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The winner of the $15 a2z Scrapbooking Gift Certificate  is Buffy Esser who said, " What a fun page and memory, Love the papers you used the colors are fabulous!"

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Oh I am so excited!!! My favorite challenges are ones that let me use up my stash! And today at Lasting Memories Challenge we are doing just that!

I love when I have a chance to do a girly girl page. With two boys those opportunities don't happen often. And getting to use up some of my stash makes it even better! And everything here has been sitting around for ages! So I had fun today:) This is for a friend, it's her daughter and granddaughter.

Supplies:
Cardstock and Paper: Girls Paperie Paper Girl, Cor'dinations Meadow,  Bazzill
Lace: Offray (I added the jewels), My Mind's Eye
Flower and Pin: Webster's Pages Winter Fairy Tales
Pearl Swirl: Zva Creative
Jewlels: Michaels
Dies: Spellbinders Scalloped Hearts, Cheery Lynn Sophie's Heart, MFT Mini Dollies
Flowers: Petaloo and Stash

Challenges:
Simply Create Too! Use your stash. (Everything was from my stash)
Happy Camper: Flower Power

Take the time to Smile and enjoy life this week! I am looking forward to seeing what you can do with your stash!

Lasting Memories Challenge:Green/ Happy St Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day! We're an Irish American town with Shamrocks as our Mascot, so St. Patricks' Day is a big deal around here:) And Scott, my adopted son is of Irish Heritage so we always make a special Irish Dinner today to celebrate his heritage.

And in the tradition of the Irish, Lasting Memories' Challenge this week is GREEN. And my layout is of James High School Graduation. A friend of mine is a DJ and she DJ'd  James party as her graduation gift to him. Isn't that awesome? An how James loved his "air guitar" LOL

Supplies:
Cardstock and Paper: Core'dinations Super Assortment Roy G. Biv8.5 x11, Stash
Alphabet: American Crafts Thickers Delight, Doodlebug Teensy Type
Musical Notes Stickers: Stash
Dies: Spellbinders Standard Circle


Have a magical week filled with the "Luck of the Irish!"

Lasting Memories Challenge-Double Take

 Thank you for all of the awesome entries in last week's challenge! It was amazing:)

For this week's challenge at Lasting Memories we're asking you to use the same photo twice on your layout. Some of the DT have projects have identical photos, some have the same subject from different angles and Denise has an awesome reflection photo that she played with. I used the same photo to create a 3D image.

Use of Double Take: Sometimes its hard to see the key person in a busy photo. A great trick is to cut out the person and place it on top of the original with foam tape. In this case I actually used three photos to help it pop in the layout photo for the blog.(The arrow points it out) I used the arrow because one picture was of my son's back, but the other was of his face.  And that grimace is a familiar face in Rugby! Rugby is not for faint of heart mothers, lol. It's really a lot like football without the protective gear.


Supplies:
Cardstock and Paper: Stash
Alphabet: American Crafts
Dies; Spellbinders Stars, Papertrey Arrows
Washi Tape: Freckled Fawn, Queen's Company

Tips: 

1.  Originally I used the washi tape directly on the green cardstock and it was lost. I then added a piece of white scrap cardstock and added the washi tape on top of it. It really made it pop!

2.   To make the stars I put strips of washi tape on scrap cardstock and then used my Sizzix to cut out the stars. Using the washi tape was a great solution to not having the right patterned paper.



Looking forward to seeing your double takes!

Lasting Memories-A Summer's End

This week at Lasting Memories we are celebrating the end of summer, and we would like you to show off what you do to end summer. With the boys both in college one of our rituals is returning to college. My layout is from when we took James to Purdue last year to start his college career. So here's a peek into the incredibly small dorm rooms at Purdue. And it is much smaller than my dorm room was the University of Michigan!

Journaling: Now is the time to discover your wings! They'll take you to the places that allow you to become the special person you were born to be.

Supplies:
Scrapbook Kit: Sports Solution
Paper and Cardstock: DCWV. Frances Meyer, Hero Arts Watercolor Paper
Alphabet: K and Company
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Dies: Spellbinders Label 14


Here's the sketch I used:
Creative Scrappers 221

GIVEAWAY REMINDER: Don't forget about our giveaway this mth! One lucky winner will win a copy of MMS V3! Link up your creation, winner announced next week!!
Don't forget, we're also still looking for a Guest DT for Sept too!!! Be sure to add GDT with your name/link if you're interested!! Guest DT for Sept announced next week as well!  
Challenges:
 Lasting Memories-A Summer's End
Creative Scrappers 221
Pile It On- I Spy Something Starting with P- PURDUE

I can't wait to see how you celebrate the end of summer!

Christmas Stocking Gift Card Hold

I needed a couple of masculine Christmas Gift Card holders so I used these directionsWhiff of Joy Christmas Stocking  and adapted it. There is also a pattern with the directions. Thanks Katharina!

                                                                           FRONT

 

BACK

Supplies:

Paper and Embellishments: American Crafts Holly Days

Velcro Circle Enclosure

Die: Spellbinders Large Labels (Just used the edge to make a place for the gift card.

Card Two:

FRONT

BACK

Supplies:

Paper and Embellishments: American Crafts Holly Days

Velcro Circle Enclosure

Prima Flowers

Die: Spellbinders Large Labels (Just used the edge to make a place for the gift card.

Have a day filled with Christmas Stocking goodies!

Grandma's Lil' Bug Layout

Sadly Scott met his maternal Grandmother during the funeral of his Great Grandmother. We tried to get to her before she died but she was more than 500 miles a way and she died before we could get the car packed.

