Focus!

There is a new look over at "Shoe" blog but the challenges are just as awesome as ever! The current Fashionista Friday challenge is to use the colours Red, Yellow and Orange in your layout.

Here's my take, the BG June Bug papers that are part of The Scrap Queens June Bug kit fit the bill perfect along with the matching stickers. I didn't have any yellow flowers...but no worries, I did have some light tan ones and my sunflower glimmer mist! A bit of spraying and the problem was not only solved, but I got a bit of shimmer to brighten my day as well!

Thanks as always for the inspiration ladies!

Go Fish

The girls went to Columbia Reservation earlier in the month and heard a talk on fish and they also took fish molds and covered them in fabric paint and made decorated shirts. They got very creative!

Challenge was from Adina, who wanted us to take our scraps and use them in a new way. I made a bunch of prima flowers out of mine (about 30 of them actually, this was my favourite)

Scraplift Challenge

I took the inspiration from this card from another posted by Tamara and knocked it off using a rub on and some stickles. If you don't know what a scraplift challenge is, it's where you take someone elses work and duplicate it, putting on your own spin.

Childhood

Tanisha posted this challenge...you had a use a Michael Jackson song title.

I watched my nephew last week and he is soo fun to have! I really enjoy seeing how easily amused he is and how everything is new to him since my girls at, 8 and 9, are pretty blase about common things these days.

It's a Midwest Thing

This one if for my friend Stacie who is THE BIGGEST polar pop junkie I know!

For those of you NOT from the midwest, soft drinks are called pop in our neck of the woods. Not cokes, not soda, no fizzy drinks....POP! And if you get it from a fountain they are sublime.

THis is a sketch that was posted for the crop this weekend.

U Rock card

This was a color challege from Lesley...to go with the vampy theme, the colours were black and white and one item of red.

Here's my card....



I need to play with this one a bit, I'm not real happy with it, I found some vintage film images that I want to try and work in somehow and some black and white ribbon.

Race Challenge Cards

Tracey is doing her famous race challenge...I love that challenge and omgosh, her commentary gets SOOO hilarious. The girl cracks me up! I dropped out awhile back as I knew I wouldn't be able to keep up since I had errands to run and would be gone most of yesterday (all day it turned out). But, I did the first few.

Here's some cards I made for various laps:

4H Public Speaking Competition

Livy participated in the Cloverbud category of the 'speech meet' last week. Her group did so great and despite being hugely nervous, she delivered her line perfectly and loud enough we could hear her from where we were sitting in the back! Yay Livy!

She was soo excited about getting her ribbons and presidential gold dollar. But, the best part was at the end of all the awards they had prize drawings and Livy won $20! She was thrilled!

This page was done for the Simplify challenge, where we were to try and use only a third of our page and leave the rest of the space empty!

Cigar Box Purse

Karmyn was responsible for this challenge...it was called Busy, Busy, Busy! The point was to make something and have NO negative space left. Fill the entire thing up. So, I had gotten this cigar box at a garage sale a week ago and decided since I hadn't made a new purse in awhile, this was a great way to answer this challenge.

THen, I went crazy with the flowers. I used the chipboard (that I had been hoarding for years) as a starting point (and yep, it is shoe themed, I'm a suck up! lol)and then threw in stickles and bling and a few other odds and ends. THere are primas, just blooms, crocheted flowers, a big grungepaper one I made...if I could find it in my hoard and it was black, pink or white, on it went! (consequently, I'm now completely out of flowers in all those colours...this is a great way to use things up!)

Here she is, I just need to add a beaded handle. THe other sides are covered in a black dewdrop print handmade paper that has a swirl pattern on it in silver. (I guess I should probably take a pic of that too...oh well, another day)

Vamp ATC

Kristy posted an ATC challenge with a Vamp theme. How fun!

I used this corset stamp I have had forever and again hadn't used for inspiration. And I thought the Madonna quote was perfect! Since I had my alcohol inks out, I had to play with them to make the background!

Endeeringly Cute

A couple weeks ago, the girls participated in the Clan of the Caves program at Wolf Creek. It was a program where they learned about the earth through various clans (elements) using interpretive dance, art and so forth. They really enjoyed all 4 days of it!

On our way one morning, we were delayed a bit by this little fellow. He was sooo little and after he crossed the road, he collapsed into the weeks exhausted! Fortunately, I had my camera (of course I did! lol) and was able to take pics of him since he was so accomodating.

The page was done for the Vintage challenge (had to use nautral colours, lace, a vintage image and distressed and inked edges.

Knuckle Down

This weekend is an online crop at If the Shoe Fits ning site. Awesome! I got soo much done!

