Foxy Fall

I am entering it into the Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes Challenge! Isn't this fox handsome! He comes from Close to My Heart and is available here through me:  Woodland Critters! I used Swan Lake and Enchantment Fundamentals also!

Woodland Critters

Enchantment Fundamentals

Swan Lake

Thanksgiving is Almost Here

I have decided to try to send out a few Thanksgiving cards this year! Simon Says Stamp has a Thanks/Thanksgiving challenge this week, so it worked out great that I was thinking like them this week!!!

Smiles are the Soul's Kisses

I have been wanting to do a layout with this photo ever since I got it back from the printers.  This morning, I saw this fantastic sketch over at Write Click Scrapbook. It is a Page Maps sketch from Becky Fleck.  I was also inspired by The Paper Variety's photo challenge and added the XO for Scrapfit's Workout #62 XOXO challenge. 

We have been busy with new house activities as well as keeping the house clean in the hopes of a sale of our current house. We don't have to close until July so we have a little time, and we are just crossing our fingers that everything works out just right!  Our move kind of signifies a new start for our family. Our son will be entering college next year, and Steve and I will be transitioning into "empty nesters." Mitch is so busy now that sometimes we already feel like "empty nesters," but college kind of makes it official!!

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Family- Word of the Year

I made this layout for Scrapfit's Workout #57 Word of the Year.  I chose "Family" and fortunately this also qualifies for  Simon Says Stamp's anything goes challenge! I love those. I used some new things my hubby got me for Christmas--the spellbinders label die, the Tim Holtz leaves dies and the Tim Holtz wood-grain embossing folder!

Thanks for visiting! I'm going to be doing a lot more scrapbooking soon. I think I have my mojo back!!!!

The Massman Side of the Family

We had family photos taken this year on the Massman side of the family! This is the first scrapping I've done in a long time. So, excuse the wonky photo!  It is straight in real life!  I made it for my friend Stacy's challenge.  If you have never done one of Stacy's challenges, you should give it a try.  The odds are good that you would win one of her wonderful prizes!  I made another layout that I will post later.

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Hiking!

Here is a quick layout of my nephews (Steve's youngest brother's kids).  They were hiking with their parents.  The monthly sketch over at Artful Deligh seemed to go along with the photos. I used a crimper on the leaves and then inked them with Tim Holtz distress ink.

Have a great day! Thanks for visiting!

First of Many from the San Diego Zoo

I used this week's Sketchy Thursday's challenge to make this layout from the San Diego Zoo. I took and printed so many photos from our trip. You'll be seeing so much more from the zoo as well as the San Diego area.

The little yellow hemp flower is made with some Gluber's that I won from Cosmo Cricket!!! Yay! Also, the leaf border punches from Fiskars are from Tania Willis! Thanks again guys!

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Saint Louis Arch in the Fall

Raking Leaves - 1995

I used a sketch from Sketches 4 All to make this layout. I think it meets the current Simon Says Challenge, but I saw mostly cards there and have never entered a challenge there.

Karen and Julie - Thanksgiving 2009

I made this for Sketches 4 All. Mel,  from Australia, gave me that beautiful chipboard flourish. I dabbed it with a copper Adirondack paint dauber! That cute little stamped image with the bird/birdhouse is Stampin' Up! I colored it in with Tombow markers!

Raking Leaves - 2002 - take 2

My friend Stacy HW sent me this beautiful Scenic Route paper, and I just had to use it immediately!! I used Sketch 142 from Sketch Inspiration and am entering it in The Paper Variety's Challenge 2.  It had to have Autumn colors, a movie title (believe it or not there is a movie called Autumn Leaves), and borders.  I used a border punch from Martha Stewart on the green paper (punch also from Stacy HW) and a Fiskars punch on the leaf paper! There is some orange twine around each pop-dotted leaf which were cut with my Sizzix.  The word "LEAVES" was made with kraft paper which was inked a bunch and misted with a home-made shimmery mist! Abby, co-founder of The Paper Variety, sent me the "Autumn" sticker from W R Memory Keepers, Maple Grove line.  I love this line and used it on a layout earlier this month!  This also met the design element to include falling leaves over at Design Dollies this week.  I think this is the first page I have done in a long time that wasn't for Sketches 4 All.  I'm sure I'll get right back into doing some for them sometime this weekend!

2002 - in the leaves

This is my kid up to his neck in leaves in 2002. This was the first Fall in the house we are currently living in! His dog, Cotton, was probably buried under the leaves right there with him! I made this layout as part of the Sketches for All/You Sketch-a-ton/back to school challenge and for Challenge Masters fall challenge.

Chopping Wood for Grammie and Poppy - Fall, 2009

I made this layout as part of the Sketches for All/You Sketch-a-ton/back to school challenge! It runs until the end of September.  They will have Nikki Sivils and Cherie from Sassy Lil' Sketches as a guest designers!! You really don't want to miss it! There are prizes to be won, so please come join in on the fun!


I used some We R Memory Keepers papers that I won from Abby who is one of the co-founders of The Paper Variety, a new challenge site!