I barely recognize it, is it a scrapbook page?

CHARLIE!

Well, here it is--my first layout of the year!  The paper is a beautiful, older collection from Little Yellow Bicycle called "25 Days of Christmas."  I've had it awhile but have been saving it for something special. Yes, I believe Charlie is special enough for this collection!!!  The old paper qualifies it for Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge and my friend Stacy's "Anything Goes" challenge.  The brown string on the left side of the photo came from her, too.  My husband still hasn't set up the photo booth so I snapped this on my deck steps. The picture has a shadow running right through it that isn't there in real life!  I'm saving for obedience training for Charlie so that he can participate as a therapy dog. I'd been wanting to do some volunteering (just been feeling called lately) and it occurred to me that this would help me get over my shyness and still help.

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you like my first attempt back into scrapping!

Cookie Baking!

Had fun baking cookies with Mitch and his sweet friend!

Quick, Cute Christmas ornaments

I made these little ornaments for The Paper Variety's challenge to show them your ornaments and for my friend Stacy's challenge! The tree has some Ranger distress ink on it, but I thought they looked cute plain, too!

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Christmas Tree Ornaments are Here!

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Merry Christmas - Crafter's Companion Style

I made this little card using Card Patterns Sketch 141 with a Humphrey's Corner Collection - Birthday Girl stamp from Crafter's Companion.  I decided to use her in this Christmas card.  It fits, too! I colored her with some of the Copics my friend Stacy sent me as well as some CTMH watercolor pencils.  I used the CTMH Art Philosopy Cricut Cartridge which I embossed as well as a Jolee's star and some red Colorbok decorations my friend Lural gave me!  I am "teaching" her some things about card making, and she so kindly brought me some embellishments to return the favor. I think I have her addicted to card making now!!!!

Anyway, I am entering the card in Crafter's Companion challenge as well as Simon Says Stamp challenge and Frosted Designs: Fabulous Friday Embossing Challenge.

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Simon Says........ Photo Inspiration, (Poppy Field)

Christmas tag

I created these tags for my stamp club for our December trade. We decided to do tags this year instead of cards. I was prompted to get them going today by a Hero Arts challenge as well as the Scrapfit #55 challenge to make a Christmas tag or card as well as Really Reasonable Ribbon's Challenge #35 Christmas Theme. I was rather pleased with how these came out. On the back, I have a fun Fiskars stamp that has a " to: and from: " box in a cool shape. Naturally, when I went to photograph these, I forgot to take a photo of the back. I ran some Ranger distress ink along the edges of the cool tag I found on a fun Cricut cartridge I have. I also pop-dotted the small tree and stippled some darker ink over the stamping on it to make it stand out from the other tree. It is amazing how much time making 12 tags took me. I don't even want to admit how long it took!

On a side note: I had to end up taking a high dose (for me) of prednisone along with an antibiotic for my leg surgery--I had what was probably an infection and excess inflammation. They seem to be doing the trick, but I'm praying that I don't gain weight with the prednisone like I usually do! I'm already as big as I've ever been. I'm going to try to keep hitting the gym as much as possible to help prevent it!

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Christmas 2010 - Stuart and Leo, Teresa Collins Style

I love watching children play, and there is no better time to do it than when they are opening Christmas presents! I snapped these photos of my nephews at our house at Christmas last year.  I thought Teresa Collins' paper worked well for this layout even though it is so formal and vintage.  Did you notice that Leo is laying on a Radio Flyer box?  How much more vintage than that can you get?  Anyway, I made the layout for a Page Maps challenge that I would really love to win! They have a whole bunch of Mr. Huey Mists that they are giving away along with a whole bunch of other goodies!!!

I'm back to scrapping at my regular pace now!! Yay!

Thanks for stopping by! I really appreciate it!

More Christmas 2009 - A Bittersweet Layout

This is a bittersweet layout for me because Alex (the boy in the bottom right) is no longer with us and Mitch and Haley (upper left) have broken up!! But, life goes on!

I used Sketchy Thursday's challenge sketch this week along with Crate Paper and SRM Stickers.  The cardstock is CTMH.

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Hope your day is full of happiness!

Mitch in Santa Hat--2009

I made this for Artful Delight's April Challenge!  I thought the sketch was so much fun! I used My Mind's Eye. All of the paper is glittery! The only other thing I added was twine from The Twinery and rub-ons which I believe are Doodlebug...  You ought to give this sketch a go!  Not only are LeeAnne's kits awesome, she is very generous, too! Her inspiration page is so cute!

