Making Sugar Cookies with a Friend

I thought this photo was so pretty that I immediately thought of some pictures from this past Christmas!!! (the little hearts look like the raw cookie dough--and the recipe for the dough I made has some almond extract in it--exquisite)  This is the gorgeous Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger. Can you tell that my inspiration came from the photo?  Earlier, I really tried making Christmas papers work with the photos, but I just couldn't help using all of this PINK--especially after seeing the lovely trigger! I even added an American Craft's medallion/rosette to Basic Grey's Big hot pink and formerly green flower and a button to the smaller one.  The papers are American Crafts from the gorgeous Letterbox collection! The tiny letters and words are My Little Shoebox.  By the way, this is my son and his friend making Christmas cookies. I made it using Sketch Inspiration #204.

Paper:  American Crafts, Letter Box
Ribbon:  American Crafts
Flowers:  Basic Grey (loopy), Prima, My Mind's Eye (small crochet)
Buttons: stash
Border and corner punch: Fiskars
Letters and words:  My Little Shoebox

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!

Twins in late 1960s or early 1970s!

I made this for the Design Dollies element challenge to doodle!!! This is the 2nd layout that I have doodled on this month. I am not comfortable at all doodling, but I do like this one better than the first one I did.  I doodled on the flowers and around the letters on this one--a little more subtle than the first! Anyway, I did it Andrea! I am the twin on the left! I always use Karen's name first, because she was born first!  This picture is obviously very old--it's funny how I didn't really notice that we look a little orange in the photos due to the poor quality of the photo after all of these years!

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!

My Mom at Thanksgiving 2010

I made this layout of my mom  in her kitchen at Thanksgiving in 2010 for Scrapfit's latest challenge.  I was so surprised that my mom actually let me take a picture of her.  My dad built the kitchen by hand.  It's hard to tell, but their counter tops look like little cookies to me.  The Lily Bee Design paper couldn't go better with them if they tried! :-   For Scrapfit's challenge, we were to use strips on our layout from 2 different manufacturers--mine are from Lily Bee Design and CTMH.  I also included a row of embellies as instructed.   I used a doily, rhinestones, pearls and a flower for Michelle's challenge at Sketches 4 All.


By the way, most of the layout came together as a result of winning a kit from Scrapcetera.  I was surprised when Sarah closed her kit club.  She offered her very well designed kits at such a reasonable price.  I believe she is still selling her remaining kits on Etsy. Here is the link if you'd like to check it out! http://www.scrapcetera.com/

Opening Mitchell's Snowman -- 2009 Christmas

My son made this snowman for his Grandma Massman for Christmas last year! I scraplifted Leanne from Artful Delight for Sketches 4 All.  I also misted on the paper and included a sequin for Christy's bling challenge.  The paper is CTMH.  The ribbon is Crate Paper, but it was made to match (it seems)! I made my own shimmery mist and used some punched snowflakes for the masks!  I'm entering this into Really Reasonable Ribbon's Challenge #15 is a 'Something New Plus Ribbon' Theme.  The new is the Crate Paper snowflake which I've made into a brad with Stampin' Up brad maker.  Also, the hand-made shimmery is new as well as the Crate Paper ribbon (well, it's new to me anyway)!  Thanks for the fun challenge!

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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