These pages were done for 2 different challenges, the first page a sketch and the second an elements. I needed 2 pages as I took lots of pictures at the American Toy and Marble museum at Lock 3 in downtown Akron. We went there for a field trip earlier this month and the girls learned the history of toys and how Akron was such a huge part of that and how to officially play marbles. Then, they each got a bag of marbles to take home.

Artist Trading Cards

Those fab girls over at If the Shoe Fits blog posted a challenge this week to make masculine themed atcs....well, it wasn't all that long ago that DH got promoted at work and his desk and bb looks pretty empty...so I thought I'd make a couple for him to cheer him up and brighten his space.

Here's my takes (now mind you, honey HATES having his picture taken, so I had to do some serious digging for that little pic below...it's from about 8 years ago and he was half asleep, the only reason I even got it)




And they just posted the Wednesday card challenge so get on over there and check it out!

Mom I'm bored!

Oh, how often I hear those words from my eldest. Ironically enough, while I was scrapping this page, in she walked and uttered those words (and of course, when I started laughing my butt off, she got very dramatic and did her patented eyeroll and sigh....so nice that my 9 yo thinks I am the biggest idiot on the planet, I was hoping it would take her a few more years to figure that one out).

This is for a challenge at The Scrap Queen this month, we were to use 4 different fonts on a layout. I sketched the "Mom" and then cut it out and faux stitched it, the "I am" are thickers, the "so" and "Bored" were made using CTMH alphabet stamps.

WIth the the exception of the yellow paper which was from my scrap hoard, the rest is from TSQ Summer Fun kit from this month.

Love challenge

Simply Scrapping has LOTS of great challenges up this month! I have been trying to work my way through them, it's a great way to get motivated and caught up!

The June 12th challenge must be about a loved one (I think my darling nephew and the girls fit the bill) and have LOVE in the title.

The papers are from Judy, they are by scribble scrabble and soo fun for summer/warm weather layouts.

Gnome Much Fun

It was a gorgeous day back in April and the first after a LOOONG winter. I tried to find any excuse possible to keep us outside....

Sketch is #34 from Simply Scrapping. I love Judy's sketches, they are so great! And have fun details.

Papers are Kaiser Craft from her store. Stamps are SU (I just love the gnomes, it is like my one SU token set).

Akron Zoo...

The recipe challenge going on right now at Simply Scrapping (link is to the right) focuses on zoo animals! Seemed like a perfect excuse for me to work on our Akron Zoo pictures from Livy's birthday!

Recipe is:
You must use everything in the recipe. You can use more of one item, but NOT less.
1. Use an animal you will find at the zoo. Must be an outside animal either a photograph, on the paper, or embellishment.
2. 3 buttons, 2 hearts, and 1 tag
3. 2 different Alphabets-One must be from chipboard
4. 1 Square & 1 Circle
5, Color Black
6. Stitching either rub or real
7. Minimum 2 styles of papers

Deadline is June 11, so get scrapping!


There's also a great prize involved, go check it out!

Battle!

Ah yes, the big fun thing at our house! My family are Star Wars fiends....and DH is the biggest enabler of buying toys for the girls (Trin only collects female jedi...she's such a girl power chickeepoo! Go Trin!). Anyway, Stan has been collecting toys as long as I have known him.

Trin was in looking at his collection not long ago and asked "Daddy? Why don't you play with your toys? I would play with you." Kinda tugged at the cockles of his heart and all and thus Battle was born. I'm not sure they accomplish much more than lining up all their respective figures and ships (and there are A LOT) but they spend lots of time together doing this and THAT warms the cockles of my heart seeing them laugh and be silly.

Challenge was from awhile back at If the SHoe Fits, it was black and white only on a page (or something like, like I said, it's been AWHILE). Papers are scraps of CTMH Silhouette collection (I think my all time favourite!)

Walk - SNM Sketch Challenge

One of my favourite new finds are the American Crafts 6x12 page protectors. Sarah just got them in last month at The Scrap Queen. I love being able to add mini pages throughout my album and these so fit the bill!

Coincidentally, Emily posted a great 6x12 sketch as one of our challenges on ScrapNMoms, so I had an awesome excuse to get my butt in gear and use them!



Just a few shots of the sights when we were out walking on Mother's Day at Wellington reservation.

Happy Belated Friends Day!

Yesterday was Best Friends Day and we had a card challenge on Simply Scrapping to make one for your friend.

Here is what I came up with


It is made with my scraps from the Piggytales paper in the Summer Fun kit from The ScrapQueen this month. The gnome is an SU stamp and I coloured him with my copics and then highlighted his beard with a sparkle pen, that doesn't photograph well, but IRL makes him really pop.