Two of Our Favorite Restaurants in San Francisco

"Spring/Summer Color Challenge

We challenge you to use this color range (orange, navy, light blue, green, and brown)."

So, I made this for Little Yellow Bicycle's National Scrapbooking Day sketch challenge and Simon Says Stamp anything goes!!. Funnily, I misread the rules and did the sketch challenge combined with the color challenge! Oh, well. As you can see, I used “Just Because” and “Savor” (to get the colors in), and it matched my theme of two of our favorite restaurants in San Francisco.   

Virtual Garage Sale 5/30/2013

Sizzix

Baby Congrats

I made this for Page Maps challenge 1-2-3-4 Challenge with Julie Koerber.  I remembered that I was still hoarding this cute collection from Cosmo Cricket and thought it matched the colors pretty well.  So, here it is!!!  It is one of my favorite all time cards...

It looks like I am going to do ALL of the Page Maps challenges. I hope I get a chance to do them all now that I have so many completed!

Thanks for looking!

My Son is in his Senior Year

I made this for the Frosted Designs' Fabulous Friday Challenge - Something New! Everything with the exception of the brad on the Congrats tag is the new Chap line from American Crafts! I love it!

Thanks for visiting!

Stuart and Leo - Airplane Ride

I was excited to see The Paper Variety's challenge this week. As soon as I saw it, I ran downstairs to make this layout! I had these pictures and a couple of new (to me) Cricut cartridges I wanted to use.  The airplane is from Heritage (I ran it through my crimper and added some pop dots to add a little dimension).  The big Echo Park circle is from one called Elegant Edges. This is going to be my new go to Cricut cartridge I think. It made this layout come together pretty easily with no sketch! I pop dotted two of the small clouds. I had punched out the tiny clouds when I was at the Phoenix Scrapbook Cottage in anticipation of using them somewhere fun.   The large cloud is a Sizzix die and has been used as a mask several times.   I decided to let it have a permanent home here on this layout!  The background is BasicGrey, and I had been waiting for the right photos so that I could stop hoarding it! The stickers are SRM Stickers.

Thank You Card

I made this for  Moxie Fab World's Tuesday Trigger: Skirting the Issue challenge! Also Simon Says Stamp and Show Anything Goes!
 I think you can see where I got the idea to use this paper! I'm also entering this into a challenge at Sketches 4 All!

Snow days

I made another Echo Park layout! This time it is for The Last April Sketch hosted by Sweet Peach Crop Shop! I really liked Liz Chidester's sketch this time!  I was tickled to make my own felt/denim/button/twine embellies for this!!!  I also added liquid glass to the red/letter part of the banner. As usual, my layout looks better in person!!! But, I hope you enjoy it! I thought it turned out pretty well... :-)

Thanks so much for looking at my blog! If you have time, please leave me a comment so I know you were here!
Hope you have a great weekend!!!

Ginny's 60th Birthday with Steve

I created this layout showing a table and bowl that Steve made for his mom for her 60th birthday last year!  I used the lovely #117 sketch from Liz Chidester over at The Scrappiest!  The "You are Special" tag came from a box of chipboard I had.

My Niece's Prom

I love this Crate Paper collection even though it's an older one--Sweet Branch! I thought the colors were perfect with my niece's dress and her friend's tie!  I got the paper and ribbon from my friend Stacy! Thanks again, Stacy! The only other thing I added were some jewels to the butterfly and big flower!  I used a sketch from The Sweet Peach Crop Shop!

Christmas 2010

I made this layout for Sketchy Thursday's latest challenge!  I used SEI's Winter Song collection.  Do you see that beautiful blue ribbon? It came off of some fun pajamas I got for myself after Christmas! I don't know if I liked the pajamas or the ribbon and cute felt ornament that was wrapped around them.  Don't be surprised if you see the felt ornament on a layout soon! Of course, knowing me, I'll hoard it for a while!!! Ha Ha!

P.S.  If you didn't have time to check out my post about CSN stores, please go here:
http://kmassman-scrapbooks-cards.blogspot.com/2011/01/have-you-ever-heard-of-csn-stores_31.html and check it out! Be sure to click on the swing set and backyard link!! I'd really appreciate it! I might be able to do a giveaway for them in the future!!!!

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!

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!

Autumn - 1995

I made this for several challenges at Sketches 4 All--Melissa O'Neill, Wendy Crow and Stacy Harper Watson's to be exact! I combined the challenges so that I could enter Stacy's "Ya Ain't Gettin' Off that Easy" challenge which is to incorporate 3 or more challenges into one layout!  I am also entering it into Frosted Designs because I did some distressing!

Autumn was the best dog I ever had! I originally got her so that I could train her to be a Support Dog for the disabled.  However, she developed hip dysplasia, so they couldn't use her. When I found that out, I chose to adopt her.  She would have been such a good help to someone! She was so eager to please.  She's been gone a long time, but I think of her all of the time!  Now, I am allergic to dogs (all kinds--even the ones that are good for people with allergies)! Isn't that weird? I had one of the most shedding dogs in Autumn, and now I wouldn't even be able to have her...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!! Blessings are sent your way!

Julie - Senior Pics - 2010

I used Sketch Inspirations #147 to make this layout just full of punches!!!!! These are some senior pictures of  my niece, Julie! Isn't she pretty?! No, I'm not partial! :-)  Anyway! I used some Harmonie for the background.  You can't tell very well, but I shimmer misted the turquoise circle.  I used my I-ROCK for the bling!  Simon Says Challenge this week is to use punches!  I used a bunch of Martha Stewart butterflies and flowers from Marvy Uchida! I thought it turned out well! :-)

My Boy in November, 1994

I made this for Scrapfit's Workout 27 using their sketch.  It also meets the requirements over at Sweet Peach Crop Shop this week to use at least 8 circles!  Mitch was a little over 7 months here! He was always so happy and cheerful.  I just love going back and scrapbooking these older pictures! I made the border "stitching" by hand!

I'm so excited! I'm being featured....

I love Ideas for Scrapbookers! I'm their guest featured artist! Click here!
http://ideasforscrapbookers.blogspot.com/2010/06/introducing-our-featured-artist-for_11.html

I have a tutorial, bio, and this layout on http://ideasforscrapbookers.blogspot.com/.  Please check it out! If you want to leave a comment there, it might be fun, too!! :-)

2010 Prom

Don't forget about my challenge post!

NOTE:  Edited 5/16 I won this great prize (it was a random draw but I really did LOVE this LO).  Check out The Treasure Box Club.  They have beautiful kits. See what I won:

Also check out http://sketchinspiration.ning.com/.  They have a great challenge every week!

Used Sketch #123 from Sketch Inspiration. 

Color Throwdown Challenge 84

If you would like to play along: 

http://colorthrowdown.blogspot.com/

This was a fun one for me!