four sisters ~ Artful Delight

Today is my last post over at Artful Delight as the guest designer.  I want to thank Leeanne and Debbie for letting me create with this months kit.

For my layout I used an old picture of me and my 3 older sisters taken the day before my younger sister was born. We lived in Northern California in a small town called Pollock Pines but this photo was taken at my Aunt and Uncles house in Placerville.

Everything on my layout except for the ink splatter is from the July Scrapbook kit.

I hope you will stop by the Artful Delight blog and say hi!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

Family Memory ~ Artful Delight Guest Designer

Happy Sunday!

I am over at the Artful Delight blog today as their July Guest Designer.

I played with the July scrapbook kit once again and created this layout using a photo of my grandparents. I absolutely love the papers and embellishments in this kit.

Everything on my layout is from the kit except for the gold alpha stickers.

I hope you will stop over at the Artful Delight blog and say hi!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

hello you ~ Artful Delight Guest Designer

I won the scrapbook sketch challenge last month over at Artful Delight and they asked me to be this months Guest Designer. Of course I had to say yes.

This week I am using the July sketch challenge for my layout. This was a fun sketch to work with.

I am trying to be brave and include more photos of "me" in the scrapbooks even if I don't like how they turn out. Lots of sewing on this layout (don't look too close as I am not a straight stitcher).

Everything you see on my layout is from the kit except the paints I used to do the splatters. It is a great kit filled with a lot of stuff to play with. 

I hope you will stop over at the Artful Delight Blog and leave me a comment.

I will be back every Sunday in July to share with you what I create with the kit.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

summer fun

A quick layout to share with you that I created for this months Scrapbook sketch challenge over at Artful Delight.

I used a picture of my two sweet great-nephews Adrian aka ACE and his little brother Ryder. Paper and chipboard are by Echo Park from the Lori Whitlock collection 'a perfect summer'. The base piece of paper is by Crate Paper from the Pier Collection, thickers by American Crafts. 

Here is a closer look at the elements I used. I sewed 3 circles in white thread around the photo to replace the piece of card stock shown in the sketch. I am thinking I should have used a black or a navy blue thread so it would pop more.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me.

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

our girl

I have a quick layout to share with you that I created using the May sketch over at Artful Delight. I am no longer on the DT but thought it would be fun to play along with them and use the scrapbook sketch for a baby album I am working on.

Love the sketch and had so much fun picking out papers to use. I used papers by Echo Park along with my paints for splatter.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

introducing

A quick layout to share with you that I created of my new great niece Elsie Rae who was born on April 1st. Her Mom is my god-daughter.

I used this months sketch over at Artful Delight for the inspiration on my layout, along with papers and chipboard by Echo Park from the "bundle of joy" collection. The alphas are by Thickers and October Afternoon. 

Sorry the photo isn't that great of my layout. The sun hasn't been out for days, just grey and dismal.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

pinch me - TPE50

This week at The Pink Elephant Scrapbook Challenge our challenge is called "pinch me" which means we want to see the color green on your layout.

This is a picture of Micah from his first birthday. It is one of my favorite pictures and it is so hard to believe that tomorrow/St. Patrick's Day he will be 4 years old.

I hope to see you playing along with us this week. 

I used the March scrapbook sketch from Artful Delight for my inspiration on this layout.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

family - tpe49

This week over at The Pink Elephant Scrapbook Challenges we have a recipe challenge for you. We want to see buttons, ribbons and stitching on your layout. You can do a digital or a traditional layout.

I have had this photo of my Dad's parents in my stash for awhile now to scrapbook and this challenge was perfect for an older photo.

I also challenged myself to use papers from a 6x6 paper collection that has been sitting on top of my desk for awhile now. The 6x6 papers, ribbons, stickers and fabric brads are all from the BasicGrey 'lucille collection and the main 12x12 paper is by Studio Calico. I x6the doilies to the layout not only because I like how they looked but they also hid where I joined the 6x6 papers together.

I hope you will find time to play along with us this week in our recipe challenge. Make sure and check out what the rest of the design team has created here on the blog.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

Brothers - TPE #48

This week over at The Pink Elephant Scrapbook Challenge we want to see Hexagons/Chevrons on your layouts.

I dug through all of my papers and had a hard time finding either one of these but finally found an Echo Park collection that had a chevron paper in it. The full sheet was a little too much for the layout so I just cut a section of them out.

Make sure and stop over at the TPE blog and check out what the rest of the design team created for this challenge and I can't wait to see what you do with it.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

love

This weeks theme at The Pink Elephant Scrapbook Challenge is we want to see banners on your layout.

