Caroline's Craftiness

First blog post

2012-01-20T20:00:00.000-08:00

Today I had my first blog post over on the Memory Works blog. You can check it out here. These are the two layouts I shared using mostly Lily Bee products.

Tyler playing in the snow caves they built on Thanksgiving-2010

Tyler receiving his wolf badge-March '11

2012 TeamWorks Team!!

2011-12-07T09:51:00.000-08:00

In October, I signed up as a Memory Works consultant to buy some supplies for our scrapbooking retreat. Shortly after, they put out a call to apply for the 2012 TeamWorks team. I applied, the last day, not thinking much about it, until I saw this post. Yes, my name was misspelled so I was hoping it was still me, but trying not to get my hopes up too much. How many other Caroline/Carolyn Piercy Memory Works consultants could there be? Well I got an email the next day welcoming me to the team. So yes, it is me and I am so excited to be working with Memory Works. They carry many of my favorite manufacturers like: Crate, Cosmo Cricket, Lily Bee, MME, etc. and they have their own line called Simple Stories which is super cute!! Looking forward to the new year and working with some other great ladies!

Scrapbook Retreat

2011-11-21T22:26:00.001-08:00

This one was actually from a few months ago, just forgot to post it. It was a scraplift challenge from the Memorable Seasons board.

Tyler as a soldier last Halloween.

The kids on one of their daily walks with Grandpa when he came to visit.

Our family last winter in Spokane.

Haley dressed up for Dr. Seuss Day at school.

Haley's first day of kindergarten!!

Our first time to do the MS Walk as a family. We walked and raised money for Ryan's sister, Liz

Emily as a new big sister to Katie.

The kids flying kites in the springtime.

Emily dressed up for Halloween '10

Haley's first soccer season

Haley dressed up as a witch-Halloween '10

I was able to go on the scrapbook retreat this year. The two gals that have organized it in the past decided not to do one again so I decided to try and organize one myself. 5 of us went up to Leavenworth and stayed and the Sleeping Lady and scrapped and ate lots of yummy food. It was such a needed vacation/break for me and I loved being able to scrapbook after having all of my stuff packed up for soooo long. It felt good to get back into the groove of scrappin' and it's always fun to have girl time too!!

Out with the old, in with the new!

2011-05-17T21:16:00.000-07:00

Okay, these bibs are seriously OLD (that yellow one was from Tyler when he was a baby and he's almost 9!) I don't know why I didn't throw these away sooner!

And here are some new ones I just finished. About half are for Katie and the rest are for gifts. These look so much better and can't wait to throw the other ones out! I got the pattern from the Sew Mama Sew blog a few years ago.

National Scrapbook Day

2011-05-15T18:19:00.000-07:00

This card was for Telah's challenge to use up any scraps of paper that you had used on any of your LO's you made this weekend. All of these printed papers came from that same sheet of Studio Calico paper. Love the way it turned out!

For Joni's hold it together challenge: use things that hold things together (buttons, stitching, zippers, clips) just like moms hold everything together. I used stitching and a clip on my journaling. Our garden tomatoes (summer of 07). I used the May 8th sketch from Your Scrapbook Stash.

This one was from Kristin's sketch challenge. The kiddos enjoying summer with some popsicles. This one was so easy to put together, it's actually just one sheet of Studio Calico paper, except for the banner!

This one was for Jenny's play challenge: scrap whatever you think of when you hear the word play. These pictures were from the same day at the park. The kids ran up and down the hill so many times, just pure kid fun. This one I used the May 7th sketch from Your Scrapbook Stash.

This one was for Tami's dirty challenge: interpret dirty anyway you want! So I went for Haley's dirty face. We had given the kids fudgesicles. It was sooo hot that they started to melt but they still wanted to eat them and none of us had thought to bring any wipes so they all just played with dirty faces. They made for some great pictures!! I also inked around the edges for some more "dirtiness." I used the May 6th sketch from Your Scrapbook Stash.

So I took advantage of last week's National Scrapbook Day (well, actually the weekend) to get some layouts done. I played along at the crop at Memorable Seasons and used some great sketches from Your Scrapbook Stash. Here's everythhing I got done!

