Haley and Mitch at Stephens Lake Park - Take 2

I used my new I-Rock on this layout! It takes a little getting used to, but it's quite fun! I'm sure I will be using it more in the future!  I created this for the color challenge on Design Dollies! I'm also entering it at Sketches 4 All!

Holland, Michigan-Statues

I did this layout with several challenges in mind (a lot for me, but I have seen crafters who enter 16 challenges at once which seems amazing to me).  The first is a new challenge site to me:  Artistic Inspirational Challenge Blog. I just happened to have the perfect photo and paper for this challenge.  The green Glitz Designs background has blue writing (faint).  The strips and inside of the sun were from a piece of paper I've had "forever" so I don't even remember the manufacturer, but it couldn't have been more perfect.  I met all of the bonus requirements on this layout:  1. Sun or sunset = 1pt 2. Shades of blue and green on your layout = 2pts 3. A cut out black silhouette image =3pts.  If you love art and are interested in incorporating ideas from paintings into your layout, I suggest you check out this cool blog challenge site!!  The second challenge was Practical Scrappers challenge to use one photo!  The third is for August Flower Challenge at Scrap Our Stash to make a flower. Mine is a simple spiral flower.  You basically take a circle, cut it into a spiral and then roll it up and glue to hold the flower shape. It is one of my favorite flowers to make as it is so easy to do, and it looks cute! You can roll it as tightly as you want and make the circle as large as you want!!! Easy peasy! Finally, Sketches 4 All! 

Mitch and his Toys

I made this by scraplifting a layout by StacyRodriguez over at Sketches for All. I'm entering it in Practical Scrappers challenge to use the word "one" in your layout and in Frosted Designs challenge to use an arrow! I used up some old supplies and some new borders from GCD! Everything is more straight in real life!

Big Red

I made this for a challenge over at Sketches For All. I used Brenda's sketch and Christy's colors: turquoise and red.

Haley and Mitch at Stephens Lake Park

I made this layout for the American Crafts Button challenge this week! I thought the pear and tree papers were so adorable. I just had to use them as soon as I got them!  I made it using Sketches in Thyme Challenge 8 sketch! It also fits Christy's challenge over at Sketches For All.

Supplies:
Cardstock:  American Crafts, Autumn heavy weight collection
Patterned paper:  American Crafts, Blue Skies 1) Sunny Day; 2) Wouldn't it Be Nice; and 3) Feelin' Alright
Letters: American Crafts, Thickers Delight Fabric Letter Stickers in Black
Buttons:  American Crafts,  Blue Skies assortment
Felt tree:   American Crafts,  Blue Skies Fieldhouse Fleece
Paper tree:  American Crafts, Giddy Dimensional Stickers
Butterflies: Martha Stewart craft punch
Cricut
Coluzzle

Pandas at the Zoo in Memphis in Black and White

I did this for several challenges at  Sketches For All. Go over there for all of the fun challenges! There are usually prizes, but the challenges are just fun anyway!! :-) I added this to The Studio Challenge to use something as a mask--I have a heart just above the Hambly that I found in just lying around in my craft room and used it as a mask for my black home-made shimmery mist!

10 Year Anniversary-San Fancisco

Everything is Basic Grey with the exception of the flowers (Bazzill) and the ink which is Ranger Distress Ink in Aged Mahogany and my own shimmery mist which has alcohol inks mixed with CTMH re-inker (I've forgotten the exact colors now), alcohol, pearl-ex and water.

Even though this isn't a great picture of us, I still love it because it is the only one of us together during our 10-year anniversary trip to San Francisco!  We were standing on the grounds of Coit Tower.  In the background, you can see the Ferry Building and the Oakland Bay Bridge.  I made this layout based on Sketchy Thursday's 7-29-2010 great sketch! It also fit's Denise's challenge over at Sketches For All to use ink 2 ways (inked the edges of the paper and misted using my own hand-made shimmery mist). It's funny,  EBTKS has a button challenge this week, too.
A note about the supplies! My new blog friend Stacy H-W sent me most of the supplies that I used on this in a totally surprise RAK just to help me get my MOJO back! That was so great!