Preschool Layout - Girl - Sketch Challenge

Hello again, everyone!  I'm so excited to share this page with you today.  I recently became a member of this scrapping community called Let's Scrap, but I'm new to the site and don't know how to navigate it yet. But they had this great sketch this week that I decided to use to create my daughter's 1st day of Preschool page.  I wanted to use some bright colors to match the theme and her personality.  I used some pre made embellishments that I had and decided to make my own embellishment as a journaling block.  I will explain more after I show the pictures.  I had first made the layout without pictures.  When I started printing the pictures to go on the layout, I had more than I had originally thought, so it worked to create the mini photo banner at the bottom of the left page.  Finally, when I thought I was done, I felt it still needed something, so I added buttons on the top border.  So here are the pictures...

I'm in love with my little embellishment.  It started out as a scrap of white paper.  I then punched one side with my EK success punch.  I drew the blue lines and the red line to make it look like a paper and corner rounded the other two sides.  I added the super cute brads that my friend had given me and wrote in the information under it.  I then used pop dots (of course, lol!) and added it to my layout.

Here's the original sketch

Here's the completed two page layout

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Let's Scrap Sketch Challenge - 11-2

Whimsical Wednesdays - Anything Goes

I hope you liked my layout.  

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Twinkle Toes Layout

Hello everyone!  Back and ready to show you a super cute layout of my little dancer.  Funny enough, this layout started out because Frosted Designs had a really fun "recipe" challenge last week.  Unfortunately, in my busy schedule, I forgot the deadline and missed it.  But I was glad for the inspiration.  You needed to use at least 4 of these items:

1. The color yellow
2. Ribbon or lace
3. Chipboard
4. Flowers
5. Misting or inks
6. Buttons
7. Stickers
8. Rub ons

The yellow was really what kicked everything off, because I instantly  thought of my daughter's ballet outfit and I needed to scrap her first dance class, so it was perfect.  I went to Sassy Lil' Sketches for some more inspiration and I found a layout that worked for the right side of my layout.  The rest came together pretty easily.  I found this striped paper that I've had for a while, but it was bright and girly and just what I wanted to make the pictures and cutout pop.  I knew I was going to use the Twinkle Toes cartridge and I decided to use that phrase as part of the title.  I also wanted to include that it was her first dance class, so I went to my chipboard letter stash and found the perfect pink ones that complimented the layout well.  I hand wrote the "1st" and "class".  I added flowers and buttons and ribbon, too.  So I ended up using 5 of the supplies on the list.  I must say, it was a fun challenge incorporating all of these things!  

Here's the layout and all of the details...

I had this little chipboard saying in my stash and it worked great next to my little dancer cutout.

But I have to show you guys the best part of the whole thing, my daughter was up at 2am scrapping with me!  Just like at her, you wouldn't think it was 2am, more like 2pm, but I guess, like mother, like daughter!  

I'm linking this up to:

 and ScrapFit for a bright and bold layout.
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Back to School Again and Twinkle Toes

Hello everyone!  I've been away on vacation and now I'm back to school as our new school year started this week, so my life will become even more hectic (again!).  Both my kiddos had milestone first days of school and I welcomed a new set of 8th graders.  But with all that good news, I'm also dealing with an upsetting situation as my house was burglarized this week and they took my Macbook and my iPad, among other things, and it's really hindered my life in lots of ways.  With all this in mind, my posting here on my blog has and will surely slow down.  But I'm going to try to keep posting, my goal is to try 3 times a week, but we'll see how things go!  Thank you to all who have left comments on my previous posts, they make me smile and let me know that there are people out there reading this thing! LOL!

So today I have a quick post of some back to school little crafts I made for my sister and friend.  I saw this idea in a magazine and I wanted to try it.  So I found some cute graphics to go along with each person's theme/personality and I created a header on Word.  I then made tons of copies, cut them and created personalized notepads.  I used chipboard for the back and I covered it with patterned paper and some embellishments.  Look how cute they came out...

I also had to personalize and scrap my planner for this year...

Finally, I took my daughter to her first ever dance class as a trial.  She didn't have any dance clothes so I decided to make her a shirt and bow to wear for her first class.  Here is what I created...

Of course she had to also have a bow to match, so I made this one...

OMG, I just realized that I lost those pictures, too, with the rest of my over 700 pictures from my summer.  How sad, I can't even scrap them.  I'm so mad ><

Anyways, my birthday is this weekend and I hope things turn around for me (if the hurricane heading in our direction doesn't ruin it)!  Here's hoping for sunny days ahead!