Let's Scrap challenges

2011-03-30T22:27:00.001-07:00

This is for my DT challenge this week. It's due tomorrow night if you still want to play along! The challenge is to create 3 different handmade flowers on your LO. I made a flower out of patterned paper circles, rolled flowers, and I sewed some lace together to create a flower. I have been wanting to try the rolled flowers for a long time so this was a push to actually do it!

This one was from Shelly's spring forward challenge which was to scraplift the LO that was uploaded right after your last upload. I used the same sketch, some twine on my picture and the title is similar to hers. I had made some salt dough for the kids. It obviously needed more flour but they didn't want to add more, they liked having sticky hands!

2 Layouts for 1 week

2011-03-30T22:09:00.000-07:00

This week's sketch

My take on the sketch-Park Play-Haley at the park kinda (or not) playing! My friend Laurel took these pictures of her.

This is from last week-My Pizza makers-the kids helping me make some pizza for dinner!

Oops!! I just realized that I forgot to post my LO from last week's Let's Scrap sketch. So here's last week's and this week's sketch and LO!

Get Well Soon

2011-03-15T07:30:00.001-07:00

Here's a card for this week's sketch up at Let's Scrap. I also combined it for this week's challenge at The Paper Variety, which was to make a get well soon card! I even pulled out a stamp for this one too!

It's about time

2011-03-13T10:18:00.000-07:00

I did this one a couple of weeks ago called Love Snow. The sketch is from Sketch Inspiration (I actually ended up winning the prize for that week, super excited to get the Studio Calico Elementary line!!) and I used this one for Memorable Season's throwdown challenge as well. You had to use a mask (I used a large circle), either mist or paint splatters, white space, and doodling. I don't think I've ever used a mask, so this was a first for me!! Pictures are of Tyler and Haley playing in the snow in our backyard!

I used a sketch from My Mind's Eye blog and a theme "Celebrate Today". I also did this one for the Memorable Seasons throwdown challenge. The challenge was to use a solid color background, lots of RED, a diecut, and then a few other choices: circles, stitching, distressing, inking, and handwritten journaling. Pictures are of Ryan's 30th birthday. They aren't the best pictures but I still wanted to document the special day!!

I completed the color combo challenge that was posted on the Crate blog. The colors were kraft, grey, and yellow. I don't think I've ever used this color combo before but love how it turned out so I will definitely use it again! The pictures are of Tyler and his cousin sledding on our trip to Utah last year. And I used a sketch #146 from Creative Scrappers.

Well it's been quite a while since I've actually put my scrapbook layouts into their scrapbook binders. I stayed home from church today with Katie and Emily since we are all still sick and I thought this would be a great project to get done today. So I'm going to go through them and make sure I've posted them all on here. Oh, and I want to see how many LO's I've gotten done so far this year. My goal is 150. Okay, I'm up to 21 so far, better pick up the pace!!

Easter Morning

2011-03-11T22:17:00.000-08:00

Another double page sketch is up at Let's Scrap. Here's this week's sketch and my take of it. Pictures are of Haley in '07. I loved that little bandana that went with her dress! Papers are My Minds Eye.

My Guy

2011-03-06T08:03:00.000-08:00

I created this LO of some pics I took of Tyler while we were on a camping trip a couple of years ago (okay, 5 years ago to be exact!). I was kinda playing with the light and I love the different expressions I got from him, typical Tyler faces! I took on the challenge at The Paper Variety to use 50% green on my LO. I've got green patterned paper, a green title, green journaling, and a green ribbon. I also used a sketch from Sketchy Thursdays. Papers are Scrap Within Reach's Georgia Rain collection.

Family

2011-03-06T07:46:00.001-08:00

There's a new double page sketch up over at Let's Scrap. Here's the sketch and my take on it. It's the kids playing over Christmas break (2009). Papers are Crate's Restoration line. I also used the left side for last week's throwdown challenge at Memorable Seasons. The challenge was to layer at least 5 patterned papers, use one picture, have a cluster of embellies and use a non-scrapbooking item (I used 2 sewing pins to attach my journaling).