I used this photo of my great-nephew Ryder and added banners wherever I could fit them using scrap papers that were on my desk from my last layout that I posted.

All product you see on my layout are by Studio Calico. I love the printable labels they offer each month in the digital shop as well as the brads, Mister Hueys and papers.

Make sure and stop over at the blog and see what the rest of the design team have come up  with using this weeks challenge "banners".

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me.

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

love my hat

(this is my 2nd post for today, please scroll down for my Merry Monday post)

I love this months scrapbook sketch over at Artful Delight so just had to play along.

I love this sweet photo of Ryder. He has an obsession with hats and has quite the collection which I am sure you will see here over the next couple months.

I used papers, Mr. Hueys and wood veneers by Studio Calico, Thickers and some My Minds Eye enamel dots.

And here is that great sketch.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

Handsome Little Devil

(this is my second post for today, please scroll down to see my Artful Delight post)

It is time for a sketch challenge over at The Pink Elephant Scrapbook.

I love this weeks sketch and immediately pulled out this photo of my great nephew Adrian that I have been wanting to scrap for awhile. He has the best looking eyes and face. I have a feeling he is going to be a big heartbreaker in a few years.

I used papers by Studio Calico along with some stickers and wood veneers. The layout came together rather quickly for me. (less than two hours)

Make sure and stop over at the blog and see what the rest of the design team has come up with using this sketch.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

best of friends

I have a layout to share with you today that I created using this months sketch over at Purple Pumpkin .

I used papers and felt embellishments by My Minds Eye from the 'boy crazy' collection along with thickers from my stash.

I absolutely love this photo of Ryder and his best friend Ozzy.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me.

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

bloom ~ tpe 45

This week at The Pink Elephant Scrapbook Challenge blog we are doing a "Lift it" challenge. So find a scrapbook layout you love and LIFT it!

I have a layout that I loved and I printed it out so I could "lift" it and unfortunately I don't remember who's blog I got it off of and I can't find it to show you. So with that being said here is my layout.

I will continue to look through my files and see if I can find the original photo to post here.

Make sure and stop over and see what the rest of the design team have come up with.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

play ~ TPE #44

This week over at The Pink Elephant Scrapbook Challenge we have a sketch for you to try.

This sketch took me a little longer than I thought it would as I took forever to find some papers that would work with this photo of Micah.

I finally picked papers by Little Yellow Bicycle and some Thickers alpha letters.

Make sure and stop over at the blog and see what the rest of the design team has created with the sketch.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me.

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

ozzy ~ TPE43

(this is my 2nd post today, please scroll down for my Artful Delight post)

Time for a new color challenge over at The Pink Elephant Scrapbook Challenge. 

I had a hard time coming up with the colors for this weeks challenge in my paper stash so had to bring out a little bit of the rebel and mix in a couple of other colors. I think overall I stuck to the color challenge though.

Meet Ozzy who is my nephew Jason's dog. He is such a fun, photogenic dog that I just had to use this photo that his wife Leah took.

Make sure and stop over at the TPE blog and check out what the rest of the design team created. Hope you will play along with us this week.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

party - TPE #42

Saturday and time for another challenge over at The Pink Elephant. 

This week Lori has a birthday theme challenge for us. 

This is a layout of my sweet nephew Ryder taken at his first birthday party. He is such a sweet little boy.

I used paper and embellishments from October Afternoon 'cake walk' collection.

Okay now I hope you will join us in our Birthday themed challenge and that you will also stop over at Lori's blog and leave her some birthday wishes as it is her birthday today. Tell her I sent you.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

playday - TPE blog hop

If you are following the TPE blog hop you should have arrived here from Claudia's blog.

It is time for a blog hop to do the official introduction of the scrapbook design team over at The Pink Elephant. We are going to each introduce ourselves to you and share a layout that we created just for this hop.

First, I want to say I am super excited to be a part of this amazing design team. I am Mom to Justin and wife to Joseph. We live in Minnesota with one very mean green cheeked conure parrot named Birdie. I started scrapbooking about 15 years ago after taking a class at a local store, but only fell in love with it about 5 years ago. I can't wait to get to know all of you and look forward to seeing your scrapbook style.

Here is the layout I created for the hop. This weeks theme is "anything goes". So I decided to use some papers from my scrap pile along with a sketch from BasicGrey.

Now the next stop on this hop is Jessica's blog. If you get lost along the way just head back to the TPE blog here.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~