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I have been playing with my Silhouette designer program.

If you would like a copy of this file, just click here!  

If you use it, let me know.  I'm going to be playing with it shortly and I'll show you what I've done with it.

 I suppose that I should attempt to get some sleep, but I had one of those "Aha!" moments as I was drifting off to sleep and I knew that I should just do this before it was too late.

  I'm planning on sharing a lot more files as I create them.  So keep an eye out!

More scrapping!

I spent yesterday kind of re-doing my scrap area, and I had so much fun doing it.  Today I actually sat down and made a very quick layout that I think I might love!

 I came across a photo of my daughter and my ex-husband hugging at her High School graduation. It made me so happy to see the smiles on their faces.  (Yes I'm divorced, but anything that makes my kids happy makes me happy, even if I'm not married to him any longer.)

 

 

I used a Kelly Purkey stamp in the lower right of the page, and I wrapped an I-top brad with some washi just above the photo.  I wanted to draw the eye to the photo with some washi, but I didn't want to use the washi in ways that I've already seen. I also glued down some of the Lawn Fawn Lawn Trimming hemp cord.

  I sprayed the background with heirloom blue Mister Huey's.I also trimmed around the happy day speech bubble from Simple Stories. 

  Thank you for taking the time to look!  Have a lovely day.   I'll post another page tomorrow!

What is this tree?

  I took this photo last summer, and I see this tree all over, but I have NO idea what kind of tree it is!  It doesn't matter because I love this tree.  Every time I see it, I feel happy inside.  I think that it would fit in if it were in Whoville!

Riding Lessons

This layout is from one of Shimelles Sketch to Scrapbook page challenges.


 She used a large photo as the base for the layout.I didn't have any photos larger than 4x6 laying around so I ordered my photos for this page from Persnickety Prints last week Friday.  I had them in my hot hands today!  I'm thrilled with the fast service, and the quality of the prints was excellent.  Next time I decide to do something like this, I'm going to plan ahead and order more than I did this time, but I truly wanted to see what the quality was like, and I'm sold.  I'll be a long term customer of these guys.

This went together so quickly.  I just trimmed down the photo slightly so that I could place it on that white wood grain paper. The little photos got matted on the yellow paper, and I left the frames around the photos, but still trimmed that part down a bit. 

  This was so much fun to do! I'll pay attention to other photos in the future so that I can do this again. 
 
  I have a photo that I took in Florida that I'd like to blow up and do this again.   My brain is whirring away now!

  Good night, and have a good day tomorrow!  I have more layouts to put up!

Not Quite Smurfs

  I'm getting more time ( well, I'm getting more organized) to start posting more pages.  I think that I can say that my style is definitely growing.  Although yesterday and parts of today I've been working on a one page layout.  I need to add the title, and I just can't think of a one.  So far it's one of my favorite pages so far.  Although each time I walk by I think, "hmmm lets add some butterflies, or stickers, or brads..."  I suppose that I should call it done and go to work on the other projects that I have waiting for me. 

I'm really enjoying the layered style like Shimelle. I've taken a couple classes from her and I would definitely say that I'm more confident about where my style is taking me.
 
  Anyway, here's another page that I've recently done.  I've titled it "Not Quite Smurfs".  Around Christmas my friend Mike and I went to a Christmas concert by Mark Schultz at church.  It was called "What do you give a king?", and it was just wonderful. I love Mark so much after seeing this concert, I'm definitely putting his stuff on my want list from iTunes.

 Bye the way, we aren't blue due to editing, there was a blue light lighting up the audience, and when we took pictures of ourselves, we discovered that we were Smurf blue.  

  Check back again in a couple more days, I'll definitely have more pages to put up!

Hi Mr. Alligator

I used Cosmo Cricket as my base on this layout, and various other pages from my stash.  I'll admit that this layout brought out my love for Heidi Swapp's Color Shine.  I used Chartreuse on the arrows and the I want to remember sign.  I used Sweet Cherry on the other arrows. 

  This is from my trip to Florida last month.  It was a great trip and I have so many fond memories from my time there, but I was glad to get home too.

Last Layout of 2012

Indoor Skydiving

I made this layout with a couple photos that I got from my trip to Cocoa Beach.  I went to this place with Lorie and Joe, Lorie and I flew and Joe cheered us on from the observation room. This was definitely one of my bucket list items, and now that I've done this, I most definitely would do an actual skydive. iFly Orlando

Anyway, back to my layout, this was my version of the Studio Calico Sunday Sketch.  I really had fun with this, the only thing that I wish that I had done was to mat the photos.

 I had way too much fun using my stamps that I got in one of the Studio Calico kits recently.  I used the solid and outline, and also used some of the very fun vellum arrows that were in a kit too.  To get the outline stamp to look white inside I used my Sharpie white poster pen on the inside. 

 I traced most of embellishments with my 05 black pen.

 The super cute tag was made by running it through my cameo.  I cut out the iFLY on the bottom of the tag, and then used pop dots to attach the blue layer beneath.  Then I cut the flyer logo out of red paper.  The "This is how I roll" stamp was from Kelly Purkey and can be found here.  I think that it's so much fun to find new ways to use it!

That's it!  I hope that you are having a marvy new year! Thanks for stopping by!