Snowballs

2011-02-28T22:25:00.000-08:00

I did this LO of the kids making snowballs and gathering them in their wagon. The challenge was for DT challenge at Let's Scrap. There were a bunch of different techniques and items you were to use. I used textured cardstock, mesh, metal, fabric, a button, paint, a sketch, and to make your own embellishment. Quite a list but I got it done!! I also combined it with the challenge at The Paper Variety to sew on your LO. I sewed that cute red fabric onto my LO, a row on the top and a row on the bottom.

Good Times

2011-02-28T22:20:00.000-08:00

My take on this week's sketch over at Let's Scrap. Pictures are of the kids and their cousins at Lego Land. Papers are Echo Park and Bella Blvd.

We Love Fire Engines

2011-02-21T21:50:00.000-08:00

I did this one last week during the 1 hour sketch contest over at Memorable Seasons. You were given a sketch and had 1 hour to complete it. It was kinda stressful with a time limit but fun and motivating at the same time and I love how it turned out. The pictures are of the kids and their cousins before the Lehi parade started. They loved checking out the fire engines.

Cold Play

2011-02-20T07:12:00.000-08:00

I did this one from a sketch at the Paper Variety. It was actually a card sketch but I used it for a LO instead! I also combined it with the scrapbook throwdown challenge over at Memorable Seasons. The challenge was to use only patterned paper, some bling, and stitching-got all 3. Pics are of Haley playing in the snow.

Friend

2011-02-17T09:22:00.000-08:00

There's a new sketch up at Let's Scrap. This week it's a card sketch so here's the sketch and my take on it. I used all scraps from the Crate cottage collection. Upload your take by Tuesday to be in the drawing for the prize!!

Smallwood's

2011-02-14T11:18:00.000-08:00

The sketch and my LO for Let's Scrap for this week. Upload yours by Tuesday the 15th to be eligible for the prize. My LO is about when my kids and I went to Smallwood's Harvest a few years back with some friends.

Valentine's Banner

2011-02-07T08:59:00.000-08:00

A couple of my friends and I got together last week to make these Valentine banners. They were super easy to make and fun to make them together!! We each had different fabric but followed the same pattern so it was cool to see how each one turned out. We got the idea from the Moda Bake Shop. I still may add some fabric yo-yos and buttons to the top later on but at least it's up for now!! Growing up, my sisters and I would make a birthday banner, just with paper and markers, and hang it up on the wall so I think it would be super fun to make a birthday banner using this pattern.

Oh, and my Valentine layout was spotlighted over at The Paper Variety, go check it out!!

Imagination

2011-02-04T16:52:00.000-08:00

I used sketch #104 from The Scrappiest for this LO and it's also for this week's Scrapbook Throwdown challenge over at Memorable Seasons. The throwdown recipe is to create a LO with clean lines, centered and balanced, 3 matted pictures in a row, lots of inked edges, and a punched border.

Valentine

2011-02-03T21:43:00.001-08:00

I got this one done today using sketch #103 from The Scrappiest. I also found a new challenge blog so I played along for the Yummy Hearts challenge over at The Paper Variety. These are some pics of Haley after a valentine's playgroup party that was at our house (in 2007!!)

First reveal

2011-02-03T16:54:00.000-08:00

I had my first DT reveal over at Let's Scrap. This is the sketch for this week and there's a great prize by Lucky Girl Crafts. I did the left side of the sketch and my page is Beautiful Girl that I posted last week. Just scroll down a bit and you can take a peek!

Jammies

2011-02-01T11:28:00.000-08:00

Haley in her cute jammies! I love the expression on her face and the way her hair is flipping out!!I used sketch #101 from The Scrappiest and papers are from Crate's Cottage collection.

Joy

2011-01-30T16:44:00.000-08:00

I did this fun sketch from the Page Maps blog. I loved it because I went straight to my scrap box to use the background papers. Pictures are of Tyler at one of our favorite summer spots in Wenatchee, Confluence Park!

Let's Scrap

2011-01-30T16:41:00.000-08:00

I just found out this past week that I was chosen to be a part of the Let's Scrap DT. Soooo excited here!!! They do a sketch each week and I will be on the DT from February to April. You can check out the site here!

Beautiful Girl

2011-01-20T18:17:00.000-08:00

I've had these pictures for a while of Haley when she was about 21 months old. I finally found a great sketch from Let's Scrap to scrap them. Papers are Echo Park.

