What Our Summer Looks Like - SWAT Design Team

This week's challenge over at SWAT was to scrap about our summer. This layout definitely pinpoints what most of my summer was about. The girls and their friends! They spent their whole vacation together. Our place. Their place. Our pool. Their jungle gym. Makeup. Dress up. Playing Mommy. They sure had a great time!

Make sure you link up with SWAT if you take on this challenge. We'd love to see what you come up with!

I used a sketch from My Scraps & More. thanks for the inspiration!

Papers: Studio Calico (South of Market), Echo Park (Capture Life)
 Printable: The Cut Shoppe
Letters: Echo Park (Capture Life) and Lily Bee
Sticker: Echo Park (Capture Life)

Things I Like In 2014

I apologize for the wonky look of this blog post, Blogger hates me today...

Hello everyone! My pals Erin and JJ are on the DT for this cool challenge blog called Challenge YOUrself. It's a scrapbooking blog that challenges you to create layouts with YOU in the photo! Great concept, right? We tend to forget about ourselves. I promised my friends I'd take part in the challenges :)

This month, they have a colour challenge. Here's the awesome colour combo: 

And here is my interpretation. I was hoping the plum would show up more (splatters), but it still works.

Thank you so much for dropping by!

16 March 2011

Hello again everyone! Today, I'm sharing a very simple layout that I absolutely love. That picture of Zoey when she was barely 10 days-old is awww-inducing, isn't it? I can't believe I hadn't scrapbooked it yet!

I started with sketch #401 from Scrapbook Challenges, turned it on it's side, and reduced the quantity of squares. I was going to use 9 squares, but as I was going through my stash (I'm trying to use up what I have before I buy anything else!), I found this old Jillibean Soup kraft journaling tag that I absolutely wanted to use. So I made it work.

Supplies:
Papers, button, and sticker: My Mind's Eye
Journaling tag: Jillibean Soup
Tag: Maya Road
Numbers: American Crafts
Border sticker: Basic Grey
Twine: The Twinery

Castle

Good afternoon everybody! 

Today, I'm sharing this layout with you. The picture is from last year. The girls were so proud of this castle they collaborated on!

I started with the July sketch from The Memory Nest. Leslie from TMN has been a loyal commentor on my blog and I appreciate every single one of her comments! I'm glad to finally be participating in one of her challenges!

I also joined in the "Let's Go Shopping" challenge over at Scrap Our Stash. They offered a list of scrap items from which I had to choose 5+ and use them on my layout. Here is what I chose: 

-washi tape (I especially love how it looks on the wood veneer embellishment)

-striped paper (all papers here are Imaginisce)

-buttons

-dimentional sticker

-wood veneer

-die-cut (sunshine, matted and pop dotted)

-rub-on (butterflies)

It was nice to make a small dent in my stash!

28 Weeks, You Say?

Good morning everyone! For my layout today, I used pictures from years ago when I was pregnant with Zoey. The one of Kira makes me chuckle every time, I had to get it on paper.

I used an old Rouge de Garance paper as my background. The lines and turquoise colour were already there; the rest are rub-ons and stamps. 

I liked the challenge over at Once Upon a Sketch. There was a sketch as well as a journaling theme: numbers. Simple enough- choose a number and center your journaling around that. Here's the end result:

Emiant et autres mots

Good afternoon everybody! Today is a special post for me because I'm introducing new flair from my awesome pal Isabelle. It worked perfectly for this layout.

In case you didn't know, my family is bilingual (french/english). These are a few of the adorably-wrong words my daughter says at three years old.

I used the June sketch from My Creative Sketches. I'm too much of a perfectionist, the triangles took forever to measure and cut out! But I like the end result.

Papers are Elle's Studio. Thanks for looking!

You Know How to Have Fun

Hello everybody! Today I'm sharing a fun layout I made with Scrapbook Circle 's June kit, Hello There. I love the background paper with the hexagons!

The kit came with a pack of  BasicGrey die-cuts and transparencies. For some reason, I don't use these types of embellishments very much. One here and there, but surely not enough to buy a whole pack. So I thought it would be wasted on me. When I saw the challenge over at Child's Play Challenges, I knew what to do. The challenge is to be inspired by the classic game Colorforms. The toy I linked seems to be vinyl; the one I had when I was little was felt. It was random shapes that you'd place on a board to create a scene.

When I saw the challenge, I was inspired to use the different-shaped die-cuts on my layout. And I used a LOT! I'm really, really happy how this turned out. Thanks for having a look!