Creating from the Shores

Child's Play - Friendship Bracelet

This make a great prompt for a layout , the colors and the idea of the friendship. Fun to create and also to have this weekend I spent with good friends recorded.

Jules, Jill and I - the three J's had a wonderful weekend scrapping, talking and laughing and it had been far to long since we had been together  to enjoy  each other  .  This was taken outside the scrapbook store, of course we had to fit in some shopping along with all the hard work of creating.

Check out the other fun ideas the designers had at Child's Play Challenges

Beautiful weekend - weather was perfect - scrapping time was too

It was a wonderful weekend, I returned home from spending some time with Rebecca and Chris house searching, power looking! 12 houses one day 6 the next evening !

We spent time with the family , friends dropped in and I got some time to scrap - fantastic combination.

I got one layout done for a CSI inspiration - fun challenge ! CSI - if you really want to challenge yourself try one of their challenge- Color- story - inspiration.

Then I did the challenge on Frosted Designs - they always have three different challenges going on. It's a great updated and interesting challenge blog.  I did the Fabulous Friday Challenge - Quilting, for this week.

It's a picture of Bob and Rebecca on one of their many Merry-Go -round rides.  This photo was also one of my favorite ones of them on one.

I used one of my Cricut cartridges to make my quilt pattern and then sewed between the squares.  It was also wonderful to get one of my embellishments used up - I couldn't even guess how long ago I bought the carousel.

'In My Life" by the Beatles - Scrap it with a Song

One of the few Beatles songs that I didn't know but Ireally like the words to it and once again it's a layout for the book for Chris and Rebecca.

They took this picture with their phone while we were at Epcot and they were over to the Magic Kingdom. The banner is a mini duplicate of the one I made her for her birthday. The adorable paper clip with the camera was sent to me from my friendClare from New Zealand.

Fun challenge and you can see all the rest of the design teams take on the song by going to - Scrap it with a Song

I really like the colors in this and the banner - fun layout to do.

Sketches in Thyme - fun picture to get scrapped

This was just a cute quick picture of Cynthia I took after she was eating a powered donut one day - cute smile and sweet memory for her to have.

The sketch is from Sketches in Thyme - I really enjoy the sketches they have, they are great ones to work with.

It's going to be hard to take a scrapping break for a few days but the time spent with Rebecca is so much better- it's house hunting time for her!!

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Child's Play - Are you My Mother

This isn't my week to create at Child's Play Challenges but we are free to create on any of the subjects and I couldn't resist this one.

Oh I remember reading this book to my children over and over again.

It was perfect to use the pictures we take of Cynthia all the time to tease Julie, Cynthia didn't want to hold her mom's hand when she was walking to school one day.  Of course it was one of the moment's we all have experienced with our children as they grow up. Of course Julie asked her "Well what about your grandmother? " Cynthia said well that is different.

So whenever I take Cynthia someplace we get pictures of her holding hands with different people and sending them back to her mom.

Paper Bakery sketch and Frosted designs challenge - perfect combination

It's so much fun to find a couple of challenges that blend together perfect and these two did. The Paper Bakery had their new sketch up and I used the fun and cheerful papers from their last kit for it. I love the kits and the embellishments they have. Paper Bakery

Then on my list of favorite places to do challenges for I went to Frosted Designs  and did the FabulousFriday challenge to lace something on your project, so I laced the die cut I made with the Cricut  and some of the clouds I cut out.

Some of the fun details.

Ahh back scrapping - Bird is the Word and Once upon a Sketch!!

It really wasn't that long but it seemed it to me- I did get another one done for a DT.  It's hard to get my mind on scrapping and find any time when we get back home after 4 months. Bob's been sick, the deck is going on and the house still has a few projects to finish up. This week coming we get to go house hunting with Rebecca and Chris - fun fun, so we'll be with them for 4 days.

I used a sketch from a fantastic site Once Upon A Sketch , I really enjoy doing sketches, they always give me some good inspiration. I changed this one to a 8 1/2 x 11 for Rebecca and Chris's book.

The word smile is for the fun challenge at one of my favorite sites   Bird is the Word- they really have a fantastic collection of talented people on the design team and that submit to the challenges.

Here's the sketch

I really like the way the colors worked out in this with the picture.

 

 

 

Fun layout and a fun week ahead .

Oh this is fun challenge Mr. Potato Head at Child's Play

These pictures have sure been around for awhile I think we did these when Cynthia was 2 and she's 13 now. Oh well they were waiting for a reason to get scrapped. We had Fisher price game parts, kitchen pieces for the play kitchen and everything used on this snow mound, he didn't make it to snowman status.  It was a fun day, she enjoyed it so much and so did I.

Check out Child's Play for fun challenges posted every week.

I Will Always Love You - Scrap it with a Song

This song can be used to capture a moment that may be a milestone or just a fun photo.

I went with a photo that actually in color had sun streaks and wasn't a good picture but I liked the interaction between us so much I used it. I wanted to use browns and aquas for the main colors in the layout and I like the way it turned out with the choices.  It's a landscape 8  1/2 x 11 , when putting away layouts I realized I have a lot of room in one of the books .

Thanks Steve for taking the picture.

Have fun with this challenge and check out the other great designs at Scrap It With A Song.

 

Bird's the Word - Look ahead side by side

The word this session is actually either look or see and without a doubt they have so very much to look forward to.  I'm enjoying spending time with them any chance i get.

So it's time to shuffle off to Buffalo tomorrow and go back to spring weather in PA, I'm looking forward to getting back. We hardly had a chance to be in the new house before we came to Florida.

This is a photo I took when we had lunch before Chris and Rebecca flew back to Ohio. It was such a wonderful visit.

Bird is the Word - check the blog out, it's been one of my favorites for a very long time. I love the examples the design group does.

 It's circles of circles and I sure got a chance to use up a lot off pp from a Basic Grey 6 x 6 pad.