First Haircut

2011-01-19T14:29:00.001-08:00

Been out of the scrappy mode for a while so here's one I just finished using a sketch from Sketchy Thursdays. Pictures are from Haley's first haircut when she turned 2.

2011 Crafty Projects

2011-01-19T14:17:00.000-08:00

I have quite a few projects that I have started or bought supplies for and never completed so I am making a list (more for myself) to try and complete some of these projects this year. So here goes:

Star quilt (squares are done but lots more to do!)
Quiet book (some pages done)
Scarf (have material)
Birthday Calendar
Hairbows (have supplies)
Diaper/Wipes case
Dresses for the girls (already have material for these)
Dress made from a men's shirt (have shirt)
An apron
Goal of 150 scrapbook pages

I'm sure there will be a lot of other crafty things that come my way but I just wanted to get a list down!

Beach Day

2010-12-12T17:45:00.000-08:00

I did this one of Haley at the beach on one of our trips to Cali. I used a sketch from the Page Maps blog and used the challenge on the Scrapbooks Etc. site to incorporate another craft on your LO. I also love to sew so I sewed on a piece of fabric to hold the journaling. I finally gave in to using some of my Echo Park goodies!

Hugs

2010-12-02T22:34:00.000-08:00

I used another of Liz's sketches. This one was on the Sweet Peach Crop Shop blog. It's about the hugs I give and get from Haley, love them!! Papers are from Lily Bee.

Happy Kiddos

2010-11-29T15:32:00.000-08:00

This one is just a simple one but I love these pics of the kids. Sketch is from this month's sketch at Memorable Seasons by Liz Chidester.

Can U Fix it???

2010-11-26T10:30:00.000-08:00

I used a sketch for this one that was on the Crate Paper blog. Haley is playing with Tyler's Bob the Builder toys. The title I took from the Bob the Builder song and I cut out the letters from the patterned paper. Most of the papers are from the Little Sprout line.

Smile

2010-11-26T10:17:00.000-08:00

I have been saving some of the kids' projects and other papers from school but not many of them have actually ended up on many of my scrapbook pages. So I accepted the challenge over on the Cosmo Cricket blog to make a LO using some kids artwork or project that they did. This is Tyler's school picture this year along with some questions that he answered and filled out at the beginning of the school year. I can't wait to do more of these type of layouts with school work and projects. I love having his point of view on there and his handwriting too. I used some papers and accents from the Boyfriend and Lil' Man lines.

2010-11-25T15:24:00.001-08:00

This LO was for this week's challenge on the American Crafts blog to show something you are grateful for. Of course I chose my family. I cut out some shapes from the letterbox patterned paper and some butterflies too and of course used some thickers too.

Boating

2010-11-25T08:52:00.001-08:00

A little boating excursion. As you can see, Haley was pretty skeptical about the whole boating experience. Tyler, however, had a great time tubing. I used a sketch from the Bo Bunny blog for their LO challenge that was posted here. I used some of my older papers from the Pep Rally and Grease Monkey lines.

Love Bugs

2010-11-19T14:49:00.001-08:00

My little "love bugs!" The kids made these hats as one of our preschool crafts. I used a sketch from Page Maps. Not my typical color combo but I saw the colors together on a My Mind's Eye accessory sheet so that's what I went with. Papers are My Mind's Eye and Jillibean Soup.

Play More

2010-11-18T15:32:00.000-08:00

I played along at My Mind's Eye Blog challenge. You were to use this sketch and scrap something about a lesson learned, using at least 80% of MME product. These are pictures of Haley playing outside. The journaling reads: What I love about you: That you remind me to have fun, laugh, be silly, and to be myself. I have learned to "play more" because of my kids!!

I combined quite a few MME lines: Little Boy blue, So sophie, and Ooo La La.

Halloween Night

2010-11-13T14:26:00.001-08:00

I used a sketch from Nuts About Sketches and a challenge at Memorable Seasons to use a grid your LO for this 2 pager of Tyler on Halloween night '06.

Bath babe

2010-11-11T14:01:00.001-08:00

I love this picture of Miss Haley and her bathtime hairdo! I used sketch #89 from The Scrappiest and combined it with Kristen's color challenge over at Memorable Seasons.

