Scrap Queen

I have to admit, as much as I love Christmas, I have a hard time scrapbooking Christmas layouts. I think it is because it is the same theme for pages and pages that makes it difficult. But, I can't bear to not have my Christmas album out for the month of December and for a couple of years now it has been behind. So, this year I was determined to get all the Christmas layouts completed. I've finished the last two years and am now on Christmas 2015. No surprise, but I'm running low on Christmas layout spirit. So, I decided that I better find some Christmas mojo. And that is where sketches come in! I love discovering new challenges and new challenge sites. My favorite challenges are sketch challenges. The ScrapRoom had a great sketch challenge this month. The winner will get to be a guest on their blog.  Here's the Sketch: Here's my take: For this layout I used Recollections: Winter Woodland Paper Stack I used my Cricut Explore to cut out th...

This month Grand Diva's Creative Corner  has a great sketch that I had to take on. And Rochelle Spears has a great challenge that went along with it. I've been trying to catch up on our family Christmas Album. I am finally on this year's Christmas season and this is the first layout for Christmas 2015! Here's the sketch from  Grand Diva's Creative Corner : The challenge from   Rochelle Spears : Here's my take: DCWV: The Heirloom Christmas Stack Cricut Cartridge: Winter Frolic SEI: Alpine Frost Stickers Krinkle Ribbon Thank you so much for stopping by! Blessings,

So, I realize I've been doing a terrible job posting any of my projects - for that I apologize to. . . myself. :) I have been making handmade gifts for friends and family for the last couple of months and have not spent a lot of time scrapbooking. I suppose I should have taken pictures and posted about all those handmade crafts, but that for some reason did not occur to me so, oh well. Since the holidays are now past I have been trying to update my family Christmas album. I am a couple of years behind. So, I thought that I would share some of those layouts here. Enjoy! Cricut Cartridges: Wrap it up My community Graphically Speaking Cricut Cartridge: Winter Frolic Cricut Cartridge: Winter Frolic Star Wars: was an svg download Miss Kate's Cuttables SVG: title Cricut Cartridge: Create a Critter Cricut Cartridge: Holiday Cakes Cricut Cartridge: Christmas Miss Kate's Cuttables SVG image: Phrase...

I have a great friend who adopted two beautiful girls from Ethiopia. Amazing girls, love them both! We went out to dinner with them to a place called Queen of Sheba - an Ethiopian restaurant. The girls were able to introduce us to some food from their country. Oh man, I'm in love. So good, I had to scrap about it! To do that, I used DCWV's sketch for their October stack-a-holics challenge. Their sketch: My Take; To Create this Layout I used: DCWV: The Modern Meadow Stack Elegant Cake Cricut Cartridge: Title Botanicals Cricut Cartridge: vine Storybook Cricut Cartridge: title base Photo Corners Cricut Cartridge: corners Thanks for the visit.  Till next time,

Getting there on catching up with my family album. I'm still more than a year behind, but I'll get there! This week Sketch-N-Scrap has a great new sketch that I had to try. Check it out below! Their Sketch:   My Take: To Create this Layout I used: Recollections: Primary 123 Paper Stack Phrases Cricut Cartridge: title Thank so much for stopping by, Till next time,

My husband loves to golf and my son seems to be following right in his footsteps. For the last two years my son has gone to golf camp and has loved it. He also loves going with dad to the driving range. I have recently scrapped a few layouts about golf and decided to share them in one post. For the first layout I used a layout sketch from Let's Get Sketchy , the sketch is below. The Sketch: My Take: To Create this layout I used: Recollections: All Occasions Paper Stack Sports Mania Cricut Cartridge: Title Twine To Create this layout I used: Word Collage Cricut Cartridge: golf tag + word collage written using Design Space Create a Friend Cricut Cartridge: Golf Flag Sports Mania Cricut Cartridge: golf ball We R Memory Keepers: Travel Paper Stack Twine To Create this layout I used: Miss Kate's Cuttables: golf balls title  DCWV: The White Ginger Paper Stack That's all for today, thank you for stopping by! ...

I went to a scrapbooking retreat this past weekend. How amazing it was to take a weekend to myself and to spend it doing what I love! It was fabulous. I stayed up late scrapping, woke up early, did my Bible Study, scrapped, had breakfast, scrapped some more, ate lunch, scrapped some more, had dinner, scrapped till late in the night and repeat - for three days! I will share many of those layouts here on my blog over this next week. But, first I will share the layout I completed for the challenge on the Let's Scrap  blog. I loved their sketch and decided it would be perfect for the pictures I had of our family hike.  Their sketch: My Take: Campout Cricut Cartridge - animal footprints, tree limb, pine cone, wood pecker and log Outdoor Man Cartridge: hiking boots Cricut Alphabet: title Thank you for stopping by,  Blessings till next time,