 Scott was 2 months early so he was small, plus a side effect of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is small size. And he continues to struggle with being small 20 years later. This picture is of Scott and Grandma meeting for the first time. The first thing she said, "Oh my goodness you are such a cute lil' bug!"

Unfortunately Grandma has also died from diabetes complications.  So this picture is extra special to Scott.

Journaling: Meeting Grandma for the first time/ Because you were so tiny she called you her "little bug".

Supplies:
 Paper and Cardstock: Echo Park Country Drive, Bazzill Swiss Dot, Thick tan mulberry paper, thick white mulberry paper, red and black velvet paper,
Embellishments: Cartworkcards Patchwork Candi, Bakers Twine, Echo Park Country Drive Stickers, Dress it Up Ladybug Embellishments
Spellbinders: Nested Lacey Pennants

Challenges: Sassy Lil' Sketches August 4

Paper Variety Favorite Paper Company (Use your favorite Paper Company. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Echo Park

Tomorrow I have the great honor of hosting a challenge for Operation Write Home at 6:00 pm EST. I have blog candy, so be sure to check back!

Wishing the west an end to the fires and the East an end to the flooding. And praising God that we finally have rain. We still need more, but it is a beginning!

Congratuations Graduation Layout

 I love doing Challenges! It is keeping me focused and getting photos into the scrapbook instead of them laying around for years. And it makes me work out of my comfort zone so I am learning new things. This is the first time I used my Spellbinders Nested Pennants. I have to be honest when I bought them I thought, "I will never use these," but I had an inkling they would become popular and  sure enough they did!

Supplies:

Paper: PAP Westfield Logo, Scrappim' Sports Gold Green Stripes, Laserline Westfield Shamrocks (Thus paper was all purchased 3 years ago when our Local Scrapbook Store went out of business. I am sooo glad I had the foresight to stock up at the time, because we only have chain stores (Hobby Lobby, Achievers, and Micheal's) and none of them carry Westfield logo stuff.

Dies: Spellbinders Nested Pennants, Large Oval, Label 1

Flowers: Petaloo and Doodlebug

Embellishments: Dress it Up Shamrocks, buttons from my stash

Floss and Twine :We R Memories Sew Easy Orange, Really Reasonable Ribbon Green and White Twine

Rub-Ons: Scrappin' Sports Graduation

This Challenge is sponsored by Stuck On U Sketches. Be sure to check them out. They also do tutorials and I have learned some new tricks on this site.

 I reversed the sketch to work with the paper. Here's the sketch:

Off to get my homework done for Summer Card Camp 2011. Another activity that is forcing me out of my comfort zone. No one can accuse me of being in a rut! LOL

Thanks for stopping by. Have a day filled with wonderful memories ready to be scrapped:)



Male Birthday Card

   A friend called and asked if I could make a birthday card for her 4 year old son to give his Dad that is going to be deployed soon. Her son's favorite ritual at bed time is  Dad's bear hugs. So I thought it would mean something special to his Dad to have a bear card from his son.

  The stamp is Bruno Bear with present from Whiff of Joy's Party Collection.  I used Spellbinders Labels Large for the stamping area. Then I just layered with scraps and used my Kaisercraft Paper Trimmer to trim around it.

This is the first time I have tried to color animal fur with Copic Markers (E49, E35,E37) I also used Copic Lemon Glitter for the ribbon and tried touching it up with Yellow Stickles. I am not very happy with the results, but it was a learning experience. I am still learning how to shade, so I think that was part of the problem.

The "ribbon" is actually Eyelash yarn. The papers were just scraps I had.

So here is the finished result:

I am pleased to announce I will be participating in Operation's Write Home Bunny Hop on March 5th. For those of you not familiar with OWH, it is an organization that provides handmade cards for our service men and women to use for writing home or special occasions.  Please make sure you stop by for the hop, I will be giving away my first BLOG Candy. You will receive an entry by leaving a comment. If you put my blog candy on your blog to let people know of this event, you will get an extra 5 entries. (Please leave your blog address in your comments to let me know you posted it.) Here's a pic of the blog candy:

The Candy includes selections from Tattered Angels, Hero Arts, Crafter's Companion, and Crafty Secret.  Good Luck!

Wishing all of our service Men and Women a safe journey!

Elizabeth

My Gymnastics Champion

 When we adopted Scott we were told he would never walk. As soon as we brought him home, we called the local developmental center and had infant services started. I gave him massages several times a day using baby lotion. And I always believed he would walk. I trusted God.

  At 5 months he crawled and life has been on the go ever since. As a toddler he would climb to the top of the tall curly slide and jump off on the side of the steps. He would do a couple somersaults down and land on his feet with his hands in the air. He thought it was great fun. Personally I thought I was going to an early grave. When I discussed this with his pediatrician her response was,'" Get him into gymnastics. He needs to learn how to fall safely. You are never going to get him to stop climbing."

So at the age of three and still wearing diapers he took his first tumbling class. It was followed with ballet. At the age of six he made the Gymnastics team. At the age of seven he won his first State title. His team also took the State Title. I had a hard time holding back the tears when he stepped up on the platform to receive his gold medal. All I could think about is "He was never supposed to walk."

The pictures I used for this layout celebrate his first State Championship. (There were many more to come.) I fell in love with Echo Parks Little Boy Paper Kit the minute I saw it. I knew the colorful stars were perfect for these pictures:)



Supplies: Echo Park Little Boy Paper Kit, Ribbon from my stash, Petaloo Glittered Sheets, Ek Success Foam Tape, Spellbinders Stars, Xyron

Have a Star Filled Day!
Elizabeth