Creating from the Shores

Sunny Side Up Creations - My first blog post on the team

It's an amazing site and I feel really blessed to be among the amazing group of talented ladies on this team. You'll find inspiration from every area of art, paining, needlework, baking, scrap-booking and jewelry.  Check it out every week they have a different color pallet to work with Sunnyside Up Creations.

I've posted to their creations on the side bar but this is my first official  post as part of the design team.  It goes without saying I'm very excited to be part of the group, some of these ladies are also on the Scrapbook Challenges team and also design on Kitchen keepsakes, which means it gives us even more chances to create together. 

It's unusual when I'm not journaling but I wanted to keep the layout focused on the grandmothers in my life, it's going in a book for my daughter about her grandparents. I have written about all of them in there. I used original photos so I really do treasure these small  pictures.

Disney days

I have Bob this time captured in a Disney picture. The Mad hatter always has a great time with everyone and of course Bob happened to be the one at our table that he enjoyed giving a hard time to.

Fun photo for my 6 x 12 book of fun pictures. It's for the challenge on Scrapbook challenges - sketch # 337 - really fun sketch to do.

The variety on the design team this week is great : Scrapbook Challenges.

Child's Play Blog

Now for some reason this layout was just fun to create- it was easy a little humor and of course I got to play with the Washi tape for it. The challenge is Duct tape but since I'm not the home repair person - I turned to Washi Tape which I have repaired a few things with.

Check out the other designs the group came up with for this one - then go have some fun creating.

Child's Play

It's is a wonderful week

First of all it's great because we have Jeff, Karen and the boys here - so it's going to be fantatic, we have a lot of fun things planned.  Lego Land yesterday - baseball game tomorrow !

Second for this week is the two new teams I'm designing with - both are great and completely opposite which I love.

First is Sunny Side Up challenges - they are based in the Netherlands and I design with two of the people at scrapbook Challenges and one at Kitchen keepsakes. With help I'm getting through the translations and learning my way around the blog. They have amazing color challenges  and the artistic levels of everyone on there are amazing.

Sunny Side Up Creations

 

Then a brand new challenge blog - which is just the most adorable site and the team looks like it's going to be amazing from the work I have already seen.  The challenges  will be sketches, quotes, stash, technigues and other assorted things. It has a nice community also.

2 Broke Girls

My home base though is Kitchen Keepsakes which I have been a part of the community here for a long time, I do the sketch challenges and am the design team coordinator. Also I've developed a great fun friendship with Suzanne that owns  the site, I have to stay friends with her, now she knows to much about me.,LOL

Kitchen Keepsakes

Then my other favorite place to be and create for it Scrapbook Challenges, I'm in my second term on the design team there , sketches, number, technique, wildcard, colors and techniques are all challenge they do pus it's a great community of scrappers.

Scrapbook Challenges

Then two sites  that have been unbelievable  in helping me get layouts done and giving me wonderful ideas to create with are. 

Child's play  has been a fantastic sourse for me personally to get a lot of pictures scrapped of the grandchildren and Rebecca- love the ideas they have.

Child's Play

Then the mind stretcher and the site that has given me the best ideas to create a book (well I'm on book number 2 now) for Rebecca and Chris - to keep the memories of their dating years for them.

Scrap it with A Song

So if this won't keep me busy  I guess nothing will between this , the house, the condos to manage and everything in between, I feel so blessed to have a family that I enjoy and I'm able to keep the present memories captured for them and go back and tell about my childhood and record heritage.

Weekend time

It's going to be a busy one this weekend - Jeff, Karen and the boys arrive tomorrow for the week. We're ready and looking forward to it, nice weather in in the forecast , the pool is heating up, tickets to Lego Land are purchased and a Pirates baseball game so it's going to go fast.

Yesterday my challenge on Scrapbook Challenges went up for this month I did the Color Challnge and heres the one I picked.

The layout is this one- the background has more gold in it than is showing  up.

Then I have this new site that I'm in love with the talent on it's Sunnyside Up Creations, the talent on this blog is amazing and it's not just scrapbooking, it's painting,  jewelry , needlepoint and so many creative outlets.

I did the color challenge for this week.

 It's an interesting set of colors so I found a picture of Bob for his landscape size book and came  up with this.

 

Check out the Sunnyside up site to see some amazing talent.

Scrapbook challenges

Sketch # 334 is up at Scrapbook challenges and this one was a fun one to work with- it was also interestingon my end because it's only a 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 size layout which make is a little hard to fit everything on the page.  That's why I like doing challenges though and I love the sketches at Scrapbook challenges  - I'm so glad to be a part of the design team there. Actually I enjoy all  the design teams I'm on, the challenges and the ideas I get keep me enjoying  scrapping more all the time. .

Here's the one for the sketch this week.

Then I'm still continuing my ABC book on there this week I posted letter F.

Keep creating and I have a new team I'm working with that has some amazing challenges - I'm looking forward to starting with them.