Builders

2010-11-10T14:54:00.001-08:00

I used a sketch from Sketchy Thursdays from this week. The kids are building their graham cracker houses at Christmas. Green paper is Jillibean Soup and the rest are from my scrap bin. I painted the chipboard letters red and inked the edges.

Clean Up

2010-11-08T17:15:00.001-08:00

Little miss Haley lookin' out the window. Sketch is from Liz Chidester on the Memorable Seasons website.

Tyler's 8th birthday was this summer. Finally used some of my hoarded Scrap within Reach papers! Sketch was by Julie Bonner on the Let's Scrap website.

I was cleaning up my craft table today and noticed I hadn't posted this couple of layouts so here they are!!

Rough & Tough

2010-09-22T16:53:00.000-07:00

I used a sketch from Sketchy Thursdays for this of Tyler at one of our campouts. Loved the amount of pics I got on ONE layout!!

Easter Egg Hunt

2010-09-17T14:35:00.000-07:00

I just found a new sketch site, it's called Sketchabilities. They have some fun stuff going on over there since it's their birthday month. I did this one for sketch #26. I really like the simplicity of this one and really fast to pull together.

August pages

2010-09-10T16:37:00.000-07:00

Just some fun pictures of Haley from Spring '07

Sledding as a family at Rotary Park

Family hike up Saddlerock

Here are a few pages I got done in August. They are all sketches from Nuts About Sketches, love that site!!

Sketches and more sketches

2010-07-22T15:31:00.000-07:00

Tyler loves to look out the front window so see what action is going on outside. He can't miss any piece of action or adventure!! I used a sketch from Sketchy Thursdays and also had to use yellow and a handmade embellie. I made my first fabric flower. Loved how it turned out and will definitely make more!! I also made this for the Camp Paradise challenge going on at Croppin Paradise to use a song title on my layout. I just googled the word window and this one worked perfect for my layout.
I used a sketch #112 from Creative Scrappers for this little pumpkins layout. I combined it with another Camp Paradise challenge to use a cardstock base, 3 different embellies (one had to be bling) and 2 handmade flowers.

For my Leavenworth layout (which is the name of the town we visited), I used the sketch for this week at Nuts About Sketches (By the way, there is a DT call going on right now for it, go check it out!! Shawn has some awesome sketches every week.) I also combined it with another Camp Paradise challenge. I used ribbon, ink, an envelope and made some embellies.

Nuts About Sketches

2010-07-13T14:38:00.000-07:00

Week 117-I really like the way this one turned out of Haley at the train station for a friend's birthday party. Papers are October Afternoon and MME and I stamped some of the stars and punched some of them out.

Week 116-Not crazy about how this one turned out, but hey it's done and Haley likes it. Papers are Stampin' Up and the flowers were cut out from patterned paper.

June Layouts

2010-06-30T15:16:00.001-07:00

This one I used a sketch from Sketch Inspiration for this of the first time we went and cut down our Christmas tree. Yes, it looks more like a Charlie Brown Christmas tree, but it was definitely worth the experience!!

This one I used a sketch from Scrapbookdeals4U of the first day of snow in '06!

This one I used a sketch that was posted over at Memorable Seasons, I just rotated it. I also submitted this one for Camp Rock week #3 over at Scrapbookdeals4U which was to use at least 3 pics, stars, and the title of a Lady Gaga song (I had to look that one up!!)

This one was for Scrapbookdeals4U week #2 of Camp Rock. The rules were to use the title Forever Young or Young Forever, at least 2 pics (having to do with something being young-I thought Tyler and Ryan throwing snowballs definitely qualified), and you had to use a sketch from the May or June Pagemaps.

This one was from Camp Rock week#4 which was to use a picture of a prince or princess (this picture of Haley in the "princess" chair was perfect for it), prince or princess in your title (with a prominent letter P), a lot of pink or purple, petals (flowers) or pinwheels, polka dots or paisley, pleats or pearls, and paint or punches (I painted the crown chipboard and added glitter). I also used a sketch from the Scrappiest.

Chelan County Fair

2010-06-29T20:48:00.000-07:00

Here's another one from the county fair, this one of Tyler though. I used a sketch #68 from The Scrappiest and also a challenge at ScrapbookDeals4U to make your own scalloped circle. I love the way this one turned out!

