Design Dollies Elements Challenge

The Elements Challenge over at Design Dollies is a recipe this week: baby blue, ink, masking, word print paper, and stripes. Whoah, talk about a challenge! I started with the mask, which you can just see on the blue paper. It's a fleur de lis, and I couldn't get it all in, but it's really pretty. Then I got out the word print paper. I wanted a vintagey...

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Sketchy Thursdays

Before I start with this layout, I just wanted to let everyone know that I made it into the Winner's Circle at SPCC for my last layout! Yay, I love getting recognition for a job well done! Thanks to everyone at SPCC for showing me some love!This layout showcases photos from the same day as my last post. My husband entered a cross country bike race,...

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Little Dude

SPCC colours this week are Marina Blue, Crumb Cake and Whisper White, so I matched them up best I could with CTMH's colours: Indian Corn Blue, Desert Sand, and White Daisy. Then I used the sketch from Design Dollies, flipped it and tilted it some, added a circle. Anyway, it was really fun to make this one because I used a bunch of things I've never...

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Layout #47 - P.K.

Do you ever think back to the time before you had kids and think, "Hey, I did some pretty cool things!" Well, this layout is titled "P.K." which stands for Pre-Kids, and it shows one of the adventures we had with a group of friends one December. There's a little cabin in the mountains near where we grew up that's first come, first serve, and a group...

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Design Dollies & JUGS

This photo was taken 5 and a half years ago, and I always liked it, but it never got scrapped. It shows my little guy snuggled up with a blanket in the baby car seat we'd bought in preparation for the impending arrival of his first sibling. He was always so active and intense (still is!) that we could never get a reprieve, and so we finally let him...

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So You Think You Can Scrap!

I did most of this layout during commercials of Wednesday's episode of "So You Think You Can Dance". It was quite the challenge, and I almost finished the whole page, but it needed some fine-tuning and I didn't actually get it done until this morning. (Incidentally, I'm kind of disappointed with the show this season. It's kind of got that "been-there-done-that"...

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Usually I'm pretty modest, but...

...I just think this layout is so awesome! I love the colours, the shine, and the paisley chipboard water droplets, and I especially love the painted and stamped journaling block. The Design Dollies elements challenge this week is to use a song title in your project, so I wracked my brain, and finally stamped my U2 song in black Staz-on onto my...

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Blackmail!

I just finished reorganizing all of my photos in chronological order from my birth until now, and when I came across these two, I kept them aside because I knew I wanted to make a page with them soon. Aren't they just hilarious? This is so typical of my impulsive boy. If he needs to go pee, he's been known to just whip it out and do it right there....

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Hey, remember when I posted this?

Well, I won the Design Dollies June challenge! I am so over the moon!!!!!! They are sending me a prize package and everything! How cool is that? If you've never tried a Design Dollies challenge, you just have to, because they are so unique and a lot of fun! Thanks, Dollies, I love you!...

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First Gymkhana with Woops-a-Daisy

Hey, everybody, I'm back from my little holiday, and it was very nice to get away and spend time with family, eat like crap, and not do any housework! Now that Nolan's off school, though, it seems like I'm constantly breaking up fights - it took me a whole week to do this layout! Well, it does have a lot of special extras, like machine stitching, a...

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