I hope I'm able to scrap this weekend and have something to share, so be sure to check back!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hello Cutie Layout using Hello Kitty Font

Hello everyone!  I won't be around all of next week but I wanted to share one more layout before I go.  There was one more layout at Sassy Lil' Sketches that I wanted to try and I had two great pictures of Sofi laying around my scrap table so tonight when a couple friends came over to scrapbook, I decided to get the layout done.  I went into a really old DCWV Spring Stack and it had a great paper that worked great with the photos.  I especially love how bright and cheery the colors were.  Now in the sketch it had the title somewhere else, but I don't deal well with blank spaces so I decided to fill it up and put the title there instead.  I used the Hello Kitty Font cartridge to create the title using shadow, silhouette and both types of font on there.  I also alternated the colors in the title.  The Hello Kitty embellishments are from another old chipboard pack I had that I hadn't used and what better time than this!  I've also been dying to try the paper rosette technique and I did on this layout (at the bottom where I put the Hello Kitty).  I love how it all came together.  Take a look...

Here is the sketch I followed...

Some close ups...

Title is of course scrapped, stickled and popped! LOL!

The cutest part about this is that when my daughter saw the page, she ran and found the Hello Kitty and came riding her little car with the Hello Kitty in the front and said "Look Mama, like the picture!".  She is just the cutest!

I hope you like the layout!

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Drama Queen Layout

Hello everyone!  As promised, I have another layout to share with some more funny photos.  First I have to tell you the back story.   Since my daughter was a baby, I knew that she was going to be a drama queen.  I've never seen tears come out so quickly on anyone!  Now, the funny part is, she would really only cry when she heard the word "No!".  She would fall and be ok, but hearing the word "No!" would have her in tears in an instant.  On one of those occasions, I had my camera handy and I captured the whole sequence (which all happened in about 10 seconds) of her playing, hearing the word "no" and the resulting tears and drama because I knew I had to scrapbook it!  So here is this layout titled "The Makings of a Drama Queen" with the whole sequence...Enjoy!

I used a lot of different fonts to create the title:

Opposites Attract, Alphalicious, Don Juan and Gypsy Wanderings

The photo mat was created using a Martha Steward all around the page punch.  I added a bling crown to her head and more "drama"...

Here's the 2 page layout together...

I hope you like the layout!  Thanks for stopping by!

Snip Snip Layout and Fun News

I'm almost done with that album!  Only 2 more layouts to go!  Here is another layout for my daughter's album, this one of my daughter's first haircut.  I had a ton of pictures so 8 made the cut for this layout.  To add a little visual interest and to go along with the theme, I decided to cut the patterned paper into uneven strips on the left side of the page.  The scissors are from Happily Ever After (disney princesses cartridge) and the title is from All Mixed Up (which I haven't used in a while, I must admit).  On the bottom right of the layout, I scaled down and made a copy of the actual certificate that the haircut place gave her and added the little bag of her hair that they had put on the certificate.  I put the "before" shot on the left and the "after" shot on the right.  So here it is...

Here's a close up of the title...

I'm excited because I will be tomorrow's guest designer on Whimsical Wednesdays!  So in about 12 hours I will be debuting my layout for their Whimsical Wednesday Challenge, but you have to check back then to see it!

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Look Whoo's Walking Layout

Hello everyone!  As I continue to try to finish my daughter's first year, volume 2 scrapbook, here's another layout of an important milestone - learning to walk!  I had this adorable paper with the cutest owls ever and I wanted to use it so I made sure my title brought this all together.  The title is from Lyrical Letters and A Child's Year.  The footprints are from New Arrival.  I love the fun colors and how it all came together.  Take a look...

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I hope to finish a layout tonight to share tomorrow, so be sure to stop by then!

The Toddler Princess Layout

Hello everyone!  A quick post today...As I'm finishing my daughter's first year, volume 2, album I decided to take this layout that I had started a while back and use it in her next scrapbook as the opening page.  However, it needed more so I found another picture of her at 2 and then decided to create a title for the page, which is from Alphalicious.  You might not be able to tell from the photo, but I handwrote "the" in cursive in black above "Toddler Years" which is shadowed and welded.  I love that her next album has a title page and how cute this turned out!

Thanks for stopping by!  More to come tomorrow so be sure to come back!

Little Princess/You & Me Layouts

Hello all!  I'm in the process of filling in the empty pages of my daughter's 1st year - volume 2 scrapbook.  I'm excited because I'm 4 double page layouts away from completing it!  Hopefully I can finish in the next 2 weeks.  Today I have two layouts to share.  First one is from a cute paper line I had found in Michael's.  I used pictures of her when she turned one.  The heart is my favorite cut from the doodlecharms cartridge.   Here is the layout...

This other layout is a scraplift of a layout I had saved in my layouts I love folder that I was able to recreate quickly when I found the same papers.  I wanted a picture of me and my sweet girl which I added today, take a look...

Thanks for stopping by!  I have more to share tomorrow, so be sure to stop by!