Nuts About Sketches #115

2010-06-29T20:42:00.000-07:00

My take on this week's sketch. Pics are Haley at the Chelan County Fair. She loved the horses but not so much the cows. Just too big and up close for her, I think! And of course the kettle corn was a big hit. I also combined this sketch with a challenge over at Scrapbook Deals4U to use the colors green, pink, yellow, and blue.

Nuts About Sketches #114

2010-06-25T07:29:00.000-07:00

This is from the sketch from Nuts About Sketches for this week. I just used the right side of the sketch and rotated it. I also entered this one for the LSS contest at Memorable Seasons
The theme was "An American Child" and you had to use stars and stripes on your LO so that's why I went for the Made in USA title. All of the stars are either punched out or stamped and the big star I just traced. Loved getting so many pics on there!!

Camp Rock

2010-06-15T15:55:00.000-07:00

So there is this fun contest going on over at Scrapbook Deals 4 U right now and it's not too late to join in! The theme is Camp Rock and each week there is a different challenge and different ways to earn points. Challenges go up on Friday and are due Tuesday night so go check it out!!

Nuts About Sketches #113

2010-06-15T15:51:00.000-07:00

My LO for this week, I just turned the sketch on the side. Pics are of Tyler at a friend's birthday party at the train station

2nd Annual Last Scrapper Standing Contest

2010-06-12T06:57:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow starts an awesome contest over at Memorable Seasons called the Last Scrapper Standing. Challenges will be given each week, LO's will be voted on and prizes given to the Last Scrapper Standing!! I played along last year and it was a lot of fun! It starts tomorrow so go check it out!!!

A couple of more and a win!!

2010-06-09T13:21:00.001-07:00

This was from the Let's Scrap sketch from this past week. This LO is actually for my mom for her scrapbook. We do 2 double-pagers for her twice a year. These pics are journaling are all about the 2nd half of 2009. Also, the exciting news is that I was the lucky winner for the sketch so I won a $25 gift certificate to Memorable Seasons! So excited!!!!

This one was for a challenge at Scrapbookdeals4U to use one picture of you, your favorite color, least favorite color, and your nickname. Well I couldn't find any recent ones so this one's from my 18th birthday. My favorite color is blue, least favorite is orange and my nickname is CareBear. I also used a sketch from Sketchy Thursdays. I had fun flicking the paint on my LO!!!

Just Play-Some summer pics of Haley at Grandma Piercy's house '06. I used a sketch from Let's Scrap

Nuts About Sketches LO's

2010-06-09T13:14:00.000-07:00

Week 111-Some Piercy family pics the weekend of Jill's graduation (no not her recent college graduation but her HS graduation!!)

This week's sketch #112-Some pics of us from a camping trip in Sept. '06

Growing Up

2010-05-26T15:15:00.001-07:00

This one's of Tyler the night before his first day of preschool (his 2nd year). Papers are Stampin' Up!, Scenic Route, and Bella Blvd. Embellies are Bella Blvd. and alphas are Scrap Within Reach. I used a sketch from Sketchy Thursdays

The Serendipity Show

2010-05-25T16:36:00.000-07:00

The challenge for this one was to use 3 ABC products and your title had to use any letter is for...

This was for the I Love Lucy challenge is scrap something you love, use a heart and a film strip

This was for the Happy Days challenge to use Happy Days as your title, a day of the week in your journaling, and a leather-like element on your page (my alphas were vinyl and leather-like) This sketch is from the sketch this week at Nuts About Sketches

For the Three's Company challenge your had to use 3 of everything:

pics, title, lines of journaling, paper, buttons, stickers, brads, chipboard, ribbon

This one was for the Brady Bunch challenge to use the 9 square grid like the Brady Bunch show used at the beginning of the show.

I was able to get in some scrappy time this past weekend and played along at the crop at Serendipity Scrapbooks. These are the LO's I got done. Woohoo!!

