Scrap Queen

My boys are golfers when the sun starts shining. As soon as golf season hits they are out there on the green! I took these photos of them at the driving range working on their swings.  To scrap these photos I used a sketch layout from Sketch In Thyme .  My Layout: The Sketch: To Create this Layout I used: We R Memory Keepers: Feelin Groovy paper pack October Afternoon: Daily Flash Snap-Caps - All Boy die-cuts Project Life: Photo Overlays Sports Mania Cricut Cartridge: Title, golf ball, tee diecuts Thank you so much for stopping by, Blessings,

It's time for another great sketch from Let's Scrap . For this sketch I used photos from our trip to Silver Rapids water park in Kellogg, ID. The kids love this water park, especially the flow rider. In the photo below I was able to capture my husband on the flow rider - not too shabby Jason! The Sketch: My Take: To Create this Layout I used:  DCWV: Marquee paper stack Sports Mania Cricut Cartridge: Title Bits and Pieces Cricut Cartridge: arrow tag, and pocket Family Album Cricut Cartridge: "A day at the water park" Cricut Basic Shapes: square and diamond shapes Insta Scrap by Leeza Gibbons: chalk sticker "our day" Me and My Big Ideas: Mambi Chips - "Today was a good day" chipboard sticker Heidi Swapp: Puffy Chat Bubbles "Love This" Photo Overlay from stash For a Closer Look:  Thank you so much for stopping by!!! Blessings,

Another great sketch out this week from the  Let's Scrap  sketch blog!!! For this layout sketch challenge I decided to use the right side of the sketch. This layout was perfect for my pictures of our night at the Hockey rink supporting our local team - The Spokane Chiefs! The Sketch: My Sketch: To Create this Sketch I used: Stampin Up paper stack All Sports Cricut Cartridge - title Sports Mania Cricut Cartridge - hockey player and puck diecuts Tim Holtz: Idea-ology - index labels (chiefs) Echo Park - alpha stickers (chiefs) Fancy Pants: Be Different - diecut arrow Thank you so much for stopping by! Now it's your turn to upload your layout at the  Let's Scrap  sketch blog! Blessings,

Sadly, it is that time of year again - time to go back to school. Fall is my favorite season however my love for it is a little dampened by having to take my kiddos to school. I like having them around! At any rate it is here and this weeks Challenge was in perfect timing as I love making the teachers a card to tell them we already appreciate all the work they've done to get ready for the year! Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog  Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge! Challenge #309-Back to School Create a project that features anything about school This Weeks Sponsor Bugaboo Stamps The prize is 4 digital stamps! To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used. If you use a Cricut Explore machine, at least one cut must be from the Cricut catalog of images. Here is my project: To Create this card: Cricut Cartridges: Disn...

My kids did this awesome triathlon with a few of their friends. It was one of those events where I had a bunch of photos that I wanted to have in the scrapbook, so this week's sketch over at Let's Scrap was perfect! I switched up the tops a bit to accommodate the pictures I had and shrunk the bottom pics on the right side.  Their Sketch: My Take: To create this layout I used: My & My Big Ideas Mambi Sheets: Live Creatively paper stack Cricut Cartridges: All Sports - title Pink Journey - run (on clipboard) Groovy Times - ride (on clipboard) Sports Mania - clipboard paper Stretch Your Imagination - scallop frame Bits and Pieces - Arrow base (title) Studio Calico - vellum diecuts (arrows, frames, flags/banners, wave) Chipboard - clipboard Thanks so much for stopping by! Blessings!

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! ...

My son decided to try out playing basketball for our local YMCA. Oh my goodness, it was the cutest thing! Loved every minute of it. Decided to use the basketball game photos along with another one of Sketch N Scrap's sketches for this month. Their Sketch: My Take: To create this sketch I used: Sports Mania Cricut Cartridge: Basketballs All Sports Cricut Cartridge: "Dribble" title DCWV: All About Boys Stack Thanks for stopping by and check out  Sketch N Scrap  for great sketch challenges! Blessings,

There are a couple of great sketches over at the Sketch - N - Scrap blog  that I decided to try and I think they turned out cute.  The sketch:  My Take:  To create this sketch of my adorable nephew I used:  Recollections paper from their Mosaic Memories stack The title and the baseball player come from the Sports Mania Cricut Cartridge The circle base comes from the George and Basic Shapes cartridge The banner/flags come from the Lovely Floral cartridge The Sketch: My Take: To create this layout I used: DCWV: The Lemon Flower Stack The title was cut using the Heritage Cricut Cartridge The banner/flag comes from Lovely Floral cartridge The horse comes from the Happily Ever After cartridge Thanks for stopping by, Blessings!

Let's Scrap has another fabulous sketch this week. I am skating by as it's due soon, but it was such a good one I had to get it in there! The Sketch: My take: My husband went to Canada with a friend last summer on a 5 day golf trip. As you can tell it was gorgeous and they had fabulous weather! This layout was created using DCWV's Lemon Flower stack. The title "Fore!" Comes from the Child's Year Cricut Cartridge. The corner golf ball and ball/tee border came from the Sports Mania cartridge. I used chipboard letters for the other title. Till Next Time,

I love the sketches over at the My Scraps and More Sketches blog and here is their first sketch for the month of February. Fun as always! The Sketch: My Take: This layout was created using DCWV's The Dots, Stripes, and Plaids paper Stack. The circle base was cut using the George and Basic Shapes Cricut Cartridge. The title, the green circular base, and the football image come from the Sports Mania Cricut Cartridge. For a little extra embellishment I twisted two colors of twine and added it around the orange circle base. Thanks for stopping by! Blessings,

So, I'm on a roll and of course I have to post all my layouts. I'm just way too excited about getting so much done for our family scrapbook! These layouts were all completed using sketches from the My Scraps and More Birthday Sketch-a-thon.  (From this point on I will not be posting the sketches. You will have to create an account and see for yourself) :) This challenge required the use of inks. I used Tim Holt'z Walnut stain distress ink and Colorbox inks to distress all the pattern paper peices used on this layout. The circle paper comes from George and Basic Shapes Cricut cartridge and the "Preschool" title comes from the Locker Talk Cricut Cartridge. The "ABC" in the lower right corner comes from the Recess Cricut Cartridge. The paper is DCWV: My Sunshine. This layout challenge required the use of stamps. The camera, arrow, bracket, and two corners were all stamped and embossed, then cut out before applied to the page. The title...