pads (mint melody and basic black)
• acrylic paint
• PLAID wooden letters
• EKSuccess Image Tree wooden rubber stamps(antique typewriter lower abc stamps)
• Stickopotamus stickers
• SpareParts embellisments
• Cuttlebug
• pinwheels
• buttons

Thanks for stopping by!

Much love,
Jenny ♥

Yea!!!!

I woke up this morning to see that I was a Sketchy Thursdays fav and featured on Practical Scrappers!! Holy cow I am excited!!! A big thank you to both of those amazing blogs!!!

Here is the link to the Sketchy Thursdays 6.30 Faves....

Here is a link to the Buttons, Buttons and more Buttons on Practical Scrappers...

Have a great day!!

Much Love,
Jenny♥

Nikki Sivils giveaway!!!

I just recently came across Nikki Sivils blog, and I adore it (and her, lol). Well, she is having an absolute AMAZING giveaway!! Not 1, but all 5 of her new lines to one very lucky winner!! You can go check it out here!! Good luck everyone!!

wee t-ball Sketchy Thursdays 6.30 challenge

Good evening! I have a two-page layout for you all! I am working on an album of just my son's sports pictures, and here is another one for you:

 

This is based off of the current sketch challenge at Sketchy Thursdays:

 

Here are some closeups for you to enjoy :)

page 1

page 2

 

believe it or not, this is my first banner on a lo

Loved these K&Company stickers! They were embossed!! So cool...

Another K&Company sticker, and a Sassafras card. Perfect that it was number 5 and had baseball stitching around it!!

This is just a plain foam shape from the Dollar Tree that I painted with acrylic paint, then hand-stitched the red stitches. I used my Cricut to cut out the title (lyrical letters cartridge), and used GlueDOTS pop up adhesives to give it dimension.

 

I loved that these eyelets were the same color as the baseball bats!! Thought that was such a cool touch!

I am also going to enter this into Paper Issues: Red, White and Blue challenge. Its not the festive r,w & b, but I did use those colors, so I think it will work!!

For this layout I used:

• Cardstock: DCWV SafariKids
• Paper: The Paper Studio, GlitzDesign Kismet
• Sassafras- Paper Whimsies-tailored deck
• Foam shapes (Dollar Tree)
• Acrylic paint
• Spare Parts by The Paper Studio
• brads
• sports brads
• eyelets
• metallic, shiny stars from my stash (unknown)
• twine
• K&Company Tim Coffey embossed stickers (kinda old)
• Stick-A-bilities by The Paper Studio-alpha stickers
• SandyLion Scrapbook stickers-baseball sticker borders (kinda old)

Hope you everyone enjoyed my lo, and have a great night!!

Much love,
Jenny ♥