Nuts About Sketches LO's

2010-05-19T10:19:00.000-07:00

This week's sketch from Nuts About Sketches-It's title Lego Models and these are all pictures of models made out of legos when we went to LegoLand in '06

This one's a sketch from Let's Scrap-Haley having fun at the river at Uncle Lloyd's house

Nuts About Sketches #108-Haley pickin' some strawberries

Cricut Expression giveaway

2010-05-06T08:48:00.001-07:00

So if you have been eyeing the Cricut Expression (like I have!!!) then here's your chance to possibly win one. Go check out this blog Everyday Cricut. Here's the link:

www.cricutholiday.com

Layouts from April

2010-05-04T17:13:00.000-07:00

Nuts About Sketches sketch #106-Our trip to the Portland Children's Museum

Nuts About Sketches #105-Our trip to Uncle Lloyd's house is Oregon

Sketch is from Let's Scrap-Tyler and daddy on the riding lawn mower

Nuts About Sketches #104-Christmas time at Grandma's house

Sketch is from Sketch Inspiration-Haley playing in the fire engine costume

Just playing catch-up with some layouts from April. I think I used a sketch for all of them, it makes it so much easier!!

Cleaning Up

2010-04-06T17:23:00.000-07:00

Sydney's 3rd birthday

Tyler at the sand dunes, sketch is from My sketch world

Some rare pics of Ryan and I, sketch is from Inspired Blueprints

Haley playing at Confluence Park

Tyler and his Spiderman ice cream treat

Tyler's T-ball pictures

Tyler at the Portland Children's museum

Haley as the "snow princess"

Tyler playing at the park

I was going to put my stack of LO's away in their albums but realized I hadn't posted a bunch of them so here they are. So far I am up to 32 pages this year. I think I'm a little behind!

Nuts About Sketches #103

2010-04-06T17:18:00.000-07:00

Here's my take on this week's sketch at Nuts About Sketches. This one is of the kids doing some apple pickin'

Nuts About Sketches week 99

2010-03-09T18:47:00.000-08:00

This week's sketch #99

Here's my LO from the sketch. It's about Tyler having lots of water fun at Uncle Lloyd's house.

Nuts About Sketches #98

2010-03-02T09:07:00.001-08:00

Well this was my first week designing for Nuts About Sketches. Here is my take on sketch 98. So head on over, take a look, make a page, and then upload to the gallery!!

Yippee!!

2010-02-16T10:09:00.001-08:00

Ya'll know how much I LOVE sketches. Well, I just found out yesterday that I am going to be on the design team for Nuts About Sketches. I am super excited!! Go check it out!

Some new ones...

2010-02-15T16:15:00.001-08:00

This challenge from Apron Strings was to use at least 5 buttons and 5 brads.

This one is for the Apron Strings challenge to use at least 8 blossoms. I used a really LONG rub-on from Stampin' Up! and then put the blossoms on top of some of the flowers.

I originally was doing this for one of the Apron Strings challenges but I got a couple of them mixed up so this one didn't count but at least it's another page done!

I used a sketch from Nuts About Sketches for this one of Haley at the sand dunes.

I did this one today for the Aprong Strings challenge to use 2 frames, and one couldn't be around a picture. So the bottom two blue rectanges are the frames I've had for about 4 years! One I used for a pic and the other for journaling.

Eyelets!!!

2010-02-14T18:01:00.001-08:00

I only got one of the challenges done this week for the Aprong Strings challenges and it was to use at least 12 eyelets!!! I haven't used eyelets in ages and I barely made a dent in my eyelet stash! I did do quite a few other LO's this week but I will try posting them tomorrow since it's already dark and I haven't taken pics of them all yet!!

Apron Strings challenges

2010-02-07T19:17:00.000-08:00

For this challenge, you were to use 3 different ribbons. I ended up using 4 and a whole bunch of scraps!!

This challenge was to use some of your oldest papers. The orange and brown papers I bought about 4 years ago, so yippee!!

I found this new site, Apron Strings while blog hopping the other day. They are having some great challenges this month for their birthday. Each challenge is using something from your stash and has a sketch along with it. These are two that I got done this past week.

What's a girl to do??

2010-02-02T22:20:00.000-08:00

I saw this saying in a magazine and I thought it would be cute on a card so I made used scraps to make quilt squares, did faux stitching around the squares. Then I machine stitched through the ribbon.

