LOOK AT THIS!!!!!

Last month I played along with ScrapMuch? and won a prize! And I love them! MME is one of my favs!! The little card is soooo cute. 
If you want to play along with a great bunch of inspiring gals....this is the place.

http://shopscrapmuch.blogspot.com/

Fall Colors!!!

LOVE EM! Esp after a LONG HOT summer!!! 

One of my new favorite places to visit is SCRAPMUCH? - they are awesome. I love the inspiration they offer and what the other people who play come up with! 

For September they are offering up THESE colors!!!

http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2012/09/september-colour-challenge.html

So I rummaged through my scraps and come up with this. Using a beautiful darker cream card stock I layered 3 patterned papers and one used to matt the pictures of a stormy sunset here in FL. Hand-stitched around the edges and inked around the journal spot. added a few buttons and darkened a corner. Its super fall and I enjoyed it - I have it hanging in my scrappy room - too pretty to put into a book just yet! Maybe in December ;)

Sometimes...I just love it

what I create...thats what I "sometimes" love. Sometimes I don't. Take the card I made yesterday. Oh in my head, it was uber cute. The finished product, not so much. As Kerri would say, it sat in timeout for a few hours. But then I finally realized that making a mistake is totally OK and I would trash it.

So this morning I noticed I have not used my Bo Bunny recently. This line I have is different for me, its "dark", its "romantic", its "strong". Three things I am not use to doing. But I LOVE it. So I checked out Bo Bunnys Blog to see what they had going on to give me some mojo. And I found this!!

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Card Challenge 

                     http://bobunny.blogspot.com/2012/09/card-challenge-and-last-months-winner.html

Good Morning Friends!!!

Welcome to our new card challenge for the month of September.

This months challenge is a card sketch designed by Juliana

and goes something like this

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I like it lots. I like the rounded corners, the circle, the art that reminds me of bling. 

So I made a mess on my desk and came up with a card that I have to say....

I LOVE!!! Its beautiful!!

I used Bo Bunny Cambridge - Post is the double sided paper I used. and then 2 chip boards, stacked. 

There are a few more things on there too, some Savoir Faire bling, The Ribbon Boutique maroon and black ribbon, Three Bugs In a Rug card stock sticker sentiment and inked the sides.

I DO find this card to be "dark, romantic and strong" - and I hope you agree!

Weekend Scrapping

What does one do while waiting on a storm....SCRAP! DUH!!! :)

These two layouts below (well 3 to be honest) are for 2 sketches on SCRAPMUCH.

I LOVE the inspiration they provide. The double...took me ALL day Sunday. The paper I LOVE and have hoarded it till yesterday. But it intimidates me!! But I pushed though and think I came up with a lovely couple of layouts. 

Here is the first one I did - Sketch 1 for August -

  http://shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2012/08/sketch-y-friday.html

And here is my interpolation - this are of our lovely granddaughter Serenity in March. 

here they are separated - Bo Bunny, lots of little flowers, stickles, hand stitching, buttons and brads! LOTS of PINK!!

BUTTTTTT, I did another one - cause the rules say....if you are going to play at Scrapmuch...you have to do 2. Im on my 3rd (hehe) like I said, lots of inspiration! Anywhooooo, here is the sketch #3 for August.

http://shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2012/08/sketch-y-friday_17.html

AND here is mine! Its my boy Ryan and my favorite Aunt, Suzy! She came all the way from Cali with her best friend (who HATES to fly) to also be at my husbands retirement. I LOVE this pic. I kept the LO rather simple, still using some Bo Bunny, hand stitching, a bit of white ink doodling and some brads. 

Still at home, dreary out, Isaac has gone west, spared us, but we still have lots of rain and wind and tornado warnings...sigh! So while the boy sleeps in due to school being cancelled and DH does his own online school work since he called out for today....here is sit! Oh scrappy heaven!!

A color challenge!!!

And I love it! The colors are not something I would normally gravitate to, so it was fun to be challenged! Thanks to Scrapmuch - http://shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2012/08/august-colour-challenge.html
I produced what I THINK is a beautiful layout of my beautiful cousin and her now husband during an engagement photo shoot!!!

So these are the colors and I used ALL of them!!! I didn't plan it that way at first, but once it started coming together....I think it turned out awesome. Some flowers, some bling, and some chipboard and ink!! 

Weekend fun-pagemap challenge

How does one pass the time on a long weekend when no one feels like going anywhere cause it pours buckets with no warning! So i SCRAP! This weekend I did a few things - one being a layout for 

http://pagemaps.blogspot.com/2012/08/riddle-me-this-blog-refresher-sketch.html#comment-form

Sunday, August 12, 2012

riddle me this: blog refresher sketch contest

and here is the amazing sketch

Here is my take on it -I used a photo of when my son when to DC on a youth group trip this summer. I used red whites and blues and hand stitched the lines. I used stickles as well to add some fun!!

Scrappy room (finally)

So we have a 4 bedroom house we are leasing here in Fl. In reality, it sa 3 bedroom with an office, even though someone at some point added a closet to it to make it a legal bedroom. But it is SMALL! So thats Robs office and he loves it. Its perfect for him and since I hung all his military stuff and put things on shelves, making it his "I love ME" room, its pretty darn great. Sadly niether of us have a real desk because they were BOTH dmanged in the move and we are waiting to be reimbursed to get new ones. So he uses the table out of our RV and i use a fold up table. ANYWAYS....with my mom living with us for a bit, she had the spare room and I set up my scrappy area in the formal living room (which i think is such a waste of house space unless you have a piano!). 

Well she moved on and the rom was open and within 5 hours, it was ALLLL mine finally!! 

MY OWN SCRAPPY SPACE!

that can easily we moved around bit for guests, when and if anyone ever comes to visit!

here are the first day pictures. Now I still have stuff to do, like hang up some stuff on the walls and add this cool wire with clips to display some of my fav layouts. 

its lovely!