2009 Christmas--Us at Massman Christmas

I made this My Mind's Eye layout for the latest Sketchy Thursdays challenge! I used My Mind's Eye.  The metal charm is from CTHM and the letters are Thickers!

Christmas 2010- Grammie and Poppie present

I made this Nikki Sivils layout using The Paper Variety's sketch for this week's challenge!  I have to tell you, Nikki's papers make it so easy to do a cute layout in jiffy! I bet this only took 10 minutes tops! (and that includes making the paper medallion flower!!) I used a little My Mind's Eye ribbon and some Basic Grey buttons to finish it up! I can't believe I've already made a Christmas 2010 layout when I haven't even finished all of my Christmas 2009 photos!! Oh well... that's me!
Hope you are having a great 2011 so far! We are snowed in with about 8 inches of snow!

Dear Santa

These are the Massman grandchildren at the 2nd oldest brother's house at Christmas in 2009.  I made this using some metallic papers in bronze, gold and silver for a challenge over at Sketches 4 All based on the Page Map scrapdango sketch contest.

Supplies:

Green and Bronze Metallic Cardstock:  DCWV

Patterned paper:  American Crafts

Flowers:  Prima

Jewels:  Queen & Co and White Blossom

Dear Santa sticker:  SRM Stickers

Numbers: Scenic Route

Other stickers: Cloud 9 and American Crafts

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Christmas early 1970s

I made this layout for a Bling challenge at Sketches 4 All.  This is my twin sister Karen, "little" brother Dennis, and me in the early 1970s.  I say "little" because he is now 6' 3". Ha I am the twin who is standing!  I used Crate Paper for this.  The bling I used is rhinestones on top of the trees and on the Happy Holidays sign, Stickles on the Merry Christmas stickers and some sequins on top!

2009 Christmas

Yes, I'm lame. I'm just now getting to last year's photos!  I used Graphic 45, Teresa Collins and the trim is from Crate Paper. The only other thing I used on this simple layout is Crystal Stickles around the Teresa Collins accents! I used The Scraproom Blog Week #50 SKETCH and The Paper Variety's Week#14 Photo Inspiration Challenge.  For The Paper Variety, I used the colors and the Santa Hat (both on the Graphic 45 Santa and on our son!  This is the first layout I've made in a while! I almost forgot how to do it!


Merry Christmas to all the lovely bloggers out there who read my blog!!!

Finally, a Layout - Stuart with Tractor -- Christmas 2009

I made this using a sketch from Frosted Designs for The Paper Variety's challenge to create a project about a child!

I put some liquid applique on Santa's beard, etc. "Joy to the World" is embossed in white. And, crystal stickles are on the snowflakes (but that is hard to see)!

I used My Mind's Eye papers on this!

Pocket Treat Holders

Joni had a challenge to make these cute little pocket treat holders just in time for Halloween! So, I combined this with Design Dollies (top photo) color challenge this week to make these little pockets for special trick-or-treaters! I made it out of Nikki Sivils.  As you can see, it was hard to stop! I made 4 Halloween treats and one Christmas treat holder (Cosmo Cricket Togetherness).  I used a crimper on the flap on this one.  I'll probably end up making more, but I wanted to go ahead and make a blog entry about it!

Gingerbread Christmas Card

I made this little Christmas card for The Paper Variety's Christmas card challenge! The background is Little Yellow Bicycle! The sentiment and snowflake are from SRM Stickers. I put a little copper Stickles to resemble festive sugar around the white Spellbinder shapes!

2009 Christmas Mitch and Haley

I made this for ScrapFit challenge 19!  The instructions were to use what you have! That might take a while, but here is a start!


I used a non-Christmas Basic Grey piece of patterned paper. I thought it went pretty well with Christmas.  


Don't forget about my challenge post!

Christmas in March-- Case a Gallery Item: Joy by Alyssa McGrew

I created this card which is the last of the March challenges at http://www.couturecardstock.com/blog!   I cased Alyssa McGrew's Joy Christmas card which was featured in the Vintage Christmas collection.  When I saw her card, I was inspired to make one similar to it even though it is warm and sunny where I live today!!  I used a "love" charm instead of the word Joy!

After posting this card, I see I will need to trim up the ribbon a bit before giving this card to someone!