I used a sketch from Pagemaps for this one. It looks like green in the picture but it's actually a turquoise color IRL. This LO is of the first day that I could fit Haley's hair into piggy tails.

I used mostly Scrap Within Reach stuff for this LO. This was Tyler's first time to go fishing and when they caught the fish and Ryan showed it to Tyler, the fish's tail slapped Tyler on the cheek. He wasn't too happy about it. That's why I chose to do the numbered sequence of events on the LO. I cut out the little fish, inked them, and used brads for eyes.

Ryan's out of town in sunny Las Vegas for a concrete convention so I am spending my nights scrapping away! Here are a couple projects I got done the last couple of days. Hopefully I can get some more done before he gets back!!

Some challenges

2010-01-27T13:32:00.000-08:00

This one I combined three challenges. I used a sketch from a sketch site I just found, Creative Scrappers. Also a challenge from Serendipity Scrapbooks to cut out 5 pieces from patterned paper and adhere with pop-dots which I did with the flowers. And then a challenge from Memorable Seasons to use a teeny tiny picture (less than 3x3) on your LO.

This one was from one of the daily challenges at Serendipity to use at least 15 of these type of circles and cover at least 8 inches of your LO with them.

Scrappy goal

2010-01-26T14:10:00.001-08:00

I used a sketch from Let's scrap

This one was a Page Maps sketch

This sketch was taken from Becky Higgin's sketch book

Two years ago I made a scrapbook goal to complete 52 pages in a year (one LO a week) and I did that. So last year I doubled my goal to do 100 pages in a year and I just counted them all up and I did 134 pages. It did really help going to the scrapbook retreat. However, my goal for this year is to do 150 pages. Eeeek!! That's about 3 pages a week or about 12 a month. But I really want to someday catch up so I am really going for it. Here are a couple I've done so far this year.

Haley's birthday invites

2009-12-04T13:27:00.000-08:00

Haley has a birthday coming up so these are the birthday invites we made for her party. Haley stamped all of the butterflies and Tyler helped cut out some of the butterflies.

Baby Face

2009-11-25T16:39:00.000-08:00

For this LO, I used a sketch from Creative Scrappers and played along with the Scrap the Girls challenge which was to use sky blue, strawberry red, white, and orange for a girl LO. I stitched around the edge but you can't really tell in the picture.

Scrapbook Retreat

2009-11-21T16:28:00.000-08:00

This one I used sketch #36 from 52sketches52weeks

Haley's messy mealtimes

This was my first attempt at using paint on a LO. Pretty fun actually! Family pictures while visiting Cali

I used sketch 122 from let's scrap

I made this page before I had the pics and I thought they were taken in the spring but it was actually the summer. Oh well!

I used sketch 108 from let's scrap

Haley's first time at Lego Land

Tyler and the fire trucks at Lego Land

Haley asleep in the highchair

I think this one was a sketch from CK magazine

Kim and Justin's graduation

I used sketch 126 from let's scrap

Baily and Jordan-crazy kids-need I say more?

Haley's first easter egg hunt

This one is sketch 102 from let's scrap

Tyler at the roller rink

I used letsscrap#4 sketch

Haley's first time roller skating

I used sketch 115 from let's scrap

Tyler's birthday presents from his 4th birthday

I used sketch 118 from let's scrap

Tyler's first t-ball season

I used sketch 114 from let's scrap

Tyler's easter egg hunt

This one was sketch nsd3 from let's scrap

Our trip to the tulip festival

This one I used sketch 105 from let's scrap

Outtakes from our Christmas pics-2005

This one I used sketch BB3 from let's scrap

Tyler's foam fun at preschool

I used a sketch from a CK magazine

Little baby Ryder, who is no longer a little baby!

This one I used sketch 113 from let's scrap

Tyler as the master fortmaker

This one I used sketch 109 from let's scrap

A little hike around Anacortes with Jennette and Keith

This one I used Let's scrap sketch #110

Haley, just happy after bath time

Here are my pages I made last weekend at my first scrapbook retreat. Which was so fun, by the way and I got 30 pages done!!! As you can see, I printed off a bunch of sketches before I left to help me get things done quicker. A couple of my friends brought their cricuts and I got to use them for a few of my titles. Okay, that's on my wish list!!