Catching Up

I am so far behind in my goal for this year. Truthfully, I am about 18 layouts behind - ack!! I am really determined to reach this goal so I am forcing myself to get into my scraproom. Here are my two latest:

I am so in love with the Road Show collection from Fancy Pants! This one is Moe and I at the Riverwalk last October. It was a wonderful, much needed, day out!



On that day, we also went to Mission San Jose. Here are a couple of the photos from that visit.



Man, that place was just beautiful and there was a young, Mexican girl there that was getting married. I so badly wanted to take her photo because it was like stepping back in time seeing a dark skinned girl with this gorgeous white gown with the mission as her backdrop. I wonder if my daughter might get married there? Hmmm...

Anyway, this layout was once again created using the Swirlydoos kit "Antebellum Beauty". I have created 5 or 6 layouts with this kit and I have NEVER done that before! Krissy really rocked this one if you ask me (not that she doesn't always, lol).

A Scrappy Day

I finally got motivated to go into my scraproom today. The first layout I did was of Kevin and Moe at The Tower of the Americas in San Antonio:



The second one I did was of Kevin and Levi hugging when Levi visited us in Florida last summer. I sure miss that little guy!

Anyway, it is made using the Swirlydoos kit from June - Antebellum Beauty. If you haven't figured it out yet - I REALLY loved that kit, lol!!

This layout is also based on a sketch by Beggahuna and you can see it here:

Beggahuna Sketch

A Day at the Tea Garden:

By far, the tea gardens are my most favorite place to take photos! I have hundreds and hundreds of them from there and can't wait to keep going back to take more.

Anyway, here is another layout I made last night of our day spent at the gardens last week:



I used the Fancy Pants 'Road Show' papers and tons of Prima flowers!

Yipee!

The layout I did called "Siblings" was named Layout of the Week at Swirlydoos this week and the very same layout won the Memorial Day Layout Contest over at Scrap Play! How exciting is that, huh?

Scrapped Again Last Night

It was a rough night last night being the 2nd anniversary of Kevin being wounded, so I retreated to my scraproom and got a few things done.

The first layout is designed using the Swirlydoos kit again. I so loved this kit! It also follows the sketch that Beggahuna puts out for them each month. It is Kevin and I at the tea gardens last November.


This one is Moe and I at Vegas a few years back. I had a blast playing with paint and glimmer mists on this one. It's simple, but I still like it.


And this is a journal I have started. Since I am becoming a grandmother, I have decided to create an art journal full of tips and ideas for my daughter to help her raise her children. This is the first project I have ever sewed and I have Donna Downey to thank! She is one of my inspiration gurus, lol.


This last is the first page of my journal. It sucks. I wasn't going to put it on here, but I am hoping that, through time, I get better and it becomes obvious, lol.

Another One

I mentioned last night that I had another layout and here it is:



Lucy Edson did a tutorial over at
The Color Room on using the photo frames in PS Elements. I grabbed a photo of Breezy and Chris and I just love how it turned out.

This layout was also done using my Swirlydoos kit. I added some small mosaic tiles around the photo to add some dimension as well as the Dusty Attic embellies.

If you haven't noticed yet, I am a simple scrapper, lol. I wish I could be more eclectic, but I always end up with something straight and clean.

Anyway, I do hope to scrap more today so we shall see...

So Long...

I haven't scrapped in so long. I just haven't felt inspired in the least to do anything in my scraproom. But the other day I got my Swirlydoos kit in the mail and finally - FINALLY - something made me want to scrap! This kit is just gorgeous and it is so my style.

I actually designed two layouts today, but it was dark by the time I finished the second so I don't have a photo of it yet. Here though, is Breezy and Kevin as we were heading to the stage for Kevin's Purple Heart Ceremony:



This photo was taken by Rebecca Droke of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and is one of my all time favorites.

So this layout is the first time I have ever used Dusty Attic products. I AM IN LOVE! I took the border that is along the bottom of the photo and painted it green first, then dabbed some copper over that and topped it off randomly with some Tim Holtz "Frayed Burlap" distress ink. You can't really see the effect, but it looks great in real life.

This second layout is one I did back when we first got here, but I never uploaded it. Honestly, I don't like it. I imagine I am going to end up either adding to it or starting over. I just think it's top heavy, but I can't find anything in my stuff to throw on the bottom. If I were home it would be different, but I am very limited here in Texas.

So anyway, here it is:



This is my niece, Christina, back when she was younger.

Tomorrow I will add the other layout I did today and who knows...maybe I will even do more before uploading :)