Anxiously awaiting (again)

Sassy Lil Sketches is searching for design team members again. I thought I would give it another go...here is my page I submitted based on their sketch. The team is supposed to be picked by Sunday, so keep your fingers crossed for me. I love the photo of Grace at T-ball, I think her helmet is nearly as big as she is. She looked so tiny playing, but absolutely loved it! Enjoy

My girl...

I absolutely LOVE this photo of Grace, my youngest daughter. It is one of those pictures that I look at and can't help but smile. It wasn't taken for any real reason. She had found her shirt in the hand-me-down box from her cousins and absolutely loved it. The picture had been sitting on my desk waiting to be scrapped for almost a year. I was just waiting for the perfect paper and idea. The paper I finally used seemed to match perfectly - the print in the pattern paper matched the print on her shirt and the colors were great! The paper is from my latest scrap-room kit - love that place! It is actually based on a sketch from their site as well. The Scrap-room has a blog with great weekly challenges (fabulous prizes too). Every Monday on their blog a new challenge is posted. You don't have to be a kit club member to play along, you just have to be a member of their message board which takes about 1 minute to get signed up. Check it out if you get the chance.


The picture isn't as bright as I would have hoped for, but after a week of rain I finally decided that partly sunny would have to do to take the photo. Enjoy

Here it is...

So I have been waiting all day to post this LO and blogger has been down. For the 5 of you following me (yeah - I have a new follower), here is my guest design LO for the Sassy site. For any of you scrappers who haven't checked our their site - I must say they have wonderful sketches - I even used their card sketch to make some beautiful cards and I am horrible at making cards. Anyways, on to the big reveal....drum roll please:) Enjoy!!

Don't miss it!

So excited to remind all of my followers (all 4 of you) that I am the guest designer for the month of June at the Sassy Lil Sketches site. The new sketch comes out on the 7th of June....so check back to see my creation - and by the way, to the 4 of you who are my faithful following - THANKS!!

New sassy...

Here's the latest sketch from Sassy's lil sketches. Another fabulous sketch to work with, but I really struggled with the page. I loved the beach pictures, but could not (in my 419 pages of paper) find the right paper to match the photos. What does anyone else do when they get stuck - my solution is to keep adding things! I added the flower on the lower left and that seemed left out, so I added the bigger one in the right corner. That wasn't in the magical number of embellies in 3s - so I added the 2 little ones. Doing the math that makes 4 - I guess that's what threw the whole LO off (nothing to do with the person scrapping it). Anyways, once I got my title on, it seemed a little better, but then I probably should have used journaling strips instead of one block. I guess I can't love every page I scrap - maybe tomorrow!! Hope you enjoy it anyway.

Boys, boys, boys

I have such a tough time getting a picture of my oldest! He should be used to the camera and having his mother trying to get a picture or 2 (or 20). But it never fails, all I ask for is a smile on one picture - I really don't think that is asking for too much. Although I must admit sometimes the goofy ones tell the story so much better. These pictures were from 4th of July last summer. We spend the day with our wonderful family and I try every year to get a picture of each of the kids in my mother-in-laws' beautiful gardens. I tried to get Sam to stand in amongst the flowers and that was hopeless. So we tried sitting on the deck - - he finally gave up and covered his face...giggling away under his hands. Someday I may get a smile, for now I am fine with the happy kid who can't figure out how to smile.

The LO is based on the latest fabulous sketch from Sassy Lil sketches. Enjoy!

Here's another

Finished another sketch from Sassy Lil Sketches. Another fun sketch to use - although I'm not sure my brain was totally focused last night as I was scrapping. If you look closely at the page, you'll notice that the 'awesome' paper on the bottom was supposed to be the top of the page. I did not even notice until I took the picture and was cropping it on the computer this morning. I changed the sketch to use the pattern paper on the left as a pocket, although my stapler didn't quite reach all the way around. Sometimes things just don't go as planned. Oh well, I still like the end result. Hope you do too - Enjoy!