Scrappy weekend!

This layout makes me laugh. There is some hidden journaling behind the top monster.  Some things are just better off hidden, know what I mean?  I love the bright papers on this, they really brighten up an otherwise depressing page.  To be honest, looking at the bright colors and the little monsters makes me laugh.  This is a Halloween set from CTHM.  The AWESOME sketch was by Stuck Sketches.  The original sketch was rectangular so I had to adapt it a bit for my book, and I also dropped a few photos, but still loved this sketch.

Look out world!  Raelynn is on the move.  She is now crawling!!!  Even though she know how to crawl, she prefers her unique little army crawl better….and she must have some serious upper body strength cause this girl can move FAST!!!  The sketch for this layout is by Frosted Designs. I *heart* their sketches!!!

For Valentines, Lilly sent us a cute little card made from her hand prints.  She colored one side and Katie wrote Happy Valentine’s Day on the other side.  Stuck on Sketches had a challenge to use a die cut representing love. Her card said "I love you --- This much" on the hands that stretch out... how cute is that? The heart was die cut from the cricut CTMH AP cartridge. As soon as I saw Lilly's card, I knew I would be scrapping it to keep forever.  When I saw this sketch from Heart 2 Heart I KNEW IMMEDIATELY this card was PERFECT for the strip the sketch had at the bottom. 

This card was really fast and easy.  The sketch was from Heart 2 Heart and is all CTMH papers.  The model was cut from a cricut cartridge.

Smiles for Miles

Every layout on this post has an awesome smile! 

How cute is this little grin?  I can’t look at it without cracking an ear to ear smile myself.  Precious baby girl!  This layout was based on a 1-2-3 challenge from Heart 2 Heart.  The challenge was to use 1 stamp, 2 patterned papers and 3 embellies.  It may look like I used more than 3 embellies – I used their guidelines loosely and counted the embellies as 1. Flowers (lots) 2. bling on the flower centers and 3. a bingo card.  The title was the stamp and the background is one of the PP and the side strip and bottom strip are both cut from the same sheet used as the second pp.

The current challenge at Go Fish is to use some form of typeset.  The background is dictionary paper with words/definitions like son, love, play and kiss.  Perfect for this page!!!  These photos were taken at Lilly’s school during a fire prevention event.  That was an AWESOME day “at the office”  LOL

Frosted Designs challenged their readers to use eyelets or brads.  All the red hearts are brads.  I have always *loved* brads.  How precious is Lilly’s face on this photo?  She looks excited to be getting ready to go trick-or-treating and get her candy!!!

Be My Valentine

What is the perfect Valentine to you?  Is it a crystal vase filled with long stem red roses that leave a delicate scent to perfume the air around them? A succulent steak dinner followed by slow dancing and a shared slice of cheesecake? A little bling bling nestled in a velvet box to adorn your ear lobes? Some juicy red strawberries dipped in dark chocolate? Perhaps its that treasured gold box filled with Godiva?  For Apaw & I it came in this hand decorated envelope.

How cute was that?  Lilly decorated the envelope herself.  Inside was this precious little card.  I can’t wait to add it to her scrapbook.  What a treasure!

Obviously, we wanted to reciprocate by asking her to be our valentine too.  Since she is a dog lover I thought this puppy would make a perfect card.  This card is three challenges rolled into one.  Don’t you just love when you can multitask like that!  I haven’t had any scrappy mojo since Mama passed and it was really nice to complete a project. Frosted Designs hosted a challenge to use the word “LOVE”.  Heart2Heart‘s challenge was to make something for the one you love.  DYSE Challenge blog's challenge was "Love" The three challenges were perfect to combine into one cute card for one cute 2 year old!