Uniquely You

I'm so excited to be the May Guest Designer at Scrap Our Stash!  Scrapbooking has been a love of mine for more than 25 years, I've been making cards a lot lately but am trying to get back to getting my pictures in albums!  I am so happy to have come across the Scrap Our Stash challenge blog that is specifically for scrapping.  I'm an avid reader and the 1st challenge of the month is inspired by a book cover.....LOVE that!!  

So here is my layout, the inspiration picture is below and a little bit of a description below that! 

The layers of color in the sunset inspired the background where I added paint and ink to tone down the light purple and leave streaks similar to the sunset.  I used coral, pink, lavendar, yellow and a light teal for the colors.  I found this picture of my daughter which was perfect to go with the flower requirement, and added a black and white daisy pattern paper that I tinted using my copic markers, and then I have hearts running down the right side of the paper, inspired by the big heart on the book cover. Such a fun book cover and I can't wait to see what you all create! 

Oh Snap

I finally am getting back into scrapbooking, this is where my love of playing with paper started.  After many years I started with card making and LOVE that, but scrapping is something that will always hold my passion.  I love taking pictures and creating with paper, fun embellishments, stamps, paint, ink, ribbon, twine and anything that will just make a layout special.  

I found this picture of my daughter on her social media and snagged it for myself, its such a cute picture and she captured her self perfectly!  She is always taking pictures, mostly with her phone, but she does have a nice camera as well. 

I love using sketches for cards and layouts and found one over at Scrap our Stash that I used for this layout. 

For the layout I used the sketch, gold, hearts and Heidi Swapp, and Ink.  What a fun challenge!  I really am happy that I found such a great blog with fun challenges and a great sketch!

I would like to submit this to the following challenges:

+Scrap our Stash-sketch +3 Gold, Heidi Swapp/hearts, Ink

Crafty Friends Challenge: ATG

Creative Corner Challenge:Anything but a card

+Jo's Scrap Shack-ATG

#100happydays week 12 recap

Week 12 done and here is the recap!

Day 78 

A picture of my happy space, it's messy, but it's where I can create and creating is a must!!

                                                                          Day 79
 Once again, a FB friend posted a pic that made me smile and brought back some really good memories, Bon Jovi was one of my first concerts, back in the 80's with the big hair, they played in Vegas at the Thomas and Mack Center with Cinderella.  I've seen them 3 times and they ROCK every time!

                                                                       Day 80
               New fun pattern papers from Amy Tangerine and Maggie Holmes, love the paper and happy that they were on a super good sale!

                                                                             Day 81
Ashlie graduates from seminary. Seminary is a 4 year religious program through our church where they learn and study from the scriptures.  Way to go Ash!

                                                                               Day 82

Minion Monday, had to find me a minion that made me smile and I love me some Wolverine, so this one did the trick!

                                                                             Day 83
Was looking through my art journal and found a page that made me smile and makes me want to get back to playing with paint and gettin messy!

                                                                              Day 84
                                    Tropical Smoothie run with my favorite girl.........yummy!

That's it for week 12.....another couple weeks and I will hit 100 days!! Yay.........go and be happy!! :)

Thanks sew much & a Happy Birthday

I'm using this super cute freebie image from Birdie Brown  and entering it in the freebie challenge over on that site. I used all paper from my scraps, chipboard button, ribbon, flower and some bling florish. I did change the "so" to "sew" and now it makes sense with the "sewing" image! :D

Also, today is a very special day as it is my Ash's 17th birthday...and this is what 17 looks like!!  She is such a cutie, such a sweet girl and a huge blessing in my life.  I'm so glad she is a much better kid than I ever